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Appeal Tribune, www.silvertonappeal.com
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
ANNA REED/STATESMAN JOURNAL
When Silverton High School junior softball player Alex Molloy stands in the pitcher’s circle, she gets serious quickly and becomes a hard throwing all-state pitcher.
SHE’S GOT
THE
POWER
Foxes’ Alex Molloy tosses away
shy nature, embraces leadership
BILL POEHLER
STATESMAN JOURNAL
SILVERTON - There was something
about becoming a pitcher that brought
out Alex Molloy’s personality.
Silverton High School’s junior fire-
baller says she was an introverted child
until coach Mike Slagle moved her to
pitcher at the age of 11.
“From then on it just opened me up,”
Molloy said. “I never wanted to be in the
limelight and after that I was really out-
going.”
Now she’s the type of person who one
might see dancing down the halls be-
tween classes or cracking up teammates
in the dugout between innings.
But when she gets in the pitching cir-
cle, something clicks. Molloy gets seri-
ous quickly and she becomes the hard
throwing all-state pitcher.
“I think it’s like more than just how
she throws, it’s like her attitude and like
her commitment to the game and how
her attitude is like I’m going to strike this
girl out or if she’s in a battle with a girl,
she knows she’s going to win the battle
and strike her out,” said sophomore
catcher Maggie Roth.
See MOLLOY, Page 3B
BASEBALL STANDINGS
BASEBALL STANDINGS
Mid-Willamette
W
Crescent Valley
3
Corvallis
3
Dallas
3
Central
2
Woodburn
1
Silverton
0
South Albany
0
Lebanon
0
L
0
0
0
1
2
3
3
3
W
7
5
5
4
4
2
0
0
L
0
3
3
2
4
6
7
8
Wednesday, April 6
South Albany at Silverton, 4:30 p.m.
Friday, April 8
Silverton at South Albany, 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 12
Silverton at Central, 4:30 p.m.
2A/1A Special Dist. 2
Kennedy
St. Paul
Western Mennonite
W
0
0
0
L
0
0
0
W
5
4
3
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L
5
1
3
East Linn Christian
Central Linn
Country Christian
Regis
Santiam
Perrydale
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
2
1
1
1
0
4
0
2
3
3
3
Thursday, April 7
Santiam at Kennedy, 4:30 p.m.
Monday, Apr. 11
Kennedy at Perrydale, 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 13
Central Linn at Kennedy, 4:30 p.m.
SOFTBALL STANDINGS
Mid-Willamette
Dallas
Lebanon
Corvallis
Central
Silverton
W
2
2
2
2
1
L
0
0
1
1
2
W
7
5
7
3
5
L
1
1
2
2
2
South Albany
Crescent Valley
0
0
2
3
0
1
5
4
W
0
0
0
0
0
0
L
0
0
0
0
0
0
W
4
3
2
2
1
1
L
2
2
0
1
1
3
Wednesday, April 6
Central at Silverton, 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 12
Dallas at Silverton, 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 13
Lebanon at Silverton, 4:30 p.m.
2A/1A Special Dist. 2
Kennedy
Santiam
St. Paul
Perrydale
Regis
Central Linn
Thursday, April 7
Santiam at Kennedy, 4:30 p.m.
Monday, April 11
Kennedy at Perrydale, 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 13
Central Linn at Kennedy, 4:30 p.m.