Sports
Legends keep on winning
By Ronald Bond
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Th e Observer
High school sports season delayed
until late September at the earliest
The Observer
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LA GRANDE — The
La Grande Legacy Ford
Legends 18U baseball team
swept a pair of double-
headers Saturday, downing
Columbia Gorge 9-3 and
9-2, and topping Hodgen
Distributing from Pendleton
on Monday 11-7 and 13-2.
La Grande scored in
each of the fi rst four innings
on the way to an easy win
in Saturday’s opener. An
error in the fi rst inning led
to two runs, and a Payton
Cooper two-run single in
the second made it 4-1. Nick
Bornstedt’s RBI groundout
and Devin Bell’s RBI
single in the third brought
the score to 6-2, and in the
fourth a wild pitch, a bas-
es-loaded walk and a bas-
es-loaded hit batter forced
in three more runs for a 9-2
lead.
La Grande scored three
times in the second inning
to take the lead for good
in the second game, with
Bornstedt’s RBI single, a
wild pitch and Brodrick
Hood’s sacrifi ce fl y making
it 3-0. Cole Jorgensen’s
RBI single and Bornstedt’s
two-run double made it 6-0
in the fourth. RBI singles
by Parker Robinson and
Riley Miller and an error
allowed three more runs to
score in the fi fth.
On Monday, La Grande
broke the game open with
an eight-run fourth to take
control, then held Hodgen
off in the late innings.
An error, a bases-loaded
walk and a bases-loaded
hit batter led to three of the
runs in the big inning, and
Robinson — who had four
RBIs — doubled that total
with a three-run double to
make it 9-2. Two more mis-
cues by Hodgen — another
error and another bas-
es-loaded walk — made it
a nine-run lead.
The Legends already
led 3-2 after two, with a
passed ball and a Robinson
RBI single in the fi rst and
a double steal leading to a
run in the second.
The second game was
put away early as the Leg-
ends scored four times in
the fi rst and six more times
in the second on the way to
a fi ve-inning win.
Two-run singles by Rob-
inson and Bornstedt made
it 4-0 in the fi rst. Coo-
per’s triple in the second
drove in two more before
he scored on a passed ball
to make it 7-0, and RBI
doubles by Jorgensen and
Bornstedt — who had
three hits and drove in
three runs — made it 9-0
7A
SALEM — The Oregon
School Activities Associa-
tion is holding out hope for
a fall sports season — but
if there is one, it will start
about a month late.
The OSAA announced
Wednesday it will delay
the fi rst contests of the
2020 fall season — origi-
nally set for Aug. 27 — to
Sept. 23 at the earliest for
soccer, cross-country and
volleyball. Practices for
those three sports still will
start Aug. 17.
“With the uncertainty of
school reopening plans in
many parts of the state and
the timeframe related to
those decisions, the OSAA
Executive Board has
decided to delay the fi rst
contest date...,” according
to OSAA’s press release.
Football remains up
in the air. It’s labeled a
full contact sport by the
Oregon Health Authority
and Oregon Gov. Kate
Brown and is off limits.
The press release from
OSAA said the state will
have to make a decision
on football by Sept. 28.
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Contributed photo by Michelle Bell
Riley Miller delivers a pitch Saturday for the La Grande
Legacy Ford Legends 18U team. The Legends swept a
doubleheader Saturday and took two more games Mon-
day.
the 10th run.
Sergio Staab added
a two-run single in the
fourth and Hood drove in
another run with a single.
16U Legends take
three on Friday
The 16U team had three
wins, topping Wallowa
Valley Friday and taking
down Hermiston twice
on Tuesday, and tied with
Pendleton on Friday.
The Legends broke open
a tie game against Wallowa
Valley with an eight-run
fourth on the way to a 12-2
beatdown.
After an error and a
passed ball led to two Wal-
lowa Valley runs in the
fi rst, La Grande pulled even
with Cole Shafer’s RBI
single in the fi rst and Noah
McIlmoil’s RBI single in
the third.
Then the fl oodgates
opened.
RBI singles by Logan
Williams and Sam Tsiatsos,
an error and a Shafer RBI
double made it 7-2 in the
fourth. Another McIlmoil
RBI single and a Wallowa
error led to three more runs.
A wild pitch and an RBI
single from Tsiatsos in the
fi fth ended the game early.
Later Friday, a battle
between La Grande and
Pendleton ended in a 5-5
tie.
La Grande was behind
Schow’s RBI double and
Williams’ RBI triple tied
the game. Jarett Armstong
and Tsiatsos also drove in
runs in the game.
Tuesday, the Legends
manhandled Hermiston
21-1 and 18-0.
Seven different players
had at least two RBIs in the
opener, with Cesar Rodri-
guez driving in four runs
and Tsiatsos knocking in
three.
La Grande scored three
in the fi rst, third, fourth and
fi fth innings, and busted
the game open with nine in
the second. A bases-loaded
walk, hit batter and error
led to the fi rst four runs
in the second-inning out-
burst. Austin Higgins’ RBI
groundout and Schow’s
two-run single made it 10-1.
And an error and an Owen
Rinker RBI single capped
the inning and a 12-1 lead.
Schow and Shafer both
drove in three runs in the
nightcap as the Legends
used two more big innings
— an eight-run third and
a six-run fourth — to pull
away.
An RBI single by Tsi-
atsos and a two-run single
by Shafer made it 4-0 in
the third. A wild pitch led
to another run, a passed
ball plated another, an error
scored a third and another
passed ball scored a fourth
before Schow’s sacrifi ce fl y
made it 9-0.
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