THE SPOKESMAN • TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 2022 P5
Sports & Recreation
Ridgeview softball seeks to continue dominance
BY BRIAN RATHBONE
For The Spokesman
REDMOND — For nearly a
decade, the Ridgeview softball
team has run the Intermoun-
tain Conference, having won
the conference crown every
year since 2014.
The team is technically still
the defending state champs
because there was no postsea-
son play for the last two years.
But to earn an eighth-straight
conference title the Ravens
will have their work cut out
for them after winning just
four of their nine nonleague
games to start the spring.
“We know what it is we
need to fix and we have time
to fix it,” said Ridgeview coach
Sandy Fischer. “That is our
task. We have more new play-
ers than we have old players
this year. So we are trying to
get it all to mesh, and that
takes time. We will be fine, we
will be there in the end.”
In their nonleague finale
on a chilly Friday evening, the
Ravens (4-5 overall) were on
the wrong side of a wild game,
falling 11-10 against Putnam
(3-4). Both teams squandered
leads and were able to string
together rallies.
“It was very, very intense,”
said senior shortstop Teeghan
Reams.
“We had a lot of energy go-
ing into the fourth inning,
which really sparked some
good hitting and fielding.”
Although the youthful Rid-
geview team made its share
of mistakes against Putnam,
several positive signs of a team
finding its footing early in the
season showed as well.
The Ravens made three
fielding errors that yielded
seven unearned runs against
Putnam. After the first inning
they found themselves down
five runs and remained down
by five with two outs in the
fourth inning. Then the Ra-
vens bats came to life.
Eight straight batters went
to the plate and six runners
scored — all with two outs.
Reams’ two-run homerun
over the right-center fence
tied the game 6-6, then Madi
Godfrey’s RBI single gave Rid-
geview its first lead.
But the lead was short lived.
The Kingsmen would plate
five runs in the sixth inning to
extend their lead back to four.
“When you get down that
far and are able to come back,
that is a good sign of a team
that is together,” Fischer said.
“We hurt ourselves with er-
rors. That is not really normal
for us. That is the thing that
we have to clean up.”
In the final two innings,
Ridgeview would again mount
Ridgeview’s Tayha DeGrande
fields a ground ball during the
second inning against Putnam
on Friday.
Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin
a comeback, scoring two runs
in the sixth inning then add-
ing another run in the sev-
enth. However, the Ravens
came up one run short of
sending the game to extra in-
nings.
“It is satisfying to know that
all the work we are putting
in at practice is transferring
to games to fight back and to
get back into a game,” Reams
said. “Even though we lost, it
still felt like a really good game
that we played.”
The Ravens open their con-
ference title defense next Fri-
day on the road against Hood
River Valley, taking the lessons
learned Friday into its first
road game of the spring.
“They had a lot of fight to-
day. They were down and
could have quit and they
didn’t, and that is a big piece,”
Fisher said. “They know they
can come back now, and you
play confident when you
know you can do that. Now
we just have to be more selfish
when we get a lead.”
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Reporter: 541-383-0307,
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Ridgeview’s Teeghan Reams connects with a pitch for a two-run homer during the fourth inning against
Putnam in Redmond on Friday.
Redmond’s
Brant named
USA Lacrosse
Player of the
Month
SPOKESMAN STAFF
A key factor in the success
of the No. 3 College of Idaho
men’s lacrosse team, Joey
Brant was named the USA
Lacrosse MCLA Player of the
Month for March.
Brant has done it all for the
College of Idaho as the Yotes
racked up a 4-0 record in the
month of March, including wins
over a pair of Top 10 teams, and
are sitting at No. 3 in the polls.
The Redmond native scored
seven goals and dished out a
pair of assists in March while
also winning 27-of-29 faceoff
opportunities and gobbling up
30 ground balls.
“To quote Brendan Mun-
dorf, ‘There are guys who play
lacrosse, and there are lacrosse
players.’ Joey is a lacrosse
player,” said coach Alan Mor-
gan. “He has a nonstop motor,
and a drive to be the best. He is
our utility guy. There’s nothing
that we ask of him that he’s not
capable of doing. He’s an un-
believable talent that the rest of
our guys benefit greatly from.”
For his efforts, Brant will re-
ceive a one-year membership
to USA Lacrosse, the national
governing body of the sport.
Currently, College of Idaho is
8-0 overall and 3-0 in PNCLL play.
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