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Volcanoes drop opener at Hillsboro
By HERB SWETT
For the Keizertimes
Failures to execute, espe-
cially in the fi eld, brought the
Volcanoes a 10-4 defeat July
29 in the opening game of a
series in Hillsboro.
The Hops led 2-0 after the
fi rst inning, and Salem-Keizer
tied the score in the third, but
Hillsboro went ahead by a run
in the bottom of the third and
kept the lead the rest of the
way.
In the fi rst, Mark Karaviotis
hit a one-out single to center
fi eld, Josh Anderson singled to
left, and Ramon Hernandez
walked to load the bases.
Starting pitcher Raffi Viz-
caino forced Karaviotis home
with a walk to Luke Lowery.
Luis Silverio hit into a dou-
ble play, but Anderson scored
before the fi nal out.
Dylan Manwaring led off
the Volcano third with a single
to left fi eld and went to sec-
ond base on a wild pitch by
Hillsboro Hops’ starter, Tyler
Mark.
Manwaring then scored
as Manuel Geraldo hit into a
double play.
Bryan Reynolds singled to
right, and Heath Quinn drove
him in with a double to right
center.
In the Hillsboro third, Mar-
cus Wilson led off with a Texas
League single to left. Ander-
son was hit by a pitch. Wilson
attempted to steal third and
was called safe on an error by
Geraldo.
The error was the fi rst of
four by Salem-Keizer.
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KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
George Krause won the 50-54 age group in the pentathlon at
the USATF Masters Outdoor Championships.
Cancer not slowing
Keizer man down
Submitted
Keizer Cubs won the Boys of Summer Classic 9U bracket last weekend in Eugene by coming from behind to defeat the West
Valley All-Stars 13-12.
Boys of Summer
Cubs go undefeated
By DEREK WILEY
Of Keizertimes
Down six runs in the fi nal
inning, the Keizer Cubs rallied
to win the Boys of Summer
Classic July 30-31 in Eugene.
Keizer defeated West Valley
All-Stars 13-12 in the cham-
pionship game of the 9U
bracket.
Trailing 12-6, Aiden Garcia
and Derek Jones started the
bottom of the sixth inning
with bunt hits.
Jake Allen hit an inside the
park home run and Dylan
Cuff scored the winning run
on a passed ball.
“Our kids just started hit-
ting the ball,” Cubs coach Tim
Jones said. “We had base hit
after base hit.”
Kyle Argue, who didn’t al-
low a run in the top of the
sixth inning, was the winning
pitcher.
Keizer defeated the WV
All-Stars A-Team, ranked
fourth in Oregon, Washington
and Idaho and 98 th in all of
Northwest Nations Baseball,
twice in the tournament.
The fi rst win was also a
one-run game, 9-8. The Cubs
also topped West Valley’s B-
Team 12-4 and throttled
Central Lane Knights 16-1 to
advance to the championship
game.
The Cubs, which includes
players Garcia, Cuff, Argue,
Derek Jones, Jake Allen, Ben
Allen, Jayden China, Cash
Martin, Mason Spolinski and
Bryson Springer; and coaches
Tim Jones, Chris Argue, Tony
Cuff and Brandon Martin,
have been together since T-
Ball.
They play in the Junior
Baseball Organization.
The Boys of Summer Clas-
sic was their highest fi nish in a
tournament.
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
George Krause went to the
USA Track and Field Masters
Outdoor Championships not
to just battle the other fi ve
participants in his age group,
50-54, but to compete against
himself, and cancer.
And he won.
In the pentathlon, which
includes
the
200
and
1,500-meter runs, long jump,
and discus and javelin throws,
Krause recorded 3,211 points
at Grand Vally State Univer-
sity in Grand Rapids, Mich.
on July 14-17 to win his age
group.
Krause, the computer lab
teacher at Claggett Creek
Middle School, was diagnosed
with leukemia lymphoma a
year and half ago when he
decided to get a bump on his
neck checked out.
“I’m going to continue do-
ing things most people can’t
do for as long as I possibly can
because you start taking stock
of the time you have left when
you get a diagnosis like that,”
he said.
“The fact that I can go out
there and still sprint and still
throw and still do things that
most 50-year-olds can’t do,
then I know I’m not sick. It
was found early. The cancer is
not aggressive, which is prob-
lematic because you can’t re-
ally cure it. It’s just a very slow
moving train.”
Because he’s not sick,
Krause isn’t undergoing any
treatment, just blood work ev-
ery six months.
Krause threw the javelin in
college at Harvard but said he
was no star.
At the USATF Masters
Outdoor
Championships,
Krause placed fi rst in both
the javelin and discus, second
in the long jump and 200 and
fi fth in the 1,500.
“I’m a thrower,” he said.
“I don’t mind sprinting, not
a fan at all of the 1,500. I’m
just now learning the long
jump. This was only the third
time I’d ever long jumped at a
competition was in this cham-
pionship.
“I’m just a regular cat. It
wasn’t like I ever went to the
Olympic trials or anything
like that. I’m just a Joe that
decided to get off the couch
and do stuff and found some
success. I’m hoping a couple
of people might actually read
this and think I could do that.
I bet you there are people in
this city right here that are
better pentathletes than I am.
It’s just a matter of doing it.”
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Local AAU team wins
national Vegas tourney
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
Salem Hoops Run and
Shoot sixth grade girls squad,
coached by former Oregon
State basketball player James
Westbrook and McNary grad-
uate Misty Rubio, saved their
best game for last, defeating
the Lady Heat 54-35 on July
22 to win the Las Vegas Clas-
sic.
“In that particular champi-
onship game, the girls played
awesome, from top to bot-
tom,” Westbrook said. “Ev-
eryone contributed. Everyone
scored. Everyone had great
defensive moments.”
Salem won the game by
stepping up on defense and
shutting down the Lady Heat’s
best players.
“They had one in particu-
lar that was really good, that
we had watched throughout
the tournament,” Westbrook
said. “My girls totally shut
her out and didn’t let her do
anything, which was the key
to winning the game because
basically she does everything
for that team. We had a game
plan going into it and they ex-
ecuted. Our goal is not to let
any one player beat us. It was
an awesome victory for us.”
Salem got to the champi-
onship game of the 10-team
tournament played at the Las
Vegas Convention Center by
winning four straight games,
including a 44-41 victory
over Hawaii Select in sudden
death triple overtime. Run
and Shoot also topped Shark
City 37-21, E3 48-34 and CP
Wolves 36-30.
“They’re just a really good
group,” said Rubio, who has
also coached in the Keizer
Youth Basketball Association
for the last six years. “Their
skill level is amazing.”
The Salem team, which
consists of Misty’s daughter
Taylor, Delaney Keith, Brook-
lyn Strandy, Maddie Doig,
Lindsey Bailey, Bailey Peders-
en and Lanie Barton, has been
playing together since the fall,
hosting tournaments as well as
traveling to Beaverton, Port-
land and Eugene.
“We’ve won a couple big
tournaments here in Oregon,”
Westbrook said. “We always
wind up in the championship
game, whether we win or lose,
they are always in the hunt,
they are always right at the
top. Now, they are starting to
come into their own and win-
ning a lot more games than
they are losing.”
Submitted
Salem Hoops Run and Shoot sixth grade girls, coached by Misty Rubio and James Westbrook
recently won the Las Vegas Classic. Pictured players, back row, from left, are Taylor Rubio,
Delaney Keith, Brooklyn Strandy, Maddie Doig, Lindsey Bailey, Bailey Pedersen and Lanie Barton.