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Legion team calls Keizer home
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
The Crushers Post 58, an
American Legion baseball
team in Stayton, have moved
to Keizer.
Led by former Stayton
High School coach Drew
Heard, the team is a collection
of the best players from Mc-
Nary, McKay, Silverton, Regis,
Kennedy and Stayton.
“I chose not to coach in
high school this year because
I wanted to focus on the Le-
gion program and I wanted to
move us out of Stayton be-
cause it didn’t make any sense
for us to be out there,” Heard
said. “The majority of our
team is coming from Salem.
To have kids driving all the
way out there every single day
for a ‘home game’ or practice
was just kind of silly.”
Heard also wanted to pick
the right kind of players.
“I wanted to scout and
I wanted to get really good
character kids and I think we
did that,” Heard said. “I really
feel good about our club. I feel
good about the direction that
we’re going and I feel really
good about representing the
community.”
Eight of the 18 Crushers
played for the McNary var-
sity team last season—2017
graduates Josiah Gilbert, Jonah
Geist, Joshua Benson, Riley
Hays, Brendan Frizelle and
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Daniel Johnson as well as ris-
ing senior Carl Rumbaugh
and junior Tyler Covalt.
The Crushers, who have
more than 30 games sched-
uled between June 12 and July
19, play their home contests
on McNary’s Vic Backlund
Field.
Keizer plays in the six-team
Area 3 with squads from Sa-
lem, Dallas, Albany, Corvallis
and Newport.
After the regular season,
the top four teams will play
another area in a best of three
super regional with the win-
ners advancing to the double
elimination state tournament
in Klamath Falls at the end of
July.
The Crushers opened the
season 4-3 after falling at Cor-
vallis 7-0 on Monday, June 19.
Keizer split with the Gerd-
ing Builders on Sunday. Af-
ter losing the fi rst game 6-3,
the Crushers won the second
game 2-1 in 12 innings. Geist
scored the winning run on an
error.
Gilbert got the start on the
mound and allowed just six
hits and one unearned run
over eight innings. He struck
out 11 and walked two.
“The difference in Josiah
from a year ago is almost in-
describable,” Heard said.
“His mentality is entirely
different. He’s mechanically
10 times better. He’s just do-
ing a great job and he deserves
all the credit in the world for
all of the work that he’s put
in.”
Hays earned the win, al-
lowing just two hits over four
shutout innings.
Keizer swept N.W. Stars
Academy 8-3 and 8-5 on Sat-
urday.
Geist was 1-for-3 with a
triple and two RBIs while
Covalt was 2-for-3 and scored
a run in the fi rst game. Brycen
Schumacher was 1-for-2 with
a double and two runs in the
second game.
The Crushers are taking a
break from league play to host
a tournament June 22-25 that
includes a team from Perth,
Australia.
Pool play games are sched-
uled for 5 p.m. on Friday and
Saturday. The championship
game will be played on Sun-
day at Willamette University.
“We had a lot of meet-
ings before the season that we
wanted to change the men-
tality of the program and to
change the way the program
has done things in years past,”
Heard said.
“These kids have bought in
and they are working incred-
ibly hard and I’m just really
proud of them and I think
that we have great potential. as
a team and as a program. I feel
really, really great about how
we’re going to represent the
community.”
Harvey signs with Linn-Benton
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
When Adam
Harvey
played one of his best basket-
ball games at McNary High
School, he had no idea some-
one was sitting in the stands
who could make his dreams
come true.
Harvey had led the Celtics
with 16 points, two rebounds,
two assists, three blocks and
three steals in a 70-62 win
at West Albany when Linn-
Benton Community College
head coach Everett Hartman
walked into the locker room.
“I didn’t know until after
he walked in,” Harvey said. “I
just happened to have a good
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said he was willing to offer a
scholarship.”
After considering all op-
tions, Harvey, who played
with the Keizer Youth Bas-
ketball Association beginning
in the fi fth grade, signed with
the Roadrunners in May.
“I’m really excited,” Har-
vey said. “I can’t wait to go
play and showcase my skills
and show everyone what I
can do. I’ve been wanting to
play college basketball since
the beginning of high school.”
Harvey, a two-year starter
at McNary, averaged 10.6
points, 3.6 rebounds, two as-
sists and 1.5 steals during his
senior season.
He was voted to the All-
Greater Valley Conference
Second Team.
Harvey said McNary
helped prepare him to be-
come a student athlete in col-
lege.
“They really got me going
with study habits and getting
ready for college,” Harvey
said. “That helped out a lot in
order to keep my grades up
to play basketball and not fall
behind and make sure to pri-
oritize.”
On the court, Harvey
learned how to read defenses
and when to shoot or pass.
Linn-Benton plays a simi-
lar style of basketball as Mc-
Nary.
“From what I’ve seen, I’ve
watched a couple of games
and they like to run and
shoot,” Harvey said. “That’s
their main stuff, get up the
court as fast as you can, get
in the lane, if not, hit the easy
pass and make the 3.”
Harvey’s favorite memo-
ries came in the summer at
the University of Oregon
Team Camp.
“We just had the whole
team up there and we stayed
up there for a couple of days,”
Harvey said. “My favorite
part is probably the water bal-
loon fi ght. Those were great
times.”
Harvey plans to major in
engineering and after two
years at Linn-Benton transfer
to Oregon State.
“Hopefully I can walk on
there or they can pick me up,”
he said.
Volcanoes lose opening night, start season 1-5
By HERB SWETT
Of the Keizertimes
A six-run eighth inning for
Tri-City erased a seven-inning
Salem-Keizer lead Thursday,
June 15 in a home opener that
ended with a 10-4 loss to the
Dust Devils.
Stetson Woods, the Volca-
noes’ starting pitcher, threw
six shutout innings, striking
out fi ve and allowing only
three hits and one walk, but
the three pitchers who fol-
lowed him had a rough time.
The fi rst hit of the game
was a one-out triple to right
fi eld by Kevin Rivera in the
fi rst inning, but Emmanuel
Ramirez, the Dust Devils’
starter, retired the next two
batters.
In the Salem-Keizer sec-
ond, Robinson Medrano led
off with a double to right
center and went to third base
on Manuel Geraldo’s sacrifi ce
bunt. Juan Rodriguez scored
Medrano with a single to
center for the fi rst run of the
game.
It was a 1-0 game until the
bottom of the sixth when,
with one out, Dylan Man-
waring was hit by a pitch
and scored on a double to
center by Ryan Kirby. Kirby
then scored on a wild pitch.
Medrano grounded out, and
Geraldo singled to left. Austin
Smith then replaced Ramirez
on the mound. Juan Rodri-
guez singled to left, and the
bases were loaded. Smith re-
tired the next batter, and the
inning ended with the Volca-
noes ahead 3-0.
Logan Webb
relieved
Woods to start the seventh.
The fi rst batter he faced,
Boomer White, struck out but
reached fi rst base on a third-
strike wild pitch. Bryant Ara-
gon singled to right, sending
White to third. After Webb
struck out the next batter, Jus-
tin Lopez scored White with
a sacrifi ce fl y to center. Man-
waring, the Volcanoes’ catcher,
picked Lopez off fi rst with a
throw to Kirby. The inning
ended with the score 3-1.
Byron Murray led off the
Salem-Keizer seventh with
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a double down the left line
and went to third on a sacri-
fi ce bunt by Malique Ziegler.
Smith, however, retired the
next two batters.
Luis Pino pitched the
eighth for the Volcanoes. Af-
ter retiring Luis Almanazar, he
gave up a home run over the
left fi eld fence to Luis Asun-
cion. Tre Carter singled to
left, Steve Bean hit a broken-
bat single to right, and White
doubled Carter home with
Bean going to third.
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