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BY MATT RAWLINGS “While this is a sad day for Of the Keizertimes For the fi rst time since many, this announcement 1996, there will not be any removes the uncertainty sur- Volcanoes baseball this sum- rounding the 2020 season and allows mer. our teams On Tuesday, to begin June 30, Minor “ These are un- planning for League Base- precedented an exciting ball (MiLB) 2021 season announced that times for our of affordable there won’t be family en- games at any country and tertainment.” level this sum- for our organi- Salem- mer after they K e i z e r were informed zation as this Vo l c a n o e s that Major is the fi rst time C E O League Baseball M i c k e y (MLB) would in our histo- Walker was not provide ry that we’ve hopeful players to their that there minor league had a summer would be an affi liates due without Minor abbreviated to COVID-19 m i n o r limiting their League Base- l e a g u e schedule — ball,” season after the MLB is set and to begin a 60- — Pat O’Conner MLB the players game sched- MiLB President association ule later this fi nally came month. “These are unprecedent- to an agreement on a season ed times for our country and after months of conversation. our organization as this is the But ultimately, there were fi rst time in our history that too many logistical issues. “I sure had hope, but the we’ve had a summer with- out Minor League Baseball Please see SKV, Page A9 played,” MiLB president and File Hunter Bishop gets a secondary lead for the Volcanoes in a game from last season. Bishop is one of the top prospects in the San Francisco Giants system. Boucher taking over as head coach at Westmont Submitted After several successful seasons as a high school coach and college assistant, Landon Boucher will be the next head coach aat Westmont College. Keizertimes Wheatland Publishing Corp. 142 Chemawa Road N. • Keizer, Oregon 97303 Phone: 503.390.1051 • www.keizertimes.com MANAGING EDITOR SUBSCRIPTIONS Eric A. Howald editor@keizertimes.com One year: $35 in Marion County, $43 outside Marion County, $55 outside Oregon ASSOCIATE EDITOR Matt Rawlings news@keizertimes.com PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY COMMUNITY REPORTER Publication No: USPS 679-430 Lauren Murphy reporter@keizertimes.com POSTMASTER Send address changes to: ADVERTISING Stephanie Wittman advertising@keizertimes.com PRODUCTION MANAGER & GRAPHIC DESIGNER EDITOR & PUBLISHER Andrew Jackson graphics@keizertimes.com LEGAL NOTICES legals@keizertimes.com Lyndon Zaitz publisher@keizertimes.com 2019-2020 President Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association Keizertimes Circulation 142 Chemawa Road N. Keizer, OR 97303 Periodical postage paid at Salem, Oregon BUSINESS MANAGER Leah Stevens billing@keizertimes.com RECEPTION Lori Beyeler facebook.com/keizertimes twitter.com/keizertimes BY MATT RAWLINGS Of the Keizertimes After his playing days came to an end, Landon Boucher didn’t know what his future in basketball was going to look like. The former Keizer res- ident played at Salem Academy and Chemeketa Community College be- fore fi nishing his career as a student-athlete at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, Calif. in 2012. “I remember being on the bus coming back from losing against Azusa (Pacifi c) in my last college game and thinking to myself ‘what am I going to do now’,” Bouch- er said. It didn’t take him long to fi nd out the answer. The following day, Boucher received an offer to be the head coach at Provi- dence School, a small Chris- tian High School in South- ern California. Eight years later, Boucher is still coaching, only now it will be at the collegiate level, and at his alma mater. After spending the last two years as an assistant, Boucher will take over as head coach of the Westmont men’s basketball program, stepping in for John Moore, who is retiring after 27 years at the helm. “Coach Boucher is a big picture thinker who is not here just to win games but also to build on the tradition set before him,” Westmont athletic director Dave Odell said. “He brings a strong faith commitment and a real understanding of the col- lege’s academic mission and our aspirations as an athletic program.” After getting his fi rst job at Providence, it didn’t take Boucher long to prove his abilities as a coach as he led the team to a school record for victories in a season. The following year, Boucher went onto San and returned to Westmont as Marcos High School to an assistant. “I would not have hired become the junior varsity head coach and varsity as- Landon as an assistant if I did sistant. Boucher eventually not think he had great char- was named the varsity head acter,” Moore said. “When I hired Landon, I felt like our coaching in 2014. It was an adjustment go- program was going to be ing from a small private better because Landon was school to one of the biggest going to be a part of it.” “He is very good at in- public schools in California, but once again, Boucher game adjustments and he is also a very good practice found immediate success. coach. He has In his a strong un- four years at derstanding San Marcos, “ We had an of the game Boucher had and commu- a record of amazing group nicates things 89-36, with last year and in a way that his most suc- is crisp, con- cessful year nearly all of cise and to the coming in them are re- point. I think his fi nal sea- players appre- son. Boucher turning. I’m ciate that.” led the team really excited As an assis- to their fi rst tant, Boucher ever Califor- to have my got the chance nia Interscho- fi rst year as a to a do a lot lastic Feder- of traveling ation (CIF) head coach be and recruit- Southern Sec- with this group. ing. But what tion Cham- made his re- pionship in They are some turn to West- 2018 and mont special was named special individ- for him was the sectional uals who have being back at coach of the already had a a Christian year. school. “We were lot of success in “I was re- really able to ally happy to build up that their careers,” be back in a freshman class — Landon Boucher, C h r i s t - c e n - that got there Westmont head coach tered environ- in 2014. It ment. Yes, it’s was an amaz- my alma ma- ing experi- ence with amazing kids. We ter, but it’s about more than achieved everything we set just basketball here and that out to accomplish,” Boucher is what I really like about it,” Boucher said. said. During Boucher’s two Because he felt like he had reached the pinnacle at San years as an assistant, West- Marcos, Boucher decided mont made back-to-back that he wanted to step down appearances in the NAIA from his high school posi- National Tournament. They tion to pursue a college gig. also fi nished 26-5 last season He didn’t have to go far to and won their fi rst confer- ence title since 2013. land one. Westmont’s expectations Before the 2018-19 sea- son, Boucher was hired by Moore, his former coach, Please see BOUCHER, Page A9
