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Volcanoes season offi cially cancelled
CEO Pat O’Conner said.
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
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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.
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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