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Doutt heading to Southern Virginia
ond-team all-conference se-
BY MATT RAWLINGS
lection the year prior.
Of the Keizertimes
“Leah has been a critical
After a successful three-year
stint with the McNary girls’ part of this team ever since her
basketball squad, Leah Doutt freshman year. She has amaz-
announced last week that she ing court vision and is a great
will be continuing her educa- passer. She shoots the ball
tion and basketball career at really well and is one of our
best defend-
Southern Vir-
McNary
ginia Univer-
“I am so excited. ers,”
girls’ basketball
sity, a Division
coach Eliza-
III school in I have wanted
beth
Doran
Buena Vista, Va.
said.
Doutt had to compete at
Doutt fi rst
garnered in- the next level
heard
about
terest
from
the
school
schools such for a long time.
from Gretch-
as Northwest
— Leah Doutt
en Olsen, a
Nazarene, Lin-
former South
fi eld, George
Salem player
Fox,
Pacifi c
Lutheran and Arizona Chris- who is entering her freshman
tian, but ultimately decided on year at Southern Virginia. One
attending Southern Virginia. of the reasons that South-
She plans to double major in ern Virginia fi rst appealed to
Doutt was because the school
business and politics
“I am so excited. I have is aligned with The Church
wanted to compete at the next of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
level for a long time. I am so Saints — Doutt is a devout
Mormon.
stoked,” Doutt said.
“My religion is really im-
Despite missing eight
games last season, Doutt was portant to me,” Doutt said.
When she fi rst took her of-
still a fi rst-team all-Mountain
Valley Conference selection fi cial visit to Southern Virgin-
last season as a junior after ia last month, Doutt knew that
leading her team in scoring
and assists. She was a sec-
Please see DOUTT, Page A8
File
McNary point guard Leah Doutt will be forgoing a chance to play her senior year with the Celtics and instead will be enrolling early
at Southern Virginia University. She plans to join the school’s women’s basketball team next month.
#10 Adam Duvall
TOP 20
20
Volcanoes
players
of all time
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Adam Duvall had the best season of his young career in 2016 with the Reds, hitting 33 homers
and knocking in 103 RBIs.
BY MATT RAWLINGS
Of the Keizertimes
At #10 on the Keizertimes
list of the top 20 Volcanoes
players of all time is Atlanta
Braves outfi elder/fi rst base-
man Adam Duvall. Duvall has
played in the big leagues for
seven seasons and made the
National League (NL) All-Star
team in 2016.
Duvall grew up in Ken-
tucky and started his collegiate
career at Western Kentucky
University before eventually
transferring to Chipola Col-
lege and then the University
of Louisville. He was drafted
by the San Francisco Giants
in the 11th round of the 2010
Major League Baseball (MLB)
Draft.
With the Volcanoes in 2010,
Duvall batted .245 with four
home runs and 18 RBIs in 54
games. He was promoted to
the Augusta GreenJackets in
2011, which is where his tal-
ent began to show. Duvall led
the team with 22 homers and
87 RBIs while batting .285 in
116 games.
Duvall’s power numbers in-
creased the following season
in high-A ball with the San
Jose Giants as he led all Sin-
gle-A players in 2012 with 30
homers.
After missing some time
due to an injury to his left
thumb in Double-A with the
Richmond Flying Squirrels,
Duvall still hit 17 homers and
had 58 RBIs to go along with
his .252 average in 2013.
Duvall spent the fi rst three
months of the 2014 season
in Triple-A with the Fres-
no Grizzlies, but on June 25,
2014, he was called up to make
his big league debut with the
Giants.
In his fi rst MLB game, Du-
vall homered off of Cincin-
nati Reds right-hander Mike
Leake — the two players
were involved in a trade the
following season. Duvall was
sent back down to the minor
leagues on July 4, 2014, but re-
joined the Giants later in the
month.
Even though his MLB ca-
reer began with a bang, Duvall
struggled in his 28 games with
the Giants, batting just .192
with three homers.
Duvall was sent back to Tri-
ple-A for the beginning of the
2015 season. On July 30, 2015,
the Giants traded Duvall and
Keury Mella to the Reds in
exchange for Leake.
After the trade was com-
pleted, Duvall spent the next
month in Triple-A with the
Louisville Bats before the
Reds called him up on Aug.
31, 2015.
In his fi rst at-bat for Cin-
cinnati, Duvall blasted a two-
run, pinch-hit homer in the
Reds 13-6 win over the Chi-
cago Cubs. In 27 games with
the Reds, Duvall hit .219 with
fi ve homers and nine RBIs.
Duvall’s fi rst full season in
the big leagues came in 2016.
While he was a little-known
player to begin the year, Du-
vall quickly became one of
the best power hitters in all of
baseball.
For the fi rst three months
of the 2016 season, Duvall led
the NL in slugging percent-
age and was tied for fi rst in
the MLB in homers. In July
2016, he was the only Cincin-
nati player selected to the All-
Star Game, becoming the fi rst
Louisville University alum to
ever become an All-Star.
Duvall also participated in
the 2016 Home Run Derby
Bill Greenblatt/United Press International
Duvall shouts in celebration after hitting the go-ahead two-run single in game three of the 2019
National League Division Series.
— he was defeated by 2015
champion Todd Frazier in the
semifi nals.
Duvall ended the season
with 33 home runs, which was
good enough for sixth in the
National League. He also had
103 RBIs on the season.
Duvall put up similar num-
bers in 2017, batting .247 with
31 dingers and 99 RBIs. The
2017 season was also a year of
fi rsts for Duvall. He hit his fi rst
grand slam on April 18, 2017
off of Kevin Gausman in the
Reds 9-3 win over the Balti-
more Orioles. Then on July
14, 2017, Duvall had his fi rst
career walk-off hit in a 4-3
victory over the Arizona Dia-
mondbacks.
Early in the 2018 season,
Duvall hit his fi rst walk-off
home run against A.J. Ramos
of the New York Mets, propel-
ling the Reds to the 2-1 win.
However, Duvall struggled
for the Reds in 2018, bat-
ting just .205 in 105 games.
On July 30, 2018, Duvall was
traded to the Braves for Lucas
Sims, Matt Wisler, and Preston
Tucker. But Duvall’s strug-
gles continued in Atlanta for
the remainder of the year as
he fi nished the season batting
.192 with 15 homers and 61
RBIs.
Duvall encountered more
issues at the plate during
spring training of 2019, which
prompted the Braves to send
him back down to Triple-A.
However, Duvall was able to
get back in a groove at a lower
level.
Duvall had 32 homers and
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