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All-EO Baseball Player of the Year
Grogan caps exceptional career
Grogan by the
numbers
Stanfield senior
dazzles on the
diamond once again
.488
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
Batting Average
STANFIELD — Dylan
Grogan’s athletic career at
Stanfield Secondary School
is nothing short of excep-
tional.
Specifically
on
the
baseball diamond, Grogan
leaves the Tigers as a
two-time Eastern Oregon
League Player of the Year,
2016 Class 3A state Player
of the Year, two-time first
team all-state selection,
and leader of the 2016 state
championship team.
Add in the numerous
all-state
mentions
and
league awards in football
and basketball, and Grogan
is perhaps one of the most
decorated Stanfield athletes
ever. But as Grogan sat down
with the East Oregonian on
the bleachers at Madigan
Field
on
Wednesday
evening, the 18-year-old
said all of those accolades
have not quite registered to
him just yet.
“I don’t think it’ll hit
me till later down the road,
(Team-high)
1.295
On-base plus Slugging
Percentage
0.95
Earned Run Average
12.6
Strikeouts per
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
7 innings
Standfield’s Dylan Grogan has been named the All-EO baseball player of the year for his efforts on the field and
at the plate to lead Stanfield to a league and district title and a trip to the state semifinals.
years from now,” Grogan
joked, “because right now
I’m probably humble about
it. But when I’m old I’m
sure it’ll hit me like ‘Yeah
that’s pretty good.”
And now Grogan adds
another accolade to his
resume, as the East Orego-
nian Baseball Player of the
Year for the second straight
time. After a dazzling 2016
season that saw Grogan
set several school records
and earn the honor as the
state’s best, he followed it
up in 2017 with yet another
masterful performance.
“You always want to
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Dylan Grogan
Stanfield, senior
Stats: .488 avg., 34
RBI, 1.295 OPS --
0.95 ERA, 53 K.
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Honors:
Co-Player of the Year,
1st team all-state.
Austin Rice
Irrigon, senior
Stats: 1.53 ERA, 95 K
-- .406 avg., 11 2B, 30
R, 20 SB.
Honors: Eastern Ore-
gon League Co-Player
of the Year.
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Levi Thieme
Pilot Rock, senior
Stats: 2.38 ERA, 97
K, 64 2/3 IP, 1 no-hitter
-- .464 avg, 21 RBI, 1
HR, .559 OBP.
Honors: 1st team all-
state for Class 2A/1A.
Thyler Monkus
Stanfield, senior
Stats: .379 avg., .584
OBP, 57 R, 31 SB, 21
HBP, 19 RBI.
Honors: 1st team
all-Eastern
Oregon
League.
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Ryan Bailey
Stanfield, senior
Stats: .451 avg., 30
RBI, 44 R, 10 2B,
.527 OBP, .559 SLG.
Honors: 1st team
all-Eastern Oregon
League.
Wyatt Morris
Pendleton, senior
Stats: .375 avg., 2
HR, 25 R, .505 OBP,
1.075 OPS, 11 RBI.
Honors: 1st team
all-Columbia River Co-
nerence.
Brody Woods
Stanfield, junior
Stats: .479 avg., 38
RBI, 12 2B, 5 3B, 36
R, .735 SLG -- 2.65
ERA, 63 K, 1 no-hitter.
Honors: 1st team all-
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Tony Flores
Stanfield, senior
Stats: .434 avg., 46 R,
50 RBI, 15 2B, 4 3B,
.667 SLG -- 2.65 ERA.
Honors: 1st team all-
EOL.
Nick Bower
Pendleton, junior
Wyatt Noland
Hermiston, soph.
Stats: ..370 avg., 14
R, 14 RBI, 4 2B, 4 3B.
Honors: 2nd team
all-Columbia
River
Conference.
Chris Weinke
Pilot Rock, junior
Stats: .324 avg., 27
R, 4 HR, .510 OBP.
Honors: 2A/1A all-
state honorable
mention.
Zack Henrichs
Irrigon, sophomore
Stats: .424 avg., 25 R,
26 RBI, 8 2B, .559 SLG.
Honors: 1st team
all-Eastern
Oregon
League.
Braydon Postma
Pilot Rock, senior
Stats: .486 avg., 21
runs, 17 RBI, .575
OBP, 5 2B.
Honors: 2A/1A all-
state second team.
Stats: .316 avg., 1 HR,
25 RBI, .410 OBP.
Honors:
1st team
all-Columbia River
Conference.
College Baseball
MLB
Beavers offense sputters in loss to LSU
OSU held to
season-low two hits
College World Series
By ERIC OLSON
Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. — With a
wave of his cap to the LSU
fans, Alex Lange disappeared
into the dugout after what
very well could have been
his last outing as a collegian.
It was one of his best, and
most timely.
The Chicago Cubs’ first-
round draft pick limited
top-seeded Oregon State to
two hits over 7 1/3 innings
in a performance Friday
that carried the Tigers to a
3-1 victory and ended the
Beavers’ 23-game winning
streak.
It also set up a winner-
take-all Bracket 1 final at
the College World Series on
Saturday, with the winner
going to the best-of-three
finals beginning Monday.
Lange (10-5) won a CWS
AP Photo/Nati Harnik
LSU’s Zach Watson (9) slides past Oregon’s catcher Ad-
ley Rutschman (35) to score on a sacrifice bunt by Beau
Jordan during the second inning of a College World Se-
ries game in Omaha, Neb., Friday, June 23, 2017.
elimination game for the
second time in his career,
and he said his experience
pitching so many important
games at home in Baton
Rouge, Louisiana, prepared
him.
“I had a sense of calmness
about me this morning when
I woke up, and getting to the
yard. I was expecting to be
amped up and juiced up,”
Lange said. “I was calm and
relaxed. I think that goes
back to pitching in Alex Box
Stadium in front of 12,000
people every Friday night.
It wasn’t a big shocker or
big difference. This is why I
came to LSU, to play in these
LSU
Oregon State
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big games. And keeping your
team in the ballgame and
keeping the season alive is
pretty awesome.”
The
Tigers
(51-18)
avenged a 13-1 loss to the
Beavers (56-5) on Monday
and became the first team
to knock them off since
Southern California on April
29.
They did all of their
scoring against national
wins leader Jake Thompson
(14-1). Max Engelbrekt
relieved in the seventh after
Josh Smith hit Thompson’s
first pitch of the inning into
the right-field seats for a
two-run lead.
Oregon State was still
stinging after the game from
a call in the third inning
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Mariners pile on for
win over Astros
King Felix solid in return from DL
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Felix Hernandez pitched six solid
innings in his first start in nearly two months and was
backed by home runs from Mike Zunino, Ben Gamel and
Kyle Seager in the Seattle Mariners’
13-3 win over the Houston Astros on
Friday night.
A day after climbing over .500 for
Houston
the first time this season, the Mariners
continued their June surge with their
sixth straight win thanks to an offense
that knocked out Houston starter Joe
Musgrove (4-7) early. Jarrod Dyson’s
RBI double in the second got Seattle
Seattle
started, but it was a six-run third inning
that blew the game open.
Danny Valencia’s two-run single
dribbled past the diving attempt of
Alex Bregman and two batters later Zunino hit a three-run
shot for his 10th home run of the season.
All of Zunino’s homers have come since being
recalled from Triple-A on May 23, and he has 29 RBIs
in June — just four short of the franchise record for any
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