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< LAUREN RICHARDS
5A PITCHER OF THE YEAR
5A ALL-STATE FIRST TEAM
Best in
state
Pendleton senior Lauren Richards
leads 5A all-state softball teams,
voted Pitcher of the Year
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
endleton’s standout pitcher
Lauren Richards was voted as
the best in Class 5A this sea-
son, as the Buckaroo standout was
named the Pitcher of the Year and a
first team all-state pick by the clas-
sifications coaches in the all-state
teams released Sunday.
It’s the third straight season that
Richards made the first team list, as
the future Claremont McKenna Col-
lege pitcher has dominated opposing
offenses throughout her career. This
year, Richards went 26-2 in the cir-
cle with a 1.42 ERA while striking
out 232 batters in 171 1/3 innings
pitched — a ratio of 9.5 strikeouts
per seven innings. She threw eight
complete-game shutouts, most nota-
bly a seven-inning shutout with 12
strikeouts in the 5A championship
victory over Putnam.
“She’s just one of the most fierce
competitors and toughest players
mentally that I’ve ever coached,
guys or girls,” Pendleton head coach
Tim Cary said of Richards follow-
ing the Buckaroos’ championship
win in Corvallis. “She just will out-
work you and she doesn’t get rat-
tled. She’s just an unbelievable
competitor and I can’t say enough
about her.”
Richards also brought a potent
bat to each game, as she hit for a
.461 average (47-for-102) with 14
doubles and 37 RBI. Cary along
with Pendleton’s assistant coaches
P
Jim Newland, Josh Grass, Kristan
Garton and Steve Richards were
named as Coaching Staff of the
Year and Marist Catholic’s sopho-
more catcher and University of Ore-
gon commitment Abby Doerr was
named Player of the Year.
Pendleton placed five players on
the three all-state teams, but sur-
prisingly Richards was the only
first team pick as one of six pitch-
ers. Senior infielder Kalan McGlo-
than was the lone Buckaroo to make
second team after hitting .464 with a
team-best 10 home runs, 36 RBI and
35 runs scored while playing a solid
third base.
Junior catcher Kila Solomon
(.408 avg., 7HR, 33 RBI), junior
second baseman Aspen Garton (.438
avg., 6 HR, 39 RBI, 29 runs) and
senior infielder Alexi Brehaut (.531
avg., 7 HR, 9 doubles, 35 RBI, 31
runs) were all third team selections.
Two Hermiston Bulldogs earned
spots on the all-state teams. Junior
shortstop Sydney Stefani was a first
team pick after she hit .568 with
four home runs, 11 doubles, and
scored 33 runs for the Bulldogs.
Sophomore Bailey Noland was a
second team pick at utility follow-
ing a season where she hit .452 with
eight home runs, 39 RBI and scored
24 runs.
Pendleton and Hermiston’s
league rival Hood River Valley had
four first team picks with pitcher
Hannah McNerney, catcher Zoe
Munn, outfielder Haylee Baker and
utility Lauren Decker.
Staff photos by E.J. Harris and Kathy Aney
^ SYDNEY STEFANI
5A ALL-STATE FIRST TEAM
< KALAN MCGLOTHAN
5A ALL-STATE SECOND TEAM
BAILEE NOLAND
5A ALL-STATE SECOND TEAM
ASPEN GARTON
5A ALL-STATE THIRD TEAM
KILA SOLOMON
5A ALL-STATE THIRD TEAM
ALEXI BREHAUT
5A ALL-STATE THIRD TEAM
Each Omaha trip
special for Casey
Mariners
hammer 4
homers in
6-3 win
By BOB LUNDEBERG
Albany Democrat-Herald
By TODD MILLES
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Mitch Hani-
ger and Ryon Healy each hom-
ered twice as the first-place Seattle
Mariners shook off two homers by
Mike Trout for the second consec-
utive night, beating the Los Ange-
les Angels 6-3 on Tuesday.
Trout took sole possession of
the major league lead with 23
home runs. He also hit a pair in the
Angels’ 5-3 loss Monday night at
Safeco Field.
Mike Leake (7-3) allowed one
run in six innings for Seattle, which
has won three straight and 10 of 12
GERMANY:
BACK-TO-BACK
CUP CHAMP?
2B
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
Seattle Mariners’ Mitch Haniger watches his two-run home run
against the Los Angeles Angels during the fifth inning of a base-
ball game Tuesday in Seattle. It was Haniger’s second home run of
the game.
to remain a half-game ahead of
Houston atop the AL West.
Edwin Diaz worked the ninth
for his big league-best 25th save in
28 tries.
Haniger’s two-run homer in the
fifth inning and Healy’s solo shot
in the sixth gave the Mariners a
4-1 lead. Trout answered with his
second of the game in the seventh,
a drive that hit the scoreboard in
left-center field to cut it to 4-3.
Seattle added insurance runs on
Jean Segura’s RBI double in the
seventh and Healy’s leadoff homer
in the eighth.
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Oregon State has reached col-
lege baseball’s grandest stage
seven times in program history.
Six have come in the last
14 years under Pat Casey, who
believes every trip to the Col-
lege World Series is a unique
experience.
“I remember the first day I
stepped on the field in Omaha
and I thought I was in baseball
heaven,” OSU’s 59-year-old
coach said Saturday after clinch-
ing the Corvallis Super Regional.
The third-seeded Beavers (49-10-
1) will open the CWS against No.
6 North Carolina (43-18) at noon
Saturday, the NCAA announced
Monday evening.
“You never know if you’re
going to get back, so crazy things
happen.”
OSU didn’t qualify for the
NCAA tournament until Casey’s
11th season at the school. The
Beavers won the 2005 Pac-10
championship — their first con-
ference title since 1994 — and
went 3-0 at the Corvallis Regional
to set up a home rematch with
USC in the supers.
After taking the opener, OSU
blew a late 8-3 lead in the second
game and fell 9-8 in 10 innings.
USC’s three-run ninth-inning
rally included a Jeff Clement solo
home run and a dropped fly ball
in the outfield.
“I told our guys after the game,
I said ‘Hey, if we believe that
we’re the team that we are then
pack your bags, we’re going to
Omaha,’” Casey recalled. “And
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Sports shorts
Hayward Field East
Grandstand dismantled
EUGENE (AP) — Work-
ers have started dismantling the
93-year-old East Grandstand at the
University of Oregon’s Hayward
Field.
Workers began removing the
grandstand’s original seat boards
on Monday, The Register-Guard
reported .
The Douglas fir bleacher seats
are among numerous items that
may be reused in the modern sta-
dium that will be built on the same
site as Hayward Field.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
Woods surprised he’s still at 14 majors
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y.
(AP) — A year ago, while
watching the U.S. Open on
television as he recovered
from another back surgery,
Tiger Woods had no idea if
he’d ever compete again in
what he calls “our national
championship.”
On Tuesday, he spoke
about playing Shinnecock
Hills as an opportunity to add
to his three U.S. Open titles,
but also as filling a hole in his
existence after skipping the
last two. This is his 20th U.S.
Open.
“I missed playing the U.S.
Open,” Woods said. “It’s
our national title and it has
meant so much to me in my
career. The biggest event you
can win when I was growing
up, it was a USGA event. To
have won nine times is pretty
special.”
AP Photo/Julie Jacobson
1953 — Ben Hogan wins the
U.S. Open for the fourth time,
with a six-stroke victory over Sam
Snead.
1997 — Chicago wins its
fifth NBA championship in
the last seven years when
Steve Kerr’s last-sec-
ond shot gives the Bulls
a 90-86 Game 6 victory
over the Utah Jazz.
2003 — Roger Clemens
reaches 300 wins and becomes the
third pitcher with 4,000 strikeouts.
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