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All-EO Baseball Team
Thieme’s
Time
Pilot Rock’s Levi
Thieme is the 2018 All-
EO Player of the Year
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
THIEME
By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
East Oregonian
By The Numbers
0.59
s people across the state — and country —
set their alarms and DVR’s for Oregon State’s
must-win series against Mississippi State
beginning Friday, Pilot Rock’s Levi Thieme won’t
be watching.
It’s not that the star pitcher doesn’t like baseball,
after all he’s put together a stat line that carried the
Rockets to the 2018 2A/1A Baseball State Champi-
onship, he’s simply just not interested.
“I don’t like watching TV,” Thieme admitted. “I
think it’s kind of a waste of my time.”
The senior that clocks a fast ball in the mid-
high 80’s should be interested in collegiate base-
ball and have hopes to don the colors of his favorite
major league team, but for Thieme, his interest span
beyond sports.
“I just happen to be good at baseball,” he said.
His talents are a combination of hard work and
pure athletic ability, not so much being a son of the
game or losing sleep over extra-inning wins and
nail biting losses of various MLB teams, and his
final year in white and blue earned him the honor of
All-EO Baseball Player of the Year.
The numbers speak for themselves.
Thieme ended the season with an 8-1 record,
0.59 ERA, 129 strikeouts and only 10 walks. Offen-
sively, he had a .569 average, 26 RBIs, 30 runs
scored, six doubles, three triples, one home run and
11 stolen bases. It’s impressive, and at times took
even Thieme by surprise.
A
Earned-run
average
129
Strikeouts,
first on the team
10
Walks allowed in
70 2/3 innings
.569
Batting average,
first on team
26
Runs batted in,
second on team
Pitcher Levi Thieme
helped lead Pilot Rock to
its first state title game
appearance since 2000.
See ALL-EO/2B
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
2018 ALL-EO BASEBALL FIRST TEAM
P
P
Levi Thieme
Pilot Rock, sr.
Stats: 8-1 record,
0.59 ERA, 129 Ks,
10 walks
P
Dan Naughton
Pendleton, sr.
Stats: 6-5 record,
1.98 ERA, 99K,
56 1/3 innings
IF
Chris Weinke
Pilot Rock, sr.
Stats: .438 avg.,
2 HR, 6 2B, 29
runs, 14 SB.
P
Brody Woods
Stanfield, sr.
Stats: 11-0 record,
1.21 ERA, 147K,
69 innings
IF
Brody Woods
Stanfield, sr.
Stats: .479 avg.,
6HR, 8 2b, 6 3b,
56 RBI, 50 runs.
C
Lukas Tolan
Hermiston, sr.
Stats: 2-3 record,
1.63 ERA, 35K,
47 innings
OF
Wyatt Noland
Hermiston, jr.
Stats: .447 avg.,
1 HR, 14 RBI, 8
2B, 1.133 OPS.
OF
Nick Bower
Pendleton, sr.
Stats: .407 avg.,
.557 OBP, 2 HR,
22 RBI, 22 runs.
Gabe Umbarger
Pendleton, jr.
Stats: . 338 avg.,
.515 OBP, 2HR, 4
3B, 19 RBI, 30 R
IF
Ryan Russell
Pendleton, sr.
Stats: .267 avg.,
3HR, 21 RBI, 14
runs, .870 OPS.
OF
Adrian Renner
Stanfield, sr.
Stats: .404 avg.,
16 XBH, 59 runs,
36 SB, 26 RBI
Levi Thieme
Pilot Rock, sr.
Stats: ..569 avg.,
26 RBI, 30 runs, 6
2B, 3 3B, 1 HR
UT
Bryson Pierce
Pilot Rock, sr.
Stats: .436 avg.,
4 HR, 29 RBI,
1.385 OPS.
NBA Draft
Mariners
slide
continues
Phoenix Suns select
Ayton No. 1 overall
By BRIAN MAHONEY
Associated Press
Judge, Andujar homer
for Yankees to complete
3-game sweep
By BEN WALKER
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Aaron Boone
bristles at the notion his New York
Yankees are all or nothing, built
entirely on home runs.
“I think it’s a silly argument,”
the manager said. “That does
bother me, actually.”
Maybe, but it’s sure a quick way
to light up the scoreboard.
Aaron Judge and Miguel Andu-
jar hit two-run homers off James
Paxton in the first inning that sent
the Yankees over the Seattle Mar-
iners 4-3 on Thursday for a three-
IF
AP Photo/Bill Kostroun
New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge hits a two-run home run as Seat-
tle Mariners catcher Mike Zunino, right, looks on.
game sweep.
Luis Severino and the Yan-
kees boosted the best record in the
majors to 50-22. They’ve won four
in a row and 17 of 21.
“We’ve obviously played well,
racked up a lot of wins,” Boone
said. “We’ve played well against
some of the elite teams.”
Seattle, which was 20 games
over .500 coming into the Bronx
this week, has lost a season-high
four straight.
New York launched eight hom-
See MARINERS/3B
NEW YORK — The Phoe-
nix Suns stayed close to home
for their first No. 1 pick. The Dal-
las Mavericks looked all the way
to Slovenia for the player they
hope can be their next European
superstar.
Shortly after the Suns took
Deandre Ayton to start the NBA
draft Thursday night, the Maver-
icks traded up two spots for the
rights to Luka Doncic.
The Atlanta Hawks swapped
the rights to Doncic, the No.
3 pick who has spent the last
year winning championships all
over Europe, to Atlanta for Trae
Young, the No. 5 selection from
Oklahoma.
The Mavericks also gave up
a future first-round pick to draft
Doncic, who only arrived in New
York on Wednesday after help-
ing Spain’s Real Madrid win its
league championship after he
won Euroleague MVP and Final
Four MVP honors when they
won that title this year.
His lengthy European season
kept him from working out for
teams but he knew the Mavericks
were interested in having him on
their team for what’s expected to
be Dirk Nowitzki’s final NBA
season.
The Hawks will get perhaps
the most exciting player in col-
lege basketball last season in
Young, the first player to lead the
nation in scoring and assists in
the same season.
See DRAFT/2B