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MID-COLUMBIA CONFERENCE
Cougars land four on first team
Hermiston players pick up
softball, baseball honors
Pilot Rock has 2
first-team players
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
ECHO — The Echo/Stanfield
softball team had four players
selected to the Special District 6
softball first team by the league
coaches, while Pilot Rock had two.
Weston-McEwen, which
finished third in the SD6 stand-
ings (8-4, 14-10 overall), had four
players named to the second team,
while Heppner had two players
selected to the second team.
Grant Union’s Drew Williams
was named Pitcher of the Year,
while teammate Riley Robertson
was selected as Player of the Year.
Infielder Taylor Longhorn led
the Cougars at the plate, hitting
.556, with a slugging percentage
of .778. She was 17 of 17 for stolen
bases and scored 21 runs.
Catcher Faith McCarty had a
batting average of .438 and scored
13 runs. She also was 11 of 11 for
stolen bases.
Outfielder Nevaeh Thew hit
.308, scored 11 runs and was a
perfect 9-for-9 on stolen bases.
Pitcher Zuri Reeser had an
ERA of 5.20. She struck out 32
and walked 23. At the plate, she
hit .293 and scored 17 runs.
Lankford
Dyer was named
a second-team
utility player
Longhorn
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
Lunzmann
McCarty
Elliott
ERMISTON — Herm-
iston’s Jocie Elwood,
Hailey South and Sydney
Stocker were named to the
Mid-Columbia Confer-
ence softball second team by the
conference coaches.
Sophomore outfielder Kaylee
Elliott was selected to the honor-
able mention team.
Conference champion Walla
Walla dominated the first team with
seven players, including Player of
the Year Tallulah Sickels, for the
second year in a row. Wa-Hi’s Arch
McHie was named Coach of the
Year.
The Bulldogs finished 10-6 in
conference play, including a win
over the Blue Devils. They finished
15-8 overall, just falling short of the
H
Reeser
Thew
The Cougars finished third
in the SD6 standings with a 6-6
record, and finished 14-9 overall.
The Rockets’ first-team play-
ers were infielder Natalie Lank-
ford, who hit .428 this season, and
outfielder Madison Lunzmann,
who hit .400 with an on-base
percentage of .625.
Pilot Rock finished 6-6 in
league play and 13-11 overall.
Elwood
Dyer
3A state tournament.
South, the Bulldogs’ shortstop,
hit .486 with 34 hits. She had four
doubles, three triples and a team-
high five home runs, along with 20
RBIs and 32 runs scored. She also
had a team-high 17 stolen bases.
Behind the plate, Stocker had 94
putouts and had just one error on
the season. At the plate, she hit .348
with 24 hits, including two doubles,
three triples and four home runs.
Stocker drove in 14 runs and scored
19 times.
Just a sophomore, Elwood took
care of duties at third base. Offen-
sively, she hit .409 with 27 hits,
including three doubles, four triples
and three home runs. She had a
team-high 30 RBIs and scored 28
times.
An outfielder, Elliott had 23
South
Stocker
putouts and just three errors in 22
games. She .375 with 27 hits, 11
RBIs and she scored 25 times. She
also had eight stolen bases.
On the baseball field, Herm-
iston senior Hunter Dyer was the
lone Bulldog to earn honors. He was
named a second-team utility player
by the conference coaches. For the
season, he hit a team-high .432 with
19 hits, including one double and
seven RBIs. He only struck out
three times in 44 at-bats.
In the field, Dyer had 83 putouts
and committed just one error in 15
games.
Conference champion Kenne-
wick had Daniel Dickinson named
Player of the Year, Leyton Lind
selected as Pitcher of the Year, and
Lenny Ayres named Coach of the
Year by his peers.
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