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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Summer league with Smith Logging
August 1, 2018
Kah-Nee-Ta Youth worker profile
Courtesy Saphronia Coochise
Team roster: Marci Smith, Jessie Adams, Allee Jackson, Louella Heath-Jackson, Saphronia
Coochise, Tamera Coffee, and Juliane Smith (back row from left); and Debra Medina-Smith,
Nyallee Cochran, Celeste Morning Owl, Elyse Bagley, Shania Tom, Devynn Rodriguez-Medina,
and Jiana Smith-Francis (front from left).
T he Smith Logging softball
team wrapped up the summer
season over the weekend, with
the Prineville Women’s Softball
tournament finals. They went 2-
2 in the tournament.
Marci Smith and her co-cap-
tain Saphronia Coochise, lead
pitcher, have been organizing the
Smith Logging team for the past
six years. Saphronia is the staff
accountant at Power and Water.
Marci is a receptionist at Mail
and Reception, and at night
works the front desk at Kah-
Nee-Ta.
During the summer, Smith
Logging softball plays two to
three times each week in
Prineville, starting in late spring
through July.
The team roster changes from
week to week, depending on
everyone’s schedule, such as their
kids’ Little League games, etc.,
Saphronia says.
Still, twelve to 15 players make
it to each game, so they always
have the complete roster. And
Smith Logging was one of five
teams in the region to play in the
weekend championship tourna-
ment. Earlier in July the team
played in the Prineville ‘For the
Children’ fundraising tournament.
This was not a league tournament
game, so they played under the
name the Residentialz. Some of
their games have been during
the recent heat wave, when it
was still over 90 degrees at
evening game. Yet they perse-
vered through the season, for
love of the game.
The 2018 Smith Logging
roster was Saphronia, Marci,
Shania Tom, Elyse Bagley,
Vivian Carter-Smith, Louella
Heath-Jackson, Jiana Smith-
Francis, Juliane Smith, Jessie
Adams, Niyallee Cochran,
Debra Smith-Medina, Allee
Jackson, Celeste Morning
Owl,
Tamera
Coffee,
Samantha Gomez and
Devynn Medina.
Dave McMechan
Photographer Jayson Smith captured this image one evening at the recent Jefferson County Fair.
Text and photos by Gerald Tufti