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ing. Even when people say you
can’t, that means you’ve got to
fi ght a little bit harder to prove
them wrong,” she said.
“The mentality is that we’re
just as good as any other team. We
just have to prove it to ourselves
and we’ve just got keep pushing
and not give up and show them.”
On Friday, the Lions hosted
Sweet Home in a double-header
and lost 18-1 and 15-0.
Tuesday, in the fi nal game
of the season, the Lions played
Sutherlin (The game occurred
after our print deadline, look for
results in next week’s paper.)
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coach and ask him to come to the fi eld so
she could practice her pitching.
“She was one of those people that every-
body loved. Because she gave everything
all the time,” said assistant coach of the
1996 team, Jim Russell.
After years of not having a softball team
at Yoncalla, interest from Whitford and
friends got the program restarted during her
freshman year. The team didn’t win a game
in their fi rst season but were able to win a
handful of games her sophomore year.
Junior year, Russell and head coach
Mike Bendele, took over the program. The
former baseball coaches who had never
coached softball, relieved Simons, who was
also head volleyball and basketball coach in
addition to athletic director and math teach-
er, from the job.
After making the playoffs the year be-
fore, the 1996 team had high expectations
heading into the season. The team then lost
their fi rst two games of the year before rat-
tling off 25 straight to win the state title be-
hind Whitford on the mound.
“When I fi rst thought about the cleats and
the smile she had, course it brought tears to
my eyes,” said Bendele. “It’s emotional be-
cause we’re all supposed to be gone before
our kids are.”
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Simons, who taught and coached Ali-
sa, then talked with her mother and sister,
Sarah Stinchcomb, about it and then went
to the school board and got approval to re-
name the fi eld.
“What’s really special about it is knowing
that people still really think about her. The
impact that she left. That she passed away
in 2009 and people are still really thinking
about her because she left that much of an
impact on people around her,” said Stinch-
comb. “That you know, they want to honor
her and continue to keep honoring her. So
it’s defi nitely very special.”
Sunday at Alisa Whitford Memorial
Field, members of the 1996 championship
softball team and other community mem-
bers took turns sharing their memories of
Whitford.
The time she argued with her coach in
the state championship game if they should
walk the other team’s best hitter; the time the
coaches agreed to have their heads shaved if
the team won the state title (a promise they
didn’t think they would have to fulfi ll); how
on seemingly any Sunday during her sea-
son, the team’s rest day, she would call her
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watched them go
by and those were
the perfect pitch. So
we’re going to have
to focus on not let-
ting that fi rst one get
past us and put us in
a hole when we’re up
to bat,” said Rice.
“But other than
that, I thought we
played really well.
Defensively,
we
did really well both
games. Just didn’t get
that clutch hit when
we needed it.”
With two weeks
of league play left
in the season, the
Warriors now sit
in third place two
games back from
Monroe and one
game back from
Oakland. This week
the team faces Yon-
calla/Elkton,
who
have won one game
in league play, before
taking on the
eighth ranked
Oakers in the
fi nal three-game
series of the sea-
son.
“But if we can
win out we’re
still going to
be walking into
league playoff
in a good spot. A re-
ally good spot. And
that’s what we want
and I think we can
get that,” said Rice.
“We’re getting better
every day… I feel
really good about the
rest of the season, ac-
tually, after today.”
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