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SATURDAY, MAY 15, 2021
SCHOOLS
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BAKER BASEBALL
Zellars pitches shutout
By Corey Kirk
ckirk@bakercityherald.com
Andrew Zellars’ last stint
on the pitcher’s mound at the
Baker Sports Complex was
under the lights.
It was a fi tting fi nale.
Zellars dominated, allow-
ing only one hit through
seven innings in a com-
plete-game shutout of the
combined team of Joseph/
Enterprise/Wallowa/Elgin on
Wednesday evening, May 12.
Baker improved to 7-6 on
the season with the 3-0 win
over the Eagles (10-2).
Zellars struck out eight
and walked four.
“Starting off I was a little
bit shaky with my location.
I got into my head that I
had to start putting the ball
where I wanted to put the
ball and not give them per-
fect pitches to hit,” Zellars
said.
Baker coach Tim Smith
said his senior hurler had
a great last outing on his
home fi eld.
“I thought he pitched with
a chip on his shoulder, he
did throw well, I thought
he threw with confi dence,”
Smith said.
Baker got on the score-
board early, and as it turned
out the single run in the
bottom of the fi rst was all
Zellars needed.
Junior Connor Chastain,
batting second, had a hit
and later scored on senior
Zander Arriaga’s single.
Arriaga went 2 for 3 with
2 RBIs.
“Zander Arriaga had a
phenomenal game, he was
just putting the ball in play,
Corey Kirk/Baker City Herald
Baker senior Andrew Zellars pitched a shutout on
Wednesday, May 12 against a combined team of Jo-
seph/Enterprise/Wallowa/Elgin. Baker won 3-0.
“Starting off I was a little bit shaky with my location.
I got into my head that I had to start putting the ball
where I wanted to put the ball and not give them
perfect pitches to hit.”
— Baker senior pitcher Andrew Zellars
and we really needed that,”
Zellars said of his senior
teammate.
Smith said he was pleased
with his team’s patience at
the plate, and aggressiveness
on the basepaths.
Chastain scored two of
Baker’s three runs thanks in
part to two stolen bases.
Freshman Hudson Spike,
batting in the eighth slot, drew
walks in each of his three at-
bats.
“That’s our philosophy, get to
the next guy, roll the lineup over,
and it’s no secret that the top of
our order is better than the bot-
tom of our order, and everybody
respects that,” Smith said.
Baker scored twice in the
third. Arriaga had his second
RBI single, and senior Payton
Shirtcliff also drove in a run
with a single.
Zellars, meanwhile, breezed
through the Eagles’ lineup,
with help from the Bulldogs’
defense.
“I thought we played pretty
clean defense, I was pleased
with their defensive effort,”
Smith said. “I talked to them
before the game, I told them
we want to make the routine
plays, and we want to get half
of the fi fty-fi fty balls.”
Zellars credited his senior
battery mate, catcher Mason
Van Arsdall.
“A couple of times I got
a little wild, but thanks to
Mason behind the dish for
calling a great game, and mak-
ing valuable blocks when we
needed it,” Zellars said.
Baker completes its abbre-
viated season today by travel-
ing to Nyssa for a double-
header. Baker beat Nyssa 11-1
on April 27.
Zellars said he’s eager to
wrap up his high school base-
ball career with two more wins
and to enjoy the fi nal time
with his teammates.
“If we can get two at Nyssa,
that’s a three-game winning
streak,” Zellars said. “As long
as we keep disciplined, keep to
our core values of playing the
right kind of baseball, I feel like
we should get both wins on
Saturday.”
On Thursday, May 13, the director of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention announced the new
guidance for people who are fully vaccinated against
COVID-19.
Later in the day, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said the
state would follow the CDC’s lead.
However, mask and social distancing rules will
remain in effect for schools for the rest of the school year,
Brown said.
The Baker School District will continue to follow the
Ready Schools, Safe Learners guidelines from the Or-
egon Department of Education, said Lindsey McDowell,
the district’s public information and communications
coordinator.
McDowell noted that both the CDC and Brown’s an-
nouncements involved fully vaccinated people, and most
students haven’t been eligible to be vaccinated.
People ages 16 and 17 became eligible on April 19,
and eligibility was extended just this week to those ages
12 to 15.
As of Friday, May 14, just 89 Baker County residents
ages 16 to 19 were partially or fully vaccinated — and
that includes some people who aren’t students.
McDowell said the Baker School District isn’t requir-
ing employees to divulge whether they’ve been vacci-
nated, so district offi cials don’t know how many workers
are inoculated.
Nancy Staten, director of the Baker County Health
Department, said parents of children ages 12 to 15 who
want to schedule a vaccination for their child should
call 541-523-8211 or go to the county’s website, www.
bakercountycovid19.com.
She said the Health Department will schedule ap-
pointments based on demand. Staten said that because
the Pfi zer vaccine, the only one approved for ages 12 to
17, must be stored at extremely low temperatures, the
county has to request doses from Grande Ronde Hospi-
tal in La Grande, which has freezers capable of storing
the vaccine.
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Charges include conspiracy to defraud the United
States, aiding and abetting in the obstruction of an
offi cial proceeding, obstruction of law enforcement dur-
ing civil disorder, destruction of government property,
entering and remaining in a restricted building or
grounds, and disorderly conduct in a restricted build-
ing or grounds.
The judge ordered Matthew Klein to be released to
a woman who is retired from Baker County govern-
ment and lives with her husband, a prison guard at
the Powder River Corrections Facility, court documents
said. He’ll be released on Friday once he is fi tted with a
location monitoring device.
Jonathanpeter Klein also has asked for pretrial re-
lease to a third-party guardian, under home detention
and GPS monitoring. Federal prosecutors don’t object.
His release hearing will be held in early June.
To our fellow healthcare workers,
thank you for being the answer.
It has been a year like no other. Despite the challenges, our colleagues have courageously
embraced our mission and have been unwavering in their calling to serve.
This Healthcare Week, and every week, we honor you. We thank you.
We celebrate you.