BAKER CITY HERALD • THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2022 A5
SPORTS
BAKER GIRLS BASKETBALL
Baker has league’s top player, coach
onship game on Feb. 19, will
The top honors for the
play host to Marshfield, of
Greater Oregon League girls
Coos Bay, in a Class 4A play-
basketball season belong to a off game on Saturday, March
single school.
5, at 4 p.m. in the Baker gym.
A single family,
The winner ad-
come to that.
vances to the eight-
Baker junior Jozie
team state tourna-
Ramos was named
ment March 10-12 at
the GOL’s player of
Coos Bay.
the year by a vote of
Tickets for the
league coaches on
playoff game are sold
Tuesday, March 1.
online only. To buy
And her dad,
Ramos
tickets, go to www.
Baker coach Jason
osaa.org/tickets.
Ramos, was picked as the
Other members of the first
league’s top coach.
team are MaKenna Shorts, ju-
Two other Baker juniors
nior, La Grande; Emma We-
were named to the GOL
ber, senior, Mac-Hi; Grace
first team — Rylee Elms and
Near, senior, La Grande.
Macey Moore.
Joining Jaca on the sec-
Another junior, Brooklyn
ond team are: Darby Rhoads,
Jaca, was a second-team pick. senior, Mac-Hi; Madi Per-
The Bulldogs, who won the kins, sophomore, Mac-Hi;
GOL regular season title with Kayla Collman, freshman, La
a 6-0 record and then beat La Grande; Kira Evans, sopho-
Grande in the league champi- more, Ontario.
Baker City Herald
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Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
Baker’s Jozie Ramos led all scorers with 14 points in the Bulldogs’ 43-
25 win over La Grande on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022, in the Baker gym.
Rylee Elms, shown here against Burns on Dec. 29, 2021, scored a team-
high 13 points on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022, as the Bulldogs beat Fruit-
land, Idaho, 37-35. Jozie Ramos (background), added eight points.
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
Macey Moore goes to the basket against Vale on Tuesday, Jan. 18,
2022, in the Baker gym. Moore led Baker with 15 points in a 57-21 win.
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
Baker’s Brooklyn Jaca shoots against La Grande on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022, in the Baker gym.
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL LABOR DISPUTE
MLB cancels its opening day,
sides fail to reach lockout deal
BY RONALD BLUM
AP Baseball Writer
JUPITER, Fla. — Major
League Baseball has canceled
opening day, with Commis-
sioner Rob Manfred announc-
ing Tuesday, March 1, that the
sport will lose regular-season
games over a labor dispute for
the first time in 27 years after
acrimonious lockout talks col-
lapsed in the hours before man-
agement’s deadline.
Manfred said he is cancel-
ing the first two series of the
season that was set to begin
March 31, dropping the sched-
ule from 162 games to likely
156 games at most. Manfred
said the league and union have
not made plans for future ne-
gotiations. Players won’t be
paid for missed games.
“My deepest hope is we get
an agreement quickly,” Manfred
said. “I’m really disappointed
we didn’t make an agreement.”
After the sides made prog-
ress during 13 negotiating ses-
sions over 16 ½ hours Mon-
day, the league sent the players’
association a “best and final
offer” Tuesday on the ninth
straight day of negotiations.
Players rejected that offer,
setting the stage for MLB to
follow through on its threat to
cancel opening day.
“Not a particularly produc-
tive day today,” Manfred said.
At 5:10 p.m., Manfred is-
sued a statement that many
fans had been dreading:
Nothing to look forward to
on opening day, normally a
spring standard of renewal for
fans throughout the nation
and some in Canada, too.
The ninth work stoppage
in baseball history will be the
fourth that causes regular sea-
son games to be canceled, leav-
ing Fenway Park and Dodger
Stadium as quiet in next month
as Joker Marchant Stadium
and Camelback Park have been
during the third straight dis-
rupted spring training.
“The concerns of our fans are
at the very top of our consider-
ation list,” Manfred said.
The lockout, in its 90th day,
will plunge a sport staggered
by the coronavirus pandemic
and afflicted by numerous on-
field issues into a self-inflicted
hiatus over the inability of
players and owners to divide a
$10 billion industry. By losing
regular-season games, scrutiny
will fall even more intensely on
Manfred, the commissioner
since January 2015, and Tony
Clark, the former All-Star first
baseman who became union
leader when Michael Weiner
died in November 2013.
Past stoppages were based on
issues such as a salary cap, free-
agent compensation and pen-
sions. This one is pretty much
solely over money.
This fight was years in the
making, with players angered
that payrolls decreased by
4% from 2015 through last
year, many teams jettisoned a
portion of high-priced veteran
journeymen in favor of lower-
priced youth, and some clubs
gave up on competing in the
short term to better position
themselves for future years.
The sport will be upended
by its second shortened sea-
son in three years. The 2020
schedule was cut from 162
games to 60 because of the
pandemic, a decision play-
ers filed a grievance over and
still are litigating. The disrup-
tion will create another issue
if 15 days of the season are
wiped out: stars such as Sho-
hei Ohtani, Pete Alonso, Jake
Cronenworth and Jonathan
India would be delayed an ex-
tra year from free agency.
Players would lose $20.5
million in salary for each day
of the season that is canceled,
according to a study by The
Associated Press, and the 30
teams would lose large sums
that are harder to pin down.
Members of the union’s exec-
utive subcommittee stand to
lose the most, with Max Scher-
zer forfeited $232,975 for each
regular-season day lost, and
Gerrit Cole $193,548.
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