A6 BAKER CITY HERALD • SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 2022
SPORTS
GREATER OREGON LEAGUE BOYS BASKETBALL ALL-LEAGUE TEAMS
Five Baker players on all-league teams
Baker City Herald
Baker was well-repre-
sented on the Greater Ore-
gon League boys basketball
all-star teams.
Three Bulldogs were
named to the first team,
and two earned sec-
ond-team honors.
Baker’s first-team selec-
tions were freshman Isaiah
Jones and sophomores Paul
Hobson and Hudson Spike.
The two other first-team
players are both from La
Grande — senior Brady
Hutchins and junior Sam
Tsiatsos.
Bulldogs on the second
team are freshmen Jaron
Long and Jaxon Logsdon.
Other second-team picks
are La Grande juniors Lo-
gan Williams and Jace
Schow, and Ontario junior
Tyce Helmick.
The league’s player of
the year was Devin Bell,
a senior from La Grande.
Coach of the year was La
Grande’s Mark Carollo.
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
Baker’s Jaron Long goes up for a shot against Fruitland on Jan. 6,
2022, in the Baker gym. Long had 23 points and his teammate and
fellow freshman Isaiah Jones (far right) had 31 points to lead the
Bulldogs to a 70-53 win at Crook County on Jan. 8.
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
Baker’s Hudson Spike leaps to block a shot by La
Grande’s Jace Schow on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022, in the
Baker gym.
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
Baker’s Jaxon Logsdon looks for an open teammate
against Vale on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022, in the
Baker gym.
BAKER SOFTBALL
Bulldogs sweep Heppner/Ione to start season
BY JAYSON JACOBY
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
A late arrival kept the Baker soft-
ball team from taking any pregame
batting practice before its season
opener, but it didn’t affect the Bull-
dogs’ bats.
Baker scored three runs in the first
inning on Thursday, March 17, at
Heppner, and the Bulldogs went on
to sweep Heppner/Ione in a double-
header.
Baker rallied in the last inning with
six runs to win the opener 13-10.
There was no such drama in the
nightcap as the Bulldogs dominated
from the start, winning 16-0 behind
Kaycee Cuzick’s no-hitter in the circle
and her pair of home runs. Makayla
Rabourne also had a homer.
“I’m extremely happy with our hit-
ting,” Baker coach Sonny Gulick said.
“Right out of the gate.”
Baker batters had just four strike-
outs, compared with 12 for Heppner/
Ione.
After taking the early 3-0 lead,
Baker fell behind 8-3 after four in-
nings. The Bulldogs narrowed the lead
to 8-6, but Heppner/Ione scored two
runs in the bottom of the fifth to go up
10-6. Baker scored a single run in the
sixth before the game-winning rally in
the seventh.
Freshman Oakley Anderson,
playing her first high school game,
had the key hit during the rally with
a bases-loaded double on a drive that
went over the leftfielder’s head.
“It was great,” Gulick said.
He said all three of Baker’s pitchers
“did a great job” in the game. Te’ygan
Coley started and went four innings,
striking out six. Freshman Brooklyn
Rayl threw the fifth inning, and Cuz-
ick held Heppner/Ione scoreless as
Baker rallied for the win in the final
two innings.
Kiley Jo Aldrich went 2 for 3 with an
RBI, Rabourne was 2 for 4 with 2 RBI,
Coley was 3 for 4 with RBI, and Ash-
lyn Dalton 1 for 3 with 2 RBI.
In the second game Baker had an
even better start, scoring seven runs
in the top of the first.
That was more than enough for
Cuzick, who struck out nine in four
innings and gave up only one walk in
the complete game win.
Rabourne drove in four runs, and
Cuzick three. Aldrich and Sydney
Fry each had two RBIs, and Coley
went 2 for 3 with 3 RBIs.
With juniors Taylor Gyllenberg
and Skylar Roy still recovering from
injuries they sustained during the
Class 4A state basketball tournament
last weekend, Gulick pressed multi-
ple freshmen into starting roles.
He said Dalton played an error-
free doubleheader at shortstop.
“That makes a pitcher feel good
when you’ve got that kind of support
behind you,” Gulick said.
He said junior Kaci Anderson,
who caught both games, did a great
job.
The team’s lone senior, Emrie Os-
GAME ONE
Baker
3 0 0 0 3 1 6 — 13
Hepp./Ione 0 0 2 6 2 0 0 — 10
GAME TWO
Baker
7
Hepp./Ione 0
0
0
0
0
9 — 16
0 — 0
born, also had a solid start to the
season.
“She always brings great energy to
the dugout,” Gulick said.
Gulick, who is an assistant girls bas-
ketball coach and missed most of last
week due to the state tournament,
credited assistant coaches Roy Cuzick,
Taylor Gulick and Gussie Cook, and
volunteer Stephanie Petrucci, with get-
ting the Bulldogs ready for the season.
Baker is now off until March 29,
when the Bulldogs have their home
opener against Marsing at 5 p.m. at the
Baker Sports Complex.
Local players picked
for Shrine Game
Baker running back Gauge
Bloomer and Powder Valley
quarterback Reece Dixon
have been picked for the East
team for the annual East-West
Shrine All-Star Football Game
set for Aug. 6, 2022, at Baker
Bulldog Memorial Stadium.
Baker lineman Alex Ritter
was chosen as an alternate for
the East team.
The game, featuring some
of Oregon’s top graduating
seniors from Class 1A through
Class 4A teams, is a major
fundraiser for the Shriners
Hospital for Children in
Portland.
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