BAKER CITY HERALD • SATuRDAY, ApRIL 9, 2022 A5
SPORTS
BAKER BASEBALL OPENS GREATER OREGON LEAGUE PLAY
Bulldogs sweep Mac-Hi to open league schedule
Logan Capon
throws no-hitter
in second game
Younger led off with a triple and
scored on Spike’s groundout.
FIRST GAME
Jaxon Logsdon doubled and later
Baker 0 0 0 2 6 2 5 — 15
stole home, and Capon had a single
Mac-Hi 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 — 3
to drive in Thomas Smithson, who
Carter, Chastain (5) and Logsdon.
had walked.
Yensen, Esparza (5) and Esparza,
Baker added two more runs in the
Yensen (5).
BY JAYSON JACOBY
second to boost its lead to 5-0. Younger
again started the surge, doubling with
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
SECOND GAME
Baker opened the Greater Ore-
one out and scoring when Mac-Hi
gon League baseball schedule with
botched Logsdon’s ground ball. Cody
Baker 3 2 0 0 4 1 — 10
a powerful performance, routing
Skidgel drove in Logsdon with a single.
Mac-Hi 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 0
Mac-Hi in both games of a double-
Baker scored four more runs in the
Capon and Logsdon. Waltermire and
header on Wednesday, April 6, at
fifth. Smithson, Capon and Cole Hes-
Esparza.
Milton-Freewater.
ter had consecutive singles to load the
After a sluggish first four innings,
bases. Smithson scored on a passed
Baker rolled to a 15-3 win in the
ball and Capon scored on an error.
opener. Logan Capon tossed a no-hit- Younger hit a sacrifice fly and Spike
three hits and struck out nine before
ter in the second game as the Bulldogs had an RBI double.
being relieved by Chastain in the fifth
won 10-0 in six innings.
inning. Chastain didn’t allow a hit or a
Capon’s bid for a perfect game
Game one
walk in 2.2 innings, striking out six.
ended when he hit a batter to start the
Mac-Hi led 1-0 after three innings,
Smith said both pitchers threw well.
fourth inning. That was Mac-Hi’s only and the score was tied at 2 after four.
Carter allowed three hits and struck
baserunner. Capon struck out 13 of
“We let them hang around through out nine batters.
the 19 batters he faced. He also threw four innings,” Smith said. “We talked
Baker had its only error of the dou-
a first pitch strike to 11 hitters and had about that, I told them that we’re an er- bleheader in the first game.
54 strikes on 76 total pitches.
ror away from coming out with a loss.”
That’s a major improvement from
“It was the best pitching perfor-
The Bulldogs responded, breaking the Bulldogs’ three-game road trip to
mance of the year for our team,
the game open with a six-run rally
the Oregon Coast last weekend, when
without a doubt,” Baker coach Tim
with two outs in the top of the fifth.
they committed 15 total errors.
Smith said. “Logan was in a zone.
After the first two batters flied out,
The Bulldogs improved to 6-6 over-
Hopefully he can find that zone ev- Younger reached on an error, advanc- all. Baker returns to league play on Fri-
ery time he goes out.”
ing to second on the play. He scored
day, April 15, playing host to Ontario
Smith said if Capon had managed on Spike’s single.
in a doubleheader at the Baker Sports
the perfect game it would have been
Logsdon walked and Skidgel was hit Complex. First pitch is set for 2 p.m.
the first in Smith’s coaching career.
by a pitch to load the bases. Smithson
Although Smith said Baker will face
Capon helped himself with the bat was hit by a pitch to score Spike. Hes- more formidable opponents later this
as well, going 3 for 4 with 2 RBIs.
ter drove in two runs with a double,
season — two doubleheaders against
Hudson Spike drove in two runs,
and three straight walks plated two
La Grande, which is 10-1 and ranked
and Hayden Younger was 3 for 3 with more runs to boost Baker’s lead to 8-2. seventh in the state, are looming — he
an RBI.
“We took advantage of (Mac-Hi’s)
was pleased with the Bulldogs’ perfor-
mistakes,” Smith said. “Starting in the mance against Mac-Hi, coming off the
Baker had 13 hits.
Although the Bulldogs didn’t have fifth inning we hit a lot of line drives, disappointing road trip.
many defensive changes given Capon’s and that continued into game two.”
“We can’t control who we’re play-
Baker added five more runs in the ing,” he said. “We need to take care of
dominance on the mound, Baker
top of the seventh, including Spike’s
made all the plays, finishing without
our business, throwing strikes, playing
RBI single, Logsdon’s RBI double and error-free defense and putting the ball
an error.
Connor Chastain’s sacrifice fly.
in play. We’re kind of a work in prog-
Baker took control of the second
Starting pitcher Silas Carter allowed ress at this point.”
game from the start.
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
Baker’s Logan Capon runs the bases during the Bulldogs’ 8-6 win over Homedale,
Idaho, on Wednesday, March 30, 2022, at the Baker Sports Complex.
CJ
McCollum
scores
23
points,
Baker wins 8 of 9
matches at Mac-Hi Pelicans beat Blazers 127-94
BAKER TENNIS
Baker City Herald
MILTON-FREEWATER —
The Baker tennis teams nearly
pulled off a complete sweep of
their matches against Mac-Hi
on Thursday, April 7.
Baker won all four girls
matches and four of five boys
matches.
The lone loss was in the
longest and most competitive
match of the day, as Baker’s
boys doubles team of Ethan
Hills and Jayden Yencopal
played Mac-Hi’s Sean Molina
and Jose Gomez.
The first set went to a tie-
breaker, and it was as close as
the rest of the set had been.
Molina and Gomez eventually
prevailed, 11-9.
The second set was almost
as tight, with the Mac-Hi duo
winning 7-5.
Baker coach Amy Younger
said Hills and Yencopal played
a great match.
Other boys results:
Singles
Danny Cunningham def.
Connor Batchelor, 6-1, 6-0
Caleb Hills def. Bryan Gar-
cia, 8-2
Ashton LeTourneau def.
Carlos LeDezma, 8-1
Doubles
Noah Lien and Weston
Downing def. Talen Alexan-
der and Bryan Garcia, 8-0
GIRLS
Singles
Isabel Cunningham def.
Avery Lewis, 6-2, 6-4
Maya Smith def. Jocelyne
Arroyo, 8-1
Olivia Jacoby def. Kaylee
Bower, 8-4
Doubles
Maya Smith and Olivia
Jacoby def. Ariana Torres
and Johanna Martinez, 6-1,
6-3
Next week
Baker will travel to Weiser,
Idaho, on Monday, April 11,
for matches starting at 3 p.m.
PDT.
The Bulldogs will have
their first home match of the
season on Tuesday, April 12,
against La Grande. Play starts
at 4 p.m. at the Ash Grove
complex near the BHS track.
“Our bench was great. They
brought energy, pushed the
pace,” McCollum said. “From
NEW ORLEANS — CJ
top to bottom, this was a good
McCollum scored 23 points
in 29 minutes against his for- team win. Now we’ve got to
mer team and the New Or-
finish the season strong. Hope-
leans Pelicans moved closer
fully, we can take care of busi-
to clinching a home play-in
ness and host the play-in game.”
game with a 127-94 victory
The victory, combined with
over the Portland Trail Blazers San Antonio’s loss at Minne-
on Thursday night, April 7.
sota, left New Orleans need-
Jonas Valanciunas, who
ing either one more victory or
returned from a sore right
one more Spurs loss to lock
ankle, scored 14 points in
up a home play-in game on
21 minutes for the Pelicans,
Wednesday.
who were without lead-
McCollum appeared to hurt
ing scorer Brandon Ingram
his right hand, with which he
(right hamstring), but wound shoots, when he was fouled
up not needing any starters
and crashed to the floor in
on the floor for as many as
the third quarter. But after
30 minutes against a reel-
missing two free throws and
ing Blazers team that had a
a subsequent 3, he remained
patchwork lineup and lost its in game for nearly eight more
ninth straight.
minutes, hitting his fifth 3 of
BY BRETT MARTEL
Associated Press
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Baker’s Caleb Hills returns a shot during his match on Thursday, March
31, 2022, at Pendleton. Hills won his singles match at Mac-Hi on
Thursday, April 7, 2022.
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the game and a finger roll, be-
fore checking out for good.
Reserve center Willy Her-
nangomez had 17 points and
14 rebounds for New Orle-
ans. Larry Nance Jr., sent from
Portland to New Orleans as
part of the trade that also
brought McCollum to the Pel-
icans, scored 12 points, as did
rookie Trey Murphy III.
Reserve guard and undrafted
rookie Jose Alvarado had nine
assists and four steals for the
Pelicans, who led by 13 at half-
time and by 25 after three and
widened their lead from there.
Trail Blazers coach Chauncy
Billups said he suspected his
players could be getting “really
fatigued” mentally as the sea-
son winds down.
“You see the finish line, the
season is coming to an end.
We’re not playing for the play-
offs,” Billups said. “It’s just a nat-
ural thing that happens. So we
have to, as a staff, do a better job
of just getting them up to play.”
Drew Eubanks scored 20
points and CJ Elleby had 17
points for Portland, but the
Blazers were sloppy with the
ball and outworked around the
basket. Portland committed 22
turnovers, leading to 36 Pelicans
points. New Orleans also turned
23 offensive rebounds into 33
second-chance points and out-
rebounded the Blazers 49-27.
“We wanted to be active
on our defense ... try to cause
havoc with deflections and
steals,” Pelicans coach Willie
Green said. “This triggers our
offensive ability to get out and
play in open court. I thought
our guys did a really good job.”
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