A6 BAKER CITY HERALD • TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2022
BAKER BASEBALL
SPORTS
BAKER SOFTBALL
Baker sweeps Mac-Hi
BY IAN CRAWFORD
icrawford@bakercityherald.com
Ian Crawford/Baker City Herald
Baker senior Hayden Younger scores the final run of Baker’s 15-5 win
over Mac-Hi in the first game of a doubleheader sweep on Friday, April
29, 2022, at the Sports Complex.
Bulldogs rout
Pioneers in twinbill
BY IAN CRAWFORD
icrawford@bakercityherald.com
The Baker baseball team
closed April with dominating
league wins over the Mac-Hi
Pioneers on Senior Day at
the Sports Complex Friday,
April 29.
Baker trailed briefly, 2-0,
in the first game but tied the
score with a run in the third in-
ning and then broke open the
game with six more runs in the
fourth to lead 8-2. Baker went
on to win 15-5.
The fourth inning proved
pivotal in both games, as the
Bulldogs delivered a barrage of
runs in that inning in the sec-
ond game, scoring 13 times en
route to a 16-0 win.
The offensive onslaughts
were bookended by strong
pitching and solid defense, as
the Bulldogs committed only
one error in each game.
Baker, which has won four
straight games, improved to
6-2 in Greater Oregon League
play and to 12-8 overall.
The first few innings of the
first game on a sunny after-
noon left spectators wonder-
ing if they were in for a grudge
match, as Mac-Hi led 2-1 after
the first inning.
But walks and hits stacked
up quickly for Baker in the bot-
tom of the fourth. Baker took
the lead for good, at 3-2, when
Connor Chastain, who was hit
by pitches in six at-bats, was
hit, driving in a run.
Jaxon Logsdon followed with
a two-run single, and Logan
Capon drove in two more runs
with a double to push Baker’s
lead to 7-2.
In the bottom of the fifth, an
error by Mac-Hi led to three
more Baker runs.
Track
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400
Giacomo Rigueiro, 5th, 54.68; Trace
Gover (PE), 24th, 1:00.51; Gabriel
Brown (PE), 27th, 1:02.68; Nick
Hughes, 32nd, 1:03.39; Haven Olson,
35th, 1:06.05; Alan Chokecharoenki-
atti (H), 38th, 1:07.74
800
Cooper Gover (PE), 2nd, 2:07.73;
Alan Chokecharoenkiatti (H), 17th,
2:47.08; Tanner Lucas, 19th, 2:50.41
110 hurdles
Aman Tilenbaev (H), 10th, 19.79
1,500
Gabriel Brown (PE), 10th, 5:02.79;
Tanner Lucas, 20th, 5:41.67
3,000
Caleb Brown (PE), 1st, 9:18.88
4x100 relay
Huntington, 10th, 49.79 (Aman
Tilenbaev, Damion Klosky, Bryce
Klosky, Colton Mathews)
4x400 relay
Pine Eagle, 2nd, 3:41.23 (Reid Davis,
Cooper Gover, Caleb Brown, Cole
Morgan)
Shot put
Mike Gentry, 1st, 40-4; Tate Powell,
The Pioneers scored three
runs in the top of the sixth to
cut Baker’s lead to 11-5, but
Baker closed out the game
in the bottom of the inning
with four more runs for a 10-
run lead.
Logsdon’s single plated
Hayden Younger with the
game-ending run.
Younger, as well as Alex
Crawford, Caiden Benson, Ca-
pon and Logsdon, each con-
nected on two hits.
Starting pitcher Silas Car-
ter had nine strikeouts in 3.1
innings.
Between games, Baker’s se-
niors, accompanied by parents,
were honored on the field. Ca-
pon, Marco Rosales, Younger,
Benson, Chastain, Silas Carter,
Crawford and Cody Skidgel
are Baker’s graduating seniors.
The second game started
slow, with neither team scor-
ing in the first inning.
But Baker scored three runs
in the bottom of the third,
and the Bulldogs had a sea-
son-high 13 runs during a
devastating fourth inning for
the Pioneers despite a pitch-
ing change.
Nineteen Baker batters came
to the plate during the inning.
Hudson Spike’s three-run tri-
ple to right field opened the
floodgates as the Bulldogs bat-
ted through their lineup twice.
Capon threw a complete
game shutout, allowing two
hits and striking out nine. He
walked only one batter.
Baker now returns to the
road, traveling to Homedale,
Idaho, for a 3 p.m. PDT game
on Tuesday, May 3, then head-
ing to Ontario on Thursday,
May 5, for a league double-
header starting at 2 p.m. PDT.
6th, 37-10; Micah Shepard (H), 30th,
31-3.25; Dante Lofton (H), 51st, 27-
6; Colton Birmingham, 53rd, 26-9.5;
Jacky To (H), 634d, 24-2
Discus
Tate Powell, 1st, 120-9; Micah Shep-
ard (H), 9th, 105-0; Mike Gentry,
14th, 92-4; Aman Tilenbaev (H), 20th,
87-11; Colton Birmingham, 30th, 78-
7; Trace Gover (PE), 35th, 66-9; Jonas
Roman (H), 37th, 63-10
Javelin
Jacky To (H), 7th, 125-11; Micah Shep-
ard (H), 20th, 101-5; Damion Klosky
(H), 21st, 101-1.5; Colton Birming-
Baker softball squashed
Mac-Hi in both games of
a doubleheader on Friday,
April 29, at the Sports Com-
plex, giving the Bulldogs
their first two wins in the
Greater Oregon League.
Baker got off to a fast start,
taking a 2-0 lead after one
inning of the first game and
scoring in four of the six in-
nings, including one run in
the bottom of the sixth to
end the game early by 10-
run rule.
With Kaycee Cuzick in the
circle, the Pioneers rarely
made contact, collecting just
two hits.
Cuzick also threw all
seven innings in Baker’s 8-1
win in the second game.
She struck out 13 in the first
game and 11 more in the
second.
“I might mention how ef-
ficient Kaycee was pitching
today,” Baker coach Sonny
Gulick said. “I thought she
did a great job.”
The rest was up to Baker’s
batters.
Cuzick helped herself at
the plate, especially in the
first game, when she went 2
for 3 and drove in four runs.
Gulick also noted Kiley Jo
Aldrich and Brooklyn Rayl,
Baker’s leadoff and second
hitter, respectively. Aldrich
and Rayl each had three hits
in the first game, with Rayl
driving in two runs.
“I was very happy we
could get a couple of league
wins for Emrie (Osborn) on
Senior Day,” Gulick said.
Osborn scored a run on
Rayl’s single in the second
inning of the first game,
kicking off a four-run inning
for Baker that pushed the
Bulldogs’ lead to 6-0. Osborn
had a hit in the second game.
Mac-Hi took a brief 1-0
lead in the top of the first
inning of the second game,
but Baker responded with
three runs in the bottom of
the inning to take a lead it
wouldn’t relinquish.
Kaci Anderson and
Te’ygan Coley each had two
RBIs in the second game.
“ ‘Good’ I don’t think
describes it,” Gulick said
of the doubleheader
sweep, which improved
Baker’s overall record to
ham, 24th, 99-10.5; Mike Gentry,
29th, 93-11.5; Tyson Hunt (PE), 30th,
87-2.5; Reid Davis (PE), 34th, 81-2.5
High jump
Giacomo Rigueiro, 10th, 5-2; Jonas
Roman (H), 13th, 5-0
Long jump
Aman Tilenbaev (H), 19th, 16-6; Jo-
nas Roman (H), 24th, 16-1.75; Da-
mion Klosky (H), 31st, 15-4; Giovanni
Cartwright (PE), 35th, 14-2.25; Ha-
ven Olson, 37th, 10-0
Triple jump
Giacomo Rigueiro, 14th, 34-3.5
Ian Crawford/Baker City Herald
Candace Peterson scores on a wild pitch to end the first game of Baker’s doubleheader against Mac-Hi,
an 11-1 win in six innings on Friday, April 29, 2022, at the Sports Complex.
GAME ONE
Mac-Hi 0 0 0 1 0 0 — 1
Baker 2 4 0 4 0 1 — 11
Giguire and Herndon. Cuz-
ick and K. Anderson
GAME TWO
Mac-Hi 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 — 1
Baker 3 0 1 4 0 1 x — 8
Giguire and Herndon. Cuz-
ick and K. Anderson
8-8 and its league mark to
2-6. He preferred “great.”
“It’s been a while since we
had a league win, and to get
two of them here at home.
It at least gives ourselves a
chance to talk about playoffs,
it was great,” he said.
Baker scored four runs in
the bottom of the fourth in
both games — the rally in the
second game pushed the lead
to 8-2.
Gulick credited outfielder
Candace Peterson with mak-
ing a couple of nice plays.
Cuzick credited her team-
mates for playing solid de-
Ian Crawford/Baker City Herald
Kaycee Cuzick pitched all 13 innings in Baker’s doubleheader sweep
of Mac-Hi on Friday, April 29, 2022, at the Sports Complex. Cuzick
struck out 24 batters and allowed just six hits and two runs.
fense, and catcher Kaci An-
derson for her work behind
the plate.
Baker will try to build on
its league winning streak on
Thursday, May 5, traveling to
Ontario for a doubleheader
starting at 2 p.m. PDT.
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