A6 BAKER CITY HERALD • THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2022
SPORTS
BAKER GOLF TEAMS AT DISTRICT TOURNAMENTS
BAKER SOFTBALL
Ian Crawford/Baker City Herald
Isaiah Jones hits his tee
shot on the 15th hole at
Quail Ridge Golf Course
during the Baker Invi-
tational on Monday,
April 25, 2022.
Bulldog boys, girls
qualify for state
Jesse Maldonado shot
rounds of 84 and 80 to place
The Baker boys golf team
third, while Gavin Stecher
won the two-day district
improved by 12 shots, firing
tournament, which con-
an 85 in the second round.
cluded Tuesday, May 10, at
Kaden Conklin had rounds of
Scotch Pines Golf Course
96 and 87.
near Payette, Idaho.
“They played really, really
Baker will compete at the
good,” Long said.
state tournament May 16-17
Baker took advantage of
at Quail Valley in Banks, west a major improvement in the
of Portland.
weather on Tuesday to im-
The Baker girls team fin- prove its team score by 18
ished third in its district
strokes, from 331 to 313.
tournament at Birch Creek
Monday’s weather was
in Pendleton and also qual- rainy with temperatures in
ified for state. Caitlin Lien
the high 30s. Jones’ round of
placed sixth overall. The
75 and Logsdon’s 76 were es-
girls state tournament is set pecially impressive given the
for May 16-17 at Eagle Crest conditions, Long said.
near Redmond.
Baker improved its team
score by 18 strokes in the sec-
ond round, at 313 (top four
Boys district
scores) following a 331 on
Baker had the top three
Monday.
finishers in the individual
Baker easily beat runner-up
standings, with freshman
Jaxon Logsdon shooting a 73 La Grande, with a two-day
in Tuesday’s second round to total of 644 compared to the
Tigers’ 724.
nip fellow freshman team-
mate Isaiah Jones by a single
stroke. Logsdon’s two-day to- Girls district
tal was 149. Jones, who shot
Baker had a two-day team
75 in both rounds, finished
score of 972, trailing district
at 150.
champion La Grande (867)
Logsdon, who also plays
and runner up Dufur (887).
baseball, “had a really good
Lien had a two-day total of
tournament,” Baker coach
223 to place sixth. Gretchen
Mike Long said. Logsdon
Morgan was 13th at 237.
made a 15-foot putt on the fi- Makenna Shamion shot a
nal home, and shot even par two-day total of 254, while
for the final 9 holes.
Lilly Wilson carded a 258.
BY IAN CRAWFORD
Baker City Herald
Baker assistant coach Colt
Nudd, who accompanied the
girls team while head coach
Mike Long was in Idaho with
the boys team, said the Baker
girls had to rebuild after los-
ing half of its players to grad-
uation in 2021 after placing
third in the state.
“Caitlin is our senior leader
and played well,” Nudd said.
“She was on her way to a top
five finish but had a couple
bad breaks coming in on the
last hole.”
Nudd said Morgan, despite
feeling ill, “battled through
and really showed up Tues-
day, dropping 19 strokes from
Monday’s score.”
Nudd said Wilson, who is
a freshman, and Shamion, a
senior who transferred from
Seaside and started golfing just
two months ago, have been
great additions to the team.
Shamion “worked about
as hard as any girl I’ve seen,”
Nudd said.
He said Wilson’s “work
effort will surely show itself
over the next few years.”
“These girls often play ex-
tra on the weekends and have
showed up to practice before
school and have stayed after
practice ends,” Nudd said. “It’s
a great group of girls and has
been a pleasure to get to know
them and help where possible
along their journey.”
Bulldogs fall against
unbeaten Grant Union
BY IAN CRAWFORD
icrawford@bakercityherald.com
Baker’s softball team finally
got its chance to take on the
Grant Union Prospectors, the
undefeated and top-ranked
team in Class 2A ranks.
Baker took an early lead but
couldn’t hold on Tuesday, May
10, at John Day in a game re-
scheduled due to inclement
weather.
Although the Bulldogs
couldn’t match the 21-0 Pros-
pectors on offense, Baker coach
Sonny Gulick was pleased with
the overall performance.
“It was a good game at Grant
Union,” Gulick said. “We got
off the bus ready to play.”
Baker drew first blood on
Kaycee Cuzick’s first-inning
two-out single scoring Kiley Jo
Aldrich, who had reached base
on a dropped third strike.
Cuzick, who threw a com-
plete game in the circle, kept the
Prospector batters at bay for the
first two innings, getting three
of the six outs on strikeouts.
Grant Union took the lead
for good, at 2-1, with a pair
of runs in the bottom of the
third. The Prospectors added
runs in the fourth and capped
the scoring with three more in
the fifth, on consecutive home
runs by Halle Parsons and
Raney Anderson.
Baker matched Grant Union
with six hits, and Cuzick had
another single in the top of the
sixth to score Brooklyn Rayl.
But Baker left five runners
on base.
“We had our opportunities
to score, but just couldn’t push
enough runners across,” Gu-
lick said.
Rayl, Malaya Rabourne,
Candace Peterson and Te’ygan
Coley each had a hit.
As has been the case in sev-
eral losses this season, Baker
hurt itself with errors, com-
mitting six miscues to Grant
Union’s three.
“We had some errors, but
we were able to prevent most
of them from hurting us,” Gu-
lick said. “I’m proud of our
efforts.”
Ian Crawford/Baker City Herald
Brooklyn Rayl rounding first on April 29, 2022. Rayl had a hit in Baker’s
7-2 loss at Grant Union on May 10, 2022.
Baker, which dropped to
8-11 on the season, concludes
its Greater Oregon League
schedule by traveling to La
Grande on Friday, May 13,
for a doubleheader starting at
2 p.m.
Baker 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 — 2
G-C 0 0 2 2 3 0 x — 7
Cuzick and K. Anderson.
Williams, Parsons (6) and
Robertson.
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