A6 BAKER CITY HERALD • THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2022
SPORTS & LOCAL
BAKER BASEBALL, SOFTBALL AT DISTRICT 3 ALL-STAR TOURNAMENT
Baker baseball team to play for district title
Baker City Herald
BURNS — One Baker Little
League all-star baseball team is
still in contention for a district
championship and a berth in
the state tournament.
The Baker minors will play
Columbia on Thursday, June 30
at 11:30 a.m. in the District 3 ti-
tle game at Burns.
Baker’s majors girls soft-
ball team also advanced to the
championship game, losing
11-1 to Hermiston on Wednes-
day, June 29.
Other results for Baker teams
at the district tournament,
which started Saturday, June 25:
Baker junior girls
Baker advanced to the
championship game on Mon-
day, June 27, losing 8-7 to La
Grande in nine innings after
beating previously unbeaten
La Grande to force a winner-
takes-all game.
Baker opened the tourna-
ment with a 15-0 win over
Grant Union on June 25.
Baker junior boys
Baker placed second, losing
3-2 to La Grande, on a walkoff
hit, in the district title game on
Monday, June 27.
Earlier, Baker beat Wallowa
11-1
Contributed Photo
Baker’s junior all-star baseball team placed second in the District 3
tournament this week at Burns.
Baker Nationals (major
boys)
Baker lost 16-11 to Harney
County on Tuesday, June 28
and was eliminated from the
tournament.
Earlier in the tournament,
the Nationals beat Pendleton
11-1 in four innings and beat
Columbia 2-1 in extra innings.
Baker Americans (major
boys)
Baker lost 12-8 to La
Grande on Tuesday, June 28
and was eliminated. Earlier,
Baker beat Union County
14-8.
Baker minors girls
Baker’s tournament run
ended with a 19-11 loss to
Harney County on Monday,
June 27.
Team rosters:
Minors baseball
Soren Kaaen, Emmett
Petrucci, Wyatt Hansen, Ryker
Davis, Welker Benson, Easton
Ashby, Turner Jobes, Hoyt
Bachman, Ryker Albert, Ste-
ven Kaesemeyer, Nolan Simp-
son, Jace Svedin, Kai Barr.
Manager: Kris Davis
Minors softball
Afton Albert, Ainsley
Schuette, Kinley Downing,
Abby Dixon, Ayla Kamer-
dula, Saherra Hartford, Andie
Chamberlain, Raevyn Whit-
ing, Tatum Morgan, Grace
McClaughry, Emmy Cripe,
McKenzie Moothart, Avery
Ellis. Manager: Kyle Dixon.
Contributed Photo
Baker’s junior softball all-star team advanced to the championship game at the District 3 tournament in
Burns, losing 9-8 to La Grande on Monday, June 27.
Majors softball
Colbi Bachman, Macey
Morgan, Jaxyn Ramos, Claire
Collier, Paityn Barr, Jocelyn
Rayl, Hannah Sullivan, Maylee
Martin, Bailey Sangster, Lexi
DelCurto, Kodi Miller, Romie
Spooner. Manager: Jamey
Bachman.
Majors baseball Nationals
Beau Briels, Liam Jobes,
Bryson Petrucci, Tucker Reid,
Landon Marlia, Brand Bing-
ham, Coleman Ingram, Coo-
per Bain, Tony Govern, Kel-
lar Barr, Ty Price, Ambrose
Rexroad. Manager: Brandon
Briels.
Majors baseball Americans
Cy Randall, Gavin Mey-
ers, Joe Warbis, Calder Dan-
iels, Wyatt Carey, Blake Ste-
vens, Brennan Stevens, Joe
Chastain, Wyatt Valentine,
Mason Radford, Joel Ander-
son, Judah McBride, Bruin
Bloomer. Manager: Kenny
Keister.
Juniors baseball
Ethan Rayl, Talon Gyllen-
berg, Clay Stevens, William
O’Connell, Nolan Briels, An-
drew Richards, Logan Craw-
ford, Henry Kamerdula, Jake
McClaughry, Gerik Orszu-
lak, Xander Rexroad, Cooper
Briels. Manager: Jason Mc-
Claughry.
Juniors softball
Kellee Dixon, Oakley
Anderson, Raegan Gulick,
Emily Sullivan, Lilly
Wilson, Kara Regan,
Kaitlyn Dixon, Miriam
Tubs, Reagan Ritter, Lea
Weston, Jazlyn Culley.
Manager: Jimmy Sullivan.
TENNIS
Serena Williams loses at Wimbledon in 1st match in a year
She hit blistering serves and strokes,
celebrated with arms aloft.
Returning to the site of her last sin-
gles match, which she had to stop af-
ter less than a set because of an injury
on June 29, 2021, and seven of her
major championships, the 40-year-
old Williams came within two points
of victory. But she could not finish
the job against an opponent making
her Wimbledon debut and bowed
out with a 7-5, 1-6, 7-6 (10-7) loss to
115th-ranked Harmony Tan of France
on Tuesday, June 28.
BY HOWARD FENDRICH
AP Tennis Writer
WIMBLEDON, England — Ser-
ena Williams began — and ended
— her comeback at Wimbledon after
364 days out of singles competition
looking very much like someone who
hadn’t competed in just that long. She
missed shots, shook her head, rolled
her eyes.
In between, there were moments
where Williams played very much like
someone whose strokes and will have
carried her to 23 Grand Slam titles.
Taylors
Continued from A1
Bill grew up in Fossil, in
Wheeler County.
“Every Saturday night we’d
rope steers,” he said.
Colleen grew up in Pend-
leton — the place of a certain
well-known rodeo.
“I worked at the Pendleton
Round-Up,” she said. “It’s a
family — you make friends,
and you’re friends forever.”
The Taylors, who have been
married 51 years, met at Blue
Mountain Community Col-
lege in Pendleton.
“She asked me out,” Bill says
with a smile.
They moved often with Bill’s
job as track inspector with
Union Pacific Railroad, but
settled just outside of Haines
in the late 1980s.
At that point, the Stampede,
a Haines tradition which dates
to 1915, wasn’t happening.
In 1990, a group of volun-
teers decided to resurrect the
July event. The first rodeo, in
the Stampede’s current loca-
tion on the east side of High-
way 30 just south of Haines,
happened in 1991.
“Enough people showed an
interest to get organized and
start doing the rodeo again,”
Bill said.
In the ensuing three de-
cades he has served as pres-
ident, vice president, and as
a board member. He’s cur-
rently the historian, and is
helping develop an exhibit
about the Stampede at the
Eastern Oregon Museum in
Haines.
Colleen has been the rodeo’s
treasurer for about 20 years.
After its revival, the rodeo
was only one day, on July 4. It
soon expanded to two days,
and is now scheduled every
year for July 3 and 4.
It is an open show, which
means both amateurs and pro-
fessionals can enter.
“That’s fun — you don’t
know who’s coming out of the
chute next,” Colleen said.
When the rodeo first ex-
panded to two days, the action
was held during the day.
“But it’s hay season,” Col-
leen said. “So we added a night
show.”
The first day, Sunday, July 3,
has slack at 9 a.m. and the ro-
deo starts at 5 p.m. All tickets
sold that night are donated to
the Shriners Children’s Hospi-
tal in Portland.
On Monday, July 4, the ro-
deo starts at 1:30 p.m. — after
the Fourth of July festivities in
Haines, which include a fun
run, breakfast, parade, barbe-
cue and art in the park.
Rodeo admission is $10
adults and $5 for ages 5-10.
The holiday culminates
with a fireworks show at
10 p.m. funded by the Friends
of Haines.
Rodeo work
Bill retired 11 years ago after
38 years with Union Pacific.
Colleen retired 10 years ago
from working at US Bank.
They spend a lot of hours at
the rodeo grounds, or working
on rodeo business.
“We wonder how we got all
this done when we were work-
ing,” Colleen said with a laugh.
But they are quick to recog-
nize the many, many volun-
teers who make the Stampede
possible.
“We have a good group of
volunteers,” Bill said. “The
whole group works at some-
thing year-round.”
And there is always some-
thing to work on — this year,
the arena has a new, elevated
“It’s definitely better than last year,”
Williams said. “That’s a start.”
Asked whether this might have
been her last match, Williams replied:
“That’s a question I can’t answer. I don’t
know. ... Who knows? Who knows
where I’ll pop up?”
With her older sister, Venus, jump-
ing out of a guest box seat at Centre
Court to celebrate the best points, Ser-
ena Williams was oh-so-close to pull-
ing out a topsy-turvy match that lasted
3 hours, 11 minutes and was contested
with the retractable roof shut for the
area accessible to wheelchairs.
That project happened with
lots of volunteers and dona-
tions, Bill said.
“There aren’t many people
in this valley we can’t call if
we need something,” he said.
“There are a lot of people
who are willing to step up and
make things happen.”
Numerous banners show-
case sponsors that support the
rodeo.
“This arena, the whole
thing, is full of banners,” Col-
leen said. “We have a great
community.”
The rodeo pays out, on av-
erage, $43,000 to participants.
“We write all the checks the
day of the Fourth,” Colleen
said. “Hopefully they spend
some of it here.”
“Our whole intent is to en-
hance the city of Haines,” Bill
said.
Any improvements to the
grounds are funded by the
Demolition Derby, which
happens Aug. 6 at the rodeo
grounds.
And there are always proj-
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FEEL THE SPEED,
EVEN AT PEAK TIMES.
last two sets.
“For my first Wimbledon, it’s: Wow.
Just wow,” said the 24-year-old Tan,
who recalled watching Williams on
TV as a youngster.
“When I saw the draw, I was really
scared,” Tan said with a laugh, “be-
cause it’s Serena Williams. She’s a leg-
end. I was like, ‘Oh, my God, how can
I play?’”
This is one indication of how things
were at the get-go: Of Tan’s first 11
points, only one came via a winner she
produced. Others came via errors by
ects that need funded.
“We’re already thinking of
next year’s projects,” Bill said.
Williams, either forced or unforced.
While Williams — who wore two
pieces of black tape on her right cheek;
the reason was not immediately clear
— recovered from dropping the open-
ing two games to lead 4-2, she re-
versed course again and allowed Tan
to quickly climb back into that set with
her mix of spins and slices.
When Tan pulled even at 4-all by
striking a down-the-line backhand
winner, she celebrated with a yell; that
shot was so good that even Williams
felt compelled to applaud.
“There are a lot of things in
the works.”
Colleen, the treasurer,
smiles at that, and adds:
“We’ll see how the budget
goes.”
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