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Former Gazette owner leads Bend softballers
By MARK MORICAL
Bend Bulletin
Tom Mauldin says he can
pitch his age.
He is 68 years old and can
still throw a softball 68 mph.
“That’s about the equiv-
alent of a 93-mile-per-hour
baseball,” Mauldin says.
That comes in handy
when Mauldin — the new
softball coach at Bend High
— throws batting practice to
his players.
Mauldin seemingly lives
and breathes softball. He
played fast-pitch softball
semiprofessionally for many
years — sometimes more
than 200 games per year.
In addition to coaching the
Lava Bears, Mauldin is the
assistant director for Fast-
pitch Northwest and a pri-
vate pitching/hitting coach.
He is also national softball
and volleyball editor for
CBS-owned MaxPreps.
Mauldin coached the Sis-
ters High School softball
team from 2007 to 2010,
and Redmond High in 2013
and 2014. Before taking the
Bend job, he was an assis-
tant coach for Walla Walla
(Washington)
Commu-
nity College and College
of Idaho, and he remains a
pitching consultant with col-
leges around the Northwest.
Mauldin says he consid-
ered retiring from coaching
before players and parents
encouraged him to take the
Bend High position.
“This will be my last
coaching job, so I’m look-
ing forward to it more than
any other year that I’ve
coached,” Mauldin says.
So far, he has led the
Bears — who have eight
returning seniors — to a 4-2
record.
“I challenged them to out-
hustle everybody,” Maul-
din says. “We don’t have
10 (NCAA Division I-cali-
ber) kids, but we can outhus-
tle people. That is something
we can control. Our girls are
hustling. We’ve amped up
the intensity and the number
of reps. They’re responding
really well.”
Diamond sports runs in
Bend Bulletin
Tom Mauldin
Mauldin’s blood. Accord-
ing to Mauldin, his father,
Mason “Mule” Mauldin,
played football and base-
ball at Clemson University
in South Carolina and was
a journeyman minor league
player who had brief stints
with the Brooklyn Dodg-
ers, Washington Senators
and Chicago Cubs before
going on to a career in the
Air Force.
“I wasn’t as good as my
dad (at baseball),” Mauldin
says. “But I fell in love with
fast-pitch softball at a young
age. I played for a long time.
I got to play with some great
players who really inspired
me. I don’t think I was trying
to live in my father’s foot-
steps. I just fell in love with
the game of softball. Here it
is 50 years later and I’m still
doing it.”
Mauldin grew up in
South Carolina and started
his journalism career as a
sports writer in California
for the Bay Area’s Fairfi eld
Daily Republic and Vacav-
ille Reporter. He covered the
Oakland A’s when they won
three straight World Series
(1972-74) and he also cov-
ered the Joe Montana-led
San Francisco 49ers in the
1980s.
Mauldin and his wife, Cat,
eventually became newspa-
per owners on the Oregon
Coast, running the Cannon
Beach Gazette and the North
Coast Citizen in Manzanita.
The Gazette was honored
by the National Newspa-
per Association six times as
America’s best small news-
paper when the Mauldins
were publishers.
The Mauldins — who
have fi ve children and 11
grandchildren — sold their
newspapers 12 years ago and
moved to Sisters. In 2011
they moved to Redmond,
where they remain.
While coaching high
school and college softball,
Mauldin has maintained
his roles as a private pitch-
ing coach and an editor for
MaxPreps.
He says he has coached 50
all-state pitchers privately.
“As a private pitching
coach, I get to travel a lot,”
Mauldin says. “People fl y
me to Hawaii for pitching
clinics. How do you say no?”
He also handles the
national high school softball
rankings for MaxPreps.
“I rank who’s in the top
100,” he says. “One is a
computer poll and the other
one is mine.”
While Bend High, which
fi nished 9-16 last season, is
not in those national rank-
ings, Mauldin says he has
seen improvement in the lit-
tle amount of practice time
the team has had. The Bears
did not have their fi rst full
outdoor practice until March
21 due to lingering snow on
the fi elds.
“We’re a week behind, but
the girls are really respond-
ing,” Mauldin says. “I think
by the time we start league
we’ll be a pretty good soft-
ball team. We want to take
care of league play and we
want to make the playoffs.”
Taking batting practice
against a pitcher like Maul-
din will certainly help.
HAPPENINGS IN BRIEF
Writers workshops
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Authors Jennifer Haupt
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at Manzanita Writers’ Series
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Haupt will read from and
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In this book, Gwartney
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of Narcissa Prentiss Whit-
man, the fi rst white woman
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Whitman, driven by reli-
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Blending history and
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Authors Jennifer Haupt
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