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Hawkins resigns from Bulldogs baseball
Longtime coach
ready to watch
from stands
By MATT ENTRUP
Staff writer
Lance Hawkins has re-
signed after three seasons
at the helm of Bulldogs
baseball, Hermiston Ath-
letic Director Larry Usher
announced on Thursday.
The Bulldogs made two
5A play-in round appear-
ances under Hawkins, but
missed the postseason in
2017 after going 10-15 and
finishing last in the Co-
lumbia River Conference.
But with just four seniors
graduating, optimism is
high going into the summer
American Legion season
that the team can begin to
build what could be one of
its best seasons in ages for
2018.
That’s why Hawkins, 51,
decided now would be the
time to step away after 18
years in the program.
“I think the program is
probably in the best shape
it has been in some time
and I just wanted to leave
on a pretty good note. Next
year’s team is going to be
pretty talented, and I just
want to leave it in good
HERALD FILE PHOTO
Hermiston baseball coach Lance Hawkins is resigning.
shape for whoever steps
in,” Hawkins said.
“Lance has given 18
years of baseball to the
Hermiston School District
and we are very thankful
for all the time and energy
he has provided,” Usher
said in a statement. “Lance
has been a great mentor
to kids in our district as
he made their time in the
baseball program not only
rewarding, but very enjoy-
able as well.”
Hawkins, who also
coached about 15 years
of football, will contin-
ue to teach at Sandstone
Middle School while tak-
ing in as many Bulldogs
games as possible, but
said he’s got some shift-
ing priorities in his per-
sonal life that also made
him realize it was time to
stop coaching.
“I told Larry it’s a retire-
ment,” he said. “I’ve been
coaching here for 18 years
and it was just time. Life is
just happening, I’m going
to be a grandpa in July.
“It takes a lot of time and
effort, and you’ve got to re-
alizes those things before
people start pushing you
out.
“I’m going to go out
and watch every game. I’ll
come up and support them
and watch them this sum-
mer, it’s just time to watch
form the stands.”
Hermiston went 34-40 in
Hawkins’ three seasons as
head coach, posting a 14-22
mark in league play and 0-2
in postseason play.
Their best season un-
der Hawkins was in 2016
when they went 13-12 and
finished second in the CRC
with a 6-6 mark.
Bulldogs will play across the border in 2018
Hermiston to join WIAA
for athletics, activities
By ERIC SINGER
Staff writer
Adios, Oregon School Activi-
ties Association.
Hermiston High School’s peti-
tion to leave the OSAA and join
the Washington Interscholastic
Activities Association was ap-
proved by the association’s exec-
utive board at its meeting on Sun-
day, making Hermiston the first
out-of-state full member to join
when it does so for the 2018-19
school year.
The Bulldogs will be in the
WIAA’s 3A classification, the
second largest, and will compete
in the Mid-Columbia Conference
with the Tri-Cities schools such
as Richland, Southridge, Chiawa-
na, Kamiakin, Hanford, Pasco
and Kennewick, as well as Walla
Walla High.
“This move to the WIAA is
the right thing for our students,”
said Larry Usher, Hermiston
High School athletic director, in a
press release. “Our situation will
be much improved in regards to
travel distance, lost instructional
time, and budgets.”
Travel distance and lost in-
structional time were the prime
reasons for Hermiston exploring
membership with the WIAA. The
school first petitioned member-
ship to the WIAA in January as
the OSAA’s proposed reclassifi-
cation for 2018-22 time block set
the Bulldogs up in a league with
Portland and Bend-area schools
and an average round-trip travel
distance of more than 400 miles
for league games, which meant
plenty of missed class time for
athletes.
Now, Hermiston’s average
travel to play conference games
in the Mid-Columbia will be just
80 miles and almost no missed
class time.
“The most impressive thing
about this,” Usher said, “is the
OSAA executive board and the
WIAA executive board, between
the two you have 26 adults that
work in the world of education
that made a decision that wasn’t
easy and is probably very con-
troversial, but they made a deci-
sion to improve the lives of kids
they’ve never met and that is
powerful to us. They don’t know
our kids but they stepped up to
make a decision that was right for
the kids and we’re excited that
they felt that way about our com-
munity.”
The WIAA executive board
approved a set of guidelines at
its April meeting that would al-
low an out-of-state school to seek
membership, after having nu-
merous discussions with both the
OSAA and the Idaho High School
Athletic Association. The board
also reached out to associations in
California, Arizona, Nevada and
others who currently have out-of-
state members as well.
“This was a unique situation for
both Hermiston and the WIAA,”
said Mike Colbrese, WIAA exec-
utive director, in a press release.
“The Executive Board worked
closely with the OSAA and IH-
SAA to put measures in place to
evaluate the situation at hand, and
set a standard going forward.”
The WIAA’s decision didn’t
come without some back-and-
forth discussion, though. Usher
said on Monday that the school
had not received specific details
on the vote or the board’s discus-
sion, but was told it was a “two-
hour long spirited debate.”
The move north will bring
some changes to Hermiston’s
sports landscape. Boys and girls
soccer and boys and girls swim-
ming will both split up, with boys
soccer moving to the spring sea-
son and girls swimming moving
to the fall. Also, bowling will
be added to Hermiston’s line-
up as it is a sanctioned sport by
the WIAA, and Usher said that
the school already has a popular
bowling club team that is excit-
ed to make the move.
It remains to be seen just
how much Hermiston’s tradi-
tional cross-county rivalry with
Pendleton will be affected, as
though the two schools will
no longer be conference rivals
they will still likely play in
most sports.
“Reducing travel time and
loss of instructional time is
something we are very commit-
ted to and it does mean we’ll
be exploring non-conference
games as close to home as we
can, like with Pendleton,” Usher
said. “It’ll be no different from
any other Mid-Columbia team
that comes down to play us and
Pendleton ... if we’re given the
choice of having to travel to
Spokane or Vancouver or Yaki-
ma, or travel to Pendleton, obvi-
ously Pendleton will be a good
choice for us.”
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