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person that came to my mind
Budnick, DeGandi, Knut- was Jon. He was a special
sen, Mizell, Pfund, Wicker- person, and obviously his life
sham … the names from the was cut short.”
past were all familiar ones
Gizdavich was a Class
Saturday in Seaside, for an of 2007 graduate of Seaside
afternoon of alumni baseball. High School, and was nearing
Nearly 30 former Seaside his graduation from Oregon
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annual Jon Gizdavich Me- his death.
morial Doubleheader, to raise
“To me, Jon was always
money for a Seaside High the epitome of someone who
School scholarship, and also consistently cared about oth-
to honor a former friend and er people and was a pleasure
teammate who lost his life to be around,” Dierickx said.
following a car accident in “He had to overcome some
Corvallis in January 2013.
things, but was about ready
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cation, this alumni day is go- then the tragedy happened.”
ing to be a fun one.
To start a scholarship in
“This has been a year in his name, Dierickx said,
the making,” said longtime “was a no-brainer. The goal
Seaside baseball coach Joel was to bring everybody
Dierickx. “I know Astoria together and give a little
has an alumni game; at War- something. I talked to Bri
renton, Lennie (Wolfe) was Hostetler, who was Jon’s
talking about what a great girlfriend, and she and Ter-
event they had last summer.
ry (Gizdavich), his moth-
“So I just thought, we’ll do er, jumped on board. It just
something like that, but let’s steam-rolled from the idea.”
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Players who participated in Seaside’s first annual Jon Gizdavich Memorial Doubleheader
gather for a post-game team photo.
Seaside graduate Ross
Knutsen also helped with
some of the organizing.
Wearing her son’s team
jacket and hat, Terry Gizda-
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Saturday.
“It’s very emotional,” she
said. “It’s an amazing thing.
Jonny would be so pleased.
He loved baseball.”
Hostetler was also on
hand, and called the day
“awesome. We had a great
response.”
There were two players
from the Class of 2000 (Blake
Bakken and Mike Mizell),
with others from 2001 to
2014. For most of the “old”
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of playing on the new Broad-
way Field.
“I really didn’t know what
we’d get from the pitching
side to the hitting side, but
it’s been fun,” Dierickx said.
“They’re very competitive.
It’s been a good time. We’ve
fallen on some challenges
the last few years, but when
you look at all these guys,
there’s a lot of playoffs and
victories from the guys who
are here.”
For the record, the young
graduates (2007-14) beat the
older graduates (2000-06)
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win in Game 2. The recent
grads trailed by one run with
the bases loaded and one out
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before the older graduates
turned a double play to end
the game.
“It was a great event,” said
Dierickx, who served as the
umpire in Game 1, and was a
catcher in Game 2. “Word of
mouth got around. We tried to
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