BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Stomping the competition is a great way to emphasize your determination to stay in the game, and the embattled Twin City Titans did just that Friday with an 18-3 triumph over Chugiak, Alaska, in a loser-out game at the American Legion Northwest regional tournament.
MARTIN, Tenn. -- Lenny Ayres was concerned about how his Kennewick American 12-year-olds would play at the Cal Ripken World Series.
Richland junior infielder Brett Jacobs was named the 4A Player of the Year by the Washington State Baseball Coaches Association.
YAKIMA — Houston Castillo of Richland was 2-for-2 and scored three runs, and the Dodgers escaped a 6-5 deficit with a nine-run charge in the fifth inning of an 18-11 championship victory over the Braves Sunday at Parker Field.
YAKIMA -- Houston Castillo (Richland) was 2-for-3 with two RBIs as the Dodgers beat the Cardinals 18-14 in the All-State Baseball Series at Parker Field.
Brett Jacobs doesn't come across as a numbers kind of guy.
HERMISTON, Ore. -- Brent Mattson, an assistant for 3A state champion Kennewick this season, has been named the head coach at Hermiston.
Eight Mid-Columbians have been selected to play in the Washington All-State Baseball Series this weekend at Parker Field in Yakima.
NACHES -- Wes Jenks of Connell went 5-for-6 for the day and had five RBIs in the nightcap to go with an eighth-inning grand slam as Team A avenged its opening 15-9 loss to Team B and split an All-State feeder series doubleheader with a 16-13 victory Saturday at Naches Valley Ranger Field.
NACHES -- Anthony Cantu of Columbia (Burbank) and Wes Jenks of Connell will be among area baseball players selected to play in the A-B-AA Regional Feeder doubleheader starting 12 p.m. today at Naches Valley's Ranger Field.
Houston Castillo, Jason Jones and Maxx Garrett each hit two-run homers as Lower Valley swept Upper Valley 4-1 and 12-2 in an All-State feeder doubleheader at Davis High School in Yakima.
SEATTLE -- Everyone expects their first state title to be memorable, but it will be a long time before anyone forgets Kennewick and Kelso.
SEATTLE -- Sometimes good pitching beats good hitting, and sometimes good hitting just has bad luck.
YAKIMA -- Kevin Baffney walked two and struck out seven, Tommy Gregg had four RBIs and DeSales leapt out to a 13-run lead in the top of the first en route to clinching the 2B championship at Parker Field
SEATTLE -- No, it wasn't a good day to be a defending state champion at Safeco Field.
YAKIMA -- Marcus Fazzari scattered four hits and struck out 14, and Kevin Baffney hit a two-run double to highlight DeSales' 5-3 win over Northwest Christian at the 2B state tournament at Parker Field.
SEATTLE -- Yes, Tony Bryant felt the nerves, the butterflies fluttering about in his stomach.
In the spirit of good neighbors, Richland coach Ben Jacobs had a bit of wisdom for his Kennewick counterpart this week as both teams prepared to head over to Seattle for the 4A and 3A state baseball championships.
SPOKANE -- Jeremy Barwick and Kevin Lathim each homered and Cody Shepherd took a shutout into the seventh inning as the defending 4A champion Richland baseball team beat Redmond 11-5 on Saturday in the state quarterfinals.
CHEHALIS -- Othello reached the quarterfinals for the first time since 2003 before falling to Pullman 15-0 at the Chehalis regional of the 2A state playoffs.
YAKIMA -- As the ebullient Kennewick baseball players filed off the field Saturday, it began to dawn on them that dream was becoming reality.
Richland junior Brett Jacobs was named the CBL 4A player of the year in a vote by the coaches.
Form finally held true in the 3A Eastern Regional baseball tournament Saturday evening in the championship game.
After the Richland batters deposited a pair of long balls over the fence in the first inning Saturday afternoon, there was a sense that the Bombers were pressing a bit the rest of the day to create another big inning, swinging from their heels in an effort to live up to their name.
SELAH -- Othello survived a pair of loser-out games, defeating Ephrata 8-6 and avenging an earlier tournament loss to Ellensburg, beating the Bulldogs 11-5 to earn the CWAC's No. 3 state berth.
About the only suspense Bomber Field has seen this season involves foul balls sailing into that oh-so-close parking lot and which inning the Richland baseball team will hit double figures on the scoreboard.
About the only suspense Bomber Field has seen this season involves foul balls sailing into that oh-so-close parking lot and which inning the Richland baseball team will hit double figures on the scoreboard.
East Valley senior Kevin Komstadius was named MVP of the Central Washington Athletic Conference.
CBL 4A
The postseason is in full swing now, and Friday is a busy day on the Mid-Columbia diamonds.
If a baseball game was scored on guts, Kamiakin and Southridge might still be playing at Southridge High.
The Pasco-Davis tiebreaker scheduled for Monday at Richland High School was cancelled.
Adam Dickinson hit two of River View's four home runs as the Panthers took advantage of Zillah's depleted pitching staff to roll to a 14-0 victory in an SCAC district crossover in Finley.
The CBL 4A playoff picture became quite messy with Richland's 10-0, 7-2 sweep of Pasco at Gesa Stadium, combined with Davis' split with Wenatchee and Eisenhower's sweep at Walla Walla.
It's impossible not to notice the huge offensive numbers put up this season by Richland, which Tuesday clinched its second straight CBL 4A title.
Through games of April 30
YAKIMA -- Jeremy Barwick homered in both ends of a CBL 4A doubleheader as Richland clinched its second straight league title by sweeping Eisenhower.
If there were nothing else, Patrick Forgette could still hang his baseball cred on one simple accomplishment: He forced the league's coaches to make room on last year's CBL 3A first team for two shortstops -- himself and player of the year Travis Mattair.
Robert DeNiro famously expressed a love of teamwork --and a good baseball bat -- playing Al Capone in The Untouchables.
BREWSTER -- Rigo and Robert Pruneda each collected two hits, but Warden's seventh-inning rally came up just short in a road loss to Brewster.
Through games of April 24
BENTON CITY -- Corey Brundridge surrendered two runs on two hits and struck out nine to lead Kiona-Benton to a 3-2 win Tuesday over Warden in the first game of an SCAC East baseball doubleheader.
OTHELLO -- Marc Garza struck out six and batted in four runners for host Othello in Game 1 of a CWAC sweep of visiting Prosser.
Cody Shepherd hit a two-run homer in the first inning and earned the save on the mound as the Richland baseball team defeated Kamiakin 5-3 in nonleague action Friday at Bomber Field.
YAKIMA -- Davis senior pitcher Evan Morris signed to play for Harvard University next year.
WARDEN -- Jesse Guerra had three hits and three RBI in a 15-1 victory over visiting Wahluke as Warden improved to 5-1 in SCAC East play and a 10-1 overall.
The word "resilient" comes up frequently when talking with Pasco baseball coach Gary Jonas and his players.
Dennin Harding, Zach Reynolds and Kyle Gier hit home runs for River View in a 14-4 victory Tuesday over Connell in the opener of an SCAC East doubleheader in Finley.
ELLENSBURG -- Ethan Sterkle tossed a two-hitter in the opener and Buck Newby drove in four runs in the nightcap as the Bulldogs won 6-0 and 11-4 over the Huskies, who came into the day tied with Selah a half game behind first-place Ellensburg in the CWAC race.
