Cougars search for consistency from young team
Andrew Christiansen
Reporter
It was an up and down week for Lyle-Wishram's baseball team last week. The team pounded South Wasco 19-1, then dropped a pair to a tough Dufur team, 5-3 and 13-11.
The South Wasco game was a blow out in the first inning when Lyle-Wishram scored 10 runs. They came up with another nine in the third, allowing Dylan Davis and Mike Eiesland to freewheel on the mound and give up just one run. Several Cougars had big days. Ty Freemantle had a grand slam homerun, Eiesland was 4-4 with a double, a triple and six RBI, Chris Wolff was 3-5 with a double and, Kiele Wiseman was 2-2 with a double. Davis got the win with three innings of two-hit ball.
The Cougars are a young team that shows flashes of great hitting and flashes of inexperience on the basepath and in the field. The team was younger than usual on Saturday at Dufur, with three starters missing, nobody on the bench and two-eighth-graders in the line-up.
The double-header was a display of good and bad. The team had spurts of good pitching and good hitting around dropped balls and base-running mistakes. On the bright side, the team never quit and the eighth graders, Ricky Wolff and Dustin Mutch got on base and were good in the field.
Eiesland went the distance in the opener and was sharp after getting tagged for three runs in the first inning. The senior ace struck out 12 batters and gave up six hits. But, the Cougars could manage just two hits in the 5-3 loss.
Game two was wild with scoring, the teams combining for 24 runs. But, there were only 15 hits and 11 errors, six by the Cougars and five by Dufur. Chris Wolff was hit by pitches in three straight trips to the plate, as both teams struggled.
Lyle-Wishram was down 13-5 when they came alive in the fifth, scoring three runs, triggered by an Eiesland triple.
It was more of the same when Calvin Burnham drove a ball into the left-center field gap for a bases-loaded triple in the sixth. Burnham was picked off third base with one out, and the comeback stalled.
Goldendale's junior varsity will play a double header in Lyle on Thursday. League play moves into high gear with a trip to La Salle on April 21 and eight more league games in a span of 15 days.
Kibby and Israel log wins at Royal City
Andrew Christiansen
Reporter
Goldendale and Bickleton track teams were in action at Royal City over the weekend. It was the first meet for Goldendale in two weeks.
Bickleton pole vaulter, Star Kibby, and Goldendale distance specialist, Asa Israel were the best in their events in the large meet, which featured 19 boys teams and 20 girls teams from central Washington. The Timberwolf and Pirate boys tied for seventh place, while the lady Pirates placed eighth and the lady Wolves were 10th.
Kibby, vaulted 8-6, a foot higher than runner-up, Hannah Swigart of Goldendale. Israel and Liberty Bell's Erik Bjornsen had a good battle in the 1600, with Israel pulling out the win in 4:51.02 to Bjornsen's 4:52.72.
The 4x400 relays generated points for the Timberwolf boys and girls. The boys turned a 3:50.96 for third place and the lady Wolves were fourth with a 5:06.88.
Top eight performances for the two local teams: Bickleton - Star Kibby 1st pole vault (8-6), 6th triple jump (29-11), 8th 200 (29.22); Patrick Maeder 2nd pole vault (12-0); Andrew Venema 2nd 300 hurdles (45.84), 3rd 110 hurdles (16.35), 6th high jump (5-8); Junior Hernandez 3rd 3200 (11:28.92); Alejandra Molina 3rd discus (97-6); Katelynn Clinton 4th discus (97-2), 4th high jump (4-6); Danielle Raschko 4th 3200 (13:58.99); Eddie Molina 7th shot put (41-4), 8th discus (113-7.5); Christina Wilson 8th 1600 (6:57.7); Dede Kibby 8th long jump (14-0.5). Goldendale- Asa Israel 1st 1600 (4:51.2), 6th pole vault (9-6); Hannah Swigart 2nd pole vault (7-6); Sadie Shattuck 3rd shot put (32-5.25); Nikki Williams 4th javelin (99-0), 6th discus (91-9.5); Steven Bischoff 4th pole vault (10-0); Ty Hunziker 5th high jump (5-8), 7th long jump (18-8.25); Kyle Welsh 5th 400 (56.07); Irene Goble 7th 1600 (6:51.33), 8th 400 (1:11.72).
Herin tosses a gem at Granger
Garrigus gun preserves win
Andrew Christiansen
Reporter
Cody Herin is quickly earning the confidence of his manager, Lyle Stevens, with another great outing that cements the junior's place in Goldendale's rotation.
Herin is also getting it done with his bat, collecting six hits last week as the Timberwolves beat River View in a make-up game, then went to Granger to sweep the opening games of league play.
River View
Tuesday's game in Goldendale was the second of a double-header interrupted by rain, last month. Goldendale lost the first game, but finished strong in a 11-6 game two win.
Herin was 3-4 with two doubles and four RBI to lead the 13 hit attack. He wasn't the only player who was hot at the plate. Anthony Dobson was 3-3, and two-hit games were turned in by Aaron Cochran and Trevor Fields.
Goldendale scored three runs in the first inning and held on through a wild day on the mound by Cochran, who hit six batters and walked four in three innings of work. A five-run sixth inning sealed the win.
Granger
Goldendale rode a 10-4 lead into the bottom of the seventh inning at Granger, but nearly blew the game, as the Spartans dialed up five runs in the seventh.
Mitchell Zapien hit a two out, two-run double to right center. But the would-be tying runner tried to stretch it into a triple and was gunned down by Justin Garrigus to preserve the 10-9 win.
Herin was stellar in the second game, giving up six hits and striking out 12 batters in six innings. The game was blown open with eight and 10 run innings in the sixth and seventh for a 22-3 Timberwolf win.
Fields was 3-6 with three RBI, Jaryd Cline had two doubles and four RBI
|
