Pak tops Beetles at state
July 27, 2009 by YH-R Sports
TACOMA — The Yakima Valley Pepsi Pak stayed alive at the Senior Legion state tournament Monday.
And ousted the Yakima Pepsi Beetles in doing so.
The Pak (41-12) built a 6-2 lead and held on to defeat the Beetles 7-4 in an elimination game at Heidelberg Park. Yakima finished the season 32-30.
Yakima Valley plays Central Washington League rival Kennewick today at 3 p.m. The Bandits were beaten by Lakeside Recovery in the winner’s bracket Monday.
The Twin City Titans are still alive, too, giving the league three of the final four teams remaining. The Titans face Lakeside, the tournament’s last unbeaten team, at 6 today.
Cory Urquhart collected four hits and drove in a pair of runs for the Pak. Thomas Wilcox pitched eight inning, striking out five, and added a pair of hits and an RBI.
Ethan Flory stole home in Yakima Valley’s four-run second inning and also knocked in a run.
Highlights for the Beetles were not reported.
The Pak bounced back from a 4-3 13-inning loss to Lakeside Recovery on Sunday night that finished after press time.
Volcanoes escape in ninth; Salem-Keizer takes final four in series
July 27, 2009 by YH-R Sports
KEIZER, Ore. — The Yakima Bears gave West Division-leading Salem-Keizer a good fight Monday night.
Still, it wasn’t enough to keep the Volcanoes from handing the Bears their fourth straight loss by rallying for a run in the ninth inning to win 3-2 in Northwest League action at Volcanoes Stadium.
Salem-Keizer, which sports a Northwest League-best 27-10 record, took the final four games of the series after Yakima won the opener.
The Bears (13-24) return home tonight to open another five-game series tonight against the Everett AquaSox at Yakima County Stadium. First pitch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m.
Yakima outhit the Volcanoes 9-6 on Monday, and took a 1-0 lead in the top of the third when Gerson Montilla hit his third home run of the season.
Salem-Keizer, however, would rally for a run in the fourth and sixth innings to take a 2-1 lead.
Stellar Yakima defense kept each of the rallies from getting worse. In the fourth, Bears center fielder Tyrell Worthington caught a fly ball and threw out a runner at second base.
Two innings later, Yakima cut down a would-be Volcanoes run at home when catcher Jorge Corniel recovered Houston Summers’ wild pitch and threw to Summers who tagged out a S-K runner at the plate.
In the eighth, Matt Davidson hit a one-out double over to score Ryan Wheeler and tie the score at 2-2.
The Volcanoes, however, got an RBI single from Drew Biery in the ninth inning to end the game.
Montilla finished with four hits for the game. Wheeler and Matt Davidson each had a pair.
Next game
Opponent: Everett AquaSox.
When, where: 7:05 p.m. today, Yakima County Stadium.
Radio: KUTI (1460).
Probable pitchers: Everett’s Luke Burnett
(1-2, 2.87 ERA) vs. Yakima’s Andrew Wolcott (2-2, 2.94 ERA).
Box score
Volcanoes 3, Bears 2
YAKIMA SALEM-KEIZER
ab r h bi ab r h bi
Kczrwski rf 4 0 1 0 Crwfrd cf 3 1 0 0
Greer ss 5 0 0 0 Lollis rf 3 1 1 0
Wheeler dh 3 1 2 0 Cool rf 4 0 1 1
Conner 1b 4 0 0 0 Dmngz dh 4 1 2 1
Davdsn 3b 4 0 2 1 Biery 3b 4 0 1 1
Inciarte lf 3 0 0 0 Anders 1b 2 0 0 0
Wrthngtn cf 4 0 0 0 Martnz 2b 3 0 0 0
Corniel c 4 0 1 0 Cavan ss 2 0 1 0
Montilla 2b 4 1 3 1 Price c 2 0 0 0
Lindsly pr 0 0 0 0
Zambrn c 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 2 9 2 Totals 27 3 6 3
Yakima 001 000 010 — 2
Salem-Keizer 000 101 001 — 3
DP—Yakima 2, Salem-Keizer 1. LOB—Yakima 9, Salem-Keizer 5. 2B—Montilla, Davidson, Lollis, Cook. HR—Montilla. SB—Wheeler, Cavan. CS—Martinez.
IP H R ER BB SO
Yakima
Dollar 4 3 1 1 0 0
Summers 3 1 1 1 4 3
Hale 1 0 0 0 0 0
Budrow L, 0-2 0 2 1 1 0 0
Salem-Keizer
Bucardo 6 4 1 1 1 7
Quinowski 1 2 0 0 0 2
Moran W, 2-0 2 3 1 1 0 0
Budrow pitched to 2 batters in the 9th.
WP—Summers, Budrow. Balk—Moran. HBP—Price (by Hale), Wheeler (by Bucardo), Kaczrowski (by Moran). Umpires—Javier Cantu, Ryan Goodman. T—2:18. A—2,243.
Standings
East Division
W L Pct. GB
Tri-City (Rockies) 23 14 .622 —
Boise (Cubs) 16 21 .432 7
Yakima (D-Backs) 13 24 .351 10
Spokane (Rangers) 13 24 .351 10
West Division
W L Pct. GB
Salem-Keizer (Giants) 27 10 .730 —
Everett (Mariners) 23 14 .622 4
Eugene (Padres) 17 20 .459 10
Vancouver (Athletics) 16 21 .432 11
Monday’s results
Everett 11, Tri-City 4
Salem-Keizer 3, Yakima 2
Eugene 10, Boise 2
Vancouver 6, Spokane 5
Today’s games
Eugene at Spokane, 6:30 p.m.
Everett at Yakima, 7:05 p.m.
Salem-Keizer at Tri-City, 7:15 p.m.
Local report — Peppers’ season over
July 27, 2009 by YH-R Sports
Yakima Herald-Republic
SPOKANE — The Yakima Valley Peppers lost to Mount Spokane 3-2 in a loser-out game Monday in the Junior Legion state tournament at University High School.
With the loss, the Peppers ended the season with a record of 31-18. It was their second straight loss.
Trent Dougless pitched a complete-game, giving up three runs, none of them earned, while striking out five and walking none for Yakima Valley.
Garrett Fife went 2-for-3 with a runs scores, Stephan Schmidt went 2-for-3 with two RBI and Alex Fickes scored a run for the Peppers.
Youth Baseball
SENIOR LEGION STATE TOURNAMENT
YAKIMA VALLEY 7, YAKIMA 4
Yakima 101 020 000 — 4 10 4
Yakima Valley 040 200 10x — 7 9 2
Schultz, Roddy (4) and Lombardi; Wilcox, Windsor (9), Fife (9) and Snider.
Highlights: Thomas Wilcox (YV) 8 IP, 5 K’s, 2-3, RBI; Cory Urquhart (YV) 4-5, 2 RBI; Matt Snider (YV) 2 runs; Ethan Flory (YV) RBI, stole home in second.
Sunday’s Late Game
LAKESIDE RECOVER 4, YAKIMA VALLEY 3
Yakima Valley 000 000 021 000 0 — 3 11 1
Lakeside 000 100 200 000 1 — 4 12 1
Hinton, Windsor (8), Welton (10) and Snyder, Andreas (8); Fisher, Rogers (8) and Sutherland.
Highlights: Jake Fife (YV) 3-6, 2 runs; Trevor Dallman (YV) 3-5, 2 RBI; Lukas Hinton (YV) 7 IP, 4 K’s; Yakima Valley left 17 runners on base.
Junior State tournament
At Parker Field
Monday’s results
Yakima National 12, Cascade (Vancouver) 8 (Yakima: Gavin Rodriguez 3-4, run, 3 RBI; John Piper 4-5, 3 runs, 3 RBI; Trenton Dupre 2-5, run, 2 RBI; Jacob Sanders 2-4, run, RBI; Kurt Calhoun 3-3, run; Kris Loyd 2-4, 2 runs.)
Rainier 4, Richmond 3 (9); Bellevue East 18, East Jefferson 8; Kalama 11, West Plains (Spokane) 1.
Today’s games
Loser-out: Rainier (Seattle) vs. Cascade (Vancouver), 4 p.m. Bellevue East vs. West Plains (Spokane), 7 p.m.
Wednesday’s Winner’s bracket
Yakima National vs. Kalama winner, 7 p.m.
I’ll tell ya, landing nets don’t get any respect
July 27, 2009 by YH-R Outdoors
In the big wide fishing world, landing nets never seem to get a whole lot of respect. In fact, considering the hundreds and thousands of dollars anglers spend on their fishing gear, nets are often treated like the big-eared stepchild. They are the Rodney Dangerfield of fishing gear.
Ask any angler how many times he have forgotten his net on fishing trips over the years, and chances are you’ll hear words like “often” and “several” and “many.” Ask him how many times he’s forgotten his rod and reel. “Rarely.” Or even “never.”
Of course, what good is a net if you don’t have a rod, reel, lures, bait and a few other essentials to first hook the fish?
On the other hand, once you tie into a big fish, your odds of landing it decrease exponentially, depending on size and availability of a net.
Now, I’m the first to realize fish can be and are landed semi-regularly without a net. I have forgotten, or lost, my landing net on more occasions than I care to remember and have successfully wrestled fish aboard my boat, or up on shore. I have also lost plenty of fish because I was net-less.
You watch some of the bass tournaments on TV and you would think a landing net was a piece of equipment of which the pros have not become acquainted. They jerk the bass out of the water and land them, flopping, into the bottom of the boat. That is, if the fish doesn’t fall off in mid-jerk.
In fact, some of the bass tournaments have rules against using landing nets. What sense does that make?
No net with a smaller fish such as a bass works some of the time, but get hold of a hard-fighting salmon or steelhead, or even a jumping, pulling trout, and a net becomes a necessary tool in an angler’s arsenal.
Over the years, there hasn’t been much new in the world of fishing nets. They all pretty much have a handle, a hoop, and some netting material to hold the fish. There are bigger nets for bigger fish and smaller nets for smaller fish.
An angler can spend as little as five bucks for a net, or as much as $50 or more.
The netting materials haven’t changed much in recent history. Most are made of poly-nylon-scratchy-stringy stuff. Some now have rubber coatings to help better protect the fish and keep hooks from becoming entangled.
From way back in the 1800s to today, net-handle materials have changed once — from wood to aluminum. But all in all, a landing net is a landing net.
Sometimes nets are a pain to have along, especially those designed for big fish. They’re bulky and get in the way, and if there is ever anything hanging from, off of or sticking out on a boat, the net will most likely catch on it.
Of course, good netting skills are fairly important, too. Each year uncountable numbers of big fish are lost because the person on the net makes a large gaff. Speaking of gaffs, some fish can be gaffed instead of netted. But those are normally prickly, pokey, big, ugly fish caught in the ocean. Charter captains have no problem sticking a fish with a gaff, and dragging it aboard their vessel. You don’t see many gaffs in the world of freshwater fishing — except for those when the netter tries to green-net a big salmon.
A few years ago, someone invented a tailing tool that was to take the place of a net. It featured a spring-loaded noose that quickly tightened around the fish’s tail so it could be snared and landed. But the device never caught on. Probably because fish swim forward, and even though the tool was fast, it wasn’t quite fast enough to capture most fish by the tail.
Finally, after all of these years, there is a new net out there for anglers. Actually the net still works like a net and looks pretty much like any other net. The new feature in this net is that the hoop portion actually retracts and stores into the handle — which makes it very portable and can be placed out of harms way until needed. Called the Hiber-Net from Frabill, the net portion slides into the handle and then deploys like an umbrella when you need it.
I like that idea, and might just give one a try — provided I can remember to take it and I don’t lose it. Landing nets, I have found, don’t get much respect.
• Rob Phillips is a freelance outdoor writer and partner in the advertising firm of Smith, Phillips & DiPietro. He can be reached at rwphillips@spdadvertising.com.
07/28/09 What’s happening
July 27, 2009 by YH-R Outdoors
Jack harvest may bode well for 2010
Fish managers have long used the number of jacks in a spring chinook run to forecast the next year’s run, and the high number of jacks caught in this year’s Yakima River fishery — 392 jacks compared to 149 adults — would seem to bode well for the 2010 springer run.
“We’ve been getting high numbers of jacks, so you’d think we would be having a phenomenal spring chinook run next year,” state fisheries biologist Jim Cummins said. “But they’ve just been really unpredictable in recent years.”
Most of the catch was made within a mile of Roza Dam, above the confluence of the Yakima and Naches rivers, with the muddied water below that junction making for difficult angling conditions.
Regional fish program manager John Easterbrooks said another factor could hurt the prospects for good salmon fisheries on the Yakima.
Weather experts are predicting a trend toward El Niño conditions, which — in addition to lower winter snowfall — creates a nutrient mass “less suitable for juveniles in the ocean,” Easterbrooks said. “The La Niñas are better — cool, wet winters, also corresponding to the upwelling of nutrients in the ocean.”
Lightning fire forces trail bypass on PCT
A lightning-started wildfire burning along the Pacific Crest Trail has forced a temporary closure of the PCT near its junction of the Pete Lake Trail 1323 and Lemah Meadows Trail 1323.2.
The Forest Service was having PCT trail users bypass the area by using those other two trails, not adding any significant distance.
The fire was one of two small fires that began in the Spectacle Lake/Delate Meadows area on the Cle Elum Ranger District following Saturday lightning storms. The other fire was burning in a small patch of trees in a rock field above Spectacle Lake.
Please call the Cle Elum Ranger Station 509-852-1062 for current information.
Coho anglers will get hatchery bonus limit
Anglers planning to fish for salmon on any of the eight tributaries that flow into the Columbia River below Bonneville Dam — including the Klickitat and the Cowlitz — can expect good fishing for hatchery coho and a bolstered daily limit when fall salmon fishing opens Saturday.
Anglers fishing those rivers will be allowed to catch and keep up to six adult salmon per day, provided that at least four of them are hatchery-reared coho. No wild coho may be retained. That six-fish daily limit (which may also include up to two chinook), up from two salmon in recent years, is in response to this year’s projected return of 700,000 coho, most of them reared in hatcheries.
The six-fish limit will be in effect on theKlickitat, Cowlitz, Elochoman, Grays (including the West Fork), Kalama, Lewis (including the North Fork), Toutle (including the Green and North Fork) and Washougal rivers. Last year, only the Cowlitz River had a six-salmon daily limit.
Milk Lake Road to be resurfaced
Two miles of Forest Road 1708 — the popular Milk Lake cutting east off Highway 410 just before the Little Naches turnoff — will be resurfaced later this summer as part of Forest Service road maintenance projects being funded by the federal stimulus package.
The road is quite popular with recreationists, with a picnic and dispersed camping area and numerous double- and single-track trails.
Two miles of resurfacing will also be done on Forest Road 9737 about nine miles north of Cle Elum. Elsewhere in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, the Tonasket Ranger District’s most heavily-used road — the 3200 road to Bonaparte Lake’s popular campgrounds — will receive 7.6 miles of chip seal and improvements will be made to the Ramona Park campground near Lake Chelan’s Twenty-Five Mile State Park.
BIRD ALERT
It’s hard to believe that fall migration has begun, but the signs are there. A flock of about 300 common nighthawks was spotted flying over a small orchard near the Cowiche wastewater treatment plant, followed by another smaller flock of about 100 common nighthawks.
Rufous hummingbirds, an extremely early fall migrant, have been showing up at feeders around the valley. In Parker Heights south of Yakima, they have been joined by black-chinned hummers and an Anna’s. Also noted here was a warbling vireo, one of the earliest neotropical migrants, singing in a cottonwood tree. Juvenile black-headed grosbeaks and Bullock’s orioles were easily heard and seen.
A Yakima resident noted 13 species for the yard list, including common nighthawk, red-breasted nuthatch, western tanager, and pine siskin. A female American goldfinch spent three days completing a nest in the resident’s dogwood tree.
A burrowing owl was spotted on a fence post along Old Vantage Highway, before it flew low south over the road and down into the big sage.
Fledged this week along the Vredenburgh Bluebird Trail were three western bluebirds and eight mountain bluebirds, bringing the year-to-date’s extremely successful numbers to 447 fledged western bluebirds and 59 mountain bluebirds, plus two white-breasted nuthatches. The 506 fledged bluebirds qualifies this as another extremely successful year on the trail.
Please call your bird sightings into the Yakima Valley Audubon phone line at 248-1963.
— Kerry L. Turley
AROUND AND ABOUT
RAMROD AT MT. RAINIER: If you’re planning on a drive to Mount Rainier National Park, Thursday isn’t the day to do it — unless you like sharing the road with 800 bicyclists. That’s the day of the 26th RAMROD bicycle ride around the park. After starting in Enumclaw, the route will follow Skate Creek Road to Packwood, follow Highway 12 and then go north on State Route 123 and continue north to Cayuse Pass.
STEVENS CANYON UPDATE: The final inspection for flood-damage repair of the Stevens Canyon Road at milepost 14.1 is scheduled for Thursday, and the park expects the road to be ready to reopen by 5 p.m. that day. The section of the Stevens Canyon Road east of the Backbone Ridge viewpoint has been closed to through traffic all season after damage from a January 2009 storm.
STILL HOT AND DRY: The hot spell hasn’t changed, meaning the Industrial Fire Protection Level is still at II, meaning no woodcutting on the National Forest after 1 p.m. And no campfires can be built within the Naches Ranger District except in designated Wilderness.
DNR JOINS BLOGOSPHERE: The state Department of Natural Resources has joined the blogging world with its “Ear to the Ground” blog. (You can also opt for the RSS feed option to receive updates whenever there’s a new posting.) If you checked the blog Monday, you saw a breakdown on the numerous wildfires into the northeast quadrant of the state, many of them in the Methow and Okanogan valleys.
ON THE CALENDAR
TODAY: The Cascadians’ Tuesday group will hike in the Tatoosh Range in the southern end of Mount Rainier National Park. The Tuesdays meet at 7:30 a.m. at the 40th Avenue Bi-Mart parking lot and carpool from there.
THURSDAY: The Cascadians’ Pokies will split into two groups on a pair of hikes from Chinook Pass — one doing the popular Naches Peak Loop and the other heading to Dewey Lake and back. For meeting time and place, call Jeanne Crawford at 966-8608.
A real wolf? Even if it is, you’re likely to regret it later
July 27, 2009 by Scott Sandsberry
TENINO — If they weren’t so sad, the calls that come in to Wolf Haven International might be … well, kind of funny.
They typically come from people who thought buying a young wolf or a wolf-dog for a pet would make them tres chic. Cutting edge. One with nature. Wolf whisperers. The talk of the neighborhood.
Contributed photo
That lasts a year. Maybe two.
Finally, while the house is still standing and the pet owners’ marriage is still intact, somebody calls Wolf Haven International with a meandering message that could be boiled down to this:
I bought a wolf a while back and … HEEELLLLLP!
That’s because these people wanted a pet … and got a wolf.
Two mutually exclusive terms.
Wolves “don’t do well in a home environment,” Wendy Spencer says. “They’re just hard-wired differently.”
Spencer serves as curator at Wolf Haven, a non-profit, funded-by-donations, 80-acre sanctuary outside Tenino that houses wolves. Very occasionally, under special circumstances, Wolf Haven will take a wolf hybrid, but almost always as a companion animal for a lone wolf already at the sanctuary.
Nearly every one of the typically 50-some canids living at Wolf Haven would otherwise have been euthanized because the owners simply couldn’t deal with this wild animal actually behaving like, yes, a wild animal.
Spencer recalls taking a call once from a woman whose pregnant wolf-dog hybrid “had denned up onto (the woman’s) kitchen table and wouldn’t let the family into the kitchen to eat dinner.”
Wolf Haven executive director John Blankenship, a former regional deputy director with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said a wolf might defer to one member of the family but no one else.
“I might have a wolf and I might be the alpha to that wolf, and that wolf would probably never bother me. Maybe,” Blankenship said. “However, he may not like my wife or my kids or my dog or my house.
“They really tear stuff up.”
And for that, Spencer says, wolves are uniquely qualified.
“They are extremely intelligent,” she says. “If they’re not mentally and physically stimulated and challenged, it can manifest really destructive behaviors. We’ve heard horror stories of floorboards being ripped up, stairs ripped up, sofas, beds, cars. Plus, containment is an issue. They’re very skilled diggers and climbers, and a young wolf can jump about 10 feet high.”
And here’s the funny or sad part, especially for someone who has spent a significant amount of money for something that ultimately created havoc around the homestead, just to be able to own a wolf:
It’s probably not a wolf anyway.
“Then we have to break the bad news to them that somebody sold them a $2,000 animal that really is not a whole wolf,” Blankenship says.
“Almost every day we get a call from somebody who needs to place what they believe is a wolf. Probably, I’d guess, 90-plus percent of those animals are not wolves.”
Spencer puts the number even higher.
“I would say 99 percent of the time it’s a wolf-dog or a dog,” she says. “I think a lot of times people have this misconception, they’ll see the husky mask and think that’s what wolves have as well. Or if a dog has big feet, or their dog howls rather than barks — which is typical of northern breeds, they’ll howl frequently — they’ll think they have a wolf.
“And a lot of times, unfortunately, they’ve been duped by the breeders into thinking they’ve purchased a wolf or a wolf-dog. Of course, they want to believe the breeder. They want to believe what they’re getting is a wolf or a wolf-dog, and most of the time they’re not.”’
Wolf Haven International is not that long removed from its public travails after 2005 video of a wolf slowly dying from kidney failure was shown on a Seattle television station. The executive director at the time — whom Spencer had repeatedly asked for permission to euthanize the ailing wolf — resigned in the face of animal cruelty charges (which are still pending) and was replaced by Blankenship.
Wolf Haven curator Wendy Spencer pauses on her rounds to give a friendly scratch to a wolf through the fenced enclosure. You wouldn’t do this with any wild animal that might one day be released back into the wild, Spencer says, but the animals at Wolf Haven have all become habituated to humans and will remain at the sanctuary. (Scott Sandsberry/Yakima Herald-Republic)
In watching Spencer and Blankenship do their Wolf Haven rounds, it’s hard to imagine any of the animals suffering under their watch.
The wolves clearly know and appreciate the company of them both — especially Spencer, who each animal sees several times daily — and will often come up to the enclosure fences when they approach, hoping for a quick neck scratch or some soothing words.
That kind of closeness can look a little strange and, were these wolves in the wild, would be a mistake. “Kids, don’t try this at home,” Spencer says with a laugh as she scratches a wolf that clearly loves her attention. “You wouldn’t do something like this if the animal was ever going to be released or in the wild.”
But these are animals that will never be released back into the wild.
“Once they’re subjected to people and get their food from people,” Blankenship says, “you can’t put them back in the wild. Even the packs will kill them.”
So Spencer, Blankenship and their staff are constantly devising ways to keep the animals interested and mentally challenged. They hide scented objects or other things within the enclosures to encourage foraging behavior, and they present food in ways that require problem-solving for the wolves to obtain it — what Spencer calls “feeder puzzles.”
The people at Wolf Haven would clearly prefer these wolves to be out in the wild, never having been made a pet. But the damage has been done.
“Statistically, about 80 percent of wolves and wolf-dogs that are purchased as pets are euthanized by the time they’re 3 (years old),” Spencer says. “It’s a very sad trend. You would think common sense would prevail. But, sadly, it doesn’t.”
Wolves are a hot-button issue in Washington right now, with an active pack in the Methow Valley, occasional others showing up in the eastern corners of the state and the state’s wolf management plan still up in the air. Blankenship, a member of the citizen working panel helping to formulate that plan, has had other members of that group visit Wolf Haven to educate themselves on the animal.
“There’s always two sides to a story,” he says. “Wolves get a bad rap sometimes, and sometimes it’s legitimate. What we try to do is reach a balance so we’re telling the story from a scientific standpoint.
“Traditionally, wolves eat what they can get their mouths on, so when you have livestock and wolves, you’re going to have issues. Again, it’s a natural aspect, and when we look at the large picture, wolves don’t take any more than grizzly bears or mountain lions or, in most cases, coyotes. So it’s an education process, trying to balance out Little Red Riding Hood.
“Because, as the bumper sticker said, she lied.”
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Answers will be posted in Scott Sandsberry’s ‘Out There’ blog by Friday, July 31.
Beetles respond with win
July 27, 2009 by YH-R Sports
Pak falls to Lakeside in 13 innings ||
TACOMA, Wash. — The Yakima Pepsi Beetles bounced back from a first-day rout to beat the Spokane Blue Devils 3-2 in an elimination game Sunday at the Senior Legion state tournament at Heidelberg Field.
The Beetles scored in the second and fourth, both on RBI from Sean Pitt to take a 2-0 lead.
Spokane equaled the score with runs of their own in the sixth and eighth innings.
The Beetles used five double plays to defuse Spokane rallies, and took the lead for good when Blake Dasso was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth inning.
Matt Summers pitched a complete game for the Beetles (32-29), striking out five batters and walking one.
The Beetles will face the Yakima Valley Pepsi Pak in a loser-out game today at 3 p.m.
The Pak lost to Lakeside Recovery 4-3 in 13 innings on Sunday night after the Herald-Republic went to press and no further details were available.
The result of Sunday’s Kennewick Bandits vs. Twin City Titans game was also unavailable.
YAKIMA 3, SPOKANE 2
Spokane 000 001 010 — 2 10 3
Yakima 010 100 01X — 3 9 3
Summers and Lombardi; Sergent and Graham.
Highlights: Sean Pitt (Y) 2 RBI; Blake Dasso (Y) RBI; Matt Summers (Y) CG, 5 K, BB.
S-K pitcher shuts down Bears’ bats
July 27, 2009 by YH-R Sports
KEIZER, Ore. — The Yakima Bears were on the wrong side of history Sunday night, losing to the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes 10-0 at Volcanoes Stadium.
Salem-Keizer starter Orlando Yntema threw a three-hit shutout, the first complete-game shutout in the 13-year-history of the Volcanoes, and retired the final 15 Yakima batters in order. It was the second complete game of any kind by a Volcanoes hurler.
The Volcanoes right-hander threw just 88 pitches, struck out seven and did not walk a batter.
Brent Greer, Matt Davidson and Gerson Montilla accounted for all of Yakima’s hits.
One bright spot for Yakima (13-23) was an over-the shoulder catch made by centerfielder Roberto Rodriguez to rob S-K’s Caleb Curry of extra bases in the sixth inning.
Juan Martinez led the way offensively for Salem-Keizer (26-10), going 3-for-5 with a double, two RBI and two runs scored.
Rafael Quezada (0-4) allowed five runs, four of them earned, in 42/3 innings to take the loss for Yakima.
7/27/09 Yakima Bears update
July 27, 2009 by YH-R Sports
Next game
Opponent: Salem-Keizer Volcanoes.
When, where: 6:35 p.m., today, Volcanoes Stadium.
Radio: KUTI (1460).
Probable pitchers: Yakima RHP Ben Dollar (0-1, 3.65) vs. Salem-Keizer RHP Jorge Bucardo (3-0, 2.41).
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Sunday’s results Spokane 8, Vancouver 2, comp. of susp. game Today’s games Tri-City at Everett, 11:05 a.m. Tuesday’s games Eugene at Spokane, 6:30 p.m. |
Peppers fall at state
July 27, 2009 by YH-R Sports
SPOKANE, Wash. — Kurt Lindemann’s three RBI effort wasn’t enough as the Yakima Valley Peppers fell to the Burlington Sox 6-5 in the Junior Legion State Tournament on Sunday at University High School.
Tanner Fife was 1-for-3 with an RBI, while Nick Potvin was 1-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored.
Yakima Valley plays Mount Spokane today at 1:30 p.m.
