The Dalles baseball team stranded 14 runners on base, nine in scoring position, in a doubleheader sweep loss by final scores of 5-1 and 5-0 to No. 4-ranked Pendleton Saturday at Bob Williams Field.
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All facets of the game came through for The Dalles baseball team – Spencer Honald tossed a gem, the Riverhawk defense showed support with error-free ball, and the offense scored three of their five runs on two-out hits in a 5-2 victory over Mountain View Tuesday at Bob Williams Field.
The Dalles baseball team had the rare opportunity to travel outside of Oregon for some non-league contests and went winless in two games on Monday and Tuesday in Arizona. Monday’s first matchup against Chandler was a 9-5 heartbreaker, but Tuesday, the Riverhawks had no answers for Tualatin, as 17 hits, 11 walks and six errors opened the door for a 27-1 mercy-ruled loss to Tualatin.
From the end of the season, a 3-2 state play-in loss to Putnam on May 19, a handful of baseball players from The Dalles High School were still active for summer and fall ball and were also in the cages over the winter getting extra swings in. That preparation was geared toward making a 2018 postseason run.
A pile of eight gutted Ironman toys sat on the gym floor last week at Insitu’s RoboFlight Academy, held at Henkle Middle School in White Salmon. The remote-controlled flying toys had been stripped of their circuit boards and motors, which were put to better use in a variety of made-from-scratch drones by the 25 mostly Gorge area teens enrolled in the weeklong program, which just finished its sixth year.
With a golden opportunity to vault into second place in the Columbia River Conference standings, The Dalles Riverhawks used a pitching gem by Jordan Wetmore in a 10-0 mercy-ruled win, and then Spencer Honald laid a suicide squeeze bunt to plate Tyler Westin to give the team a 4-3 victory and a two-game baseball sweep Saturday at Bob Williams Field.
During the first half of the season, The Dalles baseball team has made a habit of falling down and then getting back up.
Robotics team Sa-BOT-age won state as rookies in 2016 and is striving to go even further this year. “We are on track for a very successful season,” said Spencer Honald, a junior, gaining agreement from classmate Bill Burns.
In their winning alliance with SteelHead, Sa-BOT-age racked up more combined points than any robotics teams in the state.
TD rides Honald’s arm, Bales’ bat to outlast Glacier, Montana by an 8-7 margin
