Dufur Ranger junior Seth Harvey gallops safely into third base in baseball action this season. The Rangers were outscored by a 33-5 margin in a non-league doubleheader sweep by Columbia, of White Salmon, Wash.
Dufur Ranger junior Seth Harvey gallops safely into third base in baseball action this season. The Rangers were outscored by a 33-5 margin in a non-league doubleheader sweep by Columbia, of White Salmon, Wash.
After what looked like an encouraging start to the season, the Dufur Rangers are mired in a three-game losing skid, capped by a doubleheader sweep by scores of 13-3 and 20-2 at the hands of Columbia, of White Salmon, Wash. Monday in a non-league baseball doubleheader.
In the opening game, Dufur scored single runs in the second, third and fourth frames.
Jackie Culps led off the second with a walk and advanced to second on a passed ball, and Caleb Olson drove him in on a two-out RBI single to right.
Hagen Pence started the team’s third-inning rally by hitting a single and swiping second and third base, and he would cross home on a run-scoring single by Russell Peters.
The final scoring frame was in the fourth with Joe Turk starting things with a single. He later scored on a fielder’s choice.
The Rangers posted six hits and four walks for the game, with Pence going 2 for 3 with a double, two stolen bases and a run scored.
Culps went 1 for 2 with a walk and a run, Olson had a hit and a walk, Turk and Peters notched a hit each, and both Curtis Crawford and Justin Eiesland went hitless, but reached on walks.
Columbia came out swinging in the nightcap and put Dufur away in five frames for a 20-2 mercy-ruled win and the sweep.
Down 20-0 in the fifth inning, Culps had a leadoff single, and one out later, Turk smacked a single to left.
With two outs and two on, Crawford drove in Culps and Turk on a single to left.
Crawford paced the Rangers’ seven-hit attack with a 2 for 3 effort and two RBIs.
Turk and Culps notched a hit and run each, and Louis Red Cloud, Eiesland and Jacob Peters tallied a hit apiece, and Pence reached on two walks and stole a base.
Pence, who got the first-game start, and Red Cloud were the pitchers of record in the losses.
No. 32-ranked Dufur (2-3 overall) hopes to get back to basics in an attempt to end its streak with a non-league doubleheader slated for noon on Saturday at Dufur City Park.
After that, the Rangers host Lyle for two games, starting at 3 p.m. next Tuesday afternoon.
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