Dufur senior infielder Trever Tibbets fields a hard groundball during 2A state playoff baseball action last year against Monroe. Tibbets and the No. 10-ranked Dufur Rangers are off to a top start to the regular season with an undefeated 4-0 record. They played two games today at Stanfield.
Dufur senior infielder Trever Tibbets fields a hard groundball during 2A state playoff baseball action last year against Monroe. Tibbets and the No. 10-ranked Dufur Rangers are off to a top start to the regular season with an undefeated 4-0 record. They played two games today at Stanfield.
With two games scheduled today at Stanfield, the No. 10-ranked Dufur Rangers are off to a hot 4-0 start to the season and doing so with tough pitching, stout defense and a potent offense.
In those four games, the Rangers have accrued a team earned run average of 2.43, a batting average of .438 with 49 hits, 10 for extra bases, a .927 fielding percentage.
Rangers roll past 3A Umatilla
Saturday at Dufur City Park, the Dufur run hit a high point in a 13-3 five-inning mercy rule win over 3A Umatilla, as Trever Tibbets went 3 for 4 with three runs scored and tossed a three-hitter with nine strikeouts.
Down 1-0 after a half an inning, the Rangers broke the game open with seven runs in the bottom of the first to jump ahead by a lopsided 7-1 margin.
Dufur, which totaled 11 hits and six stolen bases in the game, would add four runs in the fourth and invoked the mercy rule with a pair of runs in the fifth inning.
Nick Little went 2 for 4 with a double, two runs scored and two RBIs, Bryson Caldwell added another two hits and Brent Sumner drove in two runs.
Kolbe Bales had a hit, two runs and two RBIs and Connor Uhalde drove in two runs and scored once to go with his single in four at-bats.
Tibbets leads way over Riverside
On opening day, March 17, at 3A Riverside, Trever Tibbets played hero for the Rangers with three hits and three RBIs and lasted three innings on the mound to lead his team to a 14-2 mercy-ruled win.
Staked to a 5-1 lead entering the top of the fifth inning, Dufur exploded for nine runs on seven hits to go out in front, 14-1.
Riverside scratched across a single run in the bottom of the fifth off senior reliever Bryson Caldwell, but could not extend the game.
Curtis Crawford went 2 for 4 with three runs scored and an RBI.
Hagen Pence had two hits, a run scored and two RBIs and Kolbe Bales chipped in a 2 for 3 effort with a double and two runs scored.
Ben Anderson and Nick Little added a hit, a run and an RBI apiece, and sophomore Connor Uhalde scored three runs and drove in two more.
Bales, Pence power Rangers
On March 20 in a doubleheader versus 3A Nyssa, the Rangers posted a two-game sweep over the Bulldogs winning by scores of 16-6 and 8-2.
In the opening tilt, Hagen Pence and Kolbe Bales each homered, as Dufur notched 16 hits and broke open an 11-6 lead with four runs in the fifth inning and one more in the fifth to seal the six-inning mercy rule win.
Bales, who went 4 for 5 with three runs scored and a career-high seven RBIs, tossed three innings of four-hit ball with eight strikeouts to earn the victory.
Zach Knapp had a hit and a run scored, Trever Tibbets went 2 for 2 with three runs and two RBIs, and Bryson Caldwell checked in with two hits, three runs and an RBI.
In the nightcap versus Nyssa, Tibbets posted three hits, a run and two RBIs and the Rangers used a six-run second inning to cruise to an 8-2 win.
Caldwell and Bales had a hit and two RBIs apiece, Nick Little went 1 for 3 and Uhalde had a hit and scored three runs to lead Dufur.
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