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Bevy of Tigers claim All-America honors
Under protest, Newberg unable to fend off
Scappoose in title game
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Sunset downs Newberg in state tourney |
Newberg leads until the sixth inning when Sunset
scores four runs and goes on to earn the victory |
By B. Scott Anderson, Newberg
Graphic sports editor
E-mail Scott at banderson@eaglenewspapers.com
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HILLSBORO — Sunset scored four times
in a pivotal sixth inning Monday to defeat Newberg 6-4 in the first
round of the Junior Baseball of Oregon Senior American State
Tournament at Poynter Middle School.
Newberg held a slim 3-2 entering the sixth when Sunset used a
squeeze play to score a run. Sunset also scored on a sacrifice and
added two more runs off Newberg reliever Taylor Young.
Newberg
had one last chance for a comeback in the seventh. After Matthew
Schrieber grounded out, Nick Hettinga and Young both singled to left
field. Mark Almquist grounded out before Tim Almquist hit an RBI
single up the middle. That proved to be the final run Newberg would
get when Hunter Hansen struck out to end the game.
Newberg played well in the opening few innings. After Sunset scored
the game’s first run when Chandler Willcuts issued a bases-loaded
walk in the opening inning, Newberg tied the game in the second when
Cory Freeman hit a leadoff home run over the center field fence, a
blast of more than 275 feet for the eighth-grader at Chehalem Valley
Middle School.
Newberg took the lead later in the inning when Young used a
sacrifice to score Kristian Hansen. Newberg tacked on another run in
the fourth when Hansen hit an RBI single to give Newberg a 3-1
advantage.
Sunset closed the gap to a single run in the fourth when it scored
off Freeman, who came in for relief of Willcuts, Newberg’s starter.
“We had good pitching with (Willcuts), (Freeman) and (Young), but
just some errors in the field and on the bases created the open door
for Sunset,” Newberg coach Russ Young said.
Newberg entered the game a bit rusty. It hadn’t played a game in
nearly two weeks after receiving an automatic berth for the state
playoffs. It entered the tournament with a 15-2-2 record, prompting
Young to say the way Newberg played Thursday wasn’t normal.
“We’d like to think it was not typical of the way we’ve played
because we got here,” he said. “It just is what it is.”
The team moved into consolation play Friday morning against a
to-be-determined opponent. Young said what Newberg had to do to win
was simple.
“We’ll just have to try and play good baseball and get rid of the
mental errors,” he said. |
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From
July 28, 2007, Newberg Graphic
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