Two baseball players from the South Fremont team that placed second at state will continue their playing careers at Grays Harbor Community College in Aberdeen, Wash.
An outfielder, Singleton posted a .328 batting average. He hit three home runs and drove in 25 runs in 25 games.
As a pitcher, Singleton had a 2-0 record in [...]
Rigby High School pitcher Braden Poole didn’t think he could improve on his junior year.
He put up ridiculous numbers as a junior, posting a 1.70 ERA and striking out 132 in 70 innings pitched, good for a 13.2 strikeout per seven inning ratio.
How could anyone expect to beat those numbers?
Much to the chagrin of opposing [...]
THE FIRST TEAM
Porter Clayton
Sophomore pitcher, Bonneville
THE PLAYER: The Bonneville pitcher didn’t pitch like much of sophomore. Clayton followed his freshman campaign, 3.78 ERA in 422/3 innings, with an even better sophomore year — 1.87 ERA in 45 innings and a 9.67 K/7. With a young pitching staff, it’s just what Bonneville needed out of its [...]
All all-conference teams are chosen by coaches.
4A High Country Conference All-Conference Team
Player of the year: Braden Poole, sr., P/OF, Rigby
Coach of the year: Scott Barr, Hillcrest
First team
P: Porter Clayton, soph., Bonneville; P: Brookx Andrus, jr., Hillcrest; P: Alex Jones, jr., Blackfoot; C: Tyler Harris, sr., Hillcrest; 1B: Kade Olson, jr., Hillcrest; 2B: Kevin Birch, jr., [...]
Despite Rigby’s best efforts, it couldn’t over come Hillcrest’s 11-run second inning and Hillcrest hung on for a 16-10 win to take the third-place trophy at the 4A state baseball tournament.
Both teams traded scoreless first innings before Casey Hillyard’s groundball single found a way through the Rigby infield in the top of the second. [...]
It took all year, but South Fremont finally found an Idaho team that could beat it.
Fruitland topped South Fremont 13-3 in five innings Saturday to claim back-to-back 3A state baseball titles.
South Fremont finishes the season 21-2 and claims the second-place trophy.
“We had a great season,” South Fremont coach Chad Hill said. “We [...]
BOISE — For three innings in Friday’s 4A state baseball semifinal, the Rigby High School baseball team was neck and neck with Moscow for a chance to play in today’s state title game.
That prospect died in a hurry as Moscow (16-9) scored 14 runs over the final four innings to win 17-6 at Bishop Kelly [...]
Hillcrest’s title shot was abruptly shot down by a 12-2, run-rule loss to Minico at the 4A tournament at Bishop Kelly High School in Boise.
Minico pounded Hillcrest pitching for 13 hits in four innings. Though starting Hillcrest pitcher Jordan Lewis and reliever Kevin Birch didn’t give up an extra base hit, between Minico’s [...]
South Fremont returned to its blowout ways as it topped Bonners Ferry 11-1 in five innings in the 3A state baseball semifinals.
South Fremont and its starting pitcher got off to a rocky start in the top of the first inning when a hit batter and Zack Roberts’ double scored the game’s opening run.
But [...]
No other sport has the mental X-factor like baseball. In the opening round of the 4A state baseball tournament, Hillcrest pitcher Brookx Andrus harnessed it in his favor.
Andrus started the game in the windup, but worked his way into trouble in the first and second innings. He stranded five runners and didn’t give up [...]
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