Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Baseball can be such a beautifully frustrating game, and those emotions came to the forefront Monday night as the Medford Rogues opened a Great West League series with the San Francisco Seals at Harry & David Field. Medford battled all the way back from a 5-2 deficit to take a late-inning lead, only to see its chances of victory slip away in a heartbreaking ninth inning that saw San Francisco tally the tying and winning runs with two outs when a grounder slipped under the glove of shortstop Rile
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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NORTH BEND — North Jackson head coach Tyson Wolfe wasn’t exactly sure which strategy to employ when it came to his pitchers in opening the American Legion A state tournament on Wednesday. Fortunately for the Royals, right-handed ace Skyler Gaudern quieted any concerns. Gaudern didn’t allow an earned run in a complete-game effort that kept North Jackson in the top half of the bracket with a 7-2 win over Columbia Gorge of The Dalles. Gaudern allowed three hits with seven strikeouts and two walks i
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GRANTS PASS — The longest shot in the field, Fin Du Monde, came off the pace to run down favorite Gabe’s Pride to win the featured Don Jackson Memorial at Grants Pass Downs Saturday. Jockey Jaime Lopez closed fast on Fin Du Monde to defeat second-place Gabe’s Pride by 1?1/4-lengths in the thoroughbred allowance going 6?1/2-furlongs. Gabe’s Pride came into the race with two allowance victories in two starts at GP Downs this season while Fin Du Monde was winless in three previous outs here in 2018
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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WHITE CITY — Track operator Justin Goodlett envisions big things as Medford Dragstrip gains a new track surface. Goodlett, who took on his role prior to the 2018 season, has helped orchestrate the laying of concrete and asphalt surfaces at the facility. The repaving will be a major facelift for a surface originally installed in 1979. The upgrade, which included the expansion of the concrete racing surface from 100 feet to 330 feet, should attract the attention of the National Hot Rod Association
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ASHLAND — Ashland teenager E.J. Holland bested the only runner to beat him in last year’s race to take home his first Ashland 4th of July Run in the 42nd annual running of the event Wednesday morning. Holland, an incoming junior at Ashland High School who two months ago won OSAA Class 5A state titles in the 1,500-meter and 3,000-meter runs, completed the 10,000-meter Ashland course in 32 minutes, 29 seconds to shave 1:21 off his time a year ago and handily beat runner-up and defending champion J
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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KLAMATH FALLS — As one of seven representatives for the Medford Rogues in Monday’s Great West League All-Star Game, Cole Carder shined by helping propel the North team to victory. Carder hit the second of back-to-back home runs in the fourth inning as the North grabbed control and began to pull away for a 10-4 victory over the South in eight innings at Kiger Stadium. The former South Medford star’s blast gave the North a 5-2 lead following Cole Lemmel’s two-run shot that broke a 2-all tie. Carde
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Medford Rogues outfielder Cole Carder has been named the Great West League player of the year. The announcement was released Tuesday, a day after the league announced its all-star teams. Chico’s Fred Ludwig was manager of the year, and the Heat’s Justin Sterner was pitcher of the year. Carder is a former South Medford player now at the University of Antelope Valley in Lancaster, California. “I loved playing for the Rogues,” Carder said in a team press release. “It feels great to play in my homet
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Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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NORTH BEND — At this stage of the American Legion A state tournament, having your starting pitcher go deep into a ball game can prove to be invaluable. That’s exactly what North Jackson got from Domenic Fontana on Friday afternoon. Going up against a familiar foe in the South Medford Colts, Fontana went 6 1/3 strong innings and got plenty of early offense from his teammates as North Jackson kept its season alive with a 6-1 elimination game win at Clyde Allen Field. Fontana allowed seven hits and
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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NORTH BEND — With their season on the line, the South Medford Colts got a pitching performance that let them see another day. Colts starting pitcher Bennett Smith threw a five-hit shutout to lead South Medford to a 7-0 win over the Klamath Falls Cardinals in an elimination game at the American Legion A state tournament at Clyde Allen Field on Thursday afternoon. Smith, who improved his record to 4-0, needed all of 81 pitches to finish off his second shutout of the season. He finished with five s
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ROSEBURG — The Medford Mustangs have approached each game the same this summer — with an intent to get after their opponents — and Saturday’s doubleheader with Roseburg was no different at Legion Field. Needing only one victory to wrap up a second straight Area 4 American Legion AAA championship, the Mustangs powered through and won both ends of the road doubleheader, 5-1 and 5-3. “I was pleased with their effort, obviously,” said Mustangs manager Nate Mayben of his team. “We had a couple close
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LINCOLN — The Medford Rogues helped their cause in trying to overtake the Lincoln Potters for second place in the Great West League as their three-game series wrapped up on Sunday. The Rogues’ produced a five-run first inning and kept their bats rolling to stave off the Potters, 15-11, and claim their second win of the series at McBean Stadium. The victory improved the Rogues to 24-19 — a half-game behind the Potters (24-18) for second place in the GWL. Riley Kasper finished 5-for-5 with three R
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Seven Medford Rogues players have been selected for the third annual Great West League All-Star Game, slated to be played Monday at Kiger Stadium in Klamath Falls. First pitch is at 6:35 p.m., with a Home Run Derby slated for 4:30 p.m. Rogues infielders Tommy Ahlstrom (Simpson University) and Kody Garvin (Lewis-Clark State College), outfielder Cole Carder (University of Antelope Valley) and pitchers Tony Barrios (UC San Diego), Tanner Simpson (Lewis-Clark State College), Gabe Smith (Everett Comm
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North Medford’s Ryan Kloek had a hot day the plate, helping the Mavericks to an Area 4 doubleheader split Thursday against the visiting Klamath Falls Cardinals in American Legion A baseball. Klamath Falls won the first game, 16-2, and North Medford took the second contest, 16-6. Both games went five innings. In the Mavericks’ win, Kloek was 3-for-4 with a double, two runs and an RBI as North Medford improved to 17-12 overall and 10-6 in Area 4. Dylan Ivens went 2-for-3 and drove in three runs. H
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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The third day of match play in the 89th Southern Oregon Golf Championships seemed to produce a little bit of everything Saturday at Rogue Valley Country Club. Plenty of playoff holes? Check. A hole-in-one? Check. Former champions knocking off other former champions? Check. There’s even a mother-daughter story line in the mix, with mom Jan Hughes advancing to face daughter Marla Parmele in the women’s senior division. Perhaps the best match of the day occurred in the women’s division, where recen
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The writer approached the former star athlete. He had a project in mind, a book about the athlete’s remarkable accomplishments in the sports arena. Oh, and assorted other things about his life. Bob Welch, the author of more than 20 books and a newspaperman in Eugene, figured he’d be third or fourth in line with the idea for Dick Fosbury, he of Medford roots, an Oregon State University education and an American legacy. The 50th anniversary of high-jumper Fosbury’s historic performance in the 1968
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The year was 1992, the site Pebble Beach, the occasion the national championship of golf. Kevin Klabunde, a Medford banker, attended. He didn’t know then it would be the only U.S. Open he’d witness firsthand for more than a quarter-century. Tom Kite, one of the era’s best players, won, shooting an even-par 72 in weather so horrendous, he used a 6-iron on the 105-yard seventh hole that abuts the ocean. So torturous were the 30- to 40-mph winds, when Colin Montgomerie finished early with a 70 and
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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ASHLAND — It was an eventful day for Talent’s Rox Rogers and the Rogers family in Sunday’s conclusion of the three-day Big Al’s Tennis Tournament at Hunter Park. Rogers was finals champion in three divisions, including the men’s open singles, where he defended his 2017 title by defeating Jacksonville’s Mitchell Steadman, 7-6, 6-2. The former Ashland High School standout Rogers teamed with both his father and mother for championship crowns as well. In a men’s open doubles rematch from last season
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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A trio of home runs and a big fourth inning paved the way for the Medford Rogues Great West League baseball team which captured a 14-4 victory Sunday, taking two out of three from the Yuba Sutter Gold Sox in their three-game series at Harry & David Field. The Rogues (21-16) took over in the eighth inning where Blake Baumgartner smashed a grand slam and Daniel Nist went deep with a two-run homer. Cole Carder added a solo shot in the seventh inning and finished with three runs scored and a pair of
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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CHICO, Calif. — The Great West League-leading Chico Heat used steady defense and some clutch pitching to beat the Medford Rogues 5-3 and claim the three-game series Wednesday at Nettleton Stadium Field. Mitchell Neunborn went 2-for-4 with a double and A.J. Miller smashed his third home run of the season, but the Heat (35-10) and relief pitcher Brayden Bonner slammed the door shut in the ninth after the Rogues scored once and had the tying run at first base with two outs. Facing Rogues No. 3 hitt