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Napavine tops Toledo in back-and-forth affair
The matchup between two of the top teams in the C2BL was as close as expected on Friday, but it was the Napavine softball team that came away with an 8-6 win over Toledo. The game featured five lead changes in the first five innings and was tied at six heading into the seventh, where back-to-back RBI doubles from Grace Pancake and Maya Kunkel gave the Tigers (11-2, 4-1 C2BL) a lead they wouldn’t relinquish. Pancake finished 3 for 4 with a pair of doubles and two runs batted in, and Hannah Fay also collected three hits while going seven innings in the circle. Hayden Kaut went 2 for 4 with a solo home run in the third. Kailea Lairson went 3 for 3 with an RBI to lead Toledo (10-2, 4-2 C2BL) offensively, while Mialeigh Jurica added a pair of RBIs. Both teams will play in a doubleheader on Monday, as Napavine will host Rainier and Toledo will head to Kalama. In both doubleheaders, the first game in a league matchup and the nightcap is a non-league contest. |
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T-Wolves downed by Ducks
The Morton-White Pass softball team couldn’t dig out of an early hole on Friday, as the Timberwolves fell to Toutle Lake in five innings. The Ducks scored six in the first and broke the game open with three more in the second and third before capping it with a pair in the fourth. The T-Wolves (2-11, 1-6 C2BL) managed a pair in the fourth and another in the fifth, but it wasn’t enough to bridge the gap. Bria Elkins went 2 for 3 at the plate with an RBI, and Kyra Bowen also collected a hit and drove in a run. Abigail Sympson logged the T-Wolves’ other hit. Morton-White Pass will head to Mossyrock for a non-league contest on Wednesday. |
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Tigers top Mountaineers for tenth consecutive win
The Napavine baseball team’s winning streak has reached double digits, as the Tigers defeated Rainier 10-0 in six innings. Napavine (15-3, 14-3 C2BL) scored nine runs in the first three innings to take control, and Ashton Demarest went to work on the mound. He went all six innings, allowing just two hits and striking out nine in a complete-game shutout. Demarest also scored the run-rule walk-off on a wild pitch in the sixth. Conner Holmes went 2 for 3 with a pair of runs batted in, and Cal Bullock also collected two hits and drove in three. Jack Nelson brought home two on an RBI double, and Beckett Landram logged two hits and brought home a run of his own. Dayton Gardner drilled a double for Rainier’s (7-11, 7-10 C2BL) only extra-base hit, and Ryder Cruse also recorded a hit. |
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Riverhawks muster late rally to top Timberwolves
The Toledo baseball team trailed nearly the entire game against Morton-White Pass on Friday, but the Riverhawks put together a rally just in time to come away with a 3-2 win in eight innings. The T-Wolves (4-13, 4-13 C2BL) took a 2-0 lead in the first on an error and an RBI single from Race McKenzie, but after that, the pitchers dominated. Keaton Thompson stifled the Riverhawks (11-9, 10-7 C2BL), keeping them scoreless through six. Caiden Schultz settled in after the two unearned runs in the first, and he went on to allow just two hits and strike out 16 in six innings. Toledo finally got to Thompson in the seventh, as Gavin Frewing hit a two-run single to tie the game. The Riverhawks took the lead in the eighth on a passed ball. Kaven Winters finished it off on the mound, striking out two in two hitless innings. |
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Loggers top Pirates to keep pace atop C2BL
The Adna baseball team kept pace with Toutle Lake atop the C2BL standings on Friday with a 16-3 five-inning win over Onalaska. The Pirates (16-3, 15-2 C2BL) scored at least three runs in every inning, including five in the second and third. Onalaska (0-19, 0-17 C2BL) responded with three in the fifth, but it wasn’t enough to extend the game beyond five. Owen Fagerness went 2 for 4 with a home run and five runs batted in, and James Toland went 2 for 3 with a pair of RBIs. In addition to pitching two scoreless innings on the mound, Tristan Percival went 2 for 3 with a triple, an RBI, and he scored two runs. Naillon Ramirez also tossed two scoreless innings on the bump. |
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Woman sues after losing both legs in horrific Eastern Washington farm accident
A Pasco-area dairy worker has filed a lawsuit after her legs were ripped off by an auger in a farm accident nearly three years ago. Teresa Rodas Aguirre is suing Easy Automation, which made and installed the automated auger system at Ruby Ridge Dairy, which is between Pasco and Eltopia, according to her suit. The case was originally filed in Franklin County Superior Court by her attorneys at Lopez and Fantel in Seattle and then moved last week to U.S. District Court in Eastern Washington. On Sept. 21, 2021, Aguirre was working in an area of the dairy that had an auger in the floor to move cattle feed to a conveyor. She did not realize the auger, shaped like a corkscrew, was running beneath the pile of feed or that a guard protecting the auger had become dislodged, according to a court document. She was trapped in the equipment but there was no way to shut it down in the area where she was working, according to a court document. The only way to shut it down was to get to a control center some distance away, the lawsuit said. By the time other employees stopped the auger from churning, both of her legs were entangled, the Tri-City Herald previously reported. The automated system was unreasonably dangerous and "failed to protect from controllable hazards likely to cause serious injury or death," the lawsuit said. Franklin County Fire District 3 Chief Mike Harris told the Herald in 2021 that it was one of the most complex industrial rescues his team had to perform. A rescue crew arrived to find her sitting at the edge of the auger pit, trapped from the knees down. The hole was slightly wider than the metal auger so rescuers couldn't simply reverse the direction of the machine without injuring her more. Instead, they pulled out the entire piece of equipment from the hole by cutting through the bottom of the auger to remove it while also not igniting the dry, powdery feed. The rescue was hampered by the remoteness of the farm and their need to work quickly to free her, Harris said. Had the accident not happened about 20 miles north of Pasco, they could have waited for a vacuum truck to help clear the feed. "We improvised and used manpower and shovels," Harris said in 2021. Aguirre was taken by medical helicopter to Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland. "Teresa is a great girl that deserves to have a happy life," according to a GoFundMe at the time that raised about $26,000 for her. Her lawsuit is asking for medical costs and expenses, financial loss and general damages. No specific amount was listed in the suit. In a document filed while the case was in Franklin County Superior Court, the defendant Easy Automation said that it generally denies allegations of negligence. Washington state Department of Labor and Industries investigated the accident and cited Ruby Ridge Dairy in 2022 for a serious safety violation, which the dairy could appeal. It fined the dairy $1,200. Its investigation concluded that the dairy did not ensure the pit auger's guard plates were secure from being displaced by farm equipment. ___ (c)2024 Tri-City Herald (Kennewick, Wash.) Visit Tri-City Herald (Kennewick, Wash.) at www.tri-cityherald.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. |
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Daniel Jeremiah's Top Available Players on Day 3
Eric Smith The Bolts loaded up on talent Friday evening by taking Georgia wide receiver Ladd McConkey in the second round (No. 34 overall) and Michigan linebacker Junior Colson in the third round (No. 69 overall) in the 2024 NFL Draft. Now comes Day 3, where the Bolts are scheduled to have six picks in Rounds 4 through 7. The draft continues Saturday at 9 a.m. (PT). Chargers General Manager Joe Horti |
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Avalanche set to deliver huge blow vs. Jets
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After a less-than-ideal start to the playoffs for the Colorado Avalanche, they now are in control of a first-round Western Conference series against the Winnipeg Jets.
Colorado lost the series opener 7-6 behind shaky goaltending from Alexandar Georgiev. That setback is all but a memory now with achance for a 3-1 series lead when the Avalanche host the Jets for Game 4 on
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Columbian Newspaper
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Angry farmers in a once-lush Mexican state target avocado orchards that suck up too much water
VILLA MADERO, Mexico (AP) — As a drought in Mexico drags on, angry subsistence farmers have begun taking direct action on thirsty avocado orchards and berry fields of commercial farms that are drying up streams in the mountains west of Mexico City. |
NYT Politics
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Trump Turns on R.F.K. Jr. Amid Concerns He Could Attract Republican Voters
The former president called Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a ‘Democrat plant’ and attacked his running mate, Nicole Shanahan, who gave $2 million to the Kennedy campaign.
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