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Thursday, May. 01, 2008
Bombers living up to their name
HERALD SPORTS STAFF
It's impossible not to notice the huge offensive numbers put up this season by Richland, which Tuesday clinched its second straight CBL 4A title.
Coming into this week, the Bombers were hitting .421 (187-for-444) and scoring 12.3 runs per game (196 in 16), a figure longtime coach Ben Jacobs said was "unheard of. It's never happened here at Richland, and it's never happened any other year in this league since I've been around. Someone on the team has to be hitting the ball and driving in runs."
Brett Jacobs leads the offensive onslaught with a .569 average, nine home runs and 31 RBIs, and that was before hitting a grand slam Tuesday. Josh Rapacz (.542) gives the Bombers a second .500 hitter, and Cody Shepherd was the third until "dipping" to .481 this last week -- though his eight home runs and 31 RBIs certainly make up for the mini-slump.
"Normally we would be lucky to have one player over .500," Ben Jacobs said.
The CWAC wrapped up its regular season Tuesday with Selah (16-2) winning outright and East Valley, Ellensburg and Ephrata right on the Vikings' heels at 14-4.
The Red Devils won a tiebreaker for the second seed into the district tourney, which begins Tuesday with first-round games at the top four seeds. East Valley opens with Prosser, No. 3 Ephrata plays Quincy; No. 4 Ellensburg plays Othello (the Bulldogs swept the regular-season doubleheader) and Selah takes on Wapato.
The tourney concludes at Selah with the top three teams going to state.
Quincy, which was swept by Ephrata during the season, will be behind the eight ball with its top three players out of action because of an athletic code violation.
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