On this date in Mid-Columbia sports history

Posted: 12:00am on Jun 29, 2011; Modified: 9:13am on Jun 29, 2011

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* 1981 -- Former Pasco basketball player Mike Guajardo (Class of 1969) was announced as the Bulldogs' new head coach. Guajardo guided Pasco's junior varsity to a 16-3 record the previous season and was Dick King's varsity assistant. King stayed on board as athletic director.

* 1969 -- The Oakland Athletics' No. 1 selection in the 1969 baseball draft, infielder Don Stanhouse from Du Quoin, Ill., was expected to arrive in the Tri-Cities to join the Tri-City A's.

* 1952 -- If things continued as they did in the Kennewick Little League game between Washington Hardware and NBC, the organization might have needed to buy an adding machine for scorekeeper Stan Gabriel to keep track of the errors. The teams combined for 17 errors in Washington Hardware's 15-8 victory.

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