Mid-Columbia roundup: Richland National tops Pasco, moves on to state
Youth baseball
Jacob Bilodeau threw a one-hitter and clubbed a pair of home runs to lead Richland National to a 12-1 win over Pasco National in the championship of the District 12 12-U All-Stars tournament at the Pasco National Complex.
The Richland boys advance to Little League state championships next weekend in Bellevue.
Belodeau drove in seven runs, and Grant Watkins went 2-for-3 with a homer and four RBIs. Jonathan Zamora got the only hit for Pasco.
Richland finished 7-1 in district play, including six straight wins after losing their second-round game.
Richland beat Pasco 7-6 on Friday to force Saturday’s second championship game. Deacon Boyce hit a two-run homer and Joey Weissenfels clouted his second grand slam in as many days as Richland scored all its runs early. Pasco rallied behind two home runs from Royce Vandine.
▪ Quinn Haughton unloaded the bases with a double and Kaden Enriquez smacked a two-run homer as the Twin City Titans used a seven-run fourth inning to fule a 15-4 win over Atkinson in AAA Legion baseball Saturday.
Haughton drove in five runs and the Titans piled up 14 hits. No. 9 hitter McLane Elgin was 2-for-3 with two RBIs and three runs scored.
The Titans earlier lost a 2-1 thriller to Chaffey Baseball. Asher Mancinelli, Haughton and Justin Larsen combined to limit Chaffey to just five hits.
Twin City | 013 | 740 | 0 | — | 15 | 14 | 0 |
Atkinson | 002 | 002 | 0 | — | 4 | 9 | 2 |
Highlights: Larsen (TC) 2x3, 2B, 3R; Hughton (TC) 3x4, 2B, 5 RBI; Enriquez (TC) HR, 2 RBI, 2R; Ellison (TC) 2x5, 2R, RBI; Gillespie (TC) 2x4; Elgin (TC) 2x3, 2 RBI,3R.
Twin City | 001 | 000 | 0 | — | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Chaffey Baseball | 000 | 200 | x | — | 2 | 5 | 0 |
Highlights: Smith (TC) RBI; Mancinelli (TC) 3IP-1H-0R-0BB-0K.
▪ The Southridge Senior Bandits swept the Yakima Valley Pepsi Pak 8-5 and 6-2 on Friday.
Bradley Morgan went the distance on the mound in the opener, while Jake Kirchhoff doubled and drove in three runs for the Bandits.
Bryan Black tossed a two-hitter in the second game, striking out seven and giving up just a pair of unearned runs. Kirchhoff added three more hits to his tally, including a double.
Southridge | 221 | 000 | 3 | — | 8 | 7 | 3 |
Yakima Valley | 000 | 030 | 2 | — | 5 | 7 | 2 |
Highlights: Morgan (S) 7IP-7H-3ER-2BB-4K; J. Harvey (S) 2x3, 2R, RBI; Simon (S) 2x5, SB, 2R; Kirchhoff (S) 2x5, 2B, 3 RBI.
Southridge | 100 | 112 | 1 | — | 6 | 7 | 2 |
Yakima Valley | 000 | 020 | 0 | — | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Highlights: Black (S) 7IP-2H-0ER-7K; R. Sanders (S) 2B; Kirchhoff (S) 3x4, 2B, 2R, RBI.
▪ The Kennewick AAA Outlawks beat Champion Baseball 5-4 on Mason Martin’s two-out, RBI single in the eighth inning Sunday in the Red Devil Classic in Centralia.
The Outlaws scored four runs in their first turn at the plate but went quiet until the eighth inning.
Meanwhile, Andrew Townsend delivered five-plus innings of two-hit ball before Fabian Green and Trent Sellers finished up.
On Friday, the Outlaws scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to edge the DeMarini Renegades (Port Orchard) 4-3.
Dillon Plew and Garrett Dixon accounted for four of Kennewick’s eight hits.
Kennewick | 400 | 000 | 01 | — | 5 | 8 | 3 |
Champion | 000 | 112 | 00 | — | 4 | 2 | 3 |
Highlights: Townsend (K) 5.1IP-2H-4R-2ER-2K-2BB; Sellers (K) 2x4; Martin (K) 2x2, RBI.
DeMarini | 000 | 003 | 0 | — | 3 | 5 | 2 |
Kennewick | 000 | 010 | 3 | — | 4 | 8 | 0 |
Kennewick highlights: Dillon Plew 2x4, RBI; Trent Sellers 2B, 2R; Garrett Dixon 2x2, R; Gerald Hein 6IP-5H-3R-5BB-6K.
▪ Ben Victry went the distance for the win, leading Kennewick to a 5-1 win over Twin Cities to remain unbeaten in the Babe Ruth 14-U state tournament Friday.
College football
Washington State junior quarterback Luke Falk was named to the watch list for the Walter Camp Award as the nation’s top player.
Falk was first team all-Pac-12 last season and led the country in passing with 381 yards a game. He set a school record with 38 touchdown passes (fourth in the nation) and was second in WSU history with 4,566 yards. He led the Cougars to a 9-4 record and victory in the Sun Bowl.
Falk already has been named to the Maxwell and Dave O’Brien Award watch lists for the top quarterback.
GOLF
Ryan Dahl of Horn Rapids Golf Course was tied for fourth at 6-under-par 66 after the first round of the Rosauers Open Invitational at MeadowWood Golf Course in Liberty Lake.
Andrew Whalen of Lakeview Golf and Country Club in Soap Lake shot a 64 for a one-stroke lead over fellow amateur Joe Harvie of the Classic Golf Club in Spanaway and Brian Thornton of Meridian Valley CC in Kent.
Brady Sharp of Walla Walla Country Club was tied for 15th at 69.
College basketball
The Washington men’s basketball team landed perhaps the biggest recruit in the history of the program when Michael Porter Jr., a five-star 2017 prospect, pledged to play for the Huskies.
Porter, a 6-foot-10, 210-pound forward, is considered a top-five recruit.
Rivals.com has him ranked No. 2 nationally. He is fourth on ESPN’s list and fifth in on Scout.com’s ranking. ESPN and Scout also consider him the top small forward in the country.
Porter is the latest addition to Washington’s 2017 recruiting class that includes Jaylen Nowell, a four-star guard at Garfield High in Seattle, and Blake Harris, a three-star guard from North Carolina.
Porter also joins his father, Michael Porter Sr., a recently hired UW assistant. Porter’s brother Jontay, a 2018 recruit, has verbally committed to the Huskies.
The Porter brothers moved to Seattle with their father and will play at Nathan Hale High during the 2016-17 season for new coach Brandon Roy, the former Huskies great and NBA star.
Tri-City Herald
This story was originally published July 16, 2016 at 6:36 PM with the headline "Mid-Columbia roundup: Richland National tops Pasco, moves on to state."