Home - 1st
– Season Opener at Harry and David Field vs Healdsburg Prune Packers. 7 PM start time. 1 9-inning game.
Game
presented by the Chamber of Jackson County and ProvidenceMedfordMedicalCenter
Home - 2nd
– Double header at Harry and David Field vs Healdsburg Prune Packers. Start
time of 5 pm.
Away - 3rd
– at Klamath Falls Gems. One 9 inning game.Start time is 6 pm.
Home -4th – single 9 inning game at
Harry and David Field against Klamath Falls Gems
Home - 8th
– Single 9 inning game at Harry and David Field against the Walnut Creek
Crawdads. Far West League play opener. Start time is 7 pm.
Home - 9th
– Single 9 inning game at Harry and David Field against the Walnut Creek
Crawdads. Start time is 7 pm.
Home - 10th
– Single 9 inning game at Harry and David Field against the Walnut creek Crawdads. Start time is 1 pm
Home – 15th
– Single 9 inning game at Harry and David Field against I Bac. Start time is 7 pm.
Home – 16th
– Single 9 inning game at Harry and David Field against I Bac. Start time is 7 pm.
Home – 17th
– single 9 inning game at harry and David Field against I Bac. Start time is 1
pm. Father’s Day game with special prizes for dads.
Home – 20th
– single 9 inning game at Harry and David Field against the Nor Cal Longhorns.
Start time is 1 pm. Game is presented by Woolard Ipson Management. It is also
kids and military appreciation day. Kids from various organizations will be
attending the game for free, and all members of the military both current and retired
can attend the game for free when they present their id cards.
Home – 21st
– Doubleheader at Harry and David Field against the Nor Cal Longhorns. Start time is 5 pm.
SPECIAL
EVENT DAY – 22ND – Riverdawgs Golf
Tournament at Stewart Meadows Golf Course. 4 man teams with each team getting a
Riverdawgs player for 5 man teams total. 16 team limit. Cost is $240 per team,
lunch included. Start time is 12 noon. Call Greg Roberts at 541 – 261 –
8620 for more information.
Home – 23rd
– Double header at Harry and David Field against the Neptune Beach Pearl. Start
time is 5 pm.
Home – 24th
– Single 9 inning game at Harry and David field against Neptune Beach Pearl.
Start time is 1 pm.
Away – 27th
– at Healdsburg Prune Packers. Single 9 inning game. Game time is 7:05.
Away – 28th
– at Healdsburg Prune Packers. Single 9 inning game. Game time is 6 pm.
Away – 29th
– at Humboldt Crabs. Single 9 inning game. Game time is 7 pm.
Away – 30th
– at Humboldt Crabs. Single 9 inning game. Game time is 7 pm.
JULY
Away – 1st – at
Humboldt Crabs . Single 9 inning game. Game time is 12:30 pm.
Home – 6th –
single 9 inning game at Harry and David Field against Fairfield. Start time is 7 pm.
Home – 7th –
single 9 inning game at Harry and David Field against Fairfield. Start time is 5 pm. Game is presented by Valley Immediate Care.
Home – 8th –
single 9 inning game at Harry and David Field against Fairfield. Start time is 12 noon.
Home -9th – Double heder at Harry and
David Field against NorthwestStarAcademy. Start time is 5 pm.
Home – 12th –
single 9 inning game at Harry and David Field against the Cal Seals. Start time
is tba
Home – 13th –
single 9 inning game at Harry and Davidd Field against the Cal Seals. Start
time is 7
pm.
Away – 16th – at Redding Colt 45s. Double header beginning at 5 pm.
Away – 17th – at Redding Colt 45s. Single 9 inning game beginning at 7 pm.
Home – 18th –
single 9 inning game at Harry and David Field against the Nevada Bighorns.
Start time is 7 pm.
Home – 19th –
single 9 inning game at Harry and David Field against the Nevada Bighorns.
Start time is 7 pm.
Away – 21st – at Menlo Park. Double header begins at 5 pm.
Away – 22nd – at Menlo Park. Single 9 inning game at 1 pm.
Home- 26th – single 9 inning game at
Harry and David Field against the Cal Seals. Start time is 7 pm.
Home – 27th –
single 9 inning game at Harry and David Field against the Cal Seals. Start time
is 7 pm. Fan appreciation night. Tons of great prizes all
night long.
Home – 28th –
single 9 inning game at Harry and David Field against the Reno Bullets. Start
time is 7
pm.
Home – 29th –
single 9 inning game at Harry and David Field against the Reno Bullets. Start
time is 1
pm.
All home games are at Harry
and David field on South Pacific Highway in Medford.
All games will be webcast at
soriverdawgs.com with the voice of the Riverdawgs Michael Torgeson.
The
Riverdawgs Fundraising Golf Tournament was a huge success. The team wants to thank all who participated in the
Riverdawgs Golf tournament October 14th. We had AWESOME weather and
raised almost $2000! We appreciate the support from our community.
If
you are outside the area and would like to help the Riverdawgs
out....YOU CAN!! Contact Greg Roberts director of marketing and sales to
learn more about what you can do. Become a part of Team Riverdawgs.
Minimum contribution levels begin at just $50. Your support helps make
our program possible.
We are looking forward to the 2012 season and
Manager Chris Wolf is already getting commitments from top tier talent
to play ball in Southern Oregon next summer.
Crabs eliminate A's then sweep Pearl to win Far West League title
The Times-Standard
Neil Tarpey/The Times-Standard
ARCATA -- They won the title the hard way, losing the tournament opener and then having to win four consecutive games.
Ultimately they won it with excellent starting pitching.
The
Humboldt Crabs defeated the Neptune Beach Pearl 5-1 and 6-3 in a pair
of tournament championship games -- after beating Fontanetti's A's 7-2
in an elimination game -- to win three games on Sunday and capture the
2011 Far West League championship at the Arcata Ball Park.
”Brant
Cummings and the Neptune Beach Pearl, I thought this was their year,
but we were resilient and pulled it out,” said Crabs manager Matt
Nutter. “I knew we had the pitching, so I thought if we hit we could do
it.”
In its four-game tournament win streak, Humboldt's four
starting pitchers -- Aaron West, Cedar Morgan, Kyle Crawford and Zach
Morgan -- put on a marvelous display, as they allowed a combined four
earned runs (six runs total) and threw 32 of the final 36 innings.
”They're
(the pitchers) the ones who kept us winning games,” said Crabs head
coach Robin Guiver. “Even when we were in offensive slumps, they kept us
in games.”
In the day's final game -- the 5-1 clincher --
Humboldt's Zach Morgan pitched six strong innings, surrendering an
unearned run and four singles, while striking out six.
Joey Van Cleave followed with two innings of shutout relief, and three-year veteran John Austin wrapped it up by striking out the final batter before his teammates rushed to the mound to celebrate
Austin
Prott crushed a solo homer to center in the fourth that proved to be
the winning run. Casey Watkins walked twice and scored both times, and
Nick Latta contributed a pair of singles.
Greg Ditmer stroked
two of the Pearl's six hits and scored his team's only run when Eddie
Sorondo singled him home in the second inning.
In the first
championship game, Crawford pitched eight strong innings, allowing only
two earned runs as he scattered eight hits. Austin earned the save by
pitching a scoreless ninth.
Mike Senter homered and singled for
Neptune Beach, Will Sparks doubled and singled, and Jeff Stephens and
Graeme Agate also contributed two baggers.
For Humboldt, Ivory Thomas homered and scored twice, while Latta singled twice and kn ocked in two runs.
But the Crabs key performer was left-fielder Matt Lopez, who batted 4 for 5 with a run and a ribbie.
On
defense, Lopez caught a potential sacrifice fly and lasered an
on-the-fly throw home where catcher Watkins tagged out Spenser Payne for
a double play that ended the fourth inning. Back in the first inning
Lopez also fired to third baseman David Del Grande who tagged out
Stephens thinking of stretching a double into a triple.
In
Sunday's 10 a.m. game, Cedar Morgan had a no-hitter for 6 1-3 innings,
and finished with a complete-game five-hitter in the Crabs' 7-2 victory.
”My dad just got into town and it's the first time he saw me
pitch up here,” Morgan said about his father, Wayne, who once played AAA
baseball for the Houston Astros. “It's the last day here and we want to
win it, to do it for the fans. We got a good early lead and I just
tried to let my defense do the work.”
Thomas had the game's big
hit when he launched a colossal three-run homer that cleared the
triple-tier fence at the 380-foot mark and sailed out onto U.S. Highway
101 South. Thomas finished with two hits, as did Del Grande, who smacked
a double.
Nick Backlund's two-run single in the ninth scored Scott Masik and John Hanley and helped Fontanetti's avoid the shutout.
”It
was two good teams going at it, and it's very hard to beat a good team
twice,” said A's manager Steve Cannady, whose team nipped Humboldt 1-0
on Friday night. “They (Crabs) did what they needed to do, they got on
top early and we couldn't get to their pitcher.”
On Saturday
night, West's complete-game 12-strikeout performance in the Crabs' 2-0
shutout against the Atwater Aviators kept Humboldt alive and gave it the
chance to play -- and sweep -- three games Sunday.
The Crabs finished the season with a 40-13 record and won the league championship in the first year of the Far West League.
”It
was a great tournament,” said Neptune Beach manager Brant Cummings. “It
was the first year of the league and we went through some growing
pains, but when it was over it was a success.”
CRABS POSTSEASON AWARDS
Ivory Thomas, Most Valuable Player
Aaron West, Most Valuable Pitcher
David Del Grande, Offensive Player of the Year
Austin Prott, Defensive Player of the Year
Jason Mahood, Coaches Award
Sunday's Boxes:
2nd Championship Game
Humboldt Crabs 5, Neptune Beach Pearl 1
Crabs 001 301 000 -- 5 8 2
Pearl 010 000 000 -- 1 6 2
Pitching
Crabs
-- (WP) Z. Morgan, 6 IP, 4H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 6 SO (RP) J. Van Cleave, 2
IP, 1H, 0 R, 1 BB, 3 SO (SV) J. Austin, 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 SO
Pearl -- (LP) D. Mitchell, 6 IP, 7 H, 5 R, 3 ER, 5 BB, 1 SO (RP) M. Kershner, 3 IP, 1H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 SO
Hitting
Crabs
-- Thomas 1-5, RBI; Ayers 0-5, R; Mahood 1-4, RBI; Del Grande 1-3;
Eshelman 1-3; Prott 1-4, HR, R, RBI; Watkins 0-2, 2R; Latta 2-4, R, RBI;
B. Morgan 1-4
West grounds Aviators, Crabs must win trio today for title
The Times-Standard
Neil Tarpey/The Times-Standard
ARCATA -- He zipped a steady stream of knee-high strikes. Aaron
West, in a dominating final performance on the mound for the Humboldt
Crabs, threw a complete-game, six hit shutout to help his team beat the
Atwater Aviators 2-0 in the Far West League postseason championship
tournament Saturday night at the Arcata Ball Park.
Saturday's Tournament Results:
Far West League Championship Tournament
at Arcata Ball Park
(2) Atwater Aviators 3, (5) Redding Colt .45s 0
(Colt .45s eliminated)
(3) Neptune Beach Pearl 8, (4) Fontanetti's A's 2
A's 001 000 001 -- 2 10 1
Pearl 060 000 20x -- 8 17 2
(1) Humboldt Crabs 2, (2) Atwater Aviators 0
(Aviators eliminated)
Atwater 000 000 000 -- 0 6 0
Humboldt 001 010 00x -- 2 6 0
Pitching
Aviators --(LP) V. Pacchetti, 7 IP, 5H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 1 HBP, 6 SO (RP) J. Fraguila, 1 IP, 1H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 SO
Crabs -- (WP) A. West, CG, 9 IP, 6H, 0 R, 1 BB, 12 SO
ARCATA
-- Ker-rack sounded the wood bat, driving the ball on a line towards
the right-field corner. Fontanetti's outfielder Scott Masik raced to his
left and then dove airborne, his glove extended back and out. The ball
nestled in Masik's glove and he fell to the ground, holding onto the
ball.
But he was not quite done.
Masik -- who
entered the game as a defensive replacement the inning before -- jumped
up and fired a strike to first base to double off Ivory Thomas, who
raced back to first after running the bases, not thinking the ball had
been caught.
Masik's spectacular play -- the best of several
great defensive plays made by both teams -- helped Fontanetti's A's
defeat the Humboldt Crabs 1-0 in a Far West League postseason tournament
game Friday night at the Arcata Ball Park.
”He made a great play on that, it turned the game around,” said Crabs head coach Robin Guiver.
The nail-biter between two old rivals featured superb pitching.
A's
starter Mike Monelo allowed just five hits as he threw seven shutout
innings, just as he had done against the Crabs back in early June.
With
the loss, the Crabs will play at 7 p.m. tonight against the winner of
the 11 a.m. game between the Redding Colt .45s and the Atwater Aviators.
Fontanetti's will take on the Neptune Beach Pearl in a winner's bracket game today at 3 p.m.
Athletics edge Colt .45s in bottom of the 10th inning
The Times-Standard
Ray Aspuria/The Times-Standard
ARCATA -- What seemed like a minor error proved to be the game changer.
Blake
Martz connected for a sharp single to knock in teammate Scott Masik to
give the Fontanetti's Athletics a 4-3 victory in the bottom of the 10th
inning over the Redding Colt .45s to kick off the Far West League
Tournament at the Arcata Ball Park on Friday afternoon.
The Arcata Ball Park will be the site for this weekend's Far West League postseason championship tournament.
The
five FWL teams with the best records during the recently concluded
27-game league schedule -- Humboldt Crabs, Atwater Aviators, Neptune
Beach Pearl, Fontanetti's Athletics and Redding Colt .45 -- will compete
in the double-elimination tournament that determines the 2011 FWL
champion.
Both today and Saturday there will be games at 11
a.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m., and on Sunday the games will start at 10 a.m., 2
p.m. and (if necessary) 6 p.m.
The tournament's opening game
at 11 a.m. features No. 4 seed Fontanetti's (17-10 in the FWL) and No. 5
seed Redding (13-13). Then at 3 p.m., No. 2 seed Atwater (20-6) will
face No. 3 seed Neptune Beach (17-10).
Today's 7 p.m. game
will involve No. 1 seed Humboldt (21-6) against the winner of this
morning's A's versus .45s game. Whether or not the Crabs win, their next
game will be Saturday night at 7 p.m. against an opponent yet to be
determined.
Consecutive stellar performances on the mound
Friday put the Southern Oregon RiverDawgs over the .500 mark for the
first time since early this season.
Starters
Kyle Forsyth and Bruce Sanford limited the Humboldt Steelhead bats to
just seven combined hits as the RiverDawgs chalked up 3-1 and 3-0
victories in a nonleague sweep at Harry & David Field.
The RiverDawgs improved to 21-20 while remaining idle at 10-13 in the Far West League.
FIRST GAME
Humboldt Steelheads 001 000 000 — 1 4 2
Southern Oregon 000 000 03x — 3 7 2
Fisher,
Reyes (8) and Heckman; Forsyth, Chaves (9) and W. Brill. W — Forsyth
(1-2). L — Fisher. 2B — H: Hopson; SO: Jemmett, Sloan, Rodda.
SECOND GAME
Humboldt Steelheads 000 000 0 — 0 4 0
Southern Oregon 003 000 x — 3 4 1
Burwell and Rowe; Sanford, C. Bataska (7) and Rogers. W — Sanford (3-0). L — Burwell. 2B — H: Camacho.
Jace Sloan scored the tying run and drove in the
winning run as the Southern Oregon RiverDawgs defeated the Humboldt
Steelheads 3-2 in 11 innings in a nonleague amateur baseball game at
Harry & David Field Thursday.
Southern Oregon twice came back from one-run
deficits, then won the game in the bottom of the 11th when Sloan's base
hit up the middle scored Kory Locken from third. Locken opened with a
bunt single, then went to third on a bunt single by Anthony Renteria and
a throwing error on the play by pitcher Kyle Smart.
Humboldt Steelheads 010 000 100 00 — 2 9 1
S.O. RiverDawgs 010 000 100 01 — 3 10 0
Heckman,
K. Smart (8) and Rowe; Paterson, Goodgion (8) and Rogers, Fosnes (9). W
— Goodgion (4-1). L — Smart. 2B — SO: Sloan. HR — H: Hopson.
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