Morrow's Musings
- By Jeff Morrow
509-582-1507
Posted June 21, 2000
Strankman signs with Giants, set for NWL
Keep the dates of Aug. 18-22 open.
Hanford High School grad Elliott Strankman signed with the San Francisco Giants on Monday and is headed for the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes of the Northwest League, which began play Tuesday night.
Those August dates will be when Strankman and the Volcanoes visit the Yakima Bears and Jason Repko, another Hanford grad. Salem-Keizer also will visit Spokane July 20-24.
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Southridge High grad Donnie Watts pitched in 13 games for the University of Nevada-Las Vegas baseball team this spring and is spending his summer with the Wenatchee Apple Sox Pacific International League semipro team.
One of his teammates is Richland grad Steve Mortimer, who played at Yakima Valley Community College this past year and is playing first base for the Apple Sox.
Moses Lake's Pete Doumit is playing in the same summer league for the Bellingham Bells.
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Kamiakin grad Stefan Bailie was named an honorable mention selection to the 2000 Louisville Slugger Freshman All-America baseball team by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper.
The redshirt freshman from Mesa finished second at WSU this spring with a .315 batting average, and was first in home runs (12) and RBI (35).
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Kennewick's Sara Senske had some bad luck at last weekend's fifth race of the Barber Dodge Pro Series at Detroit's Raceway on Belle Isle.
The race was part of the CART FedEx Tenneco Grand Prix of Detroit.
Senske got knocked out of the race early, after three laps in the 23-lap race, in an accident. She placed 25th out of 26 drivers.
The series' next race is July 2 in Cleveland.
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Othello's Jaime Juarez has signed to play women's basketball at Wenatchee Valley Community College. . . . Catcher Anthony Morales of Prosser helped Tacoma Community College (30-12) finish second in the NWAACC baseball tournament last month. Morales hit .400 for the tournament and .310 for the season. He was named to the all-tournament first team.
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Former Tri-City American goalie Olaf Kolzig, named as the NHL's top goalie while playing for Washington, threw out the ceremonial first pitch before the Baltimore Orioles home game against Anaheim last week. Kolzig, 30, won the Vezina Trophy at the NHL's awards special in Toronto.
Speaking of Americans, some of them could be drafted this weekend when the NHL draft is held Saturday and Sunday.
Also, the Calgary Flames won't begin interviewing for a head coach until after the draft. One of the names at the top of their list is Americans head coach Don Hay, who likely will interview for the job.
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Big Bend Community College women's basketball coaching couple, Chris and Cary Carlson, have left the Moses Lake school to become assistant coaches for the University of Idaho women's basketball team.
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One month from now, we'll be getting ready for unlimited hydroplanes. And beginning this weekend, the UHRA circuit gets under way in earnest.
Friday, the Thunder on the Ohio in Evansville, Ind., gets going with qualifying, and racing is Sunday.
A couple of notes here: The Miss Budweiser team will unveil its new T-6 hull. Rookie Charlie Wiggins will make his debut as the driver of the U-6 Miss Madison. Jimmy King returns in the
U-8 Llumar Window Film for his first race of the season. And Mitch Evans will be driving for the U-3 Cooper's Express again.
Eleven boats are expected to compete this weekend.
- Jeff Morrow can be reached at 582-1507 or via e-mail at jmorrow@tri-cityherald.com
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