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Vol. 125, No. 3 10 Pages
Serving the Lower Columbia Region Since 1891
Columbians return to State Championship CODY MANN/The Chief
Rainier Junior Haley Schimmel pitching for The Columbians in a home game against the Amity Warriors.
BY KYLE BOGGS
kboggs@countrymedia.net
The three seniors on Rainier’s softball team will finish high school not knowing what it’s like to miss out on a chance to play for a state title. The third-ranked Columbians (236, 12-0) are returning to the OSAA 3A Softball State Championship game for a remarkable fourth straight season after beating the No. 2 Scio Loggers
(24-4, 15-0 PacWest Conference) 6-4 in the semifinals on May 31. This year’s state title game will be a rematch against the Dayton Pirates, the only team to top the Columbians in a state title game in the last four years. The No. 1 Pirates (27-3, 10-0 West Valley League) beat the No. 5 Pleasant Hill Billies (20-10, 14-1 Mountain Valley Conference) 1-0 in the other 3A semifinal on May 31. Rainier beat Dayton for the championship in 2013, then beat Vale in 2014.
The teams will tangle at the OSU Softball Complex starting at 4 p.m. on June 3. Admission price for the game will be $8 for adults, $5 for students. Against Scio in the semis, Rainier took the lead right away, thanks to an RBI double from one of those three seniors. Sarah Probasco doubled home junior Kami Gray in the first inning. The Columbians extended their lead to 5-0 in the fourth inning, when junior Haley Schimmel sent a threerun home run over the fence. Fresh-
man Taleah King also had an RBI in the inning. Scio battled back, closing the deficit to 5-4. Rainier afforded itself an insurance run in the top of the seventh inning. Sophomore Aspen Norman tripled, then scored on an error. It was the first real test of the playoffs for Rainier. In the quarterfinals on May 27, RHS beat the sixth-ranked Amity Warriors (17-7, 8-2 West Valley) 10-0 in a game
shortened to five innings by the 10run mercy rule. That was preceded by the Columbians’ 9-0 first-round win over Enterprise. Those unable to make the drive to Corvallis for Friday afternoon’s game can listen to live online coverage of the game at http://www.osaa. org/radio-network/3013, or can pay a fee to watch a live video broadcast of the game online at http:// www.nfhsnetwork.com/events/ osaa/1b93ea5fba.
Reward offered in elk poach case Police and game officers are searching for a person or persons who shot two elk and left the carcasses to rot in rural Columbia County. On the evening of May 29, Oregon State Police were notified of two dead bull elk in the area of Pittsburg Road near Baker Point, approximately three miles from Scappoose-Vernonia Highway. OSP Fish and Wildlife troopers responded and found two dead elk, determining they had been shot and left to waste. Investigators believe the elk were most likely shot on or around Saturday, May 28.
A reward of up to $1000 is offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction in this case. The Oregon Hunters Association is contributing $500 through its Turn in Poachers reward program. The Columbia County Chapter of OHA is also contributing $500. Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to contact OSP Sergeant Joe Warwick through the Turn in Poachers hotline at 1-800-452-7888. Information may be kept anonymous. The Turn-In-Poachers reward program is sponsored by the Oregon Hunters Association. Rewards
are paid for information leading to the arrest and conviction of persons for the illegal possession, killing, taking or waste of deer, elk, antelope, bear, cougar, big horn sheep, mountain goat, moose or game birds. TIP rewards can also be given for the illegal taking, netting, snagging or dynamiting of salmon, steelhead, sturgeon or large numbers of any fish listed in Oregon statute as a game fish. In addition, a reward may be issued for information that results in an arrest and conviction of a person who has illegally obtained Oregon hunting or angling license
or tags. People who “work” the system and falsely apply for resident licenses or tags are not legally hunting or angling and are considered poachers. Increasing damage to wildlife habitat by off-road vehicles prompted the Oregon Hunters Association in 2009 to create the Natural Resources Reward Program that offers a $200 reward for information leading to the arrest of anyone causing natural resources damage by the illegal use of motorized vehicles and is similar to its highly successful TIP program.
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A reward of up to $1000 is offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction in this case.
Classical guitarist comes to Birkenfeld Theatre
From concert halls in London, New York, Frankfurt and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., classical guitarist, Scott Kritzer will perform his Clatskanie debut on Sunday, June 5 in the beautifully restored Birkenfeld Theatre. One of America’s top classical guitarists, Kritzer
will perform some of the greatest loved works for classical guitar in his program called Romance, featuring that popular repertoire that has brought both the casual listener and aficionado to the instrument. Kritzer has been actively touring for the past three decades across two continents, including performances in Los Angeles, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, San Francisco, New York, Washington, D.C., Sapporo, Japan, Munich, including Kritzer’s debuts New York’s Carnegie Recital Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall and Lutheran Hall in Sapporo, Japan. He was also chosen to represent his State of Oregon in a performance at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. In addition to an active performing and recording career, Kritzer is a highly sought after teacher. Some of his past students have gone on to attend such notable institutions as The Julliard School, The Royal Conservatory of Music in London, and his alma mater, The San Francisco Conservatory of Music. In addition, some of his past students have won regional, national and international guitar competitions. Kritzer’s musical legacy comes from the late Andres Segovia through one of the maestro favorite pupils and Kritzer’s teacher, Michael Lorimer. Kritzer’s program Romance is based on the early
Segovia repertoire with a salting of later 20th century romantic works. The legendary Spanish guitarist Andrés Segovia began to commission guitar works from non-guitarists in the early part of the 20th century —first, his fellow countryman and, soon after, composers from many countries. At the same time, Segovia was introducing audiences in every part of the world to his instrument. One of Segovia’s favorite pupils was Lorimer. Kritzer said Lorimer became the single most influential teacher in his career. “His teaching and performing reflected the beauty of his teacher, Segovia, in a modern ‘ism,” Kritzer said. “This program, ‘Romance’ is about those ‘first love’ pieces created by Segovia that first caught my ear—and also that reflect my early years working with Lorimer.” Kritzer will feature romantic works by Heitor VillaLobos, Joquin Turina, William Walton, Isaac Albeniz and others in an engaging program of ‘first love’ works for the classical guitar. All tickets are $10 and may be purchased at Hump’s Restaurant and at the ticket booth which opens at 2:30 p.m. the day of the performance. Tickets may be reserved by calling Elsa at (503) 728-3403 and leaving your name and the number of tickets you would like reserved.
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