"Deep down, Bill 'Spaceman' Lee was and always will be a Goldpanner. 'It is
the No. 1 amateur team in history,' said Lee" "(Growden Memorial Park) is not
only the geographic pinnacle of baseball, it's the
spiritual pinnacle as well." Jim Caple, ESPN
Most
Sportsmanlike Team: Midnight Sun Goldpanners
Alf Morton Memorial Trophy for Top Coach: Jim
Dietz
Top Catcher: Travis Andersen
Tournament
MVP; Top Hitter: Trent Olezszcuk
7/3/9:
Alaska Goldpanners
baseball tour stops in Longview Monday,
Tuesday
Longview turns golden on Tuesday. A
touring team representing the legendary
Alaska Goldpanners baseball club will take
on the Red Lion Senior American Legion squad
at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at David Story Field in
an exhibition matchup.
GOLDPANNER DON HEINKEL INDUCTED INTO COLLEGE BB
HALL OF FAME
Wally Kincaid -
Players
who went on to coach include George Horton, Mike
Weathers, Dave Snow, and Don Sneddon.
Jake
Stewart tripled and hit a two-run homer in
the third to give Stanford (5-3) an early
2-1 lead.
Fifth-year
senior Ryan Heroy set the varsity record
for most times hit by a pitch with 47.
Sacramento
State (3-5) closed to 4-2 in the fourth on a
home run by Justin Lamb (10R), his second
of the series, before the Aggies scored five in
the fourth.
Reliever
Ryan Cabral (10R) came in for Triggs, but he
allowed a single to Ryan Honeycutt to load the
bases. Cabral then walked Chris Juarez to force
in the tying run.
Sophomore
D.J. Crumlich (10R), who had been sharing
time at short with Reyes, was hit in the head
with a ball at practice Wednesday and is out
indefinitely with a concussion, Gillespie said.
Darian
Sandford (10R) had five RBIs and Michael
Onwumere went 4-for-4, adding a pair of doubles,
as Park University took two from Texas College
.
Jonathan Kountis (07) picked up the win
giving up one run and six hits in 5 2/3 innings.
Sophomore
Justin Lamb (10R) hit
a two-run homer in the fifth, but the Sacramento
State baseball team fell to visiting
UC Davis 11-3 on Friday.
WEEK 2
With one
out, junior Derrick Chung
(09-10R)
started the rally with a walk, and sophomore
Justin Lamb
followed with a double to left center. Chung
scored on an errant relay by Gonzaga shortstop
Ernesto Ortiz, giving the Hornets a 3-2 lead.
Hornet
junior Brandon Sandoval
(1-1) struggled in his second outing of the
season, allowing eight runs, seven of which were
earned, on nine hits in 4.0 innings.
Jake
Stewart (10R) 49th State Hardball:
2010 Player Profile: Jake Stewart There
has been a lot of things said about 2010 Goldpanners
OF Jake Stewart. I'll give you a big one to chew on:
"best high school player to ever come out of the
State of Colorado".
Professional
Ranks: Colorado named Doug Linton (86)
pitching coach of Colorado Springs (PCL) and Darryl
Scott (87) pitching coach of Modesto (Cal).
Plesac's 1981 Pre-Season Roster Includes Surprises
Dan Plesac
(81)
#20 on 49th State Hardball's ABL Top 20 "When it
comes to throwing a baseball, Plesac did it all. He
was a starter, he was a closer, he was a left-handed
specialist. That type of flexibility is probably
what allowed him to stick around the majors for 18
years."
I got to live the Alaskan lifestyle, but we were also
playing baseball all the time. I was able to get some
great experience starting and facing great competition.
12/16/9: ABCA Convention Goldpanner Clinicians:
Scott Striklin - "Catching Skills
and Drills"
Brent Strom - "Blending: The
Art of Improving or Enhancing the Rate in Which Movement
Patterns Transfer from Our Practice, Training or Drill
to Game Time."
12/14/9:
Interview with 2010 Goldanner Darian Sanford "I
am not trying to sound arrogant, but I feel I should
have been in the top 5 in both lists because of the type
of season I had. My biggest step from college to the
pros would be my swing from the left side. It's good but
not as good as I want it to be. I think I can hit any
pitching but I am working on developing more power."
8/4/9:
Bret
Lachemann (09)
Where baseball burns bright Its good to coach the
college kids again, to see the College World Series kids
from (Arizona State University), to see the level of
dedication and how good the kids are, Lachemann said.
I got a chance to deal with the college guys on an
everyday basis. It was a great way to get that fix. Its
good for me because Ive been coaching high school and I
can go back and probably be a little tougher on our
guys. You guys say you want to play college baseball?
You gotta work your butt off.
7/4/9:
In the land of "continual sunlight" - "After dinner and
the Midnight Sun Festival, Brad and I attended the 104th
Midnight Sun Game hosted by the Alaska Goldpanners. It was
one of the coolest things I have ever experienced. The game
started at 10:30 at night and went until about 1 am. The
whole game was played under natural light. The furthest the
sun went down was a little bit under the horizon but it
never got dark. It was neat seeing baseball played under
those conditions and to see how much the community supported
that game, as over three thousand people attended the game.
Im really glad I had the opportunity to go to the game."
Film Details Red Boucher's Involvement in Alaskan Baseball
As one Goldpanners player left the
theater, he looked at another, both still in uniform, and
said, That was like my story.
Boucher's Vision Changed Baseball in Alaska - We
had a remarkable relationship from the moment I met him
in 1964, Dennis said. He was one of those guys that
when you met him you knew you would never forget him.
There are so few who genuinely stand out that way.
His family said Boucher earned his
lifelong nickname after President Franklin Roosevelt met
the red-haired boy and said, They ought to call you
Red. The family said he ended up in Alaska after
campaigning for a young senator from Massachusetts by
the name of John F. Kennedy, who told him there was
great potential in the far north territory.
Former Fairbanks mayor, Goldpanners founder 'Red' Boucher
dies at 88
