College Baseball: LCC dominates little things in season-opening sweep
Story Time – Young Red Devils take two from Clackamas at home to open 2026
Sam Barbee for BlastZoneMedia.com / blastzonenews@gmail.com
NWAC Baseball / Report
STORY FIELD — Baseball is a game of details. Small things. Little things. Things that go unnoticed or seem mundane to the point of irrelevance. Oh, he caught a bad throw. Oh, he drew a walk. Who cares? Not as cool as that rocket off the barrel or that diving catch in the grass.
The little things live in the margins, on the edges, the place where your attention just usually land. So was the case in Lower Columbia’s sweep of Clackamas in its 2026 season debut at David Story Field in Longview on Saturday.
LCC scratched across one run in the seventh, then one run in the eighth to slip past the apparently resurgent Cougars 2-0, then overcame a disastrous three-run (and three-walk) top of the seventh in the rematch with three runs of its own in the bottom, plus a bonus insurance run in the eighth to walk away 6-4 winners and a sweep.
“I love to see the execution. I love to see us getting two wins on the scoreboard,” LCC head coach Kurt Lupinski said,
But that disastrous seventh inning could have been much worse had it not been for second baseman Ross Kelley.
To call him a second baseman is to leave some details aside. Crucial details. Details that aren’t immediately known, but no less important. Just like the game.
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