The Saturday Morning Blast
This Day – Scores & links from around The Blast Zone; plus Castle Rock vs La Center softball ('07)
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High School Softball
Kelso 10, Shelton 4 (District Championship)
Kelso 10, Heritage 1 (District Semifinals)
Mark Morris 11, W.F. West 0 (District Championship)
Tenino 7, Kalama 6 (District Opener)
Hoquiam 6, Kalama 5 (District Loser-out)
Toledo 11, Adna 5 (District Semifinals)
Toledo 24, Forks 3 (District Quarterfinals)
Adna 23, Toutle Lake 22 (District Quarterfinals)
Forks 15, Toutle Lake 5 (District Loser-out)
Clatskanie 10, Pilot Rock/Nixyaaawii 4
Pilot Rock/ Nixyaawii 18, Clatsaknie 3
Thursday
Warrenton 10, Rainier 0
Warrenton 4, Rainier 2
High School Baseball
Mountain View 7, Kelso 5 (District Championship)
Castle Rock 3, La Center 2 (District winner-to-State/loser-out)
Pe Ell-Willapa Valley 6, Ilwaco 2
Clatskanie 7, Portland Christian 1
Clatskanie 5, Portland Christian 0
College Softball
Lower Columbia 10, Edmonds 0 (NWAC Quarterfinals)
This Day In History
May 16, 2007: The Castle Rock softball team goes 0-for-10 with runners in scoring position, but Lacey Seidl comes through with the one needed hit, drilling an RBI triple in the top of the seventh inning in the Rockets’ 2-1 win over La Center in the semifinals of the 1A district tournament.
“Our team just keeps going,” Seidl said. “Things usually turn out for the best.”
Christine Madsen was nails in the circle for CR — which advanced to the district championship for the first time since 1996 — striking out nine and allowing just one unearned run when the Rockets made two errors in the field on an innocuous sacrifice bunt. Castle Rock got the run back in the third when Seidl walked, went to second on a sacrifice, stole third and came home on a wild pitch.
The Games of The Day
High Schoo Baseball
R.A. Long vs Aberdeen (District Loser-out)
Bearcat Field, Chehalis, 2 p.m.
R.A. Long vs Ridgefield or W.F. West (Winner-to-State/Loser-out)*
Bearcat Field, Chehalis, TBD
Toledo vs Toutle Lake (District Winner-to-State)
Wheeler Field, Centralia, 11 a.m.
Toledo or Toutle Lake vs Ilwaco (District Winner-to-State/Loser-out)**
Wheeler Field, Centralia, 2 p.m.
Toledo or Toutle Lake vs Pe-Ell Willapa Valley (District 3rd place)*
Wheeler Field, Centralia, TBD
Wahkiakum vs Naselle (District Championship)
South Bend, 6:30 p.m.
High School Softball
Naselle vs Ocosta (District Championship)
Montesano HS, 3 p.m.
Toledo vs Napavine (District Championship)
Forst Borst, Centralia, 5 p.m.
High School Boys Soccer
R.A. Long at Ridgefield (District 3rd place / Winner-to-State)
— Ridgefield HS, Noon
College Softball
Lower Columbia vs Mt. Hood
Delta Park, Portland, 5:30 p.m.
*If they already won today
**if they already lost today
Rural Baseball Inc / Summer Tryouts
Attention ballplayers:
The second and final round of tryouts for Rural Baseball Inc is…. Sunday.
Players between the ages of 15-19 can spike up and show what they’ve got at the open tryout for a spot on the roster for the 2026 summer season. Rural Baseball Inc is entering its 13th year of operation and is in search of the next crop of local talent to keep the merry going round all summer (or at least until the games are over).
If you’re high school team is still playing — GREAT! — we’ll be sure to take it easy on you this one time and send you back home healthy for the rest of the playoff run.
Players selected will play 30-40 games in regional locations such as Port Angeles, Yakima, and Portland, while receiving instruction from a coaching staff with experience at the high school, travel and college levels.
The RBI tryout will be held Sunday, May 17, 5 p.m., on Graham Field at Castle Rock High School. Rain or shine.
For additional information please email: jnailon@hotmail.com
