East Oregonian
PENDLETON — With a pair of wins over the hotly pursuing Hermiston Bulldogs, the Pendleton softball team guaranteed no one will catch them in the regular season standings. A doubleheader sweep clinched the Columbia River Conference title for the Buckaroos, the OSAA’s top ranked Class 5A team based on RPI.
It’s a major triumph for the Bucks (17-6, 9-1 CRC) who started the year 0-3, but Saturday’s wins were just as important to the girls in the dugout as they were to all their sports fan classmates back at school, shortstop Kasidee Lemberger said.