cowlitz black bears

LONGVIEW, Wash. – On July 10, the Cowlitz Black Bears had just used dominant pitching to take consecutive games and the series from the Yakima Valley Pippins on the road. Following a 7-5 Pippins win in their series opener on July 8, Cowlitz had allowed just three runs in the final two games of the series...

LONGVIEW, Wash. – In his fourth scheduled start of the season against the Corvallis Knights on July 24, Taylor Dollard (Cal Poly-SLO) lasted just two innings because of a blister that provided him with extreme discomfort on his throwing hand. In his fifth start, on Tuesday night against the Cowlitz Black Bears, Dollard more than made up for his early exit in his prior outing, dealing eight shutout

YAKIMA, Wash. – Early Monday, the Yakima Valley Pippins were notified that six of their players had been selected to participate in next week’s West Coast League All-Star Game. The six selections were the second most in the WCL, second to only the Corvallis Knights, and they were well deserved, considering the Pippins had boasted one of the league’s best offenses in the first half of the season...

YAKIMA, Wash. – When Steve Sordahl (St. Martin’s) hit a line drive that drifted just inside the foul pole and over the right field fence on June 27 in the Yakima Valley Pippins’ 7-3 win over the Bend Elks, even he attributed the solo shot to wind and a little luck...

The Yakima Valley Pippins battled, scratched and clawed their way to a 7-6 win over the Cowlitz Black Bears on Wednesday night at County Stadium to clinch the Eastern Division of the West Coast League. The Pippins (33-18) are the first expansion team to win a division and just the second to make the playoffs in their first year...

Yakima's Andrew Woods spun some magic on the mound with an eight-inning, six-strikeout performance as the Pippins shut out the Cowlitz Black Bears, 2-0, Tuesday night at County Stadium. The West Coast League's leader in strikeouts with 58, Woods was 1-2-3 lights-out against the Black Bears, who mustered only three hits off him before Kenny Rosenberg came in for the save and to ensure the win and t

The Yakima Valley Pippins wrote themselves into the West Coast League record books Monday night after holding off the Cowlitz Black Bears, 11-8, at County Stadium. The win lifts the Pippins to 31-18 -- the most wins ever by an WCL expansion team...