Summer ballplayers
Clark County connections who are in the 2014 West Coast League:
COWLITZ BLACK BEARS
• Jake Dahlberg, LHP (Mt. Hood CC/Heritage HS)
• Colton Krueger, RHP (Clark College/Union HS)
• Seaver Whalen, INF (Lower Columbia/Union HS)
BEND ELKS
• Zack Carter, RHP (St. Martin’s College/Camas HS)
• J.T. Kaul, LHP (Lewis-Clark State/Mountain View HS)
• Alan Embree, pitching coach (Prairie HS alum)
WENATCHEE APPLESOX
• Michael McCann, C (Seattle U/Columbia River HS)
YAKIMA VALLEY PIPPINS
• Tim Hergert, INF (Central Arizona College/Heritage HS)
• Austin Woodward, RHP (Oregon State/Union HS)
(Names provided by team websites. If there is an omission, please email sports@columbian.com and we’ll add the name to this list.)
LONGVIEW — It’s Tuesday night and it’s a beautiful mix of summer sunset and Pacific Northwest gloom.
At Lower Columbia College, the Cowlitz Black Bears are taking on the Victoria HarbourCats in the first game of a three game series in the West Coast League.
On the Black Bears’s website, it reads “Baseball… the way it used to be.”