By HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes Long balls from Joe Rapp and Dashenko Ricardo and the strong pitching of Joan Gregorio led the Volcanoes to a 5-3 win July 6 in the last game of the home series with Vancouver before a crowd of 3,320. Preceding the game was the final night of the patriotic [...]

By HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes It took the strongest club in the Northwest League 11 innings, but the Everett AquaSox beat Salem-Keizer 4-2 Saturday at Volcanoes Stadium to sweep the three-game series. Everett scored the first run of the game in the third inning, the Volcanoes went ahead by one in the fifth, and [...]

By HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes Rafael Rodriguez’s big bat and effective work from the Volcanoes’ last two pitchers were not enough to keep visiting Eugene from beating Salem-Keizer 10-7 Monday. Rodriguez tripled in the third inning, driving in Matt Duffy and Chuckie Jones, and scored on a double by Brennan Mergenthaler. In the seventh, [...]

BY HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes A 12-inning 3-2 victory over visiting Boise opened the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes’ 2012 season Friday, June 15 before a crowd of 3,256. One of last year’s Volcanoes pitchers, Matt Graham, won the game in relief. The winning run was scored by Sam Eberle shortly after he singled in his first [...]

By HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes Tom Trebelhorn, manager of the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes, has his eye on the draft for this season. Last year’s Volcanoes finished in the cellar of the Northwest League West, although they had a better win-loss record than the East division’s Yakima Bears. Starting pitching was the big problem, but Trebelhorn [...]

The Salem-Keizer Volcanoes have announced that Tom “Treb” Trebelhorn will return to the Volcanoes as Field Manager in 2012. Trebelhorn’s return marks his fifth season with the Volcanoes, the longest tenure for any Volcanoes manager since the team’s inception in 1997.  The Volcanoes won the Northwest League’s Western Division Title in 2008 and 2009, and [...]

Mat Men The McNary varsity wrestling team started the year with a Top 10 finish out of 32 teams at the Northwest Duals and followed it up with a first place trophy at the Don York Invite. The mat squad took sixth place in the Reser Tournament of Champions and set themselves to become the [...]

By HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes The Volcanoes, in their final game, again outhit the opposition but lost. The opposition was the Tri-City Dust Devils, who have clinched the East Division championship of the Northwest League. Tri-City won 3-1 on Saturday despite a 9-6 edge in hits for Salem-Keizer.  The Volcanoes finished third in the [...]

By HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes What began as a promising end to the regular home season for the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes turned out to be a sloppy defeat. After leading 2-0 at the end of one inning, the Volcanoes fell to the Boise Hawks 9-2 before a crowd of 2,765, leaving 12 men on base [...]

By HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes Manager Tom Trebelhorn stirred things up, and so did his players by taking Saturday night’s game to 11 innings, but the Volcanoes lost 5-4, giving the Emeralds a sweep of all the 2011 games the two clubs played in Eugene. Trebelhorn put several reserves in his starting lineup, including [...]