The Boise State Broncos, Oregon State Beavers, Portland Trail Blazers and Seattle Seahawks have found a new home on the airwaves in Eastern Oregon — Supertalk radio.

Supertalk, KBKR AM-1490 in Baker City and KLBM AM-1450 in La Grande, announced recently that BSU and OSU college football games, Trail Blazer regular season NBA basketball games, and Seahawks regular season NFL games will be broadcast starting this season.

The college and professional football games will begin in September, and the Blazer games at the end of October.

John Mallory, better known on the airwaves as Johnny Ballgame, confirmed the deals with the teams earlier this month.

“I got the job as sports director at Supertalk in May after hosting my own talk show in Moscow, Idaho, for four years,” said Mallory, a 1998 La Grande High School graduate.

“I made contacting the right people my first order of business,” he said. “Then it’s just snowballed from there.”

Mallory said he first contacted the Trail Blazers about carrying their games.

JOHN DAY — Baker Barracudas swimmers earned 11 firsts recently at a summer swim meet at John Day.

Baker, coached by Kim Pointer and Laurie Wittich, took 21 swimmers — 18 girls and three boys.

Baker’s 10-and-under 100-yard medley relay team of Mary Rushton, Eva Jones-Bedolla, Carson Lien and Cherity Rushton placed first.

The West won a defensive struggle with the East Saturday to take a 14-6 victory in the 58th annual East-West Shrine all-star football game at Bulldog Memorial Stadium in Baker City.

Baker City businesses are showing their support of the East and West Shrine football players by displaying memorabilia in store windows.

Players from both teams visited Baker City Thursday, viewing the windows as part of their afternoon.

The 58th annual East-West game will kick off at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Bulldog Memorial Stadium. The game will be broadcast on Fox Sports Northwest (Channel 18).

Then he came back because the NCAA didn’t like a couple classes on his high school transcript.

Finally, after six weeks of an intense English 4 class this summer, Brose is heading back to Wyoming.

He will redshirt this year (he won’t play, but he’ll still have four years of eligibility), but he will don the No. 63 jersey and stand on the sidelines at home games.

GILLETTE, Wyo. — A Baker High School bull rider has qualified for the 62nd annual National High School Finals Rodeo July 18-24 at Gillette.

Johnny Owens, a BHS junior, qualified for the national finals after placing second in th event at the Oregon State Rodeo Finals in Prineville.

LA GRANDE — Baker lost two games to Snake River Valley Friday at the District 3 Babe Ruth baseball tournament at La Grande.

Baker lost 9-3 and 11-9, and won the district championship. That’s right. Baker is the district champion.

Baker and SRV are the only two communities fielding district teams. And, since SRV has an automatic berth as the host team for the state tournament later this month, Baker advances as the district champion.

The state tournament will be played at Ontario July 20-24.

Baker coach Brad Phillips said his team had its chances Friday, but was its own worst enemy.

“We had too many walks and untimely errors,” he said.

Baker pitchers issued 16 walks in the two games, and Baker committed five errors.

The Diamondbacks (25-4 overall) swept five opponents in three days to run their current winning streak to 13 games.

Team Rudi edged Winnemucca, Nev., 5-3 in Sunday’s title game.

Team Rudi opened tournament play Friday afternoon by stopping Redmond 13-0. Friday evening the Diamondbacks topped Orofino 9-1.

Saturday, as former Oakland A’s stars Joe Rudi and Carney Lansford looked on, Team Rudi stopped Pendleton 6-1. Rudi threw out the first pitch before the game.

Sunday morning Team Rudi nipped Milton-Freewater 4-3.

LA GRANDE — Baker couldn’t defeat Union Count twice in three days at the District 3 Babe Ruth 13-year-old baseball tournament in La Grande.

Baker rallied from eight runs down Friday to win 17-10. But Sunday, in a game to earn the right to play Snake River Valley for the title, Baker came up short, 10-5.

Baker 17, Union Co. 10

Friday, Baker trailed 8-0 after two innings.

Baker then scored six runs in the third, four in the fourth, six in the fifth and one in the sixth to pull away.

Chase Dixon led the way with four hits and two RBIs.

Pendleton handed the Baker Diamond Dawgs a softball doubleheader sweep Wednesday at the Baker Sports Complex. Pendleton won the two games 4-0 and 6-5.

In the five-inning opener Pendleton limited Baker to one hit, a leadoff single by Sierra Howerton in the first inning.

The game was scoreless until the fourth inning when Pendleton scored three times on two hits, three walks and a Baker error.

Tori Brown took the loss in the circle.

Baker started strong in Game 2, scoring four runs in the bottom of the first inning.