Baker went from feast to famine Monday and Tuesday at the District 3 Junior softball tournament at the Baker Sports Complex.

Baker scored 10 runs but lost 20-10 to Grant County Monday. Baker then managed just one run a 5-1 loss to Milton-Freewater Tuesday. The latter loss ended Baker’s season.

Milton-Freewater hammered 13 hits on the way to a 16-0 win over Baker Monday at the District 3 Majors softball tournament.

The win at the Baker Sports Complex ended Baker’s tournament stay.

Collette Robert’s RBI double, run-scoring singles by Sydney Richwine and Hanna Bullock, and an RBI groundout by Jocelyn Harwood gave Milton-Freewater a 4-0 lead after one inning.

Run-scoring hits by Richwine and Isabelle Dillon and another RBI grounder by Brooke Krahlman sparked a 7-run third inning for Milton-Freewater.

Krahlman and Robert added RBIs in a 5-run fourth inning to complete Milton-Freewater’s scoring.

Baker managed just two hits — singles by Lakaylan Thomas and Savannah Stephens. Baker didn’t get a runner past second base.

Dani McCauley took the loss in the pitching circle.

Pilot Rock ended Baker’s stay at the District 3 Minors softball tournament Monday with an 11-1 win in a semifinal game at the Baker Sports Complex.

Three Pilot Rock pitchers combined to throw a no-hitter at Baker. Baker had just three runners reach base — two on walks and another on an error.

Baker’s lone run came in the top of the fifth inning when Kaylan Mosser walked, stole third and scored on a passed ball.

Pilot Rock scored three runs in the first inning. Tehya Ostrom and Rachel Willingham each had RBI singles.

Pilot Rock added four runs in the second inning. Ostrom and Makayla Deist had run-scoring singles.

Pilot Rock then ended the game by mercy rule with four runs in the fifth. Willingham and Sara Weinke had bases-loaded walks to drive in two runs.

Team Rudi finished the Boise Firecracker Invitational American Legion baseball tournament with a perfect 6-0 record and the championship trophy Sunday at Boise.

Team Rudi coach Dan Blankenship said it was the third straight year the Diamondbacks have gone undefeated and won the tournament title.

“We hit the ball pretty well. All our pitchers threw well for us. And we had some really good defensive plays throughout the weekend,” Blankenship said.

Team Rudi defeated Twin Falls 7-6 in the title game.

The Diamondbacks opened tournament action Thursday with a 10-0 win over the same Twin Falls team. They followed that with a 6-2 win over Centennial, 13-0 over the Boise Capitals, 16-0 over the Columbia Mudcats, and 14-3 over the Boise Seminoles.

Team Rudi 10, Twin Falls 0

Matt Gorrell threw a three-hitter, striking out five.

Ty Everson led Team Rudi’s offense with four hits. Gorrell, Coleman Lay and Sam Averett each had two hits. Trevor Freese added a triple, and Will Barr and Colten Richards each a hit.

OAKLAND — Baker City’s Joe Rudi was honored, along with several of his old Oakland A’s teammates, on 1970s Turn Back the Clock Night Saturday at the Oakland Coliseum.

Rudi, 63, one of the leaders during the A’s run of three consecutive World Series titles from 1972 to 1974, threw out the ceremonial first pitch against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Replicas of his No. 26 jersey were handed out to fans at the game.

A tired Team Rudi Diamondbacks American Legion baseball team finished fourth at the Walla Walla tournament Sunday. The Diamondbacks split six games in four days.

Team Rudi opened tournament play by defeating the Northwest Crush from Seattle 3-0. The Diamondbacks then defeated Pasco 14-1, and Cour d’Alene 14-5. Team Rudi then lost 4-3 in eight innings to Richland before falling 3-2 to Walla Walla in the semifinals. Team Rudi then fell 16-10 to Triple Play of Tacoma in the third-place game.

The Eastern Oregon Pepsi AAA American Legion baseball team won three of four games against Pendleton and Vallivue, Idaho, last week.

Derek Blankenship, Cole Brown, Trace Richardson and Grant Marcum of Baker City are members of the Phillies.

Thursday, the Phillies split two games at Pendleton, winning the opener 12-4 but losing Game 2, 12-7.

Brown earned the complete-game win on the mound in the opener. Marcum had a home run and Blankenship a double.

In the second game, Marcum slugged his second homer of the day. Brown added a double. Blankenship pitched the seventh inning, striking out two.

Sometimes the best laid plans just don’t work out. Just ask Baker boys basketball coach Craig Woods.

Woods tried to coordinate a nine-team 24-hour summer basketball tournament at Baker High School Friday and Saturday.

The key to that statement was “tried.”

With nine teams Woods said each team would play a minimum of five games during the two days. There would be time for video games, sleeping and resting as well.

That was before Woods took his players to a camp at Gonzaga University a week ago. When he returned to Baker the tournament field had shrunk to five teams, and then to four.

Nine young Baker City tennis players took part in the annual Almost Wimbledon Junior Grass Court Tournament Friday through Sunday at the Baker City Grass Courts.

Nathan Eiselein, Ivan Hansen, Gracie and Lukas Huggins, Trenton Howard, Chance Parry, Dan and Kate Sizer and JJ Vela played in the three-day tournament.

Sunday’s results were not available for this story.