The Bulldogs won the boys match 4-1, but lost the girls match 5-0.

Baker’s Dan Sizer and Jordan Curtis won the first two boys singles matches in straight sets.

The Bulldogs then swept the boys doubles. Trenton Howard and Nathan Eiselein won the No. 1 doubles, and JJ Vela and Chance Parry the No. 2 doubles.

On the girls side, the closest Baker came to a win was the No. 2 singles where Helen Galiszewski lost in three sets.

Baker travels to Vale Tuesday before hosting La Grande next Thursday.

Baker rallied in Game 1 to earn a 5-4 decision. But the Bulldogs’ luck ran out in the second game, a 9-4 La Grande win. The loss was Baker’s first in a dozen games this season.

“We just didn’t play Baker baseball, particularly in the second game,” Coach Dan Blankenship said.

“It was a great team effort in the first game. Our pitchers threw pretty well and we hit the ball pretty well late, got some clutch hits.

“Then in the second game, our pitchers didn’t pitch well, we didn’t hit the ball well. It wasn’t our day.

“The bottom line is we did not deserve to win the second game the way we swung the bats,” Blankenship said. “We didn’t swing with confidence.”

Baker and La Grande battled to a split in a Greater Oregon League softball doubleheader Friday afternoon at the Baker Sports Complex.

But the twinbill proved to be more costly to the Bulldogs than a single game.

Coach Al McCauley was ejected from Game 1 with two outs in the top of the seventh inning.

Baker won that game 7-3, but lost McCauley for the second game, and for the first game of Friday’s twinbill at Ontario.

“The way the rule reads I’ll have to sit out the first game at Ontario,” McCauley said Sunday. “The way the rule says there is the ejection day and a suspension day. And, I have to take a sportsmanship class in the next seven days.”

McCauley was tossed after disputing a call at second base. On the play a La Grande base runner went into the bag standing up, preventing Baker from completing an attempt at a double play.

Baker-area high school track and field, softball and golf, and middle school track teams were busy during the weekend around Eastern Oregon.

Baker, PV track at La Grande

LA GRANDE — Baker track athletes earned one first, three seconds and a trio of thirds Friday at the La Grande Invitational at Eastern Oregon University in La Grande.

Jake Eastland won the boys javelin with a toss of 162 feet, 1 inch.

Runners-up were Whitney Phillips in the girls 400 (1:02.13), Kylee Curtis in the shot (32 feet, 7 inches), and Haley Adams in the pole vault (8 feet, 6 inches).

Eastland was third in the boys pole vault (11 feet), Mitko Smith in the 100 (11.81) and Weston Anderson in the discus (122 feet, 3 inches).

Powder Valley’s Ali Abrego was second in the girls high jump (4 feet, 10 inches), and Trenton Dixon third in the boys high jump (6 feet).

Both teams travel to Ontario Saturday for the annual Heinz Invitational.

Baker’s baseball record remains without a blemish, but the Bulldogs didn’t exactly play perfectly in sweeping a doubleheader from Weiser, Idaho, Tuesday at the Sports Complex.

They did come awfully close, though.

Five Baker pitchers combined to hold the Wolverines to a single hit in the 7-0, 13-0 sweep.

The quintet surrendered just two walks.

And the Baker defense committed only one error.

The Bulldog hitters, meanwhile, treated the ball rather more harshly than Weiser did.

Darryn McCauley and Mackenzie Srack’s teammates supplied a lot more runs than the pair of pitchers needed.

One run, as it turned out, would have been plenty.

And Baker’s Sierra Howerton got that run with a leadoff homer.

McCauley and Srack combined on a three-hitter, and the Bulldogs beat Weiser 12-0 in a non-league softball game Tuesday afternoon at the Baker Sports Complex.

The Vale Vikings lived up to their reputation as one of the top tennis schools in the region by beating the Baker boys and girls Tuesday afternoon at the Ash Grove Complex.

Vale won the boys match 3-2.

The Vikings prevailed 4-1 in the girls match.

A heavy rain shower arrived about an hour before play was to begin, but coaches and players broomed water off the courts and the sun returned to dry the surface in time for the match to get started about on schedule, Baker Coach George Keister said.

LA GRANDE — It was simply another typical year at the La Grande invite.

Golfers had to endure consistent weather changes every 15 to 20 minutes.

Several golfers peeled off layers of clothes for one hole, only to put them back on for the next hole.

“That’s the beauty of spring sports I guess,” La Grande head coach Kelli Miller said.

PENDLETON — Powder Valley’s junior high school track and field team competed at the Sunridge Middle School meet Friday in Pendleton.

Baker also competed at the meet, but no results were available for this story.

Powder Valley also placed 10th in the girls meet.

Huntington’s Solveig Bygstad won the girls long jump with a leap of 16 feet, 1 inch.

The Locos’ Michal Nowodworski was second in the boys 3,000 with a time of 11:33.16.

Powder Valley’s Kate Jones was third in the 100 hurdles (18.56) and fourth in the 300 hurdles (52.83).