GALLERY: Summer baseball highlights
MIKE MAYNARD | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 3 weeks, 6 days AGO
A player for the Moses Lake All-Stars 9u team eyes the catcher ahead of his next pitch on Saturday.
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An infielder for the Moses Lake All-Stars 11u team fields a ground ball before turning to throw it to his teammate at first base.
Ryder Uebelacker (2) and Maverick Meseberg (27) bolt for home plate after Mack Cedergreen hit a double on Saturday.
A Moses Lake All-Star 11u player steps up to home plate to bat.
Moses Lake All-Stars 9u pitcher tags out his opponent at home plate.
After hitting a double for the Central Washington Sixers 12u team, Mack Cedergreen (24) celebrates with the dugout from second base.
A first baseman for the Moses Lake All-Stars 9u squad gets set on defense.
Grey Spurbeck (37) and Mack Cedergreen (24) meet at the mound before the Central Washington Sixers 12u team takes the field.
MOSES LAKE — The Dune City Dust-Up took over Moses Lake over the weekend. The bullpen series event not only brought several local Basin teams to town, but teams from all over Eastern Washington competed, as well. See below some highlights from the weekend of competition. Full results of the tournament will be covered in a later edition of the Columbia Basin Herald.
An infielder for the Moses Lake All-Stars 11u team fields a ground ball before turning to throw it to his teammate at first base.
Ryder Uebelacker (2) and Maverick Meseberg (27) bolt for home plate after Mack Cedergreen hit a double on Saturday.
A Moses Lake All-Star 11u player steps up to home plate to bat.
Moses Lake All-Stars 9u pitcher tags out his opponent at home plate.
After hitting a double for the Central Washington Sixers 12u team, Mack Cedergreen (24) celebrates with the dugout from second base.
A first baseman for the Moses Lake All-Stars 9u squad gets set on defense.
Grey Spurbeck (37) and Mack Cedergreen (24) meet at the mound before the Central Washington Sixers 12u team takes the field.ARTICLES BY MIKE MAYNARD
Maverick's trainer shares tips for safe summer conditioning
MOSES LAKE — With August on the horizon, the return of local high school athletics is drawing closer by the day. Lily Rodriguez, who serves as the athletic trainer at Moses Lake High School, shared some tips for how athletes can prepare for outdoor sports amidst heat and fluctuating air quality. "They need to start slowly entering into the heat as well," Rodriguez said. "They need to be acclimated (to the heat). It takes about 10 to 14 days of slow and gradual increase in activity. The first thing that they got to start doing is physical conditioning."
Eastern Washington BMX tracks team up for Race for Life fundraiser
MOSES LAKE — Moses Lake BMX will be participating in the Race for Life fundraiser the first weekend of August. A nationwide event, Eastern Washington BMX entities are adapting it into a four-track series across Walla Walla, Columbia Basin, Spokane and Moses Lake, President of Moses Lake BMX Jeff Niehenke said. "We try to see who can raise the most money amongst the tracks," Niehenke said. "We have a traveling trophy that goes along with that for bragging rights. Along with that, we also do a four-race series for the riders, and we have end-of-series awards for those who get the most points through those four races."
Mavericks wrestlers gain national experience in Fargo
MOSES LAKE — Eli Anderson and Conner Duvall from the Moses Lake Mavericks wrestling program recently returned from Fargo, North Dakota for the 2026 US Marine Corps Junior nationals. "I think I performed good," Anderson said. "But I don't think I performed my best; I could have done better in my last match to make it further."