The Underdog Coulee City Nine Steals Two Games
Missing five regular players, the local baseball team overcomes a losing streak with a new battery and sheer determination.
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The Coulee City Baseball team surprised themselves last Saturday and Sunday by winning two games straight, the first from the St. Andrews team and the second from the Hartline team. Five of the regular players not being able to go, Capt. Mike took a bunch of town boys to St. Andrews Saturday afternoon and surprised himself by winning the game with a score of 16 to 3. It was the general opinion after the game of the previous Sunday with Hartline, with a score of 10 to 2, not in our favor, that we would again lose last Sunday, but the boys went into the game with a determination to raise their record and won with a score of 2 to 3, due largely to our new battery, which Manager Weich has been lucky in securing from the disbanded Mold team. The next game is Sunday with Nespelem. This is Coulee City’s first game with the Siwashes and a large crowd is expected to attend from here.
“It was the general opinion... that we would again lose last Sunday, but the boys went into the game with a determination to raise their record.”
Local sports have long served as the heart of small-town identity in the Big Bend country. While the demographics and team rivalries of 1916 Coulee City reflect the era's specific social landscape, the community's hunger for a weekend victory remains a constant feature of rural Washington life.
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