May 12—Whitworth is back in the NCAA District III baseball tournament for the first time in nearly a decade. The Pirates (29-16), who pulled off an unlikely comeback to win the Northwest Conference ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Many fans thought Whitworth's season was done after their first loss in the Northwest Conference tournament. They lost their opening game to Puget Sound in 11 innings. However, they ...

May 16—The Whitworth Pirates' first NCAA Tournament game in nine years didn't go as planned. Whitworth surrendered five runs in the first four innings and lost 5-1 to the regional host La Verne ...

Dan Ramsay, who has guided Whitworth University’s baseball program for the last nine years, is leaving the school to become the manager of the Minnesota Twins’ minor league team in the Gulf Coast ...

PORT ANGELES — College baseball recruiters aren’t exactly blazing a trail to visit the North Olympic Peninsula. Sometimes, if your dream is to play collegiate baseball like Port Angeles High School’s ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – A Whitworth baseball player was drafted Tuesday by the Detroit Tigers. Hugh Smith was drafted with the first pick in the sixth round. Smith was named Northwest Conference pitcher of ...

“We surprised the whole league, and the hard work is finally paying off,” Pirates senior infielder Luke Scott said back in late April. Thirty days later, the Whitworth Pirates closed the book on the ...

Hugh Smith was initially concerned about giving up a good education at the University of Washington when he got an offer to play college baseball at Division III Whitworth College in Spokane, Wash. He ...

A curveball that didn’t curve. That’s how I met Spike Grosvenor. It was, as I remember, a nice March afternoon in 1953. The freshman baseball teams from North Central and West Valley were holding a ...