• Philomath’s Mason Stearns (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Mason Stearns (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s AJ Altishin (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s AJ Altishin (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Joe Barnes (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Joe Barnes (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Joe Barnes (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Rocco De La Rosa (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Rocco De La Rosa (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Wylie Griffith (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Wylie Griffith (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Wylie Griffith (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Wylie Griffith (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Wylie Griffith (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath coach Levi Webber (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Logan Matthews (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Logan Matthews (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath junior Grant Niemann sprints out of the batter’s box after making contact with the ball. (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Grant Niemann (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Logan Matthews (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Kayson Olsen (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Kayson Olsen (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Brady Russell (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath first baseman Brady Russell stretches for the out a step ahead of North Marion’s Carter Reilly. (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath senior Mason Stearns hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the first — his first this season at Terry Stephenson Field and second overall. (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Mason Stearns (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Mason Stearns (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • PHS baseball team (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)

Andy Cripe is a longtime professional news and sports photographer who worked several years in this region for the Corvallis Gazette-Times and Albany Democrat-Herald.