• Philomath’s Rocco De La Rosa (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 Caleb Babcock (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Caleb Babcock (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Caleb Babcock (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath sophomore Caleb Babcock got the season-opening start for the Warriors Thursday against Junction City. (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Caleb Babcock (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Caleb Babcock (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Caleb Babcock (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Caleb Babcock (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Lining the field (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Coaches Levi Webber of Philomath and Tony Stavros of Junction City meet at home plate prior to the first pitch. (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Coach Levi Webber chats with the team during a mound visit. (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 Rocco De La Rosa (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Wylie Griffith (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath sophomore Wylie Griffith stretches for the ball but can’t quite get there on a late hit for the Tigers. Griffith later came in at pitcher and struck out the side. (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 Colton Hruska (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Kash Lindsey (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’s Logan Matthews (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Grant Niemann (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Grant Niemann (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Grant Niemann (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Grant Niemann (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Grant Niemann (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Grant Niemann (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Grant Niemann (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath junior Grant Niemann makes the catch while protecting home plate a moment before tagging out Junction City’s Owen Cooper in the seventh inning. (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’s Brady Russell (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)
  • Philomath’s Mason Stearns (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Mason Stearns (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath senior Mason Stearns went 2 for 4 and saw action at shortstop, pitcher and second base for the Warriors. (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.