• PHS baseball team (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • PHS baseball team (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 Brady Russell (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Grant Niemann and Rocco De La Rosa (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 senior Grant Niemann stands on third base while chatting with coach Levi Webber in the first inning against The Dalles. Niemann scored moments later on a wild pitch. (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Grant Niemann (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Jacob Hernandez (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath sophomore Jacob Hernandez slides head first into home plate to score on a passed ball in the second inning. (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Wylie Griffith (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Rocco De La Rosa (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath junior Rocco De La Rosa watches a ball hit toward right field. (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)
  • Assistant coach JJ Faxon (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Nic Challe (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 Joe Barnes (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s Joe Barnes (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath senior Joe Barnes goes to the plate during Thursday’s 6-4 win over The Dalles. (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)
  • Philomath’s Caleb Babcock (Photo by Andy Cripe/Philomath News)
  • Philomath’s AJ Altishin (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.