2026 Beavers Display Late-Inning Surge to Capture 50+ Title at Willamette Valley Men’s Baseball League
Willamette Valley Men’s Baseball League, 50+ Division
Mid-Valley Beavers 19, Warning Track Power 11
‘Late-inning Surge Propels the Beavers to the Championship’
Trailing by five in the seventh inning, the Mid-Valley Beavers outscored Warning Track Power by 13 runs the rest of the way for a 19-11 win in the championship game of the Willamette Valley Men’s Baseball League’s 50-over division.
With the victory, the Beavers closed the year at 11-3, while WTP finished at 10-3.
Mike Jefferis (.561), Peter Ruggiero (.541) and Mick Haller (.511) led the Beavers to a team batting average of .421 for the season. Jefferis also led the team in runs (30), stolen bases (24), innings pitched (51.3) and earned run average (4.23).
David Porter collected a team-high 28 hits while also pitching 30 innings, and Porter and Steve Lundeberg paced the Beavers in runs batted in with 22 apiece.
Porter and Lundeberg were two of four Beavers to play in all 14 games, along with Kip Carlson, who hit .340 with 12 RBIs in his 33rd season in the league, and Andrew Koll, who batted .482 with 19 RBIs.