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By PAUL DELANEY
Staff Reporter 

Cheney loses host role in Little League tournament

Loss of city water forces officials to move event to Western Washington

 

Last updated 7/17/2015 at 10:59am

Paul Delaney

The baseball fields at Salnave Park in Cheney were to have hosted a state Little League tournament for 9-10 year-olds starting July 17. But following a dispute over watering the fields the tournament was relocated to Montesano, Wash.

In the simplest of forms, baseball's a game of hits, runs, pitches, strikes, balls and errors.

But it's also one of knowing the signs, from coaches to players running the bases and with the catcher to his pitcher.

And maybe in the case of the Washington State Little League 9-10 age group state tournament that was to have started July 17 and run upwards of 12 days at Salnave Park in Cheney, it was having no signs, or confusing ones at best.

Just a few weeks before the city was to be busy with baseball for 12 days, an economic shot in the arm has moved to the community of Montesano, Wash. nea...



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