This document summarizes an article about Robert Fisher being inducted into the Citrus College Baseball Hall of Fame along with seven teammates from his 1958 state finals baseball team. It discusses how Fisher played for coach Galen Bowman for one season at Citrus College and left a big impression on him. The article notes it has been 46 years since Fisher's sophomore season when the Citrus Owls won their conference and reached the California state college baseball finals, finishing as state runners-up. The coach is quoted praising Fisher for his character and calling him "just a great person."

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March 5,2004
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Brett Fisher
This title
befits a
HOFer
I'd like to take a moment to
congratulate the newest inductee
of the baseball hall of fame: My
dad.
A month ago, Robert Fisher,
my father, joined seven other
mernbers of his 1958 state finals
baseball team who were
enshrined into the Citrus College
(Calif.) Baseball Hall of Fame.
So it isnl Major League
Baseball's llall of Fame. Big deal
if this ':hall" is located in
Glendora, Calif , and not
Cooperstourq N.Y And so what
- if *The
Fislf' wonl be keeping
company with the likes of the
'Yankee Clipper," "Sultan of
- Swat''or "Stan the Man."
This was Dad's day in the sun,
and thatk what mattered.
'He was just a fine young man,
just a great person,' former Citrus
_ College headbaseball coach
' Galen Bowman said of my father.
' Dad played under Coach
- Bowman for just one season
-the first, in fact of Bowman's 15-
year head-coaching carcer at
Citrus College. And he had appar-
ently left a big impression on the
man yfis managedthe Owls to
' oneoftheirgreatestbaseball
achisvements.
'1 can't say enough about the
ryalitv of the pe6on,' said
B'wma '11*sjsrtskind of
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that's probably the highest crm
pliment a person could receive."
It has been 46 years since my
- father's sophomore season ulhen
the Citrus Owls won their East
Conference and two of three play-
of games to reach the Catiforni;
state college baseball frnals. The
Owls fmished second-best inthe
state ttrat year and ended their
Rams reach fiI Rrte of Passage wins first
state basketball title.
By Brett Fisher
The best Class 3,A. boys basketball team in
Nevada resides right here in the Mason
Valley. And eventhough its players hail from
lastly di-fferent parts of the country, the Rite
ofPassage Rarns nonetheless call this place
home, too.
"The kids said they wanted to bring the
title home to Yerington," said ROP Silver
State Academy Business Manager Mark
Jacoby.
Last Saturday, the Rams did exactly that by
defeating Moapa Valley, 78-60, in the Class
3,4' state championship final game held at
Lawlor Events Center in Reno, and earning
them ttreir first Nevada state basketball title.
"The kids were just ecstatic," ROP head
coach Eric Jordan said. "They worked so
hard to get to that point."
ROP point guard Kevin Deshields led his
team in scoring against the Pirates, some-
thing he has done throughout much of this
season. The first-year player hit on 10 field
goals and poured in a game-high 29 points,
including 15 in the first half.
He nailedtwo ofhis nine free-throws in the
game dounthe shetchinthe fourth quarterto
discourage the Pirates &om cutting any fur-
ther into ROP3 l0-point lead.
The Rams didto MoapaValley what it also
had done to Northern 3,A. League rival
Dayton just the day before by overwhelming
their opponents early.
They jumped out quickly to a 26-ll
advantage in the first quarter and were up by
18 points at the halftime break.
Moapa Valley was able to outscore ROP,
19-16, in the third quarter, but the Rams also
had strerched their lead to as many as 2l
points midway through those same eight
minutes of play. They ultimately proved too
much for the Pirates and capped a2l-12ru
in the fourth period with the state finals vic-
tory.
Four ROP players scored in double figr:res
Saturday. Besides Deshields, Devin
Barefield and Andre Reed netted 12 poiirts
apiece. And Jermaine Parkerput in l0 points,
including a pair of three-point teys. Sanquan
Frazier had eight points and Quentin Divens
added seven for the Rams.
Tears ofjoy flowed freely from the players
RAM AIR: ROP guard Kevin Deshields, lef
against Dayton's Ryan Blaver, right, durinl
held last Friday night at Spanish Springs H
after the final buzzer sounded against Moapa
Valley, and coach Jordan admitted that left
him with a lump in his throat.
i'For me, I was overwhelmed and numb,"
he said.
After all, it had been I 8 years since Jordan
had played in a state title game. He was a
member of Rancho (Las Vegas) High
Schoolh boys state championship basketball
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By Herb Hall
Special to the Mason Valley News
KENNEWICK Wa.
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she moves up
the sideline just outside the three-point arc,
the basketball is advanced from the backcourt
torvard Brandee Smitht hands.
In one easy motion, the 5-foot 8-inch
night whenWCC shot a dismal l-17 from
behind the three-point arc.
The 36-teamNW,ACC is the largest
jrtnior college conference in the nation and is
divided into four regions u'ith teams from
WashinSoa Oregon Idnho and British
Columbia Si{een teams qualified for the