Colfax baseball will open season at Asotin

Colfax baseball players will launch the new season Saturday with a trip to the Asotin tournament. The Bulldogs are booked to play the Clarkston junior varsity at 9 a.m. for the season opener and then face off with Potlatch in a 1 p.m. game.

Coach Mike Parrish and his assistants have 27 players out for the season and most saw action last year with a relatively young squad.

Jamie Bledsoe, catcher and power pitcher for the Bulldogs last year, and Connor Appel were the only grads of the 2012 team which was stopped by Reardan one game short of the state playoff grid.

“We’ve got a lot of good kids b...