When Canby goes to Volcanoes Stadium in Keizer Saturday to battle the West Linn Lions with the OSAA 6A baseball title on the line, it will be exactly 62.
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In high school, Payton Pritchard led the West Linn Lions to four-straight state championships. In college, he anchored an Oregon Ducks team that made the Sweet Sixteen round every year and won three Pac-12 titles. It only makes sense that he would keep on winning once he hit the pros.
Pritchard has quickly become the newest darling of the NBA. The shooting guard has yet to start a game, but he continues to get more and more meaningful minutes off the bench for the Boston Celtics. Including scoring 23 points in just 32 minutes against Toronto and shooting over 42% from beyond the arc overall. At just 6-2, Pritchard’s workman-like efficiency has already made him something of a cult hero in Boston, even