Youth baseball and softball season kicks off with parade
The Orioles prepare to move out for the annual Youth Day Parade in downtown Moses Lake Saturday.
MIKE MAYNARD/COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD
The Lady Mariners softball team rolls up Third Avenue in the annual Moses Lake Youth Day Parade Saturday morning.
A googly-eyed pickup carries baseball players down Fourth Avenue at the Moses Lake Youth Day Parade Saturday.
Softball players cheer as their trailer rolls through downtown Moses Lake at the Youth Day Parade Saturday.
The Pirates are suitably menacing with eyepatches and the Jolly Roger in the Youth Day Parade Saturday in Moses Lake.
The Starbursts are ready to play some ball at the Youth Day Parade Saturday in downtown Moses Lake.
MOSES LAKE — The youth baseball and softball season kicked off in Moses Lake with the traditional Youth Day Parade downtown Saturday morning.
The parking lots at McCosh Park and the Surf ‘n Slide Water Park were filled with pickup trucks and trailers, each decorated in team colors and bearing a team of eager young players from the Moses Lake Youth Baseball Association and the Columbia Basin Girls Softball Association. The parade wound down Fourth Avenue to Division Street, jogged north to head back up Third Avenue to Ivy Avenue, then returned to where they started.
“The object is just to get as many kids playing as possible,” said MLYBA vice president Leo Cortez.
The Lady Mariners softball team rolls up Third Avenue in the annual Moses Lake Youth Day Parade Saturday morning.
A googly-eyed pickup carries baseball players down Fourth Avenue at the Moses Lake Youth Day Parade Saturday.
Softball players cheer as their trailer rolls through downtown Moses Lake at the Youth Day Parade Saturday.
The Pirates are suitably menacing with eyepatches and the Jolly Roger in the Youth Day Parade Saturday in Moses Lake.
The Starbursts are ready to play some ball at the Youth Day Parade Saturday in downtown Moses Lake.