Colony plated their last run in the top of the fifth inning as sophomore Hudson Broeder reached on a fielding error and scored on a double by senior Brock Baker to trail 4-2.
Colony stranded two runners on base in the sixth inning. Sitka led off in the bottom half with Coleman and Steinson earning one-out walks, but were stranded on base.
Hodges secured the win as he put two strikes on the first batter
of the seventh inning and a foul tip was caught for the out. The next batter grounded out to shortstop Coleman and Hodges struck out the final batter.
Calhoun led with two RBI, Coleman and Steinson one apiece. McAlpin led with two hits, Ross, Calhoun, Mason Mcleod and Josh Gluth one each. Coleman earned two walks, Steinson, Mcleod, McAlpin and senior Bryce Calhoun one each.
Sitka will play in the 4:30 p.m. Saturday state championship game against Service, a 6-2 winner over Eagle River. Colony and Eagle River will play at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the third/fifth-place game.On a bright, sunny day in mid-June, a friend and I strolled on the Lower Loop trail at Eaglecrest. Out in the meadows, we found the white flowers of starflower and three-leaf goldthread; long-leaf and round-leaf sundews were there, as usual, but not yet flowering. Just above the sphagnum moss, I chanced to see some tiny purple things, borne on stems. These turned out to be flowers, only about 2 millimeters wide. The leaves at the base country wise email marketing list of the stem were shiny, with rolled-in margins, almost hidden down in the moss. My
Friend immediately said ‘a butterwort?!’
— and that indeed was correct, according to the books. But not much like the common butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris) that we knew from other walks. We had never seen this plant before, in all our years of messages and comments posted in blogs observing trail-side plants and animals. So this was a big discovery for us!Butterworts are insectivorous plants, catching and digesting small bugs on their sticky leaves. The little plant we found was hairy butterwort (P. villosa), so-named for the hairs on the stem. Hairy b2b phone list butterwort has a circumpolar distribution, living in wet meadows and muskegs. Although our specimen was tiny, the flowers can be up to about 8 millimeters wide. It overwinters by forming a rosette of non-insectivorous leaves that fold up to cover and protect next year’s shoot during the cold months (a hibernaculum). The common butterwort may be pollinated by bees, butterflies, and moths that can reach into the long nectar spur at the back of the flower, but I found no information about pollination of hairy butterwort.