About Brent Baker

Brent is a reporter for the Gazette-Tribune. Prior to working at the G-T, he was the sports editor for Sunrise Publishing from 2000-2005 in Michigan. He subsequently owned and operated Buckland Media, a high school sports website, in Michigan until 2010. He and his wife Kim, who have an adult son, moved to Tonasket in 2010. Brent started work at the G-T in 2011.

Stories by Brent Baker

Photo by Brent Baker — Connor Hughes (21) and the Hornets had no answer for 6-8 Ty Egbert, who kept Oroville from scoring many points in the paint during Friday's contest.

Battle for first is no contest

By Brent Baker on January 19, 2012 in Sports and Outdoors

Lake Roosevelt handed Oroville a 72-29 defeat in a game that had first place on the line in the Central Washington 2B League North Division.

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Tigers solid in loss at Cashmere

By Brent Baker on January 19, 2012 in Sports and Outdoors

The Tonasket boys basketball team didn’t come home from Cashmere with a victory, but their 50-39 loss to the Bulldogs may well have been their best performance of the season.

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Photo by Brent Baker — The Tonasket Apple Pie Invitational could easily have gone by the moniker "Mitchell Invitational" as for the second straight year Tiger coach Dave Mitchell's sons brought their teams to the tourney. Patrick (left) is the head coac

Tonasket, Oroville take 5th and 6th at Apple Pie

By Brent Baker on January 19, 2012 in Sports and Outdoors

Tonasket’s wrestling team earned a fifth place finish at its Apple Pie Invitational on Saturday, Jan. 14, while Oroville wrestled to a sixth-place finish.

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Photo by Brent Baker — Callie Barker (left) and Sierra Speiker try to contain Lake Roosevelt's Jada Desautel during Friday's loss to the Raiders.

State-ranked Raiders hold off Oroville girls

By Brent Baker on January 19, 2012 in Sports and Outdoors

Oroville’s girls basketball team wasn’t able to upset Lake Roosevelt. But their 56-50 loss to the Raiders on Friday, Jan. 13, certainly sent a message.

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Photo by Owen Blauman / Provided by the <I>Mercer Island Reporter</I>Unforgettable: two of the writer's classmates, Kyle Pepple (left) and Doug Gregory, can't believe what they see as they're about to cut down the net. Thirty seconds after the 1981 state

Half-Baked: Some things we never forget

By Brent Baker on January 12, 2012 in Half-Baked, Sports and Outdoors

It’s still the most telling sports photo I’ve ever seen. Two kids on a ladder, about to cut the net down from a basketball rim. A typical pose after championship games. But what’s different is the looks of crushing shock on their faces, mouths wide open, the net beside them hanging untouched.

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