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Apr. 26—Longtime Lewis-Clark State supporter Mike Ripley did not have to help set up for the Warrior Ahtletics Hall of Fame weekend.
After all, Ripley is a part of the five-person, three-team 2025 LC State Hall of Fame class.
"He's being inducted tomorrow, and yet he was still helping us to set up," said Alisha Alexander, LC State's assistant athletic director of sports information. "I even talked to him. I said, 'You know, this weekend's partially for you. You don't have to be helping.' He goes, 'No, I can't not help. I have to be here. I feel like it's part of my job to be here,' because that's just who he is."
Ripley is the former KOZE radio owner — the four-decade broadcast partner of Warriors Athletics and the Avista NAIA World Series.
Former baseball coach Jeremiah Robbins, baseball players Doug Blume and Matt Foran, volleyball's Anile Clemente, the 1990 and 2000 NAIA championship baseball teams and the 2016-17 NAIA runner-up women's basketball team will join the LC State Hall of Fame today.
Each will have their hall of fame plaques unveiled and will throw out the first pitch as a class, prior to today's Warrior baseball game versus British Columbia at noon at Harris Field.
LC State will induct the 2025 hall of fame class in a 6 p.m. ceremony today at the Clearwater River Casino and Lodge.
Mike Ripley (meritorious, 1984-present)
The NAIA World Series' radio partner in 1984 was KOZE under the co-ownership of Ripley. Since then, KOZE has broadcast LC State baseball, men's and women's basketball and the World Series each year.
Beyond once owning the radio station, Ripley is the lone charter member of the LC State athletic booster club, helped start the first endowment in the athletic department and is a former president and current member of the LC State Foundation Board.
Alexander said that Ripley and his wife, Sharon, have supported the LC State dance team in its inaugural season, hosting team dinners and going out of their way to help the program.
"People like Mike Ripley are the reason why it's so special to work here," Alexander said. "That's just who the Ripleys are. They're just so ingrained in the culture and part of what we do here at LC State."
Jeremiah Robbins (baseball coach, 2013-18)
Former Warrior baseball coach Robbins led LC State to three NAIA World Series titles from 2015-17 and five championship games in six years.
Robbins was twice named NAIA Coach of the Year and earned the American Baseball Coaches Association NAIA Coach of the Year award three times.
He left LC State to coach Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., and just this year took his talents to Douglas High School in Winston, Ore., where he is athletic director.
Anile Clemente (volleyball 2007-09)
Coming to LC State from Sao Paulo, Brazil, after the 2007 season had begun, Clemente posted three NAIA All-American campaigns, earning first-team honors her junior year and third-team recognition her sophomore and senior seasons.
Former LC State and Washington State coach Jen Greeny recruited Clemente in her first year on the job and guided the Warriors to 11th- and 13th-place showings in the NAIA Tournament.
Clemente averaged 4.57 points per set and finished her career seventh all-time in Warriors history with 1,172 kills.
Doug Blume (baseball 1978-80)
Blume, a Lewiston native and Lewiston High School grad, came to LC State in 1978. The Bengal-turned-Warrior led LC State with 24 home runs in his junior year and sported a slugging percentage of .913, which ranks second in school history for a single season.
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In his junior and senior seasons — one an NAIA first-team All-American campaign and the other an honorable mention-worthy season — Blume hit 44 home runs (third-most in school history), had a .764 slugging percentage (sixth) and drew 11 walks (10th).
Matt Foran (baseball 1994-97)
Foran became the winningest pitcher in LC State baseball history with 31 victories, 255 strikeouts and 297 2/3 innings pitched — each program-best marks.
The left-handed Foran tossed four of his 14 complete games and was 9-1 in his senior year. The season prior, the Canadian lefty was 9-2 and won an NAIA championship.
Foran spent the summer after his freshman year with the Canadian National Team, where he was 5-2 with a 2.12 earned run average as his nation's best pitcher in the 1994 Baseball World Cup.
1990 baseball team
The 1990 Warrior baseball team was 52-14 and won LC State's fourth straight national title and its sixth overall.
Mark Rasmussen and Greg Umfleet hit sixth-inning home runs in the championship game to help the Warriors beat Auburn Montgomery 9-4.
The team ranks in the top 10 in batting average (.351, fifth) and hits (777, ninth).
Pitcher Mark Yockey, an NAIA first-team All-American, was selected in the 15th round of that year's MLB draft by the San Francisco Giants alongside Warriors Mike DeKneef (Boston, 20th round), pitcher Bruce Bensching (San Diego, 26th round) and outfielder Todd Anderson (Montreal, 44th round).
2000 baseball team
The 2000 Warriors baseball team beat Dallas Baptist 10-1 to claim the school's second consecutive and 11th overall title in the World Series' triumphant return to Lewiston.
The Warriors were 59-12 overall for the second-most wins in program history.
Catcher Trevor Brown earned a first-team All-American selection with a .434 batting average. Jason Ellison, J.R. Diaz, Gil Pierce, Chris Mabeus and John Vietch each earned honorable mention selections.
LC State saw four Warriors selected in the 2000 MLB draft, including shortstop Elliott Strankman (San Francisco, 12th round), pitcher Nate Natale (Kansas City, 22nd round), Ellison (San Francisco, 22nd round), and Anthony Ferrari (44th round, Montreal).
Ellison and Ferrari reached the major leagues in 2003.
2016-17 women's basketball
The 2016-17 LC State women's basketball team went further than any Warrior women's hoops squad had gone before, reaching the NAIA national championship.
Coached by 2025 NAIA Hall of Fame coach Brian Orr and featuring Caelyn Orlandi — a 2023 LC State Hall of Fame inductee and the current Warrior women's basketball head coach — the Warriors fell short, losing to Oklahoma City 73-66 for just their second loss of the season.
The Warriors started the year 23-0 and became the only team in program history to earn a No. 1 seed in the NAIA Tournament.
LC State shot a collective 46.8%, the second-best in program history. Orr and Orlandi earned Frontier Conference Coach and Player of the Year honors, respectively.
Hailey Turner was Sixth-Player of the Year, while Orlandi was a first-team All-American and Brittany Tackett was named second-team All-American.
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After all, Ripley is a part of the five-person, three-team 2025 LC State Hall of Fame class.
"He's being inducted tomorrow, and yet he was still helping us to set up," said Alisha Alexander, LC State's assistant athletic director of sports information. "I even talked to him. I said, 'You know, this weekend's partially for you. You don't have to be helping.' He goes, 'No, I can't not help. I have to be here. I feel like it's part of my job to be here,' because that's just who he is."
Ripley is the former KOZE radio owner — the four-decade broadcast partner of Warriors Athletics and the Avista NAIA World Series.
Former baseball coach Jeremiah Robbins, baseball players Doug Blume and Matt Foran, volleyball's Anile Clemente, the 1990 and 2000 NAIA championship baseball teams and the 2016-17 NAIA runner-up women's basketball team will join the LC State Hall of Fame today.
Each will have their hall of fame plaques unveiled and will throw out the first pitch as a class, prior to today's Warrior baseball game versus British Columbia at noon at Harris Field.
LC State will induct the 2025 hall of fame class in a 6 p.m. ceremony today at the Clearwater River Casino and Lodge.
Mike Ripley (meritorious, 1984-present)
The NAIA World Series' radio partner in 1984 was KOZE under the co-ownership of Ripley. Since then, KOZE has broadcast LC State baseball, men's and women's basketball and the World Series each year.
Beyond once owning the radio station, Ripley is the lone charter member of the LC State athletic booster club, helped start the first endowment in the athletic department and is a former president and current member of the LC State Foundation Board.
Alexander said that Ripley and his wife, Sharon, have supported the LC State dance team in its inaugural season, hosting team dinners and going out of their way to help the program.
"People like Mike Ripley are the reason why it's so special to work here," Alexander said. "That's just who the Ripleys are. They're just so ingrained in the culture and part of what we do here at LC State."
Jeremiah Robbins (baseball coach, 2013-18)
Former Warrior baseball coach Robbins led LC State to three NAIA World Series titles from 2015-17 and five championship games in six years.
Robbins was twice named NAIA Coach of the Year and earned the American Baseball Coaches Association NAIA Coach of the Year award three times.
He left LC State to coach Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., and just this year took his talents to Douglas High School in Winston, Ore., where he is athletic director.
Anile Clemente (volleyball 2007-09)
Coming to LC State from Sao Paulo, Brazil, after the 2007 season had begun, Clemente posted three NAIA All-American campaigns, earning first-team honors her junior year and third-team recognition her sophomore and senior seasons.
Former LC State and Washington State coach Jen Greeny recruited Clemente in her first year on the job and guided the Warriors to 11th- and 13th-place showings in the NAIA Tournament.
Clemente averaged 4.57 points per set and finished her career seventh all-time in Warriors history with 1,172 kills.
Doug Blume (baseball 1978-80)
Blume, a Lewiston native and Lewiston High School grad, came to LC State in 1978. The Bengal-turned-Warrior led LC State with 24 home runs in his junior year and sported a slugging percentage of .913, which ranks second in school history for a single season.
Daily headlines, straight to your inboxRead it online first and stay up-to-date, delivered daily at 7 AM
In his junior and senior seasons — one an NAIA first-team All-American campaign and the other an honorable mention-worthy season — Blume hit 44 home runs (third-most in school history), had a .764 slugging percentage (sixth) and drew 11 walks (10th).
Matt Foran (baseball 1994-97)
Foran became the winningest pitcher in LC State baseball history with 31 victories, 255 strikeouts and 297 2/3 innings pitched — each program-best marks.
The left-handed Foran tossed four of his 14 complete games and was 9-1 in his senior year. The season prior, the Canadian lefty was 9-2 and won an NAIA championship.
Foran spent the summer after his freshman year with the Canadian National Team, where he was 5-2 with a 2.12 earned run average as his nation's best pitcher in the 1994 Baseball World Cup.
1990 baseball team
The 1990 Warrior baseball team was 52-14 and won LC State's fourth straight national title and its sixth overall.
Mark Rasmussen and Greg Umfleet hit sixth-inning home runs in the championship game to help the Warriors beat Auburn Montgomery 9-4.
The team ranks in the top 10 in batting average (.351, fifth) and hits (777, ninth).
Pitcher Mark Yockey, an NAIA first-team All-American, was selected in the 15th round of that year's MLB draft by the San Francisco Giants alongside Warriors Mike DeKneef (Boston, 20th round), pitcher Bruce Bensching (San Diego, 26th round) and outfielder Todd Anderson (Montreal, 44th round).
2000 baseball team
The 2000 Warriors baseball team beat Dallas Baptist 10-1 to claim the school's second consecutive and 11th overall title in the World Series' triumphant return to Lewiston.
The Warriors were 59-12 overall for the second-most wins in program history.
Catcher Trevor Brown earned a first-team All-American selection with a .434 batting average. Jason Ellison, J.R. Diaz, Gil Pierce, Chris Mabeus and John Vietch each earned honorable mention selections.
LC State saw four Warriors selected in the 2000 MLB draft, including shortstop Elliott Strankman (San Francisco, 12th round), pitcher Nate Natale (Kansas City, 22nd round), Ellison (San Francisco, 22nd round), and Anthony Ferrari (44th round, Montreal).
Ellison and Ferrari reached the major leagues in 2003.
2016-17 women's basketball
The 2016-17 LC State women's basketball team went further than any Warrior women's hoops squad had gone before, reaching the NAIA national championship.
Coached by 2025 NAIA Hall of Fame coach Brian Orr and featuring Caelyn Orlandi — a 2023 LC State Hall of Fame inductee and the current Warrior women's basketball head coach — the Warriors fell short, losing to Oklahoma City 73-66 for just their second loss of the season.
The Warriors started the year 23-0 and became the only team in program history to earn a No. 1 seed in the NAIA Tournament.
LC State shot a collective 46.8%, the second-best in program history. Orr and Orlandi earned Frontier Conference Coach and Player of the Year honors, respectively.
Hailey Turner was Sixth-Player of the Year, while Orlandi was a first-team All-American and Brittany Tackett was named second-team All-American.
Taylor can be reached at 208-848-2268, [email protected], or on X or Instagram @Sam_C_Taylor.
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