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Mountaineers
open
nationals
with
two
day-one
all-Americans
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Two members of the East-
ern Oregon University women’s
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all-American recognition dur-
ing day one of the NAIA national
championships Thursday in Gulf
Shores, Alabama, and several
more athletes put themselves in
position to secure all-American
nods later in the weekend.
Payton Jolley landed the top
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for EOU, placing sixth in the
pole vault by tying her personal
best of 11 feet 11-3/4. Teammate
Karriane Zollman got on the
scoreboard by taking eighth in
the javelin with a throw of 140
feet 2, which according to EOU
Athletics was a personal best by
nearly 4 feet.
The Mountaineers’ women’s
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as the team of Katie Jo Geb-
hardt, Faith Homer, Michelle
Herbes and Megan Boals placed
fourth in the preliminaries in a
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Despite Robinson
gem, LHS baseball
falls in playoff opener
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Tigers win scary blowout
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Scary is not a word that
would normally be equat-
ed with a 10-run, six-
inning victory, especially
one where the outcome
was never really in doubt.
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were a couple frighten-
ing early moments for
the top-seeded La Grande
Tigers softball team as
it began its bid for a sec-
ond consecutive 4A state
championship with a 12-2
win over the Mazama
Vikings Wednesday at
Sam Marcum Field in La
Grande.
In the bottom of the
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Brock, standing in the on-
deck circle, took a scream-
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the left shoulder that rico-
cheted and knocked her
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“It was concerning from
the get-go,” head coach
Woody Wright said. “Al-
lie took a heck of a shot,
but Allie’s a warrior and
stepped up and did her
job. She’s got seams on
her shoulder (from the
ball) and everything.”
In the third inning,
Lexee Gomes, attempting
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run on a squeeze bunt,
got caught in a rundown
between third and home.
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to score but took a high
and hard tag to the face
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ground dazed.
Both athletes, though,
stayed in the game.
“The kids are tough,”
Wright said. “They’re
competitors and they
want to play.”
Shortly after, La Grande
delivered a knockout blow
to the Vikings, which se-
nior Kara Gooderham
said showed how the
team was able to keep up
the pace with Brock and
Gomes dinged up.
“We have each other’s
backs. When Lexee went
down, we hit (the ball). We
scored (seven) runs and
had her back,” Gooderham
said. “We always are there
to pick each other up.”
One batter after Gomes’
play at the plate, Goo-
derham connected on a
two-run single to get the
Tigers on the board. Jacie
Howton then hit a two-
run single, Jaiden Hafer
connected on a two-run
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and Kinzy Bowen roped
an RBI double to give La
Grande a 7-0 lead.
The margin was more
than enough for Brock.
The junior, who had
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three batters, battled to
recover the form before
the shot to the shoulder
but still overpowered
Mazama’s batters. Brock
-
outs, walked two, and al-
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Starting pitcher Parker
Robinson turned in one of
the more dominant post-
season performances in
recent memory for the
La Grande Tigers base-
ball team, which is saying
something considering the
gems the team has deliv-
ered in the last few seasons.
Robinson, who took a no-
hitter into the seventh in-
ning, struck out 14 batters,
allowed just one hit and
walked two batters, one in-
tentionally.
“His mindset was spot-
on today,” head coach
Parker McKinley said of
Robinson. “He wanted the
ball. He knew he needed to
execute his pitches. We had
plans for pitches and pitch
sequences. He’s been work-
-
speed pitches and throw-
ing them for strikes. … His
mindset today was exactly
what we wanted from the
guy on the mound.”
The one hit, though,
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Sweet Home, as Travis
Thorpe hit a one-out RBI
double to break a scoreless
tie in the top of the seventh.
This hit boosted the Hus-
kies past La Grande, 2-0,
Wednesday in a pitcher’s
duel at Optimist Field in La
Grande.
“A couple things there
didn’t go our way. We could
say that about the seventh,
we could say that about
our at-bats and some of
the balls we hit,” McKinley
said.
Robinson struck out the
side in order to open the
game, and at one point
retired 18 of 19 batters,
15 of them in a row. The
only hitter to get on base
through six innings did so
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second inning. The junior
overpowered the Huskies
with a fastball humming in
the mid and sometimes up-
per 80s and complemented
-
speed pitches.
Zachary Luttmer ended
the dominant stretch when
he got on board via a hit by
pitch to open the seventh,
a point at which Robinson
said the game changed.
“I hit that kid, and I felt
everything shift,” Robinson
said.
Luttmer moved to sec-
ond on a wild pitch before
Robinson came back to
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Eagles’ baseball wins on road
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The Wallowa Valley Eagles baseball team
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Horizon Christian and never let up.
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in a row, topping Horizon Christian on
the road, 8-0.
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onslaught for the Eagles. Christopher
sixth innings, Aschenbrenner helped the
cause with a two-run double in the third,
and Flynn Nave, who went 4-for-4, hit an
RBI single and later scored on a passed
ball. Kaden McClure also hit an RBI sin-
gle in the third inning, with the hit put-
ting Wallowa Valley ahead, 5-0.
Aschenbrenner worked into and out of
trouble most of the afternoon but man-
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board. He walked three and struck out ✎ áæäç ÜéÚáÛêðÝÜÛÝßÜØñÞß ✎s Øñåãã êØèÝò
four. Horizon Christian got multiple run-
ners on base several times, including run-
ners on second and third with nobody out
in the fourth, but failed to score.
The Eagles (16-7 overall) visit top-seed
ing at home to the Yamhill-Carlton Tigers
Wednesday, 11-8.
The Tigers took the lead for good with
a run in the third inning to go ahead 4-3,
-
tend the margin to 9-3. The Outlaws ral-
lied, getting as close as 9-7 in the sixth, but
were unable to complete the comeback.
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The Enterprise Outlaws softball team
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