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Page 2B SPORTS East Oregonian Thursday, April 23, 2015 TENNIS: Hermiston boys, Pendleton girls cruise MLB M’s hold Continued from 1B off the courts (today) than frowns and being upset.” $IWHUWKH¿UVWWZRVLQJOHV matches, The Dalles ap- peared to be in control. The Dalles No. 1 singles Robin Pashele handled Katelyn Millard 6-2, 6-1, and Marisa Cianci edged Jaycee Ternes 6-4, 7-6 (8-6). From there, though, Hermiston would lose just one of the next six match- es, and that one loss was the No. 1 doubles pair of Briana Wolfe and Cheyanne Peter- son against Anna Muller and Johanna Wilson. After los- LQJ WKH ¿UVW VHW 0XOOHU and Wilson went on a tear, winning the second set 7-5 and winning the tie-breaker 10-4 after starting down 3-1. The key matches, accord- ing to Sivey, were the No. 3 and 4 singles players — Hill and Devyn Wolfe. Hill’s two- set tie-broken match lasted until dusk with the Bulldog just sliding past the River- hawk, and Wolfe dominated Julissa Marquez 6-0, 6-2. ——— HERMISTON 5, THE DALLES 3 Singles: Robin Pashele (TDR) def. Kate- lyn Millard (HHS) 6-2, 6-1; Marisa Cianci (TDR) def. Jaycee Ternes (HHS) 6-4, 7-6 (8-6); Mackenzie Hill (HHS) def. Kiani Pielli (TDR) 6-4, 5-7, 10-8; Devyn Wolfe (HHS) def. Julissa Marquez (TDR) 6-0, 6-2 Doubles: Anna Muller and Johanna Wilson (TDR) def. Briana Wolfe and Cheyanne Peterson (HHS) 4-6, 7-5, 10-4; Kylie Markwick and Whitney McMahon (HHS) def. Emma Ell-Smith and Abby Munnick (TDR) 6-2, 6-2; Reed Middleton and Breena Wadekamper (HHS) def. Rebekah Kohtfarber and Ellie Trujillo (TDR) 3-6, 6-2, 10-7; Debra Johnson and Athen Reid (HHS) def. Cassie Vazquez and Tiani Langston (TDR) 6-4, 6-1. PENDLETON 7, HOOD RIVER VALLEY 1 — At Hood River, the Buckaroos swept all four doubles matches and took three of four singles contests to knock off the league rival Eagles. The Buckaroos dropped just 13 games in four match- es. Sisters Keren and Keziah Hampton continued their un- beaten doubles season win- ning the top doubles match in straight 6-0, 6-0 sets. Christina Thompson and Kiana Sperl took the No. 2 matches 6-1, 6-0. Matilde Cittadinis, Mea- gan Flanagan and Hannah Flanagan each won singles matches. Cittadini won hers via 6-0, 6-0 score. Brandy Brown took the only Pendleton loss of the day in the No. 4 matches. “The girls played with energy today,” Pendleton tennis coach Rocky Dillen- burg said. “I’m starting to see the things we practice occurring more frequently in our matches.” BOYS TENNIS HERMISTON 7, THE DALLES 1 — At The Dalles, the Hermiston boys tennis team had its way with the Riverhawks in a steady wind. In preparation for play- ing doubles in Boise, Idaho, usual top singles players Ty- ler Wadekamper and Jacob Snell played No. 1 doubles, winning in straight sets 6-1. 6-3. Filling in the top two singles spots were Valen- tino Whitsell and Caleb Jorgenson. Whitsell ate the only loss for the Bulldogs, a 6-4, 6-4 loss, and Jorgenson came through with a 6-6 (5- 7), 6-1, 10-4 tie-break win. Ayden Pruitt also won a tie-broken match after losing WKH¿UVWVHW+HZRQWKH second set 6-2 and took the tie-breaker 10-7. In the No. 4 match, Skyler Grigg won easily 6-0, 6-1. ——— HERMISTON 7, THE DALLES 1 Singles: Will Cog (TDR) def. Valentino Whitsell (HHS) 6-4, 6-4; Caleb Jorgenson (HHS) def. Daniel Santillan (TDR) 6-6 (5-7), 6-1, 10-4; Ayden Prewitt (HHS) def. Alex Lopez (TDR) 3-6, 6-2, 10-7; Skyler Grigg (HHS) def. Pedro Lopez (TDR) 6-0, 6-1. Doubles: Tyler Wadekamper and Jacob Snell (HHS) def. Griffin M. and Ethan S. (TDR) 6-1. 6-3; Cameron Meade and Race Latham (HHS) def. Joe Singhurst and Jesus Barajas 6-0, 6-1; Stefano Peiris and Koby Grigg (HHS) def. Cody McClinton and Luis Diaz (TDR) 6-6 (7-5), 7-5; Patrick W and Jason M (HHS) def. Omar Rodriguez and Caleb Turner (TDR) 6-0, 6-4 HOOD RIVER VAL- LEY 7, PENDLETON 0 — At Pendleton, the Buck- aroo boys tennis team was unable to earn a win Tues- day at West Hills, dropping a league dual sweep to the Eagles. Singles players Greth Haug and Henry Holdman each challenged their foe, but ended up taking the loss. Haug took HRV No.2 player Cooper Holzman to a third set before falling 6-1, 3-6, 6-4. Holdman pushed Cole Shepard to two tight sets, but fell 6-4, 7-6 in the No. 3 sin- gles match. “They’re a very good team,” Pendleton coach Chris Holdman said. “They’re the top team in our conference. We had two matches that could’ve gone either way, but they their way.” ——— HOOD RIVER VALLEY 7, PENDLETON 0 Singles: Scotty Ziegner (HRV) def. Jeremy Cochrane (PEN) 6-0, 6-0; Cooper Holzman (HRV) def. Gareth Haugh (PEN) 6-1, 3-6, 6-4; Cole Shepard (HRV) def. Henry Holdman (PEN) 6-4, 7-5; Alden Silva (HRV) def. Lincoln Johnson (PEN) 6-3, 6-3. Doubles: Victor Garibo and Patrick Humann (HRV) def. Lincoln Johnson and Daniel Medina (PEN) 6-0, 6-0; Will Ferrick and Brandon Campos (HRV) def. Peter Wallace and Silas Johnston (PEN) 6-2, 6-0; Jorge Calderon and Sawyer Bogard (HRV) def. Josh Mendoza and Henry Scanlan (PEN) 6-0, 6-0. off Astros Associated Press SEATTLE — J.A. Happ HDUQHGKLV¿UVWZLQZLWKWKH Mariners as the Seattle bull- pen held off the Houston As- tros 3-2 Wednesday night. Acquired from Toronto in an offseason trade, Happ (1-1) won in his third start. He gave up two runs and eight hits in 7 1-3 innings, walking none and striking RXW¿YH Reliever Yoervis Medi- na walked the bases loaded with two outs in the eighth before striking out Chris Carter. An inning earlier, Carter homered. Fernando Rodney es- FDSHGD¿UVWDQGWKLUGRQH out jam in the ninth for his IRXUWKVDYHLQ¿YHWULHV Roberto Hernandez (0-2) allowed three runs in seven innings. RODEO: Preston Pederson tied for season lead in boys all-around Continued from 1B enzie, who is on a hot streak with 19 points in his last two rodeos. But Currin is coming off a win at Prineville on April 12, and with a total of 30 points available in Hermiston, is well within striking distance. Also in the hunt is Herm- iston junior Preston Ped- erson, who is sixth and 11 points behind Mackenzie. Pederson is also on target for a state all-around title, although two more dou- bleheaders stand between +HUPLVWRQ DQG WKH VWDWH ¿- nals on June 10-13. He’s tied with Steven Duby with 93 points, and al- though three more cowboys are within six points of them, Pederson was high-point man at each of the last two doubleheaders. Pederson’s top event is Intermountain HS Rodeo April 24-26, Farm-City Arena, Hermiston Schedule of events FRIDAY 10 a.m.: Cow cutting state finals 6:30 p.m.: 1st Performance SATURDAY 9 a.m.: Slack 1 p.m.: 2nd Performance (end of Rodeo 1) 6 p.m.: 3rd Performance SUNDAY 8 a.m.: Slack Noon: Final Performance tie-down roping and he’s the season leader headed into Hermiston. He’s won the last three rodeos running. “My horse is working pretty good and I’ve been roping better this year,” he said during a practice session on his family’s property east of Hermiston. “It’s just prac- tice and dedication to going out and doing it. “My biggest goal for the season is just to make solid runs and do good in the calf roping.” Pederson is also ranked ninth in steer wrestling — an event he picked up this season to aid him in the all- around — and 13th in team roping. He said the roping stock has been strong all spring, and that should continue this weekend with Randy Thompson’s pen that was also used at their last double- header in Klamath Falls on April 3-5. “It’s fair and we make sure everything is real even pitched,” Pederson said. Only the team roping steers will be fresh, but Cur- tis Pederson said the aim is to give all riders a good roping steer that should keep the times low. “We try to get steers that have been roped enough so they really aren’t running so wild,” he said. “We try to make sure they’re as even as possible so it’s more of a rop- ing contest and not a drawing contest.” Pendleton High sophomore Calgary Smith, of Adams, is the team’s highest ranked team roper in ninth place. But while the roping stock can be predictable, the roughstock is anything but. Pederson said the goal is to give these entry-level riders entry-level stock, “but some- times the animal decides it’s not going to tone it down.” The Intermountain team doesn’t have many rough- stock cowboys this season, but Echo freshman Hayden Hilliard covered a couple bulls last fall and is in second place for the season (He’s also third in the rookie stand- ings). Only one bull rider has scored at the four spring ro- deos combined, though. B-D Rodeos out of Cul- ver, which also supplied buckers for Klamath Falls DQG ZLOO VXSSO\ WKH VWDWH ¿- nals, is the roughstock con- tractor for Hermiston. The Intermountain girls don’t have anybody in the title hunt just yet, but two riders will enter Hermiston in the top 10. Pendleton sophomore Lindsey Taylor is seventh in goat tying and Hermiston ju- nior Cheyenne Wolfe is 10th in barrel racing. Two-time state pole bend- ing champion Shandie Britt, a senior from Hermiston, has been experiencing some issues with her horses this spring and enters the week- end in 23rd place. After an injury to her regular pole bending horse Bandy during the winter of her sophomore season, she switched to his sister Babe DQGZRQWKHQH[WWZRVWDWH¿- nals. She’s been using a com- bination of both this year. “Babe doesn’t go in the gate very well, she has a gate issue,” Britt said. “So at the last rodeo I just had both of them saddled and whatever one would go in the gate I went on.” Pendleton senior Marlene Bodmer is the team’s highest ranked breakaway roper in 16th place. 7KH ¿UVW SHUIRUPDQFH RI the Intermountain double- header will be Friday at 6 SP 7KH ¿QDO SHUIRUPDQFH will begin Sunday at noon. Admission is free for all ses- sions. BLAZERS: Shooting struggles continue zlies shooting so poorly that they missed a handful of coach Terry Stotts. “They’re good shooters,” layups in the quarter, Port- Stotts said. “They don’t land led only 21-19 at the look for them a lot. We can’t HQGRIWKH¿UVW Memphis took control in leave them open either.” Portland came into this the second with a 15-2 run, series with several players turning Portland’s four-point banged-up, and the list got edge to a 34-25 lead on a longer with center Chris 3-pointer by Jeff Green. The Kaman out after spraining Grizzlies outscored Portland his left ankle Tuesday in 31-18 in the quarter and led practice. Stotts juggled his 50-39 at halftime. The Grizzlies simply lineup, starting guard Allen &UDEEH IRU WKH ¿UVW WLPH LQ clamped down tighter and led 73-60 at the end of the postseason. The Blazers looked like the third after leading by the team that won 51 games as much as 18 late in the during the regular season quarter. TIP-INS early. Crabbe hit a 3 in the Trail Blazers: Portland’s opening minutes to give the %OD]HUVWKHLU¿UVWOHDGLQWKLV shooting woes continued. series, and they jumped out Aldridge was 4 of 6 in the to a 10-2 lead with Aldridge opening quarter and went connecting on four of his 3 of 14 the rest of the way. Lillard, 5 of 21 overall and ¿UVW¿YHVKRWV Yet even with the Griz- 0 of 6 outside the arc in the Continued from 1B Staff photo by Kathy Aney Jordan Ackerman, of Blue Mountain Community College, slides headfirst into sec- ond base Wednesday as Wenatchee Valley’s Bryan Widener fields the ball in Pendle- ton. Ackerman was safe. T-WOLVES: Postseason hopes still alive Continued from 1B the minimum in a mercy-rule shortened seven-inning com- plete game one-hitter. The lone Knight (13-15, 7-11 East Region) hit was a EORRSLQJ VLQJOH WR OHIW ¿HOG off of the bat of Brett Robins with one out in the sixth. The hit and prior walk of Royfel Granda provided the only oc- casion in which Wenatchee placed a runner in scoring position the entire game. ³, JRW D ORW RI ¿UVWSLWFK outs that they were swinging at, putting into play and get- ting out,” said Boyer, who re- mains on a pitch count while dealing with a nagging el- bow injury. “The last couple of weeks it’s started to feel pretty good and I’ve just let coach put me to work.” While Boyer was busy keeping the Knights from adding baserunners, the Timberwolves kept on add- ing their own. Blue Moun- tain scored a run in all six frames at the plate, including D¿YHUXQ¿IWKLQQLQJZKLFK stretched the lead to 12 runs and helped provide the big- gest single-game scoring out- put in more than a year. “We’ve been watching a lot of fastballs go by lately and not being really aggres- sive up there,” said Blue 0RXQWDLQULJKW¿HOGHU&ROWRQ Crow. “Today, I felt like any- thing left over the plate was smashed. It was a good day.” Crow was one of six Tim- berwolf batters to record two hits in Game 2 — all but one batter had at least one. They recored 15 as a team. Crow and Brennan Serrano carried KHDY\ EDWV HDFK ¿QLVKLQJ with two extra base hits. Al- exander Storaci cleared the bases with two of his game- high three RBIs with a shot WRWKHJDSLQWKH¿IWKLQQLQJ While the record might not show it, BMCC is be- ginning to play its best ball of the season. After dropping 11 of 12 early in the East Region league play, the Tim- berwolves have won three RI ¿YH JDPHV LQFOXGLQJ WKH convincing sweep of the Knights, which had walloped WKHPLQWKH¿UVWPHHWLQJ Despite sitting 10 back IURP ¿UVWSODFH 7UHDVXUH Valley, the Timberwolves re- main in contention for post- season play. “If it’s going to be any time, it’s now or never and I think that’s how everyone is feeling about it,” Boyer said. “If we want to have a chance, it’s time to start tightening up and going for it.” BMCC has fallen on the wrong side of 12 games that have been decided by two runs or less. Included in the string of tight losses has been nine one-run defeats, four of which have come in league games. “Sometimes you start to lose heart,” Boyer said. “And then in games like this you realize it’s not as bad as it seems.” ³7RGD\ ZH ¿QDOO\ JRW some of the luck going our way,” Baker said. “They made a couple errors, we got a couple of bleeders to fall and when they hit the ball hard it was right at our guys.” 7KH¿YHUXQ¿IWKLQQLQJLQ *DPHZDVQRWWKH¿UVWWLPH during the day the T-Wolves had turned a string of hits into a big number. They scored six in the sixth inning of the opener. Serrano paced the of- IHQVH LQ WKH ¿UVW JDPH ZLWK three RBIs on two singles. Eric Purcell was strong on the mound in Game 1 for the Timberwolves. Despite struggling to command his pitches — which resulted in ¿YH ZDONV ² KH VWUXFN RXW seven and allowed just one run in seven innings of work to pick up win number three on the season. The Timberwolves travel to Columbia Basin on Sat- urday before returning to Pendleton on Wednesday for DWZLQELOODJDLQVW¿UVWSODFH Treasure Valley. ——— BLUE MOUNTAIN 7, WENTACHEE VALLEY 3 Game 1 R H E WVC 000 100 002 — 3 6 3 BMCC 000 106 00x — 7 6 1 C. Gettman, J. Charlo (6) and K. Dehaas. E. Purcell, T. Oldham (8) and J. Urbach. W — E. Purcell. L — C. Gettman. BLUE MOUNTAIN 13, WENATCHEE VALLEY 0 (7 innings) Game 2 R H E WVC 000 000 0 — 0 1 3 BMCC 212 251 x — 13 15 1 B. Ludeman, M. Churape (3), D. Scademan (5), K. Blankenship (6) and H. Stockton. J. Boyer and J. Urbach. W — J. Boyer. L – B. Ludeman. 2B — C. Crow (BMCC) 2; B. Serrano (BMCC). 3B — A. Storai (BMCC); B. Serrano (BMCC) Local Slate PREP BASEBALL Today Riverside at Mac-Hi, 4:30 p.m. PREP SOFTBALL Friday Enterprise at Riverside (DH), 1/3 p.m. Echo at Vale (DH), 1/3 p.m. Pilot Rock at Culver (DH), 2/4 p.m. PREP TRACK & FIELD Today Heppner, Weston-McEwen, Irrigon, Pilot Rock, Helix at Heppner Invitational, 3 p.m. PREP BOYS TENNIS Today Sherman at Ione, 4 p.m. Stanfield at Helix, 4 p.m. Mac-Hi at Weston-McEwen, 4 p.m. PREP GIRLS TENNIS Today Sherman at Ione, 4 p.m. Stanfield at Helix, 4 p.m. Mac-Hi at Weston-McEwen, 4 p.m. PREP BOYS GOLF Friday Heppner, Echo, Nixyaawii at Big River (Umatilla, 10 a.m. Pendleton, Hermiston at Meadow Lakes GC (Prineville), 11 a.m. PREP GIRLS GOLF Friday Hermiston at Wandemere GC (Spokane, Wash.), 9 a.m. Heppner, Echo at Big River (Umatilla, 10 a.m. PREP RODEO Friday Intermountain Rodeo 1 (Hermiston), 6:30 p.m. PREP LACROSSE Friday Nadzitsaga at Hermiston, 5 p.m. PREP RUGBY Saturday East Oregon at Eastside (Portland), 1:30 p.m. COLLEGE BASEBALL Saturday Blue Mountain at Columbia Basin (DH), 1/4 p.m. COLLEGE SOFTBALL Friday Blue Mountain at Spokane (DH), 2/4 p.m. COLLEGE TRACK & FIELD Today Eastern Oregon at CCC Multi-Event Championships (Hermiston HS), 10 a.m. Basketball NBA Playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7) SCOREBOARD Wednesday, April 22 Atlanta 96, Brooklyn 91, Atlanta leads series 2-0 Memphis 97, Portland 82, Memphis leads series 2-0 San Antonio 111, L.A. Clippers 107, OT, serties tied 1-1 Thursday, April 23 Cleveland at Boston, 4 p.m. Chicago at Milwaukee, 5 p.m. Golden State at New Orleans, 6:30 p.m. Hockey NHL Playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7) Wednesday, April 22 Ottawa 1, Montreal 0, Montreal leads series 3-1 N.Y. Rangers 2, Pittsburgh 1, OT, N.Y. Rangers leads series 3-1 St. Louis 6, Minnesota 1, series tied 2-2 Anaheim 5, Winnipeg 2, Anaheim wins series 4-0 Thursday, April 23 Tampa Bay at Detroit, 4 p.m. NY Islanders at Washington, 4 p.m. Chicago at Nashville, 6:30 p.m. Calgary at Vancouver, 7 p.m. WHL Playoffs SECOND ROUND (Best-of-7) Friday, Apr. 24 Calgary at Brandon, 4:30 p.m. (Series tied 0-0) Portland at Kelowna, 6:05 p.m. (Series tied 0-0) Baseball MLB American League East Division W Boston 9 New York 8 Toronto 8 Baltimore 7 Tampa Bay 7 Central Division W Detroit 11 Kansas City 11 Chicago 6 Minnesota 6 Cleveland 5 West Division W Houston 8 Oakland 8 Los Angeles 6 Seattle 6 Texas 6 L 6 7 7 8 8 Pct GB .600 — .533 1 .533 1 .467 2 .467 2 L 4 4 8 9 9 Pct GB .733 — .733 — .429 4½ .400 5 .357 5½ L 7 8 9 9 9 Pct GB .533 — .500 ½ .400 2 .400 2 .400 2 opener, was 5 of 16 and hit 1 of 5 outside the arc. ... The Trail Blazers turned it over 14 times, which Memphis converted into 16 points. Grizzlies: Memphis had 29 second-chance points on just 12 rebounds, a fran- chise record in the playoffs, topping the mark of 26 set in triple-overtime against Oklahoma City in 2011. ... Lee made two 3-pointers, and Memphis now is 23-3 this season when he makes at least two in a game. ... Memphis had six turnovers. SSSH TONY Grizzlies guard Tony Al- OHQVWDUWHGWKH¿UVWJDPHV he played this season, then RQO\ ¿YH PRUH WKH UHVW RI the season. He said he was told Wednesday morning he would start again. “And they told me not to tell y’all,” Allen said. ——— Wednesday’s Games Chicago White Sox 6, Cleveland 0 Toronto 4, Baltimore 2 N.Y. Yankees 13, Detroit 4 Tampa Bay 7, Boston 5 Minnesota 3, Kansas City 0 Arizona 8, Texas 5 Oakland 9, L.A. Angels 2 Seattle 3, Houston 2 Today’s Games N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 2-1) at Detroit (An. Sanchez 1-2), 10:08 a.m. Oakland (Chavez 0-0) at L.A. Angels (Tropeano 0-0), 4:05 p.m. Baltimore (Tillman 2-1) at Toronto (Hutchison 1-0), 4:07 p.m. Boston (Buchholz 1-2) at Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 2-1), 4:10 p.m. Kansas City (Ventura 2-1) at Chicago White Sox (Sale 2-0), 5:10 p.m. National League East Division W New York 12 Atlanta 8 Washington 7 Philadelphia 5 Miami 4 Central Division W St. Louis 9 Chicago 8 Cincinnati 8 Pittsburgh 7 Milwaukee 2 West Division W Los Angeles 9 San Diego 10 Arizona 8 Colorado 8 San Francisco 6 ——— L 3 6 8 10 11 Pct GB .800 — .571 3½ .467 5 .333 7 .267 8 L 4 6 7 8 13 Pct GB .692 — .571 1½ .533 2 .467 3 .133 8 L 5 6 7 7 10 Pct GB .643 — .625 — .533 1½ .533 1½ .375 4 Wednesday’s Games Pittsburgh 4, Chicago Cubs 3 Miami 6, Philadelphia 1 St. Louis 7, Washington 5 N.Y. Mets 3, Atlanta 2 Cincinnati 2, Milwaukee 1 Colorado 5, San Diego 4 Arizona 8, Texas 5 San Francisco 3, L.A. Dodgers 2 Today’s Games Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 0-0) at Pitts- burgh (Locke 2-0), 9:35 a.m. Miami (Phelps 0-0) at Philadelphia (McGowan 1-0), 10:05 a.m. Atlanta (Teheran 2-0) at N.Y. Mets (B.Co- lon 3-0), 10:10 a.m. Cincinnati (Bailey 0-1) at Milwaukee (Lohse 0-3), 10:40 a.m. San Diego (T.Ross 1-0) at Colorado (Lyles 1-1), 12:10 p.m.