WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2015
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Orioles to play in
closed stadium
BALTIMORE
(AP) — After a pair of
postponements caused by
rioting in Baltimore, the
Orioles and Chicago White
Sox will play Wednesday
at Camden Yards in what
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game without fans in major
league baseball’s 145-season
history.
Because of the unsettled
environment in Baltimore,
where rioters burned a drug
store and set police cars
ablaze on Monday night,
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7:05 p.m. starting time and
closed it to the public.
In addition, Baltimore’s
Friday-to-Sunday series
against Tampa Bay was
shifted from Camden Yards
to Tropicana Field in St.
Petersburg, Florida, with the
Orioles remaining the home
team and batting last.
“All of the decisions
in Baltimore were driven
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insure the safety of fans,
players, umpires and
stadium workers,” Baseball
Commissioner Rob Manfred
said in an email to The
Associated Press. “Only
after we were comfortable
that those concerns had been
addressed did we consider
competitive issues and the
integrity of the schedule.”
Former UO Duck
suspended by
NFL for one year
DAVIE, Fla. (AP) —
Dion Jordan’s 2015 season
is over before it started, and
his tumultuous time with
the Miami Dolphins may be
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The Dolphins and the
NFL announced Tuesday
that Jordan has been
suspended for
2015 season
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for violating the
NFL Policy and
Program for
Substances of
Abuse.
The
defensive
Jordan
end was not
at any of the
team’s voluntary workouts
last week, raising plenty of
eyebrows about his status
and his future with the
Dolphins.
The news came two days
before the start of the NFL
draft, and will likely have
at least some effect on the
Dolphins’ strategy. Miami
has the No. 14 selection in
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Jordan would have earned
about $5.6 million this
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a prorated portion of his
$13.3 million signing bonus
and a $585,000 base salary.
Jordan’s arrival was much
ballyhooed, and has been
mostly booed ever since.
“If he wants to
fi ght me, good for
me. If he’s running
and moving
around the ring,
we’re prepared
for that too.“
— Manny Pacquiao
On Floyd Mayweather,
his boxing opponent in
Saturday’s title bout.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1901 — His Eminence,
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wins the Kentucky Derby by
1 1/2 lengths over Sannazarro
in the only Derby raced in
April.
1961 — ABC’s “Wide
World of Sports,” debuts.
2013 — Jason Collins
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professional athlete in the
four major American sports
leagues to come out as gay.
The 34-year-old free agent
played for six NBA teams in
12 seasons.
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HERMISTON
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drove a ball to the
lasted over three
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hardly
anyone
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inning. Hermiston
through seven innings.
brought six home
Innings eight and nine appearance.
Wilson’s
on just three hits as
didn’t do the trick either.
Duffy, who started
But, when the league- unlikely heroics
the game on the
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Hermiston
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a few solid swings of the surging
struggled
with
bat in the tenth, the back- (13-6, 5-1 CRC)
Hood
his command and
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River scored eight
surrendered a large
savage.
Hood River brought 17 more runs to make the lead.
The Eagles rallied
to the dish in the marathon Bulldogs (8-9, 1-5 CRC)
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innings, however, scoring
a bizarre 19-9 extra inning all but obsolete.
The loss is the fourth in three in each frame to even
victory over Hermiston
at Armand Larive on a row for Hermiston and the score at 6-6.
places them two games
“We’ve had trouble
Tuesday.
“We battled, battled, behind The Dalles and scoring six in a game.
battled and then we give Pendleton at the midway We’ve had a trouble
up the bases loaded,” point of Columbia River scoring six in a double-
Hermiston coach Lance Conference play. They host header,” Hawkins said.
Hawkins said. “Then, I Pendleton on Friday for an ³:H¶UHLQDGRJ¿JKWDQG,
knew the six wasn’t going
think they just pulled off important doubleheader.
“It’s going to be almost to hold up. That’s why we
the bench and he came up
friggin threw the bat head a playoff game mentality,” kept hitting and running.
Hawkins said of Friday’s You just can’t score six
and got a triple.”
That player was rarely games. “We’ve got to against a top 10 team and
used Eagle reserve Riley start winning some league think they’re going to stay
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Wilson. Filling in for games or else our season is there.” Hood River took
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ejected cleanup hitter gone.”
fl y ball in the Bulldogsí 19-9 loss in extra innings to
The 10-inning game
Kellan Duffy, the senior
Hood River on Tuesday in Hermiston.
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By ERIK SKOPIL
East Oregonian
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HERMISTON
PENDLETON
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The Hood River Valley Eagles’ runs it would need. Ellery Jones also
wings were clipped Tuesday by a chipped in with a two-RBI single,
desperate Hermiston team 10-0 in and Ashley Moser scored the 10th
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Hermiston head coach Kylee
home outing from Taylor Betz and
Lete was proud of the offensive
top-to-bottom run production.
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season and a half.
By SAM BARBEE
EO Media Group
Sam Barbee photo
Hermiston’s Taylor Betz comes home with a delivery during the Bull-
dogs’ 10-0 mercy-rule win over Hood River Valley Tuesday at Rocky
Heights Elementary.
“The
girls
Softball
came out with
energy,”
she
said. “That’s the
biggest
thing
Hermiston
we talked about
(Monday) and we
talked to them
about (Tuesday).
We tell them all
the time, ‘We Hood River
got the talent,’
and they just had
it today. They
had the look in
their eye they weren’t going to let
anything go.”
“I think it was very important
for us because it was way overdue,”
Betz said of the win. “We knew
that we could beat this team, and
we knew what we had to do. We’ve
been saying what we need to do,
but nobody’s been acting on it.
(Tuesday), we just said, ‘We need to
get it done,’ and we did.”
The win ends a frustrating stretch
for Hermiston, with leads blown
and opportunities missed. Tuesday,
neither happened, and most of it
started with Betz in the circle.
It was actually Hood River who
missed a major opportunity. In the
top of the second, Betz plunked
Jenni Packer to open the inning,
and then Makena Zeller reached
when the third strike found its way
to the backstop, giving Packer time
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to Kaylin Winans, Zeller swiped
second, giving Hood River runners
at second and third with no outs.
Then Betz bore down. She struck
out Winans swinging, coaxed an
easy pop foul to battery mate Jaime
Hinkley, and then fanned Jessica
DeHart to end the threat.
Hermiston had already led at that
point 2-0 thanks to Kopacz’s double
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The Associated Press
The Grizzlies are not
happy with themselves
after not closing out
Portland on Monday,
blowing a 10-point lead
with 8:38 left.
They aren’t using the
excuse of not having guard
Mike Conley, who had
surgery Monday to repair a
facial fracture after taking
an elbow to the face in
Game 3. Backups Beno
Udrih and Nick Calathes
combined for 25 points
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Conley.
“We’re not happy with
ourselves,” Udrih said.
“We’re better than that.”
Game 5
Trail Blazers at
Grizzlies, 6:30 p.m.,
TNT
The Blazers avoided the
sweep thanks in large part
to Damian Lillard getting
back on scoring track with
32 points, and Meyers
Leonard adding 13 points
and 13 rebounds.
“We wanted to make a
statement to our fans —
don’t get swept,” Leonard
said. “Now (we) go on to
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AP Photo/Don Ryan
and make this a series ...
Memphis forward Zach Randolph, left, looks to
which I truly believe we
maneuver against Trail Blazers forward LaMarcus
will.”
Aldridge during Game 4 Monday in Portland.
sparks
blowout
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eight-run
Softball
t h i r d
inning
broke the
Pendleton
game open
for
the
Buckaroos
Tu e s d a y
in
The
Dalles.
The Dalles
With
Pendleton
already
leading
2-1, Darien Lindsay started
the rally with a single. Payton
Hergert followed with a
single of her own. Then
Alexis Morrison doubled to
score a run. After a walk, an
out and another hit, Lindsay
hit a three run homerun to
clear the bases. The eight
runs scored in the bat-around
inning would prove the
difference in the game.
Morrison was a bear at
the plate. She wasn’t retired
once, going 4-for-4 in the
game with two singles and
two doubles.
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Prep Roundup
Buckaroo
offense
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East Oregonian
THE DALLES — A
12-hit, 13-run offensive
explosion guided Pendleton
to a 13-1 road victory over
the Dalles Tuesday.
The beleaguered Buck-
aroo (7-12, 3-3 CRC) bats
got going from the get go.
Pendleton plated three in
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and sixth innings to end it
prematurely.
Sophomore Caden Smith
tossed his second consecutive
gem, throwing a complete
game three-hitter. Smith
helped his cause at the plate,
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of the season in the third
inning to give Pendleton a
5-0 lead over The Dalles
(9-10, 3-3 CRC).
Devon Roe unloaded the
bases in the third inning with
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