FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2015
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Ducks set for
super regionals
EUGENE — After
sweeping through the
Eugene
Regional
last
weekend,
the Oregon
softball
team will
play host to North Carolina
State in a Super Regional
starting Friday night at
Howe Field.
Oregon and NC State will
meet at 6 p.m. on Friday and
again at noon on Saturday.
A ¿ nal game, if needed, will
be at 3 p.m. on Saturday. All
three games will be aired
live on ESPNU.
The Ducks (49-6)
advanced to Super Regionals
after defeating North Dakota
State twice and BYU once
in the Eugene Regional.
Pitcher Cheridan Hawkins
was named regional MVP
after earning two wins to
go with a 1.50 ERA and 25
strikeouts in 14.0 innings
pitching.
SPORTS
1B
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State Track & Field
Cardenas sets meet record
Hawks’ Carroll
avoids major injury
ATLANTA (AP) — An
MRI on DeMarre Carroll’s
left knee showed no struc-
tural damage, and he hopes
to play for Atlanta in Friday
night’s Game 2 against
Cleveland in the Eastern
Conference
FACES ¿ nals, Carroll’s
agent said
Thursday.
Mark
Bartelstein told
The Associated
Press that
Carroll has
Carroll
only a knee
sprain and “maybe a little”
bone bruise. The Hawks
con¿ rmed the MRI showed
only a knee sprain and said
Carroll would be listed as
questionable.
Asked about Carroll’s
status, Hawks coach Mike
Budenholzer said “we’re
very hopeful.”
“I think sometimes you
tend to think it could be the
worst and right now every-
thing we’re getting back is
positive,” said Budenholzer.
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Fabian Cardenas, of Umatilla, set a 3A meet record in the 3,000-meter run Thursday at the OSAA track and fi eld state championships at
Hayward Field.
Umatilla junior breaks 20-year-old distance mark
“It’s very common.
It goes on on
the other side, I
guarantee you.
It’s the rule. I think
pitchers are using
it but I guess
you’ve got to be
discreet about it.“
— Craig Counsell
Milwaukee Brewers
manager after relief
pitcher Will Smith was
ejected from Wednes-
day’s game against
Atlanta for having rosin
and sunscreen on his
forearm. Smith said he
was using the substances
to help him grip the ball
while warming up in
the bullpen and forgot
to wipe them off before
entering the game.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1975 — Artis Gilmore
scores 28 points and grabs
31 rebounds to lead the
Kentucky Colonels to a
110-105 victory over the
Indiana Pacers for the ABA
championship.
1988 — The Celtics beat
the Hawks 118-116 in Game
7 of the 1988 Eastern Confer-
ence semi¿ nals. Atlanta’s
Dominique :ilkins ¿ nishes
with 47 points while Boston’s
Larry Bird has 34, including
20 in the fourth quarter. The
teams shoot a combined 58.8
percent, the second-highest
mark in playoff history.
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by myself,” he said of the blazing time.
The opening move dropped the
majority of the ¿ eld. Luca Ostertag-Hill
EUGENE — A repeat state 3,000 meter of Catlin Gabel hung on his heels until the
championship seemed an inevitability for ¿ nal mile before Cardenas turned on the
Fabian Cardenas, doing it in a fast time afterburners for one last record-breaking
push. Ostertag-Hill took second, 29
was a different story.
One peek around the starting line of seconds behind Cardenas.
The last 100 meters
Thursday’s state champi-
were a race between
onship race at Hayward
“That fi nal 100 Cardenas and the clock.
Field told the Umatilla
“That ¿ nal 100 meters
distance ace that if he
meters I was
I was looking at the clock
were to reach his goal of
whole time and I was
breaking the 20-year old
looking at the the
like ‘Oh snap, I can get it’.
Class 3A state meet record
gave it everything I
it would be done on his
clock the whole I had just those
last 100 meters,”
own.
The opening quarter
time and I was he said.
The win is the third
mile did nothing to change
like ‘Oh snap, state championship for
that opinion.
Cardenas. He won last
“I was hoping another
I can get it’.
year’s 3,000 meters in
guy would take it out,
surprising fashion and
but no one did,” said
I just gave it
followed it up with a
Cardenas, who nearly
eclipsed James Longoria everything I had one-sided cross country
championship in the fall.
of Nyssa’s state meet
“It’s a big honor to our
record in last year’s win.
those
last
100
school,” Cardenas said.
“I was kind of looking
“We don’t get a lot of
back to see what they were
meters.”
state champions from our
doing. They were taking it
— Fabian Cardenas,
school. It’s just nice to
easy and waiting for me to
change the tradition.”
Umatilla 3,000-meter
take it over.”
Cardenas will try to add
Cardenas obliged.
runner after setting a new
The junior powered 3A state meet record with to his burgeoning trophy
case in tonight’s 1,500
around the track for the
his time of 8:41.23.
meters.
fastest seven-and-a-half
Justyce Smith knows
laps in meet history
stopping the clock in 8 minutes, 41.23 a thing or two about state title hardware.
seconds, ¿ ve seconds faster than Longo- The Riverside senior captured her ¿ fth
ria’s time. The mark was also ¿ ve seconds championship medallion Thursday.
Smith, who owns a diversi¿ ed resume
swifter than any previous 3,000 meter race
that includes wins in three different events,
Cardenas had run.
“It was cool, especially because I did it
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By ERIK SKOPIL
East Oregonian
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Fabian Cardenas, of Umatilla, exults after setting a 3A
meet record in the 3,000-meter run Thursday at the OSAA
track and fi eld state championships at Hayward Field.
College Golf
State Tennis
Warriors miss cut at NAIA Championships
Cittadini falls
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Heppner’s Lien,
Hermiston’s Simmons
wrap up season
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.
— Cole Lorenzo and Chris Lien
both shot under par Thursday, but
it was not enough to extend the
season for the Lewis-Clark State
men’s golf team.
LCSC missed the cut at the
NAIA National Championships
after it posted a 17-over 305
during its third, and ultimately
¿ nal, round at LPGA Interna-
tional Hills Course. The Warriors
¿ nished the tournament with a
score of 911, leaving them 47
strokes over par and in 19th place
in the 29-team ¿ eld.
Only the top 17 teams
advanced to Friday’s ¿ nal round.
The last team to make the cut,
Cardinal Stritch University,
¿ nished the third round with
an 899. Defending champion
Coastal Georgia sits atop the lead-
erboard after ending Thursday at
10-under 854.
“It’s disappointing,” LCSC
coach Paul Thompson said. “It
was a good experience for them,
but I thought we would be in the
top 10, maybe even the top ¿ ve,
but it wasn’t to be.”
The top 40 individuals also
quali¿ ed for the championship
round, but LCSC’s highest
placing individual was Lorenzo,
who tied for 58th. After recording
a 77 in each of the ¿ rst two
rounds, the junior from Richland,
Washington, tallied a 1-under 71
on Thursday to ¿ nish at 9-over
225.
Lien ¿ red a 2-under 70 during
the third round, the best score
furnished by a Warrior at any
point during the tournament. But
a 79 the day before and a 77 in
the opening round left the junior
from Heppner, tied for 64th place
at 10-over 226.
Through two rounds, no
Warrior played better than Kurt
Simmons. The junior from Herm-
iston started the tournament with
a 74 and followed that up with a
71, leaving him tied for 18th after
lightning forced the suspension
of Wednesday’s second round.
But an 84 on Thursday dropped
him into a tie for 84th place, three
shots behind Lien.
“He was pretty pleased until
today,” Thompson said.
This was the Warriors’ ¿ fth
trip to nationals since 2005. It
was their ¿ rst appearance since
2013, when they also ¿ nished
19th.
Lien was a ¿ rst-team All-Fron-
tier Conference selection for the
LCSC this season.
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East Oregonian
PORTLAND — Pendleton’s
Matilde Cittadini was unable
to get past Wilsonville’s Keely
Petticord in the ¿ rst round of state
tennis action on Thursday at West
Hills Racquet and Fitness Club.
The sophomore advanced with
a straight-set victory of 6-2, 6-2,
sending Cittadini into the conso-
lation bracket.
Cittadini, a junior exchange
student from Italy, will face Cres-
cent Valley sophomore Caroline
Doyle when action resumes today.
Doyle ran up against third-
seeded Ashland senior Ashley
Knecht in the ¿ rst round and fell
6-1, 6-2.
The 4A-1A tournament will
begin today for boys and girls
at the Oregon State University
Tennis Complex in Corvallis.