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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2015 Sports shorts Three Ducks taken on Day 2 of draft EUGENE – Oregon’s Garrett Cleavinger, Josh Graham and Mitchell Tolman were drafted Tuesday on day two of the Major League Baseball Draft. Cleavinger, a native of Baldwin City, Kansas, was picked in the third round with the 102nd overall pick by the Baltimore Orioles. The junior closer was a $OO3DF&RQIHUHQFH¿UVW team pick while compiling a 6-2 record with a 1.58 ERA and nine saves. Graham, a junior right-handed pitcher from Roseburg, went to the Atlanta Braves in the fourth round with pick No. 120. Tolman was picked in the seventh round, 217th overall, by the Pittsburgh Pirates. The third baseman from Lake Forest, California, was a All-Pac-12 pick as a sophomore and a junior. SPORTS Rockets, TigerScots crowd all-league team State title participants receive district recognition East Oregonian Staff photo by E.J. Harris Members of the Pilot Rock softball team cheer on their teammates during the 2A/1A state championship against Weston-McEwen on Fri- day, June 5. Several players from both teams were named to the Spe- cial District 6 All-league teams this season. 8QVXUSULVLQJO\VWDWH¿QDOLVWV Pilot Rock and Weston- McEwen were well represented on the Special District 6 All-league softball teams. In voting conducted prior to the Rockets 3-2 victory over the TigerScots, seven Pilot Rock players were recognized among the league’s best, while ¿YH :HVWRQ0F(ZHQ SOD\HUV were chosen. The Rockets were led on the See ALL-LEAGUE/2B NBA Finals Giants’ Heston pitches no-hitter NEW YORK (AP) — &KULV+HVWRQSLWFKHGWKH¿UVW no-hitter in the majors this season in his 13th career start, leading the San Francisco Giants over the New York Mets 5-0 Tuesday night. The rookie allowed three baserunners FACES — all on hit batters. He also had a two-run single for his ¿UVWELJOHDJXH RBIs and ¿QLVKHGZLWK two more hits Heston than the Mets. The pitching-rich Giants have thrown a no-hitter in four straight seasons, with Heston following Matt Cain’s perfect game against Houston in 2012 and hitless gems by Tim Lincecum in 2013 and ‘14. The only other team to accomplish that feat was the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1962-65, according to STATS. Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax pitched all four of those. “I’m out there naked. No, I’m not wearing anything.“ — Richard Sherman Seattle Seahawks CB when asked if he was wearing any extra protection for the elbow he injured in the NFC Championship. Sherman chose not to undergo Tommy John surgery and has been able to partic- ipate in organized team activities, which ended Tuesday. AP Photo/Tony Dejak Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (23) celebrates with teammate Matthew Dellavedova during the second half of Game 3 of basketball’s NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors in Cleveland, Tuesday, June 9, 2015. Cavs grab series lead Cleveland holds off Warriors in fourth quarter By TOM WITHERS Associated Press CLEVELAND — LeBron James came home last summer to win a championship — one like no other. He’s two wins away. Pushed by a crowd howling to see Cleveland’s 51-year title drought end, James scored 40 points, his new sidekick Matthew Dellavedova added 20 and the eight assists in 46 minutes, his third stellar performance in his ¿IWK VWUDLJKW ¿QDOV 7KH &DYV who won Game 2 at Golden State Cleveland Golden St. IRU WKHLU ¿UVW HYHU ¿QDOV ZLQ QRZ KDYH WKHLU ¿UVW DW 4XLFNHQ /RDQV Arena. They’ll have a chance to take a commanding 3-1 lead in the Cavaliers survived Golden State’s best-of-seven series in Game 4 on furious fourth-quarter comeback Thursday night. “This is a great moment and my led by Stephen Curry for a 96-91 win over the Warriors on Tuesday teammates need me,” James said. night to take a 2-1 lead in the NBA “It’s my job to go out and lead those guys, teach those guys, yell at those Finals. “Those 3’s Steph had in that guys and then come back and tell fourth quarter, those are the same them it’s OK, let’s move to the next RQHVWKDWKHPLVVHGLQWKH¿UVWWKUHH play.” Cleveland nearly threw Game 3 quarters,” James said. “He’s just a away. great shooter.” James added 12 rebounds and See NBA/2B Game 3 96 91 THIS DATE IN SPORTS 1933 — Johnny Goodman wins the U.S. Open golf title, making him the last amateur to win this event. 1990 — Andres Gomez ends 10 years of Grand Slam frustration with a 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 victory over Andre Agassi to capture the men’s title in the French Open for KLV¿UVW*UDQG6ODPFKDPSL onship. 2005 — Baltimore’s 4-3 win over Cincinnati marks WKH ¿UVW WLPH WKDW WKUHH 500-homer players appear in the same game the Orioles’ Sammy Sosa (580) and Rafael Palmeiro (559), and the Reds’ Ken Griffey, who hits a solo shot in the eighth inning for No. 511. Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS PENDLETON Linke, Storaci honored by T-Wolves East Oregonian Sierra Linke has won just about every award imaginable in a Blue Mountain Community College uniform. The decorated volleyball player added another on Tuesday, though, when she was named one of the recipients of the Wally McCrae Student Athlete of the Year Award. Baseball player Alex Storaci was named the male recipient. Linke, a sophomore outside hitter from Pasco, was the 2014 Baden Volleyball Player of the Year while leading the Timberwolves to their third-straight NWAC champi- onship. and scored 25 runs with 15 RBIs. He was a valued member of the program beyond his play on the ¿HOG DQG VKRZHG D VWURQJ ZRUN ethic through his duties with the ¿HOG FUHZ DQG JDPH PDQDJHPHQW He will attend Corbin University in the fall. The Wally McCrae award has been given every year since 1975 Storaci Linke WR KRQRU %0&&¶V ¿UVW FROOHJH Linke was also the East Region president. Each year BMCC athletic and NWAC Tournament MVP and director Brett Bryan selects one led the conference with 273 kills. She male and one female athlete to be will continue her playing career at honored for their commitment in Eastern Oregon University this fall. the classroom and on the playing 6WRUDFL D VRSKRPRUH ¿UVW ¿HOGV7KHLUQDPHVZLOOEHDGGHGWR baseman from Kennewick, batted the plaque that hangs on campus in .242 for the T-Wolves this spring the McCrae Activity Center. PENDLETON Bucks prepare addition to Hall Six individuals, one team to be enshrined By MATT ENTRUP East Oregonian Playing football for the Pendleton Buckaroos was all a young Todd Knop ever wanted. It was a dream he for which he was willing to endure pain. “The house I had piano lessons in was right above the SUDFWLFH ¿HOG and I could look out the window and watch practice,” he Knop said while taking a break from running Ione Market and Deli, which he’s owned for two years. “(My teacher) Schimmel would always be swatting my hands with her ruler to make me pay attention, but I couldn’t stop looking out the Hargrow window.” Knop even- tually ditched the piano lessons and began riding his bike down from his childhood Byford home on Pend- leton’s north hill to watch practice from the sidelines. Football EHFDPHKLV¿UVW love. Jambura “During the games we used to get a can or a milk carton or whatever ZH FRXOG ¿QG and we’d play Lilly sandlot football on the sidelines during the game,” he said. “I played all the other sports, baseball, basketball, but I knew football was what I wanted to do.” So one could imagine Knop’s displeasure, when KHDGLQJ LQWR ¿IWK JUDGH KH was told his family would be moving to Hillsboro. He would not be a Buckaroo. He would not play for head coach Don Requa. “When we moved away it was pretty disappointing,” he recalled. “I just really wanted to be a Buckaroo.” But Knop would return as a 10th-grader when his father became part-owner of a local furniture store, and on July 10 will head an induction class of six players and one team at the 12th Annual Buckaroo Football Hall of Fame reception. Former Pendleton coach Rollin Schimmel, players Edgar Hargrow, Monte Byford, Earl Jambura and Jay Lilly, and the 1961 team will also be honored. Knop became a two-year starter for the Bucks, earning a full-time starting job in his senior season of 1977. He started all 12 games that year for a team that UHDFKHG WKH VWDWH VHPL¿QDOV and is considered to be one RIWKH¿QHVWDVVHPEOHGXQGHU Requa. “This is one of the biggest honors I’ve had in my life,” said Knop, who is already a member of one hall of fame as an assistant coach with the 1983 Southern Oregon foot- ball team. “I’m real excited See HALL/2B
