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
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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.
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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
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were chosen.
The Rockets were led on the
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NBA Finals
Giants’ Heston
pitches no-hitter
NEW YORK (AP) —
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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
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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
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who won Game 2 at Golden State
Cleveland
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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
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Cleveland nearly threw Game 3
quarters,” James said. “He’s just a
away.
great shooter.”
James added 12 rebounds and
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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
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onship.
2005 — Baltimore’s 4-3
win over Cincinnati marks
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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.
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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
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ethic through his duties with the
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He will attend Corbin University in
the fall.
The Wally McCrae award has
been given every year since 1975
Storaci
Linke
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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
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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
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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
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love.
Jambura
“During the
games we used
to get a can or
a milk carton
or
whatever
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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
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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
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and is considered to be one
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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
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