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All-EO Softball
Oakland celebrates
Warriors title
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP)
— The streets of Oakland
were awash
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thousands
of fans
watched
and cheered the Golden
State Warriors victory
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years in the making.
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glory, Oakland — a city
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and violence— shined in the
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after the team bested LeBron
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started about 10 a.m.
A-Rod gets 3,000th
hit on home run
NEW YORK (AP) —
Alex Rodriguez homered
for his 3,000th career hit and
smiled all the way around
the bases Friday night, the
highlight so far in what’s
become a
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season for
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slugger.
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fastball from Detroit ace
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major league history to reach
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to do it since Yankees great
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the very same batter’s box
in 2011.
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Softball
fanatic faced
offseason
struggle
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
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Mac-Hi’s Colette Robert broke numerous school records
during a standout career that ends with her second straight
selection as the All-EO Softball Player of the Year.
here’s no reason to ask Colette
Robert what she’ll be doing this
weekend.
The answer is always the same.
As long as there isn’t snow on
the ground, for most of her life it’s
been safe to assume the standout
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neon yellow ball into a leather mitt
somewhere in the western states.
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Oregon’s softball scene with an
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and onto the national stage with a
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starting in the fall.
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ground to a halt.
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injuries had become too much to
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Player of the Year was forced to
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fall in the circle.
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hurt. She buckled down and she
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me she’s hurt? No, but you could see
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scared that it was going to affect me
in high school, but also in college.
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on the bench may have been, Robert
knew there were much bigger games
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All-EO Baseball
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Pendleton
senior Kyler
Lunny could
change
a game
with his
far-ranging
defense and
has been
named
the All-EO
Baseball
Player of
the Year for
the 2015
season.
Staff photo by
Kathy Aney; illus-
tration by
Matt Entrup
“On a golf course
like this, you get
exposed and you
have to be precise
and dialed in.
And obviously I
didn’t have that.“
— Tiger Woods
PGA golfer after miss-
ing the cut at the U.S.
Open being played at
Chambers Bay Golf
Club in University
Place, Washington. It
is just the fi fth time in
his career that he has
missed the cut at a ma-
jor, but the second time
in his last three majors.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1968 — The Night of
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hours, the world record of 10
seconds for the 100 meters is
broken by three men and tied
by seven others at the AAU
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runners are credited with a
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Contact us at 541-966-0838 or
sports@eastoregonian.com
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cravings more than an airborne
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in green. It’s what made the
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eastern slice of the state of Oregon
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the Columbia River Conference
coaches meeting last month.
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recently retired Buckaroo coach
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with a runner on second base and
two outs, saved what turned out to
be the deciding run in Pendleton’s
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College National Finals Rodeo
Blue Mountain’s Parke reaches short-go in two events
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secured after Thursday’s less than a second behind
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in steer wrestling with 23.3
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headed into today’s action,
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