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Page 2B SPORTS East Oregonian Saturday, October 10, 2015 College Volleyball Timberwolves turn back energetic Warriors BMCC stays undefeated in NWAC-East sets 25-14, 25-20, 31-29. The win gave BMCC (29-7, 9-0 East) a 2.5-match lead on Walla Walla (17-11, ZLWK ¿YH OHDJXH matches left before the By MATT ENTRUP NWAC Championships. East Oregonian ³'H¿QLWHO\ QRW OLNH ZH would have liked to have PENDLETON — The closed it, but a win’s a win in Warriors came out to play my book,” said sophomore Friday night at Mosby Court, hitter Klaree Hobart, who but the Blue Mountain smashed the match-winner Timberwolves sent them through Walla Walla’s block EDFN WR :DOOD :DOOD ¿UPO\ DQG¿QLVKHGWLHGIRUWKHWHDP entrenched in second place high with 12 kills. “(Walla after a four-set victory. Walla) had a lot of energy, Perhaps the strongest a lot of motivation. Their challenge standing in the HQHUJ\ GH¿QLWHO\ UDLVHG RXU way of BMCC’s fourth- stakes a lot. I think we were straight NWAC-East title, thinking we could take care :DOOD :DOOD ZRQ WKH ¿UVW of it a little easier than that set 25-22. But despite an off but it’s a good challenge for night for its hitters, BMCC us and down the road it’ll be was able to create some better for us.” breathing room in the stand- The T-Wolves’ largest ings by taking the next three lead in the deciding fourth right back.” Williams led the T-Wolves in hitting with a Blue Mtn Walla Walla .333 percentage and tied Hobart’s 12 kills on 20 fewer attempts. ³6KH¶V¿JXULQJLWRXWDQG set was four points, and they once she does she’s going to were eventually caught by be pretty top caliber,” Hobart the Warriors at 20-all Amy said of the Pendleton High Arnzen dropped one of her graduate. Brittney Fielder, Miah team-high 15 kills into the Perez, Keri Schwarz and back corner. 7KH OHDG VZDSSHG ¿YH -RUGDQ 0L[ DOO ÀDVKHG times from there until BMCC moments of brilliance for the freshman Kristin Williams T-Wolves while combining split the Warrior defense for a for another 31 kills, but the game-tying kill, then gave the team was much too inconsis- T-Wolves the lead at 30-29 tent and hit just .176. “We allowed ourselves when she was at the net to clean up a long Warriors dig to get rattled a little bit,” BMCC coach Dave Baty for an easy kill. “That’s what you live for said. “Walla Walla is a good in volleyball, that’s the best team, (Pendleton native) part, going back and forth,” Chelsie (Speer) is a good Hobart said. “They knock on coach. I’m proud that our the door and we answered kids were able to eke it out. 3 1 “Not to take anything away from Walla Walla, but we talked about the other day when our ‘A’ game isn’t there, we have to be patient with that and keep going. We have to go, ‘OK, it’s less than A, but we’re going to NHHSJRLQJDQG¿QGDZD\WR eke out the win,’ and that’s what they did today.” Walla Walla hit just .153 as a team with a match-low .000 in the second set. Maci Beierle led BMCC with a match-high 26 assists and Kylee Chavez added 23, Hannah Bailey led all defensive players with 25 digs, and Schwarz had a match-high 2.5 blocks. Blue Mountain took the season series with the Warriors 2-1. The T-Wolves’ next match is Wednesday, Oct. 14, at Spokane (13-20, 5-3), a team they’ve beaten twice already. EASTERN OREGON 3, NORTHWEST CHRIS- TIAN 0 — At La Grande, the Mountaineers continued their tear through the Cascade Collegiate Confer- ence with their ninth sweep of a 13-match winning streak. Scores were 25-22, 25-11, 25-21. Amanda Miller led EOU (17-1, 12-0 CCC) with 15 kills, and no other player had more than six. Rachelle Chamberlain had 29 assists and Emily Nay added 2.5 blocks. Piper Cantrell led the match with 13 digs and Sara Pulaski added 11. Eastern hosts Corban Saturday at 5 p.m. ——— Contact Matt Entrup at mentrup@eastoregonian. com or (541) 966-0838. PREPS: BULLDOGS: 5DPLUH]VKHGVWDFNOHUVIRU¿UVW7' Nixyaawii spikers end losing streak Continued from 1B Continued from 1B Weston-McEwen held Pilot Rock (0-5, 0-2) to -28 rushing yards. ³:H ZHUH LQ WKH EDFN¿HOG D tremendous amount of times, some of those were bad snaps and when the quarterback picked it up to try run we were all over them,” Bailey said. The TigerScots’ running attack had no such issues. Ten players combined for 275 yards and Ethan Reger, Vince Roff, Jimmy Patrick and Dylan Cain all scored rushing touchdowns. Reger led the team with 102 yards on four carries — “He ran really hard tonight,” said Bailey — and Vince Roff added 70 yards on 10 carries. Brett Speed was 4-of-8 passing for 51 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions. He found Tyler Cain, Xander Bailey and Brendan Dearing for touchdowns. The TigerScots’ other points FDPH RQ D \DUG ¿HOG JRDO E\ Kirk Scott and fumble recovery by Reeve Betts he returned for a touchdown. Pilot Rock recovered two fumbles on defense. The CBC playoff race really heats up next week when Weston- McEwen hosts Irrigon. Pilot Rock will host Culver with both looking IRUWKHLU¿UVWOHDJXHZLQ JOSEPH 62, ECHO 22 — At Echo, the Joseph Eagles (2-3, 1-1 6' SLFNHG XS WKHLU ¿UVW ZLQ LQ Special District 1 this season by beating the Echo Cougars (2-4, 0-3) on Friday. No details were reported. Echo plays a non-league game next week at Elgin while Joseph hosts SD1 foe Pine Eagle. LA GRANDE 56, MAC-HI 3 — At La Grande, the La Grande Tigers (5-1, 1-0 GOL) were too much for the Mac-Hi Pioneers (0-6, 0-1) in their Greater Oregon League opener on Friday. No details were reported. Both teams remain in GOL play next week as Mac-Hi hosts Ontario and La Grande plays at Baker. KING’S WAY CHRISTIAN 48, UMATILLA 28 — At Vancouver, Wash., the Umatilla Vikings (4-2) lost their league tune-up at the King’s Way Chris- tian Knights (3-1) on Friday. No details were reported. Umatilla opens Eastern Oregon League play next week at Nyssa (3-2). Volleyball NIXYAAWII 3, WALLOWA 2 — At Wallowa, the Golden Eagles snapped a 10-match losing streak on Friday by outlasting the Cougars in Old Oregon League play. Nixyaawii (3-12, 1-8 OOL) VHFXUHGWKHZLQLQWKH¿IWKVHWZLWK a score of 18-16. Other set scores were 25-20, 18-25, 25-22 and 20-25. No details were reported. HELIX 3, WALLOWA 0 — At Wallowa, the Grizzlies won their ninth-straight match with the sweep of the Cougars in Old Oregon League play on Friday. Helix (15-2, 9-0 OOL) cruised with scores of 25-6, 25-20 and 25-7. No details were reported. Helix hosts Joseph on Saturday at noon. powered in from two yards out to give Hermiston a 13-7 victory, its ¿UVWZLQRIWKH\HDU “I just saw an opportunity to do something great for my team,” Ena said. “I just wanted to avenge myself and make the DBs look good for once.” The two overtime periods were icing on the proverbial cake for the Hermiston defense, which has struggled to hold down offenses this season. The Bulldogs held the Pioneers to just 18 yards rushing on 31 attempts, and kept bruising back Grayson Fenwick from JHWWLQJDQ\WKLQJJRLQJ+H¿QLVKHG with 19 yards on 21 carries and four catches for 27 yards and a touchdown. (QD¶V ¿UVW LQWHUFHSWLRQ ZDV much-needed. After the Bulldogs PLVVHG D \DUG ¿HOG JRDO RQ WKHLU ¿UVW RYHUWLPH GULYH 6DQG\ was taking shots at the end zone. A Sanders pass on second down almost found Gabe Poulin in the back of the end zone, but it was just a bit too far. Then, on third down, Sanders overthrew Robert Snyder and Ena picked it off close to his goal line, and almost managed to score to seal the win. But he came just short, and Hermiston had to make another defensive stop late. Cue Ena. After a holding penalty on ¿UVW GRZQ DQG ORVVHV RI DQG yards on their next two plays, the Pioneers (0-6) found themselves in a 3rd-and-goal situation from the 35, with a shot to the end zone almost guaranteed. Ena read the play perfectly, jumped it and ran it EDFNWRPLG¿HOG to set up the touchdown. Sandy only had the ball down at Herm- iston’s goal line because Sanders slipped away on a strange play. With a third-and-one from Hermiston’s 41, Sanders ran a silent, quick-snap quarterback sneak and was piled around, but somehow he slipped out and gained 25 yards, setting up the pass interference penalty and later the touchdown. A long punt return from Mitch Brown got Hermiston down to the Sandy 26, but a fumble on a zone-read exchange gave the ball to Sandy, which simply knelt to send the game to overtime. Then it was Ena’s cue to snatch back the momentum that led to Hermiston’s win. “It honestly just means we got Staff photo by Sam Barbee Tucker Salinas (with ball) is tackled hard by Sandy’s Aris Herrera heart and we’re ready to come out (28) during the second half of Hermiston’s 13-6 double-overtime DQG ¿QLVK´ (QD VDLG ³,W ZDV D victory Friday night at Kennison Stadium. It was Salinas’ only good game and I’m glad we won.” catch of the night. Hermiston is scheduled for Columbia River Conference play That gave Hermiston a chance ties, all but ending drives. WRZLQZLWKMXVWD¿HOGJRDOEXWWKDW Hermiston took a 7-0 lead with next week at The Dalles. However, wasn’t necessary. Garcia plowed OHIW LQ WKH ¿UVW TXDUWHU ZKHQ the RiverHawks canceled this into the end zone on 2nd down, 1DWKDQ +XQVDNHU ¿OOLQJ LQ IRU week’s game against Nyssa due to and Hermiston’s players rushed the the injured Dayshawn Neal, hit a lack of players and will evaluate ¿HOGLQFHOHEUDWLRQ Jerry Ramirez on a screen pass. LW¶VDELOLW\WR¿HOGDWHDPZHHNE\ “Both teams battle hard,” head The junior tight end weaved his week. coach David Faaeteete said. “I told way through the Pioneers defense, ——— Hermiston 13, Sandy 6 the kids, ‘This is gonna be a tough making would-be tacklers miss and SHS (0-6) 0 0 0 7 0 0 — 6 HHS (1-5) 7 0 0 0 0 6 — 13 battle. Regardless of a team’s breaking a few before crossing the First Quarter win-loss record, they’re gonna goal line for a 13-yard touchdown. HERMISTON — J. Ramirez 13-yard pass from N. Hunsaker (Extra Point Good), 1:39 FRPH LQ DQG ¿JKW EHFDXVH HYHU\- Hermiston would lead just Fourth Quarter SANDY — G. Fenwick 10-yard pass from K. Sand- one’s hungry for a W. The later in about the rest of the game until a (Extra Point Good), 7:10 the season you get, the hungrier late Sandy drive made things expo- ers Second Overtime HERMISTON — O. Garcia 2-yard run you are.” nentially more interesting. About Statistics Both teams, though, seemed halfway through the fourth quarter, RUSHING — SANDY (31-18): G. Fenwick 31-18; K. Sanders 7-(-)7; R. Snyder 1-3; A. Herrera 1-3; A. XQLQWHUHVWHGLQZLQQLQJLQWKH¿UVW Sandy embarked on a nine-play, Soenyun 1-0. HERMISTON (45-193, 1 TD): O. Garcia half. 64-yard drive capped by 10-yard 18-75, 1 TD; N. Hunsaker 15-58; M. Brown 9-52; H. 3-8. 2I¿UVWKDOIGULYHVZHUH pass to Fenwick to tie things up. Simon PASSING — SANDY (14-32-2, 123 yards, 1 TD): K. Sanders 123 yards, 1 TD. HERMISTON three-and-outs and both teams Hermiston was whistled for a pass (10-20-2, 149 14-32-2, yards, 1 TD): N. Hunsaker 10-20-2, 149 FRPELQHG IRU ¿YH KROGLQJ SHQDO- interference penalty the play before yards, 1 TD. TIGERS: *URJDQVFRUHV¿QDOWRXFKGRZQZLWKVHFRQGVOHIW Stanfield’s Dylan Gro- gan gets wrapped up by Irri- gon’s Cou- gar Kroske (54) sand Austin Rice (22) in the Tigers’ 49-41 win against the Knights on Friday in Irrigon. Continued from 1B as Freddy Vera found the end zone twice in the quarter with a three- yard touchdown run and a 24-yard touchdown reception from Verle to give the Knights a 22-7 lead in the ¿UVWTXDUWHU 7KH ,UULJRQ WULR ¿QLVKHG ZLWK 291 yards and two touchdowns on WKHJURXQGLQWKH¿UVWKDOI The second quarter saw plenty of back-and-forth action, as the Tigers and Knights traded scores twice to send the teams to half- time with a 35-21 score favoring Irrigon. 6WDQ¿HOG FRDFK 'DYH\ 6DODV knew that his team was better than what the scoreboard showed, and challenged his players to step up. “They weren’t doing anything we didn’t work on in practice,” said Salas. “And I think that there was so much emotion in the game, I just had to challenge them to step up and play some defense.” To start the second half, the Knights still held the momentum, holding the Tigers to a turnover on downs to start the half. Then the Knights added their ¿QDOWRXFKGRZQRIWKHQLJKWHDUO\ in the third quarter on a two-yard touchdown run by Rice to put the Knights up 41-21 with just under seven minutes remaining in the quarter. But after that point, the Tigers dug deep and began to garner some momentum behind the offensive duo of Monkus and Grogan. Just four plays into the Tigers’ next possession, Grogan took the QB keeper around the right edge, side-stepped some defenders and sprinted 54-yards for a touchdown to cut the Knights lead to 41-28. After the Tigers then forced ,UULJRQ WR SXQW IRU WKH ¿UVW WLPH in the game — the only punt by either team — they put together Staff photo by E.J. Harris Staff photo by E.J. Harris Stanfield’s Tyler Monkus gets gang tackled by a host of Irrigon defenders in the Tigers’ 49-41 win against the Knights on Friday in Irrigon. a long drive starting from their own nine-yard line. It was ended with a 31-yard screen pass from Grogan to Monkus on fourth- and-long that Monkus took for a touchdown to cut the Irrigon lead to 41-35. And just as Irrigon began to put together a nice clock-eating drive, the Tigers defense forced a fumble and recovered on their own 19-yard line. After just three plays on the drive, Monkus split the Knights defense and sprinted 42-yards up the middle for a touchdown and with a successful extra point, the 7LJHUVWRRNWKHLU¿UVWOHDGRIWKH game at 42-41 with six minutes left in the game. Monkus and Grogan were almost unstoppable on the ground in the game, combining for 37 UXVKHV DQG \DUGV DQG ¿YH touchdowns overall. “It’s awesome (to have them),” said Salas. “Grogan is tough, but when you have two guys that aren’t afraid to run off tackle, you can win any game.” The Tigers sealed the win on a 16-yard touchdown run by Grogan with just six seconds remaining in the game. ——— Contact Eric Singer at esinger@eastoregonian.com or 541 966 0839