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PENDLETON
Mariners hire
Scott Servais as
manager
Pendleton blows out Riverhawks
SEATTLE (AP) — The
Seattle Mariners have hired
former major league catcher
Scott Servais
as their
manager.
New
Mariners
general
manager
Jerry Dipoto made the
announcement Friday.
Servais replaces Lloyd
McClendon, who was let go
earlier this month.
The 48-year-old doesn’t
have any managerial
experience. He worked
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assistant general manager
for the Los Angeles Angels,
alongside Dipoto for most of
that time. Dipoto resigned as
the Angels’ GM on July 1.
Not only did Dipoto
and Servais work together
with the Angels, they were
teammates for one season in
Colorado in 2000.
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76-86 this year.
Bucks dominate
on way to blowout
1-1 CRC) defensive front
controlled the line of scrim-
mage for most of the game,
racking up eight sacks and
holding the Riverhawks to
By ERIC SINGER
-23 yards on the ground.
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around so much better than
PENDLETON — The they had the last few weeks,”
Pendleton Bucks defense said Pendleton coach Erik
has been the Achilles’ heel Davis following the win. “I
for the team for most of the thought the defensive front
season.
did a good job, and anytime
But on Friday night, the you can put pressure on the
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Bucks a stand-out perfor- things can happen.”
mance as Pendleton pulled
However, the defensive
out a 49-20 victory over backs did their part as well
The Dalles.
as cornerbacks Nick Lani
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and Trevor Sweet each had
an interception in the game.
Lani’s pick came at the 5:30
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stopping The Dalles’ drive
deep into Pendleton terri-
tory.
It gave the Bucks
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See BUCKS/2B
HERMISTON
Hermiston holds off Hood River
Earnhardt needs
big run to continue
championship hopes
TALLADEGA, Ala.
(AP) — Dale Earnhardt
Jr. has struggled in the
second round of NASCAR’s
playoffs and needs a
good run at Talladega
Superspeedway
FACES to avoid
elimination in
the Chase for
the Sprint Cup
championship.
Luckily for
Earnhardt, he’s
pretty good at
Earnhardt
Talladega.
The No. 88 Chevrolet
that Earnhardt will race
Sunday won a qualifying
race at Daytona in February,
won here in May, then won
at Daytona again in July.
A fourth win in the car will
automatically move him into
the third round of the Chase.
“It’s real intense, there’s
no denying the intensity
and the pressure it puts on
drivers like myself to be in a
cutoff situation where you’re
eliminated if things don’t
go perfectly on Sunday,”
Earnhardt said Friday.
“When they
decided to replay
it, I just sat down
and said, ‘If they
overturn this, I’m
never going to
forgive myself.”
— Caleb
Humphreys
Kansas City Royals fan
caught a home run ball
from Royals third base-
man Mike Moustakas
in the second inning of
Game 6 of the ALCS.
The play was reviewed
because there was a
question of whether
Humphreyes reached
over the fence into the
fi eld of play to catch the
ball. The play stood as
a home run following
the review as the Royals
went on to beat the Blue
Jays 4-3 to advance to
the World Series.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1992 — The Toronto Blue
Jays take baseball’s cham-
pionship outside the United
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beating the Atlanta Braves
4-3 in 11 innings in Game 6
of the World Series.
2004 — The New
England Patriots extend their
NFL victory streak to 21
games with a 13-7 win over
the AFC East rival New York
Jets. The Patriots also set
the regular-season mark of
18 straight wins, surpassing
the 17 won by the 1933-34
Chicago Bears.
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Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Hermiston’s Jerry Ramirez (33) crosses into the end zone in the second quarter of Friday’s game against Hood River at Kennison Field.
Vaeumu Ena’s game-clinching interception puts Bulldogs in great spot
By SAM BARBEE
East Oregonian
36-28 win over the Hood River
Valley Eagles. With
the win, Hermiston
HERMISTON — Five games moves to 2-0 in the
River Hermiston
into Hermiston’s football schedule, Columbia
Conference, setting
the season appeared lost.
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meeting
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30 points. But the Bulldogs have with Pendleton next week at the
turned things around after Friday’s Round-up Grounds.
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“We had to have a present
offense,” Hermiston
senior Bob Coleman
said.
Hood River
Entering
the
ballgame, Hermiston
knew it would have
to account for dual-
threat quarterback Dallas Buckley.
The 6-foot-2 171-pound quarter-
28
back did everything for the Eagles,
passing for more than 300 yards and
three touchdowns and also running
in a score.
But he threw three interceptions,
one on an inside shovel pass that
DJ Gossett claimed and returned 34
yards for a touchdown, and another
on HRV’s last drive of the game
See BULLDOGS/2B
PENDLETON
OUR VIEW
Cardenas pulls away in friendly rivalry OSAA too
restrictive with
Umatilla senior
defends district title,
small schools
Weston-McEwen’s
Weston-
McEwen’s
Hayden Scott
trails behind
Umatilla’s
Fabian Carde-
nas during
the small
school district
meet Friday
in Pendleton.
Staff photo by
E.J. Harris
Scott second
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — Weston-
McEwen junior Hayden Scott
remembers a time when he
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senior Fabian Cardenas on the
cross country course.
“At the end of (my
freshman) year we took a team
down to San Antonio for the
Junior Olympics and I was a
little bit better than him during
that time,” he said.
But that was then, and
Cardenas has pulled away from
his close friend and one-time
teammate as their promising
careers have progressed.
He did it again Friday at the
District 5 Championships at
Pendleton’s Community Park
to win his second straight
See DISTRICT 5/4B
C
ross country runners are a little
crazy — and I mean that in a
completely complimentary way.
In no other sport have I ever seen
a young athlete push him or herself
to the limits I see every year at cross
country meets.
I’ve never seen a basketball player
collapse in a heap at
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watched a baseball
player dry heave from
uncontrollable muscle
spasms, or witnessed
a football player sprint
for the end zone with
muscles burning so
Matt
hotly as to pull tears
Entrup from their ducts.
Comment
To be fair to those
athletes, their sports
don’t require that of them. But cross
country does — and not just for the
winners.
More often than not, it’s the runners
just outside or even nowhere near the
See ENTRUP/4B