SPORTS
TUESDA<, OCTOBER 2, 2015
Sports shorts
Cardinals hold off
Ravens on MNF
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP)
— Chris Johnson rushed
for 122 yards, 62 on a play
where he
rolled over
the belly
of a big
defender
and kept
on running, and the Arizona
Cardinals barely held off
a late rally to beat the
Baltimore Ravens 26-18 on
Monday night.
Baltimore (1-6) drove to the
in the ¿ nal seFonds before
7ony Jefferson¶s interFeption
deep in the end zone FlinFhed
the viFtory for N)C :est-
leading Arizona (5-2).
Arizona led 26-10 before
Asa JaFkson¶s bloFked a
punt to set up Joe )laFFo¶s
1-yard touFhdown pass to
.yle JuszFzyk. 7he 2-point
Fonversion pass to NiFk
Boyle made it an eight-point
game with 4:26 to play.
Baltimore got the ball baFk
and )laFFo TuiFkly moved
the team down¿ eld before the
¿ nal ill-fated throw.
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Prep Cross Country
BXlldogs go Eig at distriFt ¿ nals
Runners take
off to start
the boys CRC
Cross Country
Championships
on Saturday at
Sorosis Park
in The Dalles.
Hermiston
(striped jer-
seys) fi nished
second at
the meet to
advance the
entire team to
the state fi nals.
Hermiston sends boys team, two girls to
state Pendleton has bittersweet ¿ nish
East Oregonian
THE DALLES — Things Fouldn’t have gone muFh better for
the Hermiston Bulldogs on Saturday at the CRC Cross Country
Championships at Sorosis Park in The Dalles.
All of the Bulldogs’ top ¿ ve boys ¿ nished 11th or better to lead
the team to a state berth, and sophomores Melany Solorio and
Morgan HanFoFk eaFh Tuali¿ ed as individuals for the girls.
Hood River edged Hermiston for the boys’ team title 2-, and
was led by overall Fhampion Justin Crosswhite in 16 minutes, 56
seFonds.
Senior Hayden Earl was Hermiston’s top plaFer in third with a
time of 1:09 in a photo ¿ nish with The Dalles Munior Jony Nelson.
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Photo by Ray Rodriguez/
The Dalles Chronicle
BOARDMAN
PENDLETON
More poplar than ever
Portland trades
Alex Morgan to
expansion Orlando
Blue Mountain
seFures fourth
FonseFutive
league title
2RLAND2, )la. (AP)
— Orlando is beginning
its new era in the National
:omen¶s SoFFer League by
aFTuiring one of the sport¶s
top players.
The
expansion
FACES Orlando Pride
announFed
Monday
they traded
for Portland
Thorns and
U.S. women’s
Morgan
national team
star Alex
Morgan. Morgan’s husband,
Servando CarrasFo, plays
for MaMor League SoFFer’s
Orlando City.
In the deal with Portland
the Pride also piFks up
Canadian Kaylyn Kyle, in
exFhange for Orlando’s ¿ rst
seleFtion in the expansion
draft, the No. 1 overall
seleFtion in the 2016 Follege
draft, and one international
roster spot in 2016 and 201.
“It is what it
is. But we’ll
remember these
days, and we’ll
look back one
day when we’re
winning games
and taking care
of business and
say, ‘Remember
when?“
— Gary Andersen
Oregon State football
coach after a 17-13 loss
to Colorado on Saturday
that snapped a 14-game
Pac-12 losing streak
for the Buffaloes. The
Beavers are winless in
league play and fell to
0-4, 2-5 overall in An-
dersen’s fi rst season.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1973 — )our players rush
for more than 100 yards as
Alabama sets three NCAA
reFords during a -6 romp of
9irginia 7eFh. Alabama sets
reFords with 82 yards total
offense, 4 yards rushing
and four 100-yard rushers. Jim
7aylor gains 142 yards, :ilbur
JaFkson 18, Calvin Culliver
12 and RiFhard 7odd 102.
2002 — Emmitt Smith
breaks the N)L Fareer rushing
yardage reFord held by the late
:alter Payton on an 11-yard
run in the fourth Tuarter. Smith
has 10 yards and a touFh-
down in Dallas¶ 1-14 loss to
Seattle and ends the game with
16,4 Fareer yards, 1 more
than Payton gained.
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:olves
top East
again
East Oregonian
The Blue Mountain
Timberwolves extended their
reign atop the N:AC East
Region even before stepping
on the Fourt for Saturday’s
battle with Yakima Valley at
Mosby Court.
By virtue of seFond-plaFe
:alla :alla’s loss on )riday
night, the T-:olves had a
three-matFh lead with Must
three matFhes left, and the
head-to-head
tiebreaker
against the :arriors heading
into Saturday afternoon’s
matFh with the Yaks.
That didn’t stop BMCC
from putting a little punFtua-
tion on its fourth-straight title
with wins of 25-19, 25-9 and
25-10. It’s the sixth league
title in the last seven seasons
for the program.
Like they had in reFent
outings, the T-:olves (5-9,
12-0 East) saw several
players making large Fontri-
butions to Saturday’s win.
Six hitters had at least
10 attempts, seven players
reForded kills, four had
assists, six served for aFes
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Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Sylvia Hines, of Pendleton, takes her time Saturday during the one-mile race at the Boardman Tree
Farm, owned by GreenWood Resources. The event, called A Very Poplar Run,also included fi ve-kilome-
ter, 10-kilometer and 15-kilometer races.
Run at Greenwood tree farm paFks the trails
By SAM BARBEE
East Oregonian
There’s something about the
autumn that runners Fan’t resist.
³It’s like you’re traFking new
ground,” Layne Papenfuss said
Saturday at the 5th Annual A
Very Poplar Run at the Green-
wood ResourFes Tree )arm near
Boardman. “In the fresh snow,
nobody’s been there — at least it
feels like that — or fresh leaves
even if there has. It’s just the natural
environment.”
Papenfuss, from the Tri-Cities,
had seen the tree farm on various
oFFasions when passing through,
and his wife found the raFe online
reFently and deFided to go.
“:e don’t have a lot of forest
around (the Tri-Cities),” he said. “So
this was our opportunity to get out
and experienFe the tree farm.”
He and about 600 others got one
of those Fonditions: leaves. A Very
Poplar Run weaves through the
numerous poplar trees harvested
by Green:ood ResourFes. Now a
month into autumn, the poplar trees
are beginning to shed their leaves,
Freating an idylliF autumn sFene.
That sFene has attraFted folks
from all over the region. Jenny
Van Cott, the girls Fross Fountry
FoaFh at Shadle Park High SFhool
in Spokane, has driven past the tree
farm and had always wanted to run
amongst the trees. ReFently, she
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Jenny von Cott, of Spokane, led
all women in Saturday’s 10-ki-
lometer race at the Boardman
Tree Farm. The event, called A
Very Poplar Run, included one-
mile, fi ve-kilometer and 15-kilo-
meter races.
heard about A Very Poplar Run and
had to Fome down.
“Oh my gosh, it was gorgeous,”
she said. “There were some seFtions
of the Fourse that were really sandy,
so it was ... you were piFking up
your knees. It was beautiful.”
Some runners Fame for more
than the raFe. Brady DiFkhaus and
his family Fame to Famp along
the Umatilla River in addition to
running. This is the third year the
DiFkhaus’s have Fome to Boardman
and they’ve Famped all three years.
“It’s a tradition with several
families,” Brady said. “:e Fome
down and do the run. As the boys get
older, they go up in mileage. :hat
originally brought us down was it
was a fun run and it’s a weekend
where there aren’t really any other
runs going on.
“:e live in the Tri-Cities, but we
¿ nd it’s better to Famp on the river,
spend the weekend and hang out
with family and friends.”
A Very Poplar Run is a fun run
— at least it’s supposed to be — and
Pendleton resident Jim Youngman
took that to heart. This was his ¿ rst
Poplar Run, he said, but he wanted to
have some fun with it. So he strung
some fake leaves on the baFk of his
long-sleeved white shirt to stand out
and get a laugh.
“Just stand out a little bit in the
Frowd and make fun of the whole
thing,” he said. “And be Folorful.”
This was Youngman’s ¿ rst poplar
run as well. He heard about it last
year and immediately thought it was
something he wanted to do.
“It’s great. It was worth it,” he
said.
SinFe Green:ood ResourFes
DireFtor of ResourFe Information
Systems Andrew BourTue had the
idea for A Very Poplar Run ¿ ve
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Prep Roundup
LoFals
wrap up
playoff
positions
TigerSFots,
Cardinals, Cougars
volleyball teams
all moving on
East Oregonian
CULVER — The :eston-
MFEwen TigerSFots may not
have Flaimed the distriFt title
on Saturday, but they Fame
Flose enough that FoaFh
Shawn :hite is Fon¿ dent a
deep playoff run is possible.
After sweeping Pilot
RoFk 25-19, 25-14, 25-12
in the distriFt semi¿ nals, the
TigerSFots went up against
tournament host and No. 1
seed Culver for the third time
this season.
The TigerSFots won the
¿ rst and third sets 26-24,
25-21, and nearly brought
the matFh to an end in a tight-
ly-Fontested fourth before the
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