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SPORTS
East Oregonian
BOARDMAN
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Prep Roundup
Football coach
resigns after
altercation
with player
TigerScots win, set up rematch with Culver
Ione volleyball,
Mac-Hi boys soccer
also advance with
playoff victories
By GEORGE PLAVEN
East Oregonian
East Oregonian
Riverside High School assistant
football coach Neil Livingston has
resigned following an altercation
Oct. 12 with a student athlete.
Livingston, who was in his third
year coaching at the school, report-
edly knocked a 17-year-old player to
the ground during practice, according
to witnesses. However, Livingston
said the incident happened after he
put up his hands to avoid being hit
from behind while standing on the
¿eld during a play.
Livingston was not charged with a
crime, but had been placed on leave
while the school district conducted its
own investigation.
Morrow County Superintendent
Dirk Dirksen did not comment on the
district’s investigation. Livingston
said he just wants to put the situation
behind him.
“In the end, I just felt this was the
best decision for me,” he said.
Riverside’s football season came
to an end Friday with a double-over-
time win over Nyssa. Dirksen said
the assistant coach’s position will be
advertised.
REEDSPORT
—
The
Weston-McEwen TigerScots kept
their season alive on Saturday,
advancing in the OSAA state
playoffs following a 3-0 win over
Reedsport.
The No. 10 seed TigerScots
(22-9) won with scores of 25-18
and 26-24 before blowing out the
No. 7 seed Braves (14-11) in the
third set 25-8 to clinch the victory.
In that second set, the Tiger-
Scots actually trailed 23-17 before
staging a big comeback to take the
set and gain momentum into the
third set.
“This team is special because
they just keep playing,” said
TigerScots coach Shawn White.
“They stayed focused and made
play after play to get back in and
win it.”
The TigerScots then fed off
of that momentum to blow out
Reedsport in the third set.
“We quit making errors,” said
White. “We came back and got the
momentum shift and quit giving
away points to the other team.”
Weston-McEwen’s offensive
attack was very balanced in the
match, as four players registered
at least ¿ve kills. Sarah Finifrock
led the team with nine kills and
two aces and Sara von Borstel
wasn’t far behind with seven kills
and also nine digs.
Elsewhere, Ali Schroeder
contributed 24 assists, seven digs
and three aces, Alyssa Finifrock
smacked six kills and recorded
seven blocks, and Mati Aby
earned ¿ve aces and 15 digs.
Next up for the TigerScots is
a very familiar opponent, as they
will play Columbia Basin Confer-
ence foe Culver on Thursday at 10
a.m. at Ridgeview High School in
Redmond in the quarter¿nals of
the OSAA tournament.
Weston-McEwen
played
Culver twice during the regular
season — losing both matches
3-0.
“They’ve got a very expe-
rienced and talented team, and
we’ve always been trying to catch
up,” said White. “Another four
days of practice to get better, we
just need to execute when we get
out on the court.”
Volleyball
IONE 3, ELKTON 0 — At
Ione, the No. 7 seed Ione Cardinals
defeated the No. 10 seed Elkton
Elks in three sets on Saturday.
The Cardinals (21-6) won in
pretty convincing fashion, putting
away the Elks (19-7) with scores
of 25-16, 25-19 and 25-7.
“Their intensity was great as
a team from start to ¿nish,” said
Ione coach Brandi Orem.
Rachel Holland led the Cardi-
nals on offense with 13 kills and
seven blocks, while Jessie Flynn
added six kills and two blocks of
her own.
Orem said amidst the offensive
power, her teams’ consistency
from the serving line was a big
key to their victory. The Cardinals
were successful on 69 of 72 serve
attempts for a 96 percent success
rate.
The win advances Ione into the
4uarter¿nals of the state playoffs,
where they will next face the No.
2 seeded North Douglas Warriors
(22-6) on Thursday. North Douglas
defeated its opponent No. 15 seed
Lowell 3-0 as well on Saturday.
The game will be played
at Ridgeview high school in
Redmond and is slated to start at
3:15 p.m.
CRANE 3, HELIX 2 — At
Crane, the No. 11 Helix Grizzlies
gave everything they had but
could not overtake the No. 6 Crane
(18-5) losing 3-2.
Helix (19-6) won the ¿rst out of
the gates 25-22, but Crane (18-5)
fought back to take the next two
sets 25-17 and 25-23. The Griz-
zlies came back in the fourth set
to win again 25-22, before Crane
took the decisive ¿fth set in a close
15-12 fashion.
No details were reported.
The Grizzlies’ season ends with
a 19-6 overall record and second
place ¿nish in the Old Oregon
League behind Powder Valley
with a 10-2 record.
Boys Soccer
MAC-HI 1, PHOENIX 0 —
At Milton-Freewater, the Mac-Hi
Pioneers defeated Phoenix 1-0 in
an OSAA state play-in game on
Saturday.
Eighty minutes of regulation
and two overtime periods were not
enough to decide a winner, as the
Pioneers earned the victory with a
5-4 advantage in penalty kicks.
No details were reported.
The No. 15 seed Mac-Hi (6-6-2)
will advance into the ¿rst round of
the OSAA state playoffs and will
next play on Tuesday when they
travel to No. 2 seed Sisters.
Girls Soccer
BANKS 2, MAC-HI 1 — At
Milton-Freewater, the Mac-Hi
Pioneers fell to the Banks Braves
2-1 in an OSAA state play-in
game.
No details were reported.
The Pioneers end their season
with a 8-3-3 overall record and a
second place ¿nish in the Greater
Oregon League.
HERMISTON
Hermiston girls silenced by Putnam, end season with confounding performance
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
It just wasn’t Hermiston’s
day.
That’s what Bulldogs’
coach Danielle Turner reit-
erated several times, ¿ghting
back a few tears, following
the Hermiston Bulldogs’
1-0 state play-in loss to the
Putnam Kingsmen on a
soggy Saturday afternoon.
“I honestly thought we
would come out with a little
more intensity than we did,”
said a somber Turner. “We’ve
kind of been on a high the
last two games. Came out
and shut out Hood River, put
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On paper, Hermiston
(4-7-6, 4-1-1 CRC) appeared
to have the advantage in the
game as Putnam held a 2-7-5
overall record coming into
the game — but one of those
ties came to the same Herm-
iston team back in Sept. 19.
But amongst that, Turner
doesn’t believe that famil-
iarity for either team played a
real factor in the game.
“There was a couple
players we knew that were
pretty good for them, but each
team is different every day
regardless how many times
scoring chance came
you play them,” she
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but it sailed just high
tunately I don’t think
of the goal.
we were on our best
“We just weren’t
game today.”
on offensively,” said
Just like the ¿rst
Hermiston
Turner. “We weren’t
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That unit’s performance
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“Once again our defense
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