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SPORTS East Oregonian Page 2B Thursday, November 5, 2015 HERMISTON: Consistent pass rush will be key for Dawgs Continued from 1B Overall, Neville has passed for 2,198 yards on 68 percent passing for 30 touchdowns. will host the Wilsonville Wildcats (8-1, 6-1) Neville, a three-start recruit, currently has this Friday at 7 p.m. at Kennison Stadium. offers from Washington State and Boise State. The Bulldogs and the Wildcats both played Neville missed Wilsonville’s 63-14 win Sandy, who hails from Wilsonville’s North- over Parkrose, and the senior backup Tom west Oregon Conference, Sept. 11 and won Gomez stepped in capably. He tossed four 53-3. Hermiston just slipped by the Pioneers touchdowns — and three interceptions — 13-7 in double overtime. while eclipsing the 300-yard mark. “They’re well-coached. They execute on Whoever plays quarterback Friday will offense,” Faaeteete said. “They have a great have some serious targets. Harrison Steiger defense, have great kids and they play really has been a menace to secondaries all season. hard all the time. We’re lucky to be able to The junior has caught 40 passes this season play a program like this.” for 821 yards and a whopping 18 touchdowns. The Wildcats are an athletic bunch with He’s caught a pass and a touchdown in numerous weapons. They have two quarter- each game he’s played this season, and caught backs who are capable throwers. The starter, ten balls for 232 yards and three touchdowns Connor Neville, is a junior who has thrown in the Wildcats’ 40-37 loss to Liberty two a touchdown pass in each game this season. weeks ago. Against Liberty two weeks ago, a game But he’s not alone. Jonny Neville has been Wilsonville lost 40-37, Neville passed for a threat in the passing game, just not as worri- 507 yards on 31 completions and four touch- some as Steiger. He still must be accounted downs. He threw four picks in that game, for, however, as he’s caught 29 balls for 548 WKRXJKDQGKHKDV¿YHRQWKHVHDVRQ yards and 11 touchdowns. The week before, in a 45-14 win over He, too, has caught a pass in every game Putnam, he threw for six touchdowns, 407 this season, though he was held without a \DUGV DQG KDG MXVW ¿YH LQFRPSOHWH SDVVHV touchdown in Wilsonville’s 59-14 win over Hillsboro last week. “The key to stopping the great offense is NHHSLQJ WKHP RII WKH ¿HOG´ )DDHWHHWH VDLG “We gotta execute on offense on our end and play the keep-away game: run the ball well, WKURZWKHEDOOHI¿FLHQWO\$QGZKHQZHDUH on defense, get to the quarterback, create second-and-long, third-and-long situations so it’s an easier game for me to call. That being said, it’s not gonna be easy to keep this offense in check. They’ve been putting up numbers all year long.” Wilsonville can run it, too, though it’s not the strength of the its offense. No Wilsonville running back ever received more than 11 carries in any game this year, and no Wilson- ville running back has rushed for more than 111 yards in any game. The running game is mainly a big play threat, with Elijah Benedick and Mason Craig each averaging more than 10 yards per carry. Andrew Merrick is the Wildcat’s leading rusher with 467 yards on just 63 carries and three touchdowns. Sophomore Taran Floyd has scored eight times on the ground. Hermiston was able to get a good pass rush last week against Pendleton and the week before against Hood River Valley. Pendleton quarterback Kai Quinn, who has a strong arm, couldn’t step into any throws against the likes of Neal and Coleman, and those two will have to do the same against Neville, who only has 37 yards rushing on 23 tries this season. Once a dual-threat quarterback, Neville now wears two knee braces after a couple knee injuries. If the Bulldogs can get a good pass rush, make Neville uncomfortable in the pocket, as they did with Quinn, Hermiston can disrupt the timing passes Wilsonville likes and potentially force some mistakes. But the task, offensively and defensively, will be a tall one for the Bulldogs. ³2XU JX\V DUH JRQQD ORRN DW ¿OP DQG they’re gonna see that the task at hand is a large one,” Faaeteete said. “You go out there DQG \RX ¿JKW EH FRXUDJHRXV DQG WKHQ DW the end, when the chips fall, you’re holding your head held high. It’s football. Someone’s gotta lose. It’s what’s great about this game. Anything can happen on Friday night. Crazier things have happened. We just gotta execute on offense and get home on defense and have fun.” SCOREBOARD STANFIELD: Monkus ready to roll Continued from 1B running back Thyler Monkus quarterback Dylan through the air, which is wear and Grogan, who have carried the Salas says his defense needs to offense all season long. key on. Monkus capped off an “We have to limit their big plays,” he said. “Their outstanding season with 246 quarterback is very mobile, yards and four touchdowns and his best work comes when on 20 carries in the win over he’s out of the pocket, so our Culver. Grogan also added guys can’t give him time to 127 yards on the ground. However, there is still a make plays, we need to crash WKHSRFNHWDQG¿QLVKWDFNOHV´ minor concern over Monkus’ The quarterback he bum ankle, which he injured mentioned is junior Steele during the Week 8 win against Ware, who threw for more Pilot Rock. “We’ve been resting him than 2,200 yards and 36 touchdowns during the season, up a bit in practice, trying to controlling the offense to an make sure he’s 100 percent,” average of just over 52 points said Salas. “But he’ll be ready to go.” per game. With the Tigers roaring and Salas knows that his defense can only contain that ready to go, Salas said he’s type of an offense for so long, excited to see what the two and says that his offense will teams can do. “If all 25 people keep each be the big key to deciding the other in the game and do their game. MRE ZH¶OO EH ¿QH´ KH VDLG “Our offense can help out the defense by taking big, “We’ve been pretty successful long drives that eat a lot of with pretty basic football. clock,” he said. “When you It will be a good match-up keep explosive offenses off with teams with contradicting WKH¿HOGLWSXWV\RXLQDJUHDW styles.” ———— position to win, and that’s Contact Eric Singer at what we want.” esinger@eastoregonian.com, 7KH 7LJHUV GH¿QLWHO\ KDYH the capability to control the (541) 966-0839, or follow on clock, behind the duo of stud Twitter @ByEricSinger. Local Slate Football PREP FOOTBALL Friday (5A first round) No. 9 Wilsonville at No. 8 Hermiston, 7 p.m. (2A first round) No. 9 Stanfield at No. 8 Vernonia, 7 p.m. Saturday (2A first round) No. 13 Irrigon at No. 4 Kennedy, 1 p.m. (2A first round) No. 10 Weston-McEw- en at No. 7 Reedsport, 2 p.m. (2A first round) No. 15 Monroe at No. 2 Heppner, 3 p.m. NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE EAST W L T Pct PF PA New England 7 0 0 1.000 249 133 N.Y. Jets 4 3 0 .571 172 139 Buffalo 3 4 0 .429 176 173 Miami 3 4 0 .429 154 173 SOUTH W L T Pct PF PA Indianapolis 3 5 0 .375 173 203 Houston 3 5 0 .375 174 205 Jacksonville 2 5 0 .286 147 207 Tennessee 1 6 0 .143 125 159 NORTH W L T Pct PF PA Cincinnati 7 0 0 1.000 198 132 Pittsburgh 4 4 0 .500 168 147 Cleveland 2 6 0 .250 167 216 Baltimore 2 6 0 .250 190 214 WEST W L T Pct PF PA Denver 7 0 0 1.000 168 112 Oakland 4 3 0 .571 178 173 Kansas City 3 5 0 .375 195 182 San Diego 2 6 0 .250 191 227 NATIONAL CONFERENCE EAST W L T Pct PF PA N.Y. Giants 4 4 0 .500 215 208 Washington 3 4 0 .429 148 168 Philadelphia 3 4 0 .429 160 137 Dallas 2 5 0 .286 133 171 SOUTH W L T Pct PF PA Carolina 7 0 0 1.000 191 136 Atlanta 6 2 0 .750 213 173 New Orleans 4 4 0 .500 213 234 Tampa Bay 3 4 0 .429 163 199 NORTH W L T Pct PF PA Green Bay 6 1 0 .857 174 130 Minnesota 5 2 0 .714 147 122 Chicago 2 5 0 .286 140 202 Detroit 1 7 0 .125 149 245 WEST W L T Pct PF PA Arizona 6 2 0 .750 263 153 St. Louis 4 3 0 .571 135 125 Seattle 4 4 0 .500 167 140 San Francisco 2 6 0 .250 109 207 ——— Today’s Game Cleveland (+11) at Cincinnati, 5:25 p.m. Sunday’s Games Tennessee (+8) at New Orleans, 10 a.m. St. Louis (+2.5) at Minnesota, 10 a.m. Green Bay (-2.5) at Carolina, 10 a.m. Washington (+14) at New England, 10 a.m. Miami (+3) at Buffalo, 10 a.m. Jacksonville (+2.5) at N.Y. Jets, 10 a.m. Oakland (+4.5) at Pittsburgh, 10 a.m. Atlanta (-7) at San Francisco, 1:05 p.m. N.Y. Giants (-2.5) at Tampa Bay, 1:05 p.m. PREP BOYS SOCCER Saturday (5A quarterfinal) No. 4 Hermiston vs. Woodburn, TBD (3A quarterfinal) No. 6 Riverside at No. 3 St. Mary’s, 4 p.m. PREP VOLLEYBALL Friday (2A quarterfinal) No. 10 Weston-McE- wen vs. No. 2 Culver (at Ridgeview HS, Redmond), 10 a.m. (1A quarterfinal) No. 7 Ione vs. No. 2 North Douglas (at Ridgeview HS, Redmond), 3:15 p.m. Saturday Weston-McEwen vs. TBD at 2A state tournament, TBD Ione vs. TBD at 1A state tournament, TBD COLLEGE FOOTBALL Saturday College of Idaho at Eastern Oregon, Noon COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL Thursday Walla Walla U. at Eastern Oregon, 7 p.m. COLLEGE CROSS COUNTRY Saturday Eastern Oregon at CCC Champion- ships, TBD COLLEGE MEN’S BASKETBALL Saturday Eastern Oregon at Gonzaga (exhibition), 5 p.m. COLLEGE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Friday Eastern Oregon at Arizona Christian, 6 p.m. Saturday Eastern Oregon at Arizona Christian, 3 p.m. Denver (-5) at Indianapolis, 1:25 p.m. Philadelphia (-2.5) at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. Open: Arizona, Baltimore, Detroit, Houston, Kansas City, Seattle Monday’s Game Chicago (+4) at San Diego, 5:30 p.m. Basketball NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 5 0 1.000 — New York 2 3 .400 3 Boston 1 3 .250 3½ Philadelphia 0 4 .000 4½ Brooklyn 0 5 .000 5 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 5 1 .833 — Washington 3 1 .750 1 Miami 2 2 .500 2 Charlotte 1 3 .250 3 Orlando 1 4 .200 3½ Central Division W L Pct GB Cleveland 4 1 .800 — Detroit 3 1 .750 ½ Chicago 3 2 .600 1 Indiana 2 3 .400 2 Milwaukee 2 3 .400 2 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 3 2 .600 — San Antonio 3 2 .600 — Dallas 2 2 .500 ½ Houston 2 3 .400 1 New Orleans 0 4 .000 2½ Northwest Division W L Pct GB Minnesota 2 1 .667 — Portland 3 2 .600 — Oklahoma City 3 2 .600 — Utah 2 2 .500 ½ Denver 2 2 .500 ½ Pacific Division W L Pct GB Golden State 5 0 1.000 — L.A. Clippers 4 1 .800 1 Phoenix 3 2 .600 2 Sacramento 1 4 .200 4 L.A. Lakers 0 4 .000 4½ ——— Wednesday’s Games Indiana 100, Boston 98 Washington 102, San Antonio 99 Milwaukee 91, Philadelphia 87 Houston 119, Orlando 114, OT Toronto 103, Oklahoma City 98 Cleveland 96, New York 86 Atlanta 101, Brooklyn 87 Portland 108, Utah 92 Phoenix 118, Sacramento 97 Golden State 112, L.A. Clippers 108 Today’s Games Oklahoma City at Chicago, 5 p.m. Miami at Minnesota, 5 p.m. Charlotte at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. Utah at Denver, 6 p.m. Memphis at Portland, 7:30 p.m. Hockey NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Montreal 14 11 2 1 Ottawa 12 6 4 2 Tampa Bay 14 6 6 2 Boston 11 6 4 1 Detroit 12 6 5 1 Florida 12 5 4 3 Buffalo 12 5 7 0 Toronto 12 2 8 2 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT N.Y. Rangers 12 8 2 2 N.Y. 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