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PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) —
The Seattle Mariners have
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with Cuban
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Guillermo
Heredia, a deal
that includes
a $400,000
signing bonus.
Heredia would get the
$507,500 minimum salary
while in the major leagues.
If Heredia he is optioned to
the minors, his salary would
be $82,700.
Heredia has not played
competitive baseball since
2014 and defected from
Cuba last year. Seattle said
he hit .285 with 23 homers
and 121 RBIs over 374
games during six seasons
with Matanzas.
Seattle also placed
catcher Jesus Sucre on the
60-day disabled list. He had
surgery Jan. 26 to repair
damage in his right ankle,
a week after fracturing his
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Nixyaawii beats
Adrian, advances
to state semifinals
but it wouldn’t last.
girls didn’t let that
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Golden
get to them and just
Eagles began chip-
continued to battle.”
ping into the lead in
The
Golden
the second quarter
Eagles outscored the
Adrian
Nixyaawii
and then surged
Antelopes 34-12 in
ahead after halftime,
the second half and
By MATT ENTRUP
never to trail again
will advance to face
East Oregonian
in a game they would go on to No. 1 Country Christian in Friday’s
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PENDLETON — An initial School.
Mary Stewart led the Golden
onslaught from beyond the three-
“The girls showed great compo- Eagles (25-2) with 22 points and
point arc gave No. 5 Adrian an sure,” said Nixyaawii coach Jeremy IRXU DVVLVWV LQ WKH WHDP¶V ¿UVW
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Nixyaawii in Wednesday’s 1A girls down 10 to start the game, espe- site since 2011. Desiree Maddern
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Bulldogs coast by Falcons
Hermiston set as
No. 16 seed in 5A
state tournament
By SAM BARBEE
East Oregonian
Former Oregon Duck
great and NFL quarterback
Joey Harrington has been
hired as a part-time reporter
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KGW-TV, the station
announced on
FACES Tuesday.
KGW
executive news
director Rick
Jacobs told
OregonLive
that “He’s a
local guy, he
Harrington
knows the
community so well, he’s
really plugged in.”
Harrington is expected to
contribute to both KGW’s
newscasts and online
platform for both news and
sports content.
Since ending his football
career in 2008, Harrington
has transitioned into sports
broadcasting with Fox
Sports, serving as an analyst
on ‘Fox College Saturday’
and game analyst for Fox
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Tre Neal was injured when the La Salle
Prep Falcons came to Hermiston back in
January and knocked off the Bulldogs in a
come-from-behind win.
The Falcons’ 6-foot-7 center Matt Berger
and 6-foot-3 forward Jason Burns won the
battles on the glass against the smaller
Hermiston lineup and came away with a
six-point win right before the Bulldogs
started league play. With
Neal back in the lineup
on Wednesday night,
the Bulldogs’ never let
La Salle Prep Berger get into a rhythm
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round of the state playoffs
with a 55-42 win at The
Dawghouse.
“Without me, we lack
Hermiston
just the shear physical
presence inside,” Neal
said. “Preston (Peterson),
he’s a big guy. Put him
inside he’ll get rebounds. But it’s a different
kind of size. He’s got the height. I got the
brawn to push everyone around.”
It’s clear the kind of impact the burly
senior can have on the basketball court.
With the exception of Hermiston’s home
upset of Summit, the Bulldogs really
needed the attitude and edge Neal can give.
Wednesday night, he was the difference
between January’s loss and moving on to
the state playoffs.
“I wouldn’t say it’s revenge,” Neal said.
“It’s more of, ‘You got us and now we’ll get
you.’”
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ticked off the clock. Ange Toku’s layup
with 3:14 left tied the game at 2-2.
Hermiston coach Dave Ego said while
the defense was good, the offense forced
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got a bit lucky when Berger was whistled
for his second foul with 2:30 on the clock,
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were authentic
because i nding
seven of these
cards at one
place at one time
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THIS DATE IN SPORTS
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HERMISTON
Harrington hired
by KGW-TV in
Portland
— Rick Snyder
Baseball card dealer
with MINT State Inc. out
of Myrtle Beach, South
Carolina speaking on
a batch of seven identi-
cal Ty Cobb cards from
1909-1911 that were
discovered by a family
in a crumpled bag in
a run-down home. The
cards were verii ed as le-
gitimate on Wednesday
by experts in Southern
California, and could
bring seven-i gures if
sold on the open market.
The cards come from the
famous T206 lot, and
before the i nd, there
were only 15 of those
cards known still to exist.
Stacy Fitzpatrick led a well-rounded
rebounding effort with eight boards.
Carlee Morton carried the Ante-
lopes (20-6) with 20 points.
Going into the game, Coach
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Antelopes had revealed a team
with spotty outside accuracy and a
reliance on its staunch defense to
create turnovers and fast breaks to
lead the offense.
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threes and we didn’t expect them to
do that,” Maddern said. “We kind of
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Hermiston’s Dayshawn Neal shoots the ball guarded by LaSalle’s Matthew Berger in the Bull-
dogs’ 55-42 win against the Falcons on Wednesday in Hermiston.
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PENDLETON
2A teams looking to take the next step
on the road to Toledo 50-45.
The teams will tip-off at 6:30 p.m. at
the Pendleton Convention Center.
But aside from the Mustangs, the
Convention Center and Pendleton High
School are booked for the next three days
with wall-to-wall basketball action as the
By ERIC SINGER
city once again hosts the 2A boys and
East Oregonian
girls state basketball tournaments.
The games kick off today at 1:30 p.m.
The next stepping stone for the with the No. 5 seed Imbler taking on the
Heppner Mustangs is set to take form No. 4 seed Western Mennonite on the
later tonight.
boys side at the Convention Center, and
The No. 3 Mustangs come into the 2A the No. 9 seed Bonanza taking on No. 1
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ready to take that next step towards the will take place on Friday, beginning at 9
ultimate goal of a state championship.
a.m. and running through 6:30 p.m. The
Heppner will have its hands full with championship games as well as third
the No. 6 seed Bandon Tigers, who DQG ¿IWK SODFH JDPHV ZLOO WDNH SODFH
come rolling into the game winners of
10-straight and 16 of their last 17 overall. on Saturday at the Convention Center,
The Tigers (22-4) average just over 56 starting at 9 a.m. The girls title game will
points per game on offense and give up an tip-off at 6:30 p.m. and the boys game at
average of 41.6 points on defense. Their 8:30 p.m.
last loss came on Jan. 22 when they lost
See 2A STATE/3B
State tournament kicks off
today at Convention Center
and Pendleton High School
In this
Jan. 10,
2016 i le
photo,
Heppner’s
Patrick
Collins
goes
up for a
rebound
fl anked
by En-
terprise’s
Brycen
Locke (34)
and Brett
Green-
shields
in the
Mustangs’
65-34 win
against
the Out-
laws in
Pendleton.
EO fi le photo/
E.J. Harris