SPORTS
Saturday, March 5, 2016
East Oregonian
Page 3B
2A Girls Basketball
Trojans make history with win
“Everyone will
remember that
irst one. I look
forward to that
a lot. That’s the
memorable
moment because
you think, we’re
changing history,
we’re changing
our culture.”
Kennedy advances
to ¿rst state ¿naO
in schooO history
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — For the
¿rst tiPe in schooO history,
the Kennedy Trojans are
heading to the state chaP-
SionshiS gaPe
The No 1 seeded
Trojans punched their ticket
with a 48-32 win over the
deIending state chaPpion
and No 4 seed :estern
Mennonite Pioneers on
Friday afternoon in the 2A
sePi¿naOs at the PendOeton
&onvention &enter
Trojans co-coach Peter
+aOO said that getting that
state chaPpionship Eanner
to hang in the schooO gyP is
soPething he wants for this
years¶ teaP
³, think it wouOd Ee nice
to know that when you go
into our gyP, you¶OO have
that Eanner up there, and it¶s
up there forever,´ he said
³Everyone wiOO rePePEer
that ¿rst one , Oook
forward to that a Oot That¶s
the PePoraEOe PoPent
Eecause you think, we¶re
changing history, we’re
changing our cuOture´
Senior Ken]ie 5atOiff
was one of two pOayers in
douEOe ¿gures in the gaPe
for Kennedy, ¿nishing with
15 points and 13 reEounds
and feOOow senior Lakin
Susee added 14 points
The Trojans 23-4 caPe
out of the gates against the
Pioneers strong, juPping to
a 15-5 Oead Ey the end of
the ¿rst Tuarter, and kept
the Oead at 10 as the teaPs
went into haOftiPe
The Pioneers Pade a
push in the second haOf,
eventuaOOy cutting the Oead
down to 32-27 with 6:45
Oeft to pOay in the fourth
Tuarter The push forced
a Trojans tiPeout as the
coaches feOt the teaP just
needed to re-gather its
coPposure
“It’s such a fast-paced
gaPe and Eoth teaPs were
very taOented, so we knew
we had to have that PoPent
of coPposure to just take a
Ereath,´ Peter +aOO said
“:e just had to take a
PoPent, Oook at the cOock
— Peter Hall,
Trojans co-coach
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
The Kennedy Trojans celebrate their 48-32 win against Western Mennonite on Friday in the state 2A basketball
tournament in Pendleton.
and just think that we had
to ¿nish the gaPe and Ee
ahead, and it doesn’t Patter
if its one point or 20´
The Ereather worked for
the Trojans, as a 3-poitner
Ey Susee out of the Ereak
sparked a 16-5 run to ¿nish
out the Tuarter and the gaPe
to advance the Trojans
Maddie +uOO Oed the
Pioneers with 11 points
and Maddie Hopper had
10 points and 12 reEounds
The Pioneers wiOO pOay
Monroe today at 1:30 pP
for third pOace
Kennedy wiOO pOay today
at 6:30 pP against the
%urns HiOanders for the 2A
state chaPpionship gaPe
“It feeOs pretty darn
aPa]ing, Eut we know we
have one gaPe Oeft,´ said
coach Kerry HaOO “I think
it’s going to take what it
took today — teaPwork,
defense, hustOe and Oeaving
everything on the Àoor´
———
WMS (21-7) 5 8 10
9 — 32
KHS (23-4) 15 8
9 16 — 48
WESTERN MENNONITE — M. Hull 11,
M. Hopper 10, K. Louthan 7, L. Pack 3, S.
Mansour 1, A. Hess, B. Freeman.
KENNEDY — K. Ratliff 15, L. Susee 14,
H. Arritola 7, T. Brown 6, K. Cantu 2, M.
Jaeger 2, A. Frey 2, K. Brown, M. Sanchez.
3-pointers — WMS 1, KHS 4. Free
throws — WMS 11-20, KHS 10-15. Fouls
— WMS 16, KHS 16. Fouled out — T.
Brown (KHS).
BURNS 48, MONROE
41 (OT) — The Burns
HiOanders are Eack in the 2A
state chaPpionship gaPe
for the second-consecutive
season with a 48-41 win
over the Monroe Dragons in
overtiPe on Friday night at
the PendOeton &onvention
&enter
Lindsey TayOor Oed the
HiOanders 27-2 with 23
points on 8-20 shooting,
naiOing three 3-pointers and
graEEing 12 reEounds As
a teaP, Burns shot 17-62
27 percent Eut graEEed
an incrediEOe 61 reEounds
to Monroe’s 26-2 33
&atherine &OePens was the
teaPs’ high reEounder with
15
The teaPs were even
in the ¿rst Tuarter, with
Burns Oeading 14-13 Eefore
the HiOanders EOew the
gaPe open in the second
Tuarter as they outscored
the Dragons 12-2 to graE a
26-15 Oead at haOftiPe
After a deadOocked
third Tuarter that kept the
HiOanders’ Oead at 10, the
Dragons Pade a run in the
fourth Tuarter to graE a
15-4 advantage, tying the
gaPe at 3-3 with just 11
seconds Oeft in the gaPe Ey
Peyton Greene to send the
gaPe to overtiPe
But in the extra period,
it was aOO HiOanders as they
outscored the Dragons -2
to graE the win
Burns wiOO pOay Kennedy
today at 6:30 pP for the
2A titOe, whiOe Monroe wiOO
pOay at 1:30 pP against
:estern Mennonite for
third pOace
———
BHS (27-2) 14 12
9
4 9 — 48
MHS (26-2) 13 2
9 15 2 — 41
BURNS — L. Taylor 23, C. Feist 7, M.
Carson 6, C. Clemens 5, A. Nonnenmacher
5, O. West 2, S. Shelman.
MONROE — M. Ballard 24, R. Gwillim
8, P. Greene 4, K. Martin 3, K. Martin 2, E.
Holmes, C. Knaggs, R. Ballard, E. Stahl.
3-pointers — BHS 3, MHS 3. Free throws
— BHS 11-24, MHS 4-7. Fouls — BHS 14,
MHS 21. Fouled out — P. Greene (MHS).
IMBLER
40,
BONANZA 29 — The
IPEOer Panthers kept its
season aOive for one Pore
day as the No 12 seed
Panthers knocked off the
No seed Bonan]a AntOers
in a consoOation gaPe on
Friday Porning
IPEOer 17-8 featured
three pOayers in douEOe
¿gures on offense, as Lexee
5oEertson had 12 points to
go with 11 reEounds, Katie
Barry had 12 points, and
KaiOey SPith had 11 points
As a teaP, IPEOer shot
14-38 36 percent froP the
Àoor and won the reEound
EattOe 38-31
Bonan]a 21-7 shot 1
percent 11-56 froP the
Àoor and had no pOayers
reach
douEOe
¿gures
:hitnee Dirk Oed the teaP
with eight points on 3-13
shooting
The Panthers traiOed the
AntOers 8-6 after the ¿rst
Tuarter, Eut used a 14-7
advantage in the second
Tuarter to graE a 20-15
Oead at haOftiPe and never
Oooked Eack
IPEOer wiOO now pOay
Grant 8nion today at aP
for fourth pOace at the Pend-
Oeton &onvention &enter
———
IHS (17-8)
6 14
6 14 — 40
BHS (21-7) 8 7
2 12 — 29
IMBLER — L. Robertson 12, K. barry 12,
K. Smith 11, J. Rudd 4, W. Wilber 1, H.
Kilpatrick, A. Felk, M. Hassan, B. Hassan, F.
Burnette, M. Hoskin.
BONANZA — W. Dirk 8, K. Dirk 7, J.
Batterman 5, B. Dirk 5, S. Woodworth 2, R.
Banderas 2, R. Anderson, M. Pitcock, H.
Lee, C. Munson.
3-pointers — IHS 0, BHS 1. Free throws
— IHS 12-23, BHS 6-9. Fouls — IHS 12,
BHS 24. Fouled out — B. Dirk (BHS), J.
Batterman (BHS).
GRANT UNION 41,
LOST RIVER 37 — The
Grant Union Prospectors
heOd off a furious second
haOf coPeEack froP the Lost
River Raiders to advance
further in the consoOation
Eracket on Friday Porning
Grant Union 23-6 Oed
Lost River 1-7 2-16 at
haOftiPe Eefore the Raiders
Àipped the switch out of
the haOftiPe Ereak Lost
River out-scored Grant
Union 21-12 in the second
haOf, as the teaPs’ offenses
effectiveOy switched pOaces
Grant Union shot 10-26
38 percent in the ¿rst haOf
and then feOO to 2-16 12
percent in the second haOf,
whiOe Lost River shot 6-24
25 percent in the ¿rst haOf
and 8-18 (44 percent) in the
second haOf The Prospec-
tors were aEOe to naiO 8-
froP the free throw Oine to
hang on to the win
Keri Pent]er Oed the
Prospectors in scoring with
over haOf the teaPs’ points
— 25 of theP to Ee exact
Pent]er onOy shot 6-1 froP
the ¿eOd, Eut hit 13 of her
15 free throw attePpts The
teaPs’ next highest scorer
was Mariah MouOton with
nine points
Lost River’s offense was
carried Ey RacheO Parks
with 1 points, as 15 of theP
caPe off of 3-pointers She
had three 3-pointers and 11
points in the second haOf
The Prospectors wiOO
now pOay IPEOer today at
aP for fourth pOace at
the PendOeton &onvention
&enter
———
LRHS (19-7) 8 8 13
8 — 37
GUHS (23-6) 17 12
4
8 — 41
LOST RIVER — R. Parks 19, T. Aluskin
6, J. Coblan 6, M. Storer 4, M. Girtman 2,
C. O’Grady.
GRANT UNION — K. Pentzer 25, M.
Moulton 9, H. Mosley 4, S. Brock 3, K.
Wright, M. Wilson.
3-pointers — LRHS 5, GUHS 4. Free
throws — LRHS 4-7, GUHS 13-16. Fouls —
LRHS 14, GUHS 8.
BULLDOGS: LiEerty’s -aidyn
2A BOYS: 9ernonia wiOO pOay
ThoPas Oed the gaPe with 1 points against Regis for the chaPpionship
Continued from 1B
defensiveOy,
offensiveOy,
and it just sort of cOicked´
RaPire] added 12 points
and eight reEounds and
sophoPore Maddy -uuO
chipped in 11 points The
BuOOdogs
out-reEounded
LiEerty 40-28 whiOe causing
23 turnovers and coPPit-
ting just 14
LiEerty’s -aidyn ThoPas
Oed the gaPe with 1 points
and PiPenteO added 16
The win earned the BuOO-
dogs a seventh-straight trip
to the state Tuarter¿naOs and
the Eracket’s ¿naO site, which
wiOO Eegin :ednesday at
GiOO &oOiseuP in &orvaOOis
:hiOe the FaOcons Pay
not have given the BuOOdogs
Puch preparation in the way
of a tightOy contested gaPe,
they did heOp theP prepare
for the physicaO styOe of pOay
they expect to encounter
LiEerty was whistOed for
24 fouOs, a nuPEer Post
purpOe and goOd cOad fans in
attendance feOt couOd have
Eeen Puch higher — and
they weren’t wrong The
BuOOdogs were aEOe to Patch
the FaOcons in the physi-
caOity departPent, though,
without racking up fouOs of
their own and ¿nished with
seven
“UsuaOOy we don’t pOay
very physicaO teaPs and so
pOaying a physicaO teaP was
nice Eecause now we’re
going to Ee pOaying Pore
physicaO teaPs a state,´
EdPiston said “So it’s a
good refresher of Eetter
teaPs than were in our
conference´
The No 5 BuOOdogs wiOO
open the tournaPent Eracket
against hoPetown favorite
No 4 &orvaOOis at 3:15 pP
on :ednesday
“:e’re excited Eecause
Continued from 1B
———
WMS (20-8) 6 5
7
7 — 25
RHS (24-3) 17 9
9 12 — 47
WESTERN MENNONITE — J. Williams 9, C. Williams 4, S.
Hess 4, D. Domes 4, N. O’Neill 2, I. Rush 1, C. Nofziger 1, D.
Gray, C. Roth, D. Berkey, M. Hull, K. Hull.
REGIS — B. Piete 10, B. Woodcock 8, S. Nieslanik 7, A. Schmitt
7, B. Piete 7, T. Williams 6, S. Kelley 2, C. Gescher, G. Minten, A.
Moore, R. Boyd, G. Brown.
3-pointers — WMS 3, RHS 1. Free throws — WMS 2-5, RHS
6-11. Fouls — WMS 15, RHS 12.
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Hermiston’s Sara Ramirez shoots the ball in front of
Liberty’s Cami Smotherman in the Bulldogs’ 71-48 win
against the Falcons on Friday in Hermiston.
we’ve Eeen working reaOOy
hard in practice and we
were kind of upset with Oast
year’s resuOts,´ Andreason
said of their 51-46 Ooss in
the chaPpionship gaPe,
“so it’s a good feeOing to get
Eack´
“They know that this
gaPe is the onOy way they’re
going to get Eack to have a
shot,´ Hoffert said “If we
don’t win that ¿rst gaPe we
don’t get a shot at what we
want My seniors keep the
teaP focused and they know
that one gaPe at a tiPe was
how we got to the ¿naOs
Oast year, and so that’s how
we’re going to approach it
this year´
———
LHS (13-12) 11 14
7 16 — 48
HHS (22-3) 20 14 20 17 — 71
LIBERTY — J. Thomas 19, Ke. Pimentel
16, A. Grenfell 9, C. Smotherman 2, A.
Gallegos 2, Ka. Pimentel, B. Romeo, K.
Magera, M. Jobe, C. Estocapio, E. Maki,
M. Williams.
HERMISTON — R. Andreason 15, J.
Edmiston 13, S. Ramirez 12, M. Juul 11, H.
Meyers 7, S. Gilbert 7, K. Heehn 3, K. Padilla
2, C. Wheeler 1, H. Thompson, J. Thomas.
3-pointers — LHS 7, HHS 4. Free throws
— LHS 5-8, HHS 11-32. Fouls — LHS 24,
HHS 7. Fouled out — E. Maki, A. Gallegos
(LHS).
VERNONIA 51, BANDON 39 — The
9ernonia Loggers caPe into the 2A sePi-
¿naO on a 26-gaPe winning streak, and on
Friday they extended that streak to 27 as they
defeated the Bandon Tigers to advance to the
state chaPpionship gaPe
The appearance on Saturday wiOO Ee the
¿rst trip Eack to the titOe gaPe since 15,
and the teaP wiOO aOso Ee searching for its
¿rst chaPpionship since winning Eack-to-
Eack titOes in 177-178
The Loggers (27-1) were paced on offense
Ey Tristan AdaPs with 1 points on 7-10
shooting, incOuding 5-8 froP the 3-point Oine
As a teaP, 9ernonia shot 3 percent froP the
Àoor (1-48) and naiOed 8-22 attePpts froP
3-point range
The gaPe featured onOy one tie and two
Oead changes as the Loggers controOOed the
score for the Pajority of the gaPe Bandon
tied the gaPe and then took an 8-7 Oead
with one Pinute Oeft in the ¿rst Tuarter on
a 3-point pOay Ey Tristan Davidson, Eut then
9ernonia took the Oead Eack at -8 with 48
seconds Oeft on a Oay-up Ey Luke Mc&aOOuP
FroP there it was aOO Loggers, as they
used a 10-2 run over the ¿rst four Pinutes of
the second Tuarter to gather the PoPentuP
and the advantage and run away with the
victory
9ernonia wiOO pOay today at 8:15 pP
against Regis for the chaPpionship, whiOe
Bandon wiOO pOay :estern Mennonite at 3:15
pP for third pOace
———
BHS (23-5) 8 8 12 11 — 39
VHS (27-1) 9 16 13 13 — 51
BANDON — A. Moore 13, T. Davidson 12, A. Smith 10, Z. Olive
2, T. Dyer 2, M. Brown.
VERNONIA — T. Adams 19, B. Jones 8, R. Connor 8, C. Sullivan
5, L. McCallum 4, B. Elliot 4, A. Schlemann 2, F. Mian 1, J.
Medearis.
3-pointers — BHS 2, VHS 8. Free throws — BHS 7-14, VHS 5-8.
Fouls — BHS 10, VHS 15.
IMBLER 41, KENNEDY 39 — The
Panthers kept its season aOive for one Pore
day after they heOd off against a second haOf
charge Ey the Kennedy Trojans on Friday to
Photo by E.J. Harris
Regis’ Bryce Piete drives on Western
Mennonite’s Niko O’Neill in the Rams’
47-25 win against the Pioneers in Fri-
day in Pendleton.
advance to the third-pOace gaPe on Saturday
IPEOer (21-4) Oed for the entire gaPe,
juPping on Kennedy earOy and often to the
tune of a 12-4 Oead Ey the end of the ¿rst
Tuarter The defenses took over in the second
Tuarter as Kennedy got the score within
18-13 as the teaPs headed to Ereak
Kennedy (15-12) Pade a charge in the
second haOf, outscoring the Panthers 26-23
Eut the Trojans siPpOy ran out of tiPe
For the gaPe, the Panthers shot 16-41 (3
percent) and won the reEound EattOe 35-2
MarshaO :hitaker Oed the Panthers with 15
points, whiOe Brandon McGiOvray had 10
For Kennedy, -acoE Lope] had 14 points,
whiOe Brett Traeger and -ack Suing each had
nine
IPEOer next pOays Burns today at 10:45
aP for third pOace
—————
KHS (15-12) 4 9 12 14 — 39
IHS (21-4) 12 6 12 11 — 41
KENNEDY — J. Lopez 14, B. Traeger 9, J. Suing 9, O. Seiler 3, B.
Mitchell 2, T. Schmidt 2, R. Carley, D. Arritola.
IMBLER — M. Whitaker 15, B. McGilbray 10, T. VanCleave 8,
G. Ryan 4, H. VanLeuven 2, J. Teeter 2, T. Riggle, A. Kanoho, I.
Mowery.
3-pointers — KHS 3, IHS 2. Free throws — KHS 10-16, IHS 7-11.
Fouls — KHS 16, IHS 16. Fouled out — J. Suing (KHS).