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SPORTS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2016 PENDLETON Sports shorts US men’s soccer misses 2nd straight Olympics FRISCO, Texas (AP) — )RUWKH¿UVW time in a half century, the United States has failed to qualify for consecutive Olympic men’s soccer tournaments. Roger Martinez scored twice, Americans Luis Gil and Matt Miazga were ejected and Colombia’s under-23 team defeated the U.S. 2-1 Tuesday night to earn the last berth in the Rio de Janeiro Games with a 3-2 aggregate win. Martinez redirected Andres Roa’s off-target shot past goalkeeper Ethan Horvath in the 30th minute. An own goal by Delver Machado tied the score in the 59th. Martinez put the Colombians back ahead in the 64th minute, eluding Tim Parker at the 6-yard box and beating Horvath. 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS Pendleton shuts out La Grande Cockburn goes the distance for Bucks By MATT ENTRUP East Oregonian With another strong start from pitcher Quinn Cockburn, the Pend- leton baseball team extended its winning streak to seven games in seven days after beating La Grande 10-0 in six innings. Cockburn struck out 10 batters and got some help from an error-free defense to allow just three hits in a complete game, his longest outing of the season. Pendleton (8-2) C o c k b u r n Baseball then wrung six runs pitched himself into from its next at-bat jams by allowing when La Grande ¿YH EDVH UXQQHUV LQ WKH¿UVWWZRLQQLQJV La Grande Pendleton starter Ryan Adams ran into control however, consec- issues. utive strikeouts The Bucks started ended the threat in WKH¿UVWDQGDEDVHVORDGHGGRXEOH the inning with a single by Kai play by shortstop Wyatt Morris on 4XLQQDQGDÀ\RXWE\-DPHV%UDGW a grounder up the middle erased the but Adams’ day deteriorated quickly from there and he walked the next Tigers (1-4) in the second. “That gave us a little three batters to push in the eventual momentum,” said Cockburn, who game-winning run. $ VDFUL¿FH E\ :\DWW 0RUULV improved to 2-1. “It’s always nice as a pitcher to know that I can throw scored another run and Cockburn any pitch I want and my defense is singled in a third while errors aided three more. going to be there behind me.” 0 10 Pendleton went up 6-0 off just two hits and six walks before Adams was pulled. “We were in a lot of hitter’s counts which allowed us to kind of sit back,” Pendleton coach T.J. Haguewood said. “Still didn’t hit the ball as well as we had hoped.” Cockburn didn’t allow a hit the rest way but did load the bases in the fourth inning when he hit two batters DQGZDONHGDQRWKHU$VKDOORZÀ\WR right-center ended that threat. “He’s been throwing good,” Haguewood said of his starter. “He’s been kind of throwing against some of the tougher teams and See PENDLETON/2B PENDLETON Buckaroos outlast Tigers Sager in high spirits working through cancer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Craig Sager has a blood clot behind his right ear that is affecting his hearing, and that’s just another annoyance he is accepting as he continues FACES to work NBA games for Turner Sports with fervor despite his leukemia no longer being in remission. Sager Dealing with the clot, which Sager compared to swimmer’s ear that won’t subside, could cause him to bleed to death given his blood levels, he said. Sager’s spirits are unde- terred by the latest challenge LQKLVFDQFHU¿JKWHYHQLILW PHDQWDUHGH\HÀLJKWDIWHU Tuesday’s Wizards-Warriors game to get to a doctor’s appointment in Houston on Wednesday morning before another game Thursday. “Obviously not good but it’s keeping me going. I have no choice,” he said. The 64-year-old said there’s “no doubt” he’ll continue to work through the playoffs. “From a morale standpoint as a player, if you’ve been through the things I’ve been through the past couple of years you want to feel what that success feels like.“ — Carmelo Anthony New York Knicks forward telling the media on Tuesday that he plans to play for Team USA at the Summer Olympics just a few hours after Clippers guard Chris Paul announced he would not play. THIS DATE IN SPORTS 1943 — Ken Sailors scores 16 points to lead Wyoming to a 56-43 victory over Georgetown in the NCAA championship. 1999 — New York Rangers center Wayne Gretzky surpasses Gordie Howe as the leading goal scorer in pro hockey history in a 3-1 victory over the Islanders. Gretzky’s goal was the 1,072nd of his career. Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com Staff photo by Kathy Aney Pendleton’s Payton Hergert rips a base hit Tuesday in a softball game against La Grande at Steve Cary Field in Pendleton. Pendleton storms back from early 10-0 deficit to grab victory By ERIC SINGER East Oregonian be an easy win for us know that if we’re Softball Pendleton. not sharp, any team But even with the can and will beat us so we need to play at No matter how good teams are GH¿FLW 3HQGOHWRQ in sports, sometimes they need a fought back through La Grande Pendleton our best if we expect WKH¿QDO¿YHLQQLQJV to continue to win wake-up call. games.” The Pendleton Buckaroos had to storm back and ,QWKRVH¿UVWWZR one on Tuesday afternoon in the take the victory innings, La Grande tagged Bucka- La Grande Tigers, who scored nine 17-12 at Steve Cary Field. “In all honesty, we needed this,” roos (8-1) pitcher Kiersten Murphy UXQV LQ WKH WRS RI WKH ¿UVW LQQLQJ and led by as much as 10-0 on the Pendleton coach Tim Cary said. “It for eight hits and one walk to help %XFNDURRVLQDJDPHWKDW¿JXUHGWR was a good wake-up call for us to let push across their nine runs as she 12 17 HERMISTON Prep Roundup Bulldogs stay hot, blow out Summit on base, swiping six full innings, Softball bags and scoring allowing just two runs. 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Mikayla momentum on our side.” +HUPLVWRQ VFRUHG ¿YH WLPHV and hammered the Summit Kopacz doubled, as well. “It was a whole team effort,” LQWKH¿UVWLQQLQJDQGWKUHHLQWKH Storm 11-1 on Tuesday at Rocky Greenough said of the offense. second to put away the Storm. Heights Elementary School. “(Tuesday’s win) gets me “We just capitalized in some ³7KH JLUOV DUH GH¿QLWHO\ VHHLQJ the ball really well. They’re excited for Friday,” Greenough key moments,” Greenough said. said. “Hopefully we can take two Hermiston (7-3) has been controlling at-bats.” Defensively, Julissa Alma- from Reynolds.” successful, in part, due to pesky The Bulldogs head to Trout- top-of-the-order hitters and a guer, a sophomore lefty, retired fundamentally-sound defense. WKH 6WRUP LQ RUGHU IRU WKH ¿UVW dale to take on the 6A Reynolds Jaime Hinkley was once again four innings and didn’t allow a Raiders in a doubleheader that a terror for opponents, getting run until the sixth. She tossed the starts Friday at 1 p.m. By SAM BARBEE East Oregonian 1 struggled to stay consistent in the strike zone. But heading into the third inning trailing 10-0, Cary knew it was pushing make-or-break time for his squad. “We were still lacking emotion and energy in the dugout and we ¿JXUHG ZH QHHGHG D IHZ KLWV WR liven us back up,” he said. “And that’s exactly what it was, we got a See BUCKAROOS/2B 11 Woods no- hits Kennedy, Stan¿ eld stays on roll East Oregonian THE DALLES — Brody Woods SLWFKHG6WDQ¿HOG¶VWKLUGQRKLWWHULQD run-rule shortened game this season in a 12-0 win over Kennedy on Tuesday. :RRGV VWUXFN RXW QLQH LQ ¿YH complete innings and walked none, but missed out on the perfect game due to a pair of hit batters and a ¿HOGLQJ HUURU KH PDGH %XW KH ZDV also 2-for-4 at the plate with an RBI and scored three runs. ³7KH\¶UH MXVW ¿OOLQJ XS WKH VWULNH ]RQH´6WDQ¿HOGFRDFK%U\DQ-RKQVRQ See PREPS/2B