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HERMISTON
Prep Roundup
’Scots Bulldogs blank Buckaroos
sweep
Pros
East Oregonian
ATHENA — A big day
from Jessica Lambert helped
carry the TigerScots to a
doubleheader sweep of the
Grant Union Prospectors
with 11-0 and 9-3 victories
on Tuesday afternoon.
Lambert started game one
on the mound for Weston-
McEwen (13-4, 10-2 EOL)
and threw a complete-game
shutout, allowing just one
hit with eight strikeouts,
and then came on in relief
in game two and threw 4.1
innings with just one hit and
one walk allowed with six
strikeouts. She led the team
at the plate going a combined
4-6 with three runs scored,
four RBI and one home run.
Next up for the TigerScots
is a home doubleheader with
Elgin on Saturday starting at
11 a.m.
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Hermiston’s
Tyler Sexton
connects foe
an RBI single
in the bottom
of the sixth
inning of the
Bulldogs’ 1-0
win against
Pendleton on
Tuesday in
Hermiston.
Sexton’s single in sixth
inning sends Hermiston
to fourth-straight win
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
Before league play began, Hermiston
senior Tyler Sexton said that aside from
winning the league championship and a
state championship, the Bulldog seniors
had another goal they wanted to complete:
to sweep Pendleton.
The Bulldogs are now well on their
way to checking off that
Baseball box as they knocked off
the Buckaroos 1-0 on a
warm Tuesday afternoon
at Armand Larive Middle
Pendleton
School.
“This one deinitely
feels good,” Sexton said
Tuesday. “I think we
could have played a little
better but scratching it
Hermiston
out the way we did was
deinitely
impressive
to me. We battled, we
played really good
defense and I’m pretty proud of my team
with this win.”
The win also clinches a home play-in
game for the postseason, as Hermiston
(13-8, 6-3 CRC) leads both Pendleton
(11-11, 2-7) and The Dalles by four games
in the league standings with only three
games left to play. The CRC crown is still
within reach, as well, as the Bulldogs trail
Hood River by just two games, but they
will need some help from Pendleton and
The Dalles to reach that.
“That’s really big for us,” Sexton said.
“The league title is deinitely still our goal
and we need some other teams to put in
some work versus Hood River for that to
be possible but we’re deinitely doing our
part to get to that.”
Staff photo E.J. Harris
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1
Game 1
R H E
GUH
000 00 —
0 1 2
W-M
231 6X — 11 14 1
Je. Lambert and Peal. Madden. W — Je.
Lambert, L — Madden.
2B — Dillow, Je. Lambert, Coffman,
Bennett 2 (W-M). HR — Je. Lambert
Game 2
R H E
GUH
003 000
0 — 3 9 0
W-M
201 042 X — 9 8 0
Moulton. Hillmick, Je. Lambert (3) and
Peal. W — Je. Lambert, L — Moulton.
2B — Moulton 2 (GUH). Coffman, Lam-
bert, Peal (W-M).
PILOT
ROCK
7,
UNION 5 — At Pilot Rock,
Jaiden Wright hit two home
runs for Union but it wasn’t
enough to overcome back-
to-back big innings by the
Rockets on Tuesday in a
meeting of the OSAA’s two
top-ranked 2A/1A teams.
Wright led the game off
with her irst homer, but Pilot
Rock (17-3, 9-1 SD6) led
6-1 after scoring three runs
in each the third and fourth
innings.
Sara Weinke and Madison
Dave scored in both innings
with Dave (2 for 3) getting
the eventual game-winning
run on a single by Tehya
Ostrom.
Ostrom pitched the entire
game and inished with six
strikeout and two walks.
It was the irst loss of the
season for Union (13-1, 9-1).
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HERMISTON
NBA Playoffs
Late rally lifts
Pendleton
Bucks score three in
seventh inning for road win
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
R H E
UHS
100 002
2 — 5 9 4
PRHS
003 301 X — 7 8 3
J. Wright and E. Clark. T. Ostrom and R.
Oates. W — Ostrom. L — Wright.
2B — M. Dave (PRHS). 3B — S. Weinke,
S. Walker (PRHS). HR — J. Wright 2 (UHS).
IRRIGON
10,
HEPPNER 2 — At Irrigon,
the Knights picked up a
key league win over the
Mustangs on Tuesday as they
look to keep their postseason
hopes alive.
The Knights (11-7, 4-6
SD6) were led by big perfor-
mances on offense from Lilly
Mills and Kelly McLaughlin
as the pair each racked up a
double and two RBIs in the
game. Julissa Garza pitched
for the Knights on Tuesday
and earned the win after
allowing seven hits, two
runs, three walks and ive
strikeouts.
Irrigon travels to Heppner
(3-15, 0-10) on Saturday for
a doubleheader starting at 11
a.m.
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R H
HHS
002 000
0 — 2 7
IHS
511 053 X — 10 7
W — J. Garza.
2B — L. Mills, K. McLaughlin (IHS).
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5
5
Baseball
WESTON-MCEWEN
3,
GRANT
UNION
2 — At John Day, the
Weston-McEwen TigerScots
squeaked out a league
win against the John Day
Prospectors on Tuesday
afternoon, scoring a run in
the top of the seventh inning
to clinch it.
With runners at irst and
third with two outs, James
West came to the plate to
pinch hit for Vince Roff as
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Trailing by one in the seventh inning, there’s
one player every coach in the Columbia River
Conference would love to have
standing in the on-deck circle.
Softball
That player is Buckaroos
senior Alexis Morrison, and as
luck would have it for Pend-
Pendleton
leton coach Tim Cary, the slug-
ging center ielder was put in
that very situation on Tuesday
in a softball game at Hermiston.
“It’s funny because I was
actually calculating in the
Hermiston
sixth inning, to hopefully get
through enough hitters so
Alexis would come up in the
seventh inning,” Cary said.
“We got through just enough.”
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AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez
Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard (0) rubs his face as he walks on the court in
front of Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green during the irst half in Game 2
of a second-round NBA basketball playoff series in Oakland, Calif., Tuesday.
Warriors stay on top in series
By JANIE MCCAULEY
Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. —
Klay Thompson scored 27
points and gave Golden State
its irst lead of the game on a
3-pointer with 5:33 left, and
the Warriors rallied to beat the
Portland Trail Blazers 110-99
on Tuesday night for a 2-0 lead
in their Western Conference
semiinal series.
Game 2
Portland
Golden State
99
110
Draymond Green added
17 points, 14 rebounds, seven
assists and four blocked shots
in another win without injured
MVP Stephen Curry, sidelined
with a sprained MCL in his
right knee.
Game 3 is Saturday in Port-
land, and the reigning MVP
might be back for that one.
NBA Finals MVP Andre
Iguodala’s two free throws
at 7:25 trimmed the Blazers’
lead to 91-88 and Thompson’s
3 at 6:44 tied it, igniting the
sellout crowd inside deafening
Oracle Arena as the defending
See BLAZERS/2B
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M’s hit three homers in win over A’s
Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. —
Robinson Cano, Kyle Seager
and Leonys Martin hit home
runs,
Hisashi
Iwakuma
pitched seven solid innings
and the Seattle Mariners beat
the Oakland Athletics 8-2 on
Tuesday night.
Iwakuma (1-3) took a
shutout into the sixth inning
and allowed four hits to end a
career-worst, four-game losing
MLB
Seattle
Oakland
8
2
game dating to last September.
He walked two and struck out
three.
Norichika Aoki and Adam
Lind also drove in runs for the
Mariners, who have won 10 of
their past 13 games. Aoki has
hit safely in all 14 games he’s
had an at-bat against the A’s.
Cano, who also doubled
and scored, led off the fourth
with his team-leading ninth
homer. Seager drilled a
three-run homer off Marc
Rzepczynski in the eighth.
Khris Davis homered and
Jed Lowrie had two hits and
drove in a run for the A’s, who
have dropped six consecutive
series to the Mariners.
Staff photo E.J. Harris
Pendleton’s Lauren Richards throws from
the pitchers circle in the Buck;se 8-6 win
against Hermiston on Tuesday in Hermiston.