SPORTS
THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2016
Sports shorts
NBA Playoffs
Nationals pitcher
ties MLB record
with 20 strikeouts
Blazers eliminated
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Max Scherzer struck out 20
batters, matching the major
league record for a nine-
inning game as he pitched
the Washington
FACES Nationals past
the Detroit
Tigers 3-2 on
Wednesday
night.
Scherzer
had a chance
to break the
Scherzer
mark when
James McCann stepped to
the plate with two outs in the
ninth inning. McCann, who
whiffed his previous three
times up, grounded to third
for the fi nal out.
The right-hander, who
pitched two no-hitters last
season and struck out 17 in
the second one, joined Roger
Clemens (twice), Kerry
Wood and Randy Johnson as
the only big league pitchers
to compile 20 strikeouts in
nine innings.
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Warriors return to
conference finals
By JANIE MCCAULEY
Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — Klay
Thompson’s sweet shooting
touch carried the Warriors while
Stephen Curry was down, and
together again in the starting
lineup the Splash Brothers led
Golden State back to the Western
Conference fi nals.
Portland Trail
Blazers’ Da-
mian Lillard,
center, tries to
cut between
Golden State
Warriors’ Fes-
tus Ezeli, left,
and Andre Ig-
uodala during
the fi rst half
in Game 5 of a
second-round
NBA basket-
ball playoff
series Wednes-
day, May 11,
2016, in Oak-
land, Calif.
Game 5
Portland
Golden State
121
125
• Warriors win series 4-1
Thompson scored 33 points
with six 3-pointers, Curry added
29 and sealed it with a 3 with
24.9 seconds left, and Golden
State advanced to the West fi nals
for the second straight season
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AP Photo/Marcio Jose
Sanchez
Iannetta
lifts M’s
HERMISTON
Homer in 11th
gives Seattle
win over Rays
By JIM HOEHN
Associated Press
Seahawks wideout
set to announce
retirement today
RENTON, Wash. (AP)
— Seattle Seahawks wide
receiver Ricardo Lockette
is retiring six months after
suffering a serious neck
injury in a game at Dallas.
The team
rmed the
FACES confi
retirement and
has scheduled
a news
conference
today.
Lockette
was
knocked
Lockette
out and
remained motionless on the
fi eld for several minutes
after a hit by Cowboys
safety Jeff Heath during the
Nov. 1 victory over Dallas.
Earlier this year, Lockette
told a group of paramedics
and fi refi ghters that the
injury was so serious he
could have died if not for
proper treatment from
athletic trainers and medics
on the fi eld.
Lockette has been a
special teams standout for
the Seahawks since joining
the team in 2011.
“If the IOC and
the World Health
Organization
do not have the
generosity of
heart to delay
the games to
prevent children
being born and
disabled their
whole lives, then
they’re among the
cruelest institutions
in the world.“
— Amir Attaran
University of Ottawa
professor whose spe-
cialty is public health.
Attaran called for the
Rio de Janeiro Olym-
pics to be postponed or
moved due to the Zika
outbreak in an article
published by Harvard
Public Health Review this
week. The start of the
games is three months
away. The World Health
Organization says there
are no travel restrictions
in place due to Zika, but
advises pregnant women
to stay away from areas
where outbreaks have
occurred.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1970 — Ernie Banks hits
his 500th career home run
off Pat Jarvis in the Chicago
Cubs’ 4-3 victory over
Atlanta at Wrigley Field.
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Bulldogs take aim
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
The Hermiston High School shooting team practices Thursday, May 5 at the Hermiston Gun Club outside
of Hermiston.
HHS trapshooting team fi nding its way in year one
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Senior Corey Mason takes aim on his clay target during a practice
session for the Hermiston High School shooting team on Thursday,
May 5 in Hermiston.
Hermiston high school senior
Jesse Clark takes his stance at post
No. 3 on the trap fi eld at the Herm-
iston Gun Club. He waits for his
chance.
When his time comes he pulls his
Mossberg 835 shotgun into position
and loudly yells, “Pull!”
The clay pigeon takes fl ight, Clark
takes his aim and fi res, and a shower
of orange-painted shards crumbles to
the ground.
Clark is one of 21 Hermiston
students that are a part of the fi rst-
year high school trap shooting team,
one of three schools in the state of
Oregon that compete under the USA
High School Clay Target League.
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SEATTLE — Chris Iannetta
led off the bottom of the 11th
inning with a homer to give the
Seattle Mariners a 6-5 victory
over the Tampa Bay Rays on
Wednesday and a sweep of the
three-game series.
Iannetta jumped on a 3-2
pitch from Steve Geltz (0-1)
for his third
homer for
MLB
Seattle,
which was
unable to
Tampa Bay
hold an early
4-0 lead.
T h e
Mariners
escaped a
one-out,
Seattle
b a s e s -
loaded jam
in the 10th.
S t e v e n
Souza Jr. reached on a one-out
walk off Vidal Nuno, advanced
on a passed ball and moved
to third on Logan Morrison’s
bloop single to left.
Steve Johnson (1-0)
relieved and walked Steve
Pearce to load the bases.
Kevin Kiermaier fouled out
to third and Hank Conger
bounced into a force at
second.
With Mariners closer
Steve Cishek unavailable
after a four-out save Tuesday
night, Nick Vincent came on
in the ninth to protect a 5-4
lead. After Pearce struck out,
Kiermaier lined a 2-0 pitch
over the wall in right for his
fourth home run.
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Prep Roundup
Bucks jump into lead after Day 1 at districts
Pendleton girls already
with fi ve state berths
East Oregonian
HERMISTON — Delaney Clem
ran a season-best in the 3,000-
meters, Hailey Kendrick matched
her high-mark in pole vault, and
Kiara Glover played through pain
and placed second in two events
to push the Pendleton girls’ track
and fi eld team into the lead after
the fi rst evening at the Columbia
River Conference championships at
Hermiston’s Kennison Field.
Clem was all alone in front of
the distance race, one of fi ve girls’
events to hold fi nals on Wednesday,
and fi nished in 10 minutes, 56.31
seconds, her fi rst time breaking the
11-minute barrier this season.
Kendrick cleared 8 feet, six
inches in the vault at the season’s
fi rst meet, and that was the height
that won her the district title too.
Glover, who appeared to have pulled
a muscle in her leg early in the meet,
fi nished second in high jump (5-0)
and long jump (15-11.75).
All three girls earned automatic
state berths, as did their Buckaroo
teammate Makayla Akers with a
runner-up fi nish in javelin.
Akers (101-8) was bested only
by Hermiston’s Maddy Juul, who
set a new personal record for the
district title.
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
ABOVE: Pendleton’s Kiara Glover lands in the pit during the girl’s
long jump Wednesday during the Columbia Basin Conference dis-
trict track in Hermiston.
RIGHT: Hermiston’s Xavier Rambo competes in the boys long
jump Wednesday in Hermiston.
Juul beat her old high mark by
more than three feet with a throw
of 108-7, and was the only girl to
earn a state berth for third-place
Hermiston.
The Hermiston boys enter Day
2 in second place led by senior Tre
Neal’s pair of state qualifi cations.
Neal won shot put (55-7.75) and
was second in discus (167-10), and
Hermiston trails Hood River by
seven points in the team tally.
Also going to state for Herm-
iston’s boys was Xavier Rambo,
whose personal-record 21-2 was
second in long jump.
Pendleton’s boys did not take
any state berths away from the four
events to hold fi nals on Wednesday.
The rest of the events will wrap
up today with action starting at 5
p.m.
———
CRC District Championships
Day 1 Finals
BOYS
Team scores — Hood River 35, Hermiston 28,
Pendleton 1, The Dalles 0.
3,000 meters — 1, Justin Crosswhite, Hood River,
9:09.35; 2, Quinn Fetkenhour, Hood River, 9:09.75; 3,
Hayden Earl, Hermiston, 9:23.95.
Shot put — 1, Tre Neal, Hermiston, 55-7.75; 2,
Sebastian Barajas, Hood River, 52-3.75; 3, Sam Fults,
Hood River, 48-3.
Discus — 1, Sebastian Barajas, Hood River, 185-8;
2, Tre Neal, Hermiston, 167-10; 3, Elias Arenas,
Hermiston, 135-0.
Long jump — 1, Parker Irusta, Hood River, 22-0.5;
2, Xavier Rambo, Hermiston, 21-2; 3, Andrew Horn,
Hermiston, 19-11.
GIRLS
Team scores — Pendleton 29, Hood River 22,
Hermiston 18, The Dalles 11.
3,000 meters — 1, Delaney Clem, Pendleton,
10:56.31; 2, Lauren Robinson, Hood River, 11:05.46;
3, Melany Solorio, Hermiston, 11:21.10.
Javelin — 1, Maddy Juul, Hermiston, 108-7; 2,
Makayla Akers, Pendleton, 101-8; 3, Ayleen Sandoval,
Hermiston, 97-3.
High jump — 1, Katie Kennedy, Hood River, 5-2;
2, Kiara Glover, Pendleton, 5-0; 3, Lillie Wheeler,
Hermiston, 4-10.
Pole vault — 1, Hailey Kendrick, Pendleton, 8-6;
2, Barrett Idhe, Hood River, 8-6; 3, Taylor Sugg, The
Dalles, 8-0.
Long Jump — 1, Avery Cardosi, The Dalles, 16-
2.75; 2, Kiara Glover, Pendleton, 15-11.75; 3, Abby
Kinoshita, Hood River, 15-9.25.
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