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SPORTS TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2016 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS PENDLETON Greb in lead group after irst round at state Pendleton junior eight strokes back East Oregonian BANKS — Crater junior Kiana Oshiro exploded into the lead at the OSAA 5A Girls Golf State Cham- pionships with a ive-under par round at Quail Valley Golf Course on Monday. Greb Oshiro opened with two birdies and an eagle on the front nine to make the turn at four under, and remained bogey-free until going over on the 18th hole to inish with a 67. Summit freshman Olivia Loberg was six strokes back in second place with a 73, and Pendleton junior Haley Greb was third with a 75. Greb started her round with nine-straight pars, but hit four bogeys on the back nine to go with a birdie on the par-3 16th hole. Pendleton coach Terry Prouse said wind speeds picked up as the day went along and led to the higher scores on the back nine. Crater senior Daniele Giles was tied with The Dalles junior Iliana Telles in fourth place with 77. Pendleton senior Shelby Greb was tied with Ridgeview senior Tianna Brown for eighth at 10-over with an 82. She chipped in for birdie on No. 2 and chipped off the pin on No. 15. Buckaroos freshman Megan George and senior McKenna Pratt each shot 96 to complete Pend- leton’s team score, and freshman Rylee Harris shot a 120. Summit led the team scores, and shot a combined 34-over par 322. Crater was second with 341, Pendleton was third with 349 and Wilsonville was fourth with 394. The inal round begins Tuesday ATHENA TigerScots capture EOL crown Weston-McEwen cranks out nine home runs in Saturday sweep By ERIC SINGER East Oregonian When the Echo Cougars surpris- ingly dropped a pair of games to Enterprise on Friday afternoon, it swung the door to the top of the Eastern Oregon League standings wide open for the Weston-McEwen TigerScots. But standing in their way was their Saturday opponent, the Vale Softball Vikings. If the TigerScots swept the Vikings, the Vale EOL title was theirs, but if they lost at least one game then the Vikings would be the champions. So when Weston-McEwen Saturday’s games inally came, the TigerScots were determined to secure that champi- onship and boy did it show, as they swept the Vikings with wins of 15-0 and 13-1 to earn the championship in just their irst year competing in the league. “It’s monumental,” said Weston- McEwen coach Jeff Griggs. “The girls were focused, it was senior day, and to win the league title ... it means a lot to them.” The TigerScots (17-4, 14-2 EOL) won with a barrage of home runs on Saturday, hitting a total of nine in the two games. Four players registered multi-homer games with Jordyn Lambert hitting three, Jessica Lambert with two, Isabelle Dillow with two — her irst two of the season — and Charmayne Bennett with two. “That cost me money on a whole box of balls,” Griggs joked. Before Saturday, the TigerScots had hit just nine home runs for the season, but Griggs said he credits the outburst to great preparation at the plate from his team. “We worked a lot all week at practice for (Vale’s pitcher), and the girls were able to get their bats on the balls and square them up today,” he said. But aside from the offensive eruption, Weston-McEwen was backed up by a dominant day in the pitching circle by senior Jessica Lambert, picking up her ninth and tenth wins on the season. Lambert pitched all ive innings in both games, and combined to allow just six hits, two walks, and one run to go with 18 strikeouts. “She’s throwing really well right now,” Griggs said. “She has been working on different pitches as she’s with Haley Greb grouped with Oshiro and Loberg in the lead trio. They tee off at 8:51 a.m. 5A Boys CORVALLIS — The Pendleton Buckaroos may have to readjust their sights on second place at the OSAA 5A Boys Golf State Championships after Summit took a commanding lead through one round on Monday at Trysting Tree See GOLF/2B College Roundup Mounties second at CCC inals England sets meet record for EOU East Oregonian 0-1 15-13 Staff photo by Eric Singer Weston-McEwen’s Jessica Lambert, center, celebrates with her teammates after hitting a home run in a doubleheader with the Vale Vikings on Saturday in Athena. Staff photo by Eric Singer Weston-McEwen’s Charmayne Bennett laughs at her teammates celebration of her home run during Game 1 on Saturday. went along, some she didn’t have at the start of the year, and she’s been real focused at the right time.” Lambert only had a few blemishes on her stellar afternoon, with one coming right from the start in Game 1. In the top of the irst, Lambert struck out the irst batter before giving up two walks and a hit to load the bases. But she battled back and escaped unscathed with a third strikeout in the inning to strand the runners. The TigerScots then came to bat in the irst and attacked Vale (18-7, 13-3) pitcher Kelsey Hawley with a lead-off solo home run from Dillow and then a two-run shot from Lambert for the early 3-0 lead. Then in the second inning, Lambert and Bennett each went yard as the TigerScots pounded out nine runs for a commanding 12-0 lead. In game two, the TigerScots followed the same blueprint to success with four early runs in the irst inning behind a three-run, no-doubt home run from Jordyn Lambert to open up the early lead. Lambert then took it upon herself to put the game away for good in the ifth inning as she led off the inning with a solo home run and then ended the inning with a three-run homer to kick in the 10-run rule to end it as the team batted around. For the day, Jordyn Lambert inished 4-7 with ive runs scored and seven RBI to go with her three home runs, upping her season batting average to an even .500. Jessica Lambert inished with three hits and six RBI on the day, and now has ive home runs and a team-best 35 RBI on the season. Weston-McEwen will now await some lower seed district tournament games and will prepare for the district title game on Friday afternoon. ——— Game 1 R H E VHS 000 00 — 0 2 1 W-M 390 3X — 15 13 1 Hawley and Jacobs. Lambert and Peal. W — Lam- bert, L — Hawley. 2B — Hill (W-M). HR — Lambert 2, Dillow 2, Bennett (W-M). Game 2 R H E VHS 000 10 — 1 4 1 W-M 401 08 — 13 10 0 Hawley and Jacobs. Lambert and Peal. W — Lam- bert, L — Hawley. 2B — Jo. Lambert, Cain (W-M). HR — Reever (VHS). Jo. Lambert 3, Bennett (W-M). ——— Contact Eric Singer at esinger@ eastoregonian.com or (541) 966-0839. Follow him on Twitter @ ByEricSinger. Prep Roundup Sasquatch rally past Clark County East Oregon advances to Bowl Championship East Oregonian PORTLAND — Staring at a big goose egg on their half of the scoreboard and facing elimination in the state postseason, the East Oregon Sasquatch rugby side came out of intermission with a purpose and stormed back for a 17-10 win over Clark County in the Bowl Championship semiinals on Saturday at Portland’s Delta Park. Clark took a 10-0 lead into the break, but didn’t score in the second half as the Sasquatch hung 17 unanswered points on the board. Gabe Goad, Jamaal Vann and Juan Madrigal all scored tries for the Sasquatch, and Jake Szumski was 1 for 3 on conversions. Sasquatch coach Eric Gabriel said in the team was playing “smart rugby and showing more heart and tenacity than they had all season,” during the surge, and the team “left it all on the pitch.” “I could not be any prouder of these guys,” he said. “They not just showed that they are one tough team that won’t give up, but that they are all of high character.” See PREPS/3B Contributed photo courtesy of Rugby Oregon East Oregon Sasquatch’s Jamaal Vann looks to pass while dragging a Clark County defender on Saturday in a rugby match in Portland. East Oregon won 17-10 to advance to the Bowl Championship. HERMISTON — Eastern Oregon junior Eric England set a meet record in the triple jump and the Mountain- eers placed second in the men’s and w o m e n ’s team points on Saturday at the Track & Field C a s c a d e Collegiate Conference Track and Field Championships at Hermis- ton’s Kennison Field. A junior out of Idaho, England leaped 15.87 meters (52 feet, 1 inch) to set the new meet standard, and junior Hakeem Belle was second with an NAIA “A” standard tally of 14.58 (47-10). At the time, the event propelled EOU to irst place in the rankings. The Mountaineers led Southern Oregon by 17 points going into the 5,000- meters, but the Raiders racked up 23 points to take the lead and held off EOU by three points in the end. “We entered as the underdog, and to even be in the position to win the meet is a testament to how well they performed,” said head coach Ben Welch in comments to the EOU athletics website. “We competed extremely well, but Southern Oregon just came through in the end and had some clutch perfor- mances.” England was named Field Athlete of the Meet, but wasn’t the only Mountaineer setting records on Saturday. Senior Ryan Rosenau broke his own school record in the 400 hurdles, capturing irst place with an NAIA “A” standard mark of 52.82. Junior Pancho Saldana of Milton-Freewater won the javelin with NAIA “A” stan- dard mark of 61.01 (200-2), and senior Jason Hendricks of Boardman was fourth in discus (41.82/137-2). He also scored team points in hammer throw and shot put. College of Idaho outdis- tance the EOU women with 203 points for its fourth- straight conference title. “The women had an excellent meet,” said Welch. “College of Idaho was outstanding, as they kind of ran away with it and hid, but we had some superb perfor- mances.” Andrea Lemus of Umatilla had a couple of those, and was all-conference in the 200-meters after inishing third in 25.91. She also placed ifth in the 100 (12.86), and ran on the second-place 4x400 relay team. Also of Umatilla, Amie Zitterkob was eighth in the 200. Pendleton product Amanda Fowler leapt to sixth in the triple jump (10.26/33-8). The only event title for See COLLEGE/2B