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State Track & Field Championships
EOU places third
in All-Sport Race
Cardenas replaces distance record
LA GRANDE – With
the Cascade Collegiate
Conference (CCC) spring
championships in the books,
Eastern Oregon University
emerged as
the No. 3
institution
in the
league’s
2015-16
All-Sport Trophy rankings.
Southern Oregon
captured fi rst place in the
standings with 196.56
points, while College of
Idaho earned second place
with a tally of 185.18. EOU
(177.24) edged Oregon Tech
(173.27) for third place.
The Mountaineers earned
fi rst place points after
the EOU volleyball team
snagged its fi rst outright
CCC regular season title.
The EOU women’s hoops
team fi nished tied for second
in the league, while the
men’s and women’s track &
fi eld (second), men’s cross
country (fourth) and softball
(second in CCC West) teams
posted strong fi nishes.
Vikings senior breaks
own state mark to
win third straight title
in 3,000 meters
East Oregonian
EUGENE — In his four years as
a Umatilla Viking, Fabian Cardenas
has earned numerous trophies,
medals, and accolades in both cross
country and track and fi eld.
On Thursday afternoon,
to repeat his title in the
Cardenas added to that
1500 meter run. Behind
collection by winning a 3A
Cardenas’ performance,
state championship in the
the Umatilla boys team
3000 meter run for the third
sits in sixth place in the
consecutive year. In doing
team standings with fi ve
so, Cardenas also broke his
events fi nished, trailing
state meet record — set in
fi rst place La Pine with 24
2015 — with an incredible
points.
time of 8:30.23, which was
Also making headlines
more than 30 seconds ahead Cardenas
on Thursday was the Helix
of the second place fi nisher.
Grizzlies girls team, as
The senior runner has a chance they sit atop the Class 1A standings
to add yet another medal to his through fi ve events with 38 points
collection today when he looks and hold a 24 point lead over second
place North Lake.
The Grizzlies showed their
dominance in the discus throw by
sweeping the top three spots in the
fi nals on Thursday. MaKenzie Mize
earned the title of state champion
with a throw of 122-03 — a good 19
feet ahead of second place throw by
teammate Tegan Jackson’s 103-01.
Paden Flerchinger took third with a
throw of 102-04.
Helix also grabbed two of the top
three spots in the girls 3000 meter
run, as Lucy Case fi nished second
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PENDLETON
Bucks, Pios put power on display
Pendle-
ton’s Kalan
McGlothan
connects for
a two-run
RBI home
run in the
Bucks’ non-
league game
against
Mac-Hi on
Thursday in
Pendleton.
Also shown
is Mac-Hi
catcher
Harvick signs long-
term extension
CHARLOTTE, N.C.
(AP) — Stewart-Haas
Racing has signed Kevin
Harvick to a long-term
contract extension, ending
speculation that the 2014
Sprint Cup
FACES champion
wanted to
leave.
The team
announced
the signing
on Thursday,
two days
Harvick
after Harvick
sniped on social media
about the gossip suggesting
he was planning to exit the
organization.
“It was a big decision to
join Stewart-Haas Racing
and it has turned out to
be my best decision,”
said Harvick. “I came to
Stewart-Haas Racing to
win championships. We
have one, but that only
made us hungry for more.
I’m very happy to have my
future secure with a team so
dedicated to winning.”
Harvick joined SHR in
2014 and immediately won
his fi rst Cup championship.
“This decision
was not easy
to make, but I
took it to ensure
I could play the
remainder of the
season and help
to extend the rest
of my career.“
— Roger Federer
The 34-year-old tennis
annouced on Thursday
via a statement on his
website that he would
miss the French Open
due to a back injury.
The absence will end a
streak of 65 consecutive
Grand Slam tournaments
dating back to 2000.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1919 — Babe Ruth of
the Boston Red Sox wins a
game on the mound and at
the plate as he hits his fi rst
career grand slam to beat the
St. Louis Browns 6-4.
1999 — Robin Ventura
becomes the fi rst major
leaguer to hit grand slams
in both games of a double-
header, leading the New
York Mets to a sweep over
Milwaukee, 11-10 and 10-1.
2005 — Nextel Cup
rookie Kyle Busch becomes
the youngest winner in
Craftsman Truck Series
history, holding off Terry
Cook and Ted Musgrave in a
three-lap closing sprint at the
Quaker Steak & Lube 200.
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Staff photo by
E.J. Harris
Pendleton and Mac-Hi combine to hit seven home runs
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
The Pendleton and Mac-Hi
softball teams put an exclamation
point at the end
of
the
2016
Softball
regular season by
combining to hit
seven home runs
on Thursday at
Mac-Hi
Steve Cary Field.
Two of those
came off the bat
of Mac-Hi’s Abi
Biggs, the others
came from fi ve
Pendleton
different Bucka-
roos to give Pend-
leton the 13-3 win
in fi ve innings.
Kalan
McGlothan, Alexis
Morrison, Lauren Richards, Tatum
Fell and Kiersten Murphy all went
long for the Bucks on Pendleton’s
Senior Night.
“This was probably one of the
most exciting games I’ve ever
played,” said Morrison, a senior.
“Our chemistry is there, and every-
one’s starting to kind of get in the
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Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Mac-Hi’s Abi Biggs, left, is greeted at home plate after hitting a
two-run RBI home run in the Pioneers’ non-league game against
the Bucks on Thursday in Pendleton.
rhythm and hitting well at the same
time. We just have such good chem-
istry and we’re all so close to each
other, it just makes it easier to click
and have those games like that.”
Richards struck out the top of
Mac-Hi’s order to open the game.
Then with Morrison standing on
third, McGlothan cleared the center-
fi eld fence to give the Bucks a 2-0
lead in the bottom of the fi rst.
“She threw me two outside
pitches and got two strikes on me,
so it was kind of a battle thing,”
McGlothan said. “As soon as I hit it
I knew. … I struggle really hard on
UMATILLA
Dohman puts military career
on hold for college basketball
Vikings forward signs
to continue career with
Blue Mountain
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
For her entire high school
career, Umatilla’s Courtney
Dohman has had one plan in
mind.
Once she would get the braces
taken off of her teeth, she would
enlist in the United States Air
Force and make a career out of
the military. However, that plan
has now been moved to the back
burner as Dohman
that featured much
recently signed her
discussion from the
National Letter of Intent
family, but she is happy
to play basketball at the
to be able to watch her
next level with Blue
daughter continue her
Mountain Community
carer.
College.
“She was really set
on the Air Force ...
“As a little kid I
coaches were telling
always thought it’d be so
her to put her college
cool to play in college,
applications in but she
and then you seen Dohman
was always like ‘no,
college athletes and you
look up to them,” Dohman said. no, I’m going Air Force,’ but the
“But I never thought I’d go play opportunity came up and a lot of
college ball in a million years, so thought went into this with a lot of
different people,” she said. “But
it’s awesome and really cool.”
Dohman’s mother, Trish, said she absolutely loves (basketball)
the decision between college so do it while she can and mom’s
basketball or military was one
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the outside and I’ve been working
on it.”
Biggs answered with a two-run
shot in the top of the second, but
the Pioneers gave the runs right
back in the bottom of the inning
when an error on routine grounder,
a dropped tag at fi rst, and another
error allowed Pendleton to score the
only runs in the game not attributed
to the long ball for a 4-2 lead.
With Rylee Gentner on base in
the third, Richards hit her home run
to make it 6-2. Then in the fourth
following a double by Feather Dick,
Morrison roped her 10th shot of the
season over the left-fi eld fence to
make it 8-2.
Four batters later with two outs
and two on, Murphy cleared the
bases with a drive to center that
brought out the hook for Mac-Hi
starting pitcher Mallory Copeland.
“It felt pretty good,” said
Murphy, a senior. “(Copeland) was
still throwing pretty good, it was
just the pitch I like to hit.
“We’re hitting the ball well,
ready for playoffs for sure.”
Madison Parker singled to
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5A State Tennis
Hermiston
splits matches
in fi rst round
East Oregonian
PORTLAND — The opening
round of the 5A state tennis tourna-
ment had mixed results for the Herm-
iston Bulldogs as the team dropped its
singles match and won the doubles
match at the Portland Tennis Center
on Thursday afternoon.
The team started off the day with
singles competitor Jake Snell fell to
Parkrose’s Gio Chang in straight sets
6-2 and 6-2. Coach Shann West said
that even with the loss he was proud
of the way Snell fought through the
match.
“He played against a guy with a lot
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