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Page 2B SPORTS East Oregonian Saturday, May 21, 2016 BUCKS: SMALL SCHOOLS: Helix girls second as team Continued from 1B Carter moved him to third on a bunt single to bring up Munson. Both Carter and Munson batted 2 for 3 to lead the Wildcats, the Northwest Oregon Conference’s fourth- place team. “Wyatt Morris threw a heck of game, as he’s done all year,” said Pendleton coach T.J. Haguewood. “We just didn’t come through with runners in scoring position. Sometimes that’s baseball.” Pendleton (13-12), the Columbia River Confer- ence’s third-place team, got its only run in the ifth inning when Shaw Jerome singled and then stole second and third bases before he scored on an error to tie it at 1-1. Wilsonville had four errors in the game, but that was the only one Pendleton was able to turn into points. Morris led the Bucks off in the top of the irst inning with a double, then went to third when Kai Quinn reached on an error with one out. But back-to-back strikeouts by Evenhux ended the threat. Jack Peterson singled to reach base in the third inning, then went to second on an error, but another strikeout sent the Bucks back into the ield. Evenhux inished with nine strikeouts and three walks, four hits and one run allowed in six complete innings. “He kind of kept us off balance but he has a snappy fast ball and good curveball and he worked ahead of hitters all game,” Hague- wood said. “We got ourselves in a lot of pitcher’s counts.” Pendleton had a runner on second again in the seventh when Morris reached on a single and advanced on an error, but a popup and groundout got Munson out of the inning. He allowed one hit, no walks and had one strikeout in one inning of relief. Morris led Pendleton at the plate going 2 for 3, and his inal pitching line was three strikeouts, two walks, one hit batter and two runs off seven hits. Wilsonville’s irst run was scored in the second inning on a single by Carter. He drove in Ryan Gray, who was hit by a pitch to reach base. The loss ended the season for Pendleton. “I’m proud of the way the boys competed,” Hague- wood said. “I thought we had our opportunities, just couldn’t capitalize on some of those. It’s tough to end on a loss but we played a good Wilsoville team. “Our ultimate goal is always a state championship, and when you fall short of that goal it’s always tough. We had our backs against the wall a couple times this season and we gave ourselves the opportunity to keep playing. Today we had our chances and we just couldn’t take advantage of those opportunities.” ——— R H E PHS 000 010 0 — 1 5 0 WHS 010 000 1 — 2 7 4 W. Morris and R. Russell. J. Evenhux, T. Munson (7) and D. Endbody. W — T. Munson. L — W. Morris. 2B — W. Morris (PHS); A. Stevens (WHS). Continued from 1B Helix senior MaKenzie Mize capped her state meet with a second-place inish in the 1A girls’ shot put with a distance of 35-4.75 to compliment her win in discus from Thursday. Helix placed second in team points, and was passed at the end by Joseph. Helix inished with 69 and Joseph totaled 70. Umatilla’s Nancy Ortiz added a silver medal to haul on Friday, and was second in the 3A girls’ 300 hurdles in 48.74. The Helix girls’ and Irrigon boys’ 4x400 relay teams each placed third in their races, timing at 4:22.90 and 3:35.00, respectively. Also adding third-place inishes were Pilot Rock’s Rachel Willingham in the 2A girls’ 300 hurdles (49.15) and Arlington’s Thomas Evans in the 1A boys’ javelin (164-11). ——— OSAA State Track & Field Champi- onships Friday’s Results Class 3A Girls 4x100 relay 11) Umatilla (Daphne Castro, Sonia Lemus-Cisneros, Araceli Sanguino, Nancy Girls 100 dash 2) Abby Rigby, Pilot Rock, 12.95 5) Ana Zacarias, Irrigon, 13.22 Girls 100 hurdles 5) Siobahn Holman, Pilot Rock, 17.90 Girls 800 10) Keree Graves, Weston-McEwen, 2:36.56 Girls 200 1) Abby Rigby, Pilot Rock, 26.37 5) Ana Zacarias, Irrigon, 27.31 Girls 300 hurdles 3) Rachel Willingham, Pilot Rock, 49.15 7) Siobahn Holman, Pilot Rock, 52.12 Girls 4x400 relay 6) Pilot Rock (Siobahn Holman, Megan Glynn, Abby Rigby, Rachel Willingham), 4:19.57 Girls triple jump 5) Bailey Watson, Stanield, 31-6.75 6) Rachel Willingham, Pilot Rock, 31-4 Girls shot put 7) Brittin Braithwaite, Stanield, 33-0.5 Girls pole vault 6) Larissa Castellanos, Stanield, 8-6 --) Katie Vescio, Weston-McEwen, NH Boys 4x100 relay 8) Irrigon (Carlos Zacarias, Nestor Chavez, Jose Romero, Manny Gutierrez), 46.31 11) Stanield (Justin Shelby, Cody Grifin, Trevor Shockman, Benjamin Hernandez), 50.45 Boys 1,500 1) Hayden Scott, Weston-McEwen, 4:09.32 Boys 400 7) Gunner McCall, Pilot Rock, 53.85 8) Jacob Speed, Weston-McEwen, 53.94 Boys 800 1) Hayden Scott, Weston-McEwen, 2:00.14 7) Manny Gutierrez, Irrigon, 2:04.22 Boys 300 hurdles 8) Jose Romero, Irrigon, 44.52 Boys 4x400 relay 3) Irrigon (Kevin Villarreal, Carlos Zacarias, Jose Romero, Manny Gutierrez), 3:35.00 12) Pilot Rock (Gunner McCall, Justin Makin, Devin Hasher, Patrick Roe), 3:50.98 Boys discus --) Kirk Scott, Weston-McEwen, FOUL Boys high jump 4) Devin Hasher, Pilot Rock, 6-0 Boys javelin 6) Kirk Scott, Weston-McEwen, 153-10 Staff photo by Kathy Aney Fabian Cardenas, of Umatilla, led from beginning to end of the 3A 1500-meter run Friday at the Oregon State OSAA Track & Field Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene. Cardenas won with a time of 3:58.64. Ortiz), 53.52 Girls 1,500 8) Selene Andrade, Riverside, 5:18.13 Girls 100 hurdles 5) Nancy Ortiz, Umatilla, 17.10 Girls 300 hurdles 2) Nancy Ortiz, Umatilla, 48.74 Boys 4x100 relay 4) Umatilla (Richie Burris, Armando Men- doza, Isidro Fonseca, Miguel Madrigal), 44.84 Boys 1,500 1) Fabian Cardenas, Umatilla, 3:58.64 11) Zayne Troeger, Umatilla, 4:26.79 Boys 800 8) Alejandro Llamas, Riverside, 2:04.14 Boys 4x400 relay 4) Umatilla (Armando Mendoza, Isidro Fonseca, Richie Burris, Fabian Cardenas), 3:34.15 Boys high jump --) Julian Gutierrez, Umatilla, NH Boys discus 8) Josh Surber, Umatilla, 118-7 Class 2A Girls 4x100 relay 4) Pilot Rock (Rachel Willingham, Olivia Warner, Siobahn Holman, Abby Rigby), 52.54 Girls 1,500 7) Katie Vescio, Weston-McEwen, 5:14.75 12) Alexus Williams, Irrigon, 5:55.13 Tre Neal, of Herniston, threw a personal best of 56 feet, seven inches for bronze Friday at the Ore- gon State OSAA Track & Field Champi- onships at Hayward Field in Eugene. 12) Devin Hasher, Pilot Rock, 111-10 Boys triple jump 9) Khai Robertson, Weston-McEwen, 38-11 Class 1A Girls 4x100 relay 8) Helix (Emma Fehrenbacker, Sadie Wilson, Arianna Krol, Hannah Christman), 55.43 Girls 1,500 5) Lucy Case, Helix, 5:15.47 10) Macey Tullis, Helix, 5:47.36 Girls 400 7) Emma Fehrenbacker, Helix, 1:05.73 Girls 100 hurdles 1) Jessie Flynn, Ione, 16.30 4) Emma Logan, Condon/Wheeler, 17.27 Girls 800 4) Bethany Newtson, Helix, 2:30.97 Girls 300 hurdles 1) Jessie Flynn, Ione, 47.49 6) Emma Logan, Condon/Wheeler, 49.55 Girls 4x400 relay 3) Helix (Emma Fehrenbacker, Hannah Christman, Lucy Case, Arianna Krol), 4:22.90 Girls shot put 2) MaKenzie Mize, Helix, 35-4.75 4) Tegan Jackson, Helix, 33-4.75 11) Paden Flerchinger, Helix, 30-2.5 Girls triple jump 6) Kelsey Ranger, Echo, 32-1.25 Boys 4x100 relay 7) Condon/Wheeler (Jose Cortez, Sam Colgan, Alex Lindsay, Zachary Rutherford), 46.75 Boys 100 DQ) Sam Colgan, Condon/Wheeler, FS Boys 400 5) Jose Cortez, Condon/Wheeler, 52.69 Boys 800 11) Tyler Longacre, Arlington, 2:11.49 Boys 200 4) Sam Colgan, Condon/Wheeler, 23.83 7) Bradey Cope, Helix, 24.32 Boys 4x400 relay 9) Helix (Tylor Fehrenbacker, Grant Christman, Gavin Newtson, Bradey Cope), 3:42.08 Boys triple jump 7) Alex Lindsay, Condon/Wheeler, 39-8 Boys discus 5) Sam Carlson, Helix, 132-9 9) Shawn Hauner, Arlington, 122-5 Boys javelin 3) Thomas Evans, Arlington, 164-11 HHS SOFTBALL: Continued from 1B errors on ground balls loaded the bases before Hermiston pitcher Julissa Almaguer got a swinging strikeout for the second out. Sandy starting pitcher Audrey Seipert followed with a single up the middle to plate the irst run, and Leslie Main then stole home to make it 2-0 before Hannah Holiday scored on an error for the game’s inal run. Seipert and the Pioneer defense didn’t allow Hermiston to get a runner to third base until the sixth inning when Rebecca Engel- brecht went from irst to third on a single by Mikayla Kopacz. Almaguer drew a two-out walk to load the bases, but Seipert got Breanna Naylor to hit a popup that ended the Bulldogs’ best scoring threat of the game. Seipert inished with six strikeouts, three walks and allowed four hits. Almaguer also gave up just four hits, and no earned runs with two strikeouts and one walk. Brisbine (2 for 3) was the only player from either team to collect more than one hit. Sandy, the fourth-place team from the Northwest Oregon Conference, advances to the irst round of the state playoffs. The loss ended the season for Hermiston, which inished its regular season in third place in the Columbia River Conference. ——— Staff photo by Kathy Aney R H HHS 000 000 0 — 0 4 SHS 003 000 X — 3 4 W — A. Seipert. L — J. Almaguer. BIG SCHOOLS: Warne third in 4A discus Continued from 1B The Pendleton Buckaroos girls team inished the day in the No. 8 spot with 6.5 points. Making it onto the podium Friday were Makayla Akers in the javelin (eighth place), Delaney Clem in the 3,000- meter run (seventh) and Kiara Glover (ifth) in the high jump. Others, such as Andrew Porter in the 400-meter run and Garison Alger in both hurdles races made to Saturday’s inals. “We had some really good performances today,” Pendleton coach Dustin Breshears said. The Pendleton boys team did not score in any of the four events on Friday, but are hoping for some big results on Saturday, especially in the 4x400 meter relay. The boy’s 4x400 relay team seeks to run a gutsy race that will not only win the event, but snag the school record as well. “Hopefully they will set some times that are amazing to watch,” Breshears said. “They are one-tenth of a second off the school record and hopefully they will eclipse that school record.” The Mac-Hi Pioneers saw ive competitors take the ield on Friday in inal events, and two came ended up making the podium as Landon Warne earned third in the boys discus throw with a toss of more than 148 feet and in girls javelin Amber Wells took fourth with a throw of 118 feet and one inch. The other competitors included Donald Clark inishing 13th in boys discus (120-7.00), Delaney Karrels in girls high jump (scratched), and Bianca Garcia inishing 11th in girls javelin (104-5). The action picks back up today at Hayward Field in Eugene with ield events starting at 9 a.m. and running events kicking off at 12:30 p.m. ——— OSAA State Track & Field Championships Friday’s local results Class 5A Girls 3,000 meters 7) Delaney Clem, Pendleton, 10:35.57 13) Melany Solorio, Hermiston, 11:35.31 Girls javelin 8) Makayla Akers, Pendleton, 111-2 10) Maddy Juul, Hermiston, 105-11 Girls long jump 9) Kiara Glover, Pendleton, 15-8.75 Girls high jump 5) Kiara Glover, Pendleton, 5-0 Boys discus 4) Tre Neal, Hermiston, 169-0 Boys long jump 15) Andrew Horn, Hermiston, 19-10 Boys shot put 3) Tre Neal, Hermiston, 56-7 Class 4A Boys discus 3) Landon Warne, Mac-Hi, 148-8 13) Donald Clark, Mac-Hi, 120-7 Girls high jump NH) Delaney Karrels, Mac-Hi Girls javelin 4) Amber Wells, Mac-Hi, 118-1 11) Bianca Garcia, Mac-Hi, 104-5 E 5 2 STATE TENNIS: Continued from 1B his play in the consolation bracket in the morning and won his irst match over Cres- cent Valley freshman Jeff Wang, taking the pro set match 8-6. But then in the consola- tion semiinals, Snell ended up on the losing end of the pro set, falling 8-5 to Parkrose’s Luigi Massa 8-5. In 5A doubles action, Hermiston tandem Race Latham and Cameron Meade battled hard against Corvallis’s No. 2 seed team of Wilson Xing and Derek Osenga, with close scores in each of the two sets. However, the Bulldogs were on the losing end of both of those sets falling 7-5 and 6-4 to get booted from the tournament. And in 4A/3A/2A/1A singles action, Ione senior Kai Arbogast lost his Round 1 match-up to Alex Olander from Oregon Episcopal 6-3 and 6-0 to fall into the conso- lation bracket. Then in the consolation quar- terinals, Arbogast had his season snuffed out when he lost to Crook County’s Jack Stubbleield 8-0 in a pro set. HHS BASEBALL: Coach says team needs indoor hitting facility to take next step Continued from 1B could bottle that emotion up and have them drink it the irst of March to know that feeling and keep that drive to where they don’t want to lose,” Hawkins said. Hermiston (13-12) was stiled at the plate by Milwaukie pitcher Bradley McVay — a University of Portland commit — through his six innings on the mound, only mustering two hits against him and three total for the game. McVay came at Hermiston with a heavy diet of fastballs, but kept them off balance with perfectly timed breaking balls. The Bulldogs did not register their irst hit until R.J. Robles crushed an opposite-ield double over the head of the left ielder in the bottom of the ifth inning. “(McVay) wasn’t doing anything special, he threw well but we weren’t selective enough at the plate,” Hermis- ton’s Tyler Sexton said. “We didn’t look for our pitch, we were swinging at stuff in the dirt. We had prepared all week but come game time we just couldn’t put them into play.” Perhaps the game could have played out differently for Hermiston had they cashed in on some early opportunities, mainly the bases loaded situation in the irst inning. Robles had reached on a dropped third strike and following a sacriice bunt from Chase Root a ly ball out from Daniel Gossler, back-to-back walks by Sexton and Hayden Edmiston loaded the bases. But the threat ended when McVay caught Lukas Tolan looking on strike three. “For a team that doesn’t score a lot of runs, that’s a killer,” Hawkins said. To combat the slow offense all year, the Bulldogs were always fortunate to have solid pitching and that was the case for the most part on Friday. Robles — recently named the CRC Pitcher of the Year — was stellar through the irst three innings Staff photo by E.J. Harris Hermiston’s Hayden Edmiston dives back to irst base as Milwaukie’s Riley Howard waits for the ball in the Bull- dogs’ 3-1 loss to the Mustangs on Friday in Hermiston. for Hermiston, allowing just one hit and one walk with three strikeouts to help keep the game scoreless. But in the fourth inning, Robles gave up a lead-off single and then hit a batter to start the frame, and a ly ball out to right ield advanced the runner to third base with only one out. The Mustangs then used that opportunity to be aggressive at the plate as Chase Anderson put down a successful safety squeeze bunt to score the run from third for a 1-0 Mustangs lead. The Mustangs got things going against Robles again in the sixth inning after back-to-back walks, and then caught a huge break when Robles ielded a bunt attempt and then threw the ball wide of irst base which rolled all the way down the right ield line to score both runners for the 3-0 lead. In the seventh inning with their backs against the wall, Hermiston was able to show some life. Slade Gritz led off the inning with a single to right ield, and then a two-out single from Robles put runners on the corners. Gritz would score a few pitches later on a passed ball by the catcher, but Root inished off the game with a strikeout for out No. 3. As Hermiston now begins the process of building towards next season, Hawkins and the rest of his coaching staff believe that the search for offensive consistency starts with the building of an indoor hitting facility — something he says he has been trying to secure for a while now. “Every 5A school that I know of has a place to hit year-round and my boys have to start in January hitting inside of a gym with whifle balls and it shows,” Hawkins said. “We have to come together as a commu- nity and we need to get some stuff done so we can get our program on the same level. It’s something in the offseason I’m really going to have to go after.” Until then, Hawkins and the returning Bulldogs will take a week off before kicking off summer practices by the end of next week. It will mark the turning of the page for the four seniors, but the start of a new page for the returners. “It stinks for the seniors but the young guys better get going,” Hawkins said, “because they’re going to be in the program for a handful of years and we have greater things we want to do. ——— R H MHS 000 102 0 — 3 4 HHS 000 000 1 — 1 3 McVay, Murk (7), and Santos. Robles, Root (6), and Gritz. W — McVay, L — Robles. 2B — Robles (HHS). E 1 4 ——— Contact Eric Singer at esinger@eastoregonian. com or (541) 966-0839. Follow him on Twitter @ ByEricSinger.