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Page 2B SPORTS East Oregonian Saturday, May 28, 2016 Billies edge TigerScots in 8 Pleasant Hill two outs, but Isabelle Dillow plated ATHENA — The Bennett with a clutch single Weston-McEwen softball before a ly ball ended the team rallied to extend the inning. Dillow, one of the game to extra innings, but team’s four seniors, couldn’t keep its momentum going 3A Softball led them with two and lost 5-4 to Quarterinals hits (2-4), one run and one RBI. Pleasant Hill on Jessica Lambert, Friday in the 3A another senior, state quarteri- Pleasant Hill pitched the complete nals. game and inished The No. 5 with seven hits Pleasant Hill allowed, just one Billies scored the earned run, 12 winning run in the top of the eighth Weston-McEwen strikeouts and one walk. inning on an Skelton had eight inield error when strikeouts and one two players went walk, and allowed for the same ball, then let it drop between two earned runs on six hits. After starting the season them. Pleasant Hill pitcher with two straight losses, Erica Skelton then got the Griggs said he was proud TigerScots to hit into three of how the team competed straight outs in the bottom in its irst season at the 3A of the inning to end the level. “My assistant coaches game. “I think our teams were Denise Sampson, KC comparable and (Friday) Ashley and Mike Lambert I think we made more did a stellar job of helping mistakes than they did get these girls in the right and that’s probably why mind-frame and helping they won the game,” said them to be successful,” he Weston-McEwen coach said. “We were a little slow out of the gate this year Jeff Griggs. Weston-McEwen didn’t but we began to form an make it easy on Pleasant Hill, identity and trust each other though, and scored three runs and build some good team in the bottom of the seventh chemisty as the year went along. to tie the score at 4-4. “I thought we really hit Sydney Peal and Jordyn Lambert got them going our stride near the post- with one-out singles. Then season and were playing Charmayne Bennett hit really good ball. It was a double to score pinch exciting.” ——— runner Courtney Cain, and R H E Ashley Hill put the ball in PH 200 000 21 — 5 7 3 W-M 100 000 30 — 4 6 5 play and the Billies made W — E. Skelton. L — Je. Lambert. an error to score Lambert. 2B — E. Skelton (PH); C. Bennett A strikeout gave (W-M). East Oregonian 5 4 Contributed photo courtesy of Katie Johnson Stanield’s Brody Woods (5) is greeted by teammates after scoring on a passed ball in the Tigers’ 17-1 win over Catlin Gabel in the 3A baseball state quarterinals on Friday in Stanield. Tigers rally past Eagles Big inning lifts Stanield over Catlin Gabel East Oregonian STANFIELD — The irst time through the lineup, the Stanield Tigers had a little trouble iguring out Catlin Gabel starting pitcher Patrick Muskat in Friday’s 3A base- ball quarterinals. The second time was a different story. Stanield nearly batted around twice during a deciding third inning and went on to win 17-1 in their inal game of the season at Madigan Field. Fifteen Tigers came to the plate during the third. Seven 3A Baseball Quarterinals Catlin Gabel Stanield 1 17 of them reached base on hits, two were walked and three reached on errors. Twelve of them touched home plate. “We just blitzed them like crazy and they didn’t know what hit them,” said Stan- ield coach Bryan Johnson. “The kids executed and just hit the ball hard, and before we knew it it was 12-0.” Ryan Bailey led the Tigers at the plate going 4 for 4 with three runs scored and two RBIs. Tony Flores, Brody Woods and Adrian Renner also drove in a pair of runs, Contributed photo by Katie Johnson Stanield’s Dylan Grogan pitches during the Tigers’ 17-1 win over Catlin Ga- bel in the 3A baseball quarterinals on Friday in Stanield. and Woods scored three times. Meanwhile, Dylan Grogan, Flores and Bailey combined to give up just three hits on the mound and kept the Eagles off the scoreboard until the seventh inning. Grogan pitched the irst four innings and struck out six while walking two. Flores threw the next two with three strikeouts and one walk, and Bailey pitched the seventh with one strikeout and two walks. The No. 3 Tigers will be on the road in the semiinals at No. 2 Rainier. That game will be played on Tuesday starting at 4 p.m. and with radio broadcast on KOHU 1360 AM. ——— R H E CG 000 000 1 — 1 3 5 SHS 00(12) 122 X — 17 14 0 P. Muskat, N. Post (4). D. Grogan, T. Flores (5), R. Bailey (7). W — Grogan. L — Muskat. 2B — T. Flores, J. Fitzpatrick (SHS). 3B — B. Woods (SHS). Knights cruise past Trojans in rematch time the Trojans got on the scoreboard in the ifth, and answered that lone run with four more to make it 12-1. Lino Covarrubia led the offense going 2 for 4 with two doubles, two RBI and East Oregonian two runs. 2A Baseball Cougar Kroske IRRIGON — Quarterinals went 2 for 2 with one run and one The last time the RBI, and Rice, Irrigon Knights Zack Henrichs, and Kennedy Kennedy Nate Verley (2 for Trojans met, it took 3) and Hayden a late rally for the White (2 for 3) all Knights to pull out scored twice. the victory. Verley added This time, not so three stolen bases, much. Irrigon and White had two Austin Rice steals while also gave the Knights pitching the inal another stellar two innings and outing on the mound and the offense giving up two runs on two backed him with instant run hits. No. 4 Irrigon, playing in production for a 12-3 win that was never in doubt on its irst baseball postseason, Friday in the 2A/1A state will have to take to the road for the semiinals where quarterinals. Rice, who did not it faces No. 1 Burns on pitch against Kennedy in Tuesday at 4 p.m. Burns beat No. 9 Wald- their irst meeting back in March, carried a no-hitter port 7-1 in the quarterinals. ——— through ive innings and R H E struck out 12. He did walk KHS 000 012 0 — 3 2 4 IHS 512 040 X — 12 11 2 six, though, leading to one B. Traeger, D. Morena (1), J. Valladares (5) and J. Suing. A. Rice, H. White (6) unearned run allowed. C. Kroske. W — Rice. L — Traeger. Irrigon led 8-0 by the and 2B — N. Verley, A. Roa, L. Covarrubia Irrigon reaches irst semiinals with win over Kennedy 3 12 Staff photo by E.J. Harris Pendleton’s Kalan McGlothan connects for a two-run RBI double in the Bucks’ 11-0 win against Silverton on Friday in Pendleton. 2 (IHS). BUCKS: No. 2-ranked Pendleton will host Dragons run away No. 3 Churchill in Tuesday semiinal game from TigerScots Continued from 1B line drive just inside the foul line in left ield for a stand-up double and two RBIs. Then after Rylee Gentner reached on another Silverton error, Ellie Richards brought both runners in with a bloop single to shallow right that made it 7-0. Silverton went down in order again in the third, and the Bucks were back in scoring position imme- diately when Madi Parker hit a gapper to the wall in left-center for a triple. Kirah McGlothan (1 for 1) brought her in with a one-out single, and Morrison followed with a single as well. Both runners advanced on Lauren Richards’ ground-out to second, but it didn’t matter because Kalan McGlothan followed with her second home run of the playoffs — a three-run shot to dead center to cap the game’s scoring. Staff photo by E.J. Harris Pendleton’s Madison Parker slides into third base as Silverton’s Megan Mannion waits for the throw in the Bucks’ 11-0 win against the Foxes on Friday in Pendle- ton. “My second at-bat I was just kind of looking for a good pitch I can drive and get on base, help my team out,” she said. “My third at-bat I went up there and I was like, ‘I’m going to his this as hard as I can. This might be last at-bat, I’m going to drive it somewhere. As soon as she pitched it I was like, ‘Oh yeah.’ I knew as soon as a I hit it.” Both teams went down in order in the fourth, but Silverton showed some ight in the ifth by loading the bases with two outs as it tried to avoid a mercy-rule elimination. Garton hauled in a pop-up behind third base to end the game. “I think we need that,” Cary said. “(Richards) needs to feel that pressure — she’s obviously handled it well throughout the season, but I think it’s good to feel that playoff pressure with bases loaded, and bear down and go get that last hitter. She did, she always does. She inds a way.” No. 2 Pendleton will host No. 3 Churchill in the semii- nals on Tuesday. The game’s start time was not determined by press time. Churchill defeated No. 6 Dallas 6-0 in the quarteri- nals. ——— R H E SHS 000 00 — 0 2 4 PHS 344 0X — 11 10 1 A. Molloy and M. Roth. L. Richards and R. Gentner. W — Richards. L — Molloy. 2B — Ka. McGlothan (PHS). 3B — M. Parker (PHS). HR — L. Richards, Ka. McGlothan (PHS). seven-run third inning. The Dragons inished MONROE — The with 20 hits, and the Tiger- Weston-McEwen baseball Scots made six ielding errors. team took an early Roff (2 for 2), lead on Hunter 2A Baseball Sater’s home run, Quarterinals Dearing (2-3) and Lake Albert (2-3) but couldn’t score led the TigerScots again after that as at the plate. Mason Monroe ran away with a 21-4 win in Weston-McEwen Crowson went 4 for 4 for Monroe, the 2A/1A quarter- John Essner was inals on Friday. 3 for 5 with ive Sater’s homer RBIs, and Kyle was a three-run Bateman was 3 for shot to center ield Monroe 6 with three RBIs. in the top of the Monroe will irst inning that play at No. 2 made it 4-0. The Knappa in the No. 6 TigerScots had scored the game’s irst semiinals. ——— run with a one-out sacriice R H E ly by Vince Roff that W-M 400 000 0 — 4 9 6 MHS 027 165 X — 21 20 1 brought Brendan Dearing T. Horning, K. Ballard (4). J. Patrick, T. in from third base. Hendley (3), H. Sater (3), B. Dearing (5). L — Patrick. That was it, though, W 2B — — Horning. J. Patrick (W-M); E. Teran, T. Warden, K. Bateman, J. Essner (MHS). and No. 3 Monroe even- — J. Doyle (MHS). HR — H. Sater tually caught and passed 3B (W-M). Weston-McEwen during a East Oregonian 4 21