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East Oregonian
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
IRRIGON
Burns rallies past Irrigon baseball
East Oregonian
BURNS — The Irrigon
baseball team took an early
lead, but a four-run burst by
the Burns Hilanders sent them
past the visiting Knights and
into the 2A/1A state cham-
pionship with a 6-3 win on
Tuesday.
Irrigon’s Austin Rice
scored on a double by Adrian
Roa to make it 1-0 in the top
of the irst inning, then Cougar
2A/1A Baseball
Irrigon
Burns
3
6
Kroske scored later in the
inning on a single by Hayden
White.
Rice sat down the Hilan-
ders in order in the bottom
of the irst, and Irrigon added
another run in the top of the
second when Kroske singled
to center to bring in Fredy
Vera for a 3-0 lead.
That was it for the Knights,
though.
Burns starting pitcher
Justin Lewellen threw three
scoreless innings before
giving way in the sixth to Zach
McDonald, who gave up just
one hit in two innings of relief.
Rice went 5 1-3 for Irrigon
and allowed ive earned runs
on four hits with six strikeouts
and six walks.
Nate Verley and Kroske
were each 2 for 3 at the plate,
and Zack Henrichs went 2 for 4.
Talon Case went 2 for 3 to
lead Burns.
It was Irrigon’s irst time
making the state postseason in
baseball.
Burns will play Knappa on
Friday in the state champion-
ship at Volcanoes Stadium in
Keizer.
TIGERS: Woods strikes out 10, hit three RBIs
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school that’s had a heck of
a year, only lost to bigger
schools,” Johnson said of the
Rainier Columbians. “We
knew we were up for a chal-
lenge. The irst inning was
key with Dylan’s big two-run
bomb. That jump-starts us on
offense and they’re playing
catch-up, basically, the whole
game.”
Woods, though, was
lights out on the mound. The
6-foot-4 right-hander has a
deceptive delivery and an
aggressive curveball, and kept
the dangerous Columbian
lineup at bay all afternoon.
Rainier only got a runner
to third base twice in the
game, and only once did he
score.
After Grogan’s bomb in
the irst, it took Woods 19
pitches to strike out the side,
and in the second Rainier
threatened to pull even.
The irst two batters of
the frame singled, and an
out later a bunt past a diving
Woods plated Rainier’s only
run of the game. Rainier
amassed only three hits all
game, with all three coming
in the second inning.
“It was the same as our
game Wednesday,” Johnson
said. “Just damage control.
They loaded it up and only
came out with one run. He
competed and got out of it.
That’s what good pitchers do.”
Woods’ inal line was six
complete innings, three hits
Photo by Mike Barbee for the East Oregonian
Stanield starting pitcher Brody Woods (center), lifts his
arms after pitching six innings of one-run ball, lifting his
Stanield Tigers to the 3A state championship game.
allowed, one earned run, 10
strikeouts and three walks.
“I mean, he’s 6-foot-4,
6-foot-5, good down angle,”
Johnson said. “He’s just a tough
guy to hit off of, his balls move.
But the biggest thing with him,
and (Grogan) too and everyone
else, is strikes, getting strike
one, staying ahead of the hitters
and not giving them a bunch of
freebies.”
Offensively, Woods had
two hits and three RBIs to
lead the way in terms of
volume. But Ryan Bailey had
two hits, two RBI and scored
a run, Thyler Monkus had
two hits, two RBI and scored
twice, and Tony Flores had
two hits and scored two runs.
Stanield added to the
lead in the third. Monkus
reached on a hit by pitch, and
Tony Flores followed with a
single, pushing him to third.
Grogan was intentionally
walked to load the bases —
he never saw a pitch after
the irst inning — and Ryan
Bailey made the Columbians
pay with a sharp two-run
double into the right-center
gap, scoring Monkus and
Flores. Woods then singled
to score Grogan, who was at
third, and an out later Jason
Fitzpatrick plated Bailey
on a safety squeeze to put
Stanield up 6-1.
The Tigers got two more
in the fourth when Woods
singled in Monkus and
Grogan again, giving Stan-
ield an 8-1 lead. Stanield
again added to its lead in
the ifth on a Monkus line
shot over the left-ield fence,
driving in Fitzpatrick for its
10-1 lead.
Rainier came close to
grabbing some momentum
when Tim Seybert lew out to
deep left ield. The wind had
just shifted to come in from
left ield instead of blowing
out there. That wind knocked
the drive down, ending the
Rainier threat.
Flores, who had been a
starter all regular season,
came out of the bullpen to
strike out the top three hitters
in the Rainier order to put the
inal exclamation point on a
game that had about 15.
“We’re on a high right
now as a team,” Woods said.
“I don’t know when the next
game is, but we’re excited.”
Johnson
has
been
preaching the notion that
every game is a big game.
He said his team composed
of mainly juniors has come
to play every game despite
the opponent, and Tuesday’s
result corroborates that idea.
Grogan, though, isn’t
resting on laurels when the
task is still yet uncompleted.
“We’re not done yet,”
Grogan said with an excited
laugh. “We want to win the
state championship. Just do it
like our brothers.”
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R H E
SHS
204 220
0 — 10 9 2
RHS
010 000
0 — 1 3 3
B. Woods, T. Flores and T. Monkus; D.
Carr, M. Schimmel, R. Schmunk.
W — B. Woods (SHS). L — D. Carr (RHS).
2B: R. Bailey (SHS).
HR: D. Grogan (1st, T. Monkus scores,
off D. Carr). T. Monkus (5th, J. Fitzpatrick
scores, off M. Schimmel).
ROCKETS: Pilot Rock to play Union in championship
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Tehya is out there.”
Pilot Rock took the lead
early and scored one in the
irst, followed by six in the
second inning.
Jacey Wilson was 2 for 2,
Madison Dave was 3 for 4,
Kayla Deist was 2 for 3 and
Shayla Walker was 2 for 4 to
lead Pilot Rock hitters.
“We knew the (Trojans’
Tressa Reidman) might like to
throw a little bit high and get
batters to chase, and so the key
was to be patient and bring the
ball into our zone and we did
that,” Fitzpatrick said.
Pilot Rock will play try
for its second straight state
championship on Friday
when it plays Union at 1 p.m.
at OSU Softball Complex in
Corvallis.
The Rockets are 4-0
against Union this season
and won their most recent
meeting 18-0 on May 21.
“We’ve been saying all
year we thought we had the
two best teams in the state
and there was a good chance
we’d see each other in
Corvallis,” Fitzpatrick said.
“We should go in conident,
we just can’t go in overcon-
ident. That’s what’s cost us
a couple games this year. We
know what they’ve got, we
know what we’re up against,
but we’ve still got to play the
game.”
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R H E
KHS
000 31 —
4 6 6
PRHS
160 25 — 14 11 3
T. Reidman and A. Frey. T. Ostrom and R.
Oates. W — Ostrom. L — Reidman.
2B — T. Ostrom, J. Wilson (PRHS)
PIONEERS: Mac-Hi will rematch with Banks in inals
Mac-Hi second
baseman Shannon
Carter and Glad-
stone baserunner
Kennedy Coy wait
for the umpire de-
cision on the play,
which was out,
during the OSAA
4A state semiinal
softball game on
Tuesday in Mil-
ton-Freewater.
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also hit a double.
Mac-Hi will play Banks
in the state championship
on Saturday at OSU Soft-
ball Complex. Game time
is 1 p.m.
Mac-Hi beat Banks 5-4
in Milton-Freewater on
April 2.
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R H E
GHS
001 000
1 — 2 5 0
M-H
000 201 X — 3 9 1
W — M. Copeland. L — M. Mott.
2B — K. Coy (GHS); K. Slusarenko, R.
Lyon (M-H). HR — K. Coy, C. Brown (GHS).
Photo by Joe Tierney for the
East Oregonian
SCOREBOARD
Local Slate
PREP BASEBALL
Friday
No. 3 Stanield vs. No. 1 Santiam Chris-
tian (3A inals at Keizer), 5 p.m.
PREP SOFTBALL
Friday
No. 1 Pilot Rock vs. No 2 Union (2A/1A
inals at Corvallis), 1 p.m.
Saturday
No. 1 Mac-Hi vs. No. 3 Banks (4A inals at
Corvallis), 1 p.m.
Prep Scores
BASEBALL
Tuesday’s Games
6A semiinals
Jesuit 3, WESTVIEW 2
Oregon City 7, SHELDON 1
5A semiinals
SUMMIT 7, Crescent Valley 0
HOOD RIVER VALLEY 1, Churchill 0
4A semiinals
HENLEY 5, Astoria 2
Estacada 8, BANKS 3 (9 inn.)
3A semiinals
Stanield / Echo 10, RAINIER 1
SANTIAM CHRISTIAN 4, St. Mary’s-Med-
ford 1
2A/1A semiinals
BURNS 6, Irrigon 3
KNAPPA 9, Monroe 4
SOFTBALL
Tuesday’s Games
6A semiinals
JESUIT 3, North Medford 2 (8 inn)
GLENCOE 10, Grants Pass 1
5A semiinals
Churchill 3, PENDLETON 1 (8 inn.)
LEBANON 5, Marist Catholic 4
4A semiinals
Banks 7, SCAPPOOSE 3
MCLOUGHLIN 3, Gladstone 2
3A semiinals
Rainier 6, SCIO 4
DAYTON 1, Pleasant Hill 0
2A/1A semiinals
UNION/COVE 11, Bonanza 0 (5 inn)
PILOT ROCK/NIXYAAWII 14, Kennedy
4 (5 inn)
Basketball
NBA
Playoff Glance
FINALS
(Best-of-7; x-if necessary)
Cleveland vs. Golden State
(all games on ABC)
Thursday, June 2: Cleveland at Golden
State, 6 p.m.
Sunday, June 5: Cleveland at Golden
State, 5 p.m.
Wednesday, June 8: Golden State at
Cleveland, 6 p.m.
Friday, June 10: Golden State at Cleve-
land, 6 p.m.
x-Monday, June 13: Cleveland at Golden
State, 6 p.m.
x-Thursday, June 16: Golden State at
Cleveland, 6 p.m.
x-Sunday, June 19: Cleveland at Golden
State, 5 p.m.
Baseball
MLB
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Tuesday’s Games
Houston 8, Arizona 5
Seattle 16, San Diego 4
Washington 5, Philadelphia 1
Chicago White Sox 6, N.Y. Mets 4
Miami 3, Pittsburgh 1
San Francisco 4, Atlanta 0
L.A. Dodgers 5, Chicago Cubs 0
St. Louis 10, Milwaukee 3
Colorado 17, Cincinnati 4
Today’s Games
Chicago White Sox (Gonzalez 0-1) at N.Y.
Mets (deGrom 3-1), 10:10 a.m.
St. Louis (Garcia 4-4) at Milwaukee
(Davies 2-3), 10:40 a.m.
Washington (Scherzer 5-4) at Philadelphia
(Morgan 1-3), 4:05 p.m.
Pittsburgh (Niese 5-2) at Miami (Conley
3-3), 4:10 p.m.
San Francisco (Suarez 1-1) at Atlanta
(Perez 2-1), 4:10 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers (Bolsinger 1-1) at Chicago
Cubs (Lester 5-3), 5:05 p.m.
Arizona (Ray 2-4) at Houston (Fiers 3-3),
5:10 p.m.
Cincinnati (Lamb 0-3) at Colorado (Chat-
wood 6-3), 5:40 p.m.
Seattle (Hernandez 4-4) at San Diego
(Friedrich 1-1), 7:10 p.m.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Tuesday’s Games
Houston 8, Arizona 5
Seattle 16, San Diego 4
Texas 7, Cleveland 3
Boston 6, Baltimore 2
Toronto 4, N.Y. Yankees 1
Chicago White Sox 6, N.Y. Mets 4
Kansas City 10, Tampa Bay 5
L.A. Angels 11, Detroit 9
Oakland 7, Minnesota 4
Today’s Games
Chicago White Sox (Gonzalez 0-1) at N.Y.
Mets (deGrom 3-1), 10:10 a.m.
Minnesota (Dean 1-1) at Oakland (Manaea
1-3), 12:35 p.m.
Texas (Hamels 5-1) at Cleveland (Bauer
3-2), 3:10 p.m.
Boston (Kelly 2-0) at Baltimore (Wright
2-3), 4:05 p.m.
Detroit (Fulmer 4-1) at L.A. Angels (Shoe-
maker 3-5), 4:05 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 3-0) at Toronto
(Sanchez 4-1), 4:07 p.m.
Arizona (Ray 2-4) at Houston (Fiers 3-3),
5:10 p.m.
Tampa Bay (Archer 3-6) at Kansas City
(Duffy 0-0), 5:15 p.m.
Seattle (Hernandez 4-4) at San Diego
(Friedrich 1-1), 7:10 p.m.
Hockey
NHL
Playoff Glance
STANLEY CUP FINALS
(Best-of-7)
Pittsburgh 1, San Jose 0
Monday: Pittsburgh 3, San Jose 2
Today, June 1: San Jose at Pittsburgh, 5
p.m. (NBCSN)
Saturday, June 4: Pittsburgh at San Jose,
5 p.m. (NBC)
Monday, June 6: Pittsburgh at San Jose,
5 p.m. (NBC)
Soccer
MLS
Today’s Games
Columbus at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.
Seattle at D.C. United, 5 p.m.
San Jose at Portland, 7:30 p.m.
Tennis
FRENCH OPEN
Tuesday
At Stade Roland Garros, Paris
Purse: $35.9 million (Grand Slam)
Surface: Clay-Outdoor
Singles
Men
Fourth Round
Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, leads Roberto
Bautista Agut (14), Spain, 3-6, 6-4, 4-1,
susp., rain.
Marcel Granollers, Spain, vs. Dominic
Thiem (13), Austria, 2-6, 7-6 (2), susp., rain.
David Ferrer (11), Spain, leads Tomas
Berdych (7), Czech Republic, 2-1, susp.,
rain.
Ernests Gulbis, Latvia, leads David Gofin
(12), Belgium, 3-0, susp., rain.
Women
Fourth Round
Sam Stosur (21), Australia, def. Simona
Halep (6), Romania, 7-6 (0), 6-3.
Tsvetana Pironkova, Bulgaria, def.
Agnieszka Radwanska (2), Poland, 2-6,
6-3, 6-3.
Doubles
Men
Third Round
Ivan Dodig, Croatia, and Marcelo Melo (3),
Brazil, def. Chris Guccione, Australia, and
Andre Sa, Brazil, 6-3, 6-2.
Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez (15),
Spain, lead Pierre-Hugues Herbert and
Nicolas Mahut (1), France, 7-6 (7), 3-0,
susp., rain.
Quarterinals
Bob and Mike Bryan (5), United States,
lead Marcin Matkowski, Poland, and Lean-
der Paes (16), India, 4-3 (Ad-40), susp., rain.
Women
Third Round
Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic
(5), France, def. Anna-Lena Friedsam and
Laura Siegemund, Germany, 6-3, 6-2.
Quarterinals
Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina
(7), Russia, lead Chan Hao-ching and Chan
Yung-jan (3), Taiwan, 6-1, 1-2, susp., rain.
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Pendleton pitcher Lauren Richards winds up Tues-
day during the irst inning of a state semiinal game
at Steve Cary Field. Pendleton lost the game in extra
innings.
BUCKS: Richards fans
10 in another strong start
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runs, and I had conidence
that I could throw ground
balls and get the outs for
my team.”
“I think her speed was
about the same as some of
the other pitchers we’ve
seen, but she had some
kind of funky spin and it
just kind of threw us off
and we weren’t hitting the
ball the way we usually
do and making contact
like we usually do,” said
Pendleton senior Alexis
Morrison, who went 2 for
4 at the plate.
Jegtvig’s performance
was just enough to out-duel
Pendleton
sophomore
Lauren Richards, who
allowed two earned runs
on seven hits and inished
with 10 strikeouts and two
walks.
Churchill also stranded
six runners.
“(Richards) threw a heck
of a game again, she always
does,” Cary said. “She
threw well enough for us
to win, we just didn’t score
enough runs to win.”
Right from the begin-
ning, Churchill made it
clear this game would be
different from Pendleton’s
last two.
Cole blooped a single
into right ield with one out,
then stole second before
Sarah Sheppler hit her in
with a line drive single
to right for the irst run
scored on Pendleton in the
postseason.
Pendleton answered in
the bottom of the irst to
make it a 1-1 game when
Morrison (2 for 4) led off on
with a single up the middle,
was sacriiced to second on
a bunt by Richards, stole
third and was awarded
home when Jegtvig aban-
doned her windup mid-de-
livery for an illegal pitch.
Richards
held
the
Lancers hitless over the
next three innings, and the
Bucks had a chance to take
the lead with no outs in the
bottom of the fourth but
Rylee Gentner was thrown
out at the plate trying to
score from second on a
single by Ellie Richards.
“I igured it’s going
to take a perfect throw
to home, and it did and
they got her,” Cary said of
waving Gentner around
third. “I look back at that
as a mistake on my part, no
doubt about it.”
Richards, who had been
limited to a hitting-only
role in the irst two rounds
of the playoffs due to a knee
injury, returned to the ield
Tuesday and also went 2 for
3 at the plate.
“(The knee) was a little
sore but I still wanted to be
out there,” she said.
Churchill came out in
the ifth and got it’s irst two
runners on with singles, but
Lauren Richards put strike-
outs around a force at third
to eliminate the scoring
threat.
Both teams had a runner
in scoring position in the
seventh, but Richards sat
down Rene Brabham to
leave a runner on third and
Jegtvig got a pair of pop-ups
to strand two.
Cole opened the eighth
with a bunt and wound
up on second base after a
Pendleton error, the only
one in the game.
DeLap hit the ball to the
fence in right ield to bring
Cole in, and then scored
on a single by Sheppler (3
for 4).
Pendleton was trying to
make its third-straight trip
to the state championship.
“We’re a team that
doesn’t give up easily so we
were ighting until the very
end,” Morrison said. “We
lost, but I was still so proud
of my teammates and we
were ighting, and I’m just
so proud of my team either
way.”
Of the ive seniors
Pendleton graduates after
going 24-5 and winning the
Columbia River Confer-
ence title, just Morrison,
Ellie Richards and irst
baseman Kiersten Murphy
were starters.
“We had a great year,
and they’re going to have a
great year next year again,”
Richards said. “They’ll
hopefully go all the way
next year.”
“We still have something
special,” Cary said. “We
said goodbye to our seniors
but then again we said look
at how many young ones
are out there playing a
position. We’re going to be
tough next year.”
Churchill, which won
nine state titles from 1980-
1992, will play Lebanon on
Saturday at OSU Softball
Complex in Corvallis.
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R H E
CHS
100 000 02 — 3 7 0
PHS
100 000 00 — 1 5 1
E. Jegtvig and S. DeLap. L. Richards
and R. Gentner. W — Jegtvig. L —
Richards.
2B — S. DeLap (CHS).
Ellie Rich-
ards, of
Pendleton,
waits for
a throw to
third base
as Chur-
chill’s Av-
ery Daniels
goes into a
slide Tues-
day during
a state
semi-inal
game at
Steve Cary
Field.
Staff photo by
Kathy Aney