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SPORTS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2016 Sports shorts AFL-CIO joins Brady’s ‘Defl ategate’ appeal FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tom Brady has added more high-profi le legal power to fi ght his “Defl ategate” suspension. The AFL-CIO fi led a friend of the court brief on Monday asking the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a decision handed down by a three-judge panel in April. Also weighing in: Kenneth Feinberg, who helped divvy up the funds for Sept. 11 and Boston Marathon bombing victims. In its amicus brief, the labor federation said the three-judge panel of the 2nd Circuit that reinstated Brady’s four- game suspension erred in granting Commissioner Roger Goodell the “highly deferential” status afforded a neutral arbitrator. Ole Miss’ Freeze ‘owning mistakes’ DESTIN, Fla. (AP) — Mississippi coach Hugh Freeze is “owning the mistakes” made during his tenure, which now includes NCAA violations, but said neither he nor FACES his assistants knowingly did anything wrong. Speaking at the Southeastern Conference’s Freeze annual meetings Tuesday, Freeze delivered a lengthy, prepared statement and then took several questions about violations involving fi rst-round NFL draft pick Laremy Tunsil. “I stand here owning the mistakes, but that is what they are, not some staff out trying to buy players,” Freeze said. “There’s not a single charge in our letter that charges a coach with (being) out buying players. While I have struggles in life that I don’t always get right, breaking the rules in recruiting is not one of them. I won’t do it.” “Amazing to me — Alabama broke NCAA rules & now their HC is lecturing us on the possibility of rules being broke at camps.“ — Jim Harbaugh Head coach at Mich- igan, responding on social media to critical comments by Alabama head coach Nick Saban THIS DATE IN SPORTS 1925 — Lou Gehrig bats for Pee Wee Wanninger in the eighth inning and replaces Wally Pipp at fi rst base to start his streak of 2,130 consecutive games. 1946 — Assault, ridden by Warren Merhtens, wins the Belmont Stakes to become the seventh horse to capture the Triple Crown.. 1975 — Nolan Ryan of the California Angels pitches his fourth no-hitter to tie Sandy Koufax’s record, beating the Baltimore Orioles 1-0. 2004 — Detroit and Indiana combine for just 60 fi rst-half points in the Pistons’ 69-65 victory, breaking the NBA playoff record of 62 set by the Pistons and Nets during the second round. 2012 — Alex Miklos hits a go-ahead RBI triple in the 21st inning as Kent State outlasts Kentucky 7-6 in the second-longest game in NCAA tournament history. Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS STANFIELD PILOT ROCK Grogan shot sets tone for Tigers Rockets back in fi nals Stanfi eld baseball routs Rainier in state semfi nals East Oregonian By SAM BARBEE For the East Oregonian RAINIER — Brody Woods knew it was gone from the instant it left the bat. Woods, the Stanfi eld sophomore who pitched his way into the starting rotation alongside junior 3A Baseball Dylan Grogan, celebrated in his dugout as the large Stanfi eld Tigers contingent went crazy after Grogan took a 1-1 pitch over the left fi eld fence in the fi rst inning at Stan Rainier Peerboom Field in Rainier during the Tiger’s semifi nal baseball game, setting the tone for a 10-1 drubbing on Tuesday. “I knew it was gone,” Woods said. “I’d seen it happen before. I knew that ball was gone. I just went crazy. I started yelling. The whole team started yelling. “That broke ‘em.” The win puts the Tigers in the fi nal for the fi rst time since 2011, when they took home the 2A/1A state title under current head coach Bryan Johnson. Tuesday’s win was just a contin- uation of the impressive baseball played by Stanfi eld all year. “This was a really good 3A See TIGERS/2B Pilot Rock beats Kennedy in fi ve innings Pilot Rock softball coach Darin Fitzpatrick gave his team a challenge heading into the bottom of the fi fth inning of their 2A/1A state semifinal 2A/1A Softball g a m e against Kennedy on Tuesday, Kennedy and the Rockets stepped up to the plate fi guratively and liter- Pilot Rock ally. T h e Rockets added fi ve more runs to their total in the frame, and Tahya Ostrom’s double drove in the fi nal runs to push the score past the mercy-rule threshold for a 14-4 win in fi ve innings. Ostrom pitched the entire game and had seven strike- outs and no walks. She didn’t allow a run until the Rockets led 7-0 in the fourth inning. “Just kind of a gut feeling,” Fitzpatrick said of starting his junior righty. “It seems like most of the year, defensively we’ve played better behind her. Even though (senior Rebekka Holman) has pitched real well it seems like the girls seem to be more ready when See ROCKETS/2B 4 10 14 1 Photo by Sam Barbee for the East Oregonian Stanfi eld juniors Thyler Monkus (9) and Dylan Grogan embrace after beating the Rainier Columbians 10-1 on Tuesday in Rainier. MILTON-FREEWATER Pioneers return to championship round Mac-Hi holds off Gladstone 3-2 East Oregonian with the tying run on fi rst base to lift the Pioneers to their fourth straight state fi nal. Gladstone The Pioneers added two runs in the fourth inning when Biggs singled to drive in Brooke Kralman, Mac-Hi then Slusarenko singled to score Sydney Richwine. Copeland fi nished with fi ve strikeouts and two walks, and allowed two earned runs on fi ve hits. Gladstone took a 1-0 lead in the third inning on a solo home run by Kennedy Coy, who went 2 for 4 and 4A Softball 2 Faith Kelly scored in the bottom of the sixth inning to give the Mac-Hi Pioneers just enough cushion to hold off the Gladstone Gladiators 3-2 on Tuesday in the semifi nals of the OSAA 4A state softball tournament. Kelly was pinch running for Abi Biggs, who went 3 for 3, and scored on a double by Kaitlyn Slusarenko, who went 2 for 3 with two RBIs. That made the score 3-1. Carli Brown hit a solo home run to lead off the seventh inning but Mallory Copeland retired the Gladiators 3 See PIONEERS/2B Photo by Joe Tierney for the East Oregonian The Mac-Hi softball team celebrates beating Gladstone 3-2 in the OSAA 4A state semifi nal softball game on Tuesday in Mil- ton-Freewater. PENDLETON Jegtvig, Lancers stun Buckaroos in semifnials Churchill holds Pendleton offense to season-low output By MATT ENTRUP East Oregonian Through two rounds of the 5A softball postseason, Steve Cary Field was an opposing pitcher’s nightmare. With steady 5A Softball winds blowing out to center fi eld, the Buckaroos put up Churchill a bracket-leading 28 runs while launching fi ve home runs. Churchill senior pitcher Pendleton Emma Jegtvig came into the unwelcoming c o n f i n e s undaunted, and with the wind at her back limited Pendleton’s high- 3 1 Staff photo by Kathy Aney Aspen Garton, of Pendleton, tags Abby Cole, of Churchill, Tuesday during a state semifi nal game at Steve Cary Field. Cole was ruled out. power offense to its lowest output of the season for a 3-1 win in eight innings. Abby Cole scored the go-ahead run in the top of the eighth inning on a double by Sophia DeLap, then Jegtvig went through the top of Pendleton’s order to put the Lancers in the state title game for the fi rst time in 23 years. “We knew she was going to be good coming in, we knew she could move it in and out,” said Pendleton coach Tim Cary of Jegtvig. “She’s just good. She’s a great competitor, she’s tough. I think they’re a great team and it’s unfortunate but they played a little bit better than us and deserved to win.” A costly mistake in the fi rst inning pushed Pendleton’s only run across the plate, but Jegtvig came through for her team the rest of the way and pitched out of jams in the third, fourth and seventh innings as Pendleton stranded six base runners. She gave up fi ve hits and had nine strikeouts, two walks and two hit batters. “Very stressed,” she said of her in-game state, “but I had confi dence that we were going to put up some See BUCKS/2B
