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All-EOL Baseball
Beavers take
home four Oregon
Sports Awards
Grogan named EOL’s best Rockets,
Tigers
should be
favorites
in 2017
The 2015-2016 basketball
season was very kind to the
Oregon State Beavers as
both the
men’s and
women’s
teams
had great
success.
The teams were rewarded
on Monday night at the
64th annual Oregon Sports
Awards hosted by Nike,
taking home four awards.
Men’s basketball star
Gary Payton II and women’s
basketball star Jamie
Weisner took home the Bill
Hayward Male and Female
Amateur Athletes of the
Year awards for helping their
teams to postseason runs.
Women’s basketball
coach Scott Rueck won the
Slats Gill Sportsperson of
the Year award, while the
Beavers team took home the
George Pasero Team of the
Year award.
Cavs’ Love doesn’t
practice, Game 3
status uncertain
CLEVELAND (AP)
— Kevin Love remains in
concussion protocol and
uncertain for Game 3 of the
NBA Finals.
The Cavaliers forward
was
FACES accidentally
elbowed in
the back of
the head by
Golden State’s
Harrison
Barnes during
the fi rst half of
Love
Game 2. Love
stayed in the locker room
and did not practice with
teammates Tuesday. The
Cavs won’t know if he can
play until before Game 3 on
Wednesday.
“He’s feeling better,”
Cleveland coach Tyronn Lue
said. “But right now he’s just
in the (NBA) concussion
protocol.”
According to league
policy, Love is required to
pass several steps before he
can be cleared to play. First,
he must be symptom free
for 24 hours. He then will
steadily increase his activity,
beginning with riding a
stationary bike before
advancing to jogging, agility
work and noncontact team
drills.
“Man, you leave
the offi ce for 1
day of golf ... and
your own network
kills you off.
#harsh“
— Roger Goodell
The NFL commissioner
playfully responding to
the news of the NFL’s
offi cial Twitter account
being hacked earlier in
the day, posting a tweet
saying Goodell had
died. The hacker posted
two more tweets during
the period of time, all of
which were deleted soon
after posting. The NFL
says they have engaged
law enforcement to look
into the situation, and
are also reviewing their
cybersecurity measures.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1986 — Larry Bird scores
29 points to lead the Boston
Celtics to a 114-97 victory
over the Houston Rockets
and their 16th NBA title.
2013 — Serena Williams
wins her 16th Grand Slam
title and her fi rst French
Open championship since
2002, beating Maria Shara-
pova 6-4, 6-4.
2014 — Rafael Nadal
wins the French Open title
for the ninth time, and the
fi fth time in a row, by beating
Novak Djokovic 3-6, 7-5,
6-2, 6-4.
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Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Stanfi eld’s Dylan Grogan throws from the pitching mound in the Tigers’ 5-4 win against Santiam
Christian Friday in Keizer.
Stanfi eld junior named league Player of the Year
East Oregonian
The Eastern Oregon League
belonged to the Stanfi eld Tigers
in 2016.
Stanfi eld went a perfect 12-0
in league play and outscored
the other league teams by a
combined score of 178-22. Their
closest league game was a 6-2
win over Umatilla on Apr. 1, one
of just seven games where the
Tigers did not break into double-
digits overall.
The Tigers were able to be so
dominant because of the talent
on the fi eld, which was recently
recognized by the entirety of the
EOL coaches as Stanfi eld swept
the all-league top honors as
well as earning 14 spots on the
all-league rosters.
Junior Dylan Grogan was
chosen as the EOL Player of the
Year after having an incredible
season on the pitching mound and
on offense. As a pitcher, Grogan
was the ace of the Tigers staff as
he fi nished the year 10-1 with a
0.71 ERA with 133 strikeouts
over 68.1 innings pitched. He
allowed just seven earned runs
all season while walking just 21.
And on offense, Grogan
produced a lot of pop from the
middle of the Tigers lineup as he
hit for a .516 average with 5 home
runs, 45 RBI, 55 runs scored, 13
doubles and also turned in 15
stolen bases. Grogan’s on-base
See BASEBALL/2B
College Baseball
Beavers await professional fate
MLB Draft kicks off
with fi rst round on
Thursday evening
By BOB LUNDBERG
Corvallis Gazette-Times
CORVALLIS — With the
college season in the rear-view
mirror, several members of
Oregon State’s baseball team
have turned their attention to the
next level.
The three-day Major League
Baseball First-year Player Draft
begins Thursday at 4 p.m. with
the fi rst two rounds. The draft
continues Friday (rounds three
through 10) and concludes
Saturday (11-40).
Thursday’s action will air live
on MLB Network while Friday
and Saturday can be streamed on
MLB.com.
The Beavers, who have had at
least one player selected in every
draft since 1992, could extend
the streak as early as Thursday.
Junior catcher Logan Ice, the
Pac-12 defensive player of the
year, is ranked No. 65 on Base-
AP Photo via Corvallis Gazette Times
Oregon State junior shortstop Trever Morrison is one of several
Beavers hoping to hear their names called in this week’s MLB
Draft.
ball America’s top 500 prospects
list. Teammate Trever Morrison,
a junior shortstop, checks in
at No. 193 while senior right-
handed pitcher Travis Eckert is
hoping to go somewhere in the
fi rst 10 rounds.
July 15 is the deadline
for MLB teams to sign their
draftees. Unsigned prospects
with eligibility remaining can
return to school.
Ice, a three-year starter, hit
.310 with a team-leading .563
slugging percentage and .432
on-base percentage in 2016. He
played in all 54 games, starting
49 times behind the plate, and
allowed just one passed ball
while throwing out better than
44 percent of opposing runners.
See BEAVERS/2B
he Pilot Rock Rockets softball
team and the Stanfi eld Tigers
baseball team both fi nished
off historic and dominant seasons
over the weekend by raising the
state championship trophies in their
respective classifi cations.
The Rockets beat Special District
6 opponent Union for the fi fth time
in 2016, allowing
just six runs to the
Bobcats in that span
while scoring an
incredible 62 runs
for
themselves.
The Rockets lone
losses came to the
Class 4A runner-up
Eric
Mac-Hi (5-1 on
Singer
May 2), Class 3A
Comment
Weston-McEwen
(8-4 on Mar. 19)
and the Class 2A/1A Burns (4-0 on
Apr. 23) — all playoff and top-10
ranked teams in the OSAA.
The Tigers fi nished the season
with the highest-scoring offense in all
of the OSAA, with 369 runs scored
in 31 total games, which averages out
to nearly 12 runs per game, all while
allowing just 64 runs all season. Stan-
fi eld’s only blemishes on their superb
season was two non-league losses to
the 2A/1A state champion Burns (7-6
on Apr. 8) and a walk-off loss to 3A
runner-up Santiam Christian (2-1 on
Apr. 21) — whom the Tigers bested
for the state championship.
But as fantastic as both seasons
were, both teams are set up to repeat
this success in 2017 and I think
should be the favorites to repeat as
state champions in their respective
classes.
And here’s why.
Pilot Rock will try to become
the fourth school in state history
to win three consecutive state
championships next year, and have
plenty of fi repower coming back to
put them as the favorites in Class
2A/1A. The team returns all but
two contributors from this year’s
team, including Special District 6
Player of the Year Rebekah Roe, and
all-league players like utility player
Sara Weinke, outfi elder Kayla Deist,
pitcher Tehya Ostrom, infi elder Jacey
Wilson, catcher Rhyanne Oates, and
outfi elder Shayla Walker.
The two players the Rockets
won’t be easy to replace, though,
as fellow pitcher Rebekka Holman
(9-2, 1.65 ERA, 57 Ks) created a
dominant 1-2 punch with Ostrom and
shortstop Madison Dave (.520 avg.,
5 HR) was a force in the middle of
the Rockets lineup. But head coach
Darin Fitzpatrick will likely have
the sophomore-to-be Ellie Lankford
take Holman’s spot in 2017, as she
impressed in four outings this season
See SINGER/2B
Cruz, Miley help Mariners end Indians streak
Seattle back to within
four games of Texas
in AL West standings
By JIM HOEHN
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Nelson Cruz
homered twice and Wade Miley
pitched seven scoreless innings to
pace the Seattle Mariners to a 7-1
victory over Cleveland on Tuesday
night, snapping the Indians’
six-game winning streak.
Cruz hit a two-run homer in
the fi rst inning off starter Cody
Anderson (1-4) and added a solo
shot in the fi fth, his 15th, to put
Seattle up 7-0.
Miley (6-2), who had allowed
18 runs in 14 2/3 innings in his
last three starts, allowed four hits,
striking out three and walking two.
Anderson, who was called up
from Triple-A earlier in the day to
replace the ailing Danny Salazar,
allowed six runs and seven hits in 3
2/3 innings.
MLB
Cleveland
Seattle
1
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Lonnie Chisenhall accounted for
the Indians’ run in the eighth with
a homer, his second, off Joaquin
Benoit. Steve Cishek pitched the
ninth for Seattle.
The Mariners, who had lost four
straight, tagged Anderson for four
runs in the fourth inning with the
aid of a botched infi eld play to take
a 6-0 lead.
With runners on fi rst and second
and two outs, Adam Lind bounced
to shortstop Francisco Lindor.
Second baseman Jason Kipnis was
late getting the force and by the
time Lindor decided to throw to
fi rst, Lind had an infi eld single.
Steve Clevenger then laced a
two-run double to right and Sean
O’Malley followed with a two-run
triple to right-center.
Cruz staked the Mariners to a 2-0
lead in the fi rst inning, following
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Wade Miley throws against the
Cleveland Indians in the third inning of a baseball game, Tuesday,
June 7, 2016, in Seattle.
Robinson Cano’s two-out single
with his 14th home run.
UP NEXT:
Indians: RHP Carlos Carrasco
(2-0, 3.00 ERA) is making his
second start since coming off the
DL on June 2.
Mariners: RHP Taijaun Walker
(2-6, 3.94 ERA) is struggling to
regain his early season form. The
23-year-old is 0-6 with a 5.77 ERA
in his last seven starts.