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Oregon State’s
Logan Ice drafted
by Cleveland
BMCC rodeo receives several honors
After three years in
Corvallis, Logan Ice is
moving on.
Ice, a junior catcher for
the Beavers
baseball
team, was
drafted No.
74 overall
by the
Cleveland Indians Thursday
night in the Lottery Round
B in the MLB First-Year
Player Draft.
He was one of the top
power hitters for the Beavers
in 2016, fi nishing second
on the team with 7 home
runs, while also hitting
for a .310 average with 39
RBIs and 13 doubles in 54
games. Ice was also named
Pac-12 fi rst team all-league
and Defensive Player of the
Year after allowing just one
passed ball all year, as well
as throwing out 44 percent
of base runners.
He was the fi rst Beaver
to win the award since Chris
Kunda in 2006.
Blue Mountain
Rodeo coach
Larry Patter-
son presents
Danyelle Wil-
liams with the
Riley Freeman
Memorial
Award, which
is awarded to
the sophomore
rodeo ath-
lete that best
showed hard
work in rodeo
and in the
classroom.
Williams named
Riley Freeman
Athlete of the Year
East Oregonian
The Blue Mountain Commu-
nity College Rodeo team
captured the NIRA Northwest
championship back in April, and
recently several members of the
team were honored by the school.
Sophomore
Danyelle
Williams was awarded the Riley
Freeman Memorial Athlete of the
Contributed photo from
Casey White-Zollman
NCAA Track & Field
Pro Baseball
Oregon men lead in points Naquin
slugs
Indians
past M’s
Nadal withrdraws
from Wimbledon
with wrist injury
LONDON (AP) —
Rafael Nadal pulled out of
Wimbledon on Thursday,
citing the left wrist injury
that forced him out of the
French Open.
The two-time Wimbledon
champion
FACES said on his
Facebook page
that he made
the decision
after consulting
with his doctor
and receiving
his latest
Nadal
medical results.
Nadal had already
pulled out of next week’s
Wimbledon grass-court
warm-up at Queen’s Club.
Wimbledon, the third Grand
Slam tournament of the year,
starts on June 27.
Nadal’s spokesman,
Benito Perez-Barbadillo,
said the player’s wrist will
be in a cast for another
two weeks. After that,
Nadal will begin anti-
infl ammatory treatments and
physiotherapy.
“Just, again,
foul trouble and
kind of dealing
with that, but
also not being
as aggressive as
I needed to be. I
don’t know what
the reason was
for that, and it
won’t be that in
Game 4.“
— Stephen Curry
Golden State Warriors
guard and NBA MVP
after being held to two
points in the fi rst half of
Cleveland’s 120-90 win
in Game 3 of the Finals
on Wednesday. The
Warriors lead the series
2-1, but Curry is averag-
ing just 16 points a game
after averaging 30 a
game in the regular sea-
son. Game 4 is tonight at
6 p.m. in Cleveland.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1989 — Wayne Gretzky
of the Los Angeles Kings
is named the NHL’s MVP,
winning the Hart Trophy for
a record ninth time.
2010 — Southern Cali-
fornia is placed on four years
probation, receives a two-year
bowl ban and a sharp loss of
football scholarships. The
NCAA found that Reggie
Bush was ineligible beginning
at least by December 2004.
USC loses 30 scholarships
over a three-year period, 10
annually from 2011-13.
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Year, which has been handed out
every year since 2009 in memory
of former coach Riley Freeman
to a sophomore rodeo athlete that
best demonstrated excellence
in the sport of rodeo and in the
classroom. Williams completed
the year with a 3.29 GPA while
studying elementary education
and also competed on the barrel
racing, goat tying, team roping
and breakaway roping teams in
rodeo.
“This is an honor,” Williams
said of receiving the Riley
Freeman Award. “It can defi -
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By CURTIS CRABTREE
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Tyler
Naquin golfed a two-run
home run off reliever Joaquin
Benoit in the eighth inning to
lift the Cleveland Indians to
a 5-3 victory over the Seattle
Mariners on Thursday night.
Naquin managed to coax
just enough
carry out of
MLB
a changeup
low
and
out of the
Cleveland
strike zone
from Benoit
to
carry
the wall in
right fi eld
and give the
Seattle
Indians a
4-2 lead.
D a n
Otero (1-0)
picked up the victory in relief
of starter Josh Tomlin. Cody
Allen worked out of two
jams to earn his 13th save of
the season.
Benoit (1-1) walked
Rajai Davis with one out
in the eighth inning before
Naquin’s blast gave Cleve-
land the lead. A throwing
error by Benoit allowed Chris
Gimenez to reach base and
ultimately score on a single
by Jason Kipnis to increase
the lead to 5-2.
Robinson Cano’s second
solo homer of the game —
this one off Bryan Shaw
— closed the gap to 5-3 in
the bottom half of the inning.
Kyle Seager singled and Lind
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AP Photo/Ryan Kang
Oregon’s Edward Cheserek looks out to the crowd after fi nishing fi rst in the men’s 10,000 meters at the
NCAA outdoor track and fi eld championships in Eugene, Ore., Wednesday, June 8, 2016.
Cheserek wins 10,000-meter title at the NCAA championships
Associated Press
EUGENE — Edward Cheserek
found another gear and added to his
large championship collection.
The Oregon junior’s signature
kick on the fi nal lap of the men’s
10,000 meters Wednesday night
helped him to his 14th NCAA title.
Cheserek picked up the pace with
about 250 meters to go to pull away
from fi ve other runners and win the
6.2-mile race in 29 minutes, 9.57
seconds.
Northern Arizona’s Futsum
Zienasellassie was second in
29:10.68.
It was Cheserek’s third straight
national title at that distance. He’ll
go for two in a row in the 5,000 on
Friday.
Cheserek’s win got 10 team points
for Oregon, the two-time defending
national champion.
Oregon leads the men’s standings
after seven of 21 events with 19
points. Texas A&M was second at 18
and Arkansas third at 16.
The Oregon women’s team cham-
pionship chances took a hit Thursday
when sophomore Hannah Cunliffe
pulled up with an apparent leg injury
in her 100 semifi nal. The Pac-12 100
champion, Cunliffe was a big part of
the Ducks’ scoring possibilities.
Earlier in the day, Oregon was
able to qualify for the 4x100 relay
fi nal without Cunliffe.
Alexis Weeks and Dominique
Scott helped the Arkansas women
make a big statement Thursday as
the Razorbacks chase an NCAA
outdoor track and fi eld team title at
Hayward Field.
Weeks won the pole vault at 14
feet, 9 inches after also taking the
NCAA indoor title. The freshman
cleared more heights than any other
competitor. Louisiana-Lafayette’s
Morgann Leleux, the 2012 runner-up,
and Miami’s Alysha Newman tied
for second at 14-1¼.
Scott, a senior, won the 10,000
meters in 32 minutes, 35.69 seconds.
The runner-up in 2015, Scott pulled
away from the fi eld with about three
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OUR VIEW
Luck more important than planning in outdoors
Ripples
distort the
refl ection of
Mt. Hood in
Mirror Lake
as the pho-
tographer’s
dog cools off
with a dip
in the easily
accessible
lake that is a
tourist favor-
ite located
on the south
side of Mt.
Hood west of
Government
Camp.
Mt. Hood makes ideal
early-summer destination
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
F
or seven straight seasons in
the 1930s, southpaw pitcher
Vernon “Lefty” Gomez
made the MLB All-Star roster as a
member of the New York Yankees.
That fact, his 189 major league
wins, fi ve World Series titles and
1972 Hall of Fame induction —
along with being a totally useless
information outside of a game
of Sports Jeopardy! (bandwagon
edition) — aren’t what made the
banally-baptized ballplayer so
relevant to my recent wanderings in
the Mount Hood Wilderness. Hard
to believe, I know.
Where his uninspired nickname
originated is a question best left
unasked, but it’s the loquacious
Lefty’s most lasting contribution
to the collective consciousness
that comes to mind while sitting
beneath cloudy eastern Oregon
skies and reminiscing of sparkling
mountain lakes.
Staff photo by
Matt Entrup
“I’d rather be lucky than good.”
Gomez is credited with
popularizing this common phrase,
and I certainly felt lucky to be
celebrating the end of the high
school sports season with amazing
weather for what has become an
annual detour into the mountains
on the way back from the softball
state championships in Corvallis.
It’s a trip completely facilitated
by convenience and at the mercy of
the elements.
With the alpine lakes of the
Wallowa Mountains still thawing
from the winter freeze, early
summer is the perfect time to head
into the Mount Hood Wilderness,
where swimmable lakes and
gorgeous panoramas await anybody
willing to put up with the crowds
that funnel out of nearby Portland
into the area each weekend.
Thankfully, due to an infl exible
schedule that really couldn’t have
been more well-timed, I arrived
on the west side of the mountain
on a Sunday afternoon, just as the
competition for the best campsites
was starting to disperse.
Also, thanks to a heatwave in
the valley, the weather couldn’t
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