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SPORTS TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 2016 STANFIELD Sports shorts Eagles, Cox agree to 6-year contract PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Standout defensive tackle Fletcher Cox agreed Monday to a six-year contract with the Philadelphia Eagles that could earn him nine fi gures. The fi rst-round draft pick in 2012 has been a starter since midway in his rookie season. One of the NFL’s most versatile defensive linemen, he has 308 tackles and 22 sacks in his four pro seasons. Cox, 25, did not attend the team’s organized offseason activities, but returned to the teams last week. He comes off his best NFL season with 104 tackles (80 solo) and 9 1-2 sacks. He had three sacks against New Orleans in Week 5, a career high. 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS Grogan drafted by Twins Former Stanfi eld standout selected in 30th round of MLB Draft In this un- dated photo, Lewis-Clark State’s Quin Grogan, of Stanfi eld, pitches during a game this season. Grogan was drafted in the 30th round of the MLB draft by the Minne- sota Twins. By ERIC SINGER East Oregonian It has been quite a week for Quin Grogan. On June 3, Grogan and his Lewis-Clark State Warriors base- ball team held off Faulkner 12-11 to capture their 18th NAIA national championship, with Grogan pitching four innings in relief to get the win. And then on Saturday, Grogan had one of his childhood dreams become reality. He was drafted into Major League Baseball. Grogan, a senior pitcher for the Warriors, was selected in the 30th round (903rd overall pick) by the Minnesota Twins in the 2016 MLB First-Year Player Draft. He turned in a dependable season for the Warriors, starting 12 games on the season and adding two relief appearances as he fi nished 5-1 with a 1.91 ERA with 83 strikeouts in 75.1 innings to help the Warriors to a 52-8 overall record. “It was thrilling and exciting,” Grogan said of being drafted. “It was defi nitely something you always dream of as a kid and some- thing I’ve been working towards for a long, long time.” Grogan was spending the day See GROGAN/2B Photo by Zachary Shore/Lewis-Clark State Athletics Seahawks try out former NBA guard Nate Robinson RENTON, Wash. (AP) — The Seattle Seahawks have given former NBA standout and one-time college football player Nate Robinson a tryout. The FACES Seahawks confi rmed that Robinson went through a tryout on Monday, fi rst reported by The Washington Robinson Post. Robinson had indicated in video posted to YouTube earlier this spring a desire to play football again. Robinson gave up his chance at football after his freshman year at Washington, where he was a standout defensive back. Robinson appeared in 13 games in 2002 as a true freshman and had two interceptions. He gave up his football career the following spring to focus on basketball and became an NBA fi rst-round pick in 2005. Robinson has played for eight teams in his career and was a three-time winner of the slam dunk competition. “The whole old story is the underdog story, and I cannot hear that story anymore. I want to see them risk things. Let’s go for it. Because if you’re not going for it, sooner or later they’re going to break you down.“ — Jurgen Klinsmann US Men’s National Soccer Team coach on what he wants his team’s mental approach to be for the Copa America knock- out round. The US won Group A and will face Ecuador on Thursday. THIS DATE IN SPORTS 1998 — Michael Jordan scores 45 points, stealing the ball from Karl Malone and hitting a jumper with 5.2 seconds left to give Chicago an 87-86 win and a 4-2 series victory over Utah for a sixth NBA title. 2005 — Michelle Wie becomes the fi rst female player to qualify for an adult male U.S. Golf Association championship. Wie earns one of only two spots available in the 85-player qualifi er for the U.S. Amateur Public Links on July 11-16. Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com PENDLETON Tournament honors program’s ‘special girl’ Players remember Ashlee Hodgen for infectious positivity By MATT ENTRUP East Oregonian As sports so often forces athletes to do, the Hodgen Distributing base- ball team had to take the bad along with the good and fi nished their weekend tournament with more of the former on Sunday. After starting its summer season with two straight shutout wins at the Ashlee Hodgen Memorial A memorial banner for Ashlee Hodgen hangs in center fi eld as Hodgen Distributing’s Joe St. Pierre prepares to pitch against Meridian (ID) in the semifi nals of the Ashlee Hodgen Memo- rial Tournament on Sunday at Bob White Field in Pendleton. Meridian won 9-0. Tournament, the team bearing her name lost 9-0 in the semifi nals to Meridian (Idaho), then 8-3 to Baker City in the third-place game. The tournament was a fundraiser for the Ashlee Hodgen Memorial Scholarship, created in her honor after her sudden passing at age 24 last July. It’s the best possible way to honor the young woman who became a member of the Pendleton baseball family at birth and grew up around Bob White Field, where she later assisted her father Mike Hodgen with grounds-keeping and coaching duties at the historic ballpark. “She was here with her dad all See HODGEN/2B Staff photo by Matt Entrup NBA Finals High School Rodeo James, Irving keep Cavs alive Pederson, Sorey and Smith win state titles Cleveland duo combines for 82 points in win Intermountain rodeo team sends six to nationals By JON KRAWCZYNSKI Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. — Like everyone else, Draymond Green could only watch as LeBron James and Kyrie Irving sent the NBA Finals back to Cleveland. James had 41 points, 16 rebounds and seven assists and Kyrie Irving also scored 41 points to lead the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 112-97 victory over the Warriors on Monday night, ensuring the NBA Finals will go back to Cleveland. Klay Thompson scored 37 points and Stephen Curry had 25 for the Warriors, who lead the best-of-seven series 3-2. But the Warriors sorely missed Green, who was suspended after striking James in the groin in Game 4. With the defensive dynamo next door in Oakland Coli- seum, the Cavaliers shot 53 percent, hit 10 of 24 3-pointers and handed the Warriors their fourth home loss this season. “It’s too simple to say that” the Warriors lost because of Green’s absence, Golden State coach East Oregonian AP Photo/Marcio J. Sanchez Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (23) shoots against the Golden State Warriors during the fi rst half of Game 5 of basketball’s NBA Finals in Oakland, Calif., Mon- day, June 13, 2016. Steve Kerr said. G r e e n Game 5 “We weren’t watched the game sitting very good in a suite d e f e n s i v e l y. Cleveland Golden State with general We knew we manager Bob were without Myers while Draymond, so his teammates there’s no point in harping on that. We had to tried to pick up their exiled comrade. But it was clear play better and we didn’t.” Green was suspended after from the start that they missed the NBA retroactively charged him badly, especially on the him with a fl agrant-1 foul defensive end. Even though he stands only for hitting James in the groin during Game 4. The foul trig- 6-foot-8, Green is a ferocious gered an automatic suspension interior presence for the and left the Warriors and their Warriors and allows the rest fans fuming at the decision. See NBA FINALS/3B 112 97 HERMISTON — Preston Pederson, Trent Sorey and Calgary Smith added state titles to their seasons on Sunday after the fi nal round at the Oregon High School Rodeo Association Finals Rodeo at Crook County Fairgrounds in Prineville. The cowboys were three of six Inter- mountain Rodeo team members to qualify for the National High School Finals Rodeo (NHSFR) in 12 events. Pederson, a recent Hermiston High grad- uate, was the boys’ Reserve All-Around Pederson Champion (and the top all-around cowboy in Oregon when the title went to Brush Prairie, Washington’s Zachary Raley), and was also named Tesky’s Top Hand after he fi nished the season in the top 10 of four events. Pederson won titles in tie-down roping and boys’ cutting. He was fi fth in steer wres- tling and ninth in team roping. Sorey and Smith, the freshman-junior team ropers from Pendleton, missed the See INTERMOUNTAIN/2B
