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Page 2B SPORTS East Oregonian PENDLETON Friday, June 17, 2016 Soccer Hodgen, Dempsey, Zardes lead US over Ecuador Pepsi lose twin bills By TIM BOOTH Associated Press East Oregonian The Walla Walla Bruins collected 25 hits and also bene- ited from Hodgen Distribut- ing’s numerous errors to sweep an American League baseball doubleheader on Thursday at Bob White Field. The Bruins exploded for 10 runs in the top of the seventh inning to win the irst game 17-4, then opened the second game with a six-run at-bat before going on to win 13-2 in ive innings. Hodgen (3-4) had just 12 hits of its own and a combined 14 errors on the day. Caleb Cary, Nick Bower and Johnny Malcom were the only Hodgen players to get a hit in both games. Jared Beveridge scored once in each game. ——— Game 1 R H E WW 400 030 (10) — 17 16 3 HD 010 020 1 — 4 7 8 W — Edwards. L — D. Naughton. 2B — Zehner, Worden, Golden (WW); D. Naughton, J. Beveridge (HD). Game 2 R H WW 611 41 — 13 9 HD 100 10 — 2 5 W — Oliver. L — J. Beveridge. 2B — Edwards, Morris (WW). E 0 6 LA GRANDE 11-8, PEPSI 0-0 — At La Grande, the Pepsi Diamondjaxx dropped a doubleheader to La Grande on Wednesday to drop to 1-7 on the summer. The Diamondjaxx were held to two hits in the 11-0 loss in ive innings in Game 1. Cameron Sandford was the only player to get a hit in both games for the Diamondjaxx. ——— Game 1 R H E PDJ 000 00 — 0 2 4 LG 041 6X — 11 11 0 W — Gonzalez. L — B. Been. 2B — Goss, Bell, Frederick, Atkinson (LG). Game 2 R H E PDJ 000 000 0 — 0 6 1 LG 300 302 X — 8 9 0 W — Vaughn. L — G. Umbarger. 2B — Chamberlain, Goss, Bell (LG). 3B — Chamberlain (LG). Golf Benzel wins Oregon Open East Oregonian POWELL BUTTE — Ryan Benzel of Sahalee Country Club birdied his last hole of the inal round to win the Oregon Open Invitational by two strokes on Thursday at Brasada Canyons. The PGA professional from Sammamish, Washington, held off pro Darren Black (Rainier G&CC) and amateur Justin Kadin (Tetherow GC) with a 69 in the third round and inished seven-under par at 209. Black and Kadin tied for second with 211, and amateur Nick Baines (Pumpkin Ridge GC) shot a 66 in his inal round to tie for fourth with 212. The Oregon Open is sanc- tioned by the Paciic Northwest Section of the PGA. BULLDOGS: Continued from 1B “It shows we’re moving along and growing as a program,” he said. “Now we need to just take that next step.” The postseason honors did not stop there for Christiansen, however, as he was chosen to compete in the irst-ever OHSLA All-Star Game on June 4. The game took place prior to the 2016 state championship game in Beaverton, where Christianson’s Blue Team earned a 9-8 victory over the White Team. “It felt amazing to be part of history,” Christiansen said. “Playing on that ield was great and it was an honor to get to play with the best players in the state of Oregon. We’re trying to build up the sport here and it was a cool experience.” The Bulldog junior stuck around following the game to watch the state championship game between Beaverton and Jesuit, which Beaverton won with a score of 9-8. He said aside from the entertainment of the game, he took some mental notes of some things to help improve his game and his team in 2017. “Just the intensity level was off-the-charts,” he said. “I watched how the players were moving, passing quickly and always getting position and staying aggressive. They played as a team and not as individuals, which is something we need to do more.” SEATTLE — Clint Dempsey scored for the third straight game and set up Gyasi Zardes for a tap-in goal, boosting the United States into the Copa America semiinals with a 2-1 win over Ecuador on Thursday night. Playing before a boisterous and almost completely partisan home Copa America crowd in the soccer-mad Paciic Northwest, Ecuador the U.S. won a knockout game against a nation outside its region for only the second time and USA will play Argen- tina or Venezuela on Tuesday in Houston. Dempsey’s 52nd international goal, ive behind Landon Dono- van’s American record, put the U.S. ahead in the 22nd minute. Zardes guided Dempsey’s cross into the net in the 65th for his sixth goal and a 2-0 lead. Michael Arroyo scored for Ecuador in the 74th minute, making for a tense ending, and Enner Valencia missed a pair of great chances moment later on a pair of headers. A chippy game was costly for the U.S. American midielder Jermaine Jones was shown a red card during a 52nd-minute confrontation that also saw Ecuador winger Antonio 1 2 AP Photo/Ted S. Warren United States’ Clint Dempsey , right, celebrates after his team- mate Gyasi Zardes scoried against Ecuador during a Copa America Centenario quarterinal soccer match, Thursday, June 16, 2016 at CenturyLink Field in Seattle. Valencia sent off after a second yellow card for a harsh tackle on Alejando Bedoya along the sideline. U.S. players immediately rushed in to the scrum after Valencia’s tackle, and Jones raised an arm at Arroyo. Colombian referee Wilmar Roldan immediately showed a red card to Jones. Jones will be suspended for the semiinal along with U.S. midielder Alejandro Bedoya and Bobby Wood, who both got their second yellow cards of the tournament. Ecuador coach Gustavo Quin- teros also appeared to be sent off late in the match. The only previous knockout win for the U.S. over a non-CON- CACAF team was against Spain in the 2009 Confederations Cup semiinal. The only other U.S. appearance in the Copa semiinals was in 1995, when it advanced to the inal four by beating Mexico, then was eliminated by Brazil. Dempsey appeared energized playing in the home stadium of his Seattle Sounders, and his header provided the U.S. a chance to relax after a tense opening. Wood was tremendous all night getting behind the defense and holding the ball up to provide chances on the attack and did so for both American goals. On the irst goal, Dempsey played the ball ahead to Wood, who dribbled and then passed to Jones. He crossed into the penalty area, where Dempsey had completed his run from midield and beat Juan Paredes to the ball, directing it to the corner of the net past goal- keeper Alexander Dominguez from 8 yards. The second goal was also a result of Wood playing the ball back. Brooks played a long ball to Wood, and his pass to Matt Besler was crossed to Gyasi Zardes in the area. His headed pass found Dempsey, who was able to slide a pass across the mouth of the goal for Zardes to poke in. After that, the Americans tired and Ecuador turned up the pressure. Arroyo’s goal came off Walter Ayovi’s free kick from a lank. Enner Valencia had two great chances in the 76th and 77th minutes, and Brooks nearly had an own goal in the irst minute of stoppage time, only to see the ball delected wide by goalkeeper Guzan. The U.S. made two changes to the lineup it used for the irst three games of the tournament due to the red card picked up by right back DeAndre Yedlin in the inal group game against Paraguay that caused the speedy youngster to miss a chance to play back in his home- town. U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann inserted Besler into the lineup at left back and lopped Fabian Johnson to ill Yedlin’s spot on the right side. U.S. captain Michael Bradley wore a rainbow armband in honor of those killed in the Orlando, Florida, nighclub shooting last weekend. NBA FINALS: Warriors close third quarter on 25-10 run Continued from 1B into the front row, striking a fan. Curry inished with 30 points, Klay Thompson had 25 and Draymond Green, back from a one-game suspension, had 10 rebounds. On Wednesday, James called Game 7, “the two best words ever.” He’ll live them once more, thanks to his spell-binding effort — he had a hand in 27 consecutive points in the second half — and put away the Warriors after they closed a 24-point deicit to seven in the inal period. James scored 14 points in the fourth before checking out to a thunderous ovation in the inal minutes as Cleveland fans chanted, “Cavs in 7!” and “See you Sunday!” “At the end of the day I’m going to give my teammates everything I got,” James said. “I’m going to give my coaching staff all I’ve got. And I’ll be satisied with the results.” In typical Cleveland fashion, there were some heart palpitations in the fourth. The Cavs built a 24-point lead in the third, and when J.R. Smith blindly dropped a lob pass to a trailing James for a dunk, Quicken Loans shook with noise and thousands of fans packing a plaza outside the building began thinking about where they might watch Game 7. The Warriors, though, weren’t done. On the anniversary of their title last season, Thompson made a pair of 3-pointers as Golden State, playing without injured center Andrew Bogut, closed the third quarter with a 25-10 run to pull within 80-71 entering the inal 12 minutes. But James, as he did while winning two titles in Miami, made sure those belonged to him and extended Cleveland’s dream season. Before taking the loor, James huddled his teammates in prayer the way he does before every game outside the locker room. He then offered some inal words. “Every possession counts. Every possession matters,” he said. “No breakdowns.” The only things broken early on were the Warriors, who couldn’t make an outside shot and were sloppy in the irst quarter, when they fell behind by 22 while Curry sat on the bench with two fouls. Down by 20 at the end of the period, coach Steve Kerr told side- line reporter Craig Sager, working his irst inals: “Am I worried? 31-11? We got this.” The Warriors didn’t get it, though, and now have to ight off a Cleveland team rolling like never before. RODEO: Hermiston’s Pederson looking to reach inals in tie-down Continued from 1B of the week. Black Hills’ Kristi Steffes holds the mark to beat with 42.24 on three runs. Williams is 28.38 on two. BMCC’s Jessica Lewis led the event through two rounds, and won the irst round with a time of 13.95. She enters tonight’s performance needing 14.01 or better to reclaim the lead. Of course, it’s not do-or-die just yet, as the top 12 in each event will advance to the short-go on Saturday. Also looking to punch into the inal round is Lauren Leyva in goat tying. She was ifth after two rounds with 13 lat, and Tarleton State’s Ashleigh Baugh has set the cutoff at 21 on three. The BMCC men will be trying to salvage what has been a disap- pointing week for the team that came into Casper with a 3,000-point lead in the national standings. The pen has gotten the better of the BMCC cowboys for the most part, but the T-Wolves do have a chance to move one tie-down roper and at least one steer wrestler into the inals. Jordan Tye has already inished his third round in tie-down and sits in eighth place in the aggregate with 46.3 total. It’ll be a tense night for Tye as seven contestants will come into the performance with two times and a chance to knock him down the leaderboard and out of the short-go. Jared Parke is in a similar situ- ation in steer wrestling and sits in 10th with 25.0 on three. One of the contestants with a chance to end his collegiate season is teammate JT Garland, who was 11th in the aggre- gate after two rounds with 11.7. The current cut-off is 29.3 on three by Texas A&M’s Cade Goodman. Parke and Tye will compete in team roping, but are just 1 for 2 so far in that event. Also competing tonight for BMCC is Tyler Potter in bareback and Emily Sorey in barrel racing, although the best either could hope for is winning the round. MARINERS: Servais says Walker still on track to make next start Continued from 1B Snell (0-1) allowed ive runs — one earned — and eight hits over 3 1/3 innings in his irst home big league start and second overall. “I want to be aggressive in the strike zone, and I felt like I wasn’t,” Snell said. “I was trying to be too pretty. Something I can deinitely learn from and get better.” Rays manager Kevin Cash said Snell will make another start for the Rays next week in Cleveland. After Lee singled with two outs in the irst, another run scored when Rays shortstop Tim Beckham misplayed Kyle Seager’s grounder. A single by Chris Iannetta made it 3-0. Ryan Garton, who replaced Snell with the bases loaded in the fourth, struck out Nelson Cruz for the second out. Lee followed with a two-run double that put Seattle up 5-2. Seager hit a solo homer with two outs in the ninth. Brad Miller cut the Rays’ deicit to 5-4 on a two-out, bases-loaded single in the eighth off Joaquin Benoit, who then struck out Steve Pearce on a 3-2 pitch. Pearce had three hits and is hitting. 514 (18 for his 35) this month. Seattle had 17 baserunners though ive innings but hit into three double plays over that stretch. Pearce had an RBI single during a two-run third. Curt Casali drove in a run on a fourth-inning grounder. Tampa Bay went 3 for 15 with runners in scoring position. “The big hit kind of eluded us,” Cash said. TRAINER’S ROOM Mariners: Servais said RHP Taijuan Walker (foot arch tendi- nitis) is still on track to make his next scheduled start Sunday at Boston. . CF Leonys Martin, who returned Friday from a strained left hamstring, was rested. UP NEXT Mariners: RHP Hisashi Iwakuma (5-5), 0-1 with a 10.20 ERA in four starts against Boston, will go against Red Sox LHP Roenis Elias (0-0) Friday night. SCOREBOARD Basketball NBA Playoff Glance FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Golden State 3, Cleveland 2 (all games on ABC) Thursday, June 2: Golden State 104, Cleveland 89 Sunday, June 5: Golden State 110, Cleveland 77 Wednesday, June 8: Cleveland 120, Golden State 90 Friday: Golden State 108, Cleveland 97 Monday, June 13: Cleveland 112, Golden State 97 TODAY: Golden State at Cleveland, 6 p.m. x-Sunday, June 19: Cleveland at Golden State, 5 p.m. WNBA EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Atlanta 7 3 .700 — New York 7 4 .600 ½ Chicago 5 6 .455 2½ Washington 5 7 .417 3 Indiana 4 7 .364 3½ Connecticut 2 10 .167 6 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Minnesota 11 0 1.000 — Los Angeles 10 0 1.000 ½ Phoenix 4 6 .400 6 Dallas 4 7 .364 6½ Seattle 4 8 .333 7 San Antonio 2 7 .222 7½ ——— Thursday’s Games New York 80, Connecticut 72 Dallas 88, Seattle 79 Today’s Games Chicago at Atlanta, 4:30 p.m. Indiana at San Antonio, 5 p.m. Phoenix at Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m. Baseball NCAA College World Series At TD Ameritrade Park Omaha Omaha, Neb. Saturday’s Games Game 1 — Oklahoma State (41-20) vs. UC Santa Barbara (42-18-1), 12 p.m. (ESPN2) Game 2 — Miami (50-12) vs. Arizona (44-21), 5 p.m. (ESPN2) Sunday’s Games Game 3 — Texas Tech (46-18) vs. TCU (47-16), 12 p.m. (ESPNU) Game 4 — Florida (52-14) vs. Coastal Carolina (49- 16), 5 p.m. (ESPN2) MLB AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB Baltimore 38 27 .585 — Boston 37 28 .569 1 Toronto 38 31 .551 2 New York 32 34 .485 6½ Tampa Bay 31 33 .484 6½ Central Division W L Pct GB Cleveland 35 30 .538 — Kansas City 35 31 .530 ½ Detroit 34 32 .515 1½ Chicago 33 33 .500 2½ Minnesota 20 46 .303 15½ West Division W L Pct GB Texas 42 25 .627 — Seattle 35 31 .530 6½ Houston 32 35 .478 10 Los Angeles 29 37 .439 12½ Oakland 27 39 .409 14½ ——— Thursday’s Games Seattle 6, Tampa Bay 4 Texas 5, Oakland 1 Toronto 13, Philadelphia 2 Baltimore 5, Boston 1 N.Y. Yankees 4, Minnesota 1 Detroit 10, Kansas City 4 Today’s Games Toronto (Sanchez 6-1) at Baltimore (Wright 3-3), 4:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Quintana 5-7) at Cleveland (Bauer 4-2), 4:10 p.m. San Francisco (Samardzija 7-4) at Tampa Bay (Archer 4-8), 4:10 p.m. Seattle (Iwakuma 5-5) at Boston (Elias 0-0), 4:10 p.m. Cincinnati (Lamb 1-4) at Houston (McCullers 3-2), 5:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 3-2) at Minnesota (Dean 1-2), 5:10 p.m. Detroit (Fulmer 7-1) at Kansas City (Ventura 5-4), 5:15 p.m. Texas (Hamels 6-1) at St. Louis (Wacha 2-6), 5:15 p.m. L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 3-7) at Oakland (Graveman 2-6), 6:35 p.m. p.m. Atlanta (Gant 0-1) at N.Y. Mets (Harvey 4-8), 4:10 p.m. Colorado (Gray 4-2) at Miami (Conley 3-4), 4:10 p.m. San Francisco (Samardzija 7-4) at Tampa Bay (Archer 4-8), 4:10 p.m. Cincinnati (Lamb 1-4) at Houston (McCullers 3-2), 5:10 p.m. Texas (Hamels 6-1) at St. Louis (Wacha 2-6), 5:15 p.m. Milwaukee (Davies 5-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Urias 0-2), 7:10 p.m. Washington (Ross 5-4) at San Diego (Friedrich 3-1), 7:40 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB Washington 42 25 .627 — New York 36 29 .554 5 Miami 34 32 .515 7½ Philadelphia 30 37 .448 12 Atlanta 20 46 .303 21½ Central Division W L Pct GB Chicago 44 20 .688 — St. Louis 35 30 .538 9½ Pittsburgh 33 33 .500 12 Milwaukee 31 36 .462 14½ Cincinnati 26 41 .388 19½ West Division W L Pct GB San Francisco 41 26 .612 — Los Angeles 35 33 .514 6½ Colorado 32 33 .492 8 Arizona 29 39 .426 12½ San Diego 27 41 .397 14½ ——— Thursday’s Games Atlanta 7, Cincinnati 2 Toronto 13, Philadelphia 2 N.Y. Mets 6, Pittsburgh 4 Milwaukee 8, L.A. Dodgers 6 Washington 8, San Diego 5 Today’s Games Pittsburgh (Liriano 4-6) at Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 10-1), 11:20 a.m. Arizona (Ray 3-5) at Philadelphia (Morgan 1-5), 4:05 Golf U.S. Open Leaderboard Thursday At Oakmont Country Club Oakmont, Pa. Purse: TBA ($10 million in 2015) Yardage: 7,254; Par: 70 (35-35) First Round (Suspended due to weather) Golfer SCORE THRU Andrew Landry -3 17 Bubba Watson -2 14 Danny Lee -2 13 a-Scottie Schefler -1 F Kevin Streelman -1 16 Lee Westwood -1 13 Harris English -1 12 Romain Wattel E 15 Gregory Bourdy E 16 Daniel Berger E 15 Matt Fitzpatrick E 13 Martin Kaymer E 13 Russell Knox E 12 Shane Lowry E 11 Zach Johnson E 11 Rob Oppenheim +1 17 David Lingmerth +1 16 Hideto Tanihara +1 16 James Hahn +1 15 Matt Kuchar +1 14 Marc Leishman +1 14 Bryson DeChambeau +1 11 Jordan Spieth +1 11
