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Page 2B SPORTS East Oregonian Baseball Saturday, June 25, 2016 NHL Draft Hodgen Matthews goes No. 1, record 12 Americans taken splits to inish off pool play By JOHN WAWROW Associated Press East Oregonian WALLA WALLA, Wash., — Hodgen Distributing inished up pool play at the Walla Walla American Legion tournament on Friday by falling 8-4 to Lakeside (WA) in the morning game before rebounding in the afternoon to defeat Pasco (WA) 6-4 in eight innings. In Hodgen’s victory, Pasco had tied the game up at 4-4 in the bottom of the seventh inning with two outs, which often can demoralize a team. However, Hodgen came right back in the top of the eighth ready to take the lead back. After a leadoff strikeout, Justin Duso smacked a double to center followed by a single from Kaden Clark to get the team in business. Then after both runners moved up a base on a Pasco ielding error, Duso came across to score on a ielder’s choice groundout from Hayden Villers followed by an RBI groundout from Wyatt Morris to push across Villers for the 6-4 lead. In the bottom of the inning, Villers needed just seven pitches to induce three easy groundouts to close the game for Hodgen and earn a save. Jared Beveridge pitched seven strong innings allowing four runs with two strikeouts to earn the win, while also going 3-4 with two RBIs on offense. In game one, Lakeside’s offense got to Hodgen starting pitcher Wyatt Morris early and often, tallying ive hits in the team’s irst six at-bats which turned into four runs in the inning. Then in the third inning, Morris got two quick outs before giving up two walks and two singles with the help of a ielding error that allowed Lakeside to add three more runs to take a 7-0 lead. Hodgen inally scored in the bottom of the third after Morris led off with a single and eventually was brought home on a sacriice ly from Johnny Malcom to cut the lead to 7-1. Ryan Russell tripled later in the inning, but was left stranded on a popout in foul territory by Clark. Offensive leaders on the day for Hodgen were Morris (3-6, 2 runs, 2 RBI), Clark (3-5, run, 2 RBI), and Daniel Naughton (2-6, 2 runs). ——— Game 1 R H E LAK 403 010 0 — 8 11 1 HDG 001 021 0 — 4 9 2 W — Z. Dunkenbierker. L — W. Morris. 2B — J. Suh 2, L. Motta, Z. Van Dyke (LAK). K. Clark, M. Bliss (HDG). 3B — R. Russell (HDG) Game 2 R H E HDG 020 020 0 2 — 6 9 1 PSC 000 201 1 0 — 4 8 3 W — J. Beveridge. L — B. Childs. 2B — J. Duso (HDG). M. Barragen, R. Zeff, N. Bonningham (PSC). 13U: BUCKS 16, RENTON 0 — At Lacey, Wash., the Pendleton Bucks 13u baseball squad opened up the USSSA state tour- nament with a big blowout win in three innings over the Renton Rebels on Friday. Kyle Field pitched two innings and gave up just one hit and one walk with three strikeouts for the Bucks, and Blake Swanson pitched one perfect inning in relief. The No. 3 through No. 6 hitters in the lineup did most of the offensive damage, combining for seven hits, six runs, and 10 RBIs. ——— R H E BCK 2410 — 16 11 1 RNT 000 — 0 1 5 W — K. Field. L — Lawrence 2B — J. Jones, P. Persinger, K. Field (BCK). BUCKS 12, DeMA- RINE 9 — At Lacey, Wash., the Bucks had a tougher test in Game 2 of the day, needing eight innings to take down the DeMarine Renegades in the quarterinals at the USSSA state tournament. Blake Swanson picked up the win on the mound as he pitched two innings in relief and gave up two hits and four runs. Kyle Field had a big game on offense, going 4-5 with two doubles, one triple, two runs and two RBIs. Tucker Zander also had a big game at the plate with three hits and three RBIs. ——— R H E BCK 102 123 03 — 12 13 4 DMR 103 001 40 — 9 11 5 W — B. Swanson. L — Polk. 2B — T. Zander, K. Field 2 (BCK). Ahlstrom (DMR). 3B — J. Jones, K. Field (BCK). BUFFALO, N.Y. — Once the “Go Leafs, Go!” chants subsided after Toronto selected Arizona-born center Auston Matthews with the irst pick in the NHL draft, the Finns began their march to the podium. Three players from Finland were selected among the top ive picks, the most by the northern European nation. “They’ve got a good thing going on there,” Canucks President Trevor Linden said after Vancouver rounded out the run of Finns by selecting defenseman Oli Juolevi with the ifth pick. The Winnipeg Jets selected forward Patrik Laine second, and Edmonton took forward Jesse Puljujarvi at No. 4. During a week in which the NHL expanded into Las Vegas, the draft had an international lavor to it with a record 12 Americans selected in the irst round, besting the old mark of 11 in 2010. It began with the 18-year-old Matthews who became the seventh American-born player to be selected No. 1, and irst since the Chicago Blackhawks chose Patrick Kane with the top pick in 2007. “My heart was beating. It was very nerve-wracking,” Matthews said, noting the Maple Leafs had not tipped their hand on who they were going to select since winning the NHL draft lottery in April. “Once they called my name, it was deinitely a sigh of relief and a lot of excitement.” Matthews, who grew up a Coyotes fan in Scottsdale, Arizona, was expected to be selected irst. NHL Central Scouting ranked the 6-foot-2, 210-pound play-maker as its top draft-eligible project, and he’s also a natural center, a top-line posi- tion that’s dificult to ill. Matthews already has pro experience after spending last season with Zurich in the Swiss Elite League. PENDLETON: Wilks homers, Rabb throws one-hitter for 9/10’s Continued from 1B 211 degrees because water doesn’t boil at 211 degrees. But at 212 it can go. So it’s always that one extra degree that we have to try harder. “We all did 212 this week.” Pendleton and La Grande matched each other at 3-3 after one inning, but a four-run second would put Pendleton up for good. Josie Wilson hit a two-RBI double to the corner in left ield, then Duchek doubled to nearly the same place to make it 6-3. Daisy Jenness then singled in Duchek for the irst of her three hits. Wilson also inished with three hits, and added another double and a two-run inside- the-park home run in the sixth inning to make it 16-5. She had four RBI and scored ive times. Jenness also had four RBI and scored once. Ducheck (2 for 4) and Maria Lilienthal (2 for 4) both scored four times, and Kylie Parsons (2 for 3) scored twice. Pendleton had 15 total hits. “I felt like the dugout really helped us out a lot by cheering us on,” Wilson said. “We hit pretty good off the pitchers the last game too, so I think we were all pretty excited,” Duchek said. Mackenzie Burke pitched the complete game and allowed three earned runs on seven hits. She struck out two and walked three. “We came in with positive attitudes, but (La Grande is) a good team, and I think we both did good,” she said. “I feel that I did good, and I was just glad that I could win it for my team.” Pendleton, which is managed by Justin Samp, Staff photo by Matt Entrup Pendleton’s Samantha Wilks celebrates her home run to lead off the second in- ning against La Grande in the 9/10 District 3 Little League softball tournament on Friday at Yantis Park in Milton-Freewater. have a few things that we’ll work on and hopefully ine tune a little for state. “I don’t want to guess (how we’ll do), but we’re going to work our butts off for the next week and a half and do the best we can.” ——— R H E PEN 340 235 — 17 15 3 LAG 310 013 — 8 7 6 W — M. Burke. L — R. Kirkland. 2B — J. Wilson 2, M. Lilienthal 2, D. Duchek 2 (PEN); R. Kirkland, J. Wiggins, H. Robinson (LAG). 3B — K. Parsons, M. Burke (PEN). HR — J. Wilson (PEN). Staff photo by Matt Entrup Pendleton’s Stella Rabb pitches against La Grande in the 9/10 District 3 Little League softball tournament on Friday at Yantis Park in Milton-Freewater. placed third at state last year with many of the same players. “This year we’re hoping to go to California (for regionals) and then come back to Portland (for the World Series),” Burke said. The state tournament will begin on July 7 in Redmond. “La Grande was a formi- dable opponent. They were a great team to face, and they never gave up. It was a good challenge,” Samp said. “We played well but we deinitely 9/10’s: PENDLETON 18, LA GRANDE 1 — At Yantis Park, after Pendleton was held to two hits against La Grande on Monday in their only loss of the District 3 softball tournament, manager Gordy Umbarger knew he had to get his team some more live hitting practice. Until then, he said, “it was mostly tee hitting and net DOPING: Oficials think issue can be solved Continued from 1B In a statement, the Inter- national Olympic Committee said the suspension would not “affect either the integrity or the scope of the testing program” at the games. The IOC said it will “decide which accredited laboratory to use after the assessment by WADA, which is the body responsible for the accreditation of anti-doping laboratories.” However, oficials at the Rio lab believe the conformity issue can still be solved in time. “The lab expects its opera- tions to return to normal in July after a visit from WADA’s tech- nical committee,” the laboratory said in a statement. That view was shared by Brazil’s anti-doping authority, known as ABCD and run by the R H E PEN 631 8 — 18 10 3 LAG 100 0 — 1 1 9 W — S. Rabb. L — M. Wilson. 2B — K. Pace (PEN). 3B — S. Rabb (PEN). HR — S. Wilks (PEN). PAYTON: that, the integrity of the samples is fully maintained,” WADA’s incoming director general Olivier Niggli said. Niggli added that the agency “will work closely with the Rio Laboratory to resolve the identiied issue.” The laboratory can appeal against the suspension to the Court of Arbitration for Sport within 21 days. FIFA found a solution to being without a lab during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then, samples taken from soccer players were lown to be tested at a WADA-accredited lab in Lausanne, Switzerland. No blood samples missed the deadline of being tested within 36 hours of being given by an athlete. sports ministry. The authority said it was “conident that the institution will take all the necessary procedures” to have the provi- sional suspension lifted. It’s not the irst time that the Rio lab has been suspended by WADA. It was also brought to a halt in 2012 after a false positive test result. The agency’s latest move “prohibits the laboratory from carrying out all anti-doping analyses on urine and blood samples,” WADA said in a statement. Samples collected from athletes in Brazil during the interim ban will be transported to a lab in another country for testing, it added. “This will ensure that there are no gaps in the anti-doping sample analysis procedures; and hitting, and so we took them over here to an empty vacant ield and did some live hitting, and the girls seemed to be primed up to hit.” Pendleton tallied 24 hits over its next three games, and brought the bats out again on Friday with 10 more hits to hand La Grande its irst loss of the tournament. “I think it’s been (each) day getting better, and better, and better,” Umbarger said. “The girls came in ready to hit and they’re just hitting their peak right now, so we’ll just keep it rolling for (Saturday).” Samantha Wilks led their efforts with a 3-for-3 game that included an inside-the- park home run to lead off the second inning and make it 7-1. She inished with three RBI and three runs. Lanie Burke (2 for 4) had a team-high four RBI and scored twice, Kate Pace (2 for 4) added one RBI and three runs, and pitcher Stella Rabb helped her own cause by going 2 for 2 with three runs and one RBI. Rabb pitched the entire game and allowed just one hit, struck out seven and walked two. La Grande’s run was unearned. Pendleton’s three ielding errors was the only blemish Umbarger could see. “I would like to see a little better inield play, a little more attention to detail on the inield,” he said. “If we shore up our defense we’ll be a pretty solid team.” Pendleton and La Grande will play a rubber match today at 9 a.m. The winner will advance to the state tourna- ment in Baker City on July 23. ——— Continued from 1B (2.5) this past season. He led the team in scoring in 18 games and rebounding in 20 in helping the Beavers reach the NCAA tournament for the irst time since 1990. Payton was named the Pac-12’s defen- sive player of the year in both his seasons at Oregon State. Payton was not selected in the draft, which includes two rounds and 60 total picks. Five Pac-12 players were taken Thursday: California’s Jaylen Brown, Washington’s Marquese Chriss (eighth to Phoenix), Utah’s Jakob Poeltl (ninth to Toronto), Washington’s Dejounte Murray (29th to San Antonio) and California’s Tyrone Wallace (60th to Utah). OSU has had just two players drafted in the last 20 years: Corey Benjamin as the 28th pick to the Chicago Bulls in 1998 and Jared Cunningham as the 24th overall by the Cleve- land Cavaliers in 2012. Payton’s father, Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame member Gary Payton, was taken No. 2 overall by Seattle in 1990 out of Oregon State. SCOREBOARD Baseball NCAA College World Series Thursday’s Game Coastal Carolina 7, Texas Tech 5 Friday’s Games Arizona 9, Oklahoma State 3 Coastal Carolina 4, TCU 1 Saturday’s Games Oklahoma State vs. Arizona, Noon (ESPN2) TCU vs. Coastal Carolina, 5 p.m. (ESPN) MLB AMERICAN LEAGUE Friday’s Games Baltimore 6, Tampa Bay 3 N.Y. Yankees 5, Minnesota 3 Cleveland 7, Detroit 4 Boston 8, Texas 7 Chicago White Sox 3, Toronto 2 Houston 13, Kansas City 4 Oakland 7, L.A. Angels 4 Seattle 4, St. Louis 3 Saturday’s Games Minnesota (Santana 2-7) at N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 3-7), 10:05 a.m. Tampa Bay (Andriese 6-0) at Baltimore (Gausman 0-5), 10:05 a.m., 1st game Toronto (Dickey 4-8) at Chicago White Sox (Gonzalez 1-2), 11:10 a.m. Cleveland (Carrasco 2-2) at Detroit (Sanchez 4-7), 1:10 p.m. Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 3-3) at Baltimore (Tillman 10-1), 4:05 p.m., 2nd game Houston (Fiers 5-3) at Kansas City (Young 2-6), 4:15 p.m. Boston (Wright 8-4) at Texas (Grifin 3-0), 6:20 p.m. Oakland (Overton 0-0) at L.A. Angels (Chacin 3-5), 7:05 p.m. St. Louis (Leake 5-4) at Seattle (Karns 5-2), 7:10 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE Friday’s Games Pittsburgh 8, L.A. Dodgers 6 Chicago Cubs 5, Miami 4 San Diego 13, Cincinnati 4 N.Y. Mets 8, Atlanta 6 Milwaukee 5, Washington 3 Arizona 10, Colorado 9 Seattle 4, St. Louis 3 San Francisco 5, Philadelphia 4 Saturday’s Games Arizona (Miller 2-6) at Colorado (De La Rosa 4-4), 1:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Lackey 7-3) at Miami (Clemens 0-0), 1:10 p.m. San Diego (Pomeranz 6-7) at Cincinnati (Finnegan 3-5), 1:10 p.m. Washington (Gonzalez 3-6) at Milwaukee (Garza 0-0), 1:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Maeda 6-4) at Pittsburgh (Locke 6-5), 4:15 p.m. N.Y. Mets (deGrom 3-4) at Atlanta (Teheran 3-7), 4:15 p.m. Philadelphia (Hellickson 4-6) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 8-3), 7:05 p.m. St. Louis (Leake 5-4) at Seattle (Karns 5-2), 7:10 p.m. MiLB NORTHWEST LEAGUE Friday’s Games Hillsboro 12, Vancouver 2 Salem-Keizer 4, Tri-City 3 Everett 3, Boise 2 Eugene 6, Spokane 0 Saturday’s Games Tri-City at Salem-Keizer, 6:35 p.m. Boise at Everett, 7:05 p.m. Hillsboro at Vancouver, 7:05 p.m. Spokane at Eugene, 7:05 p.m. Sunday’s Games Hillsboro at Vancouver, 1:05 p.m. Boise at Everett, 4:05 p.m. Spokane at Eugene, 5:01 p.m. Tri-City at Salem-Keizer, 5:05 p.m. 7 GB — ½ 6 8 8 10½ 8 5 6 6 5 5 5 3 4 3 8 7 4 6 8 7 3 7 3 3 6 5 1 5 27 22 21 21 21 20 16 14 27 27 16 24 18 25 13 20 Golf COPA AMERICA Championship Sunday, June 26 (At East Rutherford, N.J.) Argentina vs. Chile, 5 p.m. (FS1) GB — 1½ 3½ 4 5 Real Salt Lake Los Angeles Sporting K.C. Vancouver San Jose Portland Seattle Houston MLS EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts Philadelphia 7 4 5 26 New York 7 8 1 22 NYC FC 5 5 6 21 Montreal 5 4 5 20 Toronto FC 5 5 4 19 New England 4 4 7 19 D.C. United 4 6 5 17 Orlando City 3 3 8 17 Columbus 3 5 6 15 Chicago 2 7 5 11 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts Colorado 9 2 5 32 FC Dallas 8 5 4 28 24 17 18 27 18 27 17 22 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie. ——— Saturday’s Games New York City FC at Seattle, 5 p.m. New England at D.C. United, 7 p.m. Vancouver at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. New York at Columbus, 7:30 p.m. Sporting K.C. at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. Toronto FC at Orlando City, 7:30 p.m. Real Salt Lake at FC Dallas, 8 p.m. Los Angeles at San Jose, 10 p.m. Sunday’s Game Houston at Portland, 6 p.m. Soccer Basketball WNBA EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct New York 10 4 .714 Atlanta 8 5 .615 Washington 7 8 .467 Chicago 6 8 .429 Indiana 5 9 .357 Connecticut 3 11 .214 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct Minnesota 13 1 .929 Los Angeles 12 1 .923 Dallas 7 7 .500 Phoenix 5 9 .357 Seattle 5 9 .357 San Antonio 2 11 .154 ——— Friday’s Games Phoenix 91, Washington 79 New York 80, Chicago 79 Los Angeles 94, Minnesota 76 Seattle 98, Connecticut 81 Saturday’s Games Atlanta at San Antonio, 5 p.m. Indiana at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. Sunday’s Games Phoenix at New York, Noon Minnesota at Washington, 1 p.m. Connecticut at Los Angeles, 2 p.m. GF 27 27 25 22 15 21 14 25 18 14 GA 22 22 31 20 15 26 16 23 21 20 GF 19 24 GA 11 24 PGA Quicken Loans National Friday’s leaders At Congressional Country Club Bethesda, Md. Purse: $6.9 million Yardage: 7,569; Par 71 Second Round Billy Hurley III 66-65—131 Jon Rahm 64-67—131 Vijay Singh 68-66—134 Webb Simpson 67-68—135 Bill Haas 66-69—135 Ernie Els 66-69—135 Harold Varner III 66-69—135 Robert Garrigus 67-69—136 Mark Hubbard 67-69—136 Rickie Fowler 68-68—136 Byeong Hun An 69-68—137 John Senden 67-70—137 David Hearn 70-67—137 Kyle Reifers 66-71—137 Sam Saunders 67-70—137
