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Page 2B SPORTS East Oregonian Tuesday, June 28, 2016 College World Series Wildcats one step away from title with Game 1 win By ERIC OLSON Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. — JC Cloney just keeps rolling along at the College World Series, pushing Arizona to the doorstep of its second national championship in ive years. Cloney pitched a four- hitter, Ryan Aguilar drove in two runs and the Wildcats beat Coastal Carolina 3-0 in Game 1 of the College World Series inals on Monday night. Cloney extended his scoreless innings streak at the CWS to 16. The junior left-hander pitched seven innings in the Wildcats’ 3-0 win over UC Santa Barbara last Wednesday. “I’m not really tired right now. The adrenaline is still going,” said Cloney, who threw 122 pitches. “I’m still trying to igure out what just happened.” He wasn’t the only one. The Chanticleers, playing in the inals in their irst CWS appearance, went down in Arizona pitcher JC Cloney reacts to a dou- ble play against Coastal Carolina in the ninth inning in Game 1 of Monday’s College World Se- ries inals in Omaha, Neb. Game 1 C. Carolina Arizona 0 3 order four times and never had a runner advance to second base until the ninth inning. Cloney (8-4) allowed four singles, walked three and struck out six in the second complete game of his career. He was spot on with his location of a fastball in the 80s, a cutter, breaking ball and changeup. He induced 13 groundouts. “You want to sit on a fastball, and he throws you a cutter. And you sit on the off-speed, and he throws a fastball,” said the Chanti- cleers’ Michael Paez. The Wildcats (49-22) can wrap up their ifth national title and irst since 2012 with a win Tuesday. “They all know where we’re at and what we’re doing,” irst-year coach Jay AP Photo/Ted Kirk Johnson said. “We need to prepare well tonight, the coaching staff and players alike, and get ready to attack the opportunity.” The Wildcats scored in the irst when Aguilar singled in Cody Ramer, who led off with a double. Aguilar added another RBI single in the seventh to make it 3-0. Coastal Carolina (53-18) threatened in the ninth. Anthony Marks singled leading off and Zach Remi- llard bunted down the third- base line for a base hit on a close play. Connor Owings hit into a double play, and Cloney caught G.K. Young looking at strike three to end the game. Arizona’s defense, which has committed only one error at the CWS, continued to come up big. Second baseman Ramer, playing in short right ield as part of a shift in the fourth, sprinted to bare-hand G.K. Young’s grounder. His throw to irst barely beat Young’s head- irst slide. Right ielder Zach Gibbons went with his back to the wall to catch Paez’s deep ly to end the eighth inning. “I thought I got enough of it,” Paez said, “but knowing this ield, you can’t predict what’s going to happen.” Coastal Carolina starter Zack Hopeck (3-4) lasted 6 1/3 innings and threw 103 pitches, both career highs. He tipped his cap to the Coastal fans and got a hug from reliever Bobby Morrison as he neared the dugout. Hopeck was solid, but Cloney was great. Coastal Carolina was shut out for just the second time this season, and irst since an 11-0 loss to Wake Forest. The Chanticleers had scored in 58 straight games. “The kids never quit,” Chanticleers coach Gary Gilmore said. “I think they were more frustrated than anything, just trying to igure out how to solve this guy and get some runners on base.” BUS RACES: Next race scheduled for Aug. 13 YOUTH ROUNDUP: Continued from 1B sation, two weeks later we had purchased six school buses, had them painted, and were ready to go on the track,” Nelson said. The irst school bus race debuted in Aug. 2015 and it instantly became a crowd favorite. This past weekend on June 25, the Super Oval hosted its irst school bus race of the year, and once again it brought out a big crowd of a few hundred people packed into the old, red wooden grandstands at the track. The Saturday event featured three different races for the buses, a ive-lap trophy dash, a 10-lap heat race, and inally the 35-lap Figure-8 race which is the main event of the evening. The trophy dash and heat races featured some exciting action, with some three-wide racing on the straightaways and into the corners. But once the sun went down and the car races were inished, the fans were ready for the main event. Staff photo by Eric Singer A school bus sits in the pits after engine failure foced the bus to leave the track during a school bus race at the Hermiston Super Oval on Saturday in Hermiston. With six buses competing, it took a few laps to see some real action, but once a few buses pulled away to spread out the pack, some tense moments developed for the fans with buses appearing to be headed for a collision in the middle of the Figure-8 track. Most of the time, the drivers slowed down to make sure they could each pass through safely, but there were a few drivers that decided to risk a crash and sped up make it through, causing many near-misses that ended in collective sighs from the crowd, who after a few near-misses were on the edge of their seats hoping to see a crash. During the inaugural Figure-8 race, a side-swipe collision happened in the GOATS: Eco-friendly animals leave no trace on trail Continued from 1B Charlotte’s bad knees. Zimmerman doesn’t rent his “family” out lightly, either. His vetting process includes a three- hour instructional class at the family farm, and he won’t send his goats out with a customer he doesn’t trust. Even then, there was audible disbelief among those at the conference that he could trust a stranger with his goats in the wilderness for days at a time. NAPGA member and conference organizer Curtis King of Burbank, Washington, raises and trains pack goats for personal use and sale, and said there’s a deep bond that forms. “The training with these guys start the minute they get home. Daily walks, lots of interactions with their human handlers. You have to become the alpha goat,” he said. “They’re as smart as dogs, they’re as smart as pigs in my opinion. Goats are a very intelligent animal.” Many owners of pack goats raise them in groups of less than 10, and in close proximity to their homes. These goats are well tended and carefully vacci- nated, said Eddy, and therefore much less likely to be a carrier of sheep pneumonia, which was found in more than 80 percent of domestic commer- cial herds tested in 2011 by the National Animal Health Monitoring System. The tight bonds with their owners and the goat’s natural herd behavior also ensure they won’t wander off and accidentally come in contact with a bighorn sheep. And Eddy is far from alone in her ight. When she co-founded NAPGA to help a couple of friends in Idaho who had been shut out of a camp- ground, Eddy said there was a lot of snickering. “People laughed and said, ‘Oh no, there’s going to be ive people doing this. It doesn’t matter,’” she said. “Low and behold there’s hundreds and hundreds of people doing it now.” Hunters are one of the key groups driving the surge in goat packing popularity for several reasons. “I think the hunters are starting to turn to the goat as a primary pack animal because of the ease that they provide. I can put four of them in the back of a pickup,” said King, who frequently takes his goats on trips into the Blue Mountain’s Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness. “It’s opened up a whole new set of doors for me as a isherman and a backpacker.” A it pack goat can haul one quarter its body weight (about 50 pounds for a full grown male), for about 10-12 miles. “We’re talking about goats that work for a living and do this day in and day out,” King said. “Barnyard potato, he’s going to go about a mile and then he’s done.” They tackle the toughest of terrain with ease. “We put horses and llamas to shame where we can go,” Zimmerman said. “The goat starts where the horse stops,” King said. Goats also forage off the land, meaning no need to carry food, and are the most Eco-friendly option available, King said. “The leave no trace mentality — that’s the pack goat. Goats are the lowest impact animal on the planet. They don’t damage anything, they leave very little sign in their trail.” For more information about NAPGA or goat packing go to NAPGA.org. For local goat packers, Columbia Basin Pack- goat Club organizes excursions around the Paciic Northwest and is online at CBpackgoats. wix.com/cbpc. For information on booking a trip with a team of Zimmerman’s goats, visit HighUintaPackGoats.com. ——— Contact Matt Entrup at mentrup@eastoregonian.com or (541) 966-0838. middle of the track, resulting in one bus rolling over into a nearby lightpole. The act subsequently knocked out the power for the entire race track. “It’s total chaos,” said Nelson, who has competed in bus races before. The Super Oval has three more bus race events on their 2016 schedule, with the next one being a school bus trailer race taking place on Aug. 13 followed by a school bus boat race on Sept. 17. And for those fans that love to see wrecks and destruction, the Super Oval inishes off the season with a bus race demolition derby — where the objective is to cause as much damage as possible. “It’s just good old fash- ioned redneck fun,” Nelson said. ——— Contact Eric Singer at esinger@eastoregonian. com or (541) 966-0839. Follow him on Twitter @ ByEricSinger. Continued from 1B ield to score Zander and Jones to break the tie at 4-2. The Bucks advanced into the championship game following a narrow 2-1 victory over City Baseball Gold on Sunday morning. In that game, the Bucks’ only runs came in the top of the sixth inning on a two-RBI single from Isaac Bearchum to score Curtis Simons and Trent Villers. ——— R H E CSC 110 010 2 — 5 11 3 BCK 202 120 X — 7 8 2 W — T. Zander. L — Bradley. 2B — Bradley (CSC). T. Zander, K. Field (BCK). 3B — J. Jones (BCK). AMERICAN LEGION CENTENIAL 10, HODGEN DISTRIB- UTING 4 — At Pendleton, Hodgen Distributing could not corral the Centenial (ID) offense as they cranked out 15 hits and 10 runs to earn the win on Monday evening. Nick Lani started for Hodgen (8-9) and did not miss many bats with his pitches, allowing 12 hits and seven earned runs over 5.2 innings pitched. Lani struck out one batter, walked one batter, and hit three batters while throwing 111 pitches, 65 of which went for strikes. Hodgen scored its irst run of the game in the sixth inning when Wyatt Morris ripped an RBI single into left ield, scoring Joe St. Pierre to cut the deicit to 7-1. They scored their remaining three runs in the eighth inning on a two-RBI single to left by Lani, scoring Daniel Naughton and Morris, and then one batter later Kaden Clark pushed an RBI single into left ield to score Lani to cut the deicit to 10-4. Lani and Naughton each inished the game with two hits for Hodgen. Naughton pitched 2.2 shutout innings in relief as well, with four strikeouts. ——— R H E CNT 300 402 300 — 10 15 0 HDG 000 001 030 — 4 7 1 W — T. Ogata. L — N. Lani. 2B — C. Martin (CNT). J. St. Pierre (HDG). LITTLE LEAGUE: Hermiston teams win two Continued from 1B plate and racked up ive hits and two walks to push across seven runs in the inning. Pendleton’s offense also put up a well-balanced effort as eight players registered a hit on the day. But only four of the team’s 10 runs registered RBIs as Baker’s ive errors contrib- uted to the output. Pendleton will play again today at 5 p.m. against Hermiston All-Stars as each look to keep their season alive. ——— R H BKR 000 00 — 0 3 PND 007 03 — 10 8 W — K. Liscom. L — Chastain. 2B — P. Lambert (PND). E 5 0 HERMISTON 18, HARNEY COUNTY 8 — At Burns, the Hermiston all-stars kept their season alive with a 10-run win over Harney County in four innings at the District 3 tournament on Monday evening. It’s the second-straight 10-run win for Hermiston, following a 19-0 win over Wallowa Valley on Saturday. Hermiston continues consolation bracket play today when they take on the Pendleton All-Stars at 5 p.m. in Burns. 9/10’s: HERMISTON 23, LA GRANDE 4 — At Burns, the Hermiston all-stars had no trouble moving past its latest opponent with a blowout win over La Grande at the District 3 tournament on Monday afternoon. Hermiston looks to continue its dominant run on Wednesday when it plays Baker at 1 p.m. in Burns. SCOREBOARD Baseball NCAA College World Series Championship Series (Best-of-3) x-if necessary Monday’s Game: Arizona 3, Coastal Carolina 0 (Arizona leads 1-0) Today’s Game: Arizona (49-22) vs. Coastal Carolina (53-18), 5 p.m. (TV: ESPN) x-Wednesday, June 29: Arizona vs. Coastal Carolina, 5 p.m. (TV: ESPN) MLB AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB Baltimore 45 30 .600 — Boston 41 35 .539 4½ Toronto 41 37 .526 5½ New York 37 37 .500 7½ Tampa Bay 32 43 .427 13 Central Division W L Pct GB Cleveland 45 30 .600 — Kansas City 40 35 .533 5 Chicago 38 38 .500 7½ Detroit 38 38 .500 7½ Minnesota 24 51 .320 21 West Division W L Pct GB Texas 49 27 .645 — Houston 40 37 .519 9½ Seattle 38 38 .500 11 Oakland 33 43 .434 16 Los Angeles 32 45 .415 17½ ——— Monday’s Games Tampa Bay 13, Boston 7 Cleveland 8, Atlanta 3 Kansas City 6, St. Louis 2 Colorado 9, Toronto 5 Houston 4, L.A. Angels 2 Oakland 8, San Francisco 3 Texas at N.Y. Yankees, late Today’s Games Texas (Hamels 8-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 5-4), 4:05 p.m. Boston (Porcello 8-2) at Tampa Bay (Archer 4-10), 4:10 p.m. Cleveland (Kluber 7-7) at Atlanta (Wis- ler 3-7), 4:10 p.m. Miami (Conley 4-4) at Detroit (Pelfrey 1-7), 4:10 p.m. Minnesota (Gibson 0-5) at Chicago White Sox (Quintana 5-7), 5:10 p.m. St. Louis (Wacha 3-7) at Kansas City (Ventura 6-4), 5:15 p.m. Toronto (Happ 9-3) at Colorado (Butler 2-4), 5:40 p.m. Houston (McCullers 3-2) at L.A. Angels (Lincecum 1-1), 7:05 p.m. Baltimore (Jimenez 4-7) at San Diego (Johnson 0-5), 7:10 p.m. Pittsburgh (Niese 6-5) at Seattle (Iwa- kuma 6-6), 7:10 p.m. Oakland (Graveman 3-6) at San Francis- co (Suarez 3-1), 7:15 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W Washington 45 L Pct GB 32 .584 — Miami 41 35 .539 3½ New York 40 35 .533 4 Philadelphia 33 45 .423 12½ Atlanta 26 50 .342 18½ Central Division W L Pct GB Chicago 49 26 .653 — St. Louis 39 36 .520 10 Pittsburgh 37 40 .481 13 Milwaukee 34 41 .453 15 Cincinnati 29 48 .377 21 West Division W L Pct GB San Francisco 49 29 .628 — Los Angeles 42 36 .538 7 Colorado 37 39 .487 11 Arizona 36 43 .456 13½ San Diego 33 44 .429 15½ ——— Monday’s Games L.A. Dodgers 5, Pittsburgh 4 Washington 11, N.Y. Mets 4 Chicago Cubs 11, Cincinnati 8 Cleveland 8, Atlanta 3 Kansas City 6, St. Louis 2 Colorado 9, Toronto 5 Philadelphia 8, Arizona 0 Oakland 8, San Francisco 3 Today’s Games N.Y. Mets (Harvey 4-9) at Washington (Giolito 0-0), 4:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Lester 9-3) at Cincinnati (Lamb 1-4), 4:10 p.m. Cleveland (Kluber 7-7) at Atlanta (Wis- ler 3-7), 4:10 p.m. Miami (Conley 4-4) at Detroit (Pelfrey 1-7), 4:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Urias 0-2) at Milwaukee (Anderson 4-7), 5:10 p.m. St. Louis (Wacha 3-7) at Kansas City (Ventura 6-4), 5:15 p.m. Toronto (Happ 9-3) at Colorado (Butler 2-4), 5:40 p.m. Philadelphia (Eickhoff 5-9) at Arizona (Greinke 10-3), 6:40 p.m. Baltimore (Jimenez 4-7) at San Diego (Johnson 0-5), 7:10 p.m. Pittsburgh (Niese 6-5) at Seattle (Iwa- kuma 6-6), 7:10 p.m. Oakland (Graveman 3-6) at San Francis- co (Suarez 3-1), 7:15 p.m. MiLB NORTHWEST LEAGUE North Division W L Pct. GB Vancouver (Blue Jays) 7 4 .636 — Everett (Mariners) 7 4 .636 — Tri-City (Padres) 6 5 .545 1 Spokane (Rangers) 4 7 .364 3 South Division W L Pct. GB Eugene (Cubs) 8 3 .727 — Salem-Keizer (Giants) 6 5 .545 2 Boise (Rockies) 3 8 .273 5 Hillsboro (D-backs) 3 8 .273 5 ——— Monday’s Games Tri-City 7, Salem-Keizer 2 Everett 13, Boise 1 Vancouver 3, Hillsboro 0 Eugene 8, Spokane 2 Today’s Games Eugene at Boise, 6:15 p.m. Everett at Spokane, 6:30 p.m. Salem-Keizer at Hillsboro, 7:05 p.m. Vancouver at Tri-City, 7:15 p.m. Basketball WNBA EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB New York 10 5 .667 — Atlanta 8 6 .571 1½ Washington 8 8 .500 2½ Chicago 6 8 .429 3½ Indiana 6 9 .400 4 Connecticut 3 12 .200 7 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Los Angeles 13 1 .929 — Minnesota 13 2 .867 ½ Dallas 7 8 .467 6½ Phoenix 6 9 .400 7½ Seattle 5 9 .357 8 San Antonio 3 11 .214 10 ——— Monday’s Games No games scheduled Today’s Games Atlanta at Seattle, 10 p.m. Dallas at Los Angeles, 10 p.m. Wednesday’s Games San Antonio at Washington, 11:30 a.m. Indiana at Chicago, 12:30 p.m. New York at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Connecticut at Phoenix, 10 p.m. Tennis Wimbledon Results First Round At The All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club, London Purse: $38.4 million (Grand Slam) Surface: Grass-Outdoor Singles Men Marin Cilic (9), Croatia, def. Brian Baker, United States, 6-3, 7-5, 6-3. Ivo Karlovic, Croatia (23), def. Borna Coric, Croatia, 7-6 (8), 7-6 (7), 6-4. Pierre-Hugues Herbert, France, def. Philipp Kohlschreiber (21), Germany, 7-5, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. David Ferrer (13), Spain, def. Dudi Sela, Israel, 6-2, 6-1, 6-1. Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. James Ward, Britain, 6-0, 7-6 (3), 6-4. Denis Istomin, Uzbekistan, def. Kevin Anderson (20), South Africa, 4-6, 6-7 (13), 6-4, 7-6 (2), 6-3. Sam Querrey (28), United States, def. Lukas Rosol, Czech Republic, 6-7 (6), 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-2, 12-10. Gilles Simon (16), France, def. Janko Tipsarevic, Serbia, 4-6, 6-4, 7-5, 6-3. Kei Nishikori (5), Japan, def. Sam Groth, Australia, 6-4, 6-3, 7-5. Milos Raonic (6), Canada, def. Pablo Carreno Busta, Spain, 7-6 (4), 6-2, 6-4. David Gofin (11), Belgium, def. Alexan- der Ward, Britain, 6-2, 6-3, 6-2. Alexandr Dolgopolov (30), Ukraine, def. Evgeny Donskoy, Russia, 6-2, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (3). Jack Sock (27), United States, def. Ernests Gulbis, Latvia, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Roger Federer (3), Switzerland, def. Guido Pella, Argentina, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3), 6-3. Jeremy Chardy, France, def. Gael Monils (17), France, 6-7 (4), 6-0, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2. Andrey Kuznetsov, Russia, def. Pablo Cuevas (29), Uruguay, 6-3, 3-6, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4. Women Sam Stosur (14), Australia, def. Magda Linette, Poland, 7-5, 6-3. Daria Kasatkina (29), Russia, def. Victo- ria Duval, United States, 6-0, 7-5. Carina Witthoeft, Germany, def. Iri- na-Camelia Begu (25), Romania, 6-1, 6-4. Ekaterina Alexandrova, Russia, def. Ana Ivanovic (23), Serbia, 6-2, 7-5. Sara Errani (20), Italy, def. Patricia Maria Tig, Romania, 6-4, 6-4. Venus Williams (8), United States, def. Donna Vekic, Croatia, 7-6 (3), 6-4. Madison Keys (9), United States, def. Laura Siegemund, Germany, 6-3, 6-1. Lucie Safarova (28), Czech Republic, def. Bethanie Mattek-Sands, United States, 6-7 (7), 7-6 (3), 7-5. Carla Suarez Navarro (12), Spain, def. Zhang Shuai, China, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. Elina Svitolina (17), Ukraine, def. Naomi Broady, Britain, 6-2, 6-3. Simona Halep (5), Romania, def. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova, Slovakia, 6-4, 6-1. Garbine Muguruza (2), Spain, def. Camila Giorgi, Italy, 6-2, 5-7, 6-4. Kiki Bertens (26), Netherlands, def. Jelena Ostapenko, Latvia, 6-3, 6-2. Angelique Kerber (4), Germany, def. Laura Robson, Britain, 6-2, 6-2. Jelena Jankovic (22), Serbia, def. Ste- fanie Voegele, Switzerland, 6-2, 6-2. Karolina Pliskova (15), Czech Republic, def. Yanina Wickmayer, Belgium, 6-2, 0-6, 8-6. Motorsports NASCAR Sprint Cup Upcoming Schedule July 2 — Coke Zero 400, Daytona Beach, Fla. July 9 — Quaker State 400, Sparta, Ky. July 17 — New Hampshire 301, Loudon, N.H. July 24 — ‘Your Hero’s Name Here’ 400, Speedway, Ind. July 31 — Pennsylvania 400, Long Pond, Pa. Points Standings Through June 26 1. Kevin Harvick 562 2. Kurt Busch 527 3. Carl Edwards 510 4. Brad Keselowski 506 5. Joey Logano 493 6. Chase Elliott 473 7. Jimmie Johnson 469 8. Martin Truex Jr 452 9. Kyle Busch 452 10. Matt Kenseth 430
