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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.”
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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
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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.
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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.
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Contact Eric Singer at
esinger@eastoregonian.
com or (541) 966-0839.
Follow him on Twitter @
ByEricSinger.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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