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Neal, South stuff North in Schwab Bowl
Hermiston grad named
Lineman of the Game
after big second half
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
Defensive end Tre Neal provided
big stops on back-to-back drives in the
fourth quarter, and his teammates took
care of the rest as the South came from
behind for a 16-14 win over the North on
Saturday in the 2016 Les Schwab Tires
Bowl at Hillsboro Stadium.
Neal, a recent Hermiston High grad-
uate who will attend and play football
at Eastern Washington University in the
fall, was named Lineman of the Game
for the South after fi nishing with seven
Hermis-
ton’s Tre
Neal holds
his award
for Line-
man of the
Game for
the South
Team after
the South
beat the
North 16-
14 in the
annual Les
Schwab
Tires Bowl
Game on
Saturday,
June 25,
2016 in
Hillsboro.
“It was a great honor. There was a lot of
great linemen there from all over Oregon.”
— Tre Neal
Hermiston High graduate on being named Lineman of the Game for the South
tackles (two solo) and 2.5 tackles for loss.
“It was a great honor,” he said. “There
was a lot of great linemen there from all
over Oregon.”
Neal was held without a sack, but
twice got into the backfi eld to drag
down North running back King Weath-
erly (Beaverton) to thwart the North’s
attempts to seal the win in the fourth
quarter.
“That’s usually how I go out,” Neal
said of a productive second half. “I do
about half as good in the fi rst half, I’m
more of a second-half player.
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“I feel like I did, for not practicing
or having training since the end of the
season, I feel like did OK.”
The North took a 14-10 lead on a
26-yard pass to start the fourth quarter,
but saw its fi rst full drive of the quarter
end after Neal and linebacker Lukas
Adams (Sherwood) met Weatherly in
the backfi eld for a loss of two on third-
and-one.
The North was forced to punt, and
the South responded with a seven-play,
three-minute drive that ended with a
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BURNS
—
The
Pendleton
11/12-year-old all-stars continued to tear
through the consolation bracket at the
Little League District 3 baseball tourna-
ment with a 17-0 win over Milton-Free-
water on Wednesday.
The win put Pendleton into the
championship round, where it will have
to win twice in order to advance to the
state tournament. Milton-Freewater was
eliminated.
Payton Lambert started on the mound
for Pendleton and got the win after
throwing 2 2/3 innings scoreless innings
and allowing two hits. He struck out two
and walked two.
Tucker Pace and Kobe Fell combined
for 3 1/3 innings of hitless relief, and
Pendleton pounded out 15 hits.
Pittsburgh Pirates’ Sean Rodriguez scores as Seattle Mariners catcher Steve Clevenger, right, waits for the throw and um-
pire Mark Carlson watches during the second inning of a baseball game Wednesday, June 29, 2016, in Seattle.
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Olympic Trials
After overcoming injuries, Bromell doesn’t fear Bolt
US track and
field team to be
decided in Eugene
By PAT GRAHAM
Associated Press
EUGENE — Trayvon
Bromell swore off sprinting
— all sports, really — after
taking his third ride to the
hospital in as many years.
Among his injuries:
— Severely injured left
knee on a back fl ip gone
wrong in eighth grade.
— Damaged right knee
while grabbing a rebound
during a basketball tourna-
ment in ninth grade.
— Cracked hip in a
100-meter race as a sopho-
more.
On his way to the doctor
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• At Hayward Field, Eugene
• Television coverage begins Friday at
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after hurting his hip, he told
his mom, “Let’s just stop
here before I can’t walk
anymore.”
Time healed those wounds
and Bromell has bounced
back to become one of the
top American sprinters. The
20-year-old may even be
the one to give Usain Bolt a
run for the gold medal at the
Rio de Janeiro Games if he
makes the 100-meter team
at Olympic Trials this week.
It won’t be automatic with
Justin Gatlin, Tyson Gay and
Mike Rodgers around, along
with the fact that Bromell has
been dealing with a tender
Achilles in the lead-up to
trials.
“My biggest dream was
to go to the Olympics, but I
never knew how I was going
to be there,” said Bromell,
who kicks off his quest to
reach Rio with a 100-meter
heat Saturday and is entered
in the 200. “If I could go as
a spectator, just to sit and
watch, my dream would have
come true. But to actually be
there and compete? I just
might lose my mind.”
At 5-foot-9, 156 pounds,
nobody will confuse Bromell
with Bolt, who is 6-5, 205.
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AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, FIle
In this March 18, 2016, fi le photo, United States’ Trayvon Bromell, left, pulls away
from competitors to place fi rst in a heat of the men’s 60-meter sprint during the
World Indoor Athletics Championships in Portland, Ore.
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Colts extend Luck through 2021
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Andrew Luck has
signed the richest contract in NFL history, a deal
worth up to $140 million with the Indianapolis
Colts that covers the next six seasons through 2021.
According to NFL.com, the
FACES life of Luck’s contract includes
$87 million guaranteed for
injury. There are many different
ways to determine a deal’s
value, but Luck’s has topped
recent quarterback contracts for
Baltimore’s Joe Flacco and Green
Bay’s Aaron Rodgers. It also gives
Luck
the 26-year-old Luck another
chance to cash in with a deal around age 32.
“I am thrilled and excited to continue with
this great organization,” Luck said in a statement
released by the Colts. “I am thankful to the Irsay
family and Mr. Irsay for providing me with
this great opportunity and the trust that they’ve
shown in me. I can’t wait for the season to start.”
“I’m disappointed — I’m
gutted. It’s the biggest
sporting event in the
world that I’m missing
out on. I can’t be part of
it, and it’s upsetting.“
— Sally Pearson
Australian hurdler and two-time
Olympic 100-meter hurdles
medalist. Pearson had to withdraw
from the upcoming Rio de Janiero
games due to a training injury that
is not healing as expected. Pear-
son won gold in London in 2012
and silver in Beijing in 2008.
Blazers restrict three players
PORTLAND (AP) — The Portland Trail
Blazers have extended qualifying offers to
guard Allen Crabbe and forwards Myers
Leonard and Maurice Harkless.
The qualifying offers,
announced Wednesday before
the June 30 deadline, make
all three restricted free agents.
Portland can match any offer
that teams extend to the players.
Crabbe averaged a career-high 10.3 points,
2.7 rebounds and 1.2 assists last season with
the Blazers, his third with the league.
Harkless, a four-year NBA veteran,
averaged 6.4 points and 3.6 rebounds in
18.7 minutes for Portland, with 14 starts for
Portland last season.
Leonard, the 11th overall pick in the 2012
draft by the Blazers, averaged a career-high
8.4 points and 5.1 rebounds last season. He
was also a perimeter threat, with 86 3-pointers.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1991 — Wimbledon
breaks 114 years of tradition
by playing on the middle
Sunday of the tournament
forced by a backlog of
matches caused by rain
earlier in the week.
1994 — Tonya Harding is
stripped of her national title
and banned for life from the
U.S. Figure Skating Associa-
tion because of her role in an
attack on Nancy Kerrigan.
2010 — Six-time cham-
pion Roger Federer loses
to Tomas Berdych in the
quarterfi nals of Wimbledon.
It’s the fi rst time since 2002
that Federer fails to reach the
fi nal.
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