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FRIDAY, JULY 1, 2016
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1B
PENDLETON
Little League
La Grande beats Pendleton for title Greb
11/12 all-stars in big
hole after fi rst inning
East Oregonian
BURNS — The Pendleton
11/12-year-old all-star baseball team
saw its season come to an end in the
District 3 championship game as La
Grande pounded out 13 runs and 12
hits to earn the title with a 13-4 win
on Thursday night.
La Grande put Pendleton in a
deep hole in the bottom of the fi rst
inning by scoring six runs on starting
pitcher Aiden Gunter for the 6-0
lead. Gunter lasted just 0.2 innings
in the game, as Jack Monkman
came on in relief in the fi rst inning,
but did not fare much better.
Pendleton put together its four
runs in the second and third innings
as they tried to claw their way back
into the game, however Monkman
could not keep the La Grande bats
quiet. After getting the lead down to
8-4 after three innings, La Granded
tagged Monkman for fi ve runs in the
fourth and fi fth innings to extend
their lead to the fi nal score of 13-4.
See LITTLE LEAGUE/2B
STANFIELD
Johnson bids adieu to Tigers
Championship
coach takes dream
job in hometown
Pendleton golfer
to face 6A state
champion
East Oregonian
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
Wednesday was a bittersweet day
for Bryan Johnson.
After 10 years of serving as an
educator and baseball coach at Stan-
fi eld Secondary School, Johnson
spent his fi nal day at the school
packing the remaining items from
his offi ce. He is moving back to his
hometown of Ephrata, Washington
to serve as the athletic director at
Ephrata High School — the alma
mater for he and his wife Katie —
and his fi nal day at Stanfi eld capped
what has been a long several months.
“It’s been an emotional spring,”
Johnson said on Wednesday. “I’m
happy about getting a new job and
having success with baseball, but
we’re sad to be leaving because
we’ve established a lot of great rela-
tionships with great students, staff,
and community members.”
It was a very tough decision
to leave the Stanfi eld school and
the Eastern Oregon community,
Johnson said, but the pull to head
back home with a job he called a
dream was too good to pass up.
“It wasn’t a snap decision by any
means,” Johnson said. “Ultimately,
Ephrata was a place we wanted to
get back to, and having both sets of
parents there and a job that’s the best
fi t possible for (myself) was what
sold it.
“I wish I could have waited a year
(with the players we have coming
back) but the timing was bad.”
The 35-year-old Johnson served
makes
fi nals in
match
play
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Stanfi eld principal and baseball coach Bryan Johnson is taking a job as athletic director at his home-
town high school in Ephrata, Wash.
“The wins are nice and state titles are great, but hopefully
they don’t just remember me as a guy that won a lot of
baseball games.”
— Bryan Johnson
Former Stanfi eld baseball coach who led the team to 201 wins and two state titles in 10 seasons.
as the Athletic Director at Stanfi eld
from 2007-2012 before moving into
his position as Secondary School
principal. He developed a passion
for the position over that period of
time, and he knew it was something
we wanted to pursue full-time in the
future.
He will have to put a hold on
his high school coaching career
as his administrative contract bars
him from coaching at that level
in Ephrata. But Johnson said he’s
happy to have a little bit of a break
from the everyday grind of coaching.
“I’m looking forward to a little
more narrow focus,” he said.
See JOHNSON/2B
Haley Greb has been
unfl appable this week at the
86th Bob Norquist Oregon
Junior Amateur, and punched
her ticket to the match-play
fi nals with another dominant
win on Thursday at Willa-
mette Valley Country Club in
Canby.
Greb, who will be a senior
at Pendleton High in the fall,
defeated Camille Dozois of
L a k e
Oswego
5-and-4
in the
semifi-
nals.
That
followed
a
7-and-6
win over
Greb
Olivia
L o b e rg
of Bend in the quarterfi nals
on Wednesday, and a 6-and-5
victory over Jessica Ponce of
Portland to open match play.
Greb’s opponent in the
championship will be Ellie
Slama of Salem, the 2016
OSAA 6A girls state cham-
pion. Slama edged Madalyn
Ardueser of Eugene 1-up in
her semifi nal match.
The 16-player match-
play bracket was seeded
with a round of stroke play
on Monday, and Greb was
third with a two-over par 74.
Slama earned the No. 1 seed
with a 70.
The championship round
begins today at 10:40 a.m.
MLB
College World Series
Walker tames Orioles
Coastal Carolina wins national championship
Smith homers in Mariners win
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Taijuan Walker held the powerful
Orioles to just four hits over 6 1/3 innings, Seth Smith
hit a two-run home run and the Seattle Mariners beat
Baltimore 5-3 on Thursday night.
Walker (4-6) gave up a solo home
run to Hyun Soo Kim in the seventh
but otherwise did not allow a runner
Baltimore
past fi rst base. He struck out fi ve and
walked no one.
With Kim’s homer, the Orioles
set the major league record for most
home runs in June with 56. The 1996
Oakland A’s had held the record of
Seattle
55.
Chris Tillman (10-2) took the
loss, ending his nine-game winning
streak. He pitched 4 2/3 innings,
his second shortest outing in 17 starts this season,
and gave up four runs on six hits, walking three and
See MARINERS/2B
3
5
Cunningham closes
out Arizona with
runners on base
By ERIC OLSON
Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. — Coastal
Carolina coach Gary Gilmore
often said he just wanted his
team to reach the College
World Series. Until this week,
he never imagined the Chan-
ticleers would do so much
more.
They’re heading back to
Conway, South Carolina,
with the school’s fi rst national
championship in any sport.
Coastal Carolina capital-
ized on two errors on the same
play for four unearned runs
AP Photo/Nati Harnik
Coastal Carolina players celebrate their 4-3 victory over
Arizona to win the championship after Game 3 of the
NCAA College World Series baseball fi nals in Omaha,
Neb., Thursday, June 30, 2016.
in the sixth inning, and the
Chanticleers defeated Arizona
4-3 in the deciding Game 3
of the College World Series
fi nals on Thursday.
Coastal Carolina (55-18)
Coastal Carolina
Arizona
4
3
became the fi rst team since
Minnesota in 1956 to win the
title in its fi rst CWS appear-
ance. Arizona (49-24) was
trying for its second national
title since 2012.
“We’re not the most
talented team in America.
We’re just the national cham-
pion,” Gilmore said. “That’s
all that matters.”
Andrew Beckwith (15-1),
the national leader in wins,
went 5 2/3 innings after
pitching two complete games
and picked up his third victory
of the CWS. He was named
See CWS/2B
Sports shorts
McGirt goes low in Ohio, leads
after fi rst round at Firestone
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Golf in Ohio must
bring out the best in William McGirt.
One month after his fi rst PGA Tour
victory at the Memorial, McGirt
FACES looked just as good two hours
up the road at the Bridgestone
Invitational. In his World Golf
Championship debut, he opened
with six birdies and fi nished with
a 45-foot par for a 6-under 64
and a three-shot lead.
An Ohio sweep?
McGirt
That’s only happened four times,
and McGirt made a strong guess at the answer.
“Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods
and Tiger Woods?” he said. “That would be
pretty special company.”
He left out Greg Norman in 1995
(Memorial and World Series of Golf), no less
a select group.
“I didn’t let Tony
(Stewart) win. … I’ve not
been that competitive
on road courses. I
didn’t know the proper
defensive move going
into the last corner.“
— Denny Hamlin
NASCAR driver reiterating that
the result in the Sprint Cup Series
race at Sonoma Raceway on
Sunday was due to a mistake.
Hamlin passes Stewart on the
fi nal lap, but took the fi nal turn
too wide, which allowed Stewart
to pass on the inside and end his
84-race winless streak.
Cleveland matches franchise
record with 13th-straight win
TORONTO (AP) — Carlos Carrasco
struck out a season-high 14, Jason Kipnis
and Rajai Davis hit solo home runs and the
Cleveland Indians matched a
franchise record by winning their
13th consecutive game Thursday
night, beating the Toronto Blue
Jays 4-1.
Cleveland’s streak is the
longest by any team this season,
and the longest for the Indians since winning
13 straight in 1951. Cleveland also won 13 in
a row in 1942.
Indians starting pitchers are 10-0 during
the streak, and Cleveland has outscored its
opponents 80-26.
Coming off a four-hit shutout victory at
Detroit, Carrasco (4-2) allowed one run and
three hits in 7 1/3 innings to win back-to-back
starts for the fi rst time since April 13 and 19.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1859 — Amherst defeats
Williams 73-32 in the fi rst
intercollegiate
baseball
game. The game is played
by Massachusetts Rules and
Amherst wins by reaching
the pre-established score of
65 runs.
1995 — The NBA locks
out its players at 12:01 a.m.,
the fi rst work stoppage in
league history.
2012 — Tiger Woods
wins the AT&T National at
Congressional in Bethesda,
Md. for the 74th win of his
career. That moves him past
Jack Nicklaus into second
place on the tour list, eight
short of Sam Snead.
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