SPORTS
WEEKEND, JULY 9-10, 2016
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PENDLETON
Open going strong at 50
Pendle-
ton Swim
Association
swimmer
Melinda
Cramp, 12,
center in the
green cap,
dives off the
blocks while
compet-
ing in the
400-meter
freestyle
on Friday in
Pendleton.
MLB
Mariners
snap skid
Seattle beats Royals
on wild pitch
By ANDREW HAMMOND
Associated Press
Staff photo by
E.J. Harris
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —
Hisashi Iwakuma pitched into the
seventh inning, Seattle scored the
go-ahead runs on Yordano Ventu-
ra’s wild pitch and the Mariners
held on to beat the Kansas City
Royals 3-2 on Friday night.
Iwakuma
(9-6)
allowed
one run, fi ve
hits and three
Seattle
walks over 6 2/3
innings, striking
out six. He kept
the Royals off
balance
with
his usual herky-
Kansas City jerky
delivery,
the only run he
allowed coming
on Cheslor Cuth-
bert’s base hit in the fourth inning.
Steve Cishek, who blew the
save in the series opener, allowed
Salvador Perez’s homer in the
ninth inning before fi nishing off
the inning. It was his 21st save of
the season.
Ventura (6-6) was nearly as
stingy, giving up only a sacrifi ce
fl y to Ketel Marte in the fi fth,
before things unraveled for him
after Seth Smith’s single and
Robinson Cano’s double in the
sixth inning.
Nelson Cruz stepped to the
plate and nearly gave Seattle a
three-run homer, sending a pitch
3
2
Pendleton swim meet attracts teams from around northwest
Former
Pendleton
coach
Donna
Collins
swam in
the very
fi rst PSA
swim
meet fi fty
years ago
in 1966.
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
Fourteen teams and more than
400 swimmers can’t be wrong.
Far from over the hill, the
Pendleton Open’s 50th birthday
is the place to be this weekend
for youth swimmers in the Pacifi c
Northwest.
Teams from all corners of the
region will compete throughout the
weekend as athletes try for personal
bests in Pendleton’s Olympic-size
pool.
Former Pendleton Swim Asso-
ciation coach and swimmer Donna
Collins remembers when that
wasn’t the case.
She competed in the fi rst Pend-
Staff photo by
E.J. Harris
leton Open in 1966. It was just
two teams, and the Pendleton Sea
Horses beat La Grande 233-218.
“It’s amazing what it’s grown
into,” she said during Friday’s
heats in the 400-meter freestyle.
“It’s been fun to watch.”
Collins said she wasn’t sure
how she did in that fi rst meet — “I
probably drowned,” she said with a
laugh — but a non-bylined article
in the June 24, 1966 edition of
the East Oregonian reveals that a
14-year-old Collins, then Fossatti,
swam the second leg for the
200-meter freestyle team that won
its race with a time of 2:22.7.
That article’s lone description
of the event: “The weather wasn’t
exactly agreeable but in spite of
that the meet went through in
excellent fashion.”
From that humble beginning, it
didn’t take long for the Pendleton
Open to gain in popularity. A
clipping from 1969 showed it had
already grown to include six teams.
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PENDLETON
Buckaroo Hall of Fame welcomes latest class
Pendleton football
enshrines eight at
Friday night ceremony
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
During Toby Moore’s three-
year tenure on the varsity roster,
he was one of the lone bright spots
on the football fi eld for Pendleton
Buckaroo fans to watch.
It was a transitional period for
the Buckaroos, as the team battled
through three head coaches in three
years. After lettering as a sopho-
more, Moore was expected to be
the starting quarterback in 1987
until a broken leg in the second
game brought an end to his junior
season. But as a senior Moore
came back and was electric on
the fi eld as both a quarterback and
running back, passing for over 800
yards while rushing for 400 more
yards on a team that fi nished with a
second-straight 2-7 record.
“Unfortunately were very
Staff photo by Eric Singer
Kelly Dietz was one of eight new inductees into the Buckaroo
Football Hall of Fame at the Linebacker Club’s induction ceremo-
ny and banquet on Friday at the Pendleton Convention Center.
small,” Moore recalled. “I mean at
quarterback I was one of the bigger
guys on the team compared to my
linemen so there was just not much
we could do, especially back then
when it was just AAA football and
that was the biggest class, going
against the big teams.”
But Moore’s contributions
from that senior season as well as
his leadership qualities and work
ethic brought him to the Pendleton
Convention Center on Friday night
as he joined Mike Holeman, Jay
Brunner, Jim Christensen, Kelly
Dietz, the Temple Family, Ron
Schuening and the 1965-1966
Buckaroos team as the latest
inductees in the Buckaroo Football
Hall of Fame.
“It’s a great honor,” Moore said.
“I’ve fi gured out now I’ve lived in
14 different cities being in the mili-
tary and I couldn’t be more happy
to have grown up in a town like
Pendleton. It’s great seeing some
of the older coaches that I had ...
I’m very pleased and very happy
to not only talk about old-school
things but just to see these people
again.”
Since graduating from Pend-
leton in 1989, Moore has carved
out a successful career in the
military. He enlisted in the United
States Navy in 1990 and ended
up earning an appointment to the
Naval Academy and graduated
in 1996 with a degree in Marine
Engineering before jumping over
to the Marine Corps as an enlisted
offi cer in Marine Aviation.
Since that time, Moore has
enjoyed a successful military
career that saw him serve several
tours in the Middle East as well as
serve as the Commanding Offi cer
of the Tomcats Attack Squadron.
Moore is currently stationed in
Newport, Rhode Island where he is
attending the Naval War College,
the latest step in the career ladder
he never envisioned.
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US Track & Field Trials
Rain, tears
and teens
High-schoolers turn
heads on soggy day
at Hayward Field
By EDDIE PELLS
Associated Press
EUGENE — The defending
Olympic pole vault champion
warmed up, then cooled down,
then ran through the whole
process again, as the driving rain
pelted the fi eld Friday at U.S.
Olympic Trials.
“The more time you have to
think, the more you’re like, ‘Wow.
This is how bad things happen,”
Jenn Suhr said.
Suhr escaped the badness.
Several other big-name athletes
weren’t as lucky on a rain-drenched
afternoon at Hayward Field.
On a day that saw LaShawn
Merritt lower his world-best mark
at 200 meters to 19.74 seconds — in
a semifi nal heat, no less — and two
high-school kids, Michael Norman
and Noah Lyles, earn spots in the
fi nal, there was just as much buzz
about those whose chances got
washed away in the rain.
First among them was hurdler
Dawn Harper-Nelson, whose run
at a third Olympic medal came to
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Sports shorts
Harvick takes pole in Kentucky
SPARTA, Ky. (AP) — Storms washed out
qualifying at Kentucky Speedway on Friday,
putting Kevin Harvick on the pole for Saturday
night’s Sprint Cup Series race based on owner
points.
FACES Severe weather moved over the
track near midday and shortened
practice to around 30 minutes. The
hope was for weather to hold off
for track drying and allow practice
session to be concluded by late
afternoon.
In the meantime, Harvick will
Harvick
lead the fi eld to green in the No. 4
Chevy alongside Brad Keselowski in the No. 2.
The rest of the top 10: Kurt Busch (Toyota);
Joey Logano (Ford); Joe Gibbs Racing team-
mates Carl Edwards and Kyle Busch in Toyotas;
Martin Truex Jr. (Toyota); rookie Chase Elliott
(Chevy); Jimmie Johnson (Chevy) and Denny
Hamlin (Toyota).
“If the system doesn’t
change we will continue
to turn on the TVs and
see the same thing. We
have to put pressure on
the people in charge in
order to get this thing
we call JUSTICE right. A
march doesn’t work. We
tried that.“
— Carmelo Anthony
New York Knicks star posted the
above statement on his public
Instagram account on Friday in
wake of the tragic shooting in
Dallas that left fi ve law enforce-
ment offi cers dead on Thursday.
Pendleton fi nishes 10th in
Oregonian Cup standings
PENDLETON — The Pendleton School
District earned a top-10 fi nish in the 2015-2016
Oregonian Cup standings, placing 10th among
5A schools with 2,145 points.
The Oregonian Cup is handed
out by the OSAA as it recognizes
overall school excellence in
academics, activities, athletics,
and sportsmanship.
Points for the Cup are earned based on
schools participation and results in OSAA
state championships and for Top 10 fi nishes in
the Academic All-State program. Teams and
individuals can earn points, plus a sportsman-
ship component is also included.
Summit earned the fi rst place prize for
the fourth time in fi ve years in 5A with 4,875
points, while Hermiston fi nished 14th with
1,970 points.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1966 — Jack Nicklaus
wins the British Open at
Muirfi eld to join Gene
Sarazen, Ben Hogan and
Gary Player as the only men
to win the four majors.
2009 — Michael Phelps
breaks the world record in
the 100-meter butterfl y at the
U.S. national championships
in Indianapolis. Phelps
swims the two-lap fi nal in
50.22 seconds, lowering Ian
Crocker’s mark of 50.40 set
at the 2005 championships.
2011 — Derek Jeter
homers for his 3,000th hit,
the fi rst New York Yankees
player to reach the mark.
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