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SPORTS WEEKEND, JULY 16-17, 2016 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS HERMISTON PENDLETON Hermiston takes second at state Pitching leads Hodgen to wins Lake Oswego stays hot for 12-1 win East Oregonian GOLD HILL — The Hermiston all-stars ended their season with a second-place fi nish at the 9/10-year-old Little League Baseball State Tournament on Friday. For the third game in a row, it was Lake Oswego standing in Hermiston’s way after the teams had split their two previous meetings. But it was Lake Oswego that had the momentum coming off a 16-0 win on Thursday, and it carried that through the championship game for a 12-1 victory. Details of the game were not avail- able at press time. Baseball Hermiston had beaten Lake Oswego 11-8 in the semi- fi nals to reach the championship round without a loss, but was walking a thin line in each of the fi rst three rounds by outlasting Klamath Falls 11-8, and The Dalles 12-9. Hermiston had earned its spot in the state bracket by winning the District 3 championship 11-7 over Baker. Contributed photo/Hermiston Little League In this July 1, 2016 photo, Hermiston’s 9/10-year-old base- ball all stars pose with their championship banner at the District 3 Little League Tournament in Burns. Man Up On Main 11th Takin’ It To The Streets Don’t miss the action: SATURDAY Noon: Slam Dunk and 3-point contests SUNDAY 2:30 p.m.: High School Boys and Girls Championships 3 p.m.: Men’s Open Championship EO i le photo by Maegan Murray Basketball players ranging from early elementary school through adults will Take it to the Streets this weekend at the annual 3-on-3 tour- nament on Hermiston’s Main Street. This i le photo shows action from the 2014 event. Pendleton teams win three total at Seattle-area tournament East Oregonian SEATTLE — Hodgen Distributing rode the arms of Daniel Naughton and Wyatt Morris to a pair of wins on Friday to open play at the Battle of the Bats baseball tournament held at Seat- tle-area high schools. Naughton took the hill against NW Reign Black to open play in the 17U bracket and struck out 14 while allowing just two hits over six innings in a 4-1 win. Then Morris gave them another sterling start against City and carried a no-hitter through four innings of Hodgen’s 8-0 win. All of the runs in Game 1 were scored in the fourth inning, and NW Reign struck fi rst in the top of the inning with a two-out RBI single, but Naughton got a looking strikout for the third out. Hodgen answered in the bottom of the inning and started off with a Shaw Jerome single. Then Naughton reached on an error that also allowed Jerome to score, and Nick Bower (1 for 1) was hit by a pitch. Ryan Russell (1 for 2) then put Hodgen up for good with a bases-clearing double to make it 3-1, and pinch-runner Joe St. Pierre added the fi nal run when he beat the throw to the plate on a grounder to second by See BASEBALL/2B MLB Correa, Springer lead Astros past Mariners Houston wins fifth-straight over Seattle By TIM BOOTH Associated Press SEATTLE — Carlos Correa had a two-out, two-run double then scored from second base on a wild pitch during Houston’s fi ve-run fi fth inning, and the Astros opened the second half with a 7-3 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Friday night. Correa and his teammates picked up where they left off before the All-Star break, winning for the sixth time in eight games and their fi fth straight over the Mariners. Correa’s two-out double off Seattle starter James Paxton (2-4) gave the Astros a 5-0 lead and he scampered Houston Seattle 7 3 home from second moments later when Paxton’s third wild pitch of the inning ricocheted off catcher Chris Iannetta over to the third base dugout. George Springer scored earlier in the inning on a wild pitch. Springer led off the game with his 20th home run of the season and Marwin Gonzalez added a solo shot in the seventh inning. The Astros’ big inning offset a shaky performance from starter Doug Fister, who struggled to get through fi ve innings. Fister (9-6) retired 12 of the fi rst 14 batters, but gave back three runs after being staked to a 6-0 lead, two scoring on Shawn O’Malley’s double in the fi fth. After walking Seth Smith, Fister broke Robinson Cano’s bat on a weak grounder back to the mound and escaped the inning. Houston’s bullpen was nearly perfect the rest of the way throwing four shutout innings. While Correa and Springer had the big hits, the Astros’ rally in the fi fth started with consecutive doubles by Evan Gattis and Jake Marisnick. Springer scored on the second of Paxton’s three wild pitches in the inning and Correa missed a three-run homer by just a few feet doubling off the wall in left-center fi eld. He showed off his speed moments later scoring from second on Paxton’s fi nal wild pitch of the inning. Springer’s home run was his seventh career long ball in 18 games at Safeco Field, and the 20 homers matched the career-high he set in 2014. Seattle lost shortstop Ketel Marte to a sprained right ankle in the third inning when he was thrown out sliding into third base trying to extend a double into a triple. The team said he was day-to-day. TRAINER’S ROOM: Mariners: RHP Felix Hernandez made his second rehab start in the minors. Pitching for Triple-A Tacoma, Hernandez threw 5 2/3 innings, giving up one run and fi ve hits. He is slated to start for Seattle on July 20 against the White Sox. UP NEXT Astros: Lance McCullers (4-3) lasted just four innings last week against Oakland. Mariners: Hisashi Iwakuma (9-6) goes for his 10th win. AP Photo/Ted S. Warren Seattle Mariners left i elder Seth Smith catches a fl y ball hit by Houston Astros’ Luis Valbuena during the second inning of a baseball game Friday, July 15, 2016, in Seattle. Sports shorts Johnson earns pole for Sunday’s race at New Hampshire LOUDON, N.H. (AP) Jimmie Johnson gave Hendrick Motorsports a needed bright spot, turning a lap of 133.971 mph FACES Friday at New Hampshire to win his fi rst pole of the season. Johnson, a two-time race winner this season, could use a boost following a fi ve-race slump where he failed to fi nish better than 13th. He has crashed out of his last two races, fi nishing 35th at Johnson Daytona and 32nd at Kentucky Hendrick suffered a blow this week when Dale Earnhardt Jr. dropped out of Sunday’s race because of concussion symptoms. Alex Bowman, in his fi rst Sprint Cup start this season, qualifi ed 20th for Earnhardt. Kyle Busch was second, followed by Martin Truex Jr., Kurt Busch and Denny Hamlin. “Unfortunately, this stopped being about air pressure a long time ago. This entire process has indelibly taken a toll on our organization, our fans and most importantly, Tom Brady.“ — Robert Kraft New England Patriots owner in a statement released in reaction to Brady’s decision to stand with the de- cision of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and not take his case against the NFL with the U.S. Supreme Court. Brady’s four-game suspension for his role in the “Defl ategate” scandal will be served at the beginning of the upcoming season. Lesnar notifi ed of potential violation of UFC doping policy (AP) — Former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar has been notifi ed of a potential violation of the promotion’s anti- doping policy from an out-of-competition drug test administered June 28. Lesnar is among the most popular athletes in both mixed martial arts and professional wrestling. He beat Mark Hunt by decision at UFC 200 in Las Vegas last weekend, handily winning his fi rst MMA fi ght in nearly fi ve years. “We will get to the bottom of this,” Lesnar said Friday in a statement provided exclusively to The Associated Press. The AP also obtained copies of three letters from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency to Lesnar, informing the fi ghter that he had passed tests on three samples submitted over a nine-day period in mid-June, mere days before the sample with the potential violation was collected. THIS DATE IN SPORTS 1920 — Babe Ruth breaks his own season record of 29 homers with his 30th, and the New York Yankees beat the St. Louis Browns, 5-2. Ruth ends the season with 54. 1993 — Nick Faldo ties the best single round in 122 years of the British Open with a course-record 63 to give him a one-stroke lead after the second round. 2012 — Roger Federer surpasses Pete Sampras to set the record for the most weeks at No. 1 in the ATP rankings. It marks his 287th week at No. 1, one more than Sampras. Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com
