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SPORTS THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2016 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS Prep Softball Little League Softball Roe, Morrison picked as All-Americans Oregon Pendleton, Pilot Rock stars add to their trophy cases East Oregonian The awards and recognition continue to roll in for Pendleton star Alexis Morrison and Pilot Rock star Bekah Roe Morrison and Roe were recently named as all-american honorees by the prep sports website MaxPreps, with Morrison earning fi rst team honors in the Medium Schools division and Roe earning second team honors in the Small Schools. 12 doubles to There were go with 50 runs four total scored and 33 Oregonians RBI. She will be named over playing softball the two divi- at Portland sions, with State University the other two starting this fall. being Marist’s Roe, who just Lauren Burke Roe completed her and Dayton’s Morrison junior season Kylie Hill. Morrison, a recent graduate at Pilot Rock, took Class 2A/1A of Pendleton, helped her Buck- by storm in 2016. She was an aroo team to a dominant regular intricate part of the Rockets season where they captured the fi repower on offense and defense, Columbia River Conference and helped lead the Rockets league title and advanced into the to their second-straight state 5A state semifi nals before losing championship and later wrapped to the eventual state champion up both district and state Player Churchill. Morrison hit .512 on of the Year honors. She led Pilot the season with 10 home runs and Rock with a .593 batting average and a .632 on-base percentage and smacked seven home runs with 51 RBI. Roe also turned in a whopping 1.713 OPS with 43 runs scored and 24 stolen bases. The Small School Player of the Year was Nicky Dawson out of Parkview Baptist in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and the Medium Schools Player of the Year was Ashlee Swindle of Curry in Jasper, Alabama. According to the MaxPreps site, the small school list is compiled of the top athletes from schools that play in state divisions where enrollment is less than 1,000 students and the medium school is schools of 1,000 to 2,000 students. ousted with loss to Montana Team musters just four hits in tournament fi nale East Oregonian Staff photo by E.J. Harris Zack Brown of Red Bluff, Calif., rides Girl Crush for 83-points in bareback riding at the Chief Joseph Days Rodeo on Wednesday in Joseph. Kick the dust up SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — The Pendleton 11/12-year-old softball all-stars’ incredible run deep into the postseason has come to a disappointing end. Pendleton, playing as Team Oregon at the Little League Softball West Regional tournament, was bested by Montana 8-0 in the single elimination quarterfinals on Wednesday morning to send Oregon packing. Oregon’s offense could not get much of anything going at the plate against Montana pitcher Grace Hardy, as the team mustered just four hits in six innings. Hardy also struck out nine Oregon batters. Oregon had a scoring chance from the get-go in the fi rst inning as Josie Wilson, Maria Lilenthal and Delaney Duchek all reached base to start the game with no outs. However, they could not cash in as back-to-back infi eld groundouts and a pop fl y out ended the inning and left Oregon with no runs on the board. Montana scored one run in the top of the second inning and never looked back, scoring in each of the next three innings to jump into its 8-0 lead. Oregon ends the West Regional tournament with a 3-2 overall record, one game better than the last time a team from Pendleton represented the state in 2014. MLB Mariners pummeled by Pirates to fi nish with series split Pittsburgh’s Cole tosses three-hit complete game By JOHN PERROTTO Associated Press PITTSBURGH — Gerrit Cole never obsessed about pitching a complete game, but was happy to get his fi rst one. Cole pitched a three- hitter and slumping Andrew McCutchen had a three-run home run among his three hits as the Pittsburgh Pirates rolled to a 10-1 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday night. “It was good, a really good feeling,” Cole said. Seattle Pittsburgh 1 10 “You try to do it every time out but it’s not something I had been dwelling on. There are lot of variables that can leak into any start and throw you astray, so you just focus on the things you can control like your delivery and making quality pitches.” Making the 88th start of his four-year career, Cole (6-6) struck six and walked one while winning for the fi rst time since May 20. He had gone six starts without a victory while also spending nearly fi ve weeks on the disabled list with strained right triceps from June 11-July 16. Cole threw 94 pitches, 70 for strikes, against a Mari- ners’ lineup stacked with seven left-handed hitters and a switch-hitter while becoming the fi rst Pirates pitcher to complete a game with fewer than 100 pitches since Francisco Liriano, who also needed just 94 at St. Louis on Aug. 14, 2013. “He put his foot down and pitched,” Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. “That’s as effi cient as I’ve seen him since he’s been here. Twenty pitches the fi rst inning, 74 for the other eight. Really good outing.” McCutchen’s three-run blast off David Rollins came in the eighth inning and capped the scoring. His 15th home run of the season pushed the nine-year veter- an’s career total to 166, tying AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Gerrit Cole delivers during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners in Pittsburgh, Wednesday, July 27, 2016. See MARINERS/2B Sports shorts Straily shines, leads Reds to win SAN FRANCISCO — Dan Straily allowed three hits and one run in 7 2/3 innings to lead the Cincinnati Reds to a 2-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday. Straily (6-6) struck out fi ve FACES Giants in his longest outing of the season, and lowered his ERA back under the four-run threshold to 3.84. The only run he allowed was a second-inning home run to Giants’ third baseman Conor Gillaspie. The win also improved Straily Straily to 2-0 against San Francisco’s ace starter Madison Bumgarner. “Defi nitely, you take pride in battling against the best in baseball,” Straily said to the Associated Press. “It’s no different than any other game, but when it happens on a day like today it makes it a little more special.” “It’s important that we take care of our entire extended NBA family, and I’m proud of my fellow players for taking this unprecedented step to ensure the health and well-being of our predecessors.“ — Chris Paul Los Angeles Clippers guard and NBA Players Association president speaking after the NBAPA voted unanimously to fund health insurance for all retired NBA players with at least three years of service time. Mets closer Familia’s save streak snapped at 52 games NEW YORK (AP) — Yadier Molina and pinch-hitter Kolten Wong each stroked an RBI double in the ninth inning, and the St. Louis Cardinals ended Jeurys Familia’s FACES streak of 52 straight saves in rallying past the New York Mets 5-4 on Wednesday night. Familia’s franchise-record saves streak was the third-longest in major league history behind Tom Gordon (54) and Eric Gagne (84). Familia Yoenis Cespedes hit a go-ahead homer off Adam Wainwright to cap a three-run comeback in the seventh that gave the Mets a 4-3 lead. But then Familia, who hadn’t blown a regular-season save opportunity since July 30 last year, fi nally faltered. THIS DATE IN SPORTS 1984 — The Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles with a record 140 nations competing. The Soviet Union and 13 Communist allies boycott the Games. 1994 — On the night baseball players set an Aug. 12 strike date, Kenny Rogers of the Texas Rangers pitches a perfect game for a 4-0 victory over California. 2011 — Ryan Lochte sets a new world record in the 200-meter IM, edging Michael Phelps at the world championships at Shanghai. Lochte touches the wall in 1:54.00. Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com