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THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2016
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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
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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.
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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.
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