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Prep Volleyball
New coaches ready to lead Bulldogs, Grizzlies
New
Hermis-
ton head
volleyball
coach
takes
down
some
stats
on her
players
during
practice
Tuesday
in Herm-
iston.
Fleming, Anderson
preparing for fi rst
year as head coaches
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
As the dreaded dog days of August crawl by,
many area teams are in the heart of fall training
camps as the start of the season creeps closer.
In volleyball, a few area schools are not
only preparing for the season, but also getting
acclimated to new head coaches and assistants
and the cultures that they bring with them.
One of those is the Hermiston Bulldogs and
Staff photo by
E.J. Harris
fi rst-year coach Elise Fleming who is preparing
for her fi rst season as a varsity head coach.
Fleming, a 25-year-old Kennewick, Washington
native, comes to Hermiston after spending last
season as the freshman volleyball coach at her
alma mater, Kamiakin High School in Kenne-
wick. Fleming was a four-year volleyball player
at Kamiakin from 2005-08, and in her senior
season she helped her team to a state runner-up
fi nish in the 4A division.
After high school Fleming enrolled at Eastern
Washington University where she participated
on the track and fi eld team as a jumper and
hurdler. Upon graduation Fleming returned to
Kamiakin to help coach the track and fi eld team,
something she did for two years before getting
back into volleyball last season.
When Fleming came across Hermiston’s
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HERMISTON
MLB
James makes the jump
Hermiston
sophomore wins
quarterback
competition
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
Seattle Mariners manager Scott Servais, right,
pulls starting pitcher Taijuan Walker, second from
right, from a baseball game against the New York
Yankees during Tuesday’s game in Seattle.
Walker roughed
up as Yankees
beat Mariners
over the next four innings.
Tommy Layne pitched
a perfect eighth and Dellin
SEATTLE — Jacoby Betances worked around a
Ellsbury hit a two-run two-out single to fi nish the
four-hitter.
homer and CC
Taijuan Walker
Sabathia pitched
(4-8),
recalled
seven
innings
earlier in the day
to win for the
New York
from
Triple-A
third time in two
Tacoma, allowed
months, leading
four runs — three
the New York
earned — and
Yankees over the
six hits in 5 2/3
Seattle Mariners
innings, with three
5-1 on Tuesday
Seattle
walks and fi ve
night.
strikeouts.
Sabathia (8-10)
Ellsbury staked
was 2-6 with a
New York to a 3-1
6.78 ERA in his
previous 11 starts. He gave lead in the fi fth with his
up a run in the third inning sixth home run, a two-run
on a triple by Leonys shot to right-center that
Martin and single by Ketel followed a leadoff double
Marte, but allowed just one
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single and his lone walk
By JIM HOEHN
Associated Press
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1
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Hermiston sophomore Andrew James looks to pass the ball during offensive
drill on Tuesday in Hermiston.
Hermiston quarterback Andrew
James has left the kiddie pool,
bypassed the lap lanes and stands
with his toes hanging over the edge
of the high dive.
The Bulldogs are confi dent what
comes next won’t be a belly fl op.
Coming off an encouraging
season on the freshman squad and
a strong summer, James made sure
Hermiston coach David Faaeteete
didn’t have to waver when naming
him the varsity starter. He quickly
seized the job after entering fall
practices last week in a four-way
competition.
“He’s focused when he comes to
practice and he wants to do well,”
Faaeteete said, adding two of his
biggest strengths are his “competi-
tive spirit and attention to detail.”
“It was a big deal, knowing that
I’m going to be the quarterback this
year,” said James, whose varsity
experience is limited to a few games
on the sideline. “I come in with high
expectations. Last year we fell below
our expectations, but we have the
guys this year, we’ve just got to get it
going. We’re starting off pretty good
and we’ve got some momentum
but we’ve got start to getting game-
ready.”
Listed at 5-foot-10 and 165
pounds, James brings plenty of
athleticism to the position, which
should work perfectly in an offense
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NFL
After career year, Seahawks’ Baldwin ready for his encore
The 27-year-old hopes
to live up to his $46
million extension
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
RENTON, Wash. — While the
rest of the wide receivers were
going through agility drills, Doug
Baldwin joined teammates
And it works quite well
almost literally twice his
for wide receivers trying
size.
to escape the hands of
For several minutes,
grabby cornerbacks.
Baldwin lined up with
“With the defensive
the Seattle Seahawks’
backs trying to put their
defensive linemen, slap-
hands on me, using the
ping at the pads worn on
techniques that Cliff
the forearms of defensive
(Avril) and Mike (Bennett)
line coach Travis Jones. Baldwin
have taught me about my
It’s a drill designed for
hand placement on the
pass rushers to focus on getting off defensive back’s hands trying to get
blocks.
myself around them. The different
techniques they’ve taught me I just
try and practice it in that drill,”
Baldwin said.
That specifi c drill — suggested
Avril and Bennett — is another
example of Baldwin’s evolution.
Once primarily known for
feeling dissed in every manner
possible, Baldwin is no longer
“Angry Doug” all the time. His
motivation remains the same, but
he’s now content entering his sixth
season. It helps that Baldwin is
coming off the fi nest season of his
career that concluded with him
getting rewarded with a $46 million,
four-year contract extension. The
contract pays him like one of the
premier wide receivers in the NFL
and kept him from reaching free
agency after the 2016 season.
“It meant a lot to be recognized,
to be appreciated and plainly as
a human being all of us want to
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Sports shorts
Straily earns 10th win of season
CINCINNATI (AP) — Dan Straily extended
his surge since the All-Star break by pitching
six innings and Joey Votto drove in a pair of
runs to lead the Cincinnati Reds over the Texas
Rangers 3-0 on Tuesday night.
FACES A day after losing to the
Dodgers 18-9, the Reds won a
close one against a Rangers team
that has been shut out three times
in its last nine games.
Straily (10-6) hasn’t allowed
more than two runs in any of his
eight starts since the break, going
Straily
6-0. He gave up three singles and
two walks. He also got a huge
assist from Hamilton, who ran down Carlos
Beltran’s fl y to left-center fi eld to open the sixth
with the game scoreless.
Straily also recorded his team-leading 16th
quality start of the season and lowered his ERA
to 3.57 — its lowest point since mid-June.
“But Mike B. doesn’t
always necessarily
operate by that code,
either. It’s hard to take
him serious when he
talks about the other
guys taking food off his
kids’ plate — when he
is driving around here
with 10 different cars.“
— Doug Baldwin
Seattle Seahawks wide receiver
reacting to teammate Michael
Bennett’s comments from earlier
in the week about ‘crossing the
line’ of competitiveness in prac-
tice when it comes to fi ghting.
Linfi eld, College of Idaho set to
scrimmage at Kennison Field
HERMISTON — The Hermiston School
District is hosting Linfi eld College and College
of Idaho for a scrimmage at Kennison Field
from 3-6 p.m. on Thursday
afternoon.
“We are very excited to have
the opportunity to provide a
venue for two quality football
programs to scrimmage,” said
Executive Director of Operations, Mike Kay in
a press release. “With former Bulldog athletes
Dylan Caldwell attending Linfi eld, and Landon
Clark Gammell and Keegan Crafton at College
of Idaho, it will be great to welcome these
former students back to Kennison Field.”
Crafton is a freshman tight end and
Clark-Gammell is a freshman defensive end
for the Yotes, while Caldwell is a freshman
offensive lineman for Linfi eld.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1963 — The Little
League World Series in
Williamsport, Pa. is covered
by ABC’s Wide World of
Sports for the fi rst time.
2003 — Jockey Julie
Krone becomes the fi rst
female rider to win a million-
dollar race taking the Pacifi c
Classic at Del Mar aboard
Candy Ride.
2007 — The NFL indef-
initely suspends Michael
Vick without pay just hours
after he acknowledged in
court papers that he did,
indeed, bankroll gambling
on dogfi ghting and helped
kill some dogs not worthy of
the pit.
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