SPORTS
WEEKEND, SEPTEMBER 10-11, 2016
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PENDLETON
Buckaroos bounced around by Kingsmen
Pendleton gashed by
Putnam running game
East Oregonian
MILWAUKIE — After a strong
showing both defensively and
offensively in Week 1 against La
Grande, the Pendleton Buckaroos
were feeling very confi dent about
defeat.
Friday’s
game
Football
“We had a tough
against Putnam.
time
stopping
However, once
their
offense,”
the
game
was
Pendleton
Putnam
Pendleton coach
played it was clear
Erik Davis said.
the Buckaroos may
“We didn’t play
have been a little too
assignment football
confi dent.
The Putnam Kingsmen and (on defense) like we had all week
their Wing-T offense ran all over in practice, we didn’t tackle well,
the Buckaroos on Friday, sending and then we came out a little fl at
Pendleton back home with a 49-21 on offense ... and that combination
21
49
didn’t work out for us.”
Pendleton quarterback Nick
Bower was inconsistent throwing
on Friday, completing 19-37 passes
(51 percent) for 175 yards and one
touchdown with one interception.
Sophomore quarterback Trent
Sorey also saw his fi rst varsity
action and completed 6-8 passes for
49 yards and an 18-yard touchdown
pass to Shawn Yeager in the fourth
quarter.
After Putnam scored the fi rst
touchdown of the game, Pendleton
struck right back at the 4:22 mark
of the fi rst quarter with a fi ve-yard
touchdown toss from Bower to
Beau Skinner to tie the game at 7-7.
But from that point on, Putnam ran
into the sunset.
The Kingsmen scored four more
times in the fi rst half — all on
touchdown runs — and led at the
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HERMISTON
UMATILLA
Bengals
run over
Bulldogs
Vikings ground Rockets
Viking
running
back
Jesus
Ramirez
(2)
scam-
pers
down-
fi eld as
Logan
Weinke
(4), of
Pilot
Rock/
Nixy-
aawii,
works
to make
a tackle
Friday
in Uma-
tilla.
Hermiston remains
winless on the season
East Oregonian
LEWISTON, Idaho — For the
second straight week, the Herm-
iston Bulldogs started the fourth
quarter facing a four touchdown
defi cit, but this week there was no
comeback attempt.
Hermiston headed home on
Friday night still in search of its
fi rst win as the Lewiston (ID)
Bengals blew out the Bulldogs
38-13. Lewiston (3-0) tore the
Bulldogs defense apart with
its passing game, as quarter-
back
Colton
Richardson
Football
completed 27-37
(73
percent)
passes for 344
yards and three
Hermiston
touchdowns.
For Herm-
iston
(0-2),
sophomore
quarterback
Andrew James
Lewiston
was not nearly as
sharp on Friday
as he completed
16-29 passes (55
percent) for 194 yards with one
touchdown and two interceptions,
while adding a team-best 67
rushing yards on 13 carries.
Tucker Salinas was the top
receiver for Hermiston with 108
yards and a touchdown off of four
total receptions.
Hermiston will return home
next week as they host Mountain
View at 7 p.m. for its fi rst league
game of the season.
Staff photo
by Kathy
Aney
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Umatilla shuts out Pilot Rock to stay undefeated on season
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
On a frustrating night for its
offense, the Umatilla Vikings
defense turned in its most domi-
nant performance in years to beat
the Pilot Rock Rockets 20-0 in an
inter-classifi cation match-up on
Friday.
With turnovers and penalties
limiting its ability to put up points,
Rockets
(0-2)
Umatilla’s defense
Football
to just 90 total
set the tone right
yards of offense
away by forcing
and gave up only
Pilot Rock to go
four fi rst downs.
three-and-out on
Pilot Rock
Umatilla
The Rockets were
the game’s opening
1-for-9 on third
drive when Elijah
down.
Pine
crashed
“I think we
through the line
and dragged down Chris Weinke did what we needed to do to stop
them,” said Umatilla linebacker/
for a sack on third down.
The Vikings (2-0) held the running back Trent Durfey. “It was
0
20
a good win.”
“It could have been better, but
shutouts are pretty good too,”
said Umatilla running back Jesus
Ramirez. “We haven’t had one of
those in awhile.”
The Vikings’ last shutout was
fi ve seasons ago when they did it
twice, the second time a 9-0 win
over Vale on Oct. 21, 2011.
Umatilla’s fi rst drive would be
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ECHO
Cord
Flynn
(22), of
Ione,
races
down-
fi eld
on his
way
to the
end-
zone
during
Fri-
day’s
game
against
Echo.
Cougars rally to beat Cards
Ione erases
halftime defi ct,
comes up short
against rival Echo
By WILL DENNER
East Oregonian
Echo stayed true to its
season mantra in defeating
rival Ione 34-28 at home –
fi nish strong.
“We’ve adopted that in
Staff photo
by Kathy
Aney
Football
Ione
Echo
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all our sports and (tonight)
they did it,” head coach
Rick Thew said. “... We kept
playing hard. Let them back
in it a little bit but stayed
strong.”
The Cougars (1-1) held
a 22-8 lead at halftime over
the Cardinals (0-2) in front
of their fans, but went quiet
as they came back out in the
third quarter.
Though Echo received
the second half kickoff and
put together a competent
drive that burned nearly 10
minutes of clock, it halted
in the red zone. Quarterback
Devan Craig led Ty Mulder
on a 4th and 18 pass, but
the sure-handed tight end
dropped what could’ve been
a touchdown.
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Sports shorts
Buescher on verge of Chase berth
(AP) — Chris Buescher’s task, should he
accomplish it Saturday night at Richmond
International Raceway, is no small feat.
Buescher will try to parlay his improbable
victory at a rain-shortened race this summer into
a coveted berth in the Chase for the
Sprint Cup championship. Making
NASCAR’s playoffs would be a
coup for Buescher and Denver-
based Front Row Motorsports, an
improbable participant in the Chase.
Buescher is eligible for the
Chase by virtue of his August
Buescher
victory at Pocono . But the rules
require the 16 drivers that make the Chase to
be ranked 30th or higher in the standings, and
Buescher is barely at that mark.
He goes into Saturday night’s race with an
11-point lead over David Ragan for 30th in
the standings. Buescher was last year’s Xfi nity
Series champion.
“I’m confi dent in my
preparation. To me, it’s
never too late to start
something. If you think
otherwise, I’m sorry
your dreams are
so small.“
— CM Punk
Former WWE wrestler, birth
name Phil Brooks, who will
make his MMA fi ghting debut
at age 38 on Saturday in UFC
203. Punk will fi ght 24-year-old
Mickey Gall before heavyweight
champion Stipe Miocic defends
his title against Alistair Overeem.
Johnson sets course record,
ties for lead at BMW
CARMEL, Ind. (AP) — U.S. Open
champion Dustin Johnson doesn’t care about
the physics behind his new putter. Seeing more
putts drop is enough for him.
Johnson made two eagles
in a span of seven holes, shot
31 on the back nine and set the
course record at Crooked Stick
on Friday with a 9-under 63 that
gave him a share of the lead with
Roberto Castro in the BMW
Championship.
Johnson
Johnson didn’t even know he
set the course record until Tony Pancake, the
golf director at Crooked Stick, congratulated
him on the way to the clubhouse.
“I guess no one was ever better than 63,”
Johnson said with a shrug and a smile.
Castro was the fi rst player to reach 14-under
130 on the rain-softened course.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1972 — The United States men’s
basketball team loses its fi rst game
in Olympic competition. The Soviet
Union wins 51-50 with the help of
a controversial ending. Dr. William
Jones, secretary general of the Interna-
tional Amateur Basketball Federation,
tells the referees to have the players
replay the fi nal three seconds and the
Soviets score a last-second bucket.
The Americans, who had the lead
when the buzzer sounded the fi rst
time, protest in vain. The U.S. team
later refuses to accept the silver medal.
2004 — Zippy Chippy,
thoroughbred racing’s lovable
loser, makes it 0-for-100 when he
fi nishes last in an eight-horse fi eld
at the Three-County Fairgrounds
in Northampton, Mass.
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