SPORTS
WEEKEND, OCTOBER 8-9, 2016
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HERMISTON
PENDLETON
Bulldogs go wild against Ravens Cougars
surge
past
Bucks
Herm-
iston’s
Jerry
Ramirez
(33) cel-
ebrates
a touch-
down
with
Andrew
James
(8) in the
end zone
in the
Bulldogs’
54-0 win
against
Rid-
geview
on Friday
in Herm-
iston.
Pendleton falls
on the road in
league play
East Oregonian
Staff photo by
E.J. Harris
BEND — The Mountain
View Cougars scored 21
unanswered points to put away
the Pendleton Buckaroos in
the second half of their Special
District 1 football game on
Friday.
Pendleton held a four-point
lead
early
Football in the third
quarter after
an 85-yard
scoring run
Pendleton
by
Jamal
Vann,
but
that was the
last
time
they’d fi nd
the
end
Mtn. View
zone as the
Cougars
came back
for the 35-18
win.
Vann fi nished with 124
yards on nine carries, and his
romp through the Mountain
View secondary only tied for
Pendleton’s longest play in the
game.
After Mountain View (3-3,
1-3 SD1) broke the scoreless
tie with a 66-yard pass,
Pendleton responded with an
85-yard connection between
Nick Bower and receiver Nick
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James tosses six touchdowns, Neal hauls in four to lead Hermiston to win
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
If there were such a thing as high school
fantasy football, Friday night would have
been a good time to start the Hermiston
duo of Andrew James and Dayshawn Neal.
At quarterback, James tossed a career-
high six touchdown passes and completed
16-20 passes for 255 yards and no inter-
ceptions, while Neal hauled in six catches
for 156 yards and four touchdowns. Their
performances led their Bulldogs team
to a dominating 54-0 victory over the
Ridgeview Ravens at Kennison Field.
“I just ran my routes and was lucky
enough to get open,” Neal said after the
game. “Andrew was great tonight and just
got me the ball.
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Ridgeview
Hermiston
0
54
“It was nice to have a win like this.”
It was the 10th total time this season
that James and Neal had hooked up for
touchdowns, giving Hermiston (3-3, 3-1
Special District 1) a powerful passing
game threat that could be key down the
stretch.
“I trust him a lot and the stats are
showing that,” James said.
The Hermiston offense as a whole put
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Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Hermiston’s Andrew James scrambles out of the pock-
et in the Bulldogs’ 54-0 win against Ridgeview on Fri-
day in Hermiston.
Prep Roundup
PENDLETON
Timberwolves thwart Yak’s attack
Blue
Moun-
tain’s
Shelby
Schrei-
er (15)
goes for
the kill
against
Yakima
Valley’s
Maddie
Kuhl-
mann (9)
during
an
NWAC
East vol-
leyball
match in
Pendle-
ton on
Friday.
Blue
Moun-
tain won
3-1.
Blue Mountain beats Yakima
Valley in four sets
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
The Blue Mountain volleyball appears to be hitting
its stride at just the right time and won its third straight
match with a four-set victory over Yakima Valley on
Friday.
Volleyball
The Timberwolves took the fi rst
two games 25-19, 25-20, before
Yakima was able to pause their
momentum with a 25-22 win in
Yakima Vall.
the third game. It was just a pause,
though, and the T-Wolves pulled
away for a 25-19 win to close out
the Yaks.
Jordan Mix led them at the net
with
23 kills, while Shelby Shreier
BMCC
added 14 and Miah Perez chipped
in another 11.
Their big numbers wouldn’t
have been possible without some
great play all around, though, and setter Kylee Chavez
fi nished with 54 assists while libero Bailey Tillotson
continued to draw rave reviews from her coaches and
fi nished with 31 digs.
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3
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Staff photo by
Matt Entrup
Irrigon falls to Vale
in overtime
Knights had two
chances to win
in fourth quarter
East Oregonian
VALE — Not many
people were giving the young
Irrigon Knights much of a
chance against the defending
3A state champion Vale
Vikings on Friday night, but
the Knights made the trip and
nearly pulled off the upset.
Vale had to get to overtime
before they could fi nally put
the stingy Knights away with
a 34-28 victory.
“I think our kids faith
in our process grew a little
bit tonight,” Irrigon coach
Steve Sheller said. “Vale just
out-executed us tonight.”
Josh Aguilera led Irri-
gon’s stable of running backs
with 130 yards and two
touchdowns on 27 carries.
Carlos Zacarias added 117
yards and a touchdown on 10
carries and Lino Covarrubia
ran for 89 yards and a touch-
down as well. Quarterback
Austin Rice had one of his
best games of the season,
completing 8-9 passes for
115 yards and zero turnovers.
Sheller said that the
Knights are frustrated with
the result, mainly because
the Knights had a chance to
win the game in regulation.
Irrigon had a 1st and goal
inside the 10 yard line twice
in the fourth quarter, and
didn’t score either time.
“We just didn’t execute
the play,” Sheller said.
Irrigon will now regroup
and get ready for a home
game against Nyssa next
Friday.
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IHS (2-4, 1-1) 14 14
VHS (3-3, 2-0) 7 13
0
0
0
8
0
6
— 28
— 34
HEPPNER 52, PILOT
ROCK 20 — At Heppner,
the Mustangs scored in all
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Sports shorts
Woods to return to golf next week
US men win exhibition in Cuba
(AP) — Tiger Woods offi cially signed up
Friday for the Safeway Open next week in
California, his fi rst action in more than a year.
Woods last played in August 2015 at the
Wyndham Championship before having two
more back operations. He had
said last month his plan was to
ease back into competition with
the Safeway Open, the Turkish
Airlines Open and his Hero World
Challenge in the Bahamas at the
end of the year.
Woods had until Friday after-
Woods
noon to commit to the Safeway
Open, which starts Thursday at Silverado Resort
in Napa, California.
He has plunged to No. 767 in the world
ranking and has not won the Bridgestone
Invitational in 2013. That was the 79th of his
PGA Tour career, three short of Sam Snead’s
record.
(AP) — Chris Wondolowski and Julian
Green scored second-half goals, Ethan Horvath
got a shutout in his international debut and the
United States beat Cuba 2-0 victory Friday in its
fi rst exhibition game in 69 years
at the Caribbean island nation.
The U.S. started nine players
who likely will be on the fi eld for
next month’s World Cup qualifi er
against Mexico. The 22nd-ranked
Americans struggled to mount
attacks in the fi rst half against No. 139 Cuba,
hampered by a bumpy fi eld at Havana’s Estadio
Pedro Marrero that had brown patches, but still
extended their winning streak to three.
A 21-year-old making his fi rst start in
more than two years, Green created the fi rst
goal when he took a shot that was parried by
goalkeeper Sandy Sanchez. The rebound went
to Wondolowski, who scored with a right-
footed shot from 8 yards in the 62nd minute.
“My wife is a vegetarian
and she’s strongly
encouraging I become
one now.“
— Jared Cook
Green Bay Packers tight end after
he found a fried chicken head
in his order from a Buffalo Wild
Wings in Wisconsin.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1956 — Don Larsen of the
New York Yankees pitches
the only perfect game in
World Series history, a 2-0
triumph over Brooklyn.
1993 — The Anaheim
Mighty Ducks, before
17,174 at the Arrowhead
Pond, lose 7-2 to the Detroit
Red Wings in their fi rst
NHL game.
2006 — Randy Moss’
22-yard TD catch between
two defenders 51 seconds
before halftime is the
Oakland receiver’s 100th
touchdown
reception.
He’s becomes the seventh
receiver in NFL history with
100 TD catches.
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