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Page 2B SPORTS East Oregonian BRIEFLY BMCC to dedicate soccer ield PENDLETON — Blue Mountain Community College will welcome soccer fans with a free barbecue lunch as part of a ield dedication and program inauguration ceremony to be held prior to the women’s game against Yakima Valley on Saturday, Oct. 29. The event kicks off at 11 a.m. with a special lag ceremony from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservations, and then will follow with team introductions and the dedication of the soccer ield — which was renovated into a regulation-sized ield in the spring. The free lunch is courtesy of the BMCC Athletics Department and BMCC Foundation, and limited edition Timberwolf soccer scarves, T-shirts, and leece blankets will be available for purchase. Corley and Pahl win PCC tournament PENDLETON — The Pendleton pairing of Matt Corley and Darren Pahl won low-gross honors by one stroke at the annual Pendleton Country Club “3-Club Par-3” Tournament held Oct. 15-16. The tournament features two separate formats, with golfers allowed just three clubs and a putter in their bag for the irst round. Each hole is then reconigured into a par-3 for the second round. Corley and Pahl shot a two-round score of 72-50—122 to edge the team of Eric Nelson and Joe Reyes, who entered the second round with a one-stroke lead. Low-net honors went to the Pendleton team of Richard Maze and David Thompson with 60-40—100. — East Oregonian OREGON: Continued from 1B a season-high 317 yards two weeks ago at Oregon State. That has the Ducks’ attention. “We can’t stop the run very well right now,” cornerback Arrion Springs said. “They’ve got some really good running backs and they’re going to want to run the ball. Everyone wants to run the ball on us.” Dykes is convinced there is a good Oregon defense waiting to show itself. “They have a lot of players who have been successful. They know how to win,” he said. “It’s a good football team that hasn’t played their best. I’m sure they will.” Here are some things to watch when Oregon visits Cal: WEBB YES, HANSEN MAYBE: Quarterback Davis Webb, who leads the Pac-12 with 2,256 yards passing and has thrown 22 touchdowns, will start for the Bears. Webb injured the thumb on his throwing hand two weeks ago, but returned to practice Sunday after the bye week and said he is feeling ine. Less certain is the status of wideout Chad Hansen, the Pac-12’s leading receiver, who sprained his ankle against Oregon State. Dykes said he expects Hansen to play, but acknowledged he’s not sure how effective he will be. BEARS AFTER BYES: Cal is hoping the bye week inally provides some beneit. The Bears are 0-5 under Dykes after byes, including a 45-40 loss at San Diego State this season after getting an extra week to acclimate following a long trip to Australia to play Hawaii. Cal has allowed an average of 45.4 points in those ive defeats, which included a 55-16 loss to No. 2 Oregon back in Dykes’ debut season of 2013. YOUNG DUCKS: In addi- tion to using a freshman quar- terback in Justin Herbert, who made his starting debut against Washington, Oregon is the only FBS school in the country that has started four freshmen offen- sive linemen in the same game. Redshirt freshmen having secured starting spots: Calvin Throckmorton (right tackle), Brady Aiello (left tackle) Jake Hanson (center) and Shane Lemieux (left guard) all start for the Ducks. Friday, October 21, 2016 NLCS Cubs head home with 3-2 series lead Lester, Russell lift Chicago over Los Angeles By BETH HARRIS Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Jon Lester pitched seven sharp innings, Addison Game 5 Russell hit a tiebreaking homer and the Chicago Chicago C u b s m o v e d one win from their irst World Series trip in Los Angeles 71 years by beating the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-4 on Thursday. The Cubs grabbed a 3-2 lead in the NL Championship Series and will have two chances to wrap up that elusive pennant back home at Wrigley Field. The irst comes Saturday night in Game 6, when Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw faces major league ERA leader Kyle Hendricks. Emerging star Javier Baez was in the middle of everything for the Cubs, a common theme 8 4 AP Photo/Jae C. Hong Chicago Cubs’ Addison Russell celebrates his two-run home run off Los Angeles Dodgers relief pitcher Joe Blanton during the sixth inning of Game 5 of the Na- tional League baseball championship series Thursday in Los Angeles. this October. The second baseman made a sensational defensive play when the game was still close in the seventh, and his three-run double capped a ive-run eighth that made it 8-1. After busting out of his postseason slump Wednesday, Russell hit a two-run homer for the second straight game. This one was a sixth-inning drive off losing pitcher Joe Blanton that gave Chicago a 3-1 lead. By winning consecutive games in Los Angeles, the Cubs took control of the best- of-seven series after getting shut out in Games 2 and 3. Of course, there’s no need to remind longtime fans that the Cubs were in the same favorable position 13 years ago — heading home to Wrigley Field with a 3-2 lead Athlete of the Week PENDLETON Timberwolves win fall rodeos East Oregonian The two-time defending National Champion Blue Mountain women’s rodeo team started its season in familiar fashion with a pair of wins at doubleheader rodeos held at the Malheur County Fairgrounds Oct. 14-16. The BMCC men’s team also took home the title at both rodeos. The women swept the top three in the all-around in the irst rodeo, then took the top two spots in the second. Danyelle Jo Williams inished behind teammate Quincy Pendergrass, then won the all-around over teammate Lauren Leyva. JT Garland also won the all-around for the BMCC men in the irst rodeo. Timberwolves sopho- more Jessica Lewis also had a strong weekend in barrel racing with irst and third- place inishes. The rodeos were the only events during the fall portion of the schedule, which picks back up in the spring. EOU: Games taking on ‘playoff feel’ Continued from 1B quarterback Zach Bartlow threw the ball 31 times for 292 yards while the team combined for 29 rushes for 162 yards. But in Saturday’s game, EOU ran the ball 56 times for 214 yards and Bartlow threw it just 18 times for 184 yards — contributing to a dominant 50:38 time of possession. “I was really, really proud with how the kids prepared for (SOU),” head coach Tim Camp told EOUSports.com this week. “We traveled really well, we were focused, and we didn’t let the outside things become a distraction.” The No. 12 Mountain- eers (4-2, 4-2 Frontier Conference) hope to ride the wave of momentum for another week as the team returns home to host No. 22 Montana Western (4-3, 3-3) on Saturday afternoon for the annual homecoming game. EOU bested the Bulldogs earlier this season, heading on the road to steal a 35-23 victory on Sept. 10. The Mountaineers have struggled against the Bulldogs at home in recent years, with the last EOU victory at Community Stadium coming on Oct. 5, 2013 when the Mounties won 20-0. Last season the Bulldogs spoiled EOU’s homecoming weekend with a 30-23 victory. “I’m not one for revenge, but I want the kids to realize and know that they have a very good football team that’s coming here, capable of beating anyone in the conference, anyone in the country,” Camp said. “These are all games with what our seniors and our captains talked about, they have to have a playoff feel to them.” Last time out against the Bulldogs, quarterback Zach Bartlow threw for 335 yards and four touchdowns and the team combined to run for 198 yards and a touchdown — led by Alfred Gross with 94 yards on 15 carries. Last week, Montana Western defeated College of Idaho 30-20 at home, and currently boast the confer- ence’s top scoring defense with an average of just 20.9 points allowed per game. This will be the 26th time the two schools have met on the gridiron in history, with EOU holding a 16-9 advantage overall but the Bulldogs are 4-3 in the last ive years. Camp says that his Mountaineers are hungry to pull off another season- sweep on Saturday, especially in front of the homecoming crowd. “It’ll be homecoming but we can’t allow the outside distractions to affect us,” he said. “We have to be focused and play together and play as a family against in my opinion one of the top teams in the Frontier Conference.” Kick-off is set for 1 p.m. in La Grande, and the game can be heard on 103.1-FM or streamed on MyEaster- nOregon.com. Live stats and pay-per-view video are also available at Portal. StretchInternet.com/EOU. PREPS: Baker volleyball edges Pendleton Continued from 1B squirted into the goal. The score was the irst varsity goal in Ramirez’s career, Talbot said. Pendleton was also the subject of some questionable calls by the referee, Talbot said, with three goals getting negated because of various reasons — all in the inal 20 minutes of the game. Baker scored its only goal in the second half as well, punching it into the net on a penalty kick past Pendleton’s goalkeeper Kobe Ladd. The freshman keeper made his irst career varsity start in the game, and impressed Talbot with his conidence between the posts. Pendleton will inish up the season on Monday afternoon when it hosts Hermiston at 4:30 p.m. ——— BHS (1-9-2, 0-5) PHS (1-10-2, 0-5) 0 0 1 1 — — 1 1 IRRIGON 8, CITY CHRISTIAN 0 — At Port- land, the Irrigon Knights scored their sixth shutout of the season with a big win over City Christian on Thursday afternoon. Pedro Maciel, Alejandro Alvarez, and Isaac Estrada each scored two goals in the game, but Irrigon coach Paul Keefer said that senior Ruben Barrera was the star of the game, inishing with one goal and three assists. “He was able to beat the defender on the wing and center the ball all game long,” Keefer said. “He was frustrated in the irst half, drawing some offside calls, but he made some adjust- ments in the second half and set up a lot of scoring opportunities which was a big key tonight.” Keefer also mentioned goalkeeper Steve Robles had a standout performance, making several stellar plays to keep the Knights shutout alive. Irrigon will host River- side (7-3-1, 4-0) today at 3:30 p.m. in a key league match-up. ——— IHS (6-2-1, 2-1-1) 2 6 — 8 CCS (0-11, 0-5) 0 0 — 0 Goals 17’ — Pedro Maciel (unassisted) 24’ — Isaac Estrada (unassisted) 45’ — Ruben Barrera (unassisted) 50’ — Kenny Blurton, assisted by R. Barrera in the NLCS. But even with ace pitchers Mark Prior and Kerry Wood starting the inal two games, Chicago collapsed against the Marlins in one of its most excruciating failures. More than a decade later, the franchise is still chasing its irst World Series champi- onship since 1908. Baez had three of Chica- go’s 13 hits, matching the team’s total in Game 4, when the Cubs snapped a 21-inning scoreless streak and won 10-2. Lester allowed one run and ive hits, improving to 2-0 in three playoff starts this year. He has given up two runs in 21 innings. The left-hander struck out six and walked one. Anthony Rizzo’s run-scoring double gave the Cubs a 1-0 lead in the irst. Los Angeles tied it in the fourth on Adrian Gonzalez’s RBI groundout. After scoring their irst run, the Cubs stranded six runners through the irst ive innings before inding success against the Dodgers’ third reliever. Russell homered on an 0-1 pitch from Blanton, who gave up a single to Baez leading off the sixth. Baez stole second and scored on Russell’s shot to center ield that put the Cubs ahead on another unusually hot night at Dodger Stadium. Chicago jumped on strug- gling Dodgers rookie Kenta Maeda from the start. Dexter Fowler singled leading off the game and scored on Rizzo’s double to right two batters later. Maeda gave up one run and three hits in 3 2/3 innings, struck out six and walked two in losing for the second time in three postseason starts. 54’ — Alejandro Alvarez, assisted by R. Barrera 58’ — Isaac Estrada, assisted by A. Alvarez 66’ — Alejandro Alvarez (unassisted) 70’ — Pedro Maciel, assisted by R. Barrera VOLLEYBALL BAKER 3, PEND- LETON 2 — At Pendleton, the Buckaroos inished off the regular season with a ive-set nonleague loss at Warberg Court on Thursday with scores 25-19, 10-25, 25-17, 15-25, 16-14. Haley Greb led Pendleton (8-10) with 11 kills, Rylee Gentner added six, and Kalan McGlothan and Elli Nirschl each chipped in ive. Nirschl also had six blocks and McGlothan added ive. Lauren Richards contributed ive aces and 23 assists. Starting middle blocker Maureen Davies did not play due to illness, and Pendleton coach Amanda Lapp said the team seemed a step slow all night. The No. 21 Bucks (8-10) will host No. 23 Hillsboro (9-10) in the 5A play-in round on Tuesday at 6 p.m. The winner advances to the state playoffs’ round of 16. Twenty questions with Pendleton’s Shaw Jerome East Oregonian PENDLETON — Pend- leton High School junior Shaw Jerome scored three touchdowns — one on a punt return, one rushing and one receiving — and was the team’s leading receiver with ive catches for 71 yards in a 33-23 football win over Hood River on Oct. 14. He is the EO Athlete of the Week. EO: When did you start playing football and what position did you play? SJ: Fourth grade and quarterback. What other sports do you play? Basketball and baseball. What is you favorite sport to play? I like them all the same. What is you favorite sport to watch? College football What is your favorite team? Cleveland Cavaliers Who is your favorite athlete? LeBron James If you could attend any sporting event, what would you choose? Game 7 of the World Series or NBA Finals. If you could play any professional sport, what would you choose? I think it’d be fun to play baseball. Do you have any sports-related supersti- tions? If I have a good game I normally wear the same clothes the next game. What’s your favorite pre-game music? I have a mix of some rap and rock stuff. What’s your favorite food? Chinese food What’s your favorite restaurant in Pendleton? Golden Fountain What are your hobbies outside of sports? I watch a lot of movies and play a lot of video games. What’s your favorite movie and game? Bad Boys II and NCAA Football 14. What’s your favorite subject in school? History Have you thought about what you’d like to do for a career? Maybe a police oficer What’s your dream vacation spot? Hawaii Do you have any pets? Two dogs, Trixie and Griffey. What do you think of this year’s presidential race? I don’t know anything about politics. What’s your favorite part about being a Buckaroo? Just the pride that you take when you put on any jersey. ATHLETE OF THE WEEK SHAW JEROME Pendleton Football Receiver Jerome scored three touchdowns — one rushing, one receiving, and one punt return — and was the team’s leading receiver with five catches for 71 yards in Pendleton’s 33-23 win over Hood River. P ROUDLY S PONSORED B Y : • General Orthopedics • Sports Medicine • Arthroscopy • Foot & Ankle • Hand Surgery • Joint Replacement • Workman’s Comp Injuries Advanced Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Institute 620 NW 11th St., Ste. 201, Hermiston www.hermistonortho.com 541-289-7075
