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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.
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OREGON:
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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BHS (1-9-2, 0-5)
PHS (1-10-2, 0-5)
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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.
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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.
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