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SPORTS WEEKEND, OCTOBER 22-23, 2016 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS HERMISTON HEPPNER Panthers hold off Bulldogs Tigers bring home title Stanfield shuts out Heppner in defensive battle Hermiston turns ball over five times in loss to Redmond East Oregonian East Oregonian REDMOND — Despite a disastrous fi rst half, the Hermiston Bulldogs were in position to escape with a victory after Andrew James ran Football in from fi ve-yard touchdown to take the lead for Hermiston the fi rst time with 10:54 left in the fourth quarter. Redmond had other designs, though, and added Redmond two more touch- down before the game was over to hold on for a 26-14 win on Friday in Special District 1 play. After turning the ball over just twice in the last three games, the Bulldogs (4-4, 4-2 SD1) coughed the ball up fi ve times in the fi rst half — twice on interceptions and three fumbles. Hermiston’s defense made the most of a bad situation, though, and kept the Bulldogs in the game at 13-0 at halftime. See BULLDOGS/2B 14 14 26 0 Staff photo by E.J. Harris Stanfi eld’s Dylan Grogan scrambles out while looking downfi eld pursued by Heppner’s Trevin Horne in the Tigers’ 14-0 win against the Mustangs on Friday in Heppner. PENDLETON Buckaroos stall in out muddy mess PENDLETON Blue Mountain keeps pace in playoff race East Oregonian ONTARIO — The Blue Moun- tain Timberwolves won for the fi fth time in six matches with a sweep over Treasure Valley on Friday in NWAC East volleyball. The T-Wolves dominated the Chukars 25-16, 25-13, 25-15 to Volleyball keep pace in a tight playoff race with four matches remaining in the Blue Mountain regular season. Individual statis- tics were not avail- able, but as a team Blue Mountain (17-14, 6-4 East) hit Treasure Valley at a .304 clip with 38 kills, and were active on defense with 43 digs. Treasure Valley (8-18, 1-10) struggled mightily and fi nished with more hitting errors (25) than kills (20) for a negative hitting percentage. The next week will present a much tougher test for the fourth- place T-Wolves as they host second- place North Idaho on Wednesday and fi rst-place Walla Walla on Friday, Oct. 28. Both matches will begin at 6 p.m. ——— 3 0 BMCC TVCC 25 16 25 13 25 15 — — Football Pendleton mathematically eliminated from playoffs with loss By ERIC SINGER East Oregonian T-Wolves earn road sweep 3 0 The Stanfi eld Tigers picked up one of the biggest wins in program history Friday after outlasting the Heppner Football M u s t a n g s 14-0 in a defensive battle of Stanfi eld Columbia B a s i n Conference unbeatens. T h e T i g e r s Heppner scored on their second possession w h e n quarterback Dylan Grogan connected with Brody Woods for a 30-yard touchdown, See TIGERS/2B Friday night’s game against the Bend Lava Bears was Pendleton’s last chance. The Buckaroos needed to beat the Lava Bears to keep their playoff hopes alive for one more week, which could set up an even bigger rivalry game against Hermiston in the season fi nale. However, Mother Nature did not want to cooperate with the Buck- aroos pass-focused offense on Friday, as rain showers for most of the afternoon and intermittent rain showers during the game left the Round-Up Arena looking like a swamp. In the messy conditions, Pendleton compiled only 101 yards of total offense and failed to Photo by Joe Tierney for the East Oregonian Pendleton running back Deven Page jumps over two Bend de- fenders in a 22-7 loss Friday night. develop any offensive consistency as the Buckaroos fell to the Lava Bears 22-7 in Special District 1 action. The loss mathematically eliminated the Bucks from playoff contention for the second straight year. “We just didn’t do our jobs tonight,” Davis said. “We thought we had a pretty good gameplan to run the football and walking out there it’s hard to get footing, Bend Pendleton 22 7 but like I said to the kids there are 22 guys playing on the fi eld and they’re all in the same conditions. “We got some things going in the second half but when you can’t throw the football, it made putting points on the board diffi cult.” All of the scoring came in the fi rst half, and the rain in the second half made it even more diffi cult for the Buckaroos (3-5, 2-4 SD1) to put quick scoring drives together as the passing game still could not fi nd a rhythm. Quarterback Nick Bower fi nished the game 5-21 for a meager 37 yards and one interception in the game, with 33 of those yards coming on one pass to Sebaztian Corona late in the second half. “We had a tough time completing any balls, we had See BUCKAROOS/2B Prep Roundup Vikings run over Knights to keep playoff hopes alive Umatilla beats Irrigon with 359 rushing yards East Oregonian IRRIGON — With its playoff hopes still holding on by a thread, the Umatilla Vikings took the short drive west to Irrigon on Friday night and took care of business, defeating the Knights 33-13. Umatilla (6-2, 2-2 EOL) ran the ball 41 times for 359 yards in the game, an average of 8.7 per carry, as its offensive line over- powered the Irrigon front seven and two scores — all night long. Football a 56-yard pass to Cody Samson ran Diego Soto in the for 190 yards and fi rst quarter and one touchdown on a 18-yard pass to 20 carries, while Umatilla Irrigon Sean Miller in the Trent Durfey third quarter. tallied 93 yards Durfey said he and two scores on was proud of his 12 carries. “We switched up our plays defense’s effort as well, holding ang got back to running the ball an Irrigon team that had put up inside more tonight,” Umatilla 26 points or more in its last two coach Dan Durfey said. “Our games to just 13 on Friday. “We had our linebackers key offensive line did really well up front, opening up big holes and off on their running backs and we just played disciplined football,” our running backs benefi tted.” Kaden Webb had a solid game Durfey said. “They kept every- passing, going 8-18 for 108 yards thing in front of them, tackled well, 33 13 and just played a great game.” Irrigon (2-6, 1-3) coach Steve Sheller said his team just didn’t have it on Friday. “We just never got going,” Sheller said. “We just kind of played fl at all night. (Umatilla) punched us in the mouth and we just didn’t react to it well.” Umatilla will fi nish up the regular season next week at Nyssa, needing a win to keep its playoff hopes alive. Irrigon will fi nish up at Burns next Friday. ——— UHS (6-2, 2-2) 6 7 IHS (2-6, 1-3) 0 7 Stats 14 6 7 — 33 0 — 13 See PREPS/3B Sports shorts Beckham Jr. fi ned again by NFL NEW YORK (AP) New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. was fi ned $24,309 by the NFL on Friday for taking off his helmet during a touchdown celebration last Sunday against Baltimore. After scoring the go-ahead 66-yard TD with 1:24 left in the Giants’ 27-23 win, Beckham drew an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty when he removed his helmet while in the back of the end zone. He then ran toward the Beckham, Jr. sideline, tossed his helmet and kept celebrating. It is the fourth time this season that Beckham has been fi ned by the league, with those four fi nes totaling more than $96,000. Beckham leads the Giants with 35 receptions for 581 yards and three touchdowns this season. “We are obviously disappointed in the way the past two weeks have gone, having such strong cars. But it puts us in a pretty simplistic situation for this weekend.“ — Chase Elliott Sprint Cup driver on his recent fi nishes near but not in front of the pack. Anything but a win will likely eliminate the rookie phenom from NASCAR’s playoffs Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway, where the Chase for the Sprint Cup will trim the title contenders from 12 to eight. Oregon men’s basketball is preseason favorite Pac-12 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Defending Pac-12 champion Oregon is picked to repeat as the regular-season conference winner. The Ducks received 23 fi rst-place votes from a panel of 27 media members covering the conference, the Pac-12 announced Friday at its media day. Oregon returns four starters from last season’s team that won a school-record 31 games and earned a top seed in the NCAA Tournament, led by junior forward Dillon Brooks, who averaged 16.7 points, 5.4 rebounds and 3.1 assists. Arizona received four fi rst-place votes and was picked second, with UCLA third. The Pac-12 sent a conference-record seven teams to the 2016 NCAA Tournament. Commissioner Larry Scott expects to announce next month the conference’s plans regarding games played in China. THIS DATE IN SPORTS 1950 — The Los Angeles Rams beat the Baltimore Colts 70-27. 2001 — New York routs Seattle 12-3 in Game 5 to win the AL pennant for the 38th time. The Yankees become the fi rst team since their predeces- sors in 1960-64 to win four straight pennants. 2012 — Lance Armstrong is stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life by cycling’s governing body following a report from the U.S. Anti- Doping Agency that accuses him of leading a massive doping program on his teams. Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com
