SPORTS
WEEKEND, OCTOBER 22-23, 2016
1B
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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.
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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.
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Football
Pendleton
mathematically
eliminated from
playoffs with loss
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
T-Wolves earn
road sweep
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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,
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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
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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
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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,
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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.
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UHS (6-2, 2-2) 6 7
IHS (2-6, 1-3) 0 7
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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.
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