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PENDLETON
Bulldogs pour it on in second half
Hermiston outlasts
defensive Pendleton
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
Facing a determined Pendleton
defense, the Hermiston Bulldogs
proved they were
After
surren-
Boys Soccer
the team with lasting
dering 12 goals its
power in Monday’s
last time facing its
Columbia
River
rival,
Pendleton
Conference fi nale Hermiston Pendleton
(1-11-2, 0-6 CRC)
between the cross-
came out looking
county rivals, and
to minimize the
scored six goals in
damage this time
the second half to pull away for an around and dropped nine or 10
8-0 win.
white jerseys back on defense for
8
0
most of the game.
“We knew that we had to play
more defensively and we had to be
smart,” said Pendleton coach Jeremy
Talbot. “As much as we possibly
could we wanted to defend.”
The strategy was producing the
desired result for the most part,
Prep Roundup
Honkers
sweep to
BSL title
Arlington volleyball
continues incredible
season with 16th sweep
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East Oregonian
Next year here for lovable losers
World Series
Members
of the Chi-
cago Cubs
warm up
during a
team prac-
tice for
baseball’s
upcoming
World
Series
against
the
Cleveland
Indians on
Monday,
Oct. 24,
2016 in
Cleveland.
Cleveland
Indians
vs.
Chicago
Cubs
• TV: FOX
(Best-of-7; x-if necessary)
G1Today: Chicago at
Cleveland, 5:08 p.m.
G2Wednesday:
Chicago at Cleveland,
5:08 p.m.
G3Friday: Cleveland at
Chicago, 5:08 p.m.
G4Saturday: Cleveland
at Chicago, 5:08 p.m.
G5x-Sunday: Cleveland
at Chicago, 5:15 p.m.
G6x-Tuesday, Nov. 1:
Chicago at Cleveland,
5:08 p.m.
G7x-Wednesday, Nov.
2: Chicago at Cleveland,
5:08 p.m.
AP Photo/David
J. Phillip
Cubs and Indians went combined 174 years without World Series title
By RONALD BLUM
Associated Press
CLEVELAND — The last time
the Cleveland Indians won the
World Series, Dewey led Truman
in the polls. The Chicago Cubs’
last title was 13 days after the fi rst
Ford Model T car was completed.
Lovable losers known for
decades of defeat meet in this
year’s championship, a combined
174 seasons of futility facing off
starting Tuesday night at Progres-
sive Field.
Cleveland’s last title was in
1948, when 16 teams from the
East Coast to St. Louis competed
in a just-integrated sport. The
Cubs are trying to win for the fi rst
time since 1908, a dead ball-era
matchup at a time home runs were
rarities along with telephones.
No player is alive from the last
championship Cubs or even the
last to make a Series appearance
— Tuesday marks the 25,948th
day since the Cubs’ Game 7 loss
to Detroit in 1945. One player
remains from the 1948 Indians,
95-year-old Eddie Robinson.
“It seems like it’s just forever,”
Robinson said Monday from
his home in Fort Worth, Texas.
“When we got home from Boston,
there was a monumental parade.
It just looked like everybody in
Cleveland came out on Euclid
Avenue.”
One team’s fans will let loose
with the celebration of a lifetime.
But while history weighs on the
Seattle
Seahawks
quarterback
Russell
Wilson (3)
reacts after
a missed
game-win-
ning fi eld
goal attempt
during over-
time of an
NFL football
game against
the Arizona
Cardinals,
Sunday, Oct.
23, 2016, in
Glendale,
Ariz. The
game ended
in overtime in
a 6-6 tie.
AP Photo/
Ross D. Franklin
supporters, Cubs manager Joe
Maddon focuses his players with
a now-centered battle cry of “Win
the Inning!”
“Air conditioning is popular
right now. So is color TV,” he said.
“You’ve just got to change with
the times.”
Both teams worked out
under cloudy skies as the new
59-by-221-foot scoreboard behind
the left-fi eld seats — the largest in
the major leagues — trumpeted
the Sisyphean matchup. While
the Cubs play in Wrigley Field,
the 102-year-old brick-and-ivy
jewel on Chicago’s North Side,
the Indians are in a 22-year-old
throwback-style ballpark origi-
nally called Jacobs Field.
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AP Photo/File
In this 1912 fi le photo, Mordecai “Three
Finger” Brown, Chicago Cubs star
pitcher, is shown in Chicago. Joe Tinker,
Johnny Evers, Frank Chance and Brown
helped lead the Cubs to their last World
Series championship 108 years ago.
THE DALLES — The
Arlington Honkers volleyball
team continued its incredible
2016 season on Saturday
afternoon as the team swept
Ione and Dufur to claim
the Big Sky League district
championship.
Arlington (19-1, 14-0
BSL) coach Teren Humphrey
believes it’s the school’s fi rst
district title since 1987.
“It’s been a pretty exciting
year for us,” Humphrey said
following the matches. “Last
year we dealt with some inju-
ries and a lot of things just
didn’t go our way, and it was
nice to have everybody and
just go out and have fun.”
The Honkers only loss of
the season came on Sept. 9
when they fell 3-0 to Country
Christian — the No. 2 ranked
team in Class 1A. But after
that Ione won its next 13
straight and won 39 of the 43
total sets played.
That success placed
Arlington as the No. 1 seed
for the Big Sky League
district title where it opened
up against Ione in the semifi -
nals. The Honkers took some
time to settle in, but eventu-
ally fended off the Cardinals
25-19, 25-16, and 26-24 to
advance to the title game.
In the championship
game, the Honkers again
won 3-0 — their 16th shutout
win of the season — by
beating Dufur 25-22, 25-18,
and 25-23.
“Our defense was pretty
good,” Humphrey said. “We
were not very good from the
service line, especially in
the championship game, but
we did a pretty good job of
coming together when we
got down and just took care
of what we needed to do.”
Arlington will now wait
for the Class 1A play-in
games to take place on
Wednesday to see who
the Honkers will host on
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NFL
Seahawks left with mixed feelings after tie
Outcome against Arizona
the first of its kind in
franchise history
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
RENTON, Wash. — The fi rst tie
in the history of the Seattle Seahawks
left Pete Carroll searching for a way
to defi ne its meaning.
It certainly wasn’t a loss. Not with
the way Seattle’s defense withstood
the most diffi cult of conditions, being
subjected to 95 plays by one of the
more potent offenses in the NFL and
more than 46 exhausting minutes
spent on the fi eld.
But it also didn’t feel much like a
victory after Steve Hauschka badly
missed a 28-yard fi eld goal attempt in
the closing seconds of overtime.
So less than 24 hours after walking
off the fi eld in Arizona, Carroll was
still searching for the proper context
to Sunday’s 6-6 tie with the Cardinals.
“I’ve decided to make up our own
place. We’re going to put this in the
extraordinary experience of battling,
an opportunity to demonstrate who
we are and what we’re about,”
Carroll said. “And again, learn how to
believe in one another. Count on each
other to get stuff done even when it’s
really bleak sometimes. You just keep
hanging on, keep believing.”
Carroll had reason to be so encour-
aged after seeing the performance
by Seattle’s defense that somehow
kept Arizona out of the end zone but
left the likes of Bobby Wagner and
Richard Sherman severely fatigued
after being on the fi eld for 46 minutes
and 21 seconds, believed to be the
ninth-longest time of possession in a
regular-season game. The Seahawks
gave up 443 total yards to Arizona,
but huge plays in overtime by Earl
Thomas, Kelcie McCray and Wagner
managed to keep Arizona from
fi nding the end zone and created the
situation where Chandler Catanzaro
missed a 24-yard fi eld goal attempt
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Sports shorts
Jaguars’ Lee fl agged for racial slur
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Jaguars
receiver Marqise Lee says he was fl agged for
using a racial slur in Jacksonville’s 33-16 loss to
Oakland on Sunday.
Lee acknowledged Monday that it was the
reason for his unsportsmanlike
conduct penalty late in the third
quarter, a fl ag that seemingly
started Jacksonville’s fourth-quarter
meltdown in which defensive tackle
Malik Jackson and cornerback Jalen
Ramsey were ejected.
Lee
“I got fl agged for saying the
N-word,” Lee said. “It was back and
forth. In the midst of the game, emotion is going
from both teams. It just so happened the ref heard
me, so therefore I got the fl ag. I’ve just got to fess
up to it.”
The NFL made racial slurs a point of emphasis
in 2014, reminding offi cials that the league already
had a rule against abusive language.
“Congratulations, brother.“
— Frank Giannino
World record holder for running the
width of the United States to Pete
Kostelnick after he completed his
3,100-mile run from San Francisco to
New York on Monday in a time that
would shatter Giannino’s record once it
becomes offi cial. Kostelnick, a 29-year-
old Nebraskan, fi nished in 42 days,
8 hours and 34 minutes — four days
faster than Giannino did it in 1980.
Mountaineers climb to No. 11
in latest NAIA footbal poll
LA GRANDE — The Eastern Oregon
Mountaineers football team continued
its ascension up the NAIA rankings this
week, coming in at No. 11
in the latest Coaches Top 25
poll.
EOU (5-2, 5-2 Frontier
Conference) earned the
ranking following a 31-23
victory over Montana Western Saturday on
homecoming weekend. The Mountaineers,
off to their best start since 2011, are the
second-highest ranked team from the
Frontier Conference, with Montana Tech
(6-1) coming in at No 7 in the latest poll,
while Southern Oregon slid to No. 23.
The Blue and Gold return to action on
Saturday afternoon when they travel east
to College of Idaho for a noon kick-off.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1990 — Evander Holy-
fi eld knocks out Buster
Douglas in Las Vegas to
become the undisputed
heavyweight champion.
2003 — Trainer Richard
Mandella wins a record four
races at the Breeders’ Cup,
capping perhaps the greatest
day in racing history when
Pleasantly Perfect wins the
$4 million Classic at Santa
Anita. Mandella wins the $1
million Juvenile Fillies with
Halfbridled, the $1.5 million
Juvenile with long-shot
Action This Day and the
$2 million Turf with Johar,
who dead-heats with High
Chaparral.
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