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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2016
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World Series
Chicago’s curse is broken
Cubs win World
Series for fi rst
time since 1908
By RONALD BLUM
Associated Press
CLEVELAND — The wait ‘til
next year is fi nally over. The Chicago
Cubs are World Series champions.
Ending more than a century of
fl ops, futility and frustration, the
Cubs won their fi rst title since 1908,
outlasting the Cleveland Indians 8-7
in 10 innings of a Game 7 thriller
early Thursday.
Lovable losers for generations,
the Cubs nearly let this one get
away, too. All-Star closer Aroldis
Chapman blew a three-run lead with
two outs in the eighth when Rajai
Davis hit a tying homer.
But the Cubs, after tormenting
their fans one more time, came right
back after a 17-minute rain delay
before the top of the 10th.
Ben Zobrist hit an RBI double
and Miguel Montero singled home a
Game 7
Chicago
Cleveland
8
7
run to make it 8-6. Davis delivered
an RBI single with two outs in the
bottom half, but Mike Montgomery
closed it out, and the celebration was
on.
Blue-clad Cubs fans fi lled nearly
the entire lower deck behind the
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AP Photo/Matt Slocum
Chicago Cubs celebrate after Game 7 of the Major League Base-
ball World Series against the Cleveland Indians Thursday, Nov.
3, 2016, in Cleveland. The Cubs won 8-7 in 10 innings to win the
series 4-3.
HERMISTON
Bulldogs advance to quarterfi nals
Hermiston nets fi ve
in second half to
coast past Ashland
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
For the second straight year, the Hermiston
Bulldogs are into the quarterfi nals of the 5A
state playoffs.
Hermiston overcame a 1-0 fi rst half defi cit
and exploded for fi ve goals
in the fi nal 30 minutes
Boys Soccer of play to send home the
Ashland Grizzlies 5-1 in
a fi rst round playoff game
on Wednesday at Kennison
Ashland
Stadium.
“It was great feeling,”
Hermiston senior Gio
Madrigal said of the victory.
“We felt good and it gives
us high hopes for next game
Hermiston
too, it let’s us know we’re
never out of it.”
Wednesday’s
game
played out similarly to
Saturday’s play-in game against Sandy did — a
slow start with a big fi nish.
Hermiston (12-3-1) controlled the ball for
much of the half and developed several scoring
chances near the net, but came up empty each
time. The lone blemish for the Bulldogs came
early in the fi rst half when Ashland had some
luck fall its way to net a goal, as Hermiston
goalkeeper Antonio Campos attempted to
catch a centering pass but instead the ball
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Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Hermiston’s Miguel Hoyos heads the ball for a goal in the Bulldogs’ 5-1 win against Ashland on Wednesday in Hermiston.
BOARDMAN
Alejandro
Llamas
(10) and
Bryan
Altamira-
no (4), of
Riverside,
and Jayce
Roth (2)
and Luke
Williams
(6), of
Western
Menno-
nite, focus
on the ball
Wednes-
day in
Boardman.
Staff photo by
Kathy Aney
Persistent Pirates purge Pioneers
Riverside reaches
quarterfi nal round for
10th straight season
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
Riverside’s relentless assault
on the opposing net and senior
goalkeeper Adolfo Bedolla’s
seventh-straight shutout were
more than enough to extend
the Pirates’ run of 3A/2A/1A
boys soccer state quarterfi nals
appearances with a 5-0 win
over Western Mennonite on
Wednesday.
No. 4 Riverside (11-3-1) aver-
aged a shot every two minutes
and 51 seconds, and controlled
Boys Soccer
W. Mennonite
Riverside
0
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the middle of the fi eld while
only allowing No. 13 Western
Mennonite/Perrydale (10-7-1)
four shots the entire game as
Bedolla needed just three saves
to pick up his 10th shutout of the
season.
Five different Pirates found
the net, and sophomore Alexis
Cambero put them on top in
the fourth minute when he used
his thigh to redirect a rebound
coming off the crossbar.
“I just saw the open space
and went for the rebound, it hit
the crossbar and I was just there”
Cambero said. “I gave it a little
tap.”
The Pirates continued to
come at Pioneers goalkeeper
Sean Webster in the fi rst half,
but the junior made numerous
athletic saves to keep the score
at 1-0 headed into intermission.
In one particularly impressive
stretch he turned away shots
from close range in the 36th,
37th and 39th minutes.
“(Webster) was really good,
in the fi rst half we had many
shots and he was just good,”
senior Alejandro Llamas said.
“Our key is pressure. That’s why
we have the ability to keep going
hard, hard, hard. We had many
shots but we needed to fi nish.”
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Sports shorts
Turner resigns as Vikings OC
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) Vikings
offensive coordinator Norv Turner abruptly
resigned Wednesday, two days after Minnesota
lost its second consecutive game.
The Vikings have scored only 10 points in
each of those losses after a 5-0
start to the season. Turner was
replaced on an interim basis by Pat
Shurmur.
Turner said in several inter-
views Wednesday that the decision
stemmed from differing views
with Zimmer about the direction of
Turner
the offense.
“It just got to the point where I
didn’t think it was going to work with me, so I
removed myself,” Turner told the Minneapolis
Star Tribune.
Turner has been a head coach in the NFL
for 15 years. This was his 10th season as an
offensive coordinator in the league.
“I don’t know [anything]
about Von Miller money.
Nothing. Never heard of
that. Never came out of
my mouth ... I’m not Von
Miller, just so you know.
Let’s be smart now.
Let’s use some common
sense. “
— Jamie Collins
The new Cleveland Brown spoke
for the fi rst time about his trade
from New England on Tuesday.
Collins, who is a free agent after
the season, was reportedly trad-
ed because of his demands for a
contract extension in the range of
Von Miller’s deal with Denver.
Mariners outright three
players to Triple-A Tacoma
SEATTLE (AP) The Seattle Mariners on
Wednesday outrighted catcher Steve Clevenger
and pitchers Charlie Furbush and Ryan Cook
to Triple-A Tacoma, and claimed
right-handed pitcher Ryan Weber
off waivers from Atlanta.
All three players sent to
Tacoma have been on the 60-day
disabled list and each has the
right to choose free agency because of major
league service time. Clevenger was suspended
by the team in September for a series of tweets
regarding a police shooting in Charlotte, North
Carolina, and the Black Lives Matter move-
ment. He was removed from the suspended list
and placed on the 60-day DLon Oct. 31.
Furbush is expected to be out until the 2018
season due to shoulder issues.
Weber appeared in 16 games with Atlanta
this season and was 1-1 with a 5.45 ERA.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1996 — Jerry Rice
becomes the fi rst player with
1,000 career NFL receptions
in San Francisco’s 24-17
victory over New Orleans.
2007 — Navy snaps an
NCAA-record
43-game
losing streak to Notre Dame
with a 46-44 victory in triple
overtime. It’s the fi rst time
Navy beat Notre Dame since
1963.
2012 — Kenjon Barner
rushes for a school-record
321 yards and fi ve touch-
downs and No. 2 Oregon
produces another landmark
offensive performance in a
62-51 victory over No. 18
Southern California.
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