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Aparicio both hit double
digits in points for Riverside
(5-10, 1-4 EOL), as Castillo
led with 14 and Aparicio
had 12. Castillo also added
four steals and six rebounds.
Riverside also welcomed
back senior guard Noe
Madriagal, who played for
the first time in league play
and tallied six points on two
made 3-pointers in eight
minutes.
Sam MacLaughlin led
Vale (3-12, 1-2) with nine
points.
Riverside next plays at
Nyssa on Friday night with
a 7:30 p.m. start.
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VHS
10 6 14
5 — 35
RHS
13 13
8 18 — 52
VALE — S. MacLaughlin 9, N. Carlson 8,
D. Kaschmitter 7, G. Bahena 3, R. Gomez 3,
T. Hamilton 2, C. Kesey 1.
RIVERSIDE — E. Castillo 14, F. Aparicio
12, D. Rodriguez 9, N. Madrigal 6, M.
Hegar 5, A. Martinez 2, A. Hernandez 2, R.
Rosales 2.
3-pointers — VHS 5, RHS 3. Free throws
— VHS 4-8, RHS 11-17. Fouls — VHS 18,
RHS 15. Fouled out — F. Aparicio (RHS).
IRRIGON 61, BURNS
45 — At Irrigon, the Knights
won their sixth game in
the last seven tries with a
61-45 victory over Burns on
Tuesday evening at Irrigon
High School.
Johnny Philips led
Irrigon (10-5, 3-1 EOL)
with a game-high 17 points,
while Austin Rice scored
13 and Hayden White
pitched in nine points. The
victory moves Irrigon into
sole possession of second
place in the Easter Oregon
League,
trailing
only
Umatilla.
“It was a pretty good
game for us,” Irrigon
coach Davie Salas said
afterward. “We’re playing
good basketball right now
and we’re taking care of the
basketball.”
Scott Davies led Burns
(9-8, 1-3) with 13 points.
Irrigon next travels to
Vale on Friday for a 2 p.m.
start.
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BHS
45
IHS
61
BURNS — S. Davies 13, C. Tiller 7, K. Dahl
6, B. Friedrichsen 6, T. Case 4, B. Goss 3,
A. Stewart 2.
IRRIGON — J. Philips 17, A. Rice 13, H.
White 9, A. Gomez 8, D. Vera 7, O. Vera 3,
A. Roa 2, L. Covarrubia 2.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
LA GRANDE 55,
PENDLETON 49 — At
La Grande, the Pendleton
Buckaroos dropped a close
non-league road game
against the La Grande Tigers
55-49 on Tuesday night.
“Pretty tough game on
back-to-back nights and
maybe it was tough to
perform at our peak on the
second night,” Pendleton
coach Kevin Porter said
Tuesday, referring to Pend-
leton’s win over Baker on
Monday. “But La Grande
just doubled our output in
the fourth quarter. It’s a
game we’ll have to learn
from.”
Maureen Davies led
Pendleton (5-6) in scoring
for the second straight game
and neared a double-double
with 11 points and nine
rebounds. Kalan McGlothan
also scored nine points and
added six rebounds, while
Haley Greb had eight points
and Tatum Fell had seven.
Breann Givens led La
Grande (8-8) with 17 points.
Pendleton next hosts The
Dalles on Friday for a 7 p.m.
start.
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PHS
15 15 11
8 — 49
LG
13 14 12 16 — 55
PENDLETON — M. Davies 11, K. McGlo-
than 9, H. Greb 8, T. Fell 7, K. Bradt 5, E.
Nirschl 5, L. Richards 4.
LA GRANDE — B. Givens 17, L. Miles
15, D. Lester 9, L. Jensen 7, M. Tussey 5,
J. Howton 4.
3-pointers — PHS 3, LG 4. Free throws
— PHS 12-17, LG 21-28. Fouls — PHS 21,
LG 12. Fouled out — K. McGlothan (PHS).
IRRIGON 49, BURNS
35 — At Irrigon, the
Knights finished strong to
pick up their second straight
win over a top 10 team on
Tuesday in Eastern Oregon
League action.
Down 8-1 after the first
quarter, No. 17 Irrigon (9-7,
2-2 EOL) outscored No. 6
Burns (11-5, 3-1) in each of
the next three frames and led
29-23 going into the fourth.
“Our defensive effort
tonight, especially in the
second half, was awesome,”
said Irrigon coach Mike
Royer. “Beating a team like
Burns is a nice accomplish-
ment for this team. We’re
playing better as a team on
both ends of the floor.”
Irrigon’s Jada Burns
scored 15 points and added
seven steal and three assists,
and Alyia Munoz also had
15 points to go with five
rebounds. Taylor Davis
added 10 points and seven
rebounds.
Oakley West scored 12
points to lead Burns. Irrigon
was coming off a win over
No. 8 Vale on Monday.
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BHS
8 10
5 12 — 35
IHS
1 15 13 16 — 49
BURNS — O. West 12, L. Taylor 9,
C. Feist 6, E. Winn 4, S. Shelman 2, C.
Patterson 2.
IRRIGON — J. Burns 15, A. Munoz 15,
T. Davis 10, A. Zacarias 4, L. Mills 3, K.
Wyant 2.
3-pointers — BHS 0; IHS 4. Free throws
— BHS 5-7; IHS 11-17.
POWDER VALLEY
68, HELIX 37 — At North
Powder, the Grizzlies fell
behind early and never
recovered in Tuesday’s Old
Oregon League loss.
Sadie Wilson had a
double-double with 14
points and 14 rebounds to
lead Helix (6-7, 2-5 OOL),
but the Grizzlies turned the
ball over 27 times as a team
and shot just 16 percent (9
of 53) from the floor.
“We’re getting open
shots, and ran our offense
pretty well, the shots just
wouldn’t fall,” Helix coach
Kirk Flerchinger said. “We
just need to put four quarters
together and do a good job.”
Helix plays at Wallowa
on Friday at 4 p.m.
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HHS
2 12
8 15 — 37
PVHS
12 24 14 18 — 68
HELIX — S. Wilson 14, M. Tullis 7, E.
Fehrenbacker 5, K. Mize 5, A. Krol 2, K.
Cope 2, C. Bennett 1, H. Christman 1, H.
Fehrenbacker, A. Wood, L. Case.
3-pointers — 1. Free throws — 18-27.
VALE 45, RIVERSIDE
25 — At Boardman, the
Riverside Pirates turned the
ball over 30 times, allowing
the Vale Vikings ran away
with a 45-25 victory in an
Eastern Oregon League
game on Tuesday night.
“We just turned it over at
will,” Riverside coach Clair
Costello said. “We tried to
play too fast for the most
part, and if we would’ve
slowed it down we might
have been right in it.”
Riverside was also
playing without captain and
top scorer Lacey Mashos, as
she sat with a back injury.
Sophomore post Faith
Rosen led Riverside with
nine points and also grabbed
14 rebounds, catching the
eye of Costello all night
long.
“She’s only 5-7, but she
was a monster in there,”
Costello said. “She went
right in there to the paint and
battled.”
Bo Bourasa led Vale
(12-3, 2-1) with 12 points.
Riverside next travels to
Nyssa on Friday.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017
BRIEFLY
Elks Lodge
basketball hoop
shoot contest
HERMISTON — Two
Hermiston students will
represent their team at the
State Hoop Shoot basketball
tournament next month,
after winning the local Elks
Lodge District Hoop Shoot
Jan. 15. Wyatt Browne and
Luis Flores will travel to
Milwaukee to compete in
the statewide event Feb. 11.
The District Hoop Shoot,
held at Sandstone Middle
School, hosted students ages
8 through 13, representing
Elks Lodges from around
northeastern Oregon.
Students have 25 chances to
make as many free throws
as possible. Competitions
were divided into three age
groups. The winners for
the 8-9 year-old age group
were Leopoldi Longoria
and Keefauver. The 10-11
year-old winners were
Wyatt Browne and Gianna
Medelez, and Luis Flores
and JaLay Burns won the
12-13 year-old category.
-East Oregonian
Pendleton’s
Caden Smith
shoots a three
over La Grande’s
Zack Jacobs in
the Bucks’ 63-59
win against the
Tigers on Tues-
day in Pendle-
ton.
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
VHS
16 10
8 11 — 45
RHS
4 8
8
5 — 25
VALE — B. Bourasa 12, A. Burkhardt 9,
T. McFetridge 7, A. Trenkel 7, A. Hamilton 5,
D. Johnson 5.
RIVERSIDE — F. Rosen 9, S. Wightman
6, A. Caldera 6, Br. Avalos 4, M. Hegar, A.
Hernandez, C. Garcia, Bi. Avalos.
3-pointers — VHS 3, RHS 0. Free throws
— VHS 4-11, RHS 3-7. Fouls — VHS 12,
RHS 11.
WRESTLING
PENDLETON
69,
THE DALLES 12 — At
The Dalles, the Pendleton
Buckaroos dominated The
Dalles Riverhawks in a
Columbia River Conference
dual match on Tuesday
night.
The Buckaroos were able
to do so with mostly a junior
varsity lineup, taking 13
sophomores, three freshmen
and one senior on the trip.
“You’re always nervous
not taking the varsity lineup
with you, even to a place
you know you can win,”
Pendleton coach Fred Phil-
lips said, “but all in all it was
a good day for the young
kids to get some good expe-
rience in and good to see
them wrestle well.”
Standouts for Pendleton
included Shawn Yeager,
Aiden Patterson, Alex
Rendon, and Coby Jones
who all won by fall in their
respective matches.
Pendleton returns to the
mats today to host Hood
River in the Buckaroos’ lone
home dual of the season.
Junior varsity begins at 6
p.m. and the varsity follows
at 7 p.m.
BUCKAROOS: Back in action
today for game against Baker
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quarter on an 8-2 run over the
first three minutes that was
capped when Jerome poked
the ball away from Peasley
and then took off the other
way. Wyatt Morris grabbed
the loose ball and delivered
the pass to Jerome under the
basket and the Bucks went
up 39-31.
“The first three minutes of
the third quarter is something
that we stress a lot and I
thought we did a good job,”
Tedder said.
Pendleton took its largest
lead at 49-40 when Smith
scored from the top of the
arc with 1:53 left in the third
quarter, and the closest La
Grande came from there
was when it cut the lead to
55-51 with a little over five
minutes to go on a layup by
GT Blackman.
Peasley’s steal and slam
dunk made the score 61-56
with 1:08 to play, but Pend-
leton was able to work the
clock and La Grande didn’t
score again until the final 10
seconds.
The first half saw the
score tied twice and the lead
change hands 10 times.
Morris scored nine of his
14 points in the first quarter
on a trio of three-pointers and
finished 4 for 6 behind the
arc in the game.
La Grande had it’s only
run of the game in the first
quarter, going on an 8-0
spurt to take a 12-10 lead on
a three by Peasley with 2:52
left in the frame, but Morris
stopped the bleeding on
Pendleton’s next trip down.
It is just the second time
this season the Bucks have
won back-to-back games and
the first time they’ve been
over .500 in 2017.
“I thought that we could
have done a little bit better
job in the first half, but the
energy is there,” Tedder said.
“Again it’s our ninth game
of the season where other
teams it’s their 15th or 16th,
so we’re still building. We’ve
still got lots of things to get
better at. … It’s the little
things.”
After having 17 days
between games due to
weather in January, Pend-
leton will play two more
times this week with its next
game tonight at Baker at 6
p.m. Pendleton then plays
on the road Friday in a return
to league action against The
Dalles at 7 p.m.
The Bucks’ next home
game is against Hermiston
on Tuesday, Jan. 31, with a
7:30 p.m. tip-off.
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LGHS
15 14 17 13 — 46
PHS
16 15 20 12 — 51
LA GRANDE — A. Peasley 25, E. Siltanen
9, G. Hanson 9, K. Green-Chandler 6, Z.
Jacobs 5, J. Schiller 3, G. Blackmon 2.
PENDLETON — C. Smith 22, W. Morris
14, S. Jerome 10, J. Stuvland 10, J. Szums-
ki 4, T. Newsom 2, R. Russell, D. Thomas,
K. Curtis.
3-pointers — LGHS 7-21; PHS 7-17. Free
throws — LGHS 12-17; PHS 10-14. Fouls —
LGHS 12; PHS 12.
RODRIGUEZ: Joins a Walla Walla MARTINEZ: Ceremony on Aug. 12
squad that made postseason in 2016
Even though Cooper-
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put himself in goal-scoring
opportunities is what really
caught my eye,” Rotert said.
“He’s a great soccer player
and probably a better person,
so to have a guy that loves
the game, loves to work hard,
but is also willing to work
in the classroom and just be
that overall good ambassador
for the program makes it a
perfect fit.”
Rotert’s Walla Walla
Warriors squad is coming off
of a solid season where the
team finished 10-6-4 overall
and tied for second in the
NWAC East division with a
7-6-2 record and 23 points.
The Warriors advanced to
the NWAC Championships,
where they were ousted in
the first round by eventu-
al-champion Tacoma 3-1 on
penalty kicks.
Rodriguez is anxious to
get started with the Warriors,
where he wants to continue
to grow many aspects of his
game.
“I want to evolve my shot,
my game speed,” Rodriguez
said. “I just want to build
up everything I can and be a
good all-around player.”
And as he looks back on
his Hermiston career, the
lack of deep postseason runs
or a state championship still
stings, but Rodriguez is very
Staff photo by Eric Singer
Hermiston senior Freddy Rodriguez, center, poses for
a photo with Hermiston boys soccer coach Richard
Harshberger, left, and Walla Walla Community College
coach Ben Rotert, right, on Tuesday at Hermiston High
School after Rodriguez signed his NLOI to play soccer
at Walla Walla starting this fall.
proud of what he and his
teammates were able to put
together, which is a 41-18-4
overall record and two state
tournament appearances.
“I’m very proud because
everything that I’ve done
makes me the person I am
today and the soccer player
I am today,” he said. “Every-
thing is just a learning expe-
rience and that’s hopefully
what I’ll learn in college, is
there’s always going to be
that downfall but you have to
stand back up and what ever
doesn’t kill you makes you
stronger, it really does and so
you keep going and you’ll be
fine.
But before he leaves
Hermiston, Rodriguez has
one more goal in a different
sport that he has his eye on.
“Ii want to get to state
in the 300-meter hurdles,”
Rodriguez said, still with a
smile. “That’s what I’ve been
doing since freshman year.”
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stown is still just a possi-
bility for Martinez, the club
decided now was the right
time even if it meant special
approval from ownership.
“I was surprised. I knew
that the Mariners had these
policies about retiring
numbers and I didn’t expect
it, so I was surprised,”
Martinez said.
The Mariners have strict
guidelines for number
retirement that allow for the
honor only if a player has
been elected to the Hall of
Fame or has come close to
election. Griffey was — and
should have been — the
first Mariners player to have
his number retired. And it
makes sense for Martinez
to be the second, especially
after receiving nearly 59
percent of the vote in Hall
of Fame balloting this year.
The Mariners also hope
that the number retirement
may boost Martinez’s Hall
of Fame chances. Last
week, Martinez was named
on 58.6 percent of ballots
when results of Hall of
Fame voting by the Base-
ball Writers’ Association of
America were announced.
It was a major jump that
set the stage for Martinez to
potentially become the first
player who was primarily a
designated hitter to be voted
into the Hall of Fame.
Martinez has two years
AP Photo/Elaine Thompson
Seattle Mariners former designated hitter Edgar
Martinez smiles as he speaks at a news conference
announcing the retirement by the team of his jersey
number 11, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, in Seattle.
of eligibility remaining on
the ballot.
“It was a conversation
that we had and then when
the (Hall of Fame) vote
came out, it was a relatively
quick call,” Mather said.
“Our board of directors had
to approve it and it was a
relatively easy answer once
he got over 50 percent.”
No player aside from
Griffey connected with
Seattle like Martinez. While
Griffey was the undisputed
star of baseball for most
of the 1990s, Martinez
was nearly his equal while
hitting in the same lineup.
The difference is while
Griffey was Seattle’s first
star, Martinez was the star
that never left.
He spent all 18 of his
major league seasons with
the Mariners and returned
during the summer of 2015
as the club’s hitting coach.
He is regarded as one of the
best right-handed hitters of
his generation, finishing his
career with a .312 batting
average with 309 career
home runs and 1,219 career
RBIs. He added a .418
on-base percentage and .515
slugging percentage to his
other batting numbers and
twice led the AL in batting
average and doubles.
“That will be special to
see my number is going to
be next to Junior’s, one of
the greatest players to play
the game ... also next to the
great Jackie Robinson,”
Martinez said. “That’s
something I never could
expect looking back at my
career.”