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HERMISTON
Pack of Bulldogs sign with T-Wolves
BMCC soccer adds more
local talent for fi rst team
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
When the Hermiston boys soccer team
lost a 2-1 heartbreaker to Woodburn in the
state quarterfi nals in November, many of
the team’s 11 seniors thought that it was
their fi nal time playing the game they love
together.
However, on Wednesday six of those
seniors decided that the playoff game
wasn’t their last time together. Anthony
MLB
Six Hermiston
seniors smile
with BMCC soc-
cer coach Art
Moda, center,
after all signed
to play soccer
for the school
on Wednesday.
Pictured from
left are Isma-
el Arenas, Eli
Lopez, Anthony
Carillo, Isaac
Munoz, Gio
Madrigal, and
Hiram Maciel.
Carillo, Eli Lopez, Gio Madrigal, Hiram
Maciel, Isaac Munoz, and Ismael Arenas
all signed National Letters of Intent with
Blue Mountain Community College and be
a part of the school’s fi rst-ever men’s soccer
team in the fall. The six made it offi cial
at a signing party in the Hermiston High
commons, and were all happy to know they
will continue playing as teammates.
“It’s a great feeling because I’ve grown
up with these guys and we all know how
to play with eachother,” Lopez said. “I’m
excited about what’s going to happen this
year and I’m looking forward to it.”
It was also an emotional day for the
athletes, as all six were also fulfi lling
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Staff photo by Eric Singer
NBA Playoffs
Haniger
guides M’s
to victory
Durant-less Warriors fl y by Blazers
Golden
State
War-
riors’
Stephen
Curry
(30)
scores
against
the Port-
land Trail
Blazers
during
the fi rst
half in
Game
2 of a
fi rst-
round
NBA
bas-
ketball
playoff
series
Wednes-
day,
April 19,
2017, in
Oakland,
Calif.
Rookie outfi elder extends
hit streak to 13 games
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Rookie Mitch
Haniger extended his hitting streak
to 13 games with three hits and
four RBIs, and the Seattle Mariners
beat the Miami Marlins 10-5 on
Wednesday for their fi fth win in six
games.
Seattle has stabilized after a shaky
fi rst 10 day, receiving a punch of
offense on a day Felix Hernandez
(2-1) did not have
his best stuff.
Haniger led the
charge. A night
Miami
after breaking up a
potential no-hitter
with a ninth-inning
double,
Haniger
scored
in
the
fi
rst
inning,
had
Seattle
a two-run single
in the second and
clanged a two-run
double off the wall
in deep center fi eld in the fourth.
Kyle Seager also drove in four runs
and was on base four times as the
Mariners went 6-3 on their only
homestand of April.
Miami starter Edinson Volquez
(0-2) barely made it through three
innings, giving up four runs and fi ve
hits. He walked four for the second
straight start.
Haniger was considered the extra
piece of Seattle’s biggest offseason
AP Photo/
Marcio Jose
Sanchez
5
10
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Portland falls into 2-0 hole against defending Western Conference champs
By JANIE MCCAULEY
Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — Stephen
Curry scored 19 points on an off
night, JaVale McGee sparked
Golden State off the bench with
15 points, and the short-handed
Warriors beat the Portland Trail
Blazers 110-81 in Game 2 of
their fi rst-round playoff series
Wednesday night without injured
leading scorer Kevin Durant.
McGee shined on a night none
of the usual stars found their
consistent shooting strokes. The
backup big man
had six assists and
Game 2
made all seven
six rebounds. Klay
of his fi eld-goal
Thompson was 6 of
attempts and deliv-
17 with 16 points
ered several more
Portland Golden State and CJ McCollum
of his signature
and
Damian
alley-oop dunks
Lillard were hardly
as Durant watched
were the dynamic
with a strained left calf he hurt in scoring duo for Portland they’d
the playoff opener Sunday.
been combining for 75 points only
Draymond Green had another three days earlier.
fantastic all-around game, getting
Again, Golden State did it on
12 rebounds, 10 assists, six points defense — holding the Blazers to
and three more blocked shots after 12 points in the third. And now
swatting fi ve in Sunday’s win.
the Warriors own a 2-0 lead in
Curry went 6 for 18 and also the best-of-seven series as it shifts
81
110
to Portland for Saturday’s Game
3, just as Steve Kerr’s group did
going ahead on the Blazers in
last year’s Western Conference
semifi nal won in fi ve games.
Maurice Harkless scored all
of his 15 points in the fi rst half
and the Blazers gave up seven
straight points to start the third
as the Warriors were off and
running. Portland played again
without center Jusuf Nurkic, and
missed him. The 7-footer still isn’t
100 percent from a nondisplaced
fracture in his right leg that side-
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Prep Roundup
Thieme’s gem guides Rockets to sixth straight win
Pilot Rock sits alone
in second place in
Special District 6
East Oregonian
AP Photo/Elaine Thompson
Seattle’s Mitch Haniger singles
in a pair of runs against the Mi-
ami Marlins in the second inning
of Wednesday’s game in Seattle.
PILOT ROCK — The Pilot
Rock baseball team was able to
get in half of its doubleheader
against
Sherman
nine and walked
Baseball
before Wednesday’s
four, but didn’t
fl ash storm hit, and
allow a runner past
came away with a
second after the fi rst
Pilot Rock inning to keep the
3-1 win after a gem Sherman
on the mound by
Rockets undefeated
Levi Thieme.
in Special District 6.
Thieme
over-
Sherman (8-3,
came some early issues to settle 5-2 SD6) took a 1-0 lead in the
in and retired 10 straight Sherman top of the fi rst inning when Mav
batters in the middle innings. He Winslow walked on four straight
gave up just three hits, struck out balls and later scored on a line
1
3
drive to right fi eld by Bradley
Moe.
Thieme, who was coming off a
10-strikeout one-hitter in a 9-0 win
over Grant Union in his last start,
walked the next batter but got the
third out on a looking strikeout.
Pilot Rock (7-4, 5-0) got the
run back in the bottom of the
fi rst when Joe St. Pierre doubled,
advanced to third on a ground-out
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Sports shorts
Harden outduels Westbrook as
Rockets take 2-0 series lead
HOUSTON (AP) — James Harden scored
35 points and the Houston Rockets overcame
51 points from Russell Westbrook in a triple-
double, clawing back from a
double-digit defi cit for a 115-111
victory over the Oklahoma City
Thunder on Wednesday night to
take a 2-0 lead in the fi rst-round
Western Conference playoff series.
Westbrook set a franchise
playoff scoring record and added
Harden
13 assists and 10 rebounds in
the most points ever scored in a postseason
triple-double. It was the sixth career playoff
triple-double for Westbrook, who had an
NBA-record 42 in the regular season.
Game 3 is Friday night in Oklahoma City.
The game was tied before Houston scored 10
straight to make it 114-104 with 1:22 remaining.
“At the end of the day,
does this fi ght make a ton
of sense for me? It really
doesn’t. But Conor wants
this thing really bad and
I’ve said this many times:
The kid’s stepped up and
saved some big fi ghts for
me. I’m in. I’ll fi gure it
out.“
— Dana White
UFC president revealed his
feelings for the proposed boxing
match between Floyd Mayweath-
er and Conor McGregor on
Wednesday, and said there is
still a lot of work to be done with
negotiations to make it a reality.
Buccaneers next NFL team to
take on HBO’s Hard Knocks
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Coming off their fi rst
winning season in nearly a decade, the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers will be featured on HBO’s
“Hard Knocks” sports reality
series during training camp — an
opportunity coaches and players
are embracing but hardly sought.
The team was selected from
among eight clubs meeting
NFL criteria for consideration for the popular
fi ve-episode series that takes viewers behind
the scenes of a club’s preparation for the
regular season.
Tampa Bay joins the Baltimore Ravens,
Dallas Cowboys, Cincinnati Bengals, Kansas
City Chiefs, Miami Dolphins, Houston
Texans, Atlanta Falcons, Los Angeles Rams
and New York Jets as clubs that have partici-
pated in the series.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1912 — Fenway Park opens
in Boston with the Red Sox
beating the New York Yankees
7-6 in 11 innings.
2006 — Julio Franco
becomes the oldest player in
major league history to hit a
home run, helping his New
York Mets rally for a 7-2 win
over San Diego. Franco, 47,
replaces Athletics pitcher
Jack Quinn in the record
book who was 46 years, 357
days old when he homered in
June of 1930.
2008 — Danica Patrick
becomes the fi rst female
winner in IndyCar history,
capturing the Indy Japan
300 in her 50th career start.
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