SPORTS
WEEKEND, APRIL 22-23, 2017
1B
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HERMISTON
Prep Roundup
Tigers Falcons thump on Bulldogs
roll for
two
Hermiston’s
Brady Chris-
tiansen (10)
and Tysen
Salinas (14)
attempt to
steal the ball
from Isaac
Tsolak (2),
of Liberty,
Friday in a la-
crosse game
at Kennison
Field in
Hermiston.
Stanfi eld beats
Riverside in baseball
doubleheader
East Oregonian
STANFIELD — Brody
Woods and Tony Flores pitched
complete games and Thyler
Monkus touched home plate
seven times as the Stanfi eld
baseball team rolled to a pair of
fi ve-inning wins over Riverside
on Friday.
Woods tossed a one-hitter
while getting
an
18-hit
Baseball
outpouring
in support to
give the Tigers
Riverside
a 25-3 win in
the opener of
their Eastern
O r e g o n
L e a g u e
doubleheader,
Stanfi eld
then
Flores
allowed just
two hits as
errors by the
Pirates aided the offense in a
10-0 win.
Woods struck out 10 while
walking six, and Flores fanned
nine while walking just one.
Monkus went 5 for 8 on the
day with three RBI, and Flores
was 4 for 4 with two triples,
four runs and fi ve RBI in Game
1 alone.
Justin Keeney (3 for 4) also
added fi ve RBI in Game 1 for
Stanfi eld (13-1. 7-0 EOL).
Aramis Corpus had the only
hit in Game 1 for Riverside
(2-12, 2-5).
UP NEXT
Stanfi eld plays at Irrigon on
Tuesday at 4 p.m.
Riverside is at Burns on
Friday, April 28, for a double-
header at 2 p.m.
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Staff photo by
Kathy Aney
3-0
25-10
Game 1 (5 innings)
R H E
RHS
003
00 — 3 1 7
SHS
(11)68 0X — 25 18 1
W — B. Woods. L — A. Corpus.
2B — R. Bailey, T. Monkus 2, T. Flores, D.
Grogan (SHS). 3B — T. Flores 2 (SHS).
Game 2 (5 innings)
R
RHS
000 00 — 0
SHS
023 32 — 10
W — T. Flores. L — Caluillo.
3B — T. Monkus (SHS).
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Liberty hands Hermiston lacrosse second straight home loss
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
Friday had the potential to be a
memorable night for the Hermiston
lacrosse team.
The Bulldogs were winners of
three of the past fi ve games and
were averaging more than 12 goals
per game and their opponent, the
Liberty Falcons, came into the
game losers of three straight where
they allowed more than 12 goals
per game. And it was senior recog-
nition for the Bulldogs as well.
However once the game started
the night turned into one to forget
for the Bulldogs. The Falcons
used some physical play and quick
movement in the offensive zone to
Warriors
freshman
Jansen
Edmiston
prepares to
shoot a free
throw during
a game this
season in
Lewiston,
Idaho. Ed-
miston led
her team in
free throw
percentage
going 31 for
36 (86.1 per-
cent) and will
be looking to
take more of
a leadership
role in her
sophomore
season.
Photo courtesy of
Lewis-Clark State
Athletics
defeat the Bulldogs
11-4 under the
lights at Kennison
Liberty
Field.
The
Falcons
(3-6) won the
opening faceoff and
gained the early possession and
for awhile looked like it would not
relinquish it. Liberty scored just
1:14 into the game when Jacob
Randall-Bodman beat Hermiston
(3-8) goalkeeper Beau Blake high
for a 1-0 lead. The Falcons kept the
pressure on the Hermiston defense
in the quarter, scoring two more
goals to take a 3-0 lead before
Hermiston even registered a shot
attempt, which the Bulldogs fi nally
did at the 4:30 mark in the fi rst
11
quarter.
Liberty scored
three more times in
Hermiston
the half to hold a
6-0 advantage at the
break. Their offense
always seemed to
be one step ahead of the Bulldogs
defense, working the ball around
with quick, strategic passes to get
the Bulldogs out of position which
set up easy shot attempts.
“Their man in the middle, he
kept pulling off to the side and we
would get confused whether to
slide over or still guard the middle,”
Hermiston junior defenseman Mark
Mejia said.
When Hermiston’s offense
would fi nally get some time on
4
attack, it could never develop a
rhythm to sustain its attack. The
Bulldogs could not consistently
connect on passes, leading to turn-
overs, while the Falcons defense
showed its physicality with plenty
of body checks. Senior Tucker
Salinas said that the extra amount
of pressure the Falcons defense
brought took Hermiston some time
to adjust to.
“They were defi nitely pressuring
us pretty good and we weren’t used
to that,” Salinas said. “Even some
of the better teams we’ve played
don’t press us as hard as they did, so
kudos to them. But it’s no excuse,
we didn’t pass and catch which is
fundamentals.”
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HERMISTON
Edmiston eager for larger role
Hermiston product
made quick transition
with Warriors
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
For
Lewis-Clark
State
freshman Jansen Edmiston, lead-
ership has always come naturally.
A four-year starter at point
guard for the Hermiston Bulldogs,
Edmiston had grown comfortable
as that player others look to for
guidance.
But when she joined the
Warriors as the team’s only true
freshman prior to the 2016-17
season, the two-time All-EO
Player of the Year was glad she
had some established veterans to
learn from.
“I think I’ve learned how to
play a role,” she said recently in a
phone interview. “I was leader for
so long in Hermiston, but playing
behind a couple All-Americans
you’re going to learn from them
and it was nice having that, and
having somebody else to step up
and have them teach me. Every
day they would make me better.”
Like she did in high school,
Edmiston made the transition
to the next level quickly and
appeared in all 37 games as the
Warriors posted program records
for wins and winning percentage,
35-2 (.946), and reached their
fi rst NAIA Championship where
they lost 73-66 to Oklahoma City,
which won its ninth title overall
and third in four seasons.
Edmiston went 2 for 2 from
three-point range for six points
and also had six rebounds in 11
minutes of playing time (about
a minute more than her season
average) in the title loss.
“I mean I got a lot of playing
time for a freshman, I don’t know
I thought I would play that much,”
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Sports shorts
Bumgarner lands on DL for fi rst
time ever after dirt bike accident
DENVER (AP) — Giants ace left-hander
Madison Bumgarner was placed on the disabled
list for the fi rst time in his big league career
Friday after a dirt bike accident that sent him
to a hospital with bruised ribs and
a sprained joint in his pitching
shoulder.
San Francisco announced
Bumgarner’s injury Friday, a day
after the accident occurred during
an off day in Colorado. The Giants
Bumgarner
said Bumgarner is out of the
hospital and resting at the team hotel. He will be
re-evaluated next week.
The 27-year-old Bumgarner, the 2014 World
Series MVP, is 0-3 with a 3.00 ERA in four
2017 starts. San Francisco recalled right-hander
Chris Stratton from Triple-A Sacramento to fi ll
the roster spot.
“At some point you’d like
to know and prior to the
draft is that point. Our
door is open and we’re
not shutting the door until
that time, pretty much ...
We’re trying to get some
more impact players and
if it’s Marshawn, we’re
going to do it..“
— Reggie McKenzie
Oakland Raiders GM said he
is keeping the door open on
Marshawn Lynch coming out of
retirement to join the Raiders,
though the team hopes to know
before the draft.
ESPN buys CFB bowl game,
moves it from Florida to Texas
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The American
Athletic Conference announced ESPN Events
has acquired the Miami Beach Bowl and the
game will move out of Florida.
The Miami Beach Bowl was
created by the American and has
been played at Marlins Park the
past three seasons.
AAC Commissioner Mike
Aresco says the new site will be announced
soon, but it appears to be heading to Toyota
Stadium in Frisco, Texas, the home of FC
Dallas of the MLS and the FCS national
championship game.
In a statement, FC Dallas president Dan
Hunt says the organization is “excited about the
opportunity to have Toyota Stadium serve as
the home for a bowl game,” but did not specify.
ESPN Events is a division of ESPN that
owns and operates more than a dozen bowls.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1876 — The fi rst offi cial
National League baseball game
is played, with Boston beating
Philadelphia 6-5.
1987 — The NBA grants
expansion franchises to
Charlotte, Miami, Minnesota
and Orlando. Charlotte and
Miami join the league in the
1988-89 season; Minnesota
and Orlando join in 1989-90.
2006 — New Jersey
scores a playoff-record fi ve
power-play goals in its 6-1
win over New York.
2008 — John Smoltz of
Atlanta becomes the 16th
pitcher in MLB history to
reach the 3,000-strikeout
plateau.
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