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SPORTS TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS HERMISTON Calvin Shaffer, of BMCC, scores 72 to win the saddle bronc event Saturday at the North- west Inter- collegiate Rodeo Finals in Hermiston. BMCC dominates at home Blue Mountain rodeo extends leads in Northwest Region East Oregonian The Blue Mountain rodeo teams extended their leads in the Northwest Region with a dominant three rounds in Hermiston over the weekend. The Timberwolves were on top of their game on Saturday to win the two-round BMCC Rodeo at Umatilla County Fairgrounds, and the men’s team scored 695 points while the women came in with 580. Then in Sunday’s one-round NW Region Rodeo #6 the men pulled in a whopping 1,109 points to win again while the women were second with 460 to Treasure Valley. After the weekend’s action the Timberwolves are ahead in the season standings by more than 2,400 points on the women’s side and by more than 1,600 on the men’s. BMCC’s John Espeland leads the men’s all-around standings, and he was the all-around cowboy for Satur- day’s action with 300 points in saddle bronc and bareback. He won both events with 78 points on one and 123 on two, respectively. The T-Wolves’ Quincy Pender- grass won the women’s all-around for that rodeo with 345 points in barrel racing and breakaway roping. She won the barrels in 35.12 seconds on two, and was third in breakaway with 7.8 on two. Also winning and event Saturday was Preston Pederson in tie-down roping with 19.5 on two — he was third in steer wrestling with 25.9 on two. Jessica Lewis was third in barrel racing with 35.43 on two, and Candida Eldridge was second in goat tying (16.8 on two) and team roping (30.6 on two) as a header for Boise State’s Wyatt Williams. The BMCC men had the top Staff photo by Kathy Aney See RODEO/2B PENDLETON Prep Roundup Timberwolves sweep Hawks Greb Blue Mountain’s Miah Slat- er watch- es her game-end- ing home run sail over the left fi eld fence during Game 2 of a double- header with Columbia Basin on Saturday in Pendle- ton. Staff photo by Eric Singer second at tourney East Oregonian CRESWELL — Pendleton’s Haley Greb and Summit’s Olivia Loberg continued their season-long battle atop the leaderboards on Monday at Emerald Valley Golf Club. The last time out it was Greb on top, but this time on the course where the state fi nals will be held Loberg surged ahead for the win with a round of 74. Greb came in See MONDAY PREPS/2B From Saturday BMCC picks up two big wins with season winding down By ERIC SINGER East Oregonian Blue Mountain freshman Miah Slater has not had the kind of offensive perfor- mance she was hoping for in her fi rst collegiate season. The Timberwolves fi rst baseman came into Saturday’s doubleheader with Columbia Basin hitting just .155 (9 for 58) in 24 games, which even prompted her to sit for a few games because she simply couldn’t buy a hit. But she hopes that things may be going in the right direction now after going a combined 3 for 5 in the two games Saturday as the Timberwolves picked up two huge wins with a sweep of Columbia Basin 13-3 and 14-6. Included in Slater’s three hits was a big three-run home run in the bottom of the fi fth inning in Game 2 which enacted the eight-run rule to give the Timberwolves (13-24, 9-15 NWAC East) the walk-off win. For Slater, she almost couldn’t contain herself as she watched the ball sail over the fence and clank off the storage shed beyond the left fi eld fence. “Oh my gosh it felt so good,” Slater said with a big sigh of relief. “Even if it wasn’t a walk-of, I needed that. I’ve been struggling and it was perfect and I was glad I could do that for my team because it had Mac-Hi softball stays unbeaten in league play Softball Columbia Basin Blue Mountain 3-6 13-14 been awhile since I was able to do it. “No better way to end it for sure.” It was a tremendous exclamation point on a very successful day for the Timber- wolves, who needed to turn things around Saturday following two ugly losses to Walla Walla on Friday. The Timberwolves are fi ghting for the 16th and fi nal NWAC playoff spot, and started the day in 19th and needing all the wins it can get with just 10 games left to play. Columbia Basin (10-26, 6-18) scored the day’s fi rst run in Game 1 as the Hawks tagged BMCC pitcher Tiffany Snyder for one run and one hit for a 1-0 lead. But Snyder settled down after that and let the Timberwolves offense help her out, as she allowed just two runs and one hit over the fi nal four innings. BMCC tied the game in the bottom of the fi rst with a double by Sydney Saxton Siaki and then the Timberwolves took a 2-1 lead in the second on an RBI groundout See BMCC SOFTBALL/2B Pioneers roll against Tigers East Oregonian MILTON-FREEWATER — The Mac-Hi Pioneers keep chugging along in the Greater Oregon League as they swept the Ontario Tigers for the second time this season on Saturday afternoon, winning 9-1 and 13-3 at Yantis Park. The Pioneers (15-3, 8-0 GOL) won Game 1 behind a domi- nant day by Mallory Softball Copeland. The senior pitched a complete game in the circle, giving up Ontario just four hits and one run in seven innings to go with eight strikeouts and added a 3 for 4 game at the plate with her seventh home run of the season Mac-Hi and added two doubles as well. Copeland had one hit with three RBIs and her third double of the day in Game 2. Coming into the game, Ontario’s (14-7, 2-6) offense had averaged more than nine 1-3 9-13 Staff photo by Eric Singer Blue Mountain pitcher Megan Ulrey throws a pitch during Game 2 of the Timberwolves doubleheader with Columbia Basin on Sat- urday in Pendleton. See SATURDAY PREPS/2B Sports shorts Thompson, Beavers extend streaks CORVALLIS, Ore. – Jake Thompson struck out a career-high 11 in eight innings and KJ Harrison drove in three runs, including a two-run home run, to pace top-ranked Oregon State past USC 10-1 on Sunday in front of a sold out 3,351 at Goss Stadium at Coleman Field. Thompson scattered fi ve hits and a run in eight innings, and his 11 strikeouts eclipsed his previous best of 10 set earlier this season against Arizona State. The redshirt junior won his ninth game – tying Thompson him for the nation’s lead. The Beavers’ victory over USC pushed Oregon State to its ninth consecutive series win dating back to 2016. OSU has won all seven series this season, after wrapping up victories over USC and UCLA. Oregon State and Oregon match up today at Goss Stadium at Coleman Field in the Civil War. Ducks win 15th straight Civil War “There’s no nightlife in Utah. Obviously, as players, you want to be able to have a little bit of a nightlife, but the main focus is winning games.“ — Matt Barnes Golden State Warriors forward on part of the reason he’d have rather seen the Los Angeles Clippers advance to face the Warriors in the second round of the NBA playoffs. Game 1 between the Warriors and Utah Jazz is tonight. EUGENE, Ore. — Megan Kleist pitched a one-hit shutout and Shannon Rhodes drove in fi ve runs Sunday, as the No. 6 Oregon softball team completed a three-game sweep of Oregon State with a 7-0 victory before a sellout crowd of 2,517 in Jane Sanders Stadium. The Ducks (41-6, 14-6 Pac-12) have won 15 straight games against rival Oregon State, sweeping fi ve straight series. With the sweep, they kept themselves fi rmly in the hunt for a top-eight postseason seed, and the right to host the fi rst two weeks of the NCAA Tournament. Kleist set down the fi rst seven Beavers (24-22, 6-12) before surrendering a one-one single in the third. That and a two-out walk in the sixth were the only blemishes on her ledger, as Oregon State failed even to advance a runner into scoring position on the afternoon. THIS DATE IN SPORTS 1917 — Fred Toney of the Cincinnati Reds and James “Hippo” Vaughn of the Chicago Cubs pitch a double no-hitter for nine innings, but the Reds win 1-0 with two hits in the 10th. 1953 — Dark Star, a 25-to-1 shot, wins the Kentucky Derby, beating 7-10 favorite Native Dancer by a head. It’s Native Dancer’s fi rst defeat after 11 straight wins and the only defeat in 22 career starts. 2001 — James Hylton, a 28-year-old construction worker from Keizer, Ore., bowls the fi fth perfect 900 series in the 106-year history Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com
