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Tuesday, May 2, 2017
East Oregonian
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STANFIELD
Prep Track & Field
Buckaroos compete well Stanfield athletes make college decisions
in final tuneup
The
right-handed
Gadsden heads to
thrower has a chance to
East Oregonian
ONTARIO — The Heinz
Invitational on Saturday after-
noon was the final tuneup for the
Pendleton Buckaroos track and
field team before the district meet
and for the most part the Bucka-
roos put together a solid day.
The Buckaroo girls team
earned a second place finish
with 96 points while the boys
team finished third with 90
points, both finishing behind
first-place Ontario teams.
Pendleton claimed seven
victories at the meet, headlined
by the girls sweeping the pole
vault, high jump, long jump
and triple jump events. Hailey
Kendrick tied for first in the
pole vault by clearing 9-feet
even, while Oceane Schreier
won the triple jump with a new
personal record of 32-00.50.
Senior Kiara Glover won
both the high jump (5-feet-4)
and long jump (16-07.50).
On the boys side, Soren
Wolf de Gavia took first in the
100 meter dash with a fast time
of 11.46. The boys 4x100 relay
team also took first, as Cade
Anderson, Jon Jennings, Colin
Rickman and Wolf de Gavia
finished in a time of 44.84.
Mac-Hi also competed
at the Heinz Invitational on
Saturday, where Bianca Garcia
continued her impressive
season with a win in the javelin
throw. Her distance of 120-02
came with a cushion of nearly
13 feet on second place.
Landon Warne also had a
good day for the Pioneers, as
he won the boys discus with
a throw of 136-07 and then
finished fifth in the shotput.
UP NEXT
Pendleton will compete in
the CRC district champion-
ships on May 10-11 in Herm-
iston and Mac-Hi will head to
the Baker Invite on Friday.
the best days of the locals.
Pilot Rock girls finished in
third place with 66 points on
the day, behind La Grande who
was first with 94.5. Pilot Rock’s
top performer was Abby Rigby,
who took first place in the 200
meter dash with a season record
26.90 time and then took first
in the 400 meter dash with a
personal record time of 59.65.
She also finished third in the
100 meter dash.
The Heppner boys finished in
fifth with 49 points, well behind
first place La Grande with 181.
Heppner’s top performers were
distance runner Hunter Nichols
and thrower Derek Howard.
Nichols took first place in the
1500 meter run with a personal
record time of 4:15.12 and
then finished second in the 800
meter with a time of 2:08.42.
Howard then turned in a
first place finish in the shot put
with a personal-best throw of
48-06.25.
The Condon/Wheeler boys
team had a decent day with
an eighth place finish with
29 points. The Knights were
paced by jumper Jake Bold,
who took first in the high
jump with a personal record of
6-feet-1 and first place in the
pole vault by clearing 11 feet.
For the Condon/Wheeler
girls team, Christine Segura
took first in the high jump by
clearing 5-feet-1. Pilot Rock’s
Olivia Warner finished second
to Segura by jumping 4-feet-6.
And finally, Irrigon sprinter
Ana Zacarias also had a
notable day, as the sophomore
finished top five in the 100
meter (4th, 13.35), 200 meter
(3rd, 27.68) and 400 meter
dashes (2nd, 1:02.85).
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NIKE SHERMAN INVI-
TATIONAL — At Moro, seven
local schools descended on the
Nike Sherman Invitational on
Saturday afternoon and the
Heppner Mustang boys and
Pilot Rock girls finished with
Boys Team Scores
1. La Grande
5. Heppner
8. Condon/Wheeler
9. Irrigon
11. Ione
12. Pilot Rock
14. Helix
16. Echo
181
49
29
26
20
14
8
7
Girls Team Scores
1. La Grande
3. Pilot Rock
5. Helix
6. Irrigon
12. Condon/Wheeler
14. Echo
15. Ione
18. Heppner
94.5
66
56
46
16
13
9
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make an immediate impact
at Blue Mountain, with the
Timberwolves losing two
of the three pitchers on its
roster after this season.
Gonzales will also be
teaming up with Pilot Rock
pitcher Tehya Ostrom at
BMCC next season, and the
idea of a locally-dominated
pitching staff is something
that Gonzales is looking
forward to.
“I don’t know her
personally, but we’ve
competed together on
the field for a long time,”
Gonzales said. “I’m very
excited to call her my team-
mate and hopefully lead the
pitching staff with her.”
She does know that her
and Ostrom will have their
work cut out for them,
though, as they are joining
a BMCC program that, just
like Gadsden with TVCC,
has not had a winning
season in several years. But
Gonzales, too, is looking
forward to the challenge.
“I would love to say that
I was a part of the change
in the program,” she said,
“and that I am helping
turn around a softball team
around to build a better
program.”
———
Contact
Eric
at
esinger@eastoregonian.
com or 541-966-0839.
Follow him on Twitter @
ByEricSinger.
Treasure Valley,
Gonzales stays
home with BMCC
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
March 23, 2017 will be
a day that Stanfield seniors
Maya Gadsden and Kenzie
Gonzales will remember
for a long time.
It was the day that both
ladies took a big step toward
achieving one of the biggest
goals of their respective
athletic careers. In a cere-
mony at Stanfield Secondary
School, the duo signed
National Letters of Intent
to play college athletics,
with Gadsden signing with
Treasure Valley Community
College for volleyball and
Gonzales with Blue Moun-
tain Community College for
softball.
“I remember feeling
very happy and excited
for the next chapter in my
life,” Gadsden said. “It
was relieving that all my
hard work payed off, that it
wasn’t for nothing.”
“I’m just super stoked
to know that I can play at
the next level,” Gonzales
added.
Gadsden, who lines up
at outside hitter/middle
blocker on the court,
started playing volleyball
Photo contributed by 60 Minute Photography
Stanfield Secondary School seniors Maya Gadsden,
left, and Kenzie Gonzales, right, pose before signing
their National Letters of Intent on March 23, 2017.
Gadsden signed with Treasure Valley CC volleyball,
and Gonzales signed with Blue Mountain CC softball.
in eighth grade, but didn’t
start to think about possibly
playing in college until her
sophomore year of high
school. She gathered more
attention on the recruiting
circuit by playing club
volleyball, playing on Club
Gold based out of Richland,
Washington.
The senior, who will
study nursing, said she had
interest from three commu-
nity colleges and a few
Division III colleges. But
in the end, Treasure Valley
stood out to her and made
itself the obvious choice.
“I liked that it’s a small
school with an excellent
coaching staff,” Gadsden
said. “They have the same
philosophy as my club
team which is a really
easy transition. And I was
looking to go somewhere
that offered on-campus
living so I could have a
total college experience.”
Gadsen will join a Trea-
sure Valley program that
went 10-23 overall in 2016
and finished eighth in the
NWAC East region. The
Chukars have averaged just
over 11 wins per year in the
past four seasons, and have
not had a winning season
since 2009, but Gadsden
hopes to help fix that.
For Gonzales, who also
plans to study nursing, Blue
Mountain was the only
college she set her sights on.
“It’s close to home, the
girls I was able to meet were
great and the coach was
awesome,” Gonzales said.
PENDLETON
Bucks win Spring Fling Tourney
East Oregonian
Photo courtesy of Travis Zander
The Pendleton 14U Bucks pose together after
winning the Spring Fling baseball tournament
on Sunday in Pendleton.
The Pendleton Bucks 14U
team beat the Kennewick Heat
10-5 on Sunday for the cham-
pionship at the Spring Fling
baseball tournament held over
the weekend in Pendleton.
Bucks coach Travis Zander
said Curtis Simons and Colby
Evens made game-saving
defensive plays while Parker
Persinger and Kyle Field
combined on the mound to
lead the team against Kenne-
wick. Jimmy Jones and Ty
Beers each had two hits to
pace the offense.
Also Sunday, the Bucks
beat the Columbia Crushers
5-4 in the semfinals with back-
to-back singles in the bottom
of the seventh inning by Pers-
inger and Jordan DeGeer, then
a walk-off single by Tucker
Zander for the win. DeGeer
had two hits, and Beers got the
win on the mound.
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