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THURSDAY, MAY 4, 2017
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PENDLETON
Timberwolves baseball splits with Sasquatch
BMCC offense
sputters as season
winds down
East Oregonian
The Blue Mountain
baseball team welcomed in
a Spokane on Wednesday,
a team that needs all the
wins it can get as the regular
season winds down with the
Sasquatch fi ghting for a spot
in the postseason.
But standing in Spokane’s
way was a BMCC team
that wanted to give the
Sasquatch its best shot.
With the T-Wolves out of
the postseason race, the
team is playing for pride and
momentum as the program
tries to climb upward.
But even with all BMCC
gave, the Timberwolves
could only muster one
victory out of the day as they
knocked off Spokane 3-0 in
the opener but then lost the
second game 12-1 in eight
innings.
In Game 1, BMCC (17-23,
8-14 East) had the majority of
its offensive production in the
fi rst inning,
as
starting
tallying fi ve of
pitcher Cole
the eight hits
Connolly was
and all three
on
Spokane Blue Mountain brilliant
runs at the
the mound.
start. Chase
Connolly,
Labbe started
a freshman
the Timber-
out of Milton,
wolves offense with a single Washington, threw 6 2/3
and then was moved to third scoreless innings, allowing
with a pair of groundouts.
just seven hits and two walks
But then the T-Wolves with fi ve strikeouts. He
broke through with two outs threw 87 total pitches and 71
on a RBI single by Nate percent strikes in what was
Cantonwine and a two-RBI his longest start of the season.
single by Rodney Scarver for
However in the second
a 3-0 lead. And that was all game, it was Spokane’s
the offense the team needed, (20-15,
13-9)
pitching
0-12
3-1
that got the upper hand as
Ryan Byrd struck out 10
Timberwolves and allowed
just seven hits and one run in
seven innings. BMCC got its
only run in the bottom of the
third with an RBI double by
Tanner Broom that brought
home TJ Rea from fi rst.
The
Timberwolves
defense didn’t do themselves
any favors either, as fi ve
errors were tallied in Game
2. BMCC starting pitcher
Chase Root felt the pain
from the booted balls, as he
allowed fi ve runs in three
innings, but only one was an
earned run.
UP NEXT
BMCC has only three series
left to play, and next hosts
Columbia Basin for a double-
header on Saturday at 1 p.m.
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Game 1
R H E
CCS
000 000 000 — 0 10 2
BMCC 300 000 00X — 3 8 1
(C) K. Woods and R. Peterson. (B) C.
Connolly, N. Pena (7) and C. Labbe. W — C.
Connolly, L — K. Woods.
2B — R. Peterson (CCS); G. Friesz
(BMCC). 3B — D. yates (CCS)
Game 2
R H E
CCS
102 203 04 — 12 9 0
BMCC 001 000 00 — 1 8 5
(C) R. Byrd, A. Lee (8) and J. Smith. (B)
C. Root, T. Helman (4), B. Howell (7), K.
Enriquez (8) and J. Rogers. W — R. Byrd,
L — C. Root.
2B — J. Ross, D. Yates (CCS); T. Broom
(BMCC).
PENDLETON
MLB
Mariners
rally past
Angels
Bulldog netters sweep Bucks
Hermiston boys and
girls tennis beats
Pendleton
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Jarrod Dyson’s
two-out, two-run double in the
eighth inning pulled Seattle even,
Jean Segura followed with a two-run
single to take the lead and the Mari-
ners rallied late for an 8-7 victory
over the Los Angeles Angels on
Wednesday night.
Seattle watched an early 4-0 lead
evaporate because of shaky relief
pitching. But the
Mariners
came
through in the
eighth
inning
scoring all four Los Angeles
runs with two outs
to snap a three-
game losing streak.
Singles
by
Kyle Seager and
Seattle
Danny Valencia,
and a walk to
Taylor Motter off
Angels reliever
Blake Parker (0-2) loaded the bases
with two outs. Dyson fell behind
0-2 but dropped a double off the end
of the bat into shallow right fi eld
to score two and pull the Mariners
even. Segura then chopped a single
through the left side of the infi eld to
give Seattle the lead.
Segura had a career-high four
RBIs, including a two-run homer in
the fi fth inning. Robinson Cano hit
his fi fth home run of the season.
Jean Machi (1-0) pitched a
perfect eighth inning and Edwin
Diaz worked a shaky ninth for his
fi fth save. Kole Calhoun hit a solo
home run with two outs, and Diaz
followed by hitting Mike Trout on
the arm, but he struck out Albert
Pujols to end the game.
Trout ignited the Angels’ one big
rally with a two-run homer as the
Angels sent 10 batters to the plate in
the sixth inning. Trout’s homer off
Seattle starter Hisashi Iwakuma was
his eighth of the season, extended
his hitting streak to a career-best 16
games and came on the day he was
named the American League player
of the month for April.
Seattle reliever Emilio Pagan gave
up three hits and three earned runs in
his major league debut in relief of
Iwakuma. His only out recorded was
a leaping catch at the wall by Guill-
ermo Heredia that robbed Andrelton
Simmons of a three-run homer. But
the Angels had seven hits in the
inning, capped by a two-run double
by Yunel Escobar.
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
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8
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Jose Mendoza, of Hermiston, hits a forehand shot during his match with Pendleton’s Lincoln John-
son on Wednesday at West Hills Courts.
As if the fi rst warm afternoon
of the tennis season wasn’t enough
to make the Hermiston Bulldogs
sweat, the Pendleton Buckaroos
added some additional heat to forge
one of the closest matches between
the schools in recent history.
Each team won three matches
but Hermiston held on to sweep
the season series, only because
No. 3 doubles team Eli Muniz and
Allan Zepeda was able to win their
second set and force a tiebreaker.
They lost the match, but that
second-set win pushed Hermiston
over the top 7-6 on sets.
The Bulldogs’ wins came at
Nos. 1 and 2 doubles, and No. 2
singles.
Pendleton’s Lincoln Johnson
won at No. 1 singles over Jose
Mendoza 6-1, 6-3, and lost his grip
on his racket late in the second set
as Mendoza closed within a game
at 4-3 with back-to-back wins.
“That was just sweat on my
hand. It’s unfortunate, but it
happens I guess,” Johnson said,
adding that it felt much warmer
than the reported high of 76
degrees. “We haven’t had a day
like this for tennis this season, it
See TENNIS/2B
College Football
Matt Mariota makes a move with the Ducks
Younger Mariota has
brother as mentor
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
Oregon tight end Matt Mariota
has a most impressive mentor.
Older brother Marcus is just
a phone call or text away, and
in some cases this offseason, he
was just a short walk away at the
Ducks’ athletic facilities.
“He’s actually really helpful.
He and I, we’ll text each other
after every practice. He wants to
see some fi lm; he’ll criticize me on
certain stuff,” Matt said. “But it’s
a blessing to have him, because,
especially at tight end, they’re
really, really, really in tune with
quarterbacks. So having a brother
as a quarterback makes it a lot
easier.”
While Matt was busy learning
a new position during spring prac-
tices over the past several weeks,
his older brother was busy working
on his return to the Tennessee
Titans.
Marcus broke his right leg
at the end of the last season and
he rehabbed both back home in
Hawaii and in Eugene. The 2014
Heisman Trophy winner worked
out — appropriately enough — at
the Marcus Mariota Sports Perfor-
mance Center in the Casanova
See MARIOTA/2B
Thomas Boyd/The Oregonian via AP, Pool, File
In this April 30, 2015, fi le photo, former Oregon quarterback Mar-
cus Mariota, right, poses for a picture with his family at the Saint
Louis Alumni Clubhouse on NFL Draft Day in Honolulu. His broth-
er Matthew Mariota, left, Toa Mariota, his father, left center, and
his mother Alana Deppe-Mariota, center right.
Sports shorts
Brandon Roy shot at party
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former NBA
player Brandon Roy was injured in a shooting
while attending a party in Southern California
over the weekend, authorities said Wednesday.
Los Angeles County sheriff’s Lt. Joseph
Williams said Roy was one of four
people shot in Compton on Saturday.
He said Roy and the three other
victims were attending a party
when two men walked up and
opened fi re without saying a word.
Williams said all four victims were
shot in the upper body but suffered
Roy
non-life-threatening injuries.
Investigators are still trying to determine a
motive for the shooting. No arrests have been made.
The 32-year-old Roy starred at Washington,
where he was Pac-12 player of the year in 2006.
He played in the NBA for Portland and
Minnesota and won the league’s Rookie of the
Year award in 2007.
Tony Romo to go for US Open
“It’s pretty humbling.
When you’re a rookie,
you’re just looking to put
your head down, help
the team and learn the
ropes.”
— Ezekiel Elliott
Dallas Cowboys running back,
who led the league in rushing
as a rookie and also was the
top player when it came to NFL
player merchandise and prod-
ucts sales. Elliott’s quarterback in
Dallas Dak Prescott was No. 2,
marking the fi rst time two rookies
have led the list.
ALEDO, Texas (AP) — Tony Romo’s next
pursuit of a championship will be in golf.
And it’s a long shot.
A month after the Dallas Cowboys quar-
terback retired, Romo is among nearly 9,500
players who signed up for the
U.S. Open. He plays an 18-hole
local qualifi er Monday at Split
Rail Links and Golf Club about
30 minutes west of Fort Worth.
If he advances, the next step
is sectional qualifying on June 5
to get into the U.S. Open at Erin
Romo
Hills in Wisconsin.
This isn’t the fi rst time Romo has tried to qualify.
He made it out of local qualifying in 2010. In a
36-hole sectional qualifi er where only two of the
35 players advanced, Romo opened with a 71 and
withdrew in the afternoon after two weather delays.
Orville Moody in 1969 was the last player to go
through local qualifying and win the U.S. Open.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1957 — Iron Liege, ridden
by Bill Hartack, wins the
Kentucky Derby by a nose
when jockey Willie Shoemaker,
on top of Gallant Man, takes the
lead but misjudges the fi nish
line. Shoemaker stands up in
the saddle before the fi nish,
which allows Iron Liege to win.
1968 — The Pittsburgh
Pipers beat New Orleans Bucca-
neers 122-113 in Game 7, to win
the fi rst ABA championship.
1999 — The New Jersey
Devils become the fi rst
top-seeded team to lose in the
fi rst round of the playoffs in
consecutive years when they
lose 4-2 to the Pittsburgh
Penguins in Game 7.
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