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Page 2B SPORTS East Oregonian Friday, May 5, 2017 HERMISTON BRIEFLY Bulldogs duo caps undefeated run Hermiston boys fall in league match to Hood River East Oregonian HOOD RIVER — Thomas McCullough and Patrick Wicks finished off an undefeated Columbia River Conference season on Thursday when Herm- iston boys tennis went to Hood River to take on the Eagles. Despite the strong lead from their No. 1 doubles team, the Bulldogs were unable to get the win and were trailing in the final two matches that were called early due to lightning. Hood River took the 4-2 victory, and Hermiston’s only Tennis Hermiston Hood River 2 4 other win was by Koby Grigg and Jason Morris at No. 2 doubles. “It’s been a tough season, losing the top half of our lineup (to graduation) and having kids step in to replace them that haven’t had a lot of court time,” said Hermiston coach Shann West. “We’ve got guys that are fighting, and sometimes they fight too much and it bites them in the rear.” That wasn’t the case for Wicks and McCullough, which represent the Bulldogs’ best chance at a state berth this season and beat twins Adam and Luke Harter 6-1, 6-1. “These g u y s headed into Wicks districts have a shot, and hopefully we can get them prepared this week,” West said. Grigg and Morris beat Charlie Bickford and Soren Rajani 6-2, 7-5. Bulldogs singles players Hayden Cissna and Jose Sanchez were both trailing in the second set of their matches when a thunderstorm brought about an early end to the day’s action. U P NEXT T h e Bulldogs won’t have another McCullough match until the district championships on May 12-13 in Sunriver. ——— Singles Sawyer Bogard (HR) def. Kaleb Jorgensen 6-2, 6-0 Simon Harsani (HR) def. Jose Mendoza 7-5, 6-0 Doubles Patrick Wicks/Thomas McCullough (HM) Adam Harter/Luke Harter 6-1, 6-1 Koby Grigg/Jason Morris (HM) def. Charlie Bickford/Soren Rajani 6-2, 7-5 Arnoldo Perez/Reese Carroll (HR) def. Matt Eckhardt/Austin Garcia 6-2, 6-2 Jay Fielder/Ben Fick (HR) def. Alan Zepeda/Eli Muniz 6-4. 6-3 NBA Pendleton to host Teen Wellness Night at Warberg PENDLETON — There will be a Teen Wellness Night at Pendleton High School’s Warberg Court on May 17, 7-9 p.m. Umatilla County Public Health and various community sponsors will be conducting this free wellness night for students in sixth through 12th grades from any area schools. Available services include sports physicals, vision, dental and behavioral health screenings, orthopedic assessment and vaccinations. Students attending each station will have their names submitted in a drawing for free Round-Up tickets. This will be the only night to get a sports physical at PHS before fall athletics begin on August 14. All sports physicals are valid for two years; student-athletes must have a sports physical completed on the official OSAA sports physical form before they can participate in any tryout or practice. For more information contact the PHS athletic office at (541) 966-3802. — East Oregonian Athlete of the Week Green shows range, leads Warriors past Jazz Twenty questions with Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. — Draymond Green showed Quin Snyder his hot hand and range up close, knocking down five 3-pointers and scoring 21 points before a brief knee scare late in the Golden State Warriors’ 115-104 victory over the Utah Jazz on Thursday night for a 2-0 lead in the Western Confer- ence semifinals. Kevin Durant added 25 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists, while Stephen Curry had 23 points, seven assists and played smothering defense as Golden State stayed unblemished through six playoff games. Gordon Hayward over- came a poor Game 1 and slow start in this one to score 33 points, and Rudy Gobert had 16 points and 16 rebounds before fouling out for a Jazz team missing injured point guard George Hill. He was ruled out earlier in the day because of a sore left big toe. Game 3 is Saturday night in Salt Lake City. Snyder made it clear when the series began he won’t be alienating Green again by daring him to let it fly from long range — or saying anything that could be perceived as criticism. Five months after the Jazz coach questioned Green’s perimeter range and commented about allowing the emotional Golden State star to shoot from way out, Snyder said before the game he had learned his lesson about fueling the All-Star forward. Green has been fueling himself just fine, and his teammates, too — delivering on the offensive side this game after establishing the Warriors’ defensive intensity during the first five playoff games. All his 3s were in the first half as the Warriors led wire to wire again. Golden State’s six straight victories to begin a post- season are a franchise record. WIZARDS 116, CELTICS 89 — At Wash- ington, John Wall scored 24 points, Isaiah Thomas was held to 13 and the Washington Wizards jumped out to a hot start and rode it to a 116-89 victory over the Boston Celtics in a technical foul-filled Game 3 on Thursday night to cut their series deficit to 2-1. The Wizards used a 22-0 first-quarter run to take a 34-12 lead as Thomas and the Celtics kept missing shots and turning the ball over. The game was already a blowout in the second when Washington’s Kelly Oubre Jr. was ejected for charging and knocking over Kelly Olynyk after the Boston big man was called for an illegal screen. There were eight technical fouls and three ejections total. Otto Porter and Bojan Bogdanovic scored 19 points apiece for Washington, which improved to 4-0 at home in the playoffs. Washington’s 119 first-quarter points is an NBA record for the first three games of a series. Responding to what coach Scott Brooks deemed a “bad shooting night” in Game 2, Bradley Beal scored Wash- ington’s first seven points and finished with 11. Defensively, the Wizards found a solution to Thomas, who was held to 13 points on 3-of-8 shooting. Thomas, who had some dental work adjusted at halftime, scored seven points at the free throw line. From Tuesday Beavers shut down Ducks to win Civil War Britton makes first start to lead OSU CORVALLIS — Jordan Britton and Brandon Eisert combined to hold Oregon two hits and a walk to send top-ranked Oregon State to a 4-1 win Tuesday in front a sold out crowd of 3,316 at Coleman Field. The Civil War match-up saw Britton make his first start of the season and his 5 2/3 innings marked a career-long for the sophomore. He came into the game with 4 1/3 innings of work during the the seventh Baseball through the 2017 season. eighth — and The left-hander retired all 10 from Caldwell, Oregon Oregon State batters he Idaho, limited faced. The the Ducks to left-handed two hits — a freshman has double in the second and single in the 35 on the year in just 26 2/3 sixth — with just one walk. He innings. He is averaging 11.8 struck out two and earned the strikeouts per nine innings. Jack Anderson drove in win after 5 2/3 innings — his a pair to lead the Beavers first of the season. Eisert, meanwhile, picked offensively. He hit a sacrifice up where Britton left off, fly to get Oregon State on the going 3 1/3 scoreless innings board in the first, and drove for the save, his second of home KJ Harrison with a the year. He struck out six — single in the seventh. The Beavers, up 1-0 including five straight from 1 4 after three, added two runs in the fourth via an Adley Rutschman single and sacri- fice fly by Nick Madrigal. Both Anderson and Rutschman finished with two hits. Ryne Nelson started for Oregon and took the loss after allowing one hit and one run in one inning of work. He dropped to 0-1. The win pushed the Beavers to 35-4 on the year, while Oregon dropped to 25-15. UP NEXT Oregon State opens a three-game home series with California Friday night. OSAA: Looking for input on school placement Continued from 1B not vote on a class model, but instead voted 23-16 in favor of a cutoff of 95 enrollment between 1A and 2A.) Class 6A athletic directors were “virtually unanimous” in their support of a five tier system, and 5A ADs voted 22-3 in favor of the six class model. For Hermiston, the argu- ment may be a moot point as the Bulldogs remained steadfast in their desire to join Washington Interscho- lastic Activities Association for 2018. Attempts to reach Hermiston athletic director Larry Usher for comment were unsuccessful. Hermiston is still waiting for the green light from the WIAA to make the move, though, and in the OSAA’s most current proposal would be a Class 6A team playing in the six-team Inter County Conference with road trips to Gresham and Bend for league games. Pendleton would go into a five-team Class 5A Inter- mountain Conference along with teams from central Oregon as well as current league foes The Dalles and Hood River Valley. The 4A and 2A athletic directors were largely in favor of keeping the current system with tweaks to allow for teams to petition to play down, or to determine which schools should be playing up despite a lower overall enrollment. We s t o n - M c E w e n ’ s Shawn White was one of the ADs in favor of the six-team system. “Well obviously I’m happy about that decision,” he said. “I think that it really helps with maintaining that competitive balance which is one of the main reasons we went to the six classifications years ago.” Class 3A was a near split, though, with the vote coming out 21-19 in favor of the current structure. Umatilla Athletic Director Scott Bow said it was mostly private schools and those on the edge of bumping down to 2A who wanted to eliminate a class. He said the 5A model did nothing to alleviate his school’s travel issues, and would only put them into a league with even more travel where they’d be the smallest school. Bow said he did under- stand the concerns of his fellow ADs, though, and like White is looking for the OSAA to do even more the balance the playing field by taking more factors than total enrollment into account when placing teams in their classifications. “From here it’s just going to be talking about the per diem, how they’re rating the compe- tition in sports,” he said. “It’s really going to be curios to see where their final numbers do come out, if they do make some major changes.” Bow explained one of things he’s looking at are percentage of student popu- lation engaged in athletics, since private schools tend to have a much higher number of participants than Umatilla despite their comparable total enrollments. Nearby, Irrigon and River- side are near the cutoff for 2A and Irrigon Athletic Director Steve Sheller said he cast his vote for the 5A structure that would have dropped the Knights down a level. “To be honest with you I like the looks — just I’m an Eastern Oregon guy and I like the looks of how the east part of the state looks in a 5A classification system,” he said. “It returns, at least most schools to a regional league, and its better travel for most — Umatilla not so much.” Sheller said that while he’s hopeful the OSAA will revisit the 5A idea in future years, he’s not going to spend any time dwelling on the decision. “Ultimately my thoughts on it are we will play whoever we’re told to play and we’re going to coach up our kids and be competitive either way,” he said. The committee won’t make its final proposal until Oct. 16 at a Special Classifica- tion and Districting Meeting. Since it spent so much time deciding between a 6A and 5A model, the committee is seeking feedback on cutoff points, league alignments and school placements. Written suggestions and proposals on these issues, as well as other classification related subjects can be emailed to the OSAA at bradg@osaa.org to be shared with all committee members for review and discussion. The next public meeting of the Classification and Districting Committee will be held at 9 a.m. on Monday, May 22 at the Al Kader Shriners Headquarters in Wilsonville. ——— Draft #15 Class 6A Inter County Conference Barlow Bruins 1,528 Bend Lava Bears 1,468 Gresham Gophers 1,369 Hermiston Bulldogs 1,240 Mountain View Cougars 1,225 Summit Storm 1,391 Class 5A Intermountain Conference Crook County Cowboys 703 Hood River Valley Eagles 1,171 Pendleton Buckaroos 779 Redmond Panthers 808 Ridgeview Ravens 854 The Dalles Riverhawks 706 Class 4A Greater Oregon League Baker Bulldogs La Grande Tigers McLoughlin Pioneers Ontario Tigers 434 539 400 541 Class 3A Eastern Oregon League Burns Hilanders Irrigon Knights Nyssa Bulldogs Riverside Pirates Umatilla Vikings Vale Vikings 222 209 277 211 318 225 Class 2A Wapiti League Enterprise Outlaws Grant Union Prospectors Heppner Mustangs Imbler Panthers Pilot Rock Rockets Stanfield Tigers Union Bobcats Weston-McEwen TigerScots 115 148 97 97 98 119 107 175 Class 1A Big Sky League Arlington Honkers Condon/Wheeler Knights Dufur Rangers Horizon Christian Hawks Ione Cardinals Mitchell/Spray Loggers Sherman Huskies South Wasco Redsides 44 59 80 68 68 44 67 67 Class 1A Old Oregon League Cove Leopards Echo Cougars Elgin Huskies Helix Grizzlies Joseph Eagles Nixyaawii Golden Eagles Pine Eagle Spartans Powder Valley Badgers Wallowa Cougars 73 82 87 58 59 41 46 69 58 Stanfield’s Brody Woods East Oregonian STANFIELD — Brody Woods picked up right where he left off last season for Stanfield baseball in 2017, and last week was a perfect highlight. On offense, Woods compiled five hits, five RBI, four runs scored and two doubles as his Tigers went 3-0 against Joseph and Irrigon. But Woods’ cherry on top was as a pitcher in Game 1 of Friday’s double- header with Joseph when the junior threw a five-in- ning no-hitter, needing just 60 pitches to strike out 10 batters and walk just one. For his efforts, Woods has been selected as the East Oregonian Athlete of the Week for the week of April 24-30. ———— EO: How old were you when you started playing sports and what was the first one you tried? BW: Probably as soon as I could walk I was playing teeball. What is your favorite sport to play? It’s always nice outside during baseball season, it’s a relaxed sport and takes a lot of skill and thinking instead of just physical ability. What is your favorite sport to watch on TV? College basketball What is your favorite MLB team? Seattle Mariners Do you have other hobbies outside of sports? I like to fish, golfing and just playing ping-pong with friends. If you could try any sport you have not yet played, what would it be? Men’s volleyball or lacrosse What is your favorite class in school? Physical Education Who is your favorite teacher you’ve had in school? My 3rd-4th grade teacher (at Arlington) Ms. Walborn. If you were in charge of your school, what is one thing you would change? Longer lunches. What is your favorite part about growing up in Eastern Oregon? Growing up I had to travel a lot to play sports so I met a lot of my best friends from playing on different baseball teams and basketball teams. What is your favorite place in the Pacific Northwest? Arlington’s my home- town, I like going back to see my cousins. What is your favorite sports movie? Space Jam (1996) What is your favorite food? My mom’s cheesy potatoes What is your least favorite food? Sushi What is your favorite local restaurant? Ixtapa in Hermiston. What is your go-to sunflower seed flavor during games? Smoky barbecue Do you have any pre-game superstitions? I always wear the same socks for every game. What is your dream job? Probably managing or working at a big golf course, or managing an MLB or college baseball field. What are your plans after high school? I want to play baseball at a junior college or D-II college. You’re pitching with the game on the line, which Stanfield teammate would you least want to face and why? Dylan Grogan, he can make contact and when he does it’ll go far. ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Brody Woods Stanfi eld Baseball, Junior Woods threw a no-hitter with 10 strikeouts in Stanfi eld’s 12-0 win over Joseph on Friday, and added fi ve hits, fi ve RBI, four runs and two doubles at the plate as the Tigers went 3-0 against Joseph and Irrigon during the week. 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