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Newspaper Page TextPage 2B SPORTS East Oregonian Saturday, May 6, 2017 PENDLETON BUCKS: Richards no- Wenatchee totals 34 hits, sweeps BMCC hits The Dalles East Oregonian Continued from 1B second and third, and both scored on a single by Jared Beveridge to reach the final tally. The win maintains Pendleton’s one-game lead on Hermiston for second place in the CRC, which would give them a home play-in game for the 5A playoffs. UP NEXT Pendleton plays at league-leading Hood River on Tuesday, then closes out the regular season at home on Friday by hosting Hermiston. Both games begin at 4:30 p.m. ——— R H E PHS 001 100 3 — 5 4 1 TDHS 100 000 0 — 1 4 1 W — D. Naughton. L — J. Wetmore. 2B — A. Zaugg (PHS). HR — W. Morris (PHS). SOFTBALL PENDLETON 13, THE DALLES 0 — At The Dalles, the Buckaroos picked up their 20th win of the season in style on Friday with a five-inning win over The Dalles in Columbia River Conference action. Lauren Richards pitched a no-hitter and hit a two-run home run as one of the 18 hits by Pendleton (20-3, 8-1 CRC) in the game. Kalan McGlothan and Payton Hergert added solo home runs for the Buckaroos, and each also hit doubles. Hergert went 4 for 4 and McGlothan was 3 for 4. Kirah McGlothan, Aspen Garton and Maddie Parker were all 2 for 2, and Alexi Brehaut went 2 for 4 for the Bucks. “Our batters went out there with good approaches and they waited for their pitch,” said Pendleton coach Tim Cary. Richards (2 for 3) struck out seven and walked two. “She’s just a tremendous competitor and I really appreciate the way she goes out and competes every game,” Cary said. UP NEXT Pendleton plays a doubleheader at Hood River on Tuesday that will likely determine the CRC champions with Pendleton holding a one-game lead on the Eagles. First pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m. ——— (5 innings) R H E PHS 173 02 — 13 18 0 TDHS 000 00 — 0 0 1 L. Richards and K. Solomon. B. LeBreton, S. Watson (3) and A. Williams. W — Richards. L — LeBreton. 2B — Ki. McGlothan, P. Hergert, Ka. McGlothan, A. Garton (PHS). HR — L. Richards, Ka. McGlothan, P. Hergert (PHS). WENATCHEE, Wash. — Weston-McEwen graduate Jessica Lambert helped bring down the Blue Mountain Timberwolves in the first half of an NWAC softball doubleheader on Friday. A 12-run inning did more than enough in the second game as Wenatchee Valley beat BMCC 15-5 and 19-1, both in five innings. Lambert pitched the complete Game 1, and finished with seven hits allowed and two walks, but had plenty of support as the Knights (26-10, 24-2 East) cranked out 15 hits — two of them home runs. Blue Mountain (13-27, 9-17) scored five runs in the top of the fourth to pull within 7-5, but Wenatchee answered with eight runs in its at-bat. Sydney Saxton Siaki (2 for 3, two RBI),f Sarah Bonner (1 for 3, three RBI) and Addy Daubert (2 for 2) led BMCC’s comeback attempt. There was no last gasp in the second game, though, and Wenatchee already led 7-0 when it piled on with a 12-run fourth inning. Aaliyah Enriquez started in the circle and got the win, and Allie Kopczynski had her second straight two-double game while collecting eight RBI. UP NEXT BMCC plays at Yakima Valley today for a doubleheader starting at noon. ——— Game 1 (5 innings) R H E BMCC 000 50 — 5 7 1 WVC 340 8X — 15 15 2 W — J. Lambert. L — M. Ulrey. 2B — B. Anderson (BMCC); A. Kopczynski 2, A. Enriquez (WVC). HR — A. Writer, A. Steen (WVC). Game 2 (5 innings) R H E BMCC 000 01 — 1 4 3 WVC 502 (12)X — 19 19 1 W — A. Enriquez. L — S. Kidd. 2B — M. Ulrey (BMCC); A. Kopcznski 2, K Malcolm (WVC). BULLDOGS: Jones home run lifts softball to win Continued from 1B with a smile. And on a 1-0 count, Ramirez jumped on a fastball from Hood River (16-7, 8-2) pitcher Conner Coerper and smacked it into left field, scoring both runners and putting Hermiston on top 4-2. The sophomore finished with a team-best two hits on the day with three RBIs and one run scored. Hermiston’s final run came in the fifth inning, when Brylee Dufloth sprinted to home from third base on a passed ball and barely beat the tag at home to give Hermiston a 5-2 lead. That run proved to be huge insurance run for the Bulldogs, because the Eagles gave everything they had for a rally attempt in the seventh inning. With two outs, Hood River scored one run on Ramirez, who came on in relief of Tolan, and then drew a walk to put the tying and go-ahead runs on base. After a passed ball, those runs moved up to second and third with Hermiston still just needing the final out to claim victory. Ramirez said he didn’t get too nervous on the mound in the situation, he just knew he needed to do his job. “I told myself ‘Just throw strikes’ and I knew my infield and outfield had my back,” Ramirez said. And it worked, as Ramirez induced an easy groundball to shortstop where Caden Schwirse threw out the batter for the final out to earn the save. Staff photo by Kathy Aney Hermiston’s Jordan Ramirez and Kaden Caldwell converge on the ball behind first base during Friday’s game against Hood River Valley at the Armand Larive baseball field. “It’s a big win for us,” Ramirez said. “That is a good team over there and we want to play our best here to finish the season.” The win mixed with a loss by The Dalles on Friday moves Hermiston into third place in the CRC, the final postseason spot for the conference. And with now two games left, Christy believes the best is yet to come for the Bulldogs. “I think our upside is pretty huge,” he said. “This is where we wanted to be by the end of the season in terms of playing well and hopefully we can continue doing it. We keep telling the kids, anything can happen in the play- offs and we’re a scary team and I think a lot of teams can overlook us, but we have a lot of guys who can do positive things.” UP NEXT Hermiston hosts The Dalles on Tuesday with a 4:30 p.m. start. ——— R H E HRV 200 001 1 — 4 11 2 HHS 110 210 X — 5 8 3 (HR) C. Coerper, I. Enriquez (5) and A. Cameron. (HHS) L. Tolan, J. Ramirez (7) and S. Gritz. W — Tolan, L — Coerper. 2B — A. Cameron, K. Leiblein (HRV); S. Gritz (HHS). SOFTBALL HERMISTON 1, HOOD RIVER 0 — At Hermiston, the Bulldogs team earned themselves a huge victory on Friday after- noon, outlasting the Hood River Eagles 1-0 at Rocky Heights Elementary. The only run of the game came in the second inning, when Hermiston (8-15, 2-8 CRC) senior Ellery Jones blasted a solo home run to lead off the inning. After Jones’ hit, it was a pitching duel between Hermiston’s Julissa Almaguer and Hood River’s (13-9, 7-2) Hannah McNerney with Almaguer coming out on top. The junior lefty allowed just six hits and one walk in seven innings to go with two strikeouts. “Julissa threw lights out,” Hermiston coach Kate Gree- nough said after the game. Bulldogs catcher Bailee Noland had a solid game as well, as she collected two hits with a double and a stolen base on offense, and also threw out two runners on the basepaths. Amanda Barron and Kalei Smith also collected hits for Hermiston. The win snaps a three game losing streak for Hermiston and snaps a four game winning streak for Hood River, who had been tied for first in the CRC with Pendleton. UP NEXT Hermiston hosts The Dalles on Tuesday with a 4:30 p.m. first pitch. ——— R H E HRV 000 000 0 — 0 6 0 HHS 010 000 X — 1 5 4 W — Ju. Almaguer. L — H. McNerney. 2B — B. Noland (HHS). HR — E. Jones (HHS). ——— Contact Eric at esinger@ eastoregonian.com or 541-966- 0839. Follow him on Twitter @ ByEricSinger. PREPS: Special District 4 tennis sub-district semifinals match-ups set Continued from 1B Summit Bend Pendleton Hermiston Crater Ashland Ridgeview Eagle Point Mountain View 351 361 375 393 397 425 437 441 500 BOYS Summit Marist Catholic Pendleton The Dalles Thurston Hermiston Bend Mountain View Redmond Churchill Ridgeview Eagle Point Ashland Crater 323 342 345 345 351 355 370 373 374 374 376 382 413 434 First Round Leaders GIRLS Olivia Loberg, Summit Haley Greb, Pendleton Haley Brown, Crater Josephine Fraser, Summit Kaylie Hayes, Bend Ascha Kelleher, Bend Ryleigh Gainey, Eagle Point Grace West, Bend Caitlin O’Connor, Crater Sydney Mansour, Summit Megan George, Pendleton Sonja Peterson, Hermiston Sydney Adams, Hermiston Ginny Cotton, Ashland Virginia Felder, Bend 71 77 80 85 87 87 88 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 BOYS Isaac Buerger, Ridgeview Eric Wasserman, Summit Cole Chrisman, Summit Dawson Ruhl, Summit Chase Snodgrass, The Dalles Jared Geier, Pendleton Rhett Pedersen, Bend Cole Jensen, Churchill Brayden Pulver, Pendleton Andrew Watts, Thurston Tyler Garner, Thurston Jaxon Hyland, Thurston Tyler Vassar, The Dalles John Pollock, Marist Catholic Nathan Som, Pendleton Will Fleck, Summit Justin Potwora, Marist Catholic Jared Thacker, Hermiston Seth Chilcutt, Mountain View 79 79 80 80 80 81 82 82 83 83 83 83 83 83 84 84 84 85 85 SOFTBALL PILOT ROCK 10-13, HEPPNER 0-2 — At Heppner, Tehya Ostrom pitched eight innings of shutout softball and the Rockets smacked 21 hits in a pair of run-rule shortened wins on Friday in a Special District 6 doubleheader. Ostrom had a perfect game going through three innings of Game 2, but was pulled to get Jacey Wilson some work and she threw the last two, allowing two runs on seven hits. Ostrom struck out 11 for the day and walked none. Rhyanne Oates batted 5 for 6 with two doubles and a triple, Shayla Walker hit two doubles, and Sara Weinke hit a three-run home run in Game 1 for Pilot Rock (19-4, 8-2 SD6). Sydney Qualls went 2 for 4 for Heppner (8-12, 2-8) in Game 1, and Jenna McCullough was 3 for 5 on the day, and coach Rick Johnston said the scoreboard may not have looked pretty, but he was happy to see his team making lots of plays in the field and making the Rockets earn their runs. “I think we’ve made great strides and I’m proud of our girls,” he said. UP NEXT The Rockets close out the regular season on Friday when they host Union for a double- header that starts at 3 p.m. Heppner will also finish out at home on Saturday, May 13, by hosting Culver for a doubleheader at 11 a.m. ——— Game 1 (5 innings) R H E PRHS 152 11 — 10 11 2 HHS 000 00 — 0 4 4 T. Ostrom and R. Oates. D. Durfey and T. Hamby. W — Ostrom. L — Durfey. 2B — R. Oates, S. Walker (PRHS); M. Flynn (HHS). HR — S. Weinke (PRHS). Game 2 (5 innings) R H E PRHS 450 40 — 13 10 0 HHS 000 02 — 2 7 3 T. Ostrom, J. Wilson (4) and R. Oates. D. Durfey, O. DeLoach (4) and T. Hamby. W — Ostrom. L — Durfey. 2B — R. Oates, S. Walker (PRHS). 3B — R. Oates (PRHS). WESTON-MCEWEN 4-10, IRRIGON 1-12 — At Irrigon, the TigerScots and Knights followed a pitchers duel with some offensive fireworks in a doubleheader split on Friday in Special District 1 play. In the opener, Bailey Hillmick out-pitched Mya Chapman for a 4-1 win that was the sixth in a row for Weston-McEwen (11-5, 8-1 SD1). Hillmick allowed just two hits and struck out four while walking none. Chapman gave up just three hits, but also had five walks to go with three strikeouts and three unearned runs for the TigerScots. In Game 2 the bats came alive for both teams as they combined for 18 hits in a game Irrigon (13-9, 5-5) won 12-10 to hand Weston- McEwen its first league loss. Eleven of the Knights’ runs came in the fourth and fifth innings combined, and Chapman drove in four runs to help get herself the win in the circle after coming on in relief of starter Kayla Gilman. Jada Burns was 2 for 5 with two RBI and two runs, Gilman was 2 for 4 and Courtney Case and Karrizma Luna each scored twice. Amie Coffman was 2 for 3 with two RBI and two runs to lead the TigerScots, and Sydney Peal was 2 for 4 with three RBI. UP NEXT Weston-McEwen plays at Riverside on Tuesday at 4 p.m. Irrigon hosts Umatilla for a doubleheader on Thursday that will close out the regular season. First pitch is sched- uled for 1 p.m. ——— Game 1 R H W-M 000 210 1 — 4 3 IHS 010 000 0 — 1 2 W — B. Hillmick. L — M. Chapman. 2B — B. Hillmick, C. Cain, C. Bennett (W-M). E 3 8 Game 2 R H W-M 211 051 0 — 10 7 IHS 001 650 X — 12 9 W — M. Chapman. L — J. Lambert. 2B — S. Peal, A. Coffman (W-M); M. Chapman (IHS). E 6 9 ECHO 11-11, RIVER- SIDE 1-5 — At Echo, Kenzie Gonzales overcame a rough start to pitch 12 solid innings to lead the Cougars to a pair of Special District 1 wins on Friday. Gonzales walked the first four batters she faced, but struck out the next three and allowed just one hit in the game as Echo (10-9, 6-3 SD1) cranked out 14 hits in support. Monique Montoya had two doubles and three RBI, Gonzales also had three RBI, and Echo scored all 11 of its runs in the first three innings. Riverside (15-8, 5-6) was able to get a little more offense in Game 2, but Gonzales still kept them in check with five runs on five hits with eight strikeouts and no walks in the complete game 11-5 win. Hannah McCarty hit a solo home run to lead off the sixth inning, and Montoya, Alex Putman, Kyndra Hart amd Jennifer Martinez all had two hits. UP NEXT Echo plays at Umatilla on Tuesday at 4 p.m. Riverside closes out the regular season on Tuesday at home against Weston- McEwen at 4 p.m. ——— Game 1 (5 innings) R H E RHS 100 00 — 1 1 4 EHS 524 0X — 11 14 2 S. Wightman and A. Hernandez. K. Gonzales and A. Putman. W — Gonzales. L — Wightman. 2B — M. Montoya 2, S. McQuown, A. Hew- lett (EHS). 3B — K. Hart, C. Hewlett (EHS). Game 2 R H E RHS 120 002 0 — 5 5 5 EHS 050 222 X — 11 10 3 S. Wightman and A. Hernandez. K. Gonzales and A. Putman. W — Gonzales. L — Wightman. 2B — A. Villegas (RHS); C. Hewlett, M. Montoya (EHS). 3B — S. Wightman (RHS); A. Putman (EHS). HR — H. McCarty (EHS). BASEBALL STANFIELD 21-23, UMATILLA 0-2 — At Stan- field, the Stanfield Tigers used huge first innings to put the Umatilla Vikings away early in their Eastern Oregon League doubleheader on Friday. Stanfield (19-1, 12-0 EOL) scored 12 innings to open Game 1 in support of pitcher Brody Woods, then gave Dylan Grogan a 13-run cushion to open Game 2. The Tigers stretched their win streak to 19 games, and were led at the plate by Hunter Barnes (6 for 7, eight RBI), Ryan Bailey (7 for 9, three RBI), Grogan (6 for 9, five RBI), Adrian Renner (5 for 8, four RBI) and Tony Flores (5 for 9, seven RBI). Renner allowed no hits in two innings of relief in Game 1, and Flores tossed the last three innings in Game 2 allowing two hits while striking out six. Seth Cranston went 2 for 3 with an RBI in Game 2 to lead Umatilla (2-15, 1-11). UP NEXT Stanfield plays at Tri-Cities Prep on Tuesday at 4 p.m. Umatilla closes the season at Joseph for a doubleheader on Friday starting at 1 p.m. ——— Game 1 (5 innings) R H E SHS (12)15 12 — 21 17 0 UHS 000 00 — 0 2 7 W — B. Woods. L — Samson. 2B — R. Bailey, D. Grogan (SHS). 3B — B. Woods (SHS). Game 2 (5 innings) R H E SHS (13)20 62 — 23 21 1 UHS 100 10 — 2 4 5 W — D. Grogan. L — Keller-Morris. 2B — B. Woods, A. Renner, T. Monkus, T. Flores, D. Grogan 2 (SHS); S. Cranston (UHS). IRRIGON 10-2, NYSSA 4-11 — At Vale, Austin Rice gave the Knights another strong start on the mound and Tanner Mills came on to quell a late rally by the Bulldogs to win the first half of Friday’s Eastern Oregon League doubleheader 10-4. Nyssa came back in the night cap to win 11-2 in six innings with huge effort from Blake Cleaver, who tossed 4 1/3 innings while striking out five and hit two triples to drive in four runs and score three more. Rice struck out seven in four complete in Game 1 for Irrigon (15-4, 8-4 EOL) and allowed two runs off one hit. Then after Andres Gonzalez hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the sixth, Mills came on to record the final six outs and struck out four while giving up no hits. Irrigon took a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning in Game 2 but that was where their offense ran into trouble, and Nyssa (8-11, 6-5) regained the lead with three runs in the bottom of the frame. UP NEXT A doubleheader against Riverside on Friday that starts at 1 p.m. will close the regular season for Irrigon. ——— Game 1 R H E IHS 024 200 2 — 10 5 3 NHS 010 012 0 — 4 2 4 W — A. Rice. L — B. Thompson. 2B — A. Rice (IHS). HR — A. Gonzalez (NHS). Game 2 (6 innings) R H E IHS 200 000 — 2 5 7 NHS 303 05X — 11 5 3 W — B. Cleaver. L — Z. Henrichs. 3B — B. Cleaver 2 (NHS). HR — J. Martinez (NHS). RIVERSIDE 11-6, JOSEPH 8-14 — At Boardman, the Riverside Pirates earned their fourth victory of the season to help them to a split of Friday’s doubleheader with Joseph/Enterprise/Wallowa. The Pirates won the opener 11-8 before falling 14-6 in the second game. “The first game we played really well,” Riverside coach Clair Costello said. “(Aramis) Corpus threw strikes and threw well and we made a lot of defensive plays behind him and we hit the ball well. “The second game we walked too many guys and just didn’t play as well. We’re getting better, but still not quite there.” Kylar Sorenson had a home run for Riverside in Game 1, hitting a three-run bomb in the third inning to help Riverside take control of the game. Anthony Rodelo had a solid day at the plate, too, going a combined 5 for 8 with five RBIs and a double. UP NEXT Riverside will travel to Dufur on Monday for a game at 4:30 p.m. ———— Game 1 R H E JHS 112 000 4 — 8 11 2 RHS 315 010 X — 11 8 1 (J) G. Ramsden, T. Olsen (4) and C. Ashenbrenner. (R) A. Corpus and Bither. W — Corpus, L — Ramsden. HR — K. Sorenson (RHS). Game 2 R H E JHS 104 122 4 — 14 7 0 RHS 013 200 X — 6 8 0 (J) Bathke, Miller (4) and Ashenbrenner. (R) M. Calvillo, A. Rodelo (4), A. Corpus (4), M. Hegar (6) and Bither. W — Bathke, L — Calvillo. 2B — A. Rodelo (RHS). TENNIS KENNEWICK, Wash. — The Helix boys have two singles players into the semi- finals after Friday’s matches at the Special District 4 sub-district tournament. Top seeded Erik Jones took a bye in the first round and hasn’t lost a game yet with 6-0, 6-0 wins in the second round and quarterfinals. Cody Dunn is the other Grizzly to make it through, and he earned byes in the first two rounds before beating Stanfield’s Hank Gehrke 6-1, 6-4 in the quarterfinals. Jones will face Umatilla’s Douglas Gomez in the semifi- nals. Gomez beat Riverside’s Austin Thompson in a nail-biter of a quarterfinal 7-6 (4), 6-3. Dunn will face off against Ione’s Bryan Fowler. The No. 2 overall seed, Fowler beat Weston-McEwen’s Kellen Fairchild 6-1, 6-0 to punch his semifinals ticket. In boys’ doubles, Umatilla top seeds Armenta/ Armenta will play Mac-Hi’s Villagomez/Villegas in the semifinals. On the bottom half of the bracket, River- side’s Bedolla/Altamirano will play Weston-McEwen’s Shafer/Froese. Semifinals match-ups in the girls’ singles brackets are Sherman County top seed Meghan Belshe against Ione’s Yaniva Garcia, and Helix No. 2 seed Lynne Roberts vs. Weston-McEw- en’s Johanna Albert. In girls’ doubles it will be an all Mac-Hi semifinal on one side of the bracket as Cuellar/Martinez takes on teammates Alvarez/Robles. In the other semifinal it will be Sherman County’s Johnson/Moe against Weston-McEwen’s Bagdon/ Swafford.