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SPORTS
East Oregonian
OSAA Tennis State Championships
Saturday, May 20, 2017
Prep Roundup
Tigers beat Knights for district title
Senter
Bailey
can’t stop Woods,
combine to keep
Irrigon in check
No. 1 Kern
Irrigon’s
Nate
Gumbert
throws
the ball to
first after
tagging
out Stan-
field run-
ner Thyler
Monkus in
the Tigers’
8-4 win
against
the
Knights
on Friday
in Stan-
field.
East Oregonian
Pendleton senior bumped
in state quarterfinals
East Oregonian
PORTLAND — Her odds of winning
weren’t great, but that didn’t make the end
of her senior season come with any less
of a thud as Pendleton’s Jenna Senter was
knocked from the bracket at the OSAA
Class 5A Girls Tennis State Championships
on Friday.
Senter,
an
unranked player, was
going against the
overall No. 1 seed
Anna Kern of Corvallis.
Kern came away with wins of 6-2, 6-0,
but Pendleton coach Rocky Dillenburg
said it was a misleading tally.
“Lots of games went to deuce,” he said.
“The score looks bad but I though she was
really competitive.”
He said Senter felt she could have done
better, but he reminded her that she didn’t
pick up a racket until years after Kern had
likely begun honing her powerful serves.
“For someone who started playing
tennis three years ago, she made quite an
accomplishment to get herself to state,”
Dillenburg said of Senter.
The loss ends her season since there are
no consolation matches for players who
win in the first round. Kern also cruised
through the semifinals with a 6-1, 6-0 win
over Wilsonville’s Sidney Lowe. She plays
her older sister Tessa in the title match.
Hermiston’s doubles team of Katelyn
Millard and Jaycee Ternes also had their
season ended on Friday with a 8-3 loss to
a Corvallis duo in their first match in the
consolation bracket.
NBA
Cavaliers
send Celtics
to record loss
Cleveland takes 2-0
lead in Eastern finals
By JIMMY GOLEN
Associated Press
BOSTON — An NBA playoff-record,
41-point halftime lead. A franchise record
for total points. A 13th consecutive playoff
win, tying another league record.
And LeBron James says the Cleveland
Cavaliers can still do better.
“I believe we’ve got another level, as
well,” he said after Cleveland steamrolled
the Boston Celtics with
130-86 on Friday night
to take a 2-0 lead in the
Eastern Conference finals.
Cleveland
“As well as we played
tonight, we’ve got a couple
of things we can do better.
There’s no complacency
for us now. But we like
where we’re headed.”
Boston
Minutes after the NBA
announced the three final-
ists for the MVP award —
and James wasn’t among
them — the Cavaliers star scored 30 points
before resting in the fourth quarter. Kevin
Love had 21 points and 12 rebounds for
Cleveland, which led by 14 points after
one quarter, by 72-31 at the half and by 46
after three.
Even with all of the starters sitting out
the fourth, the 130 points was the most ever
scored by the Cavaliers in a playoff game.
Kyrie Irving had 23 points for the Cava-
liers, who return home with a chance to
finish off the Celtics in Cleveland. It would
be the third straight sweep this postseason
for the defending NBA champions, who also
won the last three games of last year’s finals.
Game 3 is Sunday night.
“It’s one game. I don’t care if you win by
200 points,” Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue
said. “We’re going back home, we’re not
going to get comfortable. We understand
that this is a good team. They’re not No. 1
in the East for no reason.”
The Celtics played the second half
without Isaiah Thomas, who had a strained
right hip. Celtics coach Brad Stevens said
the star point guard had a nagging injury
that he aggravated a week ago during the
second-round series against Washington.
Asked how much that hurt his team,
Stevens said, “Not 44 points worth.”
“I don’t want to put that on any one guy,”
he said. “Ultimately, they were terrific. We
were poor. You’ve got to be able to pick up
the slack, certainly, when other guys aren’t
available.”
With both teams going to their benches
in the fourth, the only suspense was
whether the Celtics could avoid the worst
playoff loss in franchise history. The
Orlando Magic beat them by 47 points in
the first round of the 1995 postseason.
Still, it was the worst home playoff loss
ever for the most-decorated franchise in
NBA history.
130
86
STANFIELD — Both teams
started fast in the Eastern Oregon
League district championship,
but only the Stanfield Tigers were
able to keep it up over the long
haul for an 8-4 win over Irrigon
on Friday at Madigan Field.
Tigers starting pitcher Brody
Woods settled
in to give his
Baseball
team four solid
inning on the
mound.
He
Irrigon
didn’t allow a
run after the
first inning, and
Ryan
Bailey
led a Stanfield
offense
the
Stanfield
pushed its lead
to 8-2 before
the
Knights
could push two
more across the plate in the top
of the seventh.
Bailey was 3 for 3 with two
RBI, and Tony Flores hit two
doubles going 2 for 4 with two
RBI and four runs scored.
Irrigon was coming straight
from a walk-off win over Nyssa
in the semifinals, and put its
first runner on base when Lino
Covarrubia (1 for 2) drew the
first of his two walks in the game.
A hard line drive to Flores
at shortstop got the first out,
but Austin Rice (1 for 2, two
walks) singled to put two on and
Covarrubia scored from third on
an error in the outfield.
Tanner Mills kept it going with
a single to load the bases before
Woods got his first strikeout for
the second out.
He then walked in a run,
though, after Keith Fleming
fouled off two straight full count
offerings, to make it 2-0.
A ground-out ended the threat,
and the Tigers began cutting into
the lead right away with one run
in the bottom of the first.
Thyler Monkus (2 for 3)
started out with a walk before
two quick outs on fielder’s choice
and a strikeout. Another walk put
two on, and Woods made it a
2-1 game when his single to left
brought Flores in from second.
Irrigon had runners on in both
the second and third but could do
nothing with them as Woods got
strikeouts to end both innings.
Staff photo by
E.J. Harris
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allowed five runs (two earned)
on four hits. Austin Rice pitched
two hitless innings, striking out
two, to get the win.
Johnny Phillips was 2 for 3
at the plate for Irrigon, and Rice
was 2 for 4 with one RBI.
Elijah Cleaver was 2 for 3 to lead
Nyssa, which will take the EOL’s
No. 3 seed into the state playoffs.
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R H E
NHS
010 013
0 — 5 4 1
IHS
200 010
3 — 6 8 3
W — A. Rice. L — E. Cleaver.
2B — E. Cleaver (NHS); J. Phillips, A. Roa (IHS).
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Stanfield’s Ryan Bailey connects with the ball in the bottom
of the third inning of the Tigers’ 8-4 win against Irrigon on
Friday in Stanfield.
Then Stanfield took the lead
with two runs in the bottom of
the third.
Monkus singled to lead off,
then Flores reached on an error that
allowed Monkus to come all the
way from first to score the tying run.
Then Dylan Grogan singled
on a grounder to third, and Bailey
singled to drive in Flores and make
it 3-2 before Irrigon could get the
last two outs on a pickoff at home
plate and a pop up to second.
A ground-out left the bases
loaded for Irrigon in the top of
the fourth, and Bailey came on
to relieve Woods in the fifth and
stranded a runner at second.
The Tigers then tacked on two
more runs in their at-bat when
Bailey hit a two-out double to
score Flores, and then scored
the eventual game-winner on a
passed ball to make it 5-2.
UP NEXT
Both teams will play state playoff
games against opponents that were
not determined at press time.
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R H
IHS
200 000
2 — 4 6
SHS
102 023 X — 8 10
W — B. Woods. L — A. Rice.
2B — R. Bailey, T. Flores 2 (SHS).
E
1
3
IRRIGON 6, NYSSA 5
— At Stanfield, Nate Gumbert
singled on a hard grounder to left
and Zack Henrichs came around
from second to beat the throw
to plate and score the winning
run in the bottom of the seventh
inning on Friday in the Eastern
Oregon League semifinals.
Adrian Roa also scored on
the play, which came with bases
loaded and two outs. Roa had
made it a 5-4 game earlier in the
inning when he singled to drive
in Damen Sawyer. Roa (2 for 4)
finished with three RBI.
Henrichs pitched the first
five innings for the Knights, and
struck out six but walked four and
SOFTBALL
UNION 10, WESTON-
MCEWEN 1 — At Union, a
short-handed TigerScots club
went up against the playoff-ready
Bobcats and couldn’t match their
plate output on Thursday in a
non-league game.
Katie Good hit a home run for
Union (17-4), which connected
for 10 hits and only struck out
once in the game.
The TigerScots were resting
pitcher Bailey Hillmick as she
recovers from a hamstring injury,
and Jordyn Lambert took the
brunt of the Bobcats’ firepower
pitching 3 2/3 innings in the loss.
Courtney Cain led Weston-
McEwen (12-8) at the plate going
2 for 4 and Whitney Roggerio
had the team’s lone RBI off
Jenna Monson, who pitched the
complete game and struck out six.
UP NEXT
The TigerScots host the district
tournament today and will face the
winner of the 1 p.m. game that pits
No. 3 Irrigon against No. 2 Echo.
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R H
W-M
000 100
0 — 1 6
UHS
012 610 X — 10 10
W — J. Monson. L — J. Lambert.
E
2
1
BUCKS: Six seniors play final game for Pendleton
Continued from 1B
up.”
It is the second straight loss
for Pendleton in the play-in
round, with this one ending
Pendleton’s season with a 10-16
overall record.
“It’s a tough way to go out,”
Pendleton senior Wyatt Morris
said afterward, fighting back
some emotions. “It’s probably
one of the toughest things I’ve
done ... it could have been better
for us, but it just didn’t happen
today.”
Pendleton’s preparation did
look like it might have paid off to
start the game, as a leadoff walk
by Wyatt Morris and a sacrifice
bunt from Shaw Jerome set up
an RBI single by Nick Bower for
an early 1-0 Buckaroo lead just
three batters in.
“That was situational baseball
at its best,” Haguewood said,
“And it feels good when things
happen right like that.”
But after the at-bat McAvoy
started to settle in, attacking
the outside part of the zone and
mixing pitches well to get a pair
of strikeouts to end the inning.
Milwaukie took the lead in
the second inning when Daniel
Naughton gave up a walk and a
double to load the bases, setting
up a two-out double from Cole
Roberts that scraped off the wall
in center field for a 2-1 Mustang
advantage. Naughton was incon-
sistent in his start for the Bucks,
laboring through two innings
with four walks and two runs
allowed with 60 pitches thrown.
But in the fourth, Naughton
made up for his final inning on
the hill as he drew a one-out
walk that snapped a streak of
eight straight Buckaroo batters
retired. After a Milwaukie error
moved Naughton to second
with two outs, Jared Beveridge
crushed a pitch to center field that
one-hopped the wall to drive in
Naughton to tie the game at 2-2.
Then a single to left by Justin
Duso paired with a fielding error
put runners on second and third
for the Bucks, but they were left
stranded on a pop fly to the first
baseman for the third out.
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Pendleton’s
Chris
Large
throws the ball from the
mound in the Bucks’ 9-4 loss
to Milwaulkie on Friday in
Pendleton.
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Pendleton’s Jared Beveridge connects for an RBI single in the
Bucks’ 9-4 loss to Milwaulkie on Friday in Pendleton.
But the momentum that the
Bucks gained to tie the score,
Milwaukie zapped it right away
from them in the fifth. Morris
had come on to pitch in relief of
Naughton in the third and started
strong, with a quick inning in the
third and then striking out the
side in the fourth. But in the fifth,
it was evident that Morris had
simply lost his edge.
A hit and two walks loaded the
bases for Milwaukie as Morris
couldn’t find the strike zone,
missing off the plate on either
side. But after the game, Morris
said that his arm had been pretty
tender early in the week and he
had just ran out of gas.
“I was super sore,” Morris
said, “but it was my last game so
I tried to do as much as I could.”
Morris was then taken out
for Chris Large, who on the first
pitch he threw gave up an RBI
single and allowed another run
to score later in the inning as
Milwaukie grabbed a 4-2 lead.
The Mustangs then blew the
doors off the game in the sixth
inning, tagging Large and Nick
Lani for four hits and five runs in
the inning, including a two-run
home run to center by Riley
Howard for a 9-2 lead.
“We always seem to have
that one inning where we put
our backs up against the wall
and get down by quite a few,”
Haguewood said of the sixth
inning. “We dug ourselves a hole
too late ... we didn’t do our job
here, don’t make a play here and
all the sudden a big hit and it’s
been what we’ve done all season.
“But we didn’t put our heads
down and we continued to battle
and I’m proud of the boys for that.”
The Buckaroos gave every-
thing they had in the seventh
inning, getting two walks and a
single to load the bases, and then
a single and an error brought
home two runs to make it a 9-4
game. Naughton ended the game
when he lined out to first base,
which got Bower doubled up for
the final out.
The loss brings the end to the
Pendleton careers for seniors
Morris, Beveridge, Lani, Austin
Zaugg, Hayden Villers and Caleb
Cary. Haguewood described the
group as ‘battlers’ and added that
he is extremely proud of what
they gave to the program.
“They’ve played so much
baseball here and been through
the grinder every year,” he said.
“Any senior class is tough to say
goodbye too and this one, they
work their butts off. They do it
in practice and in games, they’re
good teammates and I’m proud
of them and what they’ve done.”
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R H E
MHS
020 025
0 — 9 9 3
PHS
100 100
2 — 4 5 3
(M) B. McVay, R. Howard (7) and N. Miller. (P)
D. Naughton, W. Morris (3), C. Large (5), N. Lani
(6) and J. Duso. W — B. McVay, L — W. Morris.
2B — C. Roberts, N. Miller, T. Dover (MHS); R.
Russell (PHS). HR — R. Howard (MHS).