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WEEKEND, JUNE 3-4, 2017
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2A/1A Softball State Championship
Warriors knock off Rockets
Pilot Rock’s
title streak
snapped by
North Douglas
North Douglas
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Pilot Rock
East Oregonian
CORVALLIS — For parts
of the past two-plus seasons,
the Pilot Rock/Nixyaawii
softball team proved itself as
the best in Class 2A/1A.
But on Friday afternoon,
the Rockets fi nally met their
match. The No. 5 seed North
Douglas Warriors displayed
clutch defense and timely
hitting as they upset the No.
2 Rockets 3-1 to capture the
fi rst softball title in school
history at the OSU Softball
Complex.
Even as Pilot Rock’s reign
as two-time defending cham-
pion came to an end with the
loss, coach Darin Fitzpatrick
told his team after the game
to keep their heads held high.
“I told all of them how
proud I am of them,” he said
by phone after the game.
“There are 38 other teams in
our division that would have
loved to be where we are.
They’ve made themselves
proud and they’ve made their
town proud. We’ve had a
great run and still have a lot
coming back next season.”
The Rockets (25-6)
offense ran into North
Douglas’ (22-4) standout
freshman pitcher Nicki
Derrick, as the right-hander
allowed just four hits and two
walks with 10 strikeouts. The
only run against her came in
the bottom of the fourth on
a huge inside-the-park home
run by Pilot Rock catcher
Rhyanne Oates, which was
aided by some Warrior
defensive miscues.
“We had a decent scouting
report on her,” Fitzpatrick
said of Derrick. “But she’s a
good pitcher, she mixed her
pitches well and got the girls
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North Doug-
las pitcher
Nicki Der-
rick tags
Pilot Rock’s
Brielle How-
land as she
attempted to
score in the
fi rst inning
of Friday’s
OSAA 2A/1A
Softball State
Champion-
ship game at
OSU Softball
Complex in
Corvallis.
Staff photo by
E.J. Harris
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Teammates greet Pilot Rock’s Rhyanne Oates after
she hit a solo home run to lead off the bottom of the
fourth inning of the 2A/1A softball state championship
against North Douglas in Corvallis.
swinging at a lot of pitches
they probably shouldn’t
have.”
Pilot Rock had a good
chance to open up the scoring
in the second inning, when a
walk by Tehya Ostrom and
a bloop hit to right fi eld by
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Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Pilot Rock’s Tehya Ostrom (2) consoles teammate Jillian Adlard after the Rockets’
3-1 loss to North Douglas in the 2A/1A state championship game Friday in Corvallis.
College Baseball
Beavers open regional with win
Oregon State to
face Yale next
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
CORVALLIS
—
Jake
Thompson allowed one run on
four hits while striking out 10
over 7 2/3 innings and Oregon
State defeated Holy Cross 8-2
in the Corvallis Regional on
Friday night.
Oregon State, the No. 1
national seed, goes on to
face Yale on Saturday night
in the double-elimination
tournament. The Bulldogs,
the regional’s No. 3 seed, beat
second-seeded Nebraska 5-1 in
the early game.
Thompson, treated to a
standing ovation by the sellout
crowd at Goss Stadium,
improved to 13-0 and the
Corvallis Regional
Holy Cross
Oregon State
2
8
Beavers won their 17th straight.
Brendan King (5-7) allowed
fi ve runs on eight hits over 5
1/3 innings for fourth-seeded
Holy Cross (23-27), which
advanced to the postseason for
the fi rst time since 1978.
Nick Madrigal and Jack
Anderson each hit RBI singles
to put the Beavers up 2-0 in the
third inning.
Thompson didn’t allow a hit
until the fi fth inning when he
gave up three straight, including
freshman Chris Rinaldi’s RBI
single. But Thompson struck
out Austin Masel looking to get
out of a bases-loaded jam.
Adley Rutschman’s RBI
double padded Oregon State’s
lead, and after Cadyn Greni-
er’s sacrifi ce fl y made it 4-1,
Rutschman scored on a balk.
Trevor Larnach hit a
run-scoring double before
Michael Gretler’s solo home
run in the seventh put the
Beavers up 7-1. Preston Jones
added an RBI double in the
eighth.
Kellen McCormick drove in
a run with a single in the ninth
for the Crusaders.
Oregon State’s four losses
in the regular season were the
fewest since Texas was 53-4
going into the tournament in
1982.
The Beavers went 27-3 in
Pac-12 play for the league title,
surpassing Arizona State’s
record of 26 league wins set in
1981. Along the way, coach Pat
Casey surpassed the 1,000-win
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Oregon
State’s
Cadyn
Grenier
celebrates
at second
base after
driving in a
run against
Holy Cross
during
an NCAA
college
baseball
tourna-
ment
regional
game in
Corvallis,
Ore., Fri-
day, June
2, 2017.
Andy Cripe/
The Corvallis
Gazette-Times
via AP
Sports shorts
Penguins’ Bonino using crutches
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Pittsburgh
center Nick Bonino was wearing a walking
boot on his left foot and using crutches Friday,
raising the possibility that he will not play in
Nashville in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final.
Penguins coach Mike Sullivan
said the veteran has a lower-body
injury and will be a game-time
decision against the Predators
on Saturday night. Team captain
Sidney Crosby said everybody’s
banged up at this time of year on
Bonino
both teams.
Bonino plays on Pittsburgh’s
fourth line, but the veteran is a key penalty
killer. He had a slap shot from Nashville
defenseman P.K. Subban go off the inside of his
left ankle in Pittsburgh’s 4-1 win Wednesday
night while on the ice helping kill a big penalty.
Bonino went to the locker room but returned to
fi nish the game.
“(Colin Kaepernick’s)
a starter in this league.
We have a starter,
but he is a starter in
this league and I can’t
imagine somebody
won’t give him a chance
to play.“
— Pete Carroll
Seattle Seahawks head coach on
free agent QB Colin Kaepernick,
who visited with the Seahawks
last week. Seattle is the only team
to have hosted the polarizing
player, although there appears to
be no intent to sign him.
Ex-Penn State administrators
get jail time in Sandusky case
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Three
ex-Penn State offi cials are getting jail time for
failing to report now-convicted sexual predator
Jerry Sandusky to authorities.
Former Penn State President
Graham Spanier and former
vice president Gary Schultz will
have to spend two months in
jail. Former athletic director Tim
Curley will spend three months in jail. The rest
of their sentences will be served in house arrest.
A graduate coaching assistant told adminis-
trators that he saw Sandusky molesting a boy
in a football team shower in 2001. But Spanier,
Curley and Schultz didn’t report him to child
welfare authorities or police.
Sandusky wasn’t arrested until a tip in 2011
led investigators to interview the shower witness.
Sandusky is now serving a 30- to-60-year
sentence for abusing 10 boys, but is appealing.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1927 — The United States
wins the fi rst Ryder Cup
golf tournament by beating
Britain 9½-2½.
1987 — Danny Harris
defeats Edwin Moses with a
47.56 mark in the 400 hurdles
at a meet in Madrid, Spain,
ending the longest winning
streak in track and fi eld
history. Moses, who fi nishes
.13 seconds behind Harris,
had won 122 consecutive
races dating to Aug. 26, 1977.
2009 — Randy Johnson
earns his 300th win, becoming
the 24th major league pitcher to
reach the milestone by leading
San Francisco to a 5-1 victory
over the Washington Nationals.
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