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Page 2B SPORTS East Oregonian Tuesday, June 6, 2017 STANLEY CUP: Crosby scores Pittsburgh’s only goal in first period Continued from 1B the 1944 Blackhawks. Calle Jarnkrok, Viktor Arvidsson and Filip Forsberg also scored for Nashville, which improved to 9-1 at home. “We were in a tough hole against a really good team, came home and took care of the home games with the help of all our great fans,” Rinne said. “It’s a great feeling. We played two really good games.” Sidney Crosby scored his first goal in the series after not getting a shot on goal in Game 3. The goal was his first in the Stanley Cup Final since June 4, 2009 — a span of 12 games. The goal came after he was held without a shot for only the fifth time in his career in the playoffs. The Penguins now have lost two straight for the second time this postseason. They also lost Games 5 and 6 against Washington. Goalie Matt Murray lost consecu- tive games for the first time in his young career. Game 5 is Thursday night in Pittsburgh. Nashville tapped country singer Dierks Bentley as the latest to sing the national anthem, while country singer Jason Aldean waved the towel to rev up the crowd. Former NBA star and TV commentator Charles Barkley also was on hand, accepting NHL Commis- sioner Gary Bettman’s invitation to watch in person. Rain most of Monday kept the crowd outside from reaching the more than 50,000 who turned Saturday night for the first Stanley Cup Final game in Tennessee. Enough people turned out to fill up Broadway for three blocks with three giant TV screens, even with Nashville opening up a downtown amphitheater for fans to watch. After the anthem, two catfish and one stuffed penguin hit the ice despite Nashville coach Peter Lavi- olette’s video plea earlier Monday asking fans not to AP Photo/Mark Humphrey Pittsburgh Penguins center Sidney Crosby (87) takes a shot as Nashville Predators defenseman Roman Josi (59), of Switzerland, defends during the third period in Game 4 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Finals Monday, June 5, 2017, in Nashville, Tenn. throw anything. Craig Smith, who had two of Nashville’s first six shots, ricocheted a puck off Murray’s pads that Jarnkrok tapped in at 14:51 to start the fans yelling. Pittsburgh lost a challenge for goalie interference. Then Crosby, held without a shot for only the fifth time in the postseason in his career, tied it up for Pittsburgh on a breakaway. He skated in on Rinne, holding the puck before scoring behind the goalie’s leg just 66 seconds later for his eighth goal and 24th point of the playoffs. Rinne kept it tied in the early minutes of the second first with a stop of Jake Guentzel before a big save on Chris Kunitz on a break- away. Play was underway when the horn sounded, and officials reviewed a play and ruled Gaudreau’s wraparound attempt slid the puck just over the line before Murray stopped it. Referee Dan O’Halloran announced it as a goal, giving Nashville a 2-1 lead 3:45 into the second. “I heard it on the bench that it was possibly in the net,” Gaudreau said. “I wasn’t certain. When I heard the horn, I sort of thought it was in.” Crosby had another breakaway nearly midway through the period, and Rinne stopped him not once, but twice. Then the goalie slid to his right stopping Guentzel with an assist from Nashville defenseman Roman Josi. Arvidsson made it a 3-1 Nashville lead with his first goal since the end of the first round. James Neal started the play, getting the puck to captain Mike Fisher who fed the puck up to Arvidsson while falling to the ice. Arvidsson beat Murray under his glove, putting the puck just inside the right post at 13:08. Forsberg sealed the win with an empty-netter with 3:23 left. Notes: Fisher, scoreless until the Final, now has four points. He got his fourth on his 37th birthday. ... With his goal, Crosby now has 161 career playoff points and moved past Mike Bossy, Gordie Howe, Al MacInnis and Bobby Smith for 20th all-time by himself. ... The Penguins now are 13-3 after a playoff loss under coach Mike Sullivan, and Murray is 7-1 in playoff games started after a loss. HERMISTON: Non-conference games with Pendleton likely to continue Continued from 1B kids they’ve never met and that is powerful to us. They don’t know our kids but they stepped up to make a decision that was right for the kids and we’re excited that they felt that way about our community.” The WIAA executive board approved a set of guidelines at its April meeting that would allow an out-of-state school to seek membership, after having numerous discussions with both the OSAA and the Idaho High School Athletic Association. The board also reached out to associations in California, Arizona, Nevada and others who currently have out-of-state members as well. “This was a unique situation for both Hermiston and the WIAA,” said WIAA Executive Director Mike Colbrese in a press release. “The Executive Board worked closely with the OSAA and IHSAA to put measures in place to eval- uate the situation at hand, and set a standard going forward.” The WIAA’s decision didn’t come without some back-and-forth discussion, though. Usher said on Monday that the school had not received specific details on the vote or the board’s discussion, but was told it was a “two-hour long spir- ited debate.” The move north will DUCKS: End season 54-8 overall It remains to be seen just how much Hermiston’s ‘rivalry’ with Pendleton will be affected, as though the two schools will no longer be conference rivals they will still likely play in most sports. “Reducing travel time and loss of instructional time is something we are very committed to and it does mean we’ll be exploring non-conference games as close to home as we can, like with Pendleton,” Usher said. “It’ll be no different from any other Mid-Columbia team that comes down to play us and Pendleton ... if we’re given the choice of having to travel to Spokane or Vancouver or Yakima, or travel to Pendleton, obvi- ously Pendleton will be a good choice for us.” ———— Contact Eric at esinger@ eastoregonian.com or 541-966-0839. Follow him on Twitter at @ByEr- icSinger. BEAVERS: Making sixth appearance in Super Regionals, first since 2012 Continued from 1B was moving towards foul territory, Oregon catcher Gwen Svekis picked it up and made an errant throw to first. Wodach ended up on second. Oregon coach Mike White thought the ball went into foul territory, and he thinks there should be a way to find out. “One thing I’d like to see going forward, and I think this tournament has really illustrated it, is the need for an instant replay, a need for the ability to make a challenge,” White said. “There’s been so many games decided by some calls that could have gone — I think were incorrect calls to be quite frank, and that made a big difference. This game is played at a high speed. Umpires are human. You should have the ability to challenge a call.” Pinch runner Raegan Rogers stepped in for Wodach and scored on a fielder’s choice. Knighten then dropped the ball lightly into right field to score Nicole Mendes and bring some changes to Hermiston’s sports land- scape. Boys and girls soccer and boys and girls swim- ming will both split up, with boys soccer moving to the spring season and girls swimming moving to the fall. Also, bowling will be added to Hermiston’s lineup as it is a sanctioned sport by the WIAA, and Usher said that the school already has a popular bowling club team that is excited to make the move. Continued from 1B Sarah Phipps/The Oklahoman via AP Oregon’s Danica Mercado, left, and Jenna Lilley walk off the field as Oklahoma celebrates follow- ing the Women’s College World Series game at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City on Sunday. Kelsey Arnold. Knighten had hoped to make better contact. “I’ll take it,” she said. “It worked. All I wanted to do was just put the ball in play, come into the right side, and just give my team a chance to score.” Nicole Pendley followed with a double to score Knighten and chase Kleist. Lowary closed the deal with two perfect innings to claim her 10th save of the season. Now, Oklahoma, the No. 10 seed, has the chance to defend its title. The Sooners view them- selves as underdogs. “They really are getting into their groove,” Gasso said. “We’ve wasted about eight weeks of trying to figure this out, and I think we’re making up for lost time, and they are relaxed, they’re playing their best softball, they’re having a blast. They don’t want it to end.” eighth. Nick Madrigal had four base-hit bunts in the game. Brandon Eisert (5-0) pitched 3 2/3 scoreless innings of relief for the win. “I never have never seen that, that I can recall. I’m old enough that it could have happened and I don’t remember,” Casey said about Madrigal’s line. “Good for Nick.” It is the sixth time that Oregon State has advanced to the Super Regionals. On Saturday night Jack Anderson and KJ Harrison each homered to lead Oregon State to an 11-0 victory over Yale. Luke Heimlich (11-1) pitched seven innings, allowing just two hits and striking out eight. The Beavers won back- to-back College World Series titles in 2006 and 2007 and have advanced to the postseason 17 times with a 53-33 overall record. It is the sixth time they’ve hosted a regional, the first since 2012, and they’re 28-6 in postseason play at home. Mark Ylen/Albany Democrat-Herald via AP Oregon State’s Michael Gretler (10) celebrates his home run against Yale with Trevor Larnach (11) and Adley Rutschman, behind Larnach, during an NCAA college baseball regional tournament game in Corvallis, Ore., Sunday, June 4, 2017. 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 milestone. Oregon State’s four losses in the regular season were the fewest since Texas was 53-4 going into the tournament in 1982. Yale, which won the Ivy League this year, was making its sixth tournament appearance and first since 1993. “I could not be prouder of my team,” Yale coach John Stuper said. “We started out 3-9. Both of my degrees are in English but I can figure out that we went 31-9 after that and set a school record for us.” SCOREBOARD Hockey Baseball NHL Playoffs STANLEY CUP FINAL (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Pittsburgh 2, Nashville 2 May 29: Pittsburgh 5, Nashville 3 May 31: Pittsburgh 4, Nashville 1 June 3: Nashville 5, Pittsburgh 1 Monday: Nashville 4, Pittsburgh 1 Thursday: Nashville at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m. Sunday, June 11: Pittsburgh at Nashville, 5 p.m. x-Wednesday, June 14: Nashville at Pitts- burgh, 5 p.m. Basketball NBA Playoffs FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Golden State 2, Cleveland 0 June 1: Golden State 113, Cleveland 91 June 4: Golden State 132, Cleveland 113 Wednesday: Golden St. at Cleveland, 6 p.m. Friday: Golden State at Cleveland, 6 p.m. x-Monday, June 12: Cleveland at Golden State, 6 p.m. x-Thursday, June 15: Golden State at Cleveland, 6 p.m. x-Sunday, June 18: Cleveland at Golden State, 5 p.m. WNBA EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Washington 5 2 Atlanta 4 2 New York 4 3 Indiana 3 4 Connecticut 2 5 Chicago 1 6 Pct GB .714 — .667 ½ .571 1 .429 2 .286 3 .143 4 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Minnesota 7 0 1.000 — Seattle 4 2 .667 2½ Los Angeles 3 2 .600 3 Phoenix 4 3 .571 3 Dallas 3 4 .429 4 San Antonio 0 7 .000 7 ———— Sunday’s Games Washington 78, Atlanta 72 New York 88, Phoenix 72 Monday’s Games No games scheduled Tuesday’s Games Washington at Dallas, 5 p.m. Seattle at San Antonio, 5 p.m. Chicago at Los Angeles, 7 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Atlanta at New York, 8 a.m. Phoenix at Indiana, 4 p.m. MLB AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L New York 32 22 Boston 31 25 Baltimore 29 26 Tampa Bay 29 30 Toronto 28 30 Central Division W L Minnesota 29 24 Cleveland 29 26 Detroit 28 28 Kansas City 24 32 Chicago 24 31 West Division W L Houston 42 16 Los Angeles 29 31 Seattle 28 30 Texas 26 31 Oakland 25 32 ——— Monday’s Games Houston 7, Kansas City 3 Oakland 5, Toronto 3 Pct GB .593 — .554 2 .527 3½ .492 5½ .483 6 Pct GB .547 — .527 1 .500 2½ .429 6½ .436 6 Pct GB .724 — .483 14 .483 14 .456 15½ .438 16½ Tuesday’s Games Boston (Pomeranz 5-3) at N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 5-5), 4:05 p.m. Pittsburgh (Nova 5-4) at Baltimore (Gaus- man 3-4), 4:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Quintana 2-7) at Tampa Bay (Archer 4-3), 4:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Chavez 4-6) at Detroit (Norris 2-3), 4:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets (deGrom 4-2) at Texas (Gee 0-0), 5:05 p.m. Houston (Paulino 0-0) at Kansas City (TBD), 5:15 p.m. Cleveland (Clevinger 2-2) at Colorado (Senzatela 7-2), 5:40 p.m. Toronto (Estrada 4-3) at Oakland (Hahn 1-4), 7:05 p.m. Minnesota (Santiago 4-5) at Seattle (Paxton 4-0), 7:10 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W Washington 36 New York 24 Atlanta 24 Miami 24 Philadelphia 20 Central Division W Chicago 29 Milwaukee 30 St. Louis 26 Cincinnati 26 Pittsburgh 26 L 20 31 31 32 35 Pct .643 .436 .436 .429 .364 GB — 11½ 11½ 12 15½ L 27 28 29 30 31 Pct GB .518 — .517 — .473 2½ .464 3 .456 3½ West Division W L Pct GB Colorado 36 23 .610 — Los Angeles 35 24 .593 1 Arizona 34 25 .576 2 San Francisco 24 35 .407 12 San Diego 23 35 .397 12½ ——— Monday’s Games Cincinnati 4, St. Louis 2 Philadelphia 11, Atlanta 4 San Francisco 7, Milwaukee 2 Chicago Cubs 3, Miami 1 Washington 4, L.A. Dodgers 2 Tuesday’s Games Pittsburgh (Nova 5-4) at Baltimore (Gaus- man 3-4), 4:05 p.m. St. Louis (Wainwright 6-3) at Cincinnati (Adleman 3-2), 4:10 p.m. Philadelphia (Nola 2-3) at Atlanta (Garcia 2-3), 4:35 p.m. San Francisco (Cain 3-4) at Milwaukee (Anderson 4-1), 4:40 p.m. Miami (Locke 0-0) at Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 5-4), 5:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets (deGrom 4-2) at Texas (Gee 0-0), 5:05 p.m. Cleveland (Clevinger 2-2) at Colorado (Senzatela 7-2), 5:40 p.m. San Diego (Lamet 2-0) at Arizona (Ray 5-3), 6:40 p.m. Washington (Scherzer 6-3) at L.A. Dodgers (McCarthy 5-2), 7:10 p.m. NCAA Baseball Tournament Regionals Monday’s Games Kentucky 10, NC State 5 Vanderbilt 8, Clemson 0 Florida State 6, Auburn 0 Missouri State 3, Arkansas 2 Texas vs. Long Beach State, late finish TCU 15, Dallas Baptist 3 Mississippi State 8, Southern Miss 1 Southern Miss. vs. Mississippi State, late Super Regionals June 9-12 Oregon State (52-4) vs. Vanderbilt (36-23) Long Beach/Texas vs. Cal State Fullerton (37-21) Sam Houston State (44-21) vs. Florida State (43-21) Miss. State/Southern Miss vs. LSU (46-17) Davidson (35-24) vs. Texas A&M (39-21) Kentucky (43-21) vs. Louisville (50-10) TCU (45-16) vs. Missouri State (43-18) Wake Forest (42-18) vs. Florida (45-17) NCAA Softball Championship Series At ASA Hall of Fame Stadium Oklahoma City Oklahoma 1, Florida 0 Monday: Oklahoma 7, Florida 5, 17 innings Tuesday: Oklahoma vs. Florida, 8 p.m. x-Wednesday: Oklahoma vs. Florida, 8 p.m. Soccer MLS EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts Toronto FC 8 2 5 29 Chicago 7 3 4 25 Orlando City 7 5 3 24 NYC FC 7 5 3 24 Columbus 7 8 1 22 New England 5 5 5 20 New York 6 7 2 20 Atl. United FC 5 5 3 18 Philadelphia 4 6 4 16 Montreal 4 4 4 16 D.C. United 4 7 3 15 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts Sporting K.C. 7 4 4 25 FC Dallas 6 2 5 23 Houston 7 6 2 23 Portland 6 5 3 21 Vancouver 6 6 1 19 Seattle 5 6 4 19 San Jose 5 6 4 19 Los Angeles 5 5 3 18 Minn. United 4 8 2 14 Real Salt Lake 4 10 2 14 Colorado 4 8 1 13 GF 26 23 16 27 24 26 15 28 20 19 10 GA 15 16 18 19 26 21 21 20 18 18 21 GF 19 21 27 24 18 18 16 19 19 15 12 GA 10 11 22 21 18 22 20 19 33 35 18 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie. ——— Saturday’s Games New York City FC 2, Philadelphia 1 Sporting KC 3, Minnesota United 0 Vancouver 3, Atlanta United FC 1 Los Angeles 0, D.C. United 0, tie Montreal 1, New York 0 New England 3, Toronto FC 0 FC Dallas 6, Real Salt Lake 2 Colorado 2, Columbus 1 Sunday’s Games Chicago 0, Orlando City 0, tie Seattle 1, Houston 0 Saturday, June 10 Atlanta United FC at Chicago, 1 p.m. Montreal at Sporting Kansas City, 5 p.m. FC Dallas at Portland, 7:30 p.m. Tennis French Open Monday At Stade Roland Garros Paris Purse: $40.3 million (Grand Slam) Singles Men Fourth Round Andy Murray (1), Britain, def. Karen Khacha- nov, Russia, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4. Kei Nishikori (8), Japan, def. Fernando Verdasco, Spain, 0-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-0. Stan Wawrinka (3), Switzerland, def. Gael Monfils (15), France, 7-5, 7-6 (7), 6-2. Marin Cilic (7), Croatia, def. Kevin Ander- son, South Africa, 6-3, 3-0, retired. Women Fourth Round Simona Halep (3), Romania, def. Carla Suarez Navarro (21), Spain, 6-1, 6-1. Elina Svitolina (5), Ukraine, def. Petra Martic, Croatia, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5. Caroline Garcia (28), France, def. Alize Cornet, France, 6-2, 6-4. Karolina Pliskova (2), Czech Republic, def. Veronica Cepede Royg, Paraguay, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. Doubles Men Quarterfinals Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah (16), Colombia, def. Julio Peralta, Chile, and Horacio Zeballos, Argentina, 6-7 (1), 7-6 (6), 6-0. Santiago Gonzalez, Mexico, and Donald Young, United States, def. Jamie Murray, Britain, and Bruno Soares (5), Brazil, 3-6, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (4). Women Third Round Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua, Australia, def. Daria Gavrilova, Australia, and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russia, 7-6 (2), 6-4. Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina (2), Russia, def. Andreja Klepac, Slovenia, and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (15), Spain, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. Lucie Hradecka and Katerina Siniakova (6), Czech Republic, def. Chan Hao-ching, Taiwan, and Barbora Krejcikova (12), Czech Republic, 7-5, 7-5. Bethanie Mattek-Sands, United States, and Lucie Safarova (1), Czech Republic, def. Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia, and Kristina Mladenovic (14), France, 6-4, 6-2. Golf Memorial Tournament Final Scores At Muirfield Village GC Dublin, Ohio Purse: $8.7 million Yardage: 7,392; Par: 72 Sunday Jason Dufner 65-65-77-68—275 Rickie Fowler 70-66-72-70—278 Anirban Lahiri 74-70-69-65—278 Matt Kuchar 69-70-67-73—279 Justin Thomas 67-71-69-72—279 James Hahn 74-72-65-69—280 Kevin Kisner 70-69-70-71—280 Kyle Stanley 74-67-71-68—280 Bubba Watson 71-68-68-73—280 Graham DeLaet 73-67-73-68—281 Jamie Lovemark 69-69-70-73—281 Dan Summerhays 66-69-68-78—281 -13 -10 -10 -9 -9 -8 -8 -8 -8 -7 -7 -7 Jordan Spieth Kevin Streelman Jason Day Marc Leishman David Lingmerth Shane Lowry Jim Herman Phil Mickelson 66-72-71-73—282 73-69-67-73—282 75-71-67-70—283 70-70-72-71—283 65-74-71-73—283 72-68-70-73—283 70-74-67-73—284 70-70-72-73—285 -6 -6 -5 -5 -5 -5 -4 -3 Motorsports NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series AAA 400 Drive for Autism Results Sunday At Dover International Speedway Lap length: 1.00 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (14) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet 2. (5) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet 3. (2) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota 4. (13) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet 5. (16) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet 6. (3) Daniel Suarez, Toyota 7. (19) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet 8. (10) Denny Hamlin, Toyota 9. (18) Kevin Harvick, Ford 10. (31) Danica Patrick, Ford 11. (11) Dale Earnhardt Jr, Chevrolet 12. (9) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet 13. (4) Matt Kenseth, Toyota 14. (21) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet 15. (7) Erik Jones, Toyota 16. (1) Kyle Busch, Toyota 17. (20) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet 18. (24) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrole 19. (28) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet 20. (36) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet 21. (17) Trevor Bayne, Ford, accident 22. (35) Cole Whitt, Chevrolet 23. (29) Chris Buescher, Chevrolet 24. (32) Gray Gaulding, Toyota 25. (26) Joey Logano, Ford 26. (34) Ryan Sieg, Toyota 27. (39) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Chevrolet 28. (37) Timmy Hill, Chevrolet 29. (25) Matt DiBenedetto, Ford 30. (33) David Ragan, Ford, accident 31. (22) Clint Bowyer, Ford 32. (15) Ryan Blaney, Ford 33. (23) Paul Menard, Chevrolet 34. (30) Regan Smith, Ford 35. (38) Cody Ware, Chevrolet 36. (27) Landon Cassill, Ford 37. (6) Kurt Busch, Ford, 38. (8) Brad Keselowski, Ford 39. (12) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Ford Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 104.953 mph. Time of Race: 3 hours, 52 minutes, 6 seconds. Margin of Victory: Under Caution. Caution Flags: 15 for 72 laps. Lead Changes: 17 among 9 drivers.
