SPORTS FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 2017 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS PENDLETON HERMISTON BMCC picks its athletes of the year Local Bonner, Rogers, Pendergrass bring home awards East Oregonian With the 2016-17 school year winding down, Blue Mountain Community College handed out some hardware to a few of its top athletes. Softball athlete Sarah Bonner and base- ball athlete Jared Rogers both took home the Wallace McCrae Student-Athlete of the Year awards, while Bonner rodeo standout Quincy Pendergrass won the Riley Freeman Memo- rial Athlete of the Year. The McCrae award manship, i n t e g r i t y, and accom- plishments throughout the year,” according to a press release from the Rogers Pendergrass school. Bonner “honors student-athletes and Rogers fi lled out those for their high GPAs and requirements this season as commitment to academics, leaders of their respective strong leadership, sports- teams while also succeeding in classes. Bonner, a sophomore from Billings, Montana, hit for a .357 average and a team-high 12 home runs, earned a second team all-East region selec- tion and NWAC Academic Excellence award, all while maintaining a 3.27 GPA. Rogers, a sophomore from La Grande, played in 27 games for the Timber- wolves at catcher and was second on the team with a See BMCC/2B MLB Cano’s errors prove costly Seattle Mariners pitch- er Marc Rzepczyns- ki, center, talks on the mound with second baseman Robinson Cano, left, and catcher Mike Zun- ino, right, during the eighth inning of a base- ball game against the Minneso- ta Twins, Thursday, June 8, 2017, in Seattle. AP Photo/Ted S. Warren Seattle’s win streak snapped after fi ve games as Twins avoid sweep By TIM BOOTH Associated Press SEATTLE — Kyle Gibson pitched one-run ball into the seventh inning and the Minnesota Twins took advantage of two errors on one play by Robinson Cano in a 2-1 win over the Seattle Mariners on Thursday night. Minnesota avoided a three- game sweep and snapped Seattle’s fi ve-game winning streak thanks in part to unexpected blun- ders from one of Minnesota the best defensive second basemen in the game. With two out in the fi fth inning and a runner on second, Cano misplayed Joe Mauer’s slow grounder. He compounded the mistake by trying to catch Ehire 2 Adrianza at third base, but Cano’s throw was low, skipped past Seattle Kyle Seager and allowed Adrianza to score. Gibson (3-4) managed to quiet Seattle’s hot bats, pitching into the seventh inning for the fi rst time the season. The Mariners were averaging 8.17 runs per game so 1 far in June, but were limited to Ben Gamel’s sacrifi ce fl y to score Jarrod Dyson. A day after giving up a game-winning home run in the ninth, Minnesota closer Brandon Kintzler got the fi nal three outs for his 16th save. Jason Castro homered off Seattle starter Christian Bergman (3-3) in the fourth, but was the only See MARINERS/2B teen part of WHL history Hermiston alum plays in fi ve overtime game in major junior hockey By ERIC SINGER East Oregonian EVERETT, Wash. — On April 4, the Everett Silvertips and Victoria Royals of the Western Hockey League made history. The teams battled in a seem- ingly never-ending game that took nearly fi ve full overtime periods to complete. W h e n E v e r e t t ’s Cal Babych scored the game-win- ning goal Anderson at the 11:24 mark in that fi fth OT, it capped a Canadian Hockey League record for longest game in history with 151 minutes and 36 seconds of game play. Keith Anderson, a 2015 graduate of Hermiston High School, was in the middle of the action as a winger for Everett as he is in his third season playing in the major junior league ranks. Anderson recalled that game recently with the East Oregonian, saying that when the goal horn sounded for the game-winner he of course was happy it was his team that won, but was more relieved that the game was fi nally over. “It was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do endurance wise,” Anderson said. “I didn’t think it would ever end, honestly. We were mentally exhausted and our legs were about to collapse. We snacked and chugged Gato- rade every intermission. “I personally hit a post (with a shot) in the fourth overtime that would’ve ended it, and the team just couldn’t seem to bury any chances. But then Babych jumped on a breakaway with their defenseman who was really tired on the backcheck and he put it home. We were See ANDERSON/2B NHL Stanley Cup Finals Penguins give Predators a shellacking Pittsburgh one step away from second straight Cup By WILL GRAVES Associated Press PITTSBURGH — The night started with a catfi sh throw. It ended with haymaker after haymaker — both literal and proverbial — from the ever resilient Pittsburgh Penguins. The defending champions Game 5 Nashville Pittsburgh 0 6 provided an emphatic and repeated reminder of what makes them such a diffi cult out in a 6-0 demolition of the Nashville Predators in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final to take a 3-2 lead. Pittsburgh will have a chance to become the fi rst franchise in 19 years to win back to back Cups when the series shifts back to Nashville for Game 6 on Sunday night. “Understand that we’re going to play a desperate team,” said Penguins captain Sidney Crosby after collecting three assists. “Nothing’s done yet and we’ve got a lot of work ahead of ourselves.” So do the Predators, who can’t get back to Smashville fast enough. Justin Schultz, Bryan Rust and Evgeni Malkin scored during a fi rst-period barrage against Pekka See STANLEY CUP/2B AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar Pittsburgh’s Ron Hainsey (65) pokes the puck past Nashville goalie Juuse Saros (74) for a goal during Game 5 of the Stan- ley Cup Final on Thursday in Pittsburgh. Sports shorts Unseeded Ostapenko to play for women’s French Open title PARIS (AP) — Jelena Ostapenko became the fi rst unseeded women’s fi nalist at the French Open in more than 30 years by beating Timea Bacsinszky on Thursday. The 47th-ranked Ostapenko, the fi rst Latvian player to reach a Grand Slam fi nal, will play No. 3 Simona Halep, who beat second- seeded Karolina Pliskova. The last unseeded player to reach the fi nal at Roland Garros Ostapenko was Mima Jausovec, who lost to seven-time French Open champion Chris Evert in 1983. Ostapenko won 7-6 (4), 3-6, 6-3, sealing the win on her second match point with a forehand winner to break Bacsinszky’s serve for the fourth time in the set. It was her 50th winner of the match, which also saw her make 45 errors. “From a mental standpoint, there is no other option, other than to prepare for Game 4 as best you can. That’s it. This is as do-or-die as possible as I’ve ever faced in my career. So we understand what’s at stake ... there’s really no other decision, other than to leave it all out there.“ — Kyrie Irving Cleveland Cavaliers guard on the team’s mentality as they try to regroup and stave off a sweep at the hands of Golden State. TV ratings for Game 3 of NBA Finals sees 22 percent surge CLEVELAND (AP) — Game 3 of the NBA Finals drew 20.5 million viewers on ABC, an increase of 22 percent from last season. Golden State’s 118-113 victory over Cleveland was the closest game of the series and the most-watched Game 3 ever on ABC, according to Nielsen numbers announced Thursday. The overall ratings for the series, the fi rst time the same two teams have played in three straight Finals, are the highest since 1998, when Michael Jordan won his last champi- onship. It is averaging 20 million viewers, up 11 percent from 2016. Game 4 tips off tonight at 6 p.m. on ABC as Golden State goes for the sweep and a perfect 16-0 mark in the postseason. THIS DATE IN SPORTS 1973 — Secretariat, ridden by Ron Turcotte, wins the Belmont Stakes in record time to capture the Triple Crown. Secretariat sets a world record on the 1½-mile course with 2:24, and a record for largest margin of victory in the Belmont, 31 lengths. 2010 — Chicago’s Patrick Kane sneaks the puck past Michael Leighton 4:10 into overtime, stunning Philadelphia and lifting the Blackhawks to a 4-3 overtime win in Game 6 for their fi rst Stanley Cup championship since 1961. Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com