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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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