SPORTS
WEEKEND, JUNE 10-11, 2017
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PENDLETON
NBA Finals
Hodgen perfect on Day 1
Hod-
gen
Distrib-
uting
right
fi elder
Avery
Deutz
snags
a fl y
ball
during
Fri-
day’s
game
against
Baker
at Bob
White
Field.
Staff photo
by Kathy
Aney
AP Photo/Ron Schwane
Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (23)
celebrates with Kevin Love (0) and Kyrie Irving (2)
during the fi rst half against the Golden State War-
riors in Game 4 of NBA Finals in Cleveland on Friday.
Cavaliers
thwart sweep
Cleveland defends home
court with big victory
Pendleton starts Ashlee Hodgen Tournament with big wins
By TOM WITHERS
Associated Press
fi eld by Tyler Chichester that
scored Avery Duetz.
Chichester’s
walk-off
wouldn’t have happened had
it not been for his teammates
before, though. Ryan Stahl
worked a walk to start the
inning and then Austin
Fell bunted for an infi eld
single to put runners on the
corners with no outs. Hodgen
deployed a double steal that
allowed Stahl to score and
Fell to move to third on an
error.
Gabe Umbarger then
brought Fell home with a
sacrifi ce fl y to the outfi eld to
cut the defi cit to 9-7 in favor
of Baker.
Next up, Justin Duso and
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East Oregonian
The
annual
Ashley
Hodgen Memorial Baseball
Tournament kicked off on
Friday afternoon and the
host
Pendleton/Hodgen
Distributing team started its
schedule in exciting fashion.
In the opener against
Baker, Hodgen came away
with a walk-off 10-9 victory,
before fi nishing off the night
with a 12-2 blowout victory
of Redmond under the lights
at Bob White Park.
In Game 1, Hodgen (2-0)
trailed Baker 9-5 in the
bottom of the fi fth, until it
rallied to score fi ve runs in
the inning which was ended
by a walk-off single to right
CLEVELAND — The Cavaliers stopped Golden
State’s perfect postseason and maybe started another
comeback.
Game 4
Just like last year, the NBA Finals are
at 3-1 after four games.
LeBron James recorded a triple-
Golden St.
double, Kyrie Irving scored 40 points
and Cleveland outperformed the NBA’s
most electrifying offense in a testy Game
4 fi lled with technical fouls on Friday
night, beating the Warriors 137-116 and
snapping their 15-game playoff winning
Cleveland
streak.
“We just kept our composure,” James
said. “We shared the ball, we moved the
ball and defensively we were physical.”
A series that appeared to be headed for a quick conclu-
116
137
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Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Hodgen Distributing third baseman Ryan Stahl tags a
Baker runner as a Baker coach indicates that Hodgen
catcher Justin Duso had obstructed the runner a cou-
ple seconds earlier Friday at Bob White Field.
College Baseball
MLB
Beavers take down Commodores
Mariners rally past Jays
Super Regional
Heimlich excused
from playing
Vanderbilt Oregon State
By ANNE M. PETERSON
AP Sports Writer
CORVALLIS — Oregon
State beat Vanderbilt 8-4 in
the opening game of their
NCAA super regional on
Friday night, a day after
reports surfaced that the
Beavers’ top pitcher pleaded
guilty to a molestation
charge as a teenager.
On Thursday, The Orego-
nian/OregonLive detailed
the molestation case against
Oregon State pitcher Luke
Heimlich when he was 15.
Shortly before Friday’s
game, Heimlich’s attorney
said the junior had asked to
be excused from playing.
Heimlich was in uniform
and was cheered by fans
4
Mark YlenAlbany Democrat-Herald via AP
Oregon State’s Stephen Kwan slides in to score in
front of Vanderbilt catcher Jason Delay during OSU’s
8-4 win in an Friday’s super regional in Corvallis.
when he was introduced
along with the rest of
Oregon State’s players
before the game. Attendance
for the game was announced
at 3,737, a Goss Stadium
single-game record.
KJ Harrison hit a
3-run home run and Nick
Madrigal added a two-run
double to lead the Beavers.
Oregon State, ranked No.
1 in the nation, is the top
national seed in the NCAA
Tournament. The Beavers
have won 20 straight games.
Right-hander
Jake
Thompson (14-0) started
for the Beavers (53-4) in the
opening game of the best-
8
of-three series. The winner
advances to the College
World Series.
“I thought we played
with energy,” Oregon State
coach Pat Casey said. “I
thought we played with the
type of togetherness we talk
about all the time.”
Harrison’s
three-run
homer put the Beavers up
in the fi rst inning, but Vandy
tied it in the second on Jason
Delay’s two-run single and
Will Toffey’s RBI single to
left center.
Madrigal’s double down
the left fi eld line scored a
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Seattle makes it 10
wins in 12 games
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Danny
Valencia and Jarrod Dyson
had RBI singles as part of
Seattle’s
seventh-inning
rally, and the Mariners beat
the Toronto Blue Jays 4-2 on
Friday night for their 10th
win in 12 games.
Struggling to get anything
started all night against
Toronto starter Joe Biagini
(1-5), the Mariners rallied
with two runs in the seventh
and managed to silence
the thousands of Blue Jays
fans who made the trip
south from the provinces
of western Canada for the
weekend series.
Valencia’s single scored
Robinson Cano with the
Toronto
Seattle
2
4
tying run, and Dyson
followed with a liner to
center scoring Kyle Seager
and giving Seattle a 3-2 lead.
Seager added a two-out RBI
single in the eighth inning.
Tyler Cloyd (1-0) pitched
one inning of relief to get the
victory in his fi rst appear-
ance in the majors since
Sept. 29, 2013. The combo
of Nick Vincent and Edwin
Diaz worked the eighth
and ninth innings as Seattle
reached .500 for the third
time this season.
Cano barely missed a
home run with a drive off
the top of the wall in center
leading off the seventh. He
found his way home three
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Sports shorts
Kyle Busch wins pole at Pocono
LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — Kyle Busch
turned a lap of 179.151 mph to win the pole at
Pocono Raceway.
Busch had the fastest lap Friday to win a
NASCAR Cup pole for the second straight
week. Busch won the pole at Dover
International Speedway.
Busch’s run at Dover was
derailed when a tire came off
the No. 18 Toyota during a pit
stop. Busch crew chief Adams
Stevens, tire carrier Kenny Barber
and tire changer Jake Seminara
Busch
were suspended four races for the
infraction and will not be at Pocono. He won
races at every active Cup track except Pocono
and Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Martin Truex Jr. starts second and Matt
Kenseth third for a 1-2-3 start for Toyota. Ryan
Blaney was fourth, followed by Kurt Busch and
Brad Keselowski, all Ford drivers.
“I’ve always been in
competition with myself.
I just believe that this
program, this whole
organization has a
mindset of competition.
We believe that as long
as people compete they
will earn whatever they
deserve. In the end, it’ll
work itself out.“
— Thomas Rawls
The Seattle Seahawks’ running
back believes that the injury bug
that has plagued much of his fi rst
two seasons in the NFL is behind
him, and welcomes the competi-
tion with Eddie Lacy and others.
Rafael Nadal advances to his
10th French Open fi nal
PARIS (AP) — According to his longtime
coach, Rafael Nadal did not play very well in
his French Open semifi nal.
Yet the nine-time Roland Garros champion
dispatched up-and-coming
Dominic Thiem 6-3, 6-4, 6-0
on Friday to reach his 10th fi nal
at the clay-court Grand Slam,
extending his record for the most
fi nal appearances in Paris.
Facing a player who already
had beaten him twice on clay,
Nadal
Nadal needed little more than
two hours to secure his spot in Sunday’s
fi nal, where he will face 2015 champion Stan
Wawrinka.
He has yet to drop a set and has lost only
29 games in six matches, just two games off
the record for the fewest games dropped in
reaching a Grand Slam fi nal in the Open era.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1933 — Johnny Goodman
wins the U.S. Open golf title,
making him the last amateur to
win this event.
2010 — USC is placed on
four years probation, receives
a two-year bowl ban and a
sharp loss of football scholar-
ships. The NCAA cites USC
for a lack of institutional
control. The NCAA fi nds
that Reggie Bush, identifi ed
as a was ineligible beginning
at least by December 2004.
The NCAA also orders USC
to vacate every victory in
which Bush participated
while ineligible and takes
away 30 scholarships over a
three-year period in 2011-13.
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