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Friday, June 23, 2017
ALL-EO SECOND TEAM
NBA
Trail Blazers trade up to get
Gonzaga’s Zach Collins
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
PORTLAND — The Portland
Trail Blazers traded up to get another
big man.
Portland, which had three first-
round picks going into
Thursday night’s NBA
draft, dealt the No. 15 and
No. 20 picks to the Sacra-
mento Kings for the No. 10
pick, center Zach Collins
out of Gonzaga.
The 7-footer, who
played off the bench in
his lone season with the
Bulldogs, averaged 10 Collins
points, 5.9 rebounds and
1.8 blocks per game.
Collins, 19, was Gonzaga’s first
one-and-done player. For the draft
in New York, he paid homage to his
hometown with a blazer lining and
shoes decorated with “Las Vegas”
prints.
He found out about the trade
“about 30 seconds” before he took
the stage and donned a Kings hat, he
said.
In return for Collins, Sacramento
got the draft rights to small forward
Justin Jackson out of North Carolina,
the 15th overall pick, and Duke
forward Harry Giles, the 20th.
Portland also took 6-foot-9
forward Caleb Swanigan out of
Purdue with the 26th pick. The Big
Ten Player of the Year averaged 18.5
points and 12.5 rebounds last season
as a sophomore.
Collins said he can play at either
the four or the five. He could be
used in tandem with Jusuf Nurkic, a
6-foot-11 center who joined Portland
in a February trade with Denver.
Portland also has 7-footer Meyers
Leonard, a four-year veteran of the
team.
Collins didn’t mince words when
it comes to what he thinks he can
accomplish in his first year: “I don’t
see why I can’t be Rookie of the
Year.”
Portland went 41-41
last season before getting
ousted by the Golden State
Warriors in the first round
of the playoffs. It was the
fourth straight year that the
Blazers advanced to the
postseason.
But upon his arrival,
Nurkic developed chem-
istry with backcourt duo
Damian Lillard and CJ
McCollum, going on to average
15.2 points, 10.4 rebounds and 1.9
blocks in 20 games with the Blazers.
Portland was 14-5 with Nurkic in the
starting lineup.
The Blazers’ winningest starting
lineup included Lillard, McCollum,
Nurkic and forwards Noah Vonleh
and Maurice Harkless.
“To be honest, I just know that
they’re a tough team and they don’t
really back down from anybody,”
Collins said. “And those are traits
I grew up with and are part of my
game as well. Just that, in itself, I can
fit in almost perfectly there.”
OREGON DUCKS DRAFTED
Former Oregon Ducks Jordan
Bell, Tyler Dorsey, and Dillon
Brooks all heard their names called
in the second round on Thursday.
Bell went 38th overall to Chicago
and then was traded to Golden State,
Dorsey went 41st overall to Atlanta,
and Brooks went 45th overall to
Houston.
ALL-EO HONORABLE MENTION
Pitchers
Pitchers
• Skylar Wightman, jr., Riverside — 162
K, 126 IP -- .667 avg., 10 HR, 59 RBI, .837
OBP, 1.270 SLG
• Julissa Almaguer, jr. Hermiston —
8-11, 2.31 ERA, 58 K -- .309 avg.
• Kenzie Gonzales, sr., Echo. — 7-4, 3.43
ERA, 63 K -- .442 avg., 20 R, 20 RBI
• Mya Chapman, Irrigon, jr. — 2nd team all-Spe-
cial District 1
• Kayla Gilman, Irrigon, sr. — 2nd team all-Spe-
cial District 1
• Dakota Durfey, Heppner, soph. — 9-10, 67 K,
88 2/3 IP
• Alyssa Ray, Echo, jr. — 5-6, 77K, 63 2/3 IP.
• McKenna Stallings, Mac-Hi, fr. — 5-2, 3.05
ERA, 37 K, 43 IP
• Sydney Earls, Mac-Hi, soph. — 3-3, 2.86 ERA.
Catcher
• Sydney Peal, sr., Weston-McEwen —
.406 avg., 16 R, 19 RBI, 2 HR, 10 CS
Infield
• Jada Burns, jr., Irrigon — 1st team
all-Special District 1
• Sara Weinke, jr., Pilot Rock — .526
avg., 7 HR, 7 2B, 25 R, 43 RBI, .897 SLG
• Rylee Gentner, jr. Pendleton — 2nd
team all-Columbia River Conference.
• Hannah McCarty, sr., Echo— .433
avg., .627 SLG, 25 R, 22 RBI, 7 2B.
Outfield
• Amie Coffman, soph., Weston-
McEwen— .362 avg., 21 RBI, 21 R.
• Courtney Cain, soph., Weston-
McEwen — .423 avg., 3 HR, 17 RBI, 28
R, .704 SLG.
• Onna DeLoach, sr., Heppner — .333
avg., 1st team all-Special District 6
Utility
• Aspen Garton, soph., Pendleton— 1st
team all-Columbia River Conference
• Ellery Jones, sr., Hermiston — .389
avg., .528 SLG, 18 R
• Brooke Smiley, sr., Mac-Hi — .348
avg., 17 R, 16 RBI, .551 SLG.
Catcher
• Bailee Noland, Hermiston, fr. — .300 avg., 2 HR,
12 R, 22 caught stealing
• Kila Solomon, Pendleton, soph. — 2nd team
all-Columbia River Conference
Infield
• Sydney Richwine, Mac-Hi, sr. — .338 avg., 22 R,
18 RBI, 1st team all-GOL.
• Sadie Hasbell, Riverside, sr. — .536 avg., 1 HR,
10 2B, 45 RBI, .737 OBP.
• Sydney Stefani, Hermiston, soph. — .333 avg.,
20 R, 26 SB.
• Morgan Correa, Heppner, jr. — .418 avg., .552
SLG, .716 OBP, 35 R, 13 RBI.
• Monique Montoya, Echo, jr. — .487 avg., .711
avg., 35 RBI, 28 R, 17 2B.
• Jacey Wilson, Pilot Rock, sr. — .364 avg., .467
OBP, 27 RBI, 28 R.
• Charmayne Bennett, Weston-McEwen, jr. —
.297 avg., 7 HR, 25 R, 25 RBI.
Outfield
• Kendra Hart, Echo, fr. — .519 avg., .667 SLG.
• Ema Combes, Irrigon, fr. — 1st team all-Special
District 1.
• Maddie Parker, Pendleton, sr. — All-Columbia
River Conference honorable mention.
• Graci Bullock, Mac-Hi, fr. — .319 avg., 13 R.
Utility
• Codi Hewlett, Echo, fr. — .319 avg., 27 R.
ALL-EO: Richards ready for 2017, says “We’re going to get a state title”
Continued from 1B
all-time campaigns for a
Pendleton pitcher.
Her 229 strikeouts in 157
innings pitched puts her No.
1 in the school record book
for strikeouts in a single
season, and per an inning
(1.46). She surpassed Alex
Hillmick’s 2010 season (171,
1.43) in both categories.
“I kind of knew going into
the season that I was wanting
to go for the strikeout record,
so I kind of kept track of
that on my own. Just set that
goal,” Richards said.
“That’s something she
kept to herself for awhile,”
Cary said. “She’s a pretty
quiet player really. She sets
her goals and she sets them
high, but she keeps them to
herself and goes after them
on her own.
“As a coaching staff we
figured out pretty quick that
she was well on her way.”
After striking out 145
batters while splitting time
with then-senior Kiersten
Murphy in 2016, Richards
had already shown a solid
command of the strike zone,
but her ability to mow down
batters at a record pace
wasn’t something Cary had
anticipated.
“We knew she was a good
pitcher, and we knew she
would be successful because
she has been a great ground-
ball pitcher, and really moves
the ball around well,” he said.
“But she picked up a lot of
velocity from this season to
last season. The extra strike-
outs were an added bonus.”
Richards also planted her
flag high atop the Buckaroo
leaderboard for wins, oppo-
nents’ batting average (OBA)
and earned run average
(ERA). Her 21 wins is No.
2 all-time, her .156 OBA is
fourth, and her 1.25 ERA
ranks 12th.
“My coaches, pitching
coaches and teammates,
I couldn’t have got here
without them, for sure,”
Ricahrds said. “They just
help me so much and I don’t
think they get enough credit
for it. What I do in the circle,
they’re definitely a huge part
of it and I wouldn’t have had
as much success as I had
without them.”
Richards also pitched nine
shutouts, but for as much
as she coveted the strikeout
record, she said she doesn’t
really like to use stats as a
measuring stick.
“I mean, stats are fun to
look at, but I don’t think it
defines the type of athlete
you are, or player,” Richards
said. “I think sports goes far
beyond stats and it takes a lot
more to be a good athlete.”
And she’s absolutely
right, because as impressive
as her numbers were, it was
her ability to continually
come through for the Bucks
in clutch situations that really
made Richards stand out
amongst her peers.
She said her competitive
streak is the result of being
the youngest in a household
that has already produced two
Division I college athletes.
“I still get stories from my
grandparents and parents.
I hate losing, and I hated
losing when I was a child,”
she said. “They always had
to let me win in whiffle ball
or any game we played.”
She said she still can’t
live down the time when, as
a 6-year-old, simply getting
tagged out in a backyard
game was enough to induce
a meltdown, “so now they let
me round the bases.”
There’s nobody giving
her a free pass these days,
though, and Richards has
proven herself capable of
earning her bases with a .394
batting average that came
with nine doubles and 24
runs scored.
Richards also earns her
stats in the time she puts in
outside what she does with
the Buckaroos.
“She leads by example,
there’s nobody that outworks
her, that’s for sure,” Cary
said. “She’s pitching or
hitting with her dad on days
and times that we don’t have
practice. Sometimes they’re
hitting on the field before
school starts.
“She has a true competi-
tive desire to be the best. …
In fact, she probably works
too much at some points, and
we have to tell her to take a
day off. It’s hard to get her to
take a day off. You’ve got to
love a kid that just goes out
and works and works.”
Richards has remained
true to form since the
season’s end, and is already
playing in tournaments and
lining up camps to attend this
summer.
She said a repeat run at the
strikeout record isn’t on her
agenda, though.
“I think my whole team is
determined, and I’m already
working on new things I
can bring,” she said. “I’m
definitely coming ready for
next year, we’re going to get
a state title.”
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