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SPORTS WEEKEND, JUNE 24-25, 2017 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS All-EO Baseball Player of the Year Grogan caps exceptional career Grogan by the numbers Stanfield senior dazzles on the diamond once again .488 By ERIC SINGER East Oregonian Batting Average STANFIELD — Dylan Grogan’s athletic career at Stanfield Secondary School is nothing short of excep- tional. Specifically on the baseball diamond, Grogan leaves the Tigers as a two-time Eastern Oregon League Player of the Year, 2016 Class 3A state Player of the Year, two-time first team all-state selection, and leader of the 2016 state championship team. Add in the numerous all-state mentions and league awards in football and basketball, and Grogan is perhaps one of the most decorated Stanfield athletes ever. But as Grogan sat down with the East Oregonian on the bleachers at Madigan Field on Wednesday evening, the 18-year-old said all of those accolades have not quite registered to him just yet. “I don’t think it’ll hit me till later down the road, (Team-high) 1.295 On-base plus Slugging Percentage 0.95 Earned Run Average 12.6 Strikeouts per Staff photo by E.J. Harris 7 innings Standfield’s Dylan Grogan has been named the All-EO baseball player of the year for his efforts on the field and at the plate to lead Stanfield to a league and district title and a trip to the state semifinals. years from now,” Grogan joked, “because right now I’m probably humble about it. But when I’m old I’m sure it’ll hit me like ‘Yeah that’s pretty good.” And now Grogan adds another accolade to his resume, as the East Orego- nian Baseball Player of the Year for the second straight time. After a dazzling 2016 season that saw Grogan set several school records and earn the honor as the state’s best, he followed it up in 2017 with yet another masterful performance. “You always want to See GROGAN/2B 89 mph Four-seam fastball velocity 2017 ALL-EO BASEBALL FIRST TEAM P P Dylan Grogan Stanfield, senior Stats: .488 avg., 34 RBI, 1.295 OPS -- 0.95 ERA, 53 K. EOL Honors: Co-Player of the Year, 1st team all-state. Austin Rice Irrigon, senior Stats: 1.53 ERA, 95 K -- .406 avg., 11 2B, 30 R, 20 SB. Honors: Eastern Ore- gon League Co-Player of the Year. P C Levi Thieme Pilot Rock, senior Stats: 2.38 ERA, 97 K, 64 2/3 IP, 1 no-hitter -- .464 avg, 21 RBI, 1 HR, .559 OBP. Honors: 1st team all- state for Class 2A/1A. Thyler Monkus Stanfield, senior Stats: .379 avg., .584 OBP, 57 R, 31 SB, 21 HBP, 19 RBI. Honors: 1st team all-Eastern Oregon League. 1B IF IF Ryan Bailey Stanfield, senior Stats: .451 avg., 30 RBI, 44 R, 10 2B, .527 OBP, .559 SLG. Honors: 1st team all-Eastern Oregon League. Wyatt Morris Pendleton, senior Stats: .375 avg., 2 HR, 25 R, .505 OBP, 1.075 OPS, 11 RBI. Honors: 1st team all-Columbia River Co- nerence. Brody Woods Stanfield, junior Stats: .479 avg., 38 RBI, 12 2B, 5 3B, 36 R, .735 SLG -- 2.65 ERA, 63 K, 1 no-hitter. Honors: 1st team all- EOL. IF OF OF OF UT UT Tony Flores Stanfield, senior Stats: .434 avg., 46 R, 50 RBI, 15 2B, 4 3B, .667 SLG -- 2.65 ERA. Honors: 1st team all- EOL. Nick Bower Pendleton, junior Wyatt Noland Hermiston, soph. Stats: ..370 avg., 14 R, 14 RBI, 4 2B, 4 3B. Honors: 2nd team all-Columbia River Conference. Chris Weinke Pilot Rock, junior Stats: .324 avg., 27 R, 4 HR, .510 OBP. Honors: 2A/1A all- state honorable mention. Zack Henrichs Irrigon, sophomore Stats: .424 avg., 25 R, 26 RBI, 8 2B, .559 SLG. Honors: 1st team all-Eastern Oregon League. Braydon Postma Pilot Rock, senior Stats: .486 avg., 21 runs, 17 RBI, .575 OBP, 5 2B. Honors: 2A/1A all- state second team. Stats: .316 avg., 1 HR, 25 RBI, .410 OBP. Honors: 1st team all-Columbia River Conference. College Baseball MLB Beavers offense sputters in loss to LSU OSU held to season-low two hits College World Series By ERIC OLSON Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. — With a wave of his cap to the LSU fans, Alex Lange disappeared into the dugout after what very well could have been his last outing as a collegian. It was one of his best, and most timely. The Chicago Cubs’ first- round draft pick limited top-seeded Oregon State to two hits over 7 1/3 innings in a performance Friday that carried the Tigers to a 3-1 victory and ended the Beavers’ 23-game winning streak. It also set up a winner- take-all Bracket 1 final at the College World Series on Saturday, with the winner going to the best-of-three finals beginning Monday. Lange (10-5) won a CWS AP Photo/Nati Harnik LSU’s Zach Watson (9) slides past Oregon’s catcher Ad- ley Rutschman (35) to score on a sacrifice bunt by Beau Jordan during the second inning of a College World Se- ries game in Omaha, Neb., Friday, June 23, 2017. elimination game for the second time in his career, and he said his experience pitching so many important games at home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, prepared him. “I had a sense of calmness about me this morning when I woke up, and getting to the yard. I was expecting to be amped up and juiced up,” Lange said. “I was calm and relaxed. I think that goes back to pitching in Alex Box Stadium in front of 12,000 people every Friday night. It wasn’t a big shocker or big difference. This is why I came to LSU, to play in these LSU Oregon State 3 1 big games. And keeping your team in the ballgame and keeping the season alive is pretty awesome.” The Tigers (51-18) avenged a 13-1 loss to the Beavers (56-5) on Monday and became the first team to knock them off since Southern California on April 29. They did all of their scoring against national wins leader Jake Thompson (14-1). Max Engelbrekt relieved in the seventh after Josh Smith hit Thompson’s first pitch of the inning into the right-field seats for a two-run lead. Oregon State was still stinging after the game from a call in the third inning See BEAVERS/2B Mariners pile on for win over Astros King Felix solid in return from DL By TIM BOOTH Associated Press SEATTLE — Felix Hernandez pitched six solid innings in his first start in nearly two months and was backed by home runs from Mike Zunino, Ben Gamel and Kyle Seager in the Seattle Mariners’ 13-3 win over the Houston Astros on Friday night. A day after climbing over .500 for Houston the first time this season, the Mariners continued their June surge with their sixth straight win thanks to an offense that knocked out Houston starter Joe Musgrove (4-7) early. Jarrod Dyson’s RBI double in the second got Seattle Seattle started, but it was a six-run third inning that blew the game open. Danny Valencia’s two-run single dribbled past the diving attempt of Alex Bregman and two batters later Zunino hit a three-run shot for his 10th home run of the season. All of Zunino’s homers have come since being recalled from Triple-A on May 23, and he has 29 RBIs in June — just four short of the franchise record for any 3 13 See MARINERS/2B
