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Little League Baseball
Hermiston all-stars advance to championship
Hermiston’s
10/11 team
downs Pendleton
East Oregonian
ENTERPRISE — The
Hermiston 10/11-year-old
all-star team got some
payback on Thursday after-
noon, beating the Pendleton
all-stars 13-4 to advance to
the District 3 championship
game.
The two teams met
earlier in the tournament,
with Pendleton handing
Hermiston its only loss to
date with a 14-2 win at the
time. But Hermiston tallied
seven hits, worked nine
walks, and took advantage
of numerous errors to earn
the victory.
Seven different players
tallied all seven hits for
Hermiston, with Tyler West
and Karver Wilkins each
getting doubles. J.R. Starr
led the team with three runs
scored and also tied Austin
Bledsoe with a team-high
two RBI.
For Pendleton, Chas
Corbett had a team-best
three hits with two doubles,
one run and an RBI, while
Levi Herman went 2 for 3
with a double and two RBI.
Gavin Lunny and Colson
Primus each tallied one hit.
Hermiston jumped on
Pendleton in the top of the
fi rst inning with a four-run
output. West got things
started when he
doubled to right
to score Bradley
Hottman, and then
back-to-back errors
led to three Herm-
iston runs.
It added another run in
the second on an error, and
then took control with three
more in the third behind
an RBI double by Wilkins
and a two-RBI single by
Bledsoe.
Pendleton tried to claw
its way back into the game
after a two-RBI double by
Herman in the third and
an RBI single by Corbett
put Pendleton within an
8-4 margin, but that was as
close as it could get.
Hottman pitched 4 1/3
innings for Hermiston and
R H E
HRM
413 014 — 13 7 2
PND
002 200 —
4 7 8
2B — West, Wilins (HRM); Corbett 2,
Herman (PND).
11/12 LEVEL
LA
GRANDE
4,
PENDLETON 3 — After
scoring a combined 39 runs
over its last two games, the
Pendleton 11/12-year-old
all-stars could not fi nd the
offensive magic when it
needed it the most.
In the District 3 champi-
onship game on Thursday
in Enterprise, Pendleton
managed just three runs and
fi ve hits in a 4-3 loss to La
Grande.
Jack
Lieuallen
and
Andrew Deminew combined
for four of Pendleton’s fi ve
hits, with Lieuallen going
2 for 3 with a double, two
runs scored and an RBI and
Deminew going 2 for 3 with
a double and an RBI.
Dylan Gomez picked up
the other hit for Pendleton.
La Grande scored a run
in the top of the fi rst but
Pendleton battled back to
take a 2-1 lead in the bottom
of the fourth when Lieuallen
and Deminew went back-to-
R H E
LAG
100 030 —
4 6 2
PND
000 201 —
3 5 2
2B — Armstrong (LAG); Andrew Deminew,
Jack Lieuallen (PND).
Athletics win Babe Ruth title
Thompson RV
takes down
Big John’s
Red Sox
Olympic medalists
impress at US
Nationals
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
By MICHAEL MAROT
AP Sports Writer
INDIANAPOLIS
—
America’s swimmers were
on top of the world Thursday
night.
Lilly King set an Amer-
ican record in the women’s
50-meter breaststroke, three
other swimmers had the
fastest times in the world this
season and two more broke
U.S. national championship
records.
Each has even bigger
plans for next month’s world
championships in Hungary.
“I’m always happy to get
an American record, but I was
hoping to go a little faster,”
King said after posting a time
of 29.66 seconds. “I’ve think
I’ve still got a little left in the
tank for Budapest.”
She’ll have almost three
weeks to prepare after
breaking the record Jessica
See SWIMMING/2B
AP Photo/Michael Conroy
Lilly King starts the
women’s
50-meter
breaststroke at the U.S.
swimming
national
championships in India-
napolis, Thursday, June
29, 2017.
back with RBI hits.
However La Grande
came right back in the top
of the fi fth and scored three
times with a two-RBI single
and a wild pitch to take a
4-2 lead.
In the bottom of the
sixth, Pendleton got a
single and a double from
Lieuallen and Deminew to
put the tying run in scoring
position. Gomez grounded
out to second base to bring
in a run and make it a 4-3
game with the tying run at
third, but then La Grande
got a strikeout to end the
game and clinch the cham-
pionship.
————
PENDLETON
Swimming
Nationals
turns into
fun speed
showing
struck out three and
gave up four runs,
while Starr and
Kaiden Dammeyer
combined to fi nish
the fi nal 1 2/3
innings and struck out three.
Hermiston will now play
unbeaten Baker today at 5
p.m. for the District 3 cham-
pionship and Pendleton’s
run comes to an end.
————
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Big John’s Red Sox player Noah dives back to second base as Thompson RV’s Jimmy Jones makes the catch
in the Red Sox’s 9-8 loss to the A’s on Thursday in Pendleton.
The bleachers at Bob
White
Ballpark
were
swarming with baseball fans
on Thursday night with the
Pendleton Babe Ruth Base-
ball League’s championship
game as the main event.
After weeks upon weeks
of practice and games, the
season culminated with the
Big John’s Red Sox and the
Thompson RV Athletics
battling it out for bragging
rights and a championship
T-shirt.
What stared out as a bit of
a sloppy contest turned into a
nail-biter, with the Athletics
squeezing out a 9-8 victory
over the Red Sox for the
league championship.
“It feels pretty good,”
Thompson RV player Jimmy
Jones said after the game,
grinning from ear-to-ear. “I
didn’t really think we would
be here at the beginning of
the year but I guess hard
work pays off and we did
pretty good tonight.”
Jones was a hero for the
Athletics on Thursday, as he
scored two runs on offense
but threw 4 1/3 solid innings
on the mound, allowing just
one run four strikeouts and
only fi ve hits allowed.
“I had so much fun
tonight,” Jones said of the
game. “As a pitcher you
always want to focus on
the zone and sometimes it
doesn’t work out. But I was
able to shake some things off
and do my thing.”
“We made it a point to try
and keep him under his pitch
limit earlier in the week,”
Thompson RV coach James
Drake said. “We had him
See BABE RUTH/2B
Sports shorts
Braves designate Colon for assignment
ATLANTA (AP) Right-hander Bartolo
Colon was designated for assignment by the
Atlanta Braves on Thursday, one day after the
44-year-old right-hander fell to 2-8.
Pitching for the fi rst time since going on the
disabled list with a strained left oblique on June
6, Colon allowed six runs, eight
hits and three walks in four innings
in during Wednesday night’s 7-4
loss at San Diego, ballooning his
ERA to 8.14 in 13 starts.
Unless Colon is traded or
claimed
on waivers, the Braves
Colon
would be responsible for the
remainder of his $12.5 million
salary. If he is released and signs with another
team, the new club would be responsible for
only a prorated share of the $535,000 minimum.
The Braves hoped Colon could serve as
a fi ll-in for a year while the team waited for
pitching help from prospects still in the minors.
“I didn’t know. I had tape
on my wrist, so initially it
didn’t feel that bad. But I
went out there and tried
throwing ... I stayed in
there a little bit, and then
after a while it started
stiffening up so I fi gured
I’d get out of there.“
— Trea Turner
Washington Nationals star short-
stop suffered a broken wrist on
Thursday after getting hit with a
pitch during an at-bat. X-rays con-
fi rmed the break afterward. Turner
is hitting .279 with 7 HR and leads
MLB with 35 stolen bases
Timbers to be without two key
players for at least a month
PORTLAND — The Portland Timbers
earned a big point with Sunday’s draw
against Seattle, but it came at a high cost.
Timbers head coach Caleb
Porter announced on Thursday
that midfi elder Diego Chara and
defender Amobi Okugo will
each miss at least four weeks
due to injury.
Chara suffered a hamstring injury, while
Okugo sprained his MCL. The 31-year-old
Chara has played in 17 games this season
with one goal and three shots, while the
26-year-old Okugo has appeared in just eight
games and started only three.
Portland (7-7-4, 25) next hits the fi eld on
Saturday when it hosts the Western Confer-
ence leader Sporting Kansas City (8-4-6, 30)
at Providence Park with a 4 p.m. start.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1994 — Tonya Harding is
stripped of her national title
and banned for life from the
U.S. Figure Skating Associa-
tion because of her role in an
attack on Nancy Kerrigan.
1995 — Eddie Murray
of the Cleveland Indians
becomes the second switch-
hitter and the 20th player
in baseball history to reach
3,000 hits when he singles in
the sixth inning against the
Minnesota Twins.
2010 — Six-time champion
Roger Federer loses to Tomas
Berdych in the quarterfi nals
of Wimbledon. Berdych beats
Federer, the fi rst time since
2002 that Federer fails to reach
the fi nal.
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