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HERMISTON
Stanfi eld team wins 3-on-3 title
Takin’ It To The Streets draws
166 teams in 22 brackets
East Oregonian
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wenty-two bracket champions were crowned after two
days of heated 3-on-3 basketball at Hermiston’s Takin’
It To The Streets tournament held downtown over the
weekend.
The Stanfi eld-based Grogans & Co. came back to
avenge its only loss of the tournament in the Men’s Open
championship.
Taking on an Oldies team that had beaten them 20-11 in
the second round of bracketed play, Grogans & Co. forced a
winner-take-all showdown by winning 20-14 to hand Oldies
its fi rst loss.
After a short break the teams went at it again, with
Grogans & Co. holding on for the 20-18 win.
The team called KSA won the women’s bracket 17-15
over Bing Bong, and in the Co-Ed championship it was Rim
Jobs taking a 20-12 victory over Wyant.
The event, which is a fundraiser for Hermiston basketball,
attracted 166 teams this year.
MAIN PHOTO:
Sam Grogan
gets ready to
jam the ball
through the
hoop during
Saturday’s slam
dunk competi-
tion, part of the
Takin it to the
Streets 3-on-3
basketball com-
petition on Main
Street in Herm-
iston.
BOTTOM LEFT:
Brandon Cas-
tro, of Granger,
Washington,
launches a shot
during Satur-
day’s free throw
competition.
Championship scores
Takin’ It To The Streets
Hermiston; July 15-16, 2017
Men’s Open
Grogans & Co. 20, Oldies 18
Co-Ed
Rim Jobs 20, Wyant 12
Women
KSA 17, Bing Bong 15
Men’s Rec
Too Much Sauce 20, Drive Home Safe 14
6U Competitive
Purosho 15, Eazy duz it 13
Men’s 6U Rec #1
Ross Brandt Electric 19, U-Town Ballers 15
Men’s 6U Rec #2
Dab daddy’s 15, mbex 13
12th Grade Boys
The ballerzz 20, Dream Team 8
11/12th Grade Girls
Steagles 19, Quad Squad 12
11th Grade Boys
Paco’s Court 20, BBJC 18
10th Grade Boys
Skeeterz 15, “u started the super team bro” 0
9th Grade Boys
Kennewick Rebels 20, Tune Squad 18
9th Grade Girls
Got Em 20, Native Storm 6
8th Grade Boys
Purosho 14, WW Blues 13
7/8th Grade Girls
Watch Me Work 9, Hermiston Storm 8
7th Grade Boys
Buck3ts 10, Brawlers 7
6th Grade Boys
509 Insanity 15, Straight ballin 7
6th Grade Girls
Swire Coca Cola 16, Hoopdawgs 7
5th Grade Girls
Medelez Inc 13, Prosser Elite 9
4/5th Grade Boys
Splash Bros 12, HogRiderz 8
4th Grade Girls
Lower Valley Ladies 13, Kick’n Some
Asphalt 8
3rd Grade Boys
WarriorBoyz 9, Hoop Maña 6
BOTTOM CEN-
TER: The Skee-
terz and the 509
Leakers battle
it out during
Saturday’s Takin
it to the Streets
3-on-3 basket-
ball competition
on Main Street
in Hermiston.
BOTTOM RIGHT:
Native Storm (in
orange) and Got
Em battle it out
during Satur-
day’s action.
Staff photos by Kathy Aney
PENDLETON
NBA
Hodgen falls in
summer baseball fi nale
Pendleton team loses
three to Twin City
East Oregonian
The Hodgen Distributing
18U American Legion base-
ball team ended its summer
season with three losses to
the Twin City Titans over the
weekend.
The series began Friday
evening with the Titans
taking a 7-0 win, then
fi nished up in a doubleheader
on Saturday.
The fi rst half provided
the most competitive game
of the series with the Titans
eventually prevailing 6-3 in
eight innings, but then it was
another rout to fi nish things
as the Titans won 14-3 in fi ve
innings.
Hodgen, which fell to
11-18, wasn’t able to get
much going at the plate in
any of the games, and totaled
See HODGEN/2B
Top of draft shines at Summer League
Lakers beat
Blazers for title
By JON KRAWCZYNSKI
Associated Press
The depth and quality
of the 2017 NBA draft had
teams tanking at the end of
the regular season in hopes
of vaulting into the top three
picks.
With the huge caveat
being that it was only
summer league action, those
at the top of the draft made
quite a fi rst
months.
impression.
No. 2 pick
Summer
Lonzo Ball
league play
Portland
Los Angeles owned Vegas
ended
on
with a pair of
Monday
triple-dou-
night after
bles
and
the
Los
was named
Angeles Lakers beat Port- Vegas MVP. Top pick
land in the Las Vegas league Markelle Fultz showed off
championship game. Over his wide array of scoring
leagues played in Orlando, tricks in Utah before sitting
Salt Lake City and Vegas, out much of Vegas with an
many of the top 10 picks ankle injury and No. 3 pick
gave their teams plenty Jayson Tatum of Boston
to feel good about before was drawing comparisons
heading into the league’s to Paul Pierce while domi-
quiet period for the next two nating both in Utah and
98
110
Nevada.
The competition these
rookies will face will
increase
exponentially
when training camps open
in October. And there is a
long list of summer league
standouts — Nikoloz
Tskitishvili, anyone? —
who never amounted to
anything in the NBA. But
for struggling franchises
like the Lakers, Sixers, Suns
and Kings, seeing some real
promise from their young-
sters the fi rst time they step
See SUMMER/2B
Sports shorts
Federer’s stock up after Wimbledon
LONDON (AP) — Roger Federer’s eighth
Wimbledon title pushed him back up to No. 3 in
the ATP rankings on Monday after he ended last
season at No. 16.
And, because he sat out the last half of 2016,
his points will only continue to
accumulate, making a return to
No. 1 a real possibility.
“I’m playing for titles at this
stage of my career. Rankings,
not so much, unless I’m as close
as I am right now,” said the
35-year-old Federer, who also
Federer
clinched a berth in the season-
ending ATP Finals, held in London on Nov.
12-19. So I just have to check the situation, if
it’s worth it to run after it or not.”
Garbine Muguruza’s fi rst championship at the
All England Club returned her to the WTA’s top
10 at No. 5, a rise of 10 spots, while runner-up
Venus Williams goes from No. 11 to No. 9.
“Kirk (Cousins) has made
it clear that he prefers to
play on a year-to-year
basis. While we would
have liked to work out a
long-term contract before
this season, we accept his
decision.“
— Bruce Allen
Washington Redskins team president
announcing that the team and quar-
terback Kirk Cousins had failed to
come to a long-term contract agree-
ment by Monday’s deadline. Cousins
will be the fi rst QB to play back-to-
back years on the franchise tag.
Houston Rockets up for sale
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston Rockets
owner Leslie Alexander is selling the team.
Rockets CEO Tad Brown made the announce-
ment Monday, hours after he said
Alexander made the decision.
Alexander took over as owner
on July 30, 1993, and the Rockets
went on to win back-to-back titles
in 1994-95.
In 24 seasons under Alexander,
the Rockets have won 56.9 percent of their
games, fi fth-highest in the league.
Brown says the 74-year-old Alexander
had been approached over the years by those
looking to buy the team, but that he never
considered it until very recently.
Brown says he will be working with the
league offi ce to facilitate things while they look
for a new owner. There is no set timetable for
the sale, but Brown says they want to fi nd the
right buyer and won’t rush the process.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1975 — The trial of Dave
Forbes, the fi rst pro athlete
to be indicted for a crime
committed during play, ends
in a hung jury. Forbes, of the
Boston Bruins, was indicted
for excessive force used on
an opponent. Forbes’ victim
was Henry Boucha in a
game on Jan. 4 against the
North Stars at Minnesota.
The prosecution decides not
to seek a retrial.
1996 — Shaquille O’Neal
signs a seven-year, $121
million contract with the Los
Angeles Lakers. The Lakers’
ticket price for the cheapest
seats is increased from $9.50
to $21.
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