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SPORTS FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 2017 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS Prep Football Five locals to play in Shrine Game Heppner, Stanfi eld, Mac-Hi represented East Oregonian Photo contributed by Ken Grieb Five local athletes will take part in the annual East- West Shrine Football game on Saturday night in Baker CIty. From left to right: Mac-Hi’s Riley Chester, Stan- fi eld’s Dylan Grogan and Thyler Monkus, and Hep- pner’s Kevin Murray and Logan Grieb. The annual Oregon East West Shrine All-Star football game is gearing up for its 65th edition this weekend in Baker City. Operating as a benefi t for the Shri- ners Hospital for Children in Portland, features some of the top graduates from Oregon high schools in the 1A-4A classifi cations. Umatilla and Morrow Counties are represented with fi ve roster spots on the East team, including 2017 East-West Shrine Game • Kickoff: Saturday, 7 p.m. • Where: Bulldog Stadium, Baker City. • Tickets: $15 reserved, $12 General Admission Heppner’s Logan Grieb and Kevin Murray, Stanfi eld’s Dylan Grogan and Thyler Monkus, and Mac-Hi’s Riley Chester. The experience for the players began late last week, when they visited the hospital to meet some of the patients and families that they are playing for. Then after a dinner in Pendleton on Saturday night, the players traveled on to La Grande for a week of practice at Eastern Oregon University. Festivities for the week include a tri-tip dinner on Thursday night in Baker City courtesy of the Baker Quarterback Club, a steak and pancake breakfast on Saturday in Baker City, and the Gridiron Tailgater at Baker City Park Saturday afternoon. The parade rolls through Baker City at 11 a.m. and then the game kicks off at 7 p.m. at Bulldog Stadium. The game will be tape-delayed on television on ROOT Sports Northwest on Monday, Aug. 7 at 7 p.m. and several other times throughout the week. Youth Baseball MLB Hermiston comes up just short Royals slide past Mariners Kansas City Royals shortstop Alcides Escobar (2) tags Seattle Mariners’ Danny Valencia (26) after he got caught off base during the second inning of a baseball game Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, in Kansas City, Mo. Local team eliminated from Junior League West Regional East Oregonian The Hermiston junior league base- ball team’s run to a spot in the Junior League World Series came up just a few steps short on Thursday afternoon. Hermiston, playing as Team Oregon, could not hang on to a late lead as Hawaii knocked Oregon out of the Junior League West Regional by handing it a 10-7 loss at Pioneer High School in San Jose, California. Trailing 5-3 in the top of the fi fth, Oregon’s offense awoke as 4-5-6 hitters of Ethin Randolph, Gavin Hunter, and Trevor Wagner each smacked RBI hits to give Oregon a 7-5 lead. However, Hawaii battled right back in the bottom of the fi fth to score three runs to take a 8-7 lead and then scored a pair of insurance runs in the sixth to seal it. Rustin Edmiston led the Hermiston team with three hits out of his leadoff spot, while Randolph, Hunter and Wagner all had two hits apiece. Wagner had two triples and three RBI, while Randolph and Hunter each added a double. Sam Schwirse started the game at pitcher and struck out two in fi ve innings while allowing eight hits and eight runs, though only fi ve were earned. Randolph tossed the fi nal frame and gave up two runs and two hits and struck out two. Oregon opened up the game in a big way, as Hunter’s RBI single and Wagner’s two-RBI triple opened up a 3-0 lead in the top of the fi rst inning. Hawaii chipped away a bit in the bottom of the fi rst with two runs, and then took a 5-3 lead in the bottom of the second. Oregon fi nishes the regional with a 1-2 record. AP Photo/Charlie Riedel Kansas City rallies against Seattle bullpen to take victory Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Brandon Moss hit two home runs and Lorenzo Cain drove in the go-ahead run in the seventh inning as the Kansas City Royals beat the Seattle Mariners 6-4 on Thursday night. The Royals rallied from defi - cits of 2-0 and 3-2 for their 32nd comeback victory. They snapped a three-game losing streak. Emilio Pagan Moss homered (0-2) took the loss, in the fi fth off giving up two runs, Yovani Gallardo after Mike Mous- Seattle Kansas City one unearned, in the seventh. Alcides takas had walked. Escobar led off the That snapped a inning with a single four-game homer- less skid for the Royals, which and Alex Gordon moved him to matched their longest drought of second with a sacrifi ce bunt. Whit Merrifi eld reached on the season. Moss also homered in eighth a fi elding error by fi rst baseman for his 11th career multi-homer Danny Valencia. Cain punched a single to right to score Escobar game. 4 6 MISSION Wildhorse Resort and Casino head PGA Professional Mike Hegarty, left, poses with Semi- ahmoo Golf and Country Club pro Jeff Coston after Coston won his fi fth Wildhorse Senior Oregon Open Invitational on Thursday in Mission. Coston wins fi fth Wildhorse Senior Oregon Open Invitational East Oregonian MISSION — Wildhorse Resort and Casino has hosted the Senior Oregon Open Invi- tational for 15 years now, and Mike Coston has now walked away with the tournament championship fi ve times. Coston, a PGA Professional at Semiahmoo Golf and Country Club in Blaine, Washington, sailed to the fi nish line for his fi fth victory with a stunning 10-under 62 on Thursday — the lowest score of the three-day and Cabrera singled home Merri- fi eld. Ryan Buchter (1-0), the fourth of six Kansas City pitchers, threw one pitch to retire Kyle Seager to end the seventh and picked up the victory. Kelvin Herrera worked the ninth to log his 24th save in 27 chances. He yielded a run on Robinson Cano’s two-out single. Seager and Valencia hit solo See MARINERS/2B event — to fi nish with a 16-under, 200 for the tourna- ment. Coston previously won the Wildhorse Open in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2012. Coston began the day with a one shot lead but won comfort- See GOLF/2B Photo courtesy of PGA Northwest Sports shorts Goldschmidt records 3 HR game CHICAGO (AP) — Paul Goldschmidt snapped a tie in the ninth inning with his third long homer of the game, and the Arizona Diamondbacks pulled out a rain-delayed 10-8 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Thursday. Goldschmidt hit a 3-2 pitch from Wade Davis (2-1) deep into the right-center bleachers with one out. J.D. Martinez followed Davis with another solo blast off the Cubs closer. Goldschmidt’s fi rst career three-homer game gave him 25 Goldschmidt for the season, and his six RBIs matched a career high. Klamath Falls native Brandon Drury also homered for Arizona, which remained ahead of Colorado for the top NL wild card. Willson Contreras smacked two home runs and had a career high six RBIs for Chicago, which lost consecutive games for the fi rst time since the All-Star break. “t’s not OK, and it shouldn’t be part of it. You can’t do it in a game. You get ejected -- just what you saw happened. Somebody can get hurt, which you saw happen. So we’ve taken a big stance against it and are really disappointed that it happened on Day 4 here.” — Pete Carroll Seattle Seahawks head coach addressing the brawl at Thurs- day’s practice. DE Frank Clark and OL German Ifedi were both kicked out of practice after Clark punched a helmet-less Ifedi during a drill. Former BMCC baseball player inks professional contract PENDLETON — Former Blue Mountain Community College baseball player Matt Dallas has made his way to the professional ranks. Dallas, a pitcher, signed a contract on Thursday with the River City Rascals located in in O’Fallon, Missouri. The Rascals are an independent team that plays in the Frontier League. The Boise, Idaho native played for the Timberwolves in 2013 and 2014 and then served as a volunteer coach for the 2015 season. After leaving BMCC, Dallas pitched for two seasons at the University of Minnesota Crookston. He spent the past summer pitching in the Jayhawk Baseball League for the Derby Twins in Kansas, where he went 1-1 with a 3.72 ERA in 19 1/3 innings and fi ve saves. THIS DATE IN SPORTS 1945 — Byron Nelson wins his 11th consecutive PGA Tour event, beating Herman Barron by four strokes. Nelson fi nishes the year with a record for most tournament wins (18) in a season. 1985 — Tom Seaver, 40, becomes the 17th 300-game winner in major league history with a six-hitter all singles as the Chicago White Sox beat the New York Yankees 4-1. 1985 — Rod Carew of the California Angels gets his 3,000th hit in a 6-5 win over the Minnesota Twins, his fi rst major league team. Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com
