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PENDLETON
PENDLETON ROUND-UP
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Josh Peek of Pueblo, Colorado, leaps from his horse on
his way to a 6.6-second time in steer wrestling slack
Tuesday at the Pendleton Round-Up.
Slack kicks off
107th Round-Up
East Oregonian
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Parker Breding of Edgar, Montana, rides Pistol Whipped for 88.5 points on Tuesday during the Pendleton PBR
Classic. Breding won the PBR Classic title.
Breding wins PBR Classic
The 2012 Round-Up champion
wins in PBR Classic debut
Brock
Red-
ford of
Dewin-
ton,
Canada,
rides
Carolina
Reaper
for 86
points
on
Tuesday
during
the
Pendle-
ton PBR
Classic.
By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
East Oregonian
When Parker Breding entered the short go,
there were fi ve other bulls he would have been
happy to be paired with. Instead, he drew New
West Rodeos’ Blackberry Smoke. If it weren’t for
the failed relationship between these two, Breding
would have entered the championship round
riding high off of the 88.5 points he earned in his
fi rst ride.
But when the Edgar, Montana native saw his
fi nal ride of the Banner Bank Pendleton PBR
Classic was on Blackberry Smoke all confi dence
was lost.
“When I saw I had him it was almost like a let
down,” Breding said. “I didn’t have much confi -
dence I was just thinking, ‘Gosh dang that bull
kind of handled me pretty easily when I got on the
fi rst time.’”
The fi rst time Breding is referring to was in his
home state a month ago when he was atop this
same bull but instead of getting a whistle on him,
Breding was bucked off.
“Amazingly,” he continued, “it turned around.”
Staff photo
by E.J. Harris
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Prep Roundup
Buckaroos win league opener
Pendleton sweeps defending
CRC champ Hood River
Volleyball
East Oregonian
HOOD RIVER — The Pendleton
Buckaroos volleyball team showed they
may be the team to beat in the Columbia
River Conference this season, as they
swept defending champion Hood River
Valley 3-0 on Tuesday night to begin CRC
play.
The Buckaroos (5-0, 1-0 CRC) won all
three sets by a 25-22 score over the Eagles
(2-3, 0-1) and Rylee Gentner was credited
with seven kills and Kalan McGlothan had
six to lead the team. Lauren Richards also
was a team leader with 12 assists.
“It was a high-intensity match tonight,”
Pendleton coach Amanda Lapp said. “We
saw a lot of grit from our girls and then
made things happen when it counted
most.”
Pendleton
Hood River
3
0
Pendleton now has a week off until its
next game on Tuesday at home against
The Dalles at 6:30 p.m.
WESTON-MCEWEN 3, WALLA
WALLA VALLEY ACADEMY (WA) 1
— At Walla Walla, the TigerScots battled
hard on the road and came home with a
solid four-set win, beating Walla Walla
Valley Academy 3-1 on Tuesday.
Alyssa Finifrock was a standout for the
TigerScots (10-4), registering a team-high
eight kills as well as a 23 of 25 serving
mark with 12 aces. Also turning in solid
games were Eli Schiedner with 14 assists
and six digs, Maddi Muilenburg with
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PENDLETON
—
Though the 107th Pendleton
Round-Up does not offi cially
start until 1:15 p.m. sharp
on Wednesday, competition
kicked off on Monday and
Tuesday with slack for timed
events.
Three-time world cham-
pion Tuf Cooper gained some
early traction in the race
for the coveted Round-Up
all-around title with a strong
runs in steer roping slack on
Monday and tie-down roping
on Tuesday. In steer roping,
Cooper won the fi rst go round
with a time of 13.1 seconds
and more than a half-second
cushion on second place
Shay Good at 13.8 seconds.
However Cooper recorded a
no-time in his second go in
Tuesday’s slack.
Then in tie-down roping,
Cooper sits in second place
after the fi rst go round
with a time of 8.7 seconds.
He missed fi rst place by
two-tenths of a second, where
J.C. Malone ($3,597.33)
fi nished with a time of 8.5
seconds. Cooper’s fi nishes
earned him a payout of
$6,896.82.
Trevor Brazile marked
his return to the Round-Up
with a third place fi nish in
the fi rst go in steer roping,
turning in a time of 14.0 to
earn a $2,785.57 payout. And
107th Pendleton
Round-Up
• Wednesday-Saturday
• 1:15 p.m.
• at Pendleton Round-
Up Arena
then on Tuesday, Brazile set
the pace with a time of 12.7
seconds in his second go and
currently sits atop the leader-
board. Brazile also competed
in tie-down and team roping
Tuesday, recording a no-time
with partner Clint Summers
in team roping and a time
of 21.8 in tie-down after a
broken barrier penalty.
In team roping it was
Clayton Hass and John
Robertson that won the fi rst
go with a time of 5.6 seconds,
edging out Tyler Milligan
and Shank Edwards’ time
of 5.6 to win the $4,393.57
payout.
Bulldoggers got their fi rst
shot on Tuesday as well, and
it was Hilo, Hawaii native
and former Walla Walla
Community College rodeo
competitor Cody Cabral
that took the top spot with
a time of 5.3 seconds for a
$3,848.75 payout. Defending
Round-Up champion Nick
Guy was solid in his fi rst run
to fi nish second with a time
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MLB
Mariners break out bats early
Seager hits 150th
career home run
By STEPHEN HAWKINS
Associated Press
ARLINGTON,
Texas
— Ben Gamel and Kyle
Seager both hit three-run
homers and the
Seattle Mariners
beat the Texas
Seattle
Rangers 10-3 on
Tuesday night
in a matchup
of wild card
hopefuls.
T e x a s
Texas
(72-72)
and
Seattle (72-73)
have split the
fi rst two games of their four-
game series. The Rangers
dropped three games behind
10
3
AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez
Seattle’s Mitch Haniger congratulates Kyle Seager,
right, on his three-run home run during the third inning
of Tuesday’s game in Arlington, Texas.
Minnesota for the American
League’s second wild card,
while the Mariners remained
3 1/2 back after the Twins
also won.
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Sports shorts
Messi fi nally conquers Buffon
as Barcalona beats Juventus
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Lionel Messi
fi nally scored against goalkeeper Gianluigi
Buffon as Barcelona beat Juventus 3-0 in their
fi rst match of the Champions League group stage
on Tuesday.
Messi grabbed his 95th and 96th
goals in the Champions League,
breaking the deadlock just before
the end of the fi rst half. After he
had hit the post and played a part in
Ivan Rakitic’s second goal, Messi
beat Buffon again to round off the
Messi
commanding win.
Messi’s goals were his fi rst ever
against the 39-year-old Buffon, who had kept him
without a goal in three previous meetings.
Barcelona’s all-time top scorer, Messi has
scored eight goals in six games across all compe-
titions this season.
Juventus eliminated Barcelona from last year’s
quarterfi nals.
“As a kid growing up in
Italy, I always dreamed
of my jersey hanging in
the Lakers rafters, but I
certainly never imagined
two of them. The Lakers
have bestowed a huge
honor on me and I’m
grateful for the fans’
enthusiasm around this
game.“
— Kobe Bryant
The former Los Angeles Laker star
will have both his No. 8 and No. 24
jerseys retired by the team during its
Dec. 18 game against Golden State,
the team announced on Tuesday.
Cleveland ties AL record with
20th consecutive victory
CLEVELAND (AP) — Following a familiar
script of scoring fi rst, playing strong defense
and riding dominant pitching, the Cleveland
Indians extended their winning
streak to 20 games and matched
the AL mark held by the 2002
Oakland Athletics, beating the
Detroit Tigers 2-0 on Tuesday.
Cleveland’s streak, which
began on Aug. 24 in Boston, is
tied for the majors’ second-longest in 82 years
— and the Indians show no signs of stopping.
Corey Kluber (16-4) strengthened his Cy
Young Award case with a complete game as
Cleveland joined the 2002 A’s, 1935 Chicago
Cubs (21) and 1916 New York Giants (26) as
the only teams to win at least 20 in a row.
Francisco Lindor homered leading off the
fi rst inning against Matthew Boyd (5-10), and
the crowd of 24,654 stood and roared when
Kluber sprinted to the mound for the ninth.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1992 — Buffalo’s Jim Kelly
and San Francisco’s Steve
Young throw for more than 400
yards and neither team punts,
the fi rst time in NFL history, as
the Bills beat the 49ers 34-31.
2015 — Lydia Ko becomes
the youngest major champion
in LPGA Tour history winning
the Evian Championship.
The South Korean-born New
Zealander closes with an
8-under 63 for a six-stroke
victory. Ko, at 18 years, 4
months and 20 days old,
eclipses the previous record
of American Morgan Pressel,
who was 18 years, 10 months
and nine days when she won
the 2007 Kraft Nabisco Cham-
pionship.
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