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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
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PENDLETON
HERMISTON
Eagles hand
Bucks fi rst
league loss
Dawgs edge out Riverhawks
Pendleton offense,
defense can’t keep up
with Eagles’ heavy-hitters
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — For the fi rst three weeks
of the season, it was smooth sailing for the
Pendleton Buckaroos volleyball team.
The Buckaroos won seven straight matches
and dropped just one set during that stretch,
including a 3-0 win on the road against
defending Columbia River Conference
champion Hood River
Volleyball Valley. However, Hood
River Valley came back to
Pendleton for a rematch
Tuesday night and put away
Hood River
the Buckaroos with a 3-0
victory of its own, handing
Pendleton its fi rst league
loss and its second straight
loss overall.
“They
obviously
Pendleton
prepared for our tipping and
chipping (offense), which is
what we used when we went
there,” Pendleton’s Kalan
McGlothan said. “We needed to counter, do
something else, but we were so used to tipping
and chipping that we couldn’t get back to our
rhythm fast enough.”
Pendleton (7-2, 3-1 CRC) hung around in
each set, losing 25-19, 25-23, 25-22, but the
difference in Tuesday’s match came down to
Hood River Valley’s (7-4, 3-1 CRC) hitters,
3
0
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Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Hermiston’s Joel Mendez shoots on goal in front of The Dalles’ Miguel Aguilar in the Bulldogs’ 3-1 win against the River-
hawks on Tuesday in Hermiston.
Hermiston scores twice in final 20 minutes to win league opener
By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
East Oregonian
HERMISTON — The Bull-
dogs came out with all cylinders
fi ring, scoring the fi rst of their
three goals only six minutes
into their league opener.
En route to the 3-1 victory
over The Dalles, Hermiston
took its foot off the gas
mid-game but recovered in the
Boys Soccer
The Dalles
Hermiston
1
3
second half to earn back the
lead and the win.
“I defi nitely wanted a win
to open up conference play,”
head coach Rich Harshberger
said. “But I’m not satisfi ed with
our fi rst half performance. We
need to come out stronger and
impose ourselves a little bit
more.”
After senior forward Joel
Mendez sailed past The Dalles’
goalie Jaime Castro to a wide-
open net for Hermiston’s fi rst
score, the game settled down.
The Riverhawks (3-3, 0-1 CRC)
pushed the pace of play and
were aggressive in Hermiston’s
back third. Despite some good
saves by junior goalkeeper Juan
Navarrette, The Dalles fi nally
put one past him in the fi nal
minutes of the fi rst half.
After the break, with the
score knotted at 1-1, the Bull-
dogs (6-3, 1-0 CRC) continued
to let the Riverhawks dictate the
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Prep Roundup
Grizzlies sweep Cougars, Golden Eagles
Helix volleyball gets
back to winning ways
East Oregonian
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Pendleton’s Ellen Nirschl spikes the ball
into Hood River blockers Emilie Ellifritz
and Katie Kennedy (9) in the Bucks’ loss
to the Eagles on Tuesday in Pendleton.
HELIX — The Grizzlies
hosted their second league
volleyball
doubleheader
Tuesday, and again came
out on top. Helix swept both
Nixyaawii and Echo in straight
sets and pushed its record to
13-5 and 4-2 in the Old Oregon
League.
The Grizzles had no trouble
defeating the Golden Eagles
(1-4 OOL) in their fi rst match
of the day. Helix won handily
25-8, 25-4, 25-6, and carried
that momentum into its second
match directly after. The Tigers
(8-5, 4-2 OOL) put up more of
a fi ght, but the Grizzles never
surrendered and took the three
sets 25-23, 25-17, 25-19.
“It felt like they played
really well and came together
as a team,” head coach Dianna
Anderson said.
Almost everything clicked
for Helix, as the Grizzlies
served at over 90 percent with
fi ve perfect serves by the end
of night. Charmayne Bennett,
Jenna Herron, Kailey Mize,
Lynne Roberts, and Arianna
Krol all found great success at
the service line, while Sadie
Wilson led the team with 12
kills against Echo.
Along with the improvement
in serving, the girls got balls
they had previously missed in
past matches, Anderson added.
This development throughout
the remainder of the season will
be key as she knows the brunt
of their schedule is coming.
“We’ve got a lot of tough
matches ahead of us,” Anderson
said.
She hopes the girls progres-
sion continues show as they
try to work their way up the
league standings, and will soon
face the two league teams they
lost to just two weeks ago. But
fi rst the Grizzlies will travel
to Halfway to face Pine Eagle
High School on Saturday.
PILOT ROCK 3, ELGIN
1 — Pilot Rock’s long road
stretch is coming to an end, and
fortunately for the Rockets they
have found success in the latter
half of their trip. They traveled
to Elgin to face the Huskies,
and pulled off a win despite
their hiccup in the second set.
Pilot Rock took the fi rst set
25-14, but couldn’t fi nish on the
next and dropped that 21-25.
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College Basketball
Adidas exec, 4 coaches charged in college bribery scheme
Comes after 2-year
FBI investigation
By LARRY NEUMEISTER
AND TOM HAYS
Associated Press
NEW YORK — In one of
the biggest crackdowns on
the corrupting role of money
in college basketball, 10 men
— including a top Adidas
executive and four assistant
coaches — were charged
Tuesday with using hundreds
of thousands of dollars
in bribes to infl uence star
athletes’ choice of schools,
shoe sponsors, agents, even
tailors.
Some of the most explo-
sive allegations appeared to
involve Louisville, one of
college basketball’s biggest
powerhouses, which is
already on NCAA probation
over a sex scandal.
Federal prosecutors said
at least three top high school
recruits were promised
payments of as much as
$150,000 — using money
supplied by Adidas — to
attend two universities
sponsored by the athletic
shoe company. Court papers
didn’t name the schools but
contained enough details to
identify them as Louisville
and Miami.
“The picture of college
basketball painted by the
charges is not a pretty one,”
said acting U.S. Attorney
Joon H. Kim, adding that the
defendants were “circling
blue-chip prospects like
coyotes” and exploited them
to enrich themselves.
Prosecutors said that
while some of the bribe
money went to athletes and
their families, some went to
coaches, to get them to use
their infl uence over their
potentially
NBA-bound
players.
The coaches charged are
Chuck Person of Auburn,
Emanuel Richardson of
Arizona, Tony Bland of
Southern California and
Lamont Evans of Oklahoma
State. Person and Evans were
immediately suspended.
Those
charged
also
include James Gatto, director
of global sports marketing
for basketball at Adidas;
Rashan Michel, a maker of
custom suits for some of
the NBA’s biggest stars; and
various fi nancial advisers
and managers.
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Sports shorts
Wade expected to sign with Cavs
CLEVELAND (AP) — Together again:
LeBron and D-Wade. Just like old times.
Dwyane Wade has decided to sign with the
Cleveland Cavaliers and reunite with LeBron
James. Wade, a 12-time All-Star, is expected
to clear waivers on Wednesday
and then join the Cavs, said the
person who spoke on condition of
anonymity because the deal cannot
be completed until Wade goes
through the waiver process.
Wade and James won two NBA
titles together during four seasons
Wade
with the Heat and will now chase
another one with the Cavs, who
have been revamped after losing to Golden State
in last season’s Finals.
Wade agreed to a contract buyout earlier this
week with the Bulls, who signed him before last
season as a free agent. Wade has averaged 23.3
points, 4.8 rebounds and 5.7 assists in 14 seasons
with the Bulls and Heat.
“The willingness to never
give up, never stop
fi ghting, always competing
in at-bats, that’s been
our identity all year. Just
because we’re so close
to the playoffs, we didn’t
go out there and try to be
something we’re not.“
— Byron Buxton
Minnesota Twins outfi elder after
his team beat Cleveland 8-6 on
Tuesday to sit just one win shy of
clinching the second Wild Card
spot in the American League.
Minnesota is an unlikely team in
the playoff picture after having the
worst record in baseball in 2016.
Alonso, Valencia go deep as
Mariners beat Athletics
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Seattle’s Danny
Valencia hit a three-run homer against his
former team and fellow ex-Oakland slugger
Yonder Alonso added a two-run
shot in the Mariners’ 6-3 win
over the Athletics on Tuesday
night.
Khris Davis matched his
career high from last season with
his 42nd homer, a two-run shot in the sixth to
put Oakland ahead before Valencia’s 15th of
the year in the seventh off Daniel Mengden
(2-2).
The Mariners have hit 40 homers this month
and won their eighth straight against the A’s,
Seattle’s longest unbeaten run ever versus
Oakland.
Emilio Pagan (2-3) pitched 1 2/3 innings in
relief of James Paxton for the win, then Edwin
Diaz closed it out for his 33rd save.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1998 — Mark McGwire
gives baseball a new magic
number, hitting two homers
to reach No. 70 in the St.
Louis Cardinals’ season fi nale
against Montreal. McGwire’s
70th and fi nal home run of the
season was a line shot over the
left-fi eld wall on a fi rst-pitch
fastball from Carl Pavano in the
seventh.
2009 — With rookie
quarterback Matthew Stafford
leading the way, Detroit ends
a 19-game losing streak with
a 19-14 victory over the Wash-
ington Redskins. The Lions had
not won since Dec. 23, 2007,
and their skid matched the
second longest in NFL history.
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