SPORTS
WEEKEND, OCT. 7-8 2017
1B
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PENDLETON
PREP ROUNDUP
Bulldogs
win third
straight
Hermiston tallies 473
total yards, grinds out
win over Ridgeview
East Oregonian
REDMOND — Hermiston
traveled back down to Central
Oregon on Friday night and
brought home a win, beating the
Ridgeview Ravens 48-26.
Hermiston
FOOTBALL (4-2 overall,
3-1
Special
District 1) used
a
balanced
Hermiston
offense
to
take
down
the
Ravens,
running
for
259
yards
and
passing
Ridgeview
for 214 more.
Andrew James
kept up his
effi cient play,
completing 12-of-15 passes with
three touchdowns, and rushing
for 100 yards on eight carries
with a score. As usual, James’
favorite target was Dayshawn
Neal, as Neal hauled in six passes
for 97 yards with a score.
The pair hooked up for the
touchdown to open the game,
with Neal catching a 36-yard
score for an early 7-0 lead. James
also threw a 50-yard touchdown
pass to Joey Gutierrez in the third
quarter and a 3-yard score to
Keaton Mikami in the fourth.
Jonathan Hinkle had a big day
on the ground for the Bulldogs,
rushing for 105 yards and two
scores on 14 carries.
Hermiston’s defense forced
two turnovers, but gave up 300
rushing yards on 54 attempts
to the Ravens. Ridgeview (0-6,
0-4) tied the game at 14-14 with
8:37 left in the second quarter,
but scores by Hinkle, James and
Gutierrez gave the Bulldogs a
35-14 lead and momentum going
into halftime.
UP NEXT
Hermiston will next host Bend
on Friday night at 7 p.m.
48
26
STANFIELD 38, WESTON-
MCEWEN 16 — At Stanfi eld,
the Tigers continued to play well
at the right time as they picked
up their second league victory of
the season with a big 38-16 win
over Weston-McEwen on Friday
night.
Stanfi eld (2-3 overall, 2-0
CBC) ran for 335 yards on the
TigerScots, with Justin Keeney
running for 112 yards and two
touchdowns and Adrian Renner
gaining 103 yards with two more
scores. Shayne Keltz also ran for
one touchdown.
“It’s probably the best we’ve
looked all season,” Stanfi eld
coach Davie Salas said. “We’re
playing good football at the right
time like we did tonight. We
started the season a little rough,
but I kept telling the kids to keep
believing in themselves and the
results will come and that’s what
we’re seeing right now.”
The win gives the Tigers a
chance to play for their second
straight CBC title in two weeks
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Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Pendleton’s Shaw Jerome attempts to break the tackle of Mountain View’s Landon Dean in the Bucks’ 21-6 loss to the Cougars on
Friday at Round-Up Stadium in Pendleton.
Cougars wear out Buckaroos
Mountain View runs
for 324 yards to beat
Pendleton at home
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — The Pend-
leton Buckaroos knew that if they
wanted to upset the Mountain
View Cougars on Friday night,
their offense would have to start
fast, operate with balance and
effi ciency and reach the end zone.
It would have to offset Mountain
View’s dominant rushing attack
that has earned well over 1,000
yards on the season.
Pendleton got the ball fi rst on
Friday night and started exactly
how they wanted to. The Bucks
moved 80 yards on six plays in
the opening drive, scoring on
a 12-yard run by quarterback
Nick Bower for a 6-0 lead just 2
minutes, 13 seconds into the game.
But then, things fell apart.
After that drive, Pendleton
game and against a team like
(Mountain View) that just grinds it
out was tough.”
Mountain View (6-0 overall,
4-0
Special
FOOTBALL District 1) was
carried to the
win by a phys-
ical offensive
Mountain View line and the
workhorse
running back,
Jonas Larson.
The junior ran
the ball a whop-
Pendleton
ping 48 times
for 268 yards
and three touch-
downs in the
game, upping his season total to
more than 1,200 rushing yards. He
carried the team on a 93-yard drive
that ate up more than 8 minutes
of clock in the second quarter,
running 14 times for 80 yards with
a 1-yard score to put his Cougars
on top 14-6 before halftime.
“That really just wore us out,”
Davis said. “And the offense is just
21
6
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Pendleton’s Nick Bower (15) stairs down Mountain View’s Luke
Schulz while handing the ball off to Kirk Liscom in the Bucks’
21-6 loss to the Cougars on Friday in Pendleton.
lost its rhythm and tallied just
115 total yards on its next seven
possessions. Meanwhile, Moun-
tain View’s offense ground out
324 rushing yards and ate up 30
minutes, 8 seconds of game clock
to pull out a 21-6 victory over the
Bucks at the Round-Up Arena.
“We had a pretty good offensive
game plan going in, knowing what
we wanted to do early, but (Moun-
tain View) made some pretty good
adjustments and we just weren’t in
a rhythm,” Pendleton coach Erik
Davis said. “Our defense was on
the fi eld it seemed like the entire
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UMATILLA
Umatilla beats Riverside for fi rst league victory
Webb, Durfey help
Vikings defend their
home fi eld on Friday
By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
East Oregonian
UMATILLA — After opening
league play with a 29-point loss
last week, the Umatilla Vikings
were frustrated. They were frus-
trated because they could have
gone toe-to-toe with Burns if it
weren’t for fundamental errors
that ultimately cost them the game.
So head coach Dan Durfey
went back to basics this week of
practice before Umatilla hosted
its fi rst league
FOOTBALL opponent. And
it worked.
The Vikings
handed
the
Riverside
Riverside
Pirates a 44-16
loss
Friday
night to move
to 4-2 on the
season, and 1-1
Umatilla
in the Eastern
Oregon League.
“It was a
pretty
hard
hit for them,” Durfey said of the
league opener. “They felt good
going in there but we had a lot
of breakdowns, and they were
pretty frustrated about that. So, it
wasn’t hard to get things going in
16
44
practice.”
One thing in particular plagued
the Vikings last week. Senior
quarterback Kaden Webb wasn’t
setting his feet well, and couldn’t
make the connections Umatilla
needed then. Friday, however, was
a different story.
Webb went 12-for-17 for 250
yards and three touchdowns, and
ran for 54 yards and one touch-
down on six carries.
“It felt pretty good,” Webb said.
“Overall through the night it felt
like I was throwing the ball pretty
well, receivers were going and
making plays so that’s nice to see.”
One of those plays was a 72-yard
touchdown pass to senior running
back Trent Durfey with three
seconds left in the third quarter.
The 6-foot 2-inch 210-pound back
ran through Riverside’s defense
the entire night.
By this point in the game, the
Vikings had a comfortable lead
over the Pirates (2-3 overall, 0-2
EOL).
After Umatilla’s opening drive
ended with a punt on 4th-and-10,
the defense took the fi eld and
wouldn’t be on for much long
after. Riverside’s senior quarter-
back Mason Hegar fumbled as
he was swarmed by the Umatilla
defense, and Viking linebacker
Zaquary Funderburk recovered
the ball on the Pirates 1-yard line.
Webb found sophomore running
back Arrik Russell for Umatilla’s
fi rst score of the night.
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Sports shorts
Browns’ 2017 top pick Garrett
to make NFL debut on Sunday
CLEVELAND (AP) Six months after being
drafted, Myles Garrett can fi nally show why he
was the No. 1 pick.
Garrett missed Cleveland’s fi rst four games
all losses with a high right-ankle
sprain. But the 21-year-old rookie
made it through a week of practice
without any trouble, and he’ll
make his regular-season debut
Sunday for the Browns against the
New York Jets.
The Browns need a jolt of any
Garrett
kind, and the 6-foot-4, 275-pound
former Texas A&M star might be
just what Cleveland needs to shake off another
slow start.
Coach Hue Jackson said Garrett’s snaps
could be limited as the team doesn’t want to take
any extra chances with the rookie defensive end
now that he’s fi nally healthy.
“We have come under
criticism and attack over
the years, but we have
always faced our critics.
Our projects are going
ahead as scheduled.
This (blockade) is no risk
in relation to the hosting
of the World Cup.”
— Hassan Al Thawadi
Qatar World Cup supreme com-
mittee secretary general, on block-
ade by neighboring countries and
the potential affect on hosting the
2022 World Cup
Diamondbacks coach fi ned for
wearing Apple Watch in game
NEW YORK (AP) — Arizona coach Ariel
Prieto and the Diamondbacks have been fi ned by
Major League Baseball for his wearing an Apple
Watch in the dugout during the
NL wild-card win over Colorado.
The commissioner’s offi ce said
in a statement that it interviewed
Prieto and examined his watch
and cellphone. It said it “found no
evidence that Mr. Prieto used the Apple Watch or
cellphone for any purpose in the dugout, nor any
baseball-related communication on either device,
during Wednesday’s game.”
Prieto and the team were fi ned because he
violated a regulation, and MLB will donate the
fi ne money to hurricane relief efforts in Puerto
Rico.
Last month, the Boston Red Sox were fi ned
by MLB for using an Apple Watch to relay signs
to hitters.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1916 — Georgia Tech
beats Cumberland 222-0 in
the most lopsided college
football game in history.
1962 — Judy Kimball
wins the LPGA champi-
onship with a four-stroke
victory over Shirley Spork.
2001 — San Diego’s
Rickey Henderson becomes
the 25th player with 3,000
hits with a bloop double in a
14-5 loss to Colorado.
2011
—
Seimone
Augustus and the Minnesota
Lynx beat the Atlanta Dream
73-67 to complete a three-
game sweep of the WNBA
championship series.
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