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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2017
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MLB PLAYOFFS
Cubs
knock out
Nationals
Chicago advances to
NLCS to face Los Angeles
By HOWARD FENDRICH
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Chicago
Cubs win whenever they need to, with
whatever it takes, even a seven-out save
by Wade Davis to preserve a shrinking
lead and a “Did that really happen?”
four-run inning against Washington’s
Max Scherzer in a
thriller of a Game 5.
NLDS
That
wild,
bat-around
fi fth
inning Thursday night
for Chicago included
Chicago
Addison
Russell’s
go-ahead,
two-run
double, a bases-loaded
hit by pitch, and a
disputed
dropped
third strike followed Washington
by a throwing error,
helping the defending
World Series cham-
pion Cubs come
back — and then hold on — to edge the
Nationals 9-8.
And for the third year in a row,
Chicago reached the NL Championship
Series.
“Give the boys credit,” Cubs manager
Joe Maddon said. “That’s one of the
most incredible victories I’ve ever been
part of. I know a lot of people are prob-
ably saying the same thing, but under
the circumstances, in the other team’s
ballpark, after a tough loss at home, to
come back and do that, give our guys all
the credit in the world.”
Russell drove in four runs and Davis,
Chicago’s seventh pitcher, turned in
his longest appearance since 2012. The
Cubs trailed 4-1, then led 8-4 and 9-6, in
a game that lasted more than 4½ hours
and ended after midnight on Friday.
“It was bizarro world, there’s no
question about it,” Maddon said. “But
it happens. It happens this time of the
year.”
Catcher Willson Contreras picked
off Jose Lobaton at fi rst base to quash
a Washington threat in the eighth and
Davis fanned a swinging Bryce Harper
for the fi nal out.
“It was a series of bad events,”
Nationals manager Dusty Baker said.
Chicago, which surpassed its total
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Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Pendleton kicker Hunter Kiele watches from the sidelines during the Bucks’ 21-6 loss to Mountain View last week in Pendleton.
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GRIDIRON GIRLS
Irrigon’s Burns,
Pendleton’s Kiele
add football to their
athletic resumes
By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
East Oregonian
As the Irrigon Knights ran
away with a Sept. 29 game
against rival Riverside Pirates,
coach Steve Sheller put in the
junior varsity quarterback in the
second half.
The switch didn’t slow the
offense one bit. In fact, Sheller’s
wife, watching from the side-
lines, said she didn’t even notice
when the change happened as the
team put together several more
touchdown drives on the way to
a 50-0 win.
Aside from the ponytail, it’s
hard to tell the difference between
the play of Jada Burns and varsity
starter Zach Hendricks.
up alongside and across the line
of scrimmage from boys.
While it may be different to see
a girl on the football fi eld, varsity
level athletics is not new terrain
for these two. Burns has been a
three-sport athlete throughout
high school, and Kiele has played
both basketball and soccer. What
attracted them to football was a
need for change and a competi-
tive edge that made the transition
into the world of sweaty teenage
boys more tolerable.
“I’m a part of the team so me
playing with a bunch of guys is
not different to me,” Burns said.
“I’m just part of a team playing
a sport so being out there I didn’t
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Irrigon Knights quarterback Jada Burns, center, reads a play think of it as, ‘oh they are guys
out of a playbook for a scout offense during practice recently and I’m the only girl.’ I just
in Irrigon.
thought of us as one team.”
Burns grew up in a family
Meanwhile in Pendleton, Friday’s game against Hood where sports was the norm. Her
Hunter Kiele has been dedicating River Valley.
older brother played basketball,
her afternoons to kicking on the
Burns and Kiele are the only her mother coached, and Burns
football fi eld instead of the soccer girls in Oregon since two girls was in the middle of it all
turf. The effort paid off this week at North Bend and Scappoose in attending practices and soaking
as coach Erik Davis has named 2014 to play on their high school
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her the full-time PAT kicker for varsity football teams — lining
PENDLETON
Buckaroos dig deep to beat Riverhawks
Buckaroos drop fi rst
set, but rally to get
back on winning track
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Pendleton’s Maureen Davies (10) gets
ready to hit the ball Thursday’s game
against The Dalles at Warberg Court.
After a lightning-fast fi rst
half of the season, the Pendleton
volleyball team’s second half has
been a struggle.
A 7-0 start had given way to a
3-5 stretch and back-to-back road
losses to La Grande and Hood
River Valley had the Buckaroos
searching for that early-season
groove. Not helping were a hit
of injuries, most notably junior
libero Kirah McGlothan who
is out for the remainder of the
VOLLEYBALL
The Dalles
Pendleton
1
3
season with a right knee injury.
On Thursday night against
The Dalles, it seemed as if the
slide might continue for another
game as a fl at, frantic start led to
a fi rst set loss to the Riverhawks.
However, the Buckaroos were
able to dig deep on its home
court and rally for three straight
set wins to hand the Riverhawks
a 3-1 loss (19-25, 25-15, 25-19,
25-19).
“We saw them come out
with a little bit of heart tonight,”
Pendleton coach Amanda Lapp
said, “and we’ve been asking for
over the last couple matches that
we’ve seen. Getting that slow
start tonight, we just needed to
shake out the cobwebs and get
back into our groove and it looks
like we’re fi nally moving that
direction again.”
Maureen Davies had a
monster game for Pendleton
(11-5 overall, 6-2 CRC) with 15
kills, four blocks and two aces.
She smacked a thundering kill
to clinch the second set victory
and blew away the Riverhawks
(6-11, 2-6) with another kill in
the third set to break a 16-16 tie
and put Pendleton in front for
good.
Behind Davies, Rylee Gentner
tallied eight kills with three digs,
Elisabeth House had fi ve kills
and Elli Nirschl added three kills.
Pendleton still had slow starts
in nearly every set, getting in a
4-1 hole in each of the fi nal three
sets. But the Bucks were able
to turn to Davies or Gentner for
a timely kill or a block, and get
big-time digs from the likes of
Aspen Garton, Kourtny Garnett
and Lauren Richards to help
gain momentum as the sets went
along.
“They really pulled it out
tonight and we’re starting to shift
back into that team they started
out playing like,” Lapp said.
“One of the goals this year was
to start strong and end strong and
we’re trying to ramp back up and
fi nish strong.”
UP NEXT
Pendleton hosts a tournament
with Milwaukie and Hermiston
on Saturday at 9 a.m.
Sports shorts
Wentz throws for 3 touchdowns
as Eagles beat Panthers 28-23
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Carson Wentz
threw for 222 yards and three touchdowns to
help the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Carolina
Panthers 28-23 on Thursday night
to improve to an NFC-best 5-1.
The Eagles turned two
interceptions deep in Carolina
territory into 15 points, with
touchdown passes to Zach Ertz,
and LaGarrette Blount’s 2-point conversion to
take an 18-10 lead in the third quarter. Wentz
added a 24-yard scoring pass to Nelson Agholor
in the fourth quarter.
Wertz completed 16 of 29 passes.
Cam Newton threw three interceptions for
Carolina (4-2).
Carolina had one last shot to win, but turned
it over on downs at midfi eld.
“I think it is incumbent on us
to demonstrate to the fans
the commitment to doing the
things that are necessary to
win. My words, I can say
that we are deeply committed
to winning a World Series.
We are deeply committed to
making the playoffs next year
and at some point in time my
words become hollow. We’ve
got to back those words up
with action.“
— John Stanton
Seattle Mariners CEO on the frus-
trations of the club’s now-16-year
playoff drought.
IndyCar race coming back to
Portland in September 2018
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Portland
International Raceway is back on the IndyCar
Series schedule in 2018.
The Sept. 2 race on the 1.967-
mile permanent road course
will be IndyCar’s fi rst trip to the
Oregon track since races were
held from 1984-2007 under
CART and Champ Car sanction.
“Portland International Raceway has
produced thrilling road racing throughout Indy
car history — the 1997 fi nish still stands as the
record for the closest fi nish on a road or street
course — and the timing of our return couldn’t
be better given the bold new look our cars will
have in 2018. We expect this will be a show
fans won’t want to miss,” Mark Miles, CEO
of series owner Hulman & Company, said in a
statement Thursday.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1903 — The Boston
Pilgrims win the fi rst World
Series, 5 games to 3, with a
3-0 victory over the Pittsburgh
Pirates.
1947 — The NHL holds
its fi rst All-Star game with the
All-Stars beating the Toronto
Maple Leafs 4-3.
1963 — Mickey Wright
wins her fourth LPGA cham-
pionship in six years by two
strokes.
2001
—
DeShaun
Foster of UCLA runs for
a school-record 301 yards
and four touchdowns as the
Bruins beat Washington
35-13.
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