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PENDLETON
MLB PLAYOFFS
Dodgers
put the
pressure
on Cubs
Buckaroos fi nish off Bulldogs
Pendleton earns
season sweep of
Hermiston
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
Los Angeles just
one win away from
trip to World Series
On a night where the Pend-
leton volleyball team honored
its eight senior players prior
to its match with Hermiston,
the group’s
Volleyball vast amount
of on-court
experience
came in quite
Hermiston
handy.
The Buck-
aroos were
aiming for a
season sweep
of
Herm-
Pendleton
iston, while
the
young
Bulldogs
were aiming
to end what’s
been a tough regular season
on a high note with an upset
of the rival Bucks. Hermiston
came out swinging against
Pendleton in the fi rst set and
built up leads of seven points,
nine points and eventually 10
points at 20-10.
Howver, Pendleton knew
from experience that the set
was far from over and just had
to work a little bit harder and
get on a run. And when the
Bucks fi nally did, they came
at Hermiston fast and quick
and eventually frazzled the
Bulldogs. Pendleton rallied
to win the fi rst set 26-24 and
went on to win the match 3-1
(26-24, 25-11, 22-25, 25-8)
on Tuesday night at Warberg
Court.
“I feel like we fi nally just
put a lot of heart into our
game,” Pendleton senior
Maureen Davies said of the
Buckaroos’ fi rst set. “It’s
a rivalry game we just had
to push through and keep
pushing on to achieve what
we want for our season and we
By JAY COHEN
Associated Press
CHICAGO — The Los
Angeles Dodgers have a tough
lineup, a talented pitching
staff and a manager making
all the right moves.
Yup, it’s
beginning to NLCS - Game 3
look a lot like
1988.
Y
u Los Angeles
Darvish
pitched
sparkling
ball
into
the seventh
inning,
Chicago
Chris Taylor
homered
again
and
the Dodgers
beat the Chicago Cubs 6-1 on
Tuesday night to open a 3-0
lead in the NL Championship
Series.
Andre Ethier also went
deep and Taylor added an
RBI triple in the fi fth as Los
Angeles improved to 6-0
in this postseason, setting a
franchise record for consecu-
tive playoff wins. Yasiel Puig
had two more hits in another
entertaining performance that
included an impressive bat
fl ip — on a long foul ball in
the fi rst inning.
Looking for a four-game
sweep and their 22nd pennant,
the Dodgers will send
Alex Wood to the mound
Wednesday night at Wrigley
Field with a chance to reach
the World Series for the fi rst
See PLAYOFFS/2B
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3
6
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Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Pendleton’s Rylee Gentner (7) hits the ball Tuesday at Warberg Court as Sophia Streeter (14) attempts to block.
See VOLLEYBALL/3B
HERMISTON
Hermiston lets one by in draw with Hood River Valley
Bulldogs come up
short of league title
By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
East Oregonian
HERMISTON — On
Tuesday night, the Herm-
iston boys soccer team was
essentially playing for the
league championship. The
Bulldogs welcomed the No.
1 Hood River Valley Eagles
to Kennison Field for one
of its fi nal regular season
games, and the outcome
would determine who could
coast into the playoffs.
It was a battle for the full
80 minutes with the fi nal
score being a testament to
Hermiston’s ability to play
sound ball and Hood River’s
skillfulness. The 1-1 draw
gives the Eagles (7-2-3
overall, 3-0-2 Columbia
to expect, and
River Confer-
Boys Soccer
were already
ence) the top
quite familiar
spot in the
with
the
league, while
leaving
the Hood River Hermiston Eagles’ game,
as the two
Bulldogs
teams faced
(7-3-3, 2-0-3)
each other just
a little sadder
two
weeks
than
they
should be. But for good ago.
“They are really good at
reason.
“Tying the No. 1 team in fi nding players in space,”
state, usually that’s a win but Harshberger said. “They
tonight we know we were the move the ball really well and
equal of them and the better,” fi nd guys feet, and they have
head coach Rich Harshberger a couple of skills guys that
said. “That could have easily really help do that.”
Hood River did just that
been our game and that’s
okay that they’re upset that and got some good looks at
we came away with the tie the goal in the fi rst half. Later
Hermiston had a few chances
and not the win.”
Understandably, the Bull- to take the lead, but they
dogs opened the match with were either too high or just
some nerves but after the fi rst a bit too late, which allowed
15 or so minutes Hermiston the Eagles defense set up to
settled into its game plan, the make a play. Tough defense
match up was even-keeled.
and aggressive offense on
The Bulldogs knew what both sides kept the score at
1
1
0-0 going into the break.
But the scoreless draw
didn’t last more than three
minutes when the teams
returned to the fi eld.
Senior Mark Mejia made
his way into the box with
Hood River defenders at his
back. His shot looked soft
enough to be stopped by
the Eagles’ goalkeeper but
instead the ball skirted just
passed him into the back
right corner of the net and put
the Bulldogs up 1-0.
Junior goal keeper Juan
Navarrete did his best to keep
to score in Hermiston’s favor,
but after some miraculous
saves one fi nally got by him.
Hood River scored the
equalizer in the 61st minute
off a corner kick. The ball
was placed almost perfectly
inside the box, and after
bouncing around senior Saul
Hermis-
ton’s Joel
Mendez
collides
with
Hood
River’s
Erik
Siekkin-
en in the
Bulldogs’
1-1 tie
with the
Eagles
on Tues-
day in
Hermis-
ton.
Staff photo by
E.J. Harris
See HERMISTON/3B
Sports shorts
Celtics’ Hayward breaks ankle in
season-opening loss to Cavaliers
CLEVELAND (AP) — Boston’s Gordon
Hayward broke his left ankle just fi ve minutes into
the season, a grisly injury that overshadowed Kyrie
Irving’s return to Cleveland and the Cavaliers’ 102-99
win over the Celtics on Tuesday.
LeBron James scored 29 points
13 in the fourth quarter in his most
extensive action in three weeks
because of a sprained left ankle. He
also fed Kevin Love for a critical
3-pointer with 46.3 second left to put
the Cavs up 102-98.
Hayward
Irving, who asked to be traded
this summer after six seasons in
Cleveland, had a chance to tie it with a 3-pointer at
the horn but missed. Irving fi nished with 22 points
for the Celtics, who overcame an 18-point defi cit in
the third and led with 2:04 left.
Hayward signed a four-year, $128 million free
agent contract with the Celtics this summer.
“It’s become common
knowledge that these
so-called one-and-
done players, maybe
understandably, are almost
entirely focused on where
they are going to go in the
draft lottery. Not to say
they don’t badly care about
winning but the stakes are so
high in terms of the amount
of money they can make
over a long NBA career.”
— Adam Silver
The NBA Commissioner said Tues-
day that he has interest in ending the
league’s ‘one-and-done’ draft rule.
Rockets rally on the road to
spoil Warriors return
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Confetti began
to fall and the Golden State Warriors thought
they had pulled off a wild
opening-night win.
The Houston Rockets
emphatically signaled otherwise
— insisting that Kevin Durant’s
baseline jumper had swished
through the net after the buzzer.
After one offi cial got hurt,
two remaining referees reviewed the play and
ruled the Rockets had escaped with a 122-121
victory Tuesday on the night the Warriors
received their championship rings.
Trevor Ariza’s 3-pointer with 2:09
remaining pulled Houston within 119-118
then Patrick McCaw hit a baseline jumper
immediately after Golden State’s timeout.
James Harden made a layup and PJ Tucker hit
two free throws with 44.1 to make it 122-121.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1977 — Reggie Jackson
hits three consecutive home
runs, all on the fi rst pitch, to
lead the New York Yankees to
the World Series championship
over Los Angeles in six games.
1992 — Miami and
Washington are tied for No.
1 in The Associated Press
Top 25 football poll. It’s the
fi rst tie at the top in 51 years
and the third since the poll
started in 1936.
2003 — No Pan Intended
becomes the 10th pacer to
win harness racing’s Triple
Crown, going wire-to-wire
in the Messenger Stakes at
The Meadows.
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