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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2017
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ECHO
Prep Football
Bucks, Dawgs ready for ‘war’
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Echo’s Lexie Cox spikes the ball towards
Jordan Valley’s Emilee Burch in the Cou-
gars’ 3-0 win against the Mustangs on
Wednesday in Echo.
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
In this 2016 fi le photo, Pendleton’s Everett Willard takes down Hermiston’s Tucker Salinas in the Bulldogs’ 13-12 win
against the Bucks in Hermiston. The two teams will meet on Friday night at 7 p.m. at the Round-Up Arena.
Pendleton, Hermiston come into Friday’s game playing good football
By ERIC SINGER &
Alexis MANSANAREZ
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — Friday’s
game between the Pendleton
Buckaroos and the Hermiston
Bulldogs will pit together two
teams that are playing their best
football of the season.
Hermiston comes in riding
a fi ve-game winning streak
behind a high-powered offense
and solid defense. Pendleton
is fresh off its best win of the
Football
Hermiston
Pendleton
Bulldogs
Buckaroos
(6-2, 5-1)
(5-3, 4-2)
• Friday, 7 p.m.
• at Round-Up Arena
season, 39-20 on the road
against Bend, and has won four
of its last fi ve games overall.
The Bulldogs edged out the
Buckaroos 13-12 in Hermiston
last season, and the Buckaroos
are determined to come out on
top this time.
“Everybody here knows its
a big game and everybody here
wants to win,” Pendleton senior
safety Brendan Bedolla said.
“We want to prove that we’re
one of the best teams in (Class)
5A and that we can compete.”
Here is a look at what to
expect from both sides on
Friday night at the Round-Up
Arena:
ON THE BUCKAROOS
SIDELINE: After a slip up
three weeks ago against Moun-
tain View, Pendleton rolls into
Hermiston week with both its
offense and defense fi ring on
all cylinders. Pendleton held
a talented Bend offense to just
296 yards of total offense and
put up 420 yards themselves,
on the heels of a dominant win
at Hood River.
But the Buckaroos know
they have a different beast with
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Buckaroos revere decades of dominance
“You did not
want to be that
fi rst class to lose
to Hermiston.”
— Mark Mulvihill
Pendleton Buckaroos’ quar-
terback, 1980-1982.
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — Mark
Mulvihill can still remember
the feeling that Hermiston week
brought him and his Pendleton
Buckaroo teammates.
“There was a huge expec-
tation that week that we had
to win,” said Mulvihill, who
quarterbacked Pendleton from
1980-1982. “As a QB, I felt
more pressure in those games
than in any other game, more so
than a playoff game even. You
did not want to be that fi rst class
to lose to Hermiston.
“Other games were always
fun and exciting, but the Herm-
iston game was a relief when it
was over.”
During Mulvihill’s playing
days, Pendleton was in the
midst of a win streak over its
rival Hermiston that lasted
more than half a century. The
EO fi le photo
Pendleton quarterback Dean Fouquette, far left, is pursued
by Hermiston’s Larry Heyden (10) and Boyd Woodward (88)
during Pendleton’s 17-7 win over Hermiston at the Round-Up
Grounds in 1970.
two Umatilla County schools
that now sit just 27 miles apart
began the series in 1922 when
Hermiston — then known as
the Irrigators — beat Pendleton
19-18 thanks to a pair of missed
extra points by the Buckaroos.
However for the next 62
years Pendleton held on to the
bragging rights as it won 56 of
the 57 total meetings, with the
only Buckaroos’ non-victory
being a 7-7 tie in 1941. To the
Bulldogs credit, the playing
fi eld was slanted toward them
for a good chunk of that stretch
as Pendleton was a bigger
town and a bigger school that
was regularly winning league
titles, while Hermiston was
struggling for winning seasons.
But that did not stop both teams
treating it with the same level of
intensity as a state playoff game
every time they stepped onto
the fi eld.
“There is nothing like rivalry
week,” said David Boor, who
played for Pendleton from
1986-1988. “They did not like
Cougars breeze by Mustangs
By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
East Oregonian
ECHO — For the eight years that Janice
Scott has been at the helm of the Echo volley-
ball team, the Cougars never
1A Volleyball made it passed the fi rst round
First Round of postseason play. In fact,
it had been two years since
Echo made it to the Class 1A
playoffs — its 2015 run was
Jordan Valley cut short with a loss in Round
1 to Dufur.
That all changed for the
Cougars on Wednesday night.
For the fi rst time, Echo hosted
a state playoff game, and also
for the fi rst time the Cougars
Echo
will advance to Round 2.
Echo easily defeated Jordan
Valley in three straight sets
(25-11, 25-16, 25-11) and had one of its best
outings all season.
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PENDLETON
Pendleton controlled
bragging rights with
Hermiston for more
than 60 straight years
Cougars
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us and we did not like them.”
Dean Fouquette, who was
the starting quarterback for
the Buckaroos in 1969 and
1970, got his fi rst real taste of
the rivalry in his fi rst year as a
starter in 1969. Pendleton, who
came into the game 7-0 with the
Intermountain Conference title
already under its belt, scored
an 85-yard kickoff return for
a touchdown on the game’s
opening kickoff, but then was
beat up by Hermiston for the
remainder of the fi rst half and
trailed their rivals 18-7 at the
break. There, the team got a
swift pep talk from then-coach
Don Requa that Fouquette said
was “as good as I’d ever heard,”
and it worked as Pendleton
came back to win the game
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World Series
Astros even series
with 11-inning win
By RONALD BLUM
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — George Springer
screamed with joy as he circled the bases after
hitting a two-run homer in the
Game 2 11th inning.
Would it be enough? Was
this the fi nal plot twist on
one of the wildest nights in
Houston
postseason history?
Yes, it was — barely —
and the Houston Astros won
a World Series game for the
fi rst time in their 56 seasons.
Charlie Culberson hit
Los Angeles a two-out homer in the
bottom half off winner Chris
Devenski, who then struck
out Yasiel Puig in a tense,
nine-pitch at-bat. The Astros outlasted the
7
6
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Sports shorts
Wallace Jr. set to make NASCAR
history in 2018 season
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Darrell Wallace
Jr. will become the fi rst black full-time driver at
NASCAR’s top level since 1971 when he takes
over Richard Petty’s iconic ride next season.
The 24-year-old Wallace, more
commonly referred to by his
nickname of “Bubba,” became
the fi rst black driver to race at
NASCAR’s top level since 2006
when he replaced an injured Aric
Almirola earlier this year.
Wallace Jr.
Wallace, an Alabama native and
graduate of NASCAR’s diversity
program, has tried not to make race part of his
climb through the ranks.
He won the Truck Series race at Martinsville
in 2013 to become the fi rst black driver to win at
a national NASCAR series event since Wendell
Scott in 1963.
“I think we have to
change the Collective
Bargaining Agreement
and let you do what
is legal in your state.
If marijuana is now in
the process of being
legalized, I think you
should be allowed to
do what’s legal in your
state.“
— David Stern
Former NBA Commissioner said
of medicinal marijuana use being
allowed in the league.
Former EOU standout signed
to Detroit Lions’ active roster
LA GRANDE — Football fans watching
Sunday’s Detroit Lions-Pittsburgh Steelers
game on Sunday may see a familiar face.
Former Eastern Oregon standout Jace Bill-
ingsley was signed to the Lions’
53-man roster off the practice
squad on Wednesday. The move
comes as Detroit will be without
its top receiver, Golden Tate,
on Sunday due to injury, which
means that Billingsley could be
active on Sunday and make his
Billingsley
offi cial NFL debut.
Billingsley spent the majority
of the 2016 season on Detroit’s practice squad
before being promoted to the active roster prior
to Week 16, but was inactive on gameday.
The 5-foot-9 receiver graduated from EOU
in 2016 and was signed by the Lions as an
undrafted free agent.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1993 — The NFL
expands, adding a team in
Charlotte, N.C., starting in
1995.
2000 — The New York
Yankees become the fi rst
team in more than a quar-
ter-century to win three
straight World Series cham-
pionships, beating the New
York Mets 4-2.
2012 — The NHL cancels
all its games through the
end of November because
of the labor dispute between
owners and players. A total
of 326 regular-season games,
more than 26.5 percent of the
season, are lost.
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