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PENDLETON
Bulldogs put end to ‘War’
Hermiston ends
season on six-game
winning streak
By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — Mark your
calendars, as Friday, October 27,
2017, was the fi nal battle in the War
on 84.
Pendleton and Hermiston met
for the fi nal time at the Round=Up
Grounds for the last game of the
regular season. The Bulldogs
entered
the
Football
contest on a fi ve-
game
winning
streak,
and
the
Buckaroos
Hermiston
needed a win to
keep their season
alive.
Hermiston’s
42-15 blow to
Pendleton on its
Pendleton
home turf puts
the
Buckaroos
(5-4 overall, 4-3
Special District
1) in the hot seat while they have
to wait to see if their season will
continue. Meanwhile, the Bulldogs
(7-2, 6-1) can relish in the fact they
will forever hold the last bragging
rights in the 95-year rivalry.
“I’m super elated,” head coach
David Faaeteete said. “The guys
came out and competed and did
what they had to do to get a win.
Even when Pendleton tried to make
it interesting, we responded and
kept responding. Defense came
away with some big plays. ...
They took the best shots and they
marched back and it was just fun to
watch and great to be apart of.”
Hermiston drew fi rst blood, and
put its fi rst touchdown on the board
just two minutes into the game.
Quarterback Andrew James found
Dayshawn Neal for 19 yards, and
gave the Bulldogs their fi rst lead.
The score was Neal’s only catch of
the night, but the heavy coverage
down the fi eld on Hermiston’s
top target did not slow down the
offense.
James would take matters into
his own hands, and run in a 76-yard
touchdown that put Hermiston up
14-0 going into the second quarter.
“As an offensive coordinator,
you just take what’s there and
they’re
tripling
Dayshawn,”
Faaeteete said. “So, it was just
establishing the run game. ... All of
those guys that get to touch the rock
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42
15
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Hermiston’s Jonathan Hinkle rushes up the middle of the Pendleton line in the Bulldogs’ 42-15 win against the Bucks on Friday in Pendleton.
Former Bulldog Zabransky
honored at fi nal rivalry game
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Pendleton’s Sean Pourier (6) moves the ball downfi eld
while teammate Luke Walchli (9) looks to block during
Friday’s game against rival Hermiston at the Pendleton
Round-Up Grounds.
PENDLETON — As part of the Great
American Rivalry Series’ involvement
with Friday’s Pendleton-Hermiston
football game, alumni from both schools
were inducted into the Series’ Hall of
Fame.
For Pendleton, the Pendleton Line-
backer’s Club as a whole was inducted
in part for what they do to keep the
tradition of Pendleton football alive as
well as continuing to support the school
and the program. And for Hermiston it
was former Bulldog quarterback Jared
Zabransky, who graduated in 2002 and
went on to play football collegiately at
Boise State and spent some brief time
in the NFL and the Canadian Football
League.
Both the Linebacker’s Club and
Zabransky received commemorative
trophies for the honor, presented to them
at midfi eld during halftime of Friday
night’s game. The East Oregonian
caught up with Zabransky prior to the
start of the second half and below are a
few of the highlights.
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EO: What do you remember from
your high school days about the Pend-
leton-Hermiston rivalry?
JZ: “Pendleton beat us all three years
I was on varsity. We missed a fi eld goal
my sophomore year that would’ve won
the game for us, but the other two years
they (Pendleton) had some really good
guys, some big-time Division I linemen
in Roy Scheuning and Sean Perkins and
their running backs Stephen Bisnett and
J.D. Lambert. I played defense in three
games in high school and two of them
were against Pendleton. I played safety
and we’d line up and yell ‘They’re
going to run the B gap, stuff the B gap!’
and sure enough Scheuning would just
downblock and lay out our tackle, the
linebackers would get blown up and I’m
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Special District 5 cross country
Enterprise passes Union for district title
Heppner’s Nichols, Burns’ Klus, Nyssa’s Page qualify for state
By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — When
16 teams gathered Friday at
Pendleton Community Park
for the 3A/2A/1A-Special
District 5 Cross Country
Championships, there was
a good idea of who would
take home the boys champi-
onship. Union did so in true
Union fashion, by domi-
nating the competition with
an elite class of runners. But
it was the girls championship
that was the most dramatic.
Both Union, and its
familiar foe, Enterprise,
fi nished tied with 37 points
apiece. The tiebreaker came
down to Enterprise’s No. 5
and 6 runners, who edged
out Union for the Outlaws
second consecutive district
title.
“We know we’re always
competing (with Union),”
Enterprises No. 1 runner
Kyla Hook said. “We knew
today it was either going to
be Union or us and of course
we wanted it.”
Hook fi nished fourth in
19:58.55.
“Usually, it’s me and
Union’s top runner so today
I just wanted to break away
from the group,” Hook said.
“I tried my best. Our fi fth
and sixth runners are really
picking it up this year and
that’s how we beat Union
this year.”
Hook’s race, however,
didn’t come easy. She’s
battled back from obstacles
in the past, like when she ran
the wrong way in the Bull-
dogs Fest in Hermiston but
still managed to come away
with a fi rst place fi nish. This
time around, it was a retainer
that caused her problems.
“I started out pretty good
and I felt pretty strong, and I
felt fi ne really throughout the
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Enterprise’s
Kyla Hook
crosses the
footbridge
during the
3A/2A/1A/
special dis-
trict 5 meet
on Friday in
Pendleton.
Staff photo by
E.J. Harris
Sports shorts
Cubs’ Rizzo wins Clemente Award
HOUSTON (AP) — Anthony Rizzo, a cancer
survivor and World Series champion, has been
recognized for his foundation’s work to help other
families dealing with cancer.
Rizzo has won the 2017 Roberto Clemente
Award, which is baseball’s biggest
honor for sportsmanship and
community involvement.
Rizzo, 28, was only 18 years old
and in the Boston Red Sox minor
league organization 2008 when
he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s
lymphoma. He went through six
Rizzo
months of chemotherapy, at the same
time his grandmother was dealing with breast
cancer, and six more weeks of treatment before
doctors told Rizzo he was clear of his cancer.
In 2012, he started the nonprofi t Anthony Rizzo
Family Foundation to raise money for cancer
research and to provide support to children and
their families struggling with the disease.
“I whiffed. There’s no
other way to categorize it.
He’s young, he was under
club control — that was
one I wish I could undo ...
It’s clearly the worst deal
I’ve ever made. And it
resonates every time he
hits a home run.“
— Jerry Dipoto
Seattle Mariners GM on trading
Chris Taylor to the Dodgers in June
2016 for pitcher Zach Lee. Taylor
has blossomed into a key player
for the NL-champion Dodgers,
hitting .288 with 21 home runs
in140 games this season.
Texans CEO apologizes over
likening players to ‘inmates’
HOUSTON (AP) — Bob McNair, the chairman
and chief executive of the Houston Texans,
apologized Friday after a report said he declared “we
can’t have the inmates running the prison” during a
meeting of NFL owners over what to
do about players who kneel in protest
during the national anthem.
McNair said he regretted using
the expression and that he was “not
referring to our players.”
“I used a fi gure of speech that was never
intended to be taken literally,” McNair said. “I
would never characterize our players or our league
that way and I apologize to anyone who was
offended by it.”
Texans left tackle Duane Brown told reporters
that he was “sickened” by McNair’s words.
“I think the comments were disrespectful, I
think it was ignorant, I think it was embarrassing,”
Brown said.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1950 — Nevada punter Pat
Brady boots an NCAA record
99-yard punt in a 34-7 loss to
Loyola Marymount.
2006 — Oregon State
capitalizes on four turnovers
to upset the Trojans 33-31,
snapping USC’s 27-game
Pac-10 winning streak.
2012 — Serena Williams
beats Maria Sharapova 6-4,
6-3 to win the WTA Champi-
onships for the third time and
fi nish the year with another
title. Williams ends the year
with a 59-4 record. Since her
fi rst-round loss at the French
Open, she is 31-1, winning
Wimbledon, the Olympic gold
medal and the U.S. Open.
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