SPORTS
SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2018
1B
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Prep roundup
Tigers
sweep
Pirates
East Oregonian
The Stanfield Tigers remain
unbeaten in league play after
sweeping the Riverside Pirates
9-3 and 21-11 on Friday after-
noon in Boardman.
The Tigers (13-4 overall, 7-0
Eastern Oregon League) hit a
combined five home runs on the
day and a total of 12 extra-base
hits overall. Brody Woods and
Justin Keeney each had six hits
on the day for the Tigers, with
Woods adding a home run, two
doubles, five RBI and four runs
scored. Keeney also had six RBI
and scored four runs.
Also stuffing the stat sheet for
Stanfield offensively was Adrian
Renner with five hits and four
runs, TJ Smith with four hits, a
home run and three runs, Shayne
Keltz with four hits, a home
run, three RBI and three runs,
Hunter McCanch with three hits
and Damian Curial and Makiah
Blankenship each with a home
run.
Woods also earned the win
on the mound in Game 1 after
recording 10 strikeouts while
allowing just one hit and one run
over four innings.
For the Pirates (5-10, 1-6),
Calvillo had three hits with a
double and two runs scored and
Sorensen had three hits with two
RBI.
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Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Isaac Sanchez, of Hermiston, leads the first lap of the 1500-meter run Friday at the Kiwanas Invitational at Kennison Field.
Locals shine at
Kiwanis Invite
Great weather leads to great
competition in Hermiston
Game 1
R H E
SHS
201 120
3 — 9 18 1
RHS
100 010
1 — 3 8 2
(S) B. Woods, D. Curial (5) and A. Renner. (R)
Corpus, Sorensen (5), Barajas (7). W — Woods,
L — Corpus.
2B — L. White (SHS). 3B — A. Renner (SHS).
HR — M. Blankenship (SHS).
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
Game 2
R H E
SHS
650 037 — 21 16 9
RHS
251 210 — 11 7 5
(S) T. Smith, J. Keeney (3), H. McCanch (5) and
A. Renner. (R) Sorensen, Gorham (1), Barajas (2),
Corpus (5), Hegar (6). W — Keeney, L — Barajas.
2B — D. Curial, B. Woods 2, J. Keeney, T. Smith
(SHS); Calvillo (RHS). HR — D. Curial, B. Woods,
S. Keltz, T. Smith (SHS).
IRRIGON 5-2, BURNS
2-12 — At Irrigon, the Irrigon
Knights split a league double-
header with the Burns Hilanders
on Friday afternoon.
In Game 1, Zach Henrichs
threw a gem for the Knights as
he allowed only six hits, two
runs and one walk in six innings
See ROUNDUP/3B
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Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Nicholas Breshears, of Hermiston, leads a group of
steeplechase runners over the waterjump Friday at the
Kiwanas Invitational at Kennison Field.
ERMISTON — Mother nature has
not been kind for local track and
field athletes this spring.
Heavy rainshowers wiped out a meet
in Pendleton to begin the season, and a
mixture of gray clouds, cold tempera-
tures, light rains and high, steady winds
have been a constant visitor for nearly
every meet of the season. However, on
Friday afternoon, the weather was finally
on the athletes’ side.
Blue skies and sunshine covered
Hermiston High’s Kennison Field and
temperatures sat in the low 70s for
Hermiston’s annual Kiwanis Invita-
tional, which was a pleasant sight to the
athletes competing.
“It was a big stress reliever,” Pendle-
ton’s Edwin Linares said of the weather.
“It makes me hope there are going to be
more sunny days ahead and less rainy
ones. I was getting tired of the rainy
season, having to bring sweats every
where.”
Ten different schools — Hermiston,
Pendleton,
Kamiakin,
Chiawana,
Hanford, The Dalles, La Grande, Baker,
Moses Lake, Mac-Hi — and hundreds of
athletes littered the grounds of Kennison
Field for the meet, which brought a lot of
good competition for the local schools.
See INVITE/4B
M’s rally past Rangers 6-2
Segura keys
4-run 9th inning
By SCHUYLER DIXON
Associated Press
ARLINGTON,
Texas
— Jean Segura and the
Seattle Mariners figured five
straight games scoring two
runs or less were more than
enough.
Segura hit a two-run
double in a four-run ninth
inning after Mitch Haniger’s
tying homer in the eighth,
lifting the Mariners over the
Texas Rangers 6-2 on Friday
night.
Seattle had dropped four
of the five games during the
offensive skid, which ended
with three hits apiece from
Segura and Haniger and 14
total. The late runs came
after the Mariners scored
just once despite having a
runner at second with no
outs in each of the first four
innings.
“We were due to put a
rally together,” manager
Scott Servais said. “We
certainly had a lot of chances
earlier in the ballgame. Our
situational hitting and some
other stuff, our execution
wasn’t very good early.”
The liner to right center
from Segura chased Texas
closer Keone Kela (2-1),
who gave up singles to
Daniel Vogelbach and Dee
Gordon and got his only
out on Guillermo Heredia’s
sacrifice bunt.
Haniger’s fifth homer was
a two-out shot to the berm
in center field against Chris
Martin. Haniger and Kyle
Seager added RBI singles in
the ninth off Jake Diekman
as the Rangers remained
the only team in the majors
without a win in a series
opener, dropping to 0-7.
Juan
Nicasio
(1-0)
pitched a scoreless eighth,
and Edwin Diaz struck out
two in the ninth around a
walk and a hit batter.
See MARINERS/3B
AP Photo/Richard W. Rodriguez
Seattle Mariners’ Dee Gordon (9) celebrates with
Mitch Haniger (17) after Haniger’s home run tied the
score against the Texas Rangers in the eighth inning of
a Friday’s game in Arlington, Texas.
Sports shorts
Karolyis to NBC: ‘No way’ they
knew about doctor’s behavior
NEW YORK (AP) — Former USA Gymnastics
women’s national team coordinator Martha Karolyi
and husband Bela tell NBC they were unaware of
the abusive behavior by a former national team
doctor now serving decades in prison.
Martha Karolyi led the national team for 15
years before retiring after the 2016 Rio Olympics.
She tells Savannah Guthrie in “no way” did she
suspect Larry Nassar was sexually abusing athletes
under the guise of treatment.
“The whole gymnastics community couldn’t
recognize this,” Martha Karolyi said in an excerpt
provided to The Associated Press on Friday by
NBC. “Everybody said, ‘Larry Nassar is a good
doctor. Larry Nassar is a good guy.’”
Curry cleared for modified practice
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Golden State Warriors guard
Stephen Curry has been cleared to take part in modified
practices but will be out at least one more week with a
left knee injury. The Warriors said Curry was examined
by the team’s medical staff Friday and is making progress
in recovering from the grade 2 left MCL sprain that has
sidelined him since March 23.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1951 — The Toronto Maple Leafs
win the Stanley Cup for the fourth time
in five years as they beat the Montreal
Canadiens 3-2 in the fifth game.
1980 — Bill Rodgers wins his
third straight Boston Marathon.
Rosie Ruiz is disqualified eight days
later as women’s champion when it’s
discovered she did not run the entire
distance.
2012 — Phil Humber throws the
first perfect game in the majors in
almost two years, leading the Chicago
White Sox to a 4-0 victory over the
Seattle Mariners.
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