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SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2018 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS WONDER WOMAN Pendleton’s Emanuela Casadei won the 5A girls javelin title with a throw of 145 feet, 4 inches Friday at Hayward Field in Eugene. Staff photo by Kathy Aney STATE TRACK ATHLETES SHINE Staff photo by E.J. Harris Stanfield’s Brody Woods (5) throws from the mound in the Tigers’ 8-1 win against Joseph on Friday in Stanfield. Stanfield wins fourth straight district title Woods dominant on the mound, strikes out 14 By ERIC SINGER East Oregonian Staff photo by Kathy Aney Weston-McEwen’s Jacob Speed reaches out his hand as teammate Kelen McGill places the baton during the 2A 4x100 Friday at the OSAA State Track and Field championships at Hayward Field in Eugene. Speed came from behind for the win. Casadei makes her first one the best one MORE INSIDE AND ONLINE Speed brings home gold, times four Pendleton’s Emanuela Casadei records a huge PR in the 5A girls javelin to secure the state championship See more photos of the athletes in action on pages 3B-4B. Weston-McEwen’s Jacob Speed sweeps three sprint events, one relay in 2A finals By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ East Oregonian EUGENE — This year, the Pendleton track and field team had a secret weapon. Hailing from the coast of the Adriatic Sea, Ital- ian foreign exchange student Emanuela Casadei had been waiting all year for the spring sports season. She Stay up to date on the competition through the weekend online at East Oregonian. com/eo/ Sports By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ East Oregonian EUGENE — After Weston-McEwen’s Jacob Speed qualified for the finals in all four of his events events Thursday at the OSAA Track and Field State Championships, all he he wanted was pasta. Speed dined on chicken fettuccine alfredo, which See BIG SCHOOLS/4B See SMALL SCHOOLS/3B STANFIELD — With only three returning starters and a host of new faces on the varsity roster this spring, it is likely that not many people expected the Stanfield base- ball team to go out and win its fourth consecutive district championship. Except, that’s exactly what it did. After winning the Eastern Ore- gon League’s regular season title with a 13-1 record, the Tigers secured home-field advantage for the district championship game. And on Friday afternoon, Stanfield defeated the Joseph/Enterprise/ Wallowa squad 8-1 at Madigan Field behind a dominant perfor- mance from senior Brody Woods on the mound for the sixth district title in eight years. “Each one is terrific and it’s great for these kids,” Stanfield coach Brad Rogers said of the win. “Espe- cially with the group we graduated last year, I don’t think anyone but us thought we would be here again, but here we are.” See STANFIELD/2B Sports shorts THIS DATE IN SPORTS Houston teams, athletes offer support after school shooting HOUSTON (AP) — Rockets star Chris Paul is among many in the Houston sports world offering condolences to the families affected by an area school shooting that left 10 people dead. Paul says: “It’s tough, man. It’s scary that that’s become the norm here. We’ve got to do something about it.” The shooting in Santa Fe, which is about 30 miles from downtown Houston, comes after 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in February. Houston Astros manager A.J. Hinch, who has two school-aged daughters and was with the Astros at training camp in Florida at the time of the Marjory Stoneman shooting, expressed anger that these shootings continue to occur. He says: “It’s heartbreaking, another sense- less act of violence in our schools. We’ll copy/ paste this answer for the next time something happens because we feel like there’s something happening on a routine basis that’s idiotic and terrible and miserable. I hope we can somehow find a way to get past it for one, offer our condo- lences to the people affected and more impor- tantly figure out a way to stop this madness.” 1910 — Cy Young, the career leader in major league victories, wins No. 500 as the Cleveland Indians defeat Washington 5-4 in 11 innings. 1973 — Secretariat, ridden by Ron Turcotte, rallies from last with a powerful move on the club- house turn to win the Preakness Stakes by 2½ lengths over Sham. 1991 — Willy T. Ribbs becomes the first black driver to make the lineup for the Indianap- olis 500. Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com
