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Tuesday, May 29, 2018
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Golden Knights outlast Caps 6-4 in Final opener
By GREG BEACHAM
Associated Press
LAS VEGAS — The
Vegas Golden Knights’
incredible inaugural season
isn’t slowing down in the
Stanley Cup Final.
Tomas Nosek scored the
tiebreaking goal midway
through the third period,
and the expansion Golden
Knights opened an improba-
ble Final with a thrilling 6-4
victory over the Washington
Capitals on Monday night.
Marc-Andre Fleury made
24 saves in an occasionally
shaky performance, but the
three-time Stanley Cup win-
ner’s new teammates carried
the goalie who has so often
carried them with a relent-
less outburst of offense.
The Eastern Conference
champion Capitals hadn’t
given up this many goals in
29 games since March 18,
but they hadn’t seen any-
thing like this charmed run
by the upstart Knights.
“We put fun ahead of
everything, and you can
tell,” said Ryan Reaves, who
scored the Knights’ tying
goal in the third period.
“Guys have are having fun
and they’re smiling.”
With its sellout crowd of
hometown fans at deafening
volume all night, Vegas put
its usual speed and relent-
lessness on full display while
overcoming a third-period
deficit to win the opener of a
matchup between two fran-
chises seeking their first
Stanley Cup titles.
The Game 1 winner has
AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin
Washington Capitals goaltender Braden Holtby, left,
is scored on by Vegas Golden Knights left wing Tomas
Nosek, of the Czech Republic, during the third period
in Game 1 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Finals on
Monday in Las Vegas.
won the last six Cups and 61
of 78 overall.
Braden Holtby stopped
28 shots for the Capitals,
whose first Stanley Cup
Final game in 20 years was a
defensive nightmare. Wash-
ington still had chances to
win, but never slowed the
Knights.
Tom Wilson got credit for
the goal that put the Caps up
4-3 early in the third period
when Fleury back-heeled a
loose puck into his own net,
but Reaves evened it 91 sec-
onds later for Vegas.
Nosek then put the
Knights ahead after Shea
Theodore kept the puck in
Washington’s zone, side-
stepped a defender and fired
a beautiful cross-ice pass to
the Czech forward, who bur-
ied a one-timer for his sec-
ond goal of the playoffs.
Colin Miller, William
Karlsson and Reilly Smith
scored early goals before
Nosek added an empty-net-
ter for the Knights, who are
three wins away from one of
the most improbable cham-
pionships in recent North
American team sports his-
tory. Just 342 days after the
Knights selected the back-
bone of their first roster in
the expansion draft, Vegas
had another party on the
Strip with its remarkable
collection of castoffs.
Brett Connolly, Nicklas
Backstrom and John Carl-
son scored for Washington,
but its biggest stars didn’t
match the Knights’ outburst.
Captain Alex Ovechkin,
who collected a career-high
22 points in the first three
rounds, had one assist in his
first Stanley Cup Final game.
Evgeny Kuznetsov, who
scored a whopping 24 points
in the first three rounds, also
had just one assist.
PLAYOFFS: Rockets advance both teams to semis
at Toledo High School.
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Midwestern League cham-
pionships come to town.
The Spartans (17-1) have
scored the second most runs
in all of Class 5A, averag-
ing 18.9, which is good for
341 on the season — just
behind Ridgeview, which
has scored 345 runs this
year. Marist returns only
two seniors but has a strong
junior class that makes up
half of its roster.
Similar to the Bucks, the
Spartans’ defense has only
allowed a total of 64 runs
from their opponents, good
for the fourth fewest in 5A.
Marist is riding a 10-game
win streak that started with a
13-4 win over Crater back
on May 4 and continued
with a 7-1 victory over No.
13 Corvallis in Round 1 and
a 3-2 victory against No.
5 Hood River Valley in the
quarterfinals.
The first pitch is sched-
uled for 4 p.m. Tuesday at
Steve Cary Field.
(2A/1A) No. 4 PILOT
ROCK vs. No. 1 TOLEDO
— After the No. 4 Pilot Rock
Rockets made it through the
first two rounds of the play-
offs unscathed, they are hop-
ing for their fourth straight
Class 2A/1A champion-
ship berth with a road win
Tuesday.
But Pilot Rock will
BASEBALL
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Rocket second baseman Levi Theime gets the ball too
late to tag a Joseph runner during a March 28 non-con-
ference game in Pilot Rock.
have to knock off the No. 1
Toledo Boomers, a team that
has been undefeated at home
this season.
The Rockets’ (22-3 over-
all) postseason journey
hasn’t been an unexpected
one. In the last four years,
they have made it to the final
game three times and have
won the state championship
twice — in the 2014-15 sea-
son and again the following
year.
Pilot Rock boasts a
star-studded roster and Class
2A/1A Special District 6
Player of the Year in Sara
Weinke.
Weinke leads the Rock-
ets’ offense, hitting .662
(43-for-65), but has also
gotten support from a few
other teammates. Rhyanne
Oates (.610) and Rhyanne
Deist (.492) have also been
successful at the plate. The
three make up nearly all of
the four-player senior class,
and have one last chance to
bring home a state title in
blue and white.
To do so, however, Pilot
Rock will need to get past a
tough opponent.
Although the Boomers
don’t have the same amount
of playoff experience —
they have made it to Round
1 only once in the last 10
seasons — they have had a
phenomenal year and sit at
22-4 overall.
Their last loss came on
April 18, and since then
have handily won most of
their games.
First pitch will be at 4:30
(2A/1A) No. 3 PILOT
ROCK vs. No. 7 BANDON
— The No. 3 Rockets will
have one last home game
this season, and for the Pilot
Rock baseball team it’s hop-
ing that Tuesday’s semifinal
showdown won’t be its last.
After a 4-2 win over No.
6 Sherman on Friday, Pilot
Rock welcomes No. 7 Ban-
don for its first semi appear-
ance since 2000.
The Rockets got here on a
14-game win streak with six
shutouts including a Round
1 victory over No. 14 West-
ern Mennonite, 12-0.
Pilot Rock’s success can
be attributed to Levi Thieme
toeing the rubber and hit-
ters like Chris Weinke, Cade
Munkers and recently Quin-
ton Orr, who helped the
Rockets (19-2 overall) to a
4-2 victory over No. 6 Sher-
man on Friday.
The Tigers (15-7) lost
three of four games heading
into the playoffs but quickly
turned things around with a
9-5 victory to close out Spe-
cial District 5 — where they
finished second behind No.
2 Reedsport — a 3-2 win in
Round 1 and a shutout, 2-0
victory in the quarterfinals.
The two teams will bat-
tle it out at Pilot Rock High
School with the first pitch
slated for 4:45 p.m.
AP Photo/Elaine Thompson
Seattle Mariners’ Denard Span, right, is congratu-
lated by Kyle Seager after scoring against the Texas
Rangers in the sixth inning.
MARINERS: Span makes
debut and contributes
through the first five
innings, the only hit allowed
a single by Andrew Romine
in the third. It was a defen-
sive miscue that created the
opportunity for Seattle to
take the lead.
With one out in the sixth,
Denard Span hit a grounder
to second base that should
have ended the inning.
Odor briefly bobbled the
grounder and the Rangers
were unable to turn the dou-
ble play. Mitch Haniger’s
base hit barely eluded the
diving attempt of shortstop
Jurickson Profar, and Nel-
son Cruz and Kyle Seager
followed with line-drive
RBI singles.
SPAN ARRIVES
Span, who also came
over in the trade with the
Rays, made his debut
after being added to the
25-man roster. The Mar-
iners optioned outfielder
John Andreoli to Triple-A
Tacoma to clear the roster
spot. Span was 0 for 4.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Rangers: SS Elvis
Andrus and 3B Adrian Bel-
tre (hamstring) took ground
RODEO: Branton wants to try and make the NFR
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Competitors ranged from
high schoolers to those try-
ing to break into the profes-
sional circuit.
Dawson Branton, a
16-year-old from Jefferson,
said this was his first year
competing in Helix, but he’s
been bull riding since he
was young. Branton placed
second in his event. He,
and many other competi-
tors at Helix, had competed
in Cooley City, Washington,
the night before, and were
traveling up to Washington
for another rodeo that night,
before returning to Oregon
on Sunday for the Spray
Rodeo.
Branton said he plans to
stay with rodeo after high
school.
“I want to try to make
the NFR (National Finals
Rodeo),” he said.
Luke McKay, a stock
saddle bronc rider from Jun-
tura, has been competing for
about four years, but grew
up on a ranch, and his whole
family has done rodeo.
With stock saddle bronc,
McKay said, the horses are
supplied by a stock breeder.
Once cowboys get to the
rodeo, they are assigned
horses based on a drawing.
On Saturday, McKay
said, things didn’t go quite
his way, despite getting a
re-ride.
“I got bucked off,” he
balls before the game. It was
the first time Andrus had
done any field work since
suffering a right elbow frac-
ture in early April.
Mariners: SS Jean
Segura was originally in the
lineup, but was scratched.
Segura was inadvertently
kicked in the head during
Saturday night’s game and
missed Sunday’s game. ...
The Mariners expect Dee
Gordon will be able to
return to the lineup Thurs-
day barring any setbacks
in his recovery from a toe
injury.
UP NEXT
Rangers: Austin Bibens-
Dirkx (0-1) will make his
second start since being
called up from Triple-A
Round Rock. Bibens-Dirkx
allowed four earned runs
and eight hits in his debut
against Kansas City.
Mariners: Felix Hernan-
dez (5-4) will try to have a
better first inning than his
last start when he gave up
four runs in the first to Oak-
land. Hernandez has strug-
gled early in games and has
re-examined some of his
routine in hopes of being
better from the start.
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said. “The horse didn’t
cooperate.”
McKay said he hadn’t
been at the Helix Rodeo
before, but enjoyed his first
time there.
“It’s a good stopping
point,” he said, noting that
he had several more rodeos
this weekend.
———
Results
Calf Roping: Kass Kayser, 12-and-Under
Barrel Racing: Hallie Heisler
Mutton Bustin’: Kenna Maletich
Stock Saddle Bronc: Berry O’Leary
Saddle Bronc Riding: Calvin Shaffer
Bull Riding: Hayden Hilliard
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