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SPORTS SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 2018 RONALDO SCORES 3 GOALS IN DRAW 2B 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS Prep football Bucks, Dawgs team up in Les Schwab Bowl All-Star game features five local players By ERIC SINGER East Oregonian Over the past two seasons for the Pendleton Buckaroos, Nick Bower and Shaw Jerome have shared a special connection on the football field. Bower was the starting quar- terback with a talented arm and Jerome was the quick, agile receiver that was Bower’s favor- ite target. The duo connected 51 Nick Bower Shaw Jerome times in 2017 for 636 yards and six touchdowns, leading Pendleton to its first playoff appearance in three seasons. Both also earned college football scholarships along the way, as Bower will play at Pacific Uni- Joey Gutierrez Jonathan Hinkle versity and Jerome at Western Ore- gon. However before both players — who have been best friends and teammates since middle school — go their separate ways to college in the fall, the now former Pendleton Beau Blake standouts will get one more chance to play together on the same field this weekend. Bower and Jerome — along with Hermiston Bulldogs Beau Blake, Joey Gutierrez and Jonathan Hinkle — will take part in the 2018 Les Schwab Tires Bowl on Satur- day evening in Hillsboro, which is the annual all-star football game for the top Oregon senior players in the 6A-5A classifications. “It’s an amazing feeling,” Bower said of the opportunity to play with his buddy again. “We’ve grown up so close together and have been teammates since the beginning. To be able to go out one last time against the best competi- tion in Oregon is something we’re both extremely excited for.” See TEAMMATES/3B Legion baseball Hodgen rallies late for win East Oregonian Hodgen Distributing started the June Jam Wood Bat Tournament in Yakima on Friday with a come-from-behind 7-5 vic- tory over West Valley. Hodgen (7-1) trailed West Valley 5-2 after six innings, but put together a five-run top of the seventh to jump in front and steal the victory. Kyle Field started the frame with a triple, and two batters later he scored on a double to left by Tanner Sweek. Then after Hod- gen loaded the bases with two outs, Cooper Roberts came through with a two-run sin- gle to right field that tied the game at 5-5. Ty Beers then gave Hodgen a 6-5 lead with a RBI single and Quinn Doherty added on with an RBI double — his sixth double in eight games — for a 7-5 advantage. Matthew Demianew earned the win after throwing the final four innings of relief, allowing only one run on eight hits with one strikeout. Hodgen’s offense compiled 14 hits in the game, with Curtis Simons, Beers, Doherty and Field each with a pair. Beers hit a solo home run in the sixth inning, his second homer in the past three games. Hodgen continues tournament play on Saturday and will finish up on Sunday. ———— 18U R H E HDG 000 011 5 — 7 14 3 WVL 022 010 0 — 5 11 0 (H) R. Stahl and R. Esparza, M. Demianew (4) K. Field. (W) S. Oviedo and A. Tolliver. 2B — Q. Doherty, T. Sweek (HDG); S. Steele, D. Wolff (WVL). 3B — K. Field (HDG). HR — T. Beers (HDG). SOUTHRIDGE BANDITS 7, PEPSI DIAMONDJAXX 2 — The Pepsi Dia- mondjaxx dropped their first game of the Walla Walla Grizz Tournament with a 7-2 loss to the Southridge (WA) Bandits 7-2 on Friday afternoon. Pepsi (2-7) dug itself into an early hole in the bottom of the first when starting pitcher Blake Swanson walked three bat- ters, hit two and gave up one hit as South- ridge pushed across three runs. The Dia- mondjaxx battled back in the third inning when they loaded the bases with one out, setting up Jimmy Jones, who singled to score two runs to get within one run at 3-2. Southridge took control of the game in the fourth with a four-run frame to coast to the victory. Tyler Browning led Pepsi’s offense with two hits from the leadoff spot, while Jesse Berry, Bryson Murray and Jones each had one hit. Pepsi continues the tournament on Sat- urday with a doubleheader against Lake- side Rec at 9 a.m. and against Walla Walla at 2:30 p.m., and then wraps up on Sunday. ———— 16U PDJ STH 002 000 300 400 0 X — — R 2 7 H 5 7 E 1 1 AP Photo/Ted S. Warren Seattle Mariners’ Ben Gamel, right, high-fives Dee Gordon (9) after Gamel scored on a go-ahead two-run double by Denard Span against the Boston Red Sox during the eighth inning of a baseball game Friday in Seattle. The Mariners won 7-6. More magic for M’s Span’s pinch-hit double in 8th lifts Seattle past Boston Associated Press AP Photo/Ted S. Warren Seattle Mariners’ Denard Span heads to first base after he hit a go-ahead two-run double against the Boston Red Sox during the eighth inning of a baseball game Friday in Seattle. The Mariners won 7-6. SEATTLE — Denard Span’s pinch-hit double in the eighth inning scored two runs, leading the Seattle Mariners to a 7-6 vic- tory over the Boston Red Sox on Friday night. Span, hitting for Guillermo Heredia with one out, hit a liner to the right-field corner after Ryon Healy walked and Ben Gamel singled to left. Rob Whalen pitched four scoreless innings of relief for Seattle. Ryan Cook (1-0) earned the win with a scoreless eighth inning and Edwin Diaz earned his major league-leading 26th save by working the ninth. Matt Barnes (0-2) took the loss. Xander Bogaerts hit a three- run homer as part of a six-run third inning that gave Boston a 6-3 lead, but a spectacular defen- sive play by Seattle second base- man Dee Gordon on a hard-hit ball up the middle by Bogaerts that ended the sixth inning kept Boston from adding another run. The Mariners led 3-0 when Boston sent 11 men to the plate and had six hits and walk to chase starter James Paxton. The Mariners also committed two errors in the inning. Paxton entered the game with a 0.39 ERA and 2-0 record in three previous starts against the Red Sox. Five of the six runs against Paxton were earned. He also threw two wild pitches. Boston tied the game at 3 on four singles and an error by third basemen Kyle Seager, before Bogaerts hit his 11th home run. Jean Segura gave the Mari- ners a 1-0 lead in the first inning when he launched Rick Porcel- lo’s fastball over the scoreboard in left field, a 420-foot shot. Seattle made it 3-0 in the sec- See MARINERS/3B Sports shorts Leonard reportedly wants a trade from San Antonio (AP) — Kawhi Leonard’s time with the San Antonio Spurs may soon be over. A person familiar with the situa- tion says Leonard has told the Spurs that he would like to be traded this summer, the clearest sign yet that the relationship between the team and the All-Star is in disrepair. The per- son said Leonard has decided that he is “unhappy with the situation” in San Antonio. Yahoo Sports and the San Antonio Express-News first reported Leonard’s hope for a trade. THIS DATE IN SPORTS 1968 — Lee Trevino becomes the first golfer to play all four rounds of the U.S. Open under par, defeating Jack Nicklaus by four strokes. 2016 — LeBron James scores 41 points, Kyrie Irving adds 23 and the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Golden State Warriors 115-101 to force Game 7. James becomes the first player with consecutive 40-point games in the finals since Shaquille O’Neal in 2000. Headline xyx yx xyx yx xyx xyxyyxyxxyxy Johnson takes 4-shot lead xy into weekend of U.S. Open SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) — Dustin Johnson han- dled the worst of the weather and wound up as the sole survivor to par at the U.S. Open, taking a four-shot lead into the weekend at Shinnecock Hills. Johnson dropped only one shot Friday morning in wind and two hours of light rain that made the course play even longer. He made a 45-foot birdie putt on the par-3 seventh hole for a 3-under 67. The weekend will not include Tiger Woods, who shot 72 to miss the cut for the fifth time in his last eight majors. Jordan Spi- eth joined him with a bogey-bo- gey finish to miss the cut by one shot. Rory McIlroy and Jason Day also missed the cut. AP Photo/Seth Wenig Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com
