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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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.
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Johnson
takes
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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
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