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Beavers
stumble
in opener
Arkansas tags Heimlich for
four runs in fifth, wins 4-1
By ERIC OLSON
Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. — Arkan-
sas didn’t hit much against
Luke Heimlich and Chris-
tian Chamberlain in Game 1
of the College World Series.
In fact, the Razorbacks
struck out 16 times.
Somehow, some way,
they sit on the cusp of their
first national champion-
ship in baseball after beat-
ing Oregon State 4-1 Tues-
day night.
They capitalized against
a faltering Heimlich in a
four-run fifth inning, got
a strong start from Blaine
Knight with shutdown relief
pitching and mixed in a few
big defensive plays. That
enabled the Razorbacks to
win on a night when they
mustered just five hits.
“I feel fortunate to win
the game,” Razorbacks
coach Dave Van Horn said.
“Baseball is a little different
game sometimes, and you
have eight innings where
you don’t do much and you
put together one inning.
You pitch good enough and
play defense, you can win.
That’s kind of what went on
tonight.”
The
finals
opener,
delayed a day because of
rain, seemed to have a little
bit of everything — a fly ball
lost in the sun that went for
a ground-rule double, a run-
ner interference call against
Oregon State and an over-
turned foul call on a ball hit
down the right-field line.
Nothing turned the game
more than the sudden col-
lapse of Heimlich.
“He started to lose it,”
OSU coach Pat Casey said.
“He didn’t throw the ball
where he needed to. He’d
been real good all year long,
and certainly really strug-
gled in that inning.”
After failing to get out
of the third inning in both
of his previous CWS starts,
the Beavers’ ace was in full
command while striking out
five and limiting the Razor-
backs (48-19) to one hit
through four innings.
In the fifth, though, the
senior left-hander issued a
walk and hit two batters.
“He lost command of his
fastball a little bit and was
out of the zone, so as hitters
we’re all just trying to be
patient, see him in the zone,
and he ended up also miss-
ing his spots a few times,”
Arkansas outfielder Heston
Kjerstad said. “That equaled
a few more runs for us.”
Arkansas starter Blaine
Knight (14-0) went back to
the mound with a 4-1 lead,
pitched another inning and
left having allowed seven
See OSU/3B
AP Photo/Ted Kirk
Oregon State catcher Adley Rutschman (35) collides with third baseman Michael Gretler trying to catch a foul
ball hit by Arkansas’ Dominic Fletcher during the ninth inning of Game 1 of the NCAA College World Series base-
ball finals in Omaha, Neb., Tuesday. Arkansas won 4-1.
Legion baseball
Hermiston continues championship
streak in trapshooting with three-peat Hodgen rallies to split DH
East Oregonian
On Saturday, Hermiston
successfully defended
its state title
By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
East Oregonian
HERMISTON — As Hermiston
gets ready to move into the WIAA,
there’s one team that will continue
to compete in Oregon.
Hermiston’s trapshooting team
has dominated its competition
since the league’s inaugural season
in 2015, and this year was no dif-
ferent as Hermiston won its third
consecutive state title.
Hermiston competed the three-
peat over the weekend at the 2018
Oregon State High School Clay
Target League State Tournament at
the Hillsboro Trap & Skeet Club.
Behind the efforts of Thomas Mab-
bot and Mitchell Pimentel of the
Photo courtesy of John Adams
The Hermiston trap shooting team poses with the first-place tro-
phy after winning its third consecutive title at the 2018 Oregon
State High School Clay Target League State Tournament at the Hills-
boro Trap & Skeet Club on Saturday. Hermiston won after hitting 485
of 500 targets.
boys varsity team, Hermiston fin-
ished with a team total of 485 (out
of 500) points.
Head coach John Adams cred-
its the good work to the time and
effort the team puts in during the
season.
“The kids practice and work on
See HERMISTON/3B
PENDLETON — For a brief
time on Tuesday evening, it
appeared as if Hodgen Distribut-
ing was on its way to being swept
in a doubleheader with the Idaho
Cubs.
The Cubs already had a 9-3
victory in its back pocket and had
just scored five runs in the top
of the first inning of the second
game to put Hodgen in a tough
spot. However Hodgen was able
to reset itself and start to work its
way back into the game, which
it did with the help of a nine-
run sixth inning where the home
team went from a four-run defi-
cit to a five-run lead en route to a
12-7 victory at Bob White Field.
The rally for Hodgen Distrib-
uting (14-5) began with a walk
to Ryan Stahl and an Idaho error
that allowed Roberts to reach
safely. That brought Kyle Field to
the plate, and the team-leader in
RBI added to his total with a two-
run double into the left-center
field gap and Ty Beers promptly
followed with a double that was
crushed off the right field fence to
score Field to cut the Idaho lead
to 7-6 — still with no outs.
Later with the bases loaded,
Logan Weinke drew a walk to
bring home the tying run and
Chris Large was hit by a pitch
to bring in the go-ahead run.
But Hodgen wasn’t done there,
as Curtis Simons would score
from third on a wild pitch, Tan-
ner Sweek hit a two-run double
to left and Field hit a RBI single
to right to push the score to 12-7.
Hodgen’s first run of the game
came in the fourth inning when
Stahl hit a sacrifice fly RBI to left
to score Large, and then it added
two in the fifth when Field and
See LEGION/3B
Sports shorts
Body found in Braves
ballpark beer cooler
ATLANTA (AP) — The body of a
third-party contractor has been found
inside a beer cooler at SunTrust Park.
The body was found Tuesday by
a worker from the same company.
Cobb County police spokeswoman
Sarah O’Hara tells The Atlanta Jour-
nal-Constitution she could not say
if foul play is suspected because the
investigation is ongoing.
Cobb County police say in a state-
ment that officers responded to a “call
of a deceased person located at Sun-
Trust Park” before the Braves game.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
Washington State football player
had brain damage at death
(AP) — The family of the Washington State football
player who died of suicide in January said the 21-year-old
quarterback had extensive brain damage that’s been linked
to concussions from playing the sport.
Tyler Hilinski was found dead in his apartment with a
gunshot wound and a suicide note on Jan. 16.
Mark and Kym Hilinski told NBC’s “Today” show on
Tuesday that the Mayo Clinic requested to do an autopsy of
their son’s brain. The family said the autopsy results indi-
cated that their son had signs of extensive brain damage
known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.
AP Photo/Young Kwak, File
1914 — Jack Johnson wins a
20-round referee’s decision over
Frank Moran at the Velodrome
d’Hiver in Paris.
2017 — Florida scores four
runs in the eighth inning to pull
away from LSU, and the Gators
beat their Southeastern Confer-
ence rival 6-1 to complete a two-
game sweep in the College World
Series finals for their first national
title in baseball. LSU loses for the
first time in seven appearances in a
championship game.
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