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HERMISTON
Staff Photo by Brett Kane
The Columbia River Legends division compete in a heat race at the Hermiston Raceway on Saturday evening.
FROM HOMETOWN HEROES
TO YOUNG GUNS
Hermiston Raceway
celebrates drivers young
and old
normal kid; they’re racers.”
The Raceway’s main attraction for the
night was the Columbia River Legends:
a class that races strictly in older cars that
run on motorcycle engines.
“They’re hard cars to drive. There’s
a ton of horsepower in those tiny, little
cars,” Walden said. “They’re overpow-
ered beasts.”
Neena Kik of Hermiston took first
place in the division’s main event.
The Raceway’s next event will be
held on Saturday, Sept. 8 at 6 p.m.
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By BRETT KANE
East Oregonian
ERMISTON — It was a celebra-
tion of generations young and
old at the Hermiston Raceway on
Saturday night.
The opening ceremonies included an
homage to longtime Hermiston racer
Ron Van Cleve, who died 13 years ago
at the age of 73 after suffering a heart
attack. Van Cleve’s daughter Ronda, who
took her name from her father, waved a
checkered flag as she took a lap around
the course.
Van Cleve also served as an official at
the Tri-City Raceway.
“He was one of a kind,” said promoter
Greg Walden. “He enjoyed life and was
always pleasant.”
The heat races soon kicked off, led
by the Bandolero division, which con-
sists of kids between the ages of eight
and 12 driving cars with 6.5 horse-
power engines. Ryker Ohler — or as the
announcers referred to him, the “Ice-
man” — swept the competition, taking
first place in both the division’s heat race
and main event.
H
Staff photo by Brett Kane
Kaylynn Jeffery, 14, poses with her street stock racecar.
Ohler, 10, is from Prosser, Wash.,
and has only been racing for a couple of
months.
“I like driving, passing people, and
going fast,” he said.
Ohler wasn’t the only young racer to
steal the show: Yakima driver Kaylynn
Jeffery, 14, was the only female in her
street stock class, and has been racing
since she was eight.
“I love the adrenaline rush,” she said.
“There’s nothing better than driving fast
and turning left.”
Jeffery even purchased her current
race car on her own when she was 11 —
with $2,000 of her own money, earned by
selling her first car. She ended up taking
third place in the street stock main event.
“With these kids, it’s all business,”
Walden said. “They don’t resemble a
Cano’s homer lifts M’s past Astros
By TIM BOOTH
Associated press
SEATTLE — Robinson Cano
hit his first home run since return-
ing from an 80-game suspension, a
three-run shot in the bottom of the
eighth inning and lifted the Seattle
Astros
7
4
Mariners to a key 7-4 win over the
Houston Astros on Monday night.
Seattle won its fifth straight
against the Astros, thanks to a
huge night from Cano. He dou-
bled twice earlier in the game —
his first two extra-base hits since
coming back from his suspension
for violating baseball’s joint drug
OSU FOOTBALL
Beavers show improvement
in second scrimmage
By BOB LUNDEBERG
Albany Democrat-Herald
MLB
Mariners
HERMISTON RACEWAY RESULTS
August 18th races
HORNETS
1. (777) Devin Taylor; 2. (77) David Knowles; 3. (18) Karin
Pitzer; 4. (17) Kedric Preston; 5. (13) Ryan Rodabaugh; 6. (12)
Kris Marlow; 7. (69) Cody McDonald; 8. (21) Owen Berglund;
9. (24) Justus Zamudio; 10. (11) Joe Dunn; 11. (7) Tracy
“Snoop” Howell; 12. (5) Andrew Decker; 13. (1) Rob “Ricky
Bobby” Cassano; 14. (22) Caroline Barnes; 15. (09) Malorie
Whitbeck.
BOMBERS
1. (123) Shade Cole; 2. (17) Kedric Preston; 3. (55) Justin
Gage; 4. (N21K) Carl Leggett; 5. (2) Brian Calley.
STREET STOCKS
1. (46) Terry Osborn; 2. (68) Bart Hector Jr.; 3. (28) Kaylynn
Jeffery; 4. (77) Jeff Stremcha; 5. (18) Adam Baker.
MINI STOCKS
1. (49) Angel Oseguera; 2. (18) Jeff Mullins; 3. (29) Andy
Pierce; 4. (36) Travis Bonney.
SUPER MINIS
1. (11x) Patrick Mullins; 2. (11) Chris Kohler; 3. (27) Ron
Wilbur.
LATE MODELS
1. (3) Ken Bonney; 2. (15) Jeff Whitbeck; 3. (7) Tom Aber-
crombie; 4. (37) Charles McDonald.
BANDELEROS
1. (13) Ryker Ohler; 2. (77) Jordan Mullins; 3. (5) Brock
Genz; 4. (47) Meredith Thompson.
COLUMBIA RIVER LEGENDS
1. (3) Neena Kik; 2. (66) Austin Snodgrass; 3. (54)
Trace Thompson; 4. (24) Jose Zamudio; 5. (43) Bill Kik;
6. (13) Donnie Rabbit; 7. (2) Jeff Mueller; 8. (01) Brock
McDonough; 9. (10) Lloyd Bigler.
AP Photo/Elaine Thompson
Seattle Mariners’ Robinson Cano, right, points toward the stands
as he passes Houston Astros catcher Martin Maldonado at home
on his three-run home run in the eighth inning.
policy. But those were precursors
to his drive to left-center field off
Houston’s Collin McHugh (5-2)
with one out in the eighth.
It was Cano’s fifth home run of
the season and his first since May
12 against Detroit. Seattle pulled
within 3½ games of Houston in
See MARINERS/2B
Oregon State held its second
scrimmage of fall camp Friday at
Reser Stadium.
Quarterback Jake Luton felt
it was an improvement from the
team’s Aug. 11 scrimmage that
was open to the public. Friday’s
dress rehearsal was closed to fans
and media.
“On both sides of the ball, I
thought we executed well and the
energy was good. We got after it,”
said Luton, who noticed a height-
ened attention to detail during the
scrimmage. “You just saw it in a
lot of the guys. They were flying
around a little bit faster and were
able to stop thinking so much and
play football.”
Wide receiver Trevon Brad-
ford agreed with the senior
quarterback.
“We’ve gotten a lot better in
our execution,” Bradford said
after Saturday’s practice at Pro-
thro Field. The Beavers are two
weeks away from their Sept. 1
opener at Ohio State.
“We had a meeting today and
the coaches said ‘you’ve come a
long ways,’ but we are just trying
to get better every single day. It
was good to compete, get to hit
like that.”
The defense dominated the
first half of OSU’s Aug. 11 scrim-
mage as Luton, Jack Colletto and
See OSU/2B
Sports shorts
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
A’s Davis has fan sign his
jersey, then slugs HR
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) —
Khris Davis asked a young fan
from the Make-A-Wish Founda-
tion to sign his jersey, then slugged
a mighty home run for the Oakland
Athletics against the Texas Rang-
ers on Monday night.
Davis let Anthony Slocumb
print his name in blue ink on Davis’
white jersey, then wore the uniform
while hitting his 37th home run in
the third inning. Slocumb was at
the Coliseum with a group from
the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Seahawks release longest-
tenured player, punter Jon Ryan
AP Photo/Elaine Thompson
RENTON, Wash. (AP) — The
Seattle Seahawks have released
punter Jon Ryan, who had been
the longest-tenured member of the
team.
Ryan posted a lengthy goodbye
to the Seahawks and their fans on
social media Monday morning.
“I never wanted this day to
come, but knew it would some-
day,” Ryan wrote.
Ryan’s time in Seattle appeared
to be up when Michael Dickson
was selected in the fifth round of
this year’s draft.
The 36-year-old Ryan was
among the most popular Seahawks
players for his skill as a punter and
his personality off the field.
He played for three head
coaches in Seattle, Mike Holmgren,
Jim Mora and Pete Carroll.
1931 — Babe Ruth of New
York hits his 600th home run.
1985 — Mary Decker sets the
world record in the mile run with a
time of 4:16.71 in Zurich.
2010 — Kyle Busch makes
NASCAR history with an unprec-
edented sweep of three national
races in one week, completing the
trifecta with a victory in the Sprint
Cup race at Bristol Motor Speed-
way, the Nationwide race a day
earlier and the Trucks race. He was
the first to complete the sweep.
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