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HERMISTON
BULLDOGS STAY ALIVE
and an automatic trip to state with
a 25-23, 25-14, 25-17 victory over
Southridge.
The Hermiston-Kamiakin winner
will play Southridge for the last berth
to state next week in Yakima.
The Bulldogs got off to a quick start
over the Highlanders (3-13). Leading
6-5 in the first set, McDonough took to
the service line and reeled off 10 con-
secutive points for a 16-5 lead.
Shadle Park would hang a few
points on the scoreboard, but would not
get closer than seven points down the
stretch. McDonough served two con-
secutive aces for the win.
The Highlanders had no quit in
them. They pushed the Bulldogs in
the second set, and forged a 19-19 tie
before Hermiston pulled away.
Scout Reagan gave the Bulldogs
a 24-19 lead with four consecutive
points, and Avery Treadwell laid down
a kill to give Hermiston a 2-0 lead.
With a victory on the horizon, the
Bulldogs went to work in the third set.
A big service run by Reagan gave
the Bulldogs a 16-6 lead, but a series
of unforced errors and a kill by Shadle
Will face Kamiakin on
Saturday in regional, loser-
out match
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
W
ith its season on the line
Thursday night, the Herm-
iston volleyball team did
what it need to do to stay alive in the
Region 5/8 tournament.
Sophia Streeter had seven kills, and
Ireland McDonough had eight aces and
13 digs to lead the Bulldogs (7-11) to a
25-15, 25-20, 25-23 victory over visit-
ing Shadle Park.
“We like to keep people on their
toes,” Hermiston coach Amy Dyck
said. “Keep them guessing. I encour-
aged the girls not to take them lightly.
Shadle Park was in the tournament for
a reason. They have the tools and they
have a lot of volleyball knowledge. We
didn’t want to overlook them.”
The Bulldogs will face Kamiakin
at noon Saturday at Southridge High
School in a loser-out match. The Braves
swept North Central to advance.
Mt. Spokane won the regional title
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Staff photos by E.J. Harris
Left: Hermiston’s Sophia Streeter (14) and Avery Treadwell (2) attempt to block a strike from Shadle Park’s Meghan Keenan. Right: Hermiston’s Daisy Maddox spikes the
ball into the block from Shadle Park’s Chloe Flerchinger (13) and Megan Gallagher (10) in the Bulldogs’ 3-0 win against the Highlanders on Thursday in Hermiston.
MLS SOCCER
Prep volleyball
Timbers advance in shootout
SEATTLE (AP) — Dairon
Asprilla scored the deciding
penalty as the Portland Timbers
survived a wild second half and
extra time to defeat the Seat-
tle Sounders 4-2 in a shootout
Thursday night and advance to
the MLS Western Conference
finals.
Seattle won the wild second
leg of the conference semifinal
matchup between the Cascadia
rivals 3-2, scoring late in regu-
lation to force extra time before
both teams scored early in the
extra session.
Eventually,
the
sides
decided the winner via penal-
ties, although Portland initially
believed it had won at the end
of extra time because of scoring
a second road goal in the soc-
cer match.
The celebration was prema-
ture as road goals are not a tie-
breaker in extra time. But it
became real minutes later when
Asprilla beat Seattle goalkeeper
Stefan Frei and sent Portland to
the West finals for the first time
since winning the MLS Cup in
2015.
Portland will face Sporting
Irrigon’s Collins named
MVP of EOL for volleyball
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
Seattle Sounders forward Raul Ruidiaz has a shot deflected by
Portland Timbers goalkeeper Jeff Attinella during the first half
of the second leg of an MLS playoff soccer series on Thursday
in Seattle.
Kansas City or Real Salt Lake
in the West finals.
Asprilla, Lucas Melano,
Diego Valeri and Sebastian
Blanco scored in the shootout for
Portland. Seattle’s goals came
from Raul Ruidiaz and Hand-
walla Bwana, but Will Bruin
hit the post and Osvaldo Alon-
so’s shot was saved by Portland
goalkeeper Jeff Attinella, aton-
ing for an earlier mistake that
led to Seattle’s first goal.
Portland held a 2-1 lead after
the first leg at home and the
match reached penalties only
because of a wild final 25 min-
utes of regulation and a begin-
ning to extra time that was
equally crazy.
The Irrigon Knights
made school history
this season with their
first trip to the 3A state
volleyball tournament.
And the honors kept
rolling in for the team Collins
as sophomore libero
MaKenna Collins was named the
Eastern Oregon League Player of
the Year.
Collins finished league play
with 220 digs, and served at 94
percent with 11 aces.
Collins was joined on the first
team by teammate Haley White,
a junior outside hitter. White had
119 kills on the season, along
with 25 blocks and 12 aces. She
served at 84 percent.
On the honorable men-
tion team, the Knights had set-
ter Emma Mueller, outside hitter
Myka Davis and opposite hitter
Nikki Phillips.
Umatilla outside hitter Char-
lene Alvarez was named to the
second team, while Riverside
middle Megan Hegar
was selected to the hon-
orable mention team.
The Knights finished
third in the EOL stand-
ings, but finished sec-
ond at district to qual-
ify for state, where they
were swept by South
Umpqua in the first
round.
Irrigon also received the
Sportsmanship Award from the
Blue Mountain Conference Offi-
cials Association, and had the
highest GPA in the state among
3A volleyball teams at 3.91.
Eastern Oregon League
Player of the Year: MaKenna Collins, so.,
Irrigon. Coach of the Year: Paula Toney, Burns.
First team: MaKenna Collins, so., libe-
ro, Irrigon; Kaiden Raif, so., setter, Burns;
Haley White, jr., outside hitter, Irrigon; Emmy
Johnson, so., middle, Vale; Jaymo Jensen,
fr., outside hitter, Vale; Allie Hueckman, so.,
outside hitter, Burns.
Second team: Mariah Atencio, jr., middle,
Burns; Lexi Schaffeld, sr., outside hitter, Vale;
Jenna Garner, jr., outside hitter, Burns; Sierra
Cleaver, sr., outside hitter, Vale; Syriah Trujillo,
jr., libero, Nyssa; Charlene Alvarez, sr., outside
hitter, Umatilla.
Honorable mention team: Lacy Singhose,
sr., opposite hitter, Burns; Emma Mueller, so.,
setter, Irrigon; Myka Davis, sr., outside hitter,
Irrigon; Nikki Phillips, sr., opposite hitter, Irri-
gon; Maycee Delong, jr., setter, Vale; DeMiah
Hardin, jr., outside hitter, Vale; Megan Hegar,
jr., middle, Riverside.
Sports shorts
IRRIGON’S ZACH HENRICHS SIGNS WITH BMCC
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
Irrigon senior Zack Henrichs signed a
letter of intent earlier this week to continue
his baseball career at Blue Mountain Com-
munity College.
“I think the big thing for me was the
atmosphere,” Henrichs said of choosing
BMCC. “The players want to be there. I
felt a part of the team when I was there.
They are hard-working guys.”
The 5-foot-9, 190-pound Henrichs plays
every infield position except first
base, but the Timberwolves
plan to play him at either
second or third base.
“Baseball is everything
to me,” said Henrichs, who
will receive a partial schol-
arship at BMCC. “I will play
wherever they need me.”
Henrichs will join former
Irrigon player Adrian Roa on the
Henrichs
BMCC team. Also playing col-
lege baseball from Irrigon is Austin Rice, hurt.”
who pitches for Whitworth Uni-
versity in Spokane.
The Knights advanced
to the state tournament last
year, where they lost a 4-3
game in eight innings to
Pleasant Hill in the first
round.
“That was an emotional
game,” Henrichs said. “They
won on a walk-off error in the
bottom of the eighth. That one
A three-year starter, Henrichs hit .405
last year with 10 doubles, two triples and
27 RBIs. On the mound, he had a 1.47 ERA
and 67 strikeouts.
He was named to the Eastern Ore-
gon League first team as a pitcher, and to
the second team as an infielder, his junior
year. He was a first-team infielder as a
sophomore.
Henrichs, who carries a 3.45 GPA, said
he would like to major in something in the
medical field. Radiology and nursing are
high on his list.