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Bucks
finish 4th
at Oregon
Classic
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Hermiston’s Adrian Mendez (34) lays the ball in during Saturday’s game against Southridge in Kennewick.
BIG PLAYS LIFT DAWGS
PAST SOUTHRIDGE IN OT
Boys | Ramirez hits
clutch free throws
with 10 seconds left
Girls | Hermiston
rolls to big win over
Southridge
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
Big-time players make
clutch plays when their teams
need them most.
Jordan ramirez hit two
free throws with 10.7 seconds
left on the clock, and adrian
Mendez stole the ball with
4 seconds remaining to lead
Hermiston to a 62-61 Mid-Co-
lumbia
Conference
road
victory on saturday over
southridge.
“The game was crazy,” said
Ramirez, who finished with 11
points. “Those (free throws)
were must makes. That first
one, I thought I air-balled it.
The second one, I was like
‘OK, this is easy, we are tied.’”
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Jazlyn romero scored a
game-high 16 points, and
Hermiston secured a spot in
the 3a regional tournament
with a 54-23 Mid-Columbia
Conference road victory
saturday over southridge.
“It was ugly,” Bulldogs
coach Juan rodriguez said.
“We didn’t play overwhelming
well, but we got a win. We
missed some easy baskets and
had too many turnovers.”
The Bulldogs (6-10 overall,
4-8 MCC) led 10-5 after the
first quarter, then went on an
18-7 run in the second quarter
for a 28-12 lead at the half.
romero scored 11 of her
See Boys, Page B2
Hermiston’s Mia Hernandez (21) dribbles down court during
Saturday’s game against Southridge in Kennewick.
See Girls, Page B2
The Pendleton wrestling
team is on the rise this season.
The Bucks finished fourth in
the 5a division of the Oregon
Classic in redmond over
the weekend — their highest
placing in recent memory.
“We have been second a
couple of times,” Pendleton
coach Fred Phillips said. “But
I don’t remember the last time
we were in the top four. We’ve
wrestled a lot in the last three
weeks and we are getting better.
We beat some really good kids,
won some big matches and
competed hard.”
The Bucks opened the tour-
nament Friday with a 78-6 win
over rex Putnam, picking up
six forfeits along the way.
Thurston handed Pendleton
a 42-37 loss. Bucks’ heavy-
weight Travis McGee had the
quickest pin of the bout, beating
duncan Hicks in 14 seconds.
In the third round of pool
matches, Pendleton shut out
redmond II 80-0.
Pendleton finished off the
first day with a 51-30 victory
over West albany, with McGee
again dominating his opponent
with an 8-second pin.
“Travis is a big, physical
kid,” Phillips said. “He just
threw him down and pinned
him. I was surprised he was that
fast. I didn’t see that coming.”
The Bucks moved into
the championship bracket on
saturday, and began the day the
with a 36-28 quarterfinal win
over redmond.
In the semifinals, the Dallas
dragons beat the Bucks 59-12,
registering eight pins.
In the third-place match,
Pendleton dropped a 46-18
decision to the Crater Comets,
getting wins from alex rendon
(126/132), Chris Chambers
(138), Isaac urbina (160) and
aiden Henderson (195).
Rendon finished the weekend
with a 7-0 record for the Bucks,
recording four pins, two deci-
sions and one forfeit. rendon
has just four losses on the year.
urbina also had a perfect
record for the Bucks, recording
three pins and three decisions
— all by the identical scores of
7-4.
Henderson posted a 5-2
record, registering two pins and
two decisions. One of his losses
came at 220 pounds, when he
See Bucks, Page B2
PREP ROUNDUP
Stevens drives Mac-Hi boys to GOL victory
East Oregonian
Mac-Hi resumed Greater
Oregon League play with a
resounding 71-33 home victory
saturday over Ontario.
deraegan stevens led the
Pioneers with 15 points, while
armando ruiz and Zach Hodgen
each added 12.
“This was probably the most
complete game we’ve played
this year,” Mac-Hi coach Jordan
Poynor said. “This group is buying
in and starting to play really good
basketball.”
The victory included a 19-2
third-quarter run that helped bury
the Tigers.
“We made a lot of shots in the
second half through running great
offense, and running the floor,”
Poynor said. “It was a fun game
and a great win.”
The Pioneers (11-6, 2-1 GOL)
travel to elgin on Tuesday for a
nonleague game.
SHERMAN 79, IONE 28 —
The Cardinals were no match for
the host Huskies, who handed Ione
its 10th Big sky League loss.
Hunter Padberg led the Cardi-
nals with nine points, including a
7-for-8 performance at the free-
throw line. Jr roque followed
with six points.
Ione (1-16, 0-10 BsL) hosts
Mitchell/spray on Tuesday.
DUFUR 53, ECHO 28 —
The Cougars dropped their fifth
consecutive Big sky League game
to the host rangers.
dufur held echo to under 10
points per quarter to secure the
win.
Braden MacPherson had a
team-high nine points for echo
(2-16, 1-9 BsL), and shot 60
percent from the floor. Noah Scott
followed with eight points.
echo travels to Horizon Chris-
tian on Friday.
HEPPNER 82, WESTON-
MCEWEN 39 — The Mustangs
improved to 7-0 in the Blue Moun-
tain Conference after cruising to a
home win over the Tigerscots.
Heppner made easy work of the
TigerScots in the first half, leading
20-7 after the first quarter, and
41-9 at the half.
Trent smith led the Mustangs
with 19 points. aiden Wolf had
eight for the Tigerscots.
Heppner (13-6, 7-0 BMC) will
host Stanfield on Friday, while
Weston-Mcewen (4-14, 2-5) will
host enterprise.
See Preps, Page B2