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East Oregonian
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
State: Four wrestlers took second place
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Pendleton finished second
with 306, while Redmond
(257) was third.
Chambers (41-13), who
will be making his first state
appearance, pinned Red-
mond’s Michaelo DeGross
in 5:21 in his first match Fri-
day, then reached the cham-
pionship match with a 17-3
major decision over Daniel
Jarmillo of Ridgeview.
“He wrestled tough
today,” Phillips said. “We
have been working on a
couple of things with him
and it worked out for him
today.”
The 126-pound finals
gave the fans a look at the
top two guys in the state in
Pendleton senior Alex Ren-
don (ranked No. 2) and top-
ranked Crook County junior
Hunter Mode.
Mode (35-3) escaped
with a 3-0 decision over
Rendon (46-4).
Rendon will be mak-
ing his fourth trip to state.
He placed fifth as a sopho-
more, and finished second
Staff photo by Kathy Aney/
Pendleton’s Aiden Henderson, left, wrestles JR Scott of The
Dalles in the finals of the 195-pound weight class Saturday
during the IMC District Wrestling Championships.
last year at 126-pounds.
“Now, Alex knows he
can go with that kid,” Phil-
lips said. “Hopefully we can
do that again in two weeks
on a Saturday night.”
At 145 pounds, Pend-
leton’s Blake Davis fell to
Crook County’s Brayden
Duke 12-2.
Isaac Urbina lost a 6-0
match to Redmond’s Clay-
ton Elrod in the 160-pound
title bout.
JR Scott of The Dalles
won the 195-pound title,
pinning Pendleton’s Aiden
Henderson in 2:51.
Finishing third for the
Bucks were Collin Primus
(106), Kellen Hanson (113),
Shawn Yeager (152), Aiden
Patterson (170), Kirk Lis-
com (182), Jacob Griffin
(220) and Travis McGee
(285).
Gabe Browning (113) and
Caleb Tremper (120) fin-
ished fourth.
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Pendleton’s Isaac Urbina, left, wrestles Redmond’s Clayton Elrod in the finals of the
160-pound weight class Saturday during the IMC District Wrestling Championships.
TOURNAMENT RESULTS
Team scores — Crook County 408,
Pendleton 306, Redmond 257, Rid-
geview 124.5, Hood River Valley 116, The
Dalles 89.
Top four advance to state
Championship matches
106 — Tannon Joyner (CC) md. Tucker
Bonner (CC), 17-7. 113 — Kagen Law-
rence (Red) d. Steven Ware (CC), 14-9.
120 — Trentyn Maryanski (CC) d. Kole
Davis (Red), 6-4 (OT). 126 — Hunter
Mode (CC) d. Alex Rendon (Pen), 3-0.
132 — Zachary Mauras (CC) d. Chad
Muenzer (HR), 10-9. 138 — Chris Cham-
bers (Pen) md. Junior Downing (Red),
9-1. 145 — Brayden Duke (CC) md.
Blake Davis (Pen), 12-2. 152 — Ben
Sather (CC) d. Austin Greene (TD), 6-0.
160 — Clayton Eldrod (Red) d. Isaac
Urbina (Pen), 6-0. 170 — Austin Car-
ter (Red) p. Garrett Bond (CC), 4:42. 182
— Kyle Knudtson (CC) p. Cole Jackson
(Rid), 3:42. 195 — JR Scott (TD) p. Aiden
Henderson (Pen), 2:51. 220 — Joseph
Martin (Rid) p. Dillon Young (Red),
2:53. 285 — Caleb Parrott (CC) p. Cody
Durham (HR), :16.
Third/Fourth matches
106 — Collin Primus (Pen) p. Logan
Hill (Red), 3:20. 113 — Kellen Hanson
(Pen) p. Gabe Browning (Pen), 1:33. 120
— Jace England (CC) d. Caleb Trem-
per (Pen), 6-4. 126 — Austin Anderson
(Red) p. Jayton Muenzer (HR), :56. 132
— Jacob Curry (Red) won by forfeit over
Trae Bolken (Red). 138 — Andrew Rich-
man (TD) won by injury default over
Preston Armstrong (HR). 145 — Ethyne
Reid (Rid) p. Victor Rodriguez (CC), 5:19.
152 — Shawn Yeager (Pen) p. Zach-
ary Anderson (Red), :32. 160 — Gavin
McLean (CC) d. Steven Preston (TD),
9-2. 170 — Aiden Patterson (Pen) p.
Anthony Lochner (Rid), :42. 182 — Kirk
Liscom (Pen) d. Maverick Geller (HR),
7-2. 195 — Logan Shenk (Rid) d. Colton
Schlachter (CC), 1-0. 220 — Jacob Grif-
fin (Pen) won by injury default over
Hayden Hilderbrand (CC). 285 — Tra-
vis McGee (Pen) p. Tanklin Thomasson
(CC), :24.
Other Pendleton placers — Josh Wha-
ley (5th, 152), Kyle Liscom (5th, 160),
Cody Sumerlin (5th, 170), Ian Bannister
(6th, 182), Jordan DeGeer (6th, 220), Will
Glover (5th, 285).
PREP ROUNDUP
Nixyaawii boys finish season at No. 1 in Old Oregon League
East Oregonian
It looks as if there’s no stopping
the Golden Eagles.
Nixyaawii took care of their
final game of the regular season
with a 53-30 victory over their
Joseph visitors on Saturday.
“Joseph has a good strategy,”
said Nixyaawii coach Shane
Rivera. “Like most teams, they try
to slow the pace of the game down
to keep the scoring low. But we
just hung in there and did what we
always do.”
Tyasin Burns posted 24 points
to lead the Golden Eagles (22-2,
12-0 OOL), and Mick Schimmel
chipped in 13.
Undefeated in league action and
holding the Old Oregon League’s
No. 1 spot, Nixyaawii will head
into their district’s semifinals on
Friday against an opponent to be
determined.
Boys hoops
MAC-HI 61, ONTARIO 49
― The Pioneers ended the reg-
ular season with a bang, turning
Ontario away on the road.
Dareagan Stephens posted 22
points to lead the way.
“This was a great season,” said
coach Jordan Poynor. “We got
really hot from deep and had a nice
lead at the half. I’m very excited
for the postseason.”
The No. 3 Pioneers (14-8, 3-3
OOL) rematch Ontario on Tues-
day in the Old Oregon League
playoffs.
UMATILLA 39, BURNS 28
― Uriel Garcia’s double-double
with 22 points and 10 rebounds
drove the Vikings to a victory over
Burns on Saturday.
”We bounced back today after
our last three losses,” said coach
Scott Bow. “We got back to doing
what we needed to do, and looked
good doing it. We’re ready to roll.”
Umatilla (18-6, 6-4 EOL) are
the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Ore-
gon League.
CONDON/WHEELER 84,
ECHO 36― Echo’s regular sea-
son ended on a sour note with a
road loss to Condon/Wheeler on
Saturday afternoon.
Braden MacPherson posted
eight points to lead the Cougars,
while the Knights were led by
Hunter Winslow with a game-high
35 points.
Echo (2-23, 1-15 BSL) finished
Inclement weather moves Hermiston game
Dawgs will host Kennewick
at 7 p.m. Wednesday
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
Blame Mother Nature or Old Man
Winter.
Either way, the Hermiston-Kennewick
boys 3A District 8 tournament basketball
game has been moved once again.
The teams will play at 7 p.m. Wednes-
day at Hermiston High School.
The Bulldogs originally were sched-
uled to host Kennewick on Friday night,
but poor weather conditions pushed the
game to Tuesday.
“As it is now, there will be games
played Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday to see who goes to Tacoma,”
Hermiston athletic director Larry Usher
said. “We cancel any more games, we
might have to petition the WIAA to play
two games a day.”
The Bulldogs (14-6) earned the
Mid-Columbia Conference’s top seed to
the tournament, and had a bye the open-
ing round.
Kennewick (11-10) beat North Central
61-50 in the first round to stay in the win-
ner’s half of the bracket.
It will be the third meeting between the
Bulldogs and Lions this season.
Hermiston won the first meeting 72-64,
and the second 64-63.
Admission prices, set by the WIAA,
are $7 for adults and $5 for students.
Usher said Hermiston Athletics will
cover the admission cost for students who
want to attend the game.
With Tuesday’s games being pushed
to Wednesday, the Hermiston girls game,
which was scheduled for Wednesday, was
moved to Thursday.
The Bulldogs will play at the loser of
Wednesday’s Kennewick-Mt. Spokane
game.
at No. 9 of 9 in the Big Sky League.
Girls hoops
JOSEPH 60, NIXYAAWII
28 ― Joseph handed Nixyaawii a
rough loss to end their regular sea-
son on Saturday.
“We just couldn’t keep pace
in the second half,” said Golden
Eagles coach Jeremy Maddern.
“Joseph is a good team that pres-
sures the ball well, which caused a
lot of turnovers for us. That made
the difference.”
Lark Moses posted three treys
to lead Nixyaawii, and Trista
Melton added seven.
The Golden Eagles (12-11, 5-7
OOL) finished at No. 5 in the Old
Oregon League.
ECHO
38,
CONDON/
WHEELER 22― Faith McCarty
poured in 16 points and shot 5-of-6
at the line to help Echo close their
regular season out with a home
win on Saturday.
The Cougars (12-12, 10-4 BSL)
are the No. 4 seed in the Big Sky
League, and begin playoffs on Fri-
day in Madras.
ONTARIO 54, MAC-HI 34―
Mac-Hi dropped a road match in
Ontario to close out their regular
season. Sitting at No. 4 of 4 in the
Greater Oregon League, the Pio-
neers (1-21, 0-6 GOL) begin their
league playoffs on Tuesday.
BURNS 44, UMATILLA
25― The No. 1 Burns Hilanders
kept Umatilla winless in the East-
ern Oregon League to close the
regular season.Umatilla (2-22,
0-10 EOL) finished at No. 6 of 6 in
the league standings.
Stanfield: Ends season with losses
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It’s as simple as that.”
The Prospectors had a
pair of six-point runs in the
final quarter, and outscored
Stanfield 27-14 to win.
“Basketball’s a game of
runs,” Bailey said. “After
our third quarter, when it
got close, I thought we were
going to flip the switch,
but Grant Union was just
hustling.”
Esquivel led his team for
his final home game with
20 points, and Sanchez fol-
lowed with nine.
“I’m glad we went out
fighting,” Esquivel said.
“That’s all I can say.”
The No. 4 Tigers (11-13,
7-5 BMC) ended the regular
season at No. 4 in the Blue
Mountain Conference.
Girls hoops
Ending your season
with a contest against the
league’s No. 1 team might
be an intimidating task.
“We knew Grant Union
was going to be tough.
They’re athletic and hard
to contain,” Stanfield coach
Daniel Sharp said. “We
wanted to come out and play
fearless, and for the most
part, we did.”
In the end, the No. 5
Tigers fell 57-43 to the vis-
iting Grant Union Prospec-
tors in Blue Mountain Con-
ference play.
The Prospectors ended
the first quarter 10-4. They
had a seven-point run in
the second to make things
even tougher for the Tigers.
Stanfield managed 11 points
against Grant Union’s 21 for
the quarter, and took a 31-15
deficit into the locker room.
Three straight baskets
from senior Allie Griffin
brought Stanfield within
four points of Grant Union
with 1:52 left in the third
quarter. But a six-point run,
including a 3-pointer from
Prospectors senior Kaylee
Wright, broadened their
advantage to 10.
Wright ended the night
with 25 points.
“She was hitting those 3’s
from 25 feet,” Sharp said of
Wright. “That’s not easy.”
Tigers junior Nyah
Tejeda had 10 of Stanfield’s
11 points in the final eight
minutes, but Grant Union
poured in 14 more to close
out the game.
Swimming: Bucks make a big splash at conference championships
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Cramp, Kyndra Nelson,
Elisabeth House and Finley
Kennedy. State qualifiers for
boys are Spratling, Robin-
son, Miltenberger, Andrew
Williams and Kaleo Theis.
The 12-member Bucks
boys and 24 member girls
squad, guided by sec-
ond-year head coach Tony
Nelson, each earned sec-
ond place team trophies
to cap the meet. The boys
totaled 99 points and were
runner-ups by just two to
Redmond at 101. The girls
scored 119 points, placing
second to Hood River Val-
ley with 134.
“We’ve had a great season
and we just had an outstand-
ing district meet,” said Nel-
son. “These guys have been
working so hard all season
long. To cap it off with all
the personal records that we
set and school records that
we broke was just amazing
and I’m very proud of these
kids. The girls had an amaz-
ing performance in break-
ing a 19-year-old school
record in the 200 medley
relay, which was just phe-
nomenal. It was just a great
day overall for our team.”
Along with winning their
prestigious district titles,
the Buckaroos have a large
contingent of 11 swimmers
who qualified for the Class
5A swimming state champi-
onships. This season finale
meet will be Feb. 15-16 at
the Tualatin Hills Aquatic
Center in Beaverton.
Pendleton
swimmers
will compete in the 5A pre-
liminaries beginning at
1:45 p.m. Friday, which will
be followed by Saturday’s
1 p.m. state finals. Pend-
leton has swimmers in 10
individual events and four
relays.
“It’s a great way to cap
our season and have such a
large group of kids qualify
for state,” said Nelson.
“We’re hoping to have
another great meet there.
There’s only 12 swim-
mers in each preliminary
event, so we’re just hop-
ing to move on and finish
in the top-six of prelims so
that we can compete in the
finals on Saturday. That’s
what we’re looking for and
all of these kids are capable
of doing that.”
Barnard also swam
strong with teammates Rob-
inson, Williams and Theis
to help Pendleton get sec-
ond in the 200 free relay
(1:36.51). Williams, a fresh-
man, took second in the 100
backstroke with a PR time
of 1:04.09 and Miltenberger
was fourth (1:06.64).
“I feel pretty good about
getting a PR in the back and
it’s very exciting to reach
the state meet as a fresh-
man,” said Williams. “I feel
like it’s a very big high-
light of my Pendleton High
School career. I feel proud
of myself for swimming as
well as I did. I felt like it was
the best I swam all year and
I’m at my peak performance
level right now.”
Robinson, a freshman,
and Spratling earned the
titles of two-time IMC
District Champions after
impressive performances.
Robinson won the 200 free
(1:54.47) and Spratling took
third place at 2:06.89. Sprat-
ling, a sophomore, won a
district title in the grueling
500 free as he timed in with
a PR of 5:43.25, lower his
previous best time by nine
seconds.
“It’s pretty exciting to
win my first ever district
championship and it was
a really fun meet today,”
said Spratling. “I’m excited
about going to state, but I’m
also a little nervous. My
goal is to help our medley
relay reach the top-six finals
on Saturday.”
Huth swam swiftly to
first place in both the 200-
yard freestyle (2:12.84) and
the 100-yard breaststroke
(1:13.52). Huth and team-
mates Nelson, House and
Kennedy combined to finish
first in the 200-yard free-
style relay (1:50.50). Huth,
Nelson, House and Cramp
swam to a very close sec-
ond in the 200-yard medley
relay at 2:01.68, just slightly
behind winner Hood River
(2:01.52). The girls quali-
fied for state in both of these
relays.
“It was a great day for
our entire team and it feels
really good to win two dis-
trict titles,” said Huth, a
senior, who has also quali-
fied for state four years in a
row. “This was the first time
I won the 200 freestyle and I
was also very happy to win
the 100 breastroke for the
second year in a row.”
Cramp, a freshman,
swam consistently strong
too in winning four sec-
ond place silver medals.
Cramp was runner-up in the
100 free (59.14), followed
by House at 59.97 seconds.
Cramp, who qualified for
state in the 100 free, also
took second the 100 back
(1:07.84) and she combined
with junior Janessa Head-
ley and freshmen Kennedy
and Alara Campbell for sec-
ond in the 400 free relay
(4:20.66). House recorded
top-three medal winning
efforts in two individual
events. House, a senior,
earned a second place silver
medal with a strong swim in
the 50 free (26.19).
Nelson, a sophomore,
swam to first in the 500-
yard free relay while set-
ting a personal record time
of 5:57.97. Nelson also swam
well and took second in the
200-yard individual medley
(2:33.28), close behind win-
ner Celilo Brun (2:29.64) of
Hood River. Nelson qual-
ified for state a second
straight year and she’ll com-
pete in the 500, 200 IM and
the 200 medley relay and
200 free relay.
“Our team had a great
day and I feel very excited
about our performance
that we had,” said Nelson,
daughter of coach Tony Nel-
son. “My goal was to go
below six minutes in the 500
and so I was very happy that
I did that. I’m very excited
about going to state, but I’m
also a little nervous too. I’m
anxious to see how well I’ll
be able to do against people
from other districts.”
Pendleton brought home
a total of 40 top-three IMC
District medals. For Buck-
aroo seniors Lily Yoshioka,
Rylee Harris, Sam Attridge,
Jill Schulze and Kaiya
Spencer, the event marked
the final swim meet of their
career at Pendleton High
School.
Box Score
Boys Team Scores — Redmond 101,
Pendleton 99, Hood River Valley 67, Rid-
geview 51, The Dalles 32.
Girls Team Scores — Hood River Valley
134, Pendleton 119, The Dalles 40, Rid-
geview 32, Redmond 29.