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COLLEGE UPDATE
TRACK AND FIELD
LEAPING
DOWN
UNDER
Zaanan Bane, a triple jumper at
Pendleton High School, will travel
to Australia in July to compete in
track and fi eld.
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Colbray
tops former
Hermiston
teammate
on the mat
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
Iowa State’s Sam Colbray and Oregon
State’s Bob Coleman were teammates when
Hermiston won the 2016 Oregon 5A state
team title in wrestling.
They both won individ-
ual state titles — Colbray at
195 pounds, and Coleman at
182.
Monday night, the for-
mer teammates were back
on the mat together, this
time as competitors in a
Colbray
dual in Corvallis.
Colbray beat his for-
mer teammate 13-4 in the
184-pound match at Gill
Coliseum, helping the
17th-ranked Cyclones to
a 23-14 victory over the
Beavers.
Colbray, a redshirt soph-
Coleman
omore, had the initial take-
down in the fi rst round, and
led throughout. He led 6-2 after the fi rst
round, and 10-4 at the end of the second.
Colbray improved to 20-5 on the sea-
son, while Coleman, a junior, dropped to
13-13.
Tavin Headings (Hermiston) a senior
at George Fox, tied a season-high with 24
points and six rebounds on Feb. 9 in an
84-62 victory at Whitworth University. She
also had seven points and four rebounds on
See Update, Page B2
STATE WRESTLING
Dawgs ready
to make history
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
PHS sophomore Zaanan Bane fl ies to Australia for track and fi eld event in July
By BRETT KANE
East Oregonian
aanan Bane has never been on a
plane before.
But this July, he’ll spend 15
hours on one for a trip Down Under.
Bane, a sophomore at Pendleton
High School, was invited to partici-
pate in Down Under Sports — a pro-
gram in which American high school
athletes travel to Australia to compete
in sports, such as basketball, football,
golf, cross country, volleyball, and
track and fi eld.
Their mission statement is to “pro-
mote the growth, development, and
self-esteem of the individual ath-
lete through sport,” and to build rela-
tionships that “bridge the gap of both
distance and time through mutual
competition.”
On their off time, they’ll get to tour
Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Bane
will be competing in the triple jump.
“I’m excited more than I am ner-
vous,” said Bane, 15. “It sounds
Z
“I’M EXCITED
MORE THAN I
AM NERVOUS. IT
SOUNDS LIKE ONE
OF THOSE ONCE
IN A LIFETIME
OPPORTUNITIES.”
like one of those once in a lifetime
opportunities.”
The program selected Bane based
on his “overall performance” in PHS’
track and fi eld team. For his freshman
season, he jumped 40 feet 6 inches
at the state tournament’s triple jump
event. He ended the season as the high-
est-ranking freshman in the Oregon
5A division, and was the No. 2 fresh-
man statewide.
“I have never coached a freshman
who jumped over 40 feet, and I’ve
been coaching for over 20 years,” said
PHS triple and long jump coach Bill
Aney. “(Zaanan) is a really workable
kid. He doesn’t have an attitude; he just
wants to come out and work hard. He
does what we tell him to do, and a lit-
tle bit more.”
Bane said he hopes this trip will
open up even more opportunities for
him down the line — after high school,
he wants to compete at the collegiate
level, and is considering the University
of Oregon and Portland State, among
others.
“There’s a lot of scouts down there,”
he said of Down Under Sports. “I want
to compete at Division I. I’ve been told
I can do it.”
Strong roots
Bane isn’t the only one in his family
who has competed at an international
level. His mother, Leslie Rosenberg,
who works at Robert Pratt’s dentist
offi ce in Pendleton, sprinted at the
World Sports Exchange in Barcelona
Come Friday morning, the Hermiston
wrestling team will make history as the fi rst
non-Washington athletes to participate in a
WIAA state event.
The Bulldogs are sending seven guys to
Mat Classic XXXI at the Tacoma Dome.
“It will be pretty cool,” Hermiston ath-
letic director Larry Usher said. “We are
pretty excited about it.”
Competing at state for Hermiston will be
Jon Lee (220 pounds), Sam Cadenas (195),
Hunter Dyer (120), Gage Shipley (126), Jor-
dan Franklin, (132), Trevor Wagner (160)
and Dustyn Coughlin (285).
“We are excited as a coaching staff,”
Hermiston coach Kyle Larson said. “The
guys are excited to get there and be the fi rst
team to step into a WIAA state event. We’ll
go out and wrestle to the best of our ability.”
Mat Classic will be held Friday and Sat-
urday. Action begins at 8:30 a.m. Friday,
and at 9:45 a.m. Saturday. Finals are sched-
uled for 5 p.m. Saturday. Doors will open
to the public one hour prior to competition.
With the 3A Region 4 Tournament,
and other regional tournaments canceled
throughout the state last weekend because
of inclement weather, the WIAA was forced
to go a 32-man bracket.
See Bane, Page B3
See Wrestling, Page B2
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB’s 150th anniversary logo features silhouetted batter
AP Photo/Joe
Holloway Jr./File
NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Base-
ball’s 150th anniversary logo features the
silhouetted batter created for the 1969
celebration of the fi rst professional base-
ball team.
MLB released the design on Tuesday.
Players, managers and coaches will wear a
3½-by-½-inch patch on their right sleeves
of a batter in white prepared to hit a white
ball, with a blue background in front of the
batter and red behind.
“MLB” appears to the left of the logo
and “150” to the right. The patch is more
horizontal than the ones used for the
100th and 125th anniversaries.
The 1969 logo (pictured at left) had a
white border and “100TH ANNIVERSARY”
below in red. The logo became MLB’s
offi cial mark as the commissioner’s offi ce
took a more prominent role in the Amer-
ican League and National League. The
logo was put on the backs of caps start-
ing in 1993 and the back of jersey necks in
2000, according to Uni Watch.
The 1994 logo changed the batter and
ball to gold, had “125th ANNIVERSARY”
below and was surrounded by a gold and
black border. This year’s patch has darker
colors to match the American fl ag.