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B2 SPORTS East Oregonian Watkins to take over as athletic trainer at BMCC Yakima native is finishing her clinical work at Stanford University job, you keep it.” Watkins is finishing her Master of Science in athletic training through the University of Idaho and will graduate from the program in May. Watkins is finishing By ANNIE FOWLER her clinical work at Stan- East Oregonian ford, but she also has com- pleted time at Wenatchee Abigail Watkins has Valley Community Col- spent the past few months lege, Summit High School working in the athletic and the University of training department at Idaho. Stanford University, She also worked for gleaning every last bit of Justin Sports Medicine at information before she the Ellensburg Rodeo. begins her first job. “I thought it was awe- “We have 22 athletic some,” Watkins said. “It trainers on staff,” Watkins is different than any other said of Stanford. setting in sports “It’s kind of like medicine. They its own little city. don’t want to hear It has its own cof- no. You just have fee shop.” to figure it out.” Watkins soon While Watkins will leave Stanford is ready to get her for Pendleton after career started, the Watkins being hired as the staff at BMCC has athletic trainer at already put out the Blue Mountain Commu- welcome mat. nity College. “We are very excited to “When I first started have her join us,” BMCC grad school, I wanted to assistant athletic direc- work minor league base- tor Brad Baker said in a ball, but when I was in news release. “She will be Wenatchee, I fell in love a tremendous asset for our with the community col- student-athletes.” lege atmosphere. It’s an Watkins, a native of exciting time for stu- Yakima, went to Eisen- dent-athletes. It’s much hower High School, where different than Stanford, she graduated in 2014. Watkins attended North- but it’s perfect for me.” Watkins will take over west Nazarene University on July 1 for Ellen Rod- in Nampa, Idaho, where gers, who has been at she played softball and BMCC for about a year. completed her Bachelor Rodgers will stay on for of Arts in kinesiology and a few weeks to help Wat- athletic training. kins with the transition. After graduating from “She was in my pro- NNU in 2017, she went to gram at University of Idaho for grad school. Idaho,” Watkins said of “When I had my inter- Rodgers. “She had talked view, they asked if I had about going to nursing ever been to Pendleton,” school, so I had an inside Watkins said. “I told them scoop on the job. You I had been through there.” Now, she will call don’t find a lot of job post- ings, so when you find a Pendleton home. Friday, April 12, 2019 PREP ROUNDUP Irrigon baseball sweeps Burbank Team moves to 8-2 East Oregonian Zack Henrichs went 3-for-4 with two doubles and two RBIs to help the Knights to a 14-5 road win Thursday over the Coyotes in the first game of their nonleague doubleheader. The Knights won the second game 5-4. The game was halted after four innings because of darkness. Payton Smith and Mathew Moreno also drove in two runs for Irrigon, which also took advantage of six Burbank errors. Moreno started the game for the Knights, and Smith finished, pitching the final 4⅔ innings. The pair com- bined for 11 strikeouts. Brady Harrington, Moreno and Damon Saw- yer also hit doubles for the Knights. In the second game, Har- rington, Lino Covarrubia and Caleb Adams all hit sin- gles and drove in one run. Harrington also pitched all four innings, striking out five and walking two. Irrigon (8-2) will host Riverside on Tuesday. Softball GRANT UNION/ PRAIRIE CITY 10, IRRI- GON 8 — The Knights may have given up four runs in the first inning and trailed 9-1 in the fourth, but they wouldn’t let such a deficit stop them. By the seventh inning, Irrigon had reduced their Grant Union visitors’ lead to just two runs, and beefed up their defense to keep things under control. “We doubled up on them a couple of times, and kept putting the pressure on them,” said coach Jeff Bote- fuhr. “We got the momen- tum going our way. We had some good defensive plays from everyone.” Abigail Prosser caught six fly balls from left field, and pitcher Princesa Chavez struck out three to contain the Prospectors’ offense. The Knights (4-7, 0-1 EOL) resume Eastern Ore- gon League play with a home game against River- side on Tuesday. PILOT ROCK/NIXY- AAWII 14-3, ECHO/ STANFIELD 3-13 — In Echo, the Cougars and the Rockets split a Big Sky League doubleheader on Thursday. Kendra Hart, Courtney Gregerson, and Faith McCa- rty were the only three Cou- gars to score in game one, with Hart and McCarty each posting home runs to get their team on the board. But the Cougars turned the tide in game two, defeat- ing their Pilot Rock visitors by 10 runs. “We had a come unto Jesus meeting in between games,” Cougars coach Jan- ice Scott said. “We let sim- ple plays go by, and we needed to speed up our bats. It was like the first game was played in slow motion.” Hart struck out 11 and hit 2-for-5 with two runs and two RBIs. Amber Weems scored three runs and two RBIs, and Gregerson scored one run with four more driven in. Echo/Stanfield (7-3, 1-3 BSL) host Umatilla on Tues- day for a nonleague contest. Pilot Rock/Nixyaawii (3-8, 1-1 BSL) host Grant Union/ Prairie City next Saturday for more Big Sky League action. Golf The Mac-Hi boys won the Tri-Cities Prep Invite on Thursday, shooting a 371 at Sun Willows Golf Course to beat DeSales by three strokes. Evan Harvill of Colum- bia-Burbank earned medal- ist honors with a 74. Carson Chester led the Pioneers with an 88, which was the fourth-best score of the afternoon. Also scoring for Mac-Hi were Kodi Leidenfrost (91), Eli Springer (95) and Andrew Lewis (97). For the girls, Megan Nor- ton (114) was the lone com- petitor for the Pioneers. Boys tennis HERMISTON 6, PASCO 1 — The Hermis- ton boys swept all three dou- bles matches, and claimed three more singles matches to take down their Pasco hosts on Thursday. “It was a tough day in terms of our weather,” said coach Shann West, “but I’m very pleased with the team’s effort. It was a great team win.” Hayden Cissna lost the No. 1 singles match in a 6-4 tiebreaker set, but Jaiden Ruloph, Austin Garcia, and Carter Tolan all responded with wins to end Hermis- ton’s singles showing on a high note. Matt Eckhardt and Trent Pitney won their dou- bles match in two 7-5 sets, and Maxwell Spencer and Miguel Salvador cruised to victory in a pair of 6-1 sets. Zack Tovey and Angel Valencia finished the day with an intense tiebreaker. The duo dropped their first set 6-3, won the second 6-2, and edged out a 6-4 win in the third set. Boys soccer PASCO 1, HERM- ISTON 0 — Hermiston couldn’t find the net in a demanding road game at Pasco on Thursday night. “It was a tough turn- around after just one day of rest,” said coach Rich Harshberger. “We had a dif- ficult time imposing our- selves on the pitch. Pasco looks to break with speed, and they exploit that well. That gassed our defensive line pretty quick.” The Bulldogs return home to host Richland on Tuesday. Game time is at 7 p.m. Mariners: Vogelbach hits sixth home run of season Continued from Page B1 “Hanny had the at-bat of the game,” Servais said. “You’re down to your last strike, fighting and clawing. He finally got the changeup up in the zone.” Merrifield went 0 for 6. He had not gone hitless since Sept. 9. “Out of my last nine outs, I feel like I’ve made six good swings on good pitches in the zone,” Mer- rifield said. “I either hit it on the barrel at somebody or just missed it and hit it in the air. That’s kind of what makes streaks like these so rare.” The 2002 Cleveland Indians had homered in each of their first 14 games. Seattle’s 36 home runs are tied with the 2000 St. Louis Cardinals for the most in a club’s first 15 games. The Mariners have scored five or more runs in all but one game. Vogelbach hit a 427-foot drive off Glenn Sparkman (0-1) for his sixth home run this season. “I’m not in that situa- tion if Hanny doesn’t have the at-bat to tie the game,” Vogelbach said. “He fouled off a ton of pitches. He made him work, and then got a pitch he could handle.” Brandon Brennan (1-0) struck out three in the ninth, working around his own throwing error on a grounder to get his first big league win. Brennan has not allowed a run in his first 9⅔ innings in the major leagues, holding batters to a .156 average (5 for 32). Connor Sadzeck pitched a perfect 10th for his first professional save. Seattle trailed 6-3 before Edwin Encarnación hit an RBI single off Wily Peralta in the eighth. Pinch-hitter Omar Narváez and Gordon sin- gled off Brad Boxberger with one out in the ninth and Mallex Smith took a called third strike. Han- iger hit a long drive on a full count and Hamilton, who entered at the start of the half-inning for defense, allowed the ball to glance off his glove on the warn- ing track. SCOREBOARD LOCAL SLATE FRIDAY, APRIL 12 Staff photo by Kathy Aney Pendleton pitcher Cooper Roberts winds up for a pitch during a game against Southridge Thursday at Bob White Field. Bucks: ‘We had a few too many miscues that made the difference’ Continued from Page B1 “Southridge is a peren- nial powerhouse in their conference,” Haguewood said. “It was good for us to see this kind of hitting right before we start our league.” Both teams went with- out a run for the ensuing five innings. The drought came to an end when Mor- rison knocked an RBI dou- ble at the top of the sev- enth to give the Suns a 5-0 advantage. Umbarger’s bold offen- sive showing in the sev- enth inning challenged the Suns, but Justin Duso struck out at the following at-bat, and Matt Demian- ew’s fly ball was snagged by Southridge left fielder Trace Hendrickson to halt the Bucks’ comeback. “Gabe is one of our cat- alysts on top of the order,” Haguewood said. “It wasn’t a perfect game, but I’m glad we got it in early on. We’re always looking for things to improve.” Southridge collected 12 hits for the day, led by Grade, who went 4 for 4 at the plate. Pendleton (3-5) tallied just seven hits and made three errors. They’ll make their Intermoun- tain Conference debut with a home doubleheader against Crook County on Saturday. “We had a few too many miscues that made the difference in the game today,” Haguewood said. “We’ll need to be more consistent on the mound on Saturday.” Baseball Burns/Crane at Riverside (DH), 1 p.m. Nyssa at Umatilla (DH), 1 p.m. Mac-Hi at Ontario (DH), 3 p.m. Softball Burns/Crane at Riverside (DH), 1 p.m. Nyssa at Umatilla (DH), 1 p.m. Union/Cove at Heppner/Ione (DH), 2 p.m. Kamiakin at Hermiston (DH), 3 p.m. Tennis Hermiston at Tri-City Invite, noon Stanfield/Echo at Arlington, 1 p.m. Four Rivers at Umatilla, 1 p.m. Ontario at Mac-Hi, 3 p.m. Weston-McEwen at Riverside, 3 p.m. Ione at Helix, 4 p.m. Golf Stanfield/Echo at Hermiston Invite (at Big River Golf), 8:30 a.m. Mac-Hi at La Grande, 1 p.m. Pendleton at La Grande, TBD Track and field Pendleton, Stanfield/Echo, Heppner/ Ione, Pilot Rock/Nixyaawii, Weston-McE- wen at Umatilla, noon SATURDAY, APRIL 13 Baseball Crook County at Pendleton (DH), noon Hermiston at Walla Walla (DH), 2 p.m. Softball Grant Union/Prairie City at Weston-McE- wen (DH), 11 a.m. Pendleton at Crook County (DH), noon Tennis Hermiston at Tri-City Invite, 9 a.m. Track and field Hermiston at Pasco, 9:30 a.m. Mac-Hi, Weston-McEwen at La Grande, 10 a.m. Pendleton at Oregon City, 10 a.m. NBA PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7) Saturday, April 13 Brooklyn at Philadelphia, 11:30 a.m. Orlando at Toronto, 2 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Golden State, 5 p.m. San Antiono at Denver, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 14 Indiana at Boston, 10 a.m. Oklahoma City at Portland, 12:30 p.m. Detroit at Milwaukee, 4 p.m. Utah at Houston, 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 15 Brooklyn at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Golden State, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 16 Orlando at Toronto, 5 p.m. San Antiono at Denver, 6 p.m. Oklahoma City at Portland, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 17 Indiana at Boston, 4 p.m. Detroit at Milwaukee, 5 p.m. Utah at Houston, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18 Philadelphia at Brooklyn, 5 p.m. Denver at San Antiono, 6 p.m. Golden State at L.A. Clippers, 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 19 Toronto at Orlando, 4 p.m. Boston at Indiana, 5:30 p.m. Portland at Oklahoma City, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, April 20 Philadelphia at Brooklyn, 12 p.m. Denver at San Antiono, 2:30 p.m. Milwaukee at Detroit, 5 p.m. Houston at Utah, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 21 Boston at Indiana, 10 a.m. Golden State at L.A. Clippers, 12:30 p.m. Toronto at Orlando, 4 p.m. Portland at Oklahoma City, 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 22 Milwaukee at Detroit, 5 p.m. Houston at Utah, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 23 x-Brooklyn at Philadelphia, TBD x-Orlando at Toronto, TBD x-San Antiono at Denver, TBD x-Oklahoma City at Portland, TBD Wednesday, April 24 x-Indiana at Boston, TBD x-Detroit at Milwaukee, TBD x-L.A. Clippers at Golden State, TBD x-Utah at Houston, TBD Thursday, April 25 x-Toronto at Orlando, TBD x-Philadelphia at Brooklyn, TBD x-Denver at San Antiono, TBD x-Portland at Oklahoma City, TBD Friday, April 26 x-Milwaukee at Detroit, TBD x-Boston at Indiana, TBD x-Golden State at L.A. Clippers, TBD x-Houston at Utah, TBD Saturday, April 27 x-Orlando at Toronto, TBD x-Brooklyn at Philadelphia, TBD x-Oklahoma City at Portland, TBD x-San Antiono at Denver, TBD Sunday, April 28 Detroit at Milwaukee, TBD x-Indiana at Boston, TBD x-L.A. Clippers at Golden State, TBD x-Utah at Houston, TBD NHL PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Wednesday, April 10 Columbus 4, Tampa Bay 3, Columbus leads series 1-0 N.Y. Islanders 4, Pittsburgh 3, OT, N.Y. Islanders leads series 1-0 St. Louis 2, Winnipeg 1, St. Louis leads series 1-0 Dallas 3, Nashville 2, Dallas leads series 1-0 San Jose 5, Vegas 2, San Jose leads series 1-0 Thursday, April 11 Toronto 4, Boston 1, Toronto leads series 1-0 Washington 4, Carolina 2, Washington leads series 1-0 Colorado at Calgary, 7 p.m. Friday, April 12 Columbus at Tampa Bay, 4 p.m. Pittsburgh at N.Y. Islanders, 4:30 p.m. St. Louis at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m. Vegas at San Jose, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 13 Carolina at Washington, 12 p.m. Dallas at Nashville, 3 p.m. Toronto at Boston, 5 p.m. Colorado at Calgary, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 14 N.Y. Islanders at Pittsburgh, Noon Tampa Bay at Columbus, 4 p.m. Winnipeg at St. Louis, 4:30 p.m. San Jose at Vegas, 7 p.m. Monday, April 15 Boston at Toronto, 4 p.m. Washington at Carolina, 4 p.m. Nashville at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Calgary at Colorado, 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 16 Tampa Bay at Columbus, 4 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Pittsburgh, 4:30 p.m. Winnipeg at St. Louis, 6:30 p.m. San Jose at Vegas, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 17 Boston at Toronto, 4 p.m. Nashville at Dallas, 5 p.m. Calgary at Colorado, 7 p.m. Thursday, April 18 Washington at Carolina, 4 p.m. x-Pittsburgh at N.Y. Islanders, TBA x-St. Louis at Winnipeg, TBA x-Vegas at San Jose, TBA Friday, April 19 x-Columbus at Tampa Bay, TBA x-Toronto at Boston, TBA x-Colorado at Calgary, TBA Saturday, April 20 x-Carolina at Washington, TBA x-N.Y. Islanders at Pittsburgh, TBA x-Dallas at Nashville, TBA x-Winnipeg at St. Louis, TBA Sunday, April 21 x-Tampa Bay at Columbus, TBA x-Boston at Toronto, TBA x-Calgary at Colorado, TBA x-San Jose at Vegas, TBA Monday, April 22 x-Washington at Carolina, TBA x-Pittsburgh at N.Y. Islanders, TBA x-Nashville at Dallas, TBA x-St. Louis at Winnipeg, TBA Tuesday, April 23 x-Columbus at Tampa Bay, TBA x-Toronto at Boston, TBA x-Colorado at Calgary, TBA x-Vegas at San Jose, TBA Wednesday, April 24 x-Carolina at Washington, TBA x-Dallas at Nashville, TBA Detroit at Minnesota, ppd. L.A. Angels (Skaggs 1-1) at Chicago Cubs (Hamels 1-0), 11:20 a.m. Chicago White Sox (Giolito 1-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Happ 0-1), 4:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (Stanek 0-0) at Toronto (Thornton 0-0), 4:07 p.m. Baltimore (Hess 1-1) at Boston (Rodri- guez 0-2), 4:10 p.m. Oakland (Fiers 2-1) at Texas (Smyly 0-1), 5:05 p.m. Cleveland (Carrasco 1-1) at Kansas City (Keller 1-1), 5:15 p.m. Houston (Miley 1-1) at Seattle (LeBlanc 2-0), 7:10 p.m. Saturday’s Games Baltimore at Boston, 10:05 a.m. Chicago White Sox at N.Y. Yankees, 10:05 a.m. Detroit at Minnesota, 11:10 a.m. L.A. Angels at Chicago Cubs, 11:20 a.m. Tampa Bay at Toronto, 12:07 p.m. Cleveland at Kansas City, 4:15 p.m. Oakland at Texas, 5:05 p.m. Houston at Seattle, 6:10 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE MLB AMERICAN LEAGUE East W L Pct Tampa Bay 10 3 .769 New York 5 7 .417 Baltimore 5 8 .385 Boston 4 9 .308 Toronto 4 9 .308 Central W L Pct Cleveland 8 4 .667 Detroit 8 5 .615 Minnesota 6 4 .600 Chicago 3 8 .273 Kansas City 2 10 .167 West W L Pct Seattle 13 2 .867 Houston 8 5 .615 Los Angeles 7 6 .538 Oakland 9 8 .529 Texas 6 6 .500 ——— Thursday’s Games Oakland 8, Baltimore 5 Cleveland 4, Detroit 0 Seattle 7, Kansas City 6, 10 innings Boston 7, Toronto 6 Friday’s Games GB — 4½ 5 6 6 GB — ½ 1 4½ 6 GB — 4 5 5 5½ East W L Pct GB New York 8 4 .667 — Philadelphia 7 4 .636 ½ Atlanta 7 5 .583 1 Washington 6 5 .545 1½ Miami 3 10 .231 5½ Central W L Pct GB Milwaukee 8 5 .615 — St. Louis 8 5 .615 — Pittsburgh 6 4 .600 ½ Cincinnati 4 8 .333 3½ Chicago 3 8 .273 4 West W L Pct GB San Diego 8 5 .615 — Los Angeles 8 6 .571 ½ Arizona 6 6 .500 1½ San Francisco 4 9 .308 4 Colorado 3 9 .250 4½ ——— Thursday’s Games Cincinnati 5, Miami 0 St. Louis 11, L.A. Dodgers 7 N.Y. Mets 6, Atlanta 3 Chicago Cubs 2, Pittsburgh 0 Friday’s Games L.A. Angels (Skaggs 1-1) at Chicago Cubs (Hamels 1-0), 11:20 a.m. Pittsburgh (Williams 1-0) at Washington (Corbin 0-0), 4:05 p.m. Philadelphia (Arrieta 1-1) at Miami (Alca- ntara 1-0), 4:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Wheeler 0-1) at Atlanta (New- comb 0-0), 4:20 p.m. San Diego (Paddack 0-0) at Arizona (Weaver 0-0), 6:40 p.m. Milwaukee (Burnes 0-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Urias 0-0), 7:10 p.m. Colorado (Bettis 0-2) at San Francisco (Pomeranz 0-1), 7:15 p.m. Saturday’s Games L.A. Angels at Chicago Cubs, 11:20 a.m. Colorado at San Francisco, 1:05 p.m. Pittsburgh at Washington, 1:05 p.m. Philadelphia at Miami, 3:10 p.m. St. Louis vs. Cincinnati at Monterrey, 4:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 4:20 p.m. San Diego at Arizona, 5:10 p.m. Milwaukee at L.A. Dodgers, 6:10 p.m.
