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SOFTBALL
TRACK
Hermiston
takes two in
a battle of
the Bulldogs
Bulldogs keep pasco
softball winless in
MCC action
By BRETT KANE
East Oregonian
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Pendleton’s Lane Maher competes in the 110-meter hurdles during the Kiwanis Twilight Invitational track meet in Hermiston. Maher came in
second with a time of 14.74 seconds and won the 300-meter hurdles in 39.58 seconds.
Pendleton’s Maher has
record day at Kiwanis Invite
palzinski, romero and mile
relay team pick up wins for
Hermiston girls
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
after the sun welcomed athletes and fans
to the Kiwanis twilight invitational on Fri-
day, the rain began to fall on the meet at
Kennison Field for the first time in recent
memory.
Event sheets were soggy, as were the ath-
letes, but the rain did not put a damper on
the event.
Kamiakin ran away with the boys title
with 233 points, while Hanford and Kami-
akin fought to the bitter end for the girls
team title.
the Braves, who had a 1.5-point lead
over the Falcons heading into the 4x400
relay, came away with the title (160.5 points)
because Hanford (156) did not field a mile
relay team. Hermiston finished third.
Jaxson Nichols of Kamiakin, who won
the high jump and long jump, and was sec-
ond in the triple jump, was the boys high-
point athlete of the meet.
For the girls, the honor was shared by
KIWANIS TWILIGHT
INVITATIONAL
Boys team scores — Kamiakin 233,
La Grande 86, Chiawana 84, Pend-
leton 58, Hanford 52, The Dalles
50, Moses Lake 42, Hermiston 34.5,
Baker 32, Dufur 22.5, Nyssa 14, Pow-
der Valley 11, Stanfield-Echo 10,
Mac-Hi 1.
{p style=”text-align: center;”}Top 3
each event
3000 steeplechase — 1, Payton Hill
(Kam), 10:11.88. 2, Sam Alvarez (TD),
10:17.53. 3, Andrew Holladay (Kam),
10:34.37. 110H — 1, Parker Morgan
(Kam), 14.72. 2, Lane Maher (Pend),
14.74. 3, Ethan Berkey (Kam), 15.09.
100 — 1, Derek Fischer (Kam), 11.24.
2, Cam Sanford (Pend), 11.35. 3, Syl
Hunt (Kam), 11.37. 1600 — 1, Isaac
Teeples (Kam), 4:32.65. 2, Kale Cas-
sidy (Baker), 4:33.11. 3, Cameron
Gutierrez (Kam), 4:36.88. 4x100 relay
— 1, Kamiakin (Syl Hunt, Neal Ber-
key, Parker Morgan, Derek Fischer),
43.13. 2, La Grande, 43.78. 3, Dufur,
44.58. 400 — 1, Cameron Gutier-
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Nicholas Breshears of Hermiston gets wet
during the 3,000-meter steeplechase event
during Friday’s Kiwanis Twilight Invitational.
Hanford teammates amanda Fraga and
Katelynn Gelatin.
The Pendleton boys finished fourth in the
rez (Kam), 50.07. 2, Bennie Alfer-
ness (Chi), 51.60. 3, Sajun White (LG),
51.64. 300H — 1, Lane Maher (Pend),
39.58. 2, Parker Morgan (Kam),
40.44. 3, Ethan Berkey (Kam). 800
— 1, Austin Bachman (Chi), 1:59.67.
2, Isaac Teeples (Kam), 1:59.98. 3,
Freddy Mendoza (Herm), 2:02.23.
200 — 1, Cajun White (LG), 23.16. 2,
Derek Fischer (Kam), 23.23. 3, Reed
Twidwell (TD), 23.40. 3200 — 1, Fax
Weide (Kam), 9:48.62. 2, Grayson
Wilcott (Kam), 9:52.61. 3, Bennett
Welch (LG), 9:57.71. 4x200 relay —
1, Kamiakin (Syl Hunt, Tyler Gour-
ley, Ethan Berkey, Derek Fischer),
1:35.90. 2, Moses Lake, 1:39.73. 3,
La Grande, 1:39.82. 4x400 relay
— 1, Kamiakin (Woodley Down-
ward, Parker Morgan, Neal Ber-
key, Cameron Gutierrez), 3:30.31.
2, La Grande, 3:36.41. 3, The Dalles,
3:38.40. PV — 1, Neal Berkey (Kam),
14-0. 2, Brayden Freitag (Kam), 14-0.
3, Cameron Breier (Chi), 12-6. LJ —
1, Jaxson Nichols (Kam), 21-4 1/2. 2,
Nickolas Tsiatsos (LG), 21-4 1/2. 3,
Dion Lee (Chi), 21-2 1/4. Discus —
1, Ryan McCartney (Kam), 138-0. 2,
Konner Oberman (Han), 136-7 1/4. 3,
Chase Bradshaw (Herm), 123-8 1/4.
Shot put — 1, Hunter Williams (Chi),
45-6. 2, Carson Evans (ML), 44-1 1/2.
3, Trenton Pearson (Chi), 43-5. Jave-
lin — 1, Devan Craig (S-E), 157-8. 2,
Moses Garza (ML), 157-2 3/4. 3, Sam
Jennings (Pend), 150-9 1/4. HJ — 1,
Jaxson Nichols (Kam), 6-5. 2, Wood-
ley Downard (Kam), 6-0. 3, Justin
Conklin (TD), 6-0. TJ — 1, Dion Lee
(Chi), 45-7 1/2. 2, Jaxson Nichols
(Kam), 42-7. 3, Zaanan Bane (Pend),
41-0.
Girls team scores — Kamiakin
160.5, Hanford 156, Hermiston 107,
The Dalles 51.5, Chiawana 46.5,
Moses Lake 46, Nysa 44, Baker 42,
Pendleton 30.5, La Grande 27, Dufur
11, Stanfield-Echo 5, Mac-Hi 1.
{p style=”text-align: center;”}Top 3
each event
2000 steeplechase — 1, Alexa Neff
(Chi), 7:57.42. 2, Megan Wright
(Han), 8:00.10. 3, Carlie Gregg (ML),
8:03.79. 100H — 1, Kari Heath
(ML), 16.41. 2, Madisyn Hartley
team standings behind a stellar day from
junior lane Maher, who won the 300 hur-
dles (39.58), and was second in the 110 hur-
dles (14.74) behind parker Morgan of Kami-
akin (14.72). Both times were personal bests
for Maher.
Maher was seeded sixth entering the 110
hurdle race.
“i knew they had faster times than me
coming in, and getting higher than that
(sixth) is joyful,” Maher said. “it feels good
to compete against faster people.”
Morgan said he didn’t know anything
about Maher coming into the race.
“i was more worried about Beau (Frank-
lin of Hanford),” Morgan said. “My goal was
to break 15 (seconds), and meets like this
push me.”
in the 300 hurdles, Maher pulled away
from Morgan just before the last hurdle.
“i was trying to go as fast as i could,”
Maher said. “He was right next to me, then
i pulled away at the end. this and the Wil-
lamette meet are the best i’ve been to this
year. Maybe i should join Washington
conference.”
pendleton coach larry Brizendine said
Maher’s times rank in the top four in each
(Nys), 16.75. 3, Grace Meek (Kam),
16.83. 100 — 1, Katherine Petsch
(Kam), 12.68. 2, Camryn Dezem-
ber (Han), 13.17. 3, Britney Don-
nas (Kam), 13.26. 1600 — 1, Marisa
Memmott (Kam), 5:30.97. 2, Emma
Baeth (Baker), 5:37.12. 3, Jacki Mar-
tini (LG), 5:37.71. 4x100 relay —
1, Kamiakin (Kaili Knapp, Britney
Donais, Katherine Petsch, Rachel
Harper), 49.40. 2, Hanford, 50.34. 3,
Hermiston, 51.77. 400 — 1, Amanda
Fraga (Han), 1:00.15. 2, Jayden
Ray (Herm), 1:03.37. 3, Elizabeth
Tapia (TD), 1:03.64. 300H — 1, Brit-
ney Donais (Kam), 47.06. 2, Elisa-
beth House (Pend), 50.00. 3, Megan
Wright (Han), 50.54. 800 — 1, Han-
nah Paulsen (Kam), 2:26.01. 2, Emma
Mullins (TD), 2:28.27. 3, Emma Baeth
(Baker), 2:28.29. 200 — 1, Kather-
ine Petsch (Kam), 25.90. 2, Camryn
Dezember (Han), 26.55. 3, Amanda
Fraga (Han), 26.84. 3200 — 1, McK-
inzi Teeples (Kam), 11:46.27. 2, Carli
Jones (Kam), 12:18.40. 3, Emily John-
son (TD), 12:36.73. 4x200 relay —
1, Kamiakin (Rachel Harper, Brit-
all it took was seven innings
for Hermiston’s softball team
to add two more Mid-Colum-
bia Conference wins to their
record.
On Friday, the Bulldogs
enacted the Wiaa’s 15-run rule
twice in a row, ending game one
against the visiting pasco Bull-
dogs 18-2 in four innings, and
game two with a 15-0 shutout in
three.
the wins follow tues-
day’s doubleheader losses at
Kennewick.
“it’s exciting,” coach Kate
Greenough said of her team’s
back-to-back blowouts. “after
tuesday, it was nice to score
some runs and hold down our
defense.”
Pasco opened the first
game with an early 1-0 lead,
but Hermiston was quick to
respond, posting four runs at
the bottom of the first to stay
out front for good.
Bailee Noland, who would
not be denied at the plate, hit
a two-RBI single in the first
inning, and followed that with
a grand slam at her next at-bat.
She hit a perfect 3 for 3 with
three runs and seven rBis
scored.
Hermiston also took advan-
tage of pasco’s defensive weak-
nesses, stealing 18 bases in the
first game alone. And Pasco
pitcher Brizeida Quiroz, who
gave up 18 runs on 11 hits and
nine walks, couldn’t manage a
strikeout.
“that really helped us,”
Noland said of pasco’s pitch-
ing. “Our team is used to see-
ing higher-speed pitching, and
a lot of change-ups. We jumped
on their straight-up fastballs
today.”
Noland hit an rBi-double in
the bottom of the third to aid in
a five-run streak. Ashley Cam-
eron hit one of her own in the
fourth to wrap the game up. the
double solidified her perfect
batting performance, where she
hit 2 for 2 with three runs and
three rBis.
the dawgs sent 12 batters to
the plate in the second inning
of game two, resulting in eight
runs, half of which came before
pasco put an out on the board.
See Track, Page B2
ney Donais, KaiLi Knapp, Katherine
Petsch), 1:47.25. 2, Hanford, 156.97. 3,
Moses Lake, 1:57.62. 4x400 relay —
1, Hermiston (Jayden Ray, Amanda
Nygard, Sydney Seavert, Abi-
gail Sharon), 4:19.29. 2, The Dalles,
4:20.61. 3, La Grande, 4:25.09. HJ
— 1, Kierstin White (Dufur), 4-11. 2,
Britain Hartley (Nys), 4-10. 3, Sianna
Iverson (Chi), 4-10. LJ — 1, Madisyn
Hartley (Nys), 17-2 1/4. 2, MaKaylee
Young (Herm), 16-4. 3, Amanda
Fraga (Han), 15-6 3/4. Shot put — 1,
Paige Palzinski (Herm), 38-0. 2, Kate-
lynn Gelatin (Han), 35-9 1/2. 3, Juan-
ita McBride (Han), 34-5. Discus — 1,
Katelynn Gelatin (Han), 118-5 1/4.
2, Lacy Johnson (ML), 108-5 1/2. 3,
Suzanne Gelatin (Han), 108-0. PV —
1, Abigail Winstead (Kam), 11-0. 2,
Rachel Harper (Kam), 10-6. 3, Grai-
son Oberman (Han), 9-6. TJ — 1,
Brooke Thorne (Chi), 32-7. 2, Lindsey
Marske (Han), 31-9. 3, Lacey Moser
(ML), 31-7 1/4. Javelin — 1, Jazlyn
Romero (Herm), 136-7 1/2. 2, Saman-
tha Moore (Nys), 120-0 1/2. 3, Salee
Westermeyer (Kam), 117-9 1/2.
See Softball, Page B2
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Hermiston’s Bailee Noland
winds up for a pitch during
Friday’s game against Pasco
at Rocky Heights Elementary
School field.