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STANLEY CUP FINALS: GAME 2
Blues win in OT to tie series
series heads to
st. Louis for
Games 3 and 4
Dawgs’ Leal
headed to
WWCC to
play soccer
all-Conference
midfielder led
hermiston with 6 goals
By JIMMY GOLEN
Associated Press
BOSTON — Blues defense-
man Carl Gunnarsson bumped
into coach Craig Berube in the
bathroom before the start of over-
time and told him: “I just need
one more.”
“he hit the post in the third
there, and he just felt good about
himself, obviously. Which he
should have,” Berube said. “I
liked hearing it.”
after clanging the potential
winner off the post in the final
two-minutes of regulation, Gun-
narsson scored on a delayed pen-
alty 3:51 into overtime to give St.
Louis a 3-2 victory over the Bos-
ton Bruins and tie the stanley
Cup Final at a game apiece.
Jordan Binnington made 21
saves for the Blues, who won
a game in the Cup final for the
first time in 14 tries. Robert Bor-
tuzzo and Vladimir Tarasenko
also scored to help st. Louis win
the first overtime in a NHL final
since 2016.
Charlie Coyle and Joakim
Nordstrom scored and Tuukka
rask made 33 saves for Bos-
ton, which won 4-2 in Game 1
on Monday night for their eighth
straight postseason victory.
Game 3 is saturday night in st.
Louis.
Gunnarsson also assisted on
Bortuzzo’s first-period goal, and
then hit the post behind rask with
about 2 minutes left in regula-
tion. In the final minute, Boston’s
david Pastrnak had a chance off
a faceoff, but Binnington turned
it away.
“Would have loved to have it
in the third, but who cares?” Gun-
narsson said on the ice moments
after the victory. “It’s great, tak-
ing this home.”
After a furious first period
that ended in a 2-all tie, the teams
went on defense in the second.
despite four penalties, including
a high-sticking, blood-drawing
double-minor against Boston’s
Connor Clifton, neither team was
able to score.
It stayed tied through a
hard-hitting third period, with
both teams failing to convert
good scoring chances and avoid
overtime.
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By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
AP Photo/Bruce Bennett
St. Louis Blues’ Carl Gunnarsson (4), of Sweden, is congratulated by Pat Maroon, rear, after he scored the
winning goal against the Boston Bruins during the first overtime period in Game 2 of the NHL hockey Stanley
Cup Final on Wednesday in Boston.
AP Photo/Michael Dwyer
St. Louis Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington (50) smothers the puck in
front of Boston Bruins’ Danton Heinen (43) during the second period in
Game 2 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Final.
But after the break, it was all
Blues.
Boston did not get off a shot
in the overtime, and the Eastern
Conference champs struggled to
clear it out of their own zone.
alexander steen drew a hook-
ing penalty in front of the net, and
the Blues pulled Binnington for
an extra skater.
Gunnarsson worked it around
to the blue line, passed it to Oskar
sundqvist and then got it back for
a rifle shot over Rask’s stick side
into the corner of the net.
Gunnarsson also fed Bortuzzo
midway through the first period
for a shot that deflected off Matt
Grzelcyk’s stick past Rask to
make it 1-1.
Nordstrom scored just 40 sec-
onds later to give Boston a 2-1
lead, but that lasted less than five
minutes before Tarasenko took
advantage of a mistake by Brad
Marchand and lifted the puck
over rask with a second effort to
tie the score again at 2.
Grzelcyk left with about two
minutes left in the first period
after taking an elbow to the
head from sundqvist. he left the
arena for a hospital; Bruins coach
Bruce Cassidy said he had no
other update.
The Bruins did not score on
the ensuing power play.
Notes: New England Patriots
coach Bill Belichick was the pre-
game banner waver. ... The Bru-
ins scored a power-play goal for
the sixth straight game, the sec-
ond-longest postseason streak in
franchise history. They have had
seven-game streaks three times,
most recently in 1999. The 19
power play goals is also the No. 2
in Bruins playoff history, second
to the 24 in 1991. ... The Blues
were without forward robert
Thomas, who hasn’t played since
a hit from Torey Krug in Game 1.
Defenseman Vince Dunn missed
his fifth consecutive game. ...
Cassidy pulled rask for an offen-
sive zone faceoff with 1.2 seconds
left in the second period. Neither
team managed a shot.
Up next
The best-of-seven series moves
to st. Louis for Games 3 and 4.
The Blues hold the home-
ice advantage and can win their
first NHL title without needing
another victory in Boston.
The hardest worker on the field.
a versatile player.
hermiston soccer coach rich
harshberger was quick to point
out Emilio Leal’s best qualities
after the talented midfielder signed
his letter of intent on Wednesday
to play for Walla Walla Commu-
nity College.
“It’s a double bonus of talent and
hard work,” herberger said. “he’s
willing to put in the hard work in
the offseason, which helps.”
Leal, 18, follows in the foot-
steps of former hermiston players,
like Freddy Rodriguez and Anto-
nio Campos, in suiting up for the
Warriors.
“Freddy said I should go there,”
Leal said. “he said it’s a really
good program and I can work on
my soccer IQ.”
harshberger said at last count
he will have two players at WWCC
and five at Blue Mountain when
the college soccer season rolls
around this fall.
“That is part of our family plans,
to go watch as many of our players
play,” he said. “When Walla Walla
and Blue Mountain play, we can
see six or so all at once.”
Leal, a Mid-Columbia Confer-
ence first-team selection, led the
Bulldogs with six goals and seven
assists this season.
When hermiston joined the
MCC, the soccer players had to
wait 18 months between seasons,
but in the end, Leal said it played
in his favor.
“august 1, it’s back to the
grind,” he said. “There isn’t much
of a break.”
another bonus of joining the
MCC, according to Leal, is the
level of competition, which will
translate to the college game.
“It’s a lot more aggressive and
there is more speed,” Leal said.
“There was not a slow game. It
was fast-paced every game. The
goalkeepers are at a higher level in
Washington. We didn’t know what
we were getting into. I just had to
See Leal, Page B2
Rangers take advantage of M’s miscues, rally to win
team’s most reliable reliever, roe-
nis Elias, earned blown saves.
anthony Bass (0-1) took the loss.
“We felt really good about our
shot there,” servais said. “We had
a two-run lead with six outs to go.
We should’ve locked that down.”
Texas’ Jesse Chavez (1-1)
earned the win with two innings
of scoreless relief one day after
serving as an opener. he helped
propel the rangers to two rare
road wins, pushing their total to
10 this season. They’ve now won
7 of 8 against the Mariners after
losing two straight to start the
season.
“We feel like we should win,”
rangers manager Chris Wood-
ward said. “We just keep fighting.
That’s a great thing, that your ball-
club resembles that kind of fight,
no quit, day game after a night
game. It’s easy with two outs,
nobody on right there, to just kind
of pack it in, but these guys don’t.
They’re prepared, they’re ready.”
By CHRIS TALBOTT
Associated Press
sEaTTLE — The Texas rang-
ers had a reliable scouting report
on the division-rival Mariners.
“I think that their bullpen has a
lot of talent, but they’re having a
little bit of trouble putting match-
ups together,” shortstop Elvis
andrus said.
When seattle took the ball
away from starter Wade LeBlanc
on Wednesday, the rangers knew
things could soon get interesting
— and they were right.
Texas rallied twice late during
an 8-7 win that featured four lead
changes, two blown saves and yet
another brutal day defensively
for the Mariners, who committed
three errors and a wild pitch in one
inning.
LeBlanc handed over a 4-3 lead
after five innings with the help of
Tim Beckham’s two-run home run
in the fourth.
his replacement, Jesse Biddle,
struck out the first batter he faced,
but then flubbed Nomar Mazara’s
comebacker for one error and
threw the ball away for another,
allowing Mazara to reach second.
Mazara got to third on a wild pitch
while Biddle walked Cabrera, set-
ting up rougned Odor’s rBI sin-
gle and Ronald Guzmán’s sacrifice
fly for a 5-4 Rangers lead.
austin adams relieved Biddle,
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
Seattle Mariners’ Kyle Seager grounds into a double play in the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Tex-
as Rangers on Wednesday in Seattle.
threw wildly to first on a pickoff
attempt but evaded further dam-
age by striking out Jeff Mathis.
The trio of errors brought the
Mariners’ season total to 63. No
other team in the major leagues
has reached 50.
yet the Mariners still had a
chance to win, even after shin-
soo Choo’s pinch-hit, two-run sin-
gle tied it at 7 in the eighth inning.
Instead, with two outs in the
ninth, left fielder Domingo San-
tana got turned around on Mazara’s
third hit, letting it bounce off the
wall for a double. Cabrera fol-
lowed that with another two-base
hit to push the winning run across.
The Mariners wasted a home
run by Mitch haniger that put
them up 7-5 and sent four reliev-
ers to the mound. They gave up
seven hits and both walks the Mar-
iners issued, while Biddle and the
Up next
Rangers: LhP Mike Minor
(5-3, 2.55 ERA), 3-1 in his last four
starts, opens a homestand against
Kansas City.
Mariners: LhP yusei Kiku-
chi (3-2, 3.82 Era) makes the
home start in a much anticipated
matchup against the Los angeles
angels and his fellow Japanese
countryman shohei Ohtani.