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Dawgs hire Maloree Moss as new girls basketball coach
Moss will take over for
Juan rodriguez, who
helmed Hermiston for
three seasons
By BRETT KANE
East Oregonian
HERMISTON — This sea-
son, the Hermiston High School
girls basketball team will wel-
Moss
Rodriguez
come a new leader.
Maloree Moss, 25, will take
the place of former head coach
Juan rodriguez, athletic and
activities director Larry usher
announced Thursday.
“i’m extremely honored,”
Moss said. “it’s something I’ve
always dreamed of. i grew up
with the program. as a kid, i
watched the Hermiston girls
play, then i played on the team,
and now i get to coach that pro-
gram. it’s an awesome feeling
that i never thought i’d get to
experience.”
Moss, a 2012 Hermiston
High graduate, earned a degree
in accounting at eastern Ore-
gon university. instead of pur-
suing that career path, however,
she became a business educa-
tion teacher at Hermiston High
School.
“i decided i wanted to teach
and coach,” Moss said. “It was a
spur of the moment thing.”
Moss is no stranger to coach-
ing basketball. She’s been the
assistant varsity basketball coach
for the past three seasons, the
JV volleyball coach in 2017, and
the freshman volleyball coach in
2016.
Not only did Moss put in work
on the Bulldogs varsity team
during her high school career,
but she also played as a guard all
four years at eOu.
“i learned so much about bas-
ketball there,” Moss said of her
See Dawgs, Page B2
Dust Devils
open season
with a mix
of youth and
experience
Manager Mike McCoy
returns for his second
season with Tri-City
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
Raptors capture first NBA title, beat Warriors in Game 6
AP Photo/Frank Gunn
Toronto Raptors forward Kawhi Leonard (2) and guard Kyle Lowry, back, celebrate after the Raptors defeated the Golden State
Warriors 114-110 in Game 6 of basketball’s NBA Finals, on Thursday in Oakland, Calif.
By JANIE MCCAULEY
Associated Press
O
aKLand, Calif. (aP) — Kawhi
Leonard raised his arms high in tri-
umph and celebrated Canada’s first
nBa championship.
“We the north!” is now “We the Champs!”
Leonard and the Toronto raptors cap-
tured the country’s first major title in 26 years
with their most remarkable road win yet in
the franchise’s nBa Finals debut, outlasting
the battered and depleted two-time defending
champion Golden State Warriors 114-110 on
Thursday night in a Game 6 for the ages.
Stephen Curry missed a contested 3-pointer
in the waning moments before Golden State
called a timeout it didn’t have, giving Leon-
See Champions, Page B2
PaSCO — dan dallas is
returning for his second season
with the Tri-City dust devils.
The
6-foot-2,
left-handed
reliever from Buffalo, n.y., is one
of nine returning players for the
team, but he is one manager Mike
McCoy did not want to see on his
roster.
“i don’t want him back here,”
McCoy said. “I want him to keep
moving up because he had such
a great season last year. We are
excited about him, and Omar
Cruz, who is a talented lefty.”
Tri-City fans will get a look at
dallas, Cruz and more when the
dust devils open their northwest
League season tonight at Gesa
Stadium in the first of three games
against the everett aquaSox.
“We have a lot of new guys,”
McCoy said. “I just want to see
them develop and grow as players
and learn to be professionals. See
how they deal with the ups and
down with a full season.”
dallas, a seventh-round pick
of the San diego Padres right of
high school in 2016, started the
spring with the Fort Wayne (ind.)
TinCaps of the Midwest League,
then spent two weeks at extended
spring training in arizona before
heading to Pasco.
While with Fort Wayne, dal-
las appeared in 10 games, pitching
15⅔ innings with a 5.74 ERA.
“i started the year at a higher
level, and you always want to keep
moving up,” said dallas, who was
a nWL all-Star last summer. “But
i love playing here. Great fans and
a great coaching staff. you never
want to go down or repeat, but i’m
excited to be back. it should be a
good year.”
Most of the Tri-City players
arrived Monday, and more will
continue to trickle in as the parent
organization assigns recent draft
picks.
“We have good team chemistry
here, so far,” dallas said. “We have
a bunch of guys who are close-
knit, and the player-coach rela-
tionships are good. as far as team
See Dust Devils, Page B2
SPORTS SHORTS
Angels’ Ohtani first Japanese player to hit for cycle
ST. PeTerSBurG, Fla. (aP) — Shohei
Ohtani became the first Japanese-born player to
hit for the cycle, helping the Los angeles angels
beat the Tampa Bay rays 5-3 Thursday night
after a delay caused by a power outage.
Ohtani hit a three-run homer in the first inning
and completed the feat with a single in the sev-
enth. He is the eighth angels player to hit for the
cycle and the first since Mike Trout on May 21,
2013.
Albert Pujols also homered for the Angels,
becoming the sixth player ever with 200 home
runs in each league. He hit 445 in 11 seasons
with St. Louis and has 200 in eight years with the
angels, including 12 this season.
Ohtani’s homer came on ryan yarbrough’s
10th pitch of the game after a double by Tommy
La Stella and a walk to Trout. it was Ohtani’s
eighth homer of the season and sixth in 11 games.
He led off the third with a double and tripled in
the fifth before Pujols’ home run. A two-out sin-
gle in the seventh completed the cycle in just four
plate appearances, and fans at Tropicana Field
gave him a standing ovation.
The game was held up 36 minutes by a power
delay in the fourth with the angels leading 3-0.
Los Angeles Angels’ Shohei
Ohtani, of Japan, watches his
triple off Tampa Bay Rays’ Ryan
Yarbrough during the fifth
inning of a baseball game on
Thursday in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Catching for the Rays is Mike
Zunino.
AP Photo/Chris O’Meara