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E AST O REGONIAN Friday, June 14, 2019 FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS | FACEBOOK.COM/EOSPORTS B1 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