E AST O REGONIAN WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2019 FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS | FACEBOOK.COM/EOSPORTS B1 Hermiston’s Hiatt records perfect score at state Bulldogs will send a team of 6 to nationals in Michigan By ANNIE FOWLER East Oregonian HILLSBORO — In an event that featured 474 participants, recent Hermiston High grad Case Hiatt was the only one to walk away with a perfect score. Hiatt hit 100 of a possible 100 targets June 22 at the Oregon State High School Trap Shooting Championships. “He had a good day,” Hermis- ton coach Slade Smith said. “We have a really good group of kids.” It’s the second time Hiatt has earned the individual high gun honors. He captured the title his freshman year, also with a perfect score. As a team, Hermiston fi nished second at state to Madras by one target. The Bulldogs had won the past three state team titles. “They had 468 out of 500, and we had 467,” Smith said. “We have pretty high standards for our program.” It’s just the fourth year of the state championships for the event. The fi rst year, there were just three teams, with Hermiston being one of them. This year, there 35 teams. “In 2016, we had 11 kids in our program,” Smith said. “This year we had 51. It is the fastest grow- ing sport.” The shooters compete in six U.S. REACHES TITLE GAME events during the season, all at their own club. The scores are entered into a computer program and are organized at the state and national level. Going into state, Hermiston was ranked No. 1 in the state, with Haylee Hamilton the top-ranked girls shooter. The incoming senior See Trap, Page B2 17U BASEBALL Hodgen Distributing can’t survive Cubs doubleheader By BRETT KANE East Oregonian AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino United States’ Alex Morgan celebrates after scoring a goal during the Women’s World Cup semifi nal match Tuesday against England at the Stade de Lyon, outside Lyon, France. The U.S. beat England 2-1. Morgan scores and Naeher saves in 2-1 victory over England By ANNE M. PETERSON Associated Press YON, France — With Alex Morgan’s cheeky tea-sipping celebration and a postgame mob- bing of goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher, the United States has moved a step closer to suc- cessfully defending its latest Women’s World Cup title. Morgan scored the go-ahead goal and Naeher preserved the 2-1 semifi - nal victory over England by smothering a late penalty kick Tuesday night. The top-ranked United States will now face the win- ner of Wednesday’s semifi - nal between the Netherlands and Sweden in the Ameri- cans’ third straight appear- ance in the World Cup title match. Christen Press — who started with Megan Rapinoe out with a hamstring injury SEMIFINALS L United States England 2 1 Championship game: Sunday, 8 a.m., at Parc Olympique Lyonnais, Lyon France TV: FOX — put the United States up early but Ellen White’s goal tied it before 20 minutes had passed. Morgan’s sixth goal of the tournament came before the break, and on her 30th birthday. She hadn’t had a goal since she scored fi ve in the team’s 13-0 rout of Thai- land to open the tournament. After her goal, Morgan pantomimed a sip of tea on the fi eld. AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino United States’ Alex Morgan scores her side’s second goal, during the Women’s World Cup semifi nal against England at the Stade de Lyon, outside Lyon, France, Tuesday. The U.S. won 2-1 and will play in the championship match Sunday. “I feel like this team just has had so much thrown at us, and I felt that we didn’t take the easy route to the fi nal this tournament, and that’s the tea,” she said. White’s goal was also her sixth but Morgan has the edge for the tournament’s Golden Boot with three assists. White appeared to score her seventh in the 69th EAGLE — One run meant defeat twice for Pendleton’s Hodgen Distribut- ing summer baseball team during their doubleheader against the Idaho Cubs at Eagle High School on Tuesday. The 17U Pendleton team fell behind after a 1-1 tie as the Cubs escaped with the opener 2-1, and despite fi ghting back from an early seven-run defi cit, they couldn’t stop Idaho from claiming the closer, 10-9. The last time the two teams met, it was Pendleton that made off with the sweep. However, a repeat was kept just out of reach. “They had some older kids playing with them this time around,” Pendleton head coach Wes Armstrong said. “(Idaho) is always a good ball program. They’re a solid team.” Pendelton’s Ty Beers gave up just two runs while tallying three strikeouts to keep the Cubs under control over six innings of game one. The Cubs held a 1-0 lead in the third inning until Pendleton fi nally responded in the top of the sixth. With two outs on the board, Greysen Clark drew a walk and Kyle Field drove him home on the next play with a line drive to center fi eld. Field advanced to second on the throw, but was left stranded as Cooper Roberts grounded out out to end the inning. The Cubs wouldn’t keep things even for long. A sacrifi ce ground out in the bottom of the sixth drove a run in, good enough to keep the Idaho team on top of the rest of the game. “Overall, it was a good ball game,” Armstrong said of the opener. “Really, we just had some mental lapses at the end that put us down in a tied game.” The Cubs wasted no time taking the lead in game two. The team posted two singles and a double in the bottom of the fi rst to take charge early. Although Clark hit an RBI single for a brief 1-0 Pendleton advantage in the top of the fi rst, Idaho’s seven-run response ensured that they would have to fi ght for a comeback. Tucker Zander sparked the rally with a two-RBI single to center fi eld that scored Roberts and Nic Sheley. He fi nished the fi nal game with three RBIs. The Cubs ceased scoring after the bot- tom of the third, leaving it open for Pend- leton to put in four more runs to keep things close. Although Idaho got two outs in the top of the fi fth, they proceeded to walk She- ley and Field, and allow Roberts a single to load the bases. Tyler Browning was hit by a pitch, scoring Roberts. Jordan DeGeer notched an RBI single, and Field took advantage of an error at home plate See Soccer, Page B2 See Baseball, Page B2 SPORTS SHORTS Nike pulls flag sneaker after Kaepernick complaint NEW YORK (AP) — Nike is pull- ing a fl ag-themed tennis shoe after for- mer NFL quarterback Colin Kaeper- nick complained to the shoemaker, according to the Wall Street Journal. The shoe’s heel has a U.S. fl ag with 13 white stars in a circle on it, known as the Betsy Ross fl ag. Citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, the Journal said that Kaeper- nick, a Nike endorser, told the com- pany he and others found the fl ag sym- bol offensive because of its connection to slavery. 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