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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
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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
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United States
England
2
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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.
The Air Max 1 USA shoe had
already been sent to retailers to go on
sale this week for the July Fourth
holiday, the Journal reports.
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey
lashed out at Nike over Twitter,
saying that he is asking the state’s
Commerce Authority to withdraw
all fi nancial incentives for the com-
pany to locate there.