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Friday, September 13, 2019
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PREP ROUNDUP
Umatilla boys soccer shuts out Portland Christian 11-0
East Oregonian
PORTLAND — Alexis Ruiz
netted a hat trick, and Emman-
uel Arredondo and Carlos Mejia
scored two goals each as Umatilla’s
boys soccer team trampled over
Portland Christian 11-0 on Thurs-
day evening.
“We expected more,” Uma-
tilla coach Pedro Ortiz said. “We
expected a stronger team. We gave
it our best.”
Arredondo and Mejia gave the
Vikings a hot start with two goals
each in the first half, and Ruiz sank
his first of three before the first 40
minutes were up, as well.
The
sophomore
forward
recorded his final two goals in the
second half to help complete Uma-
tilla’s road shutout.
Oliver Burman and Jose Alaniz
also scored goals for the Vikings
along the way.
“We controlled the tempo of the
game,” Ortiz said. “We did good
work, but we still need to work
on some mistakes that happened
(today).”
Up next, the Vikings (1-0-1)
return home on Tuesday to host
Mac-Hi (2-1-1). The match begins
at 4 p.m.
Girls soccer
PORTLAND CHRISTIAN 2,
UMATILLA 0 — The unbeaten
Portland Christian Lions handed
Umatilla a road loss on Thursday
to keep the Vikings without a win.
Umatilla (0-2-1) returns home
on Tuesday to host Mac-Hi, who
are coming off a 3-1 loss to College
Place. Game time is at 4 p.m.
LA GRANDE (JV) 3, IRRI-
GON 0 — The Irrigon Knights
are still without a win on the sea-
son after Thursday’s road match
against La Grande’s junior varsity
team.
“They move the ball around
well,” Irrigon coach Ivan Navar-
rete said of La Grande. “Their girls
really know the game.”
Navarrese said his team is short
staffed due to injuries, includ-
ing starting keeper Kim Renteria,
who is expected to be out for the
first half of the season with a foot
injury.
The Knights (0-2-1) are back on
the road Tuesday at White Salmon.
See Prep Roundup, Page B2
Knowles feeds off the
love at Round-Up
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Bulldogger Blake Knowles takes down his steer during Thursday’s Pendleton Round-Up.
Heppner cowboy has
top run of the day in
steer wrestling
By BRETT KANE
and ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
ENDLETON — As much
as Blake Knowles loves the
Pendleton Round-Up, the
fans love him even more.
The Heppner cowboy turfed his
steer in 5.6 seconds Thursday for the
top run of the day in steer wrestling,
to the delight of the crowd.
“I could fall off my horse and roll
down the arena, and they still would
have cheered,” Knowles said. “I want
to give them a good performance.
They are so good to me. Anytime
you can have success in this arena, it
is awesome.”
P
Staff photo by Ben Lonergan
Taylor Santos of Creston, Calif., ropes his calf in a time of 8.3 seconds to take the
lead in the event on Thursday afternoon at the Pendleton Round-Up.
Knowles has a time of 12.6 sec-
onds on two head, putting him sixth
overall. Fans should get another look
at him in Saturday’s finals.
“I’ve never won this rodeo,”
Knowles said. “It’s our (he and his
cousin Trevor Knowles) favorite
rodeo ever, but I’ve never finished in
the top four. The Saturday rodeo here
in Pendleton is one of the most exhil-
arating performances you get to be a
part of. You have to keep your emo-
tions in check.”
Knowles’ horse Smoke did his part
in the event, which is made more dif-
ficult because it is on grass.
“You have to have good horse-
power,” Knowles said. “When you
are well-mounted, you can do well.
This is the greatest arena in all of
rodeo, especially in steer wrestling. It
makes you have to be fundamentally
strong with your feet.”
Smoke also has been the horse of
choice this week for Jesse Brown (6.1
seconds) and Stephen Culling (7.7
seconds). Trevor Knowles and last
See Rodeo, Page B2
SPORTS SHORTS
FIFA bans jailed soccer official Napout for life for bribery
ZUriCH (ap) — FiFa has
banned former soccer official Juan
Ángel Napout for life, almost 21
months after he was convicted on
racketeering and corruption charges
in a Brooklyn court.
FIFA says its ethics committee
judges found Napout guilty of brib-
ery between 2012 and 2015, and fined
him 1 million Swiss francs ($1.01
million). It is unclear how FIFA can
enforce payment.
Napout was a FIFA vice presi-
dent, and leader of South American
soccer body CONMEBOL, when he
was arrested in Zurich in December
2015.
The U.S. Justice Department had
requested a second wave of arrests
at a luxury hotel in FIFA’s home city
in a sweeping investigation of soccer
corruption.
Napout, from Paraguay, was
found guilty of taking bribes worth
millions of dollars linked to com-
mercial contracts for South Ameri-
can soccer competitions.
He was sentenced to nine years in
prison in August 2018, nine months
after a trial that lasted several weeks.
AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File
In this Dec. 13, 2017, file photo, Juan Angel Napout,
of Paraguay, arrives to federal court in the Brooklyn
borough of New York.