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Hermiston’s Sanchez second at MCC Championships
Anderson finishes
10th to lead the
Hermiston boys
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
ricHLaNd,
Wash.
—
there’s nothing like a run along
the river on a fall day.
Hermiston sophomore cyd-
ney Sanchez finished second in
the girls 3a race thursday at
the Mid-columbia conference
c h a m pion sh ip s
at Leslie Groves
Park, while junior
amanda Nygard
was fourth in the
final event before
the
regional
Nygard
meet next week
in Spokane, Washington.
“i was 10 seconds or so
off my Pr, but it was still a
good race,” said Sanchez, who
clocked in at 19 minutes, 42.24
seconds. “it was warm. i’m not
used to the heat.”
Anderson
20:09.40 was about 45 seconds off
her Pr, said her legs just weren’t
there for her during the race.
“My legs are tired,” she said.
“i felt like i needed to rolled them
out, but i never did. i knew my
time wasn’t good. i didn’t even
look at the clock.”
The Hermiston girls finished
third in the team race behind
Kennewick (36) and Kamiakin
(44) with 56 points.
alexia Serna was third
Sanchez
Kennewick’s Geraldin correa
cruised to victory with a time of
18:46.78 — about 400 meters in
front of Sanchez.
“i could see her,” Sanchez said.
“She’s good.”
Nygard, whose time of
PREP ROUNDUP
Badgers
hand
Rockets
first loss
East Oregonian
See Cross-country, Page B2
Dawgs sweep Suns in MCC action
Dowdy hands out
33 assists, while
Vertrees lays
down seven kills
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
H
erMiStON — On a
night they honored their
seniors, the Hermis-
ton bulldogs celebrated
with a sweep of Southridge.
Kendall dowdy had 33
assists and seven kills, and
Grace Vertrees added seven
kills as the bulldogs posted a
25-14, 25-19, 25-21 Mid-co-
lumbia conference win over
the Suns.
“this is emotional, espe-
cially with this group of girls,”
said senior emma combes,
who had four aces and four
kills. “a win makes it that
much better.”
the bulldogs (5-7 Mcc),
who had to rally in the first
and second sets for the win,
led from start to finish in the
third set. Other than ties at 8-8
and 9-9, Hermiston had its act
together.
dowdy opened the set with
three consecutive points, and
a pair of aces by combes gave
Hermiston a 6-2 lead.
the Suns (1-12 Mcc) came
back, but once the bulldogs
went out front 10-9, the clos-
est the Suns would get would
be 21-19 and 22-20.
Senior outside hitter daisy
Maddox finished the set and
the match with a kill.
“i’m proud of the girls,
especially the seniors, for tak-
ing care of business in three,”
Hermiston coach amy dyck
said. “We are lucky. Our four
seniors have vital roles on and
off the court. they are good
role models and it’s a privilege
to coach them.”
the Suns raced out to a 6-1
lead in the first set, only to see
the bulldogs bounce back.
Combes served five points
for a 7-2 lead, but Southridge’s
Mattie Stayrook tipped over a
block to even the score at 7-7.
tied at 8-8, Halee Stubbs
put four points in the board,
getting help from Kambree
baker with a block, and a kill
B1
La GraNde — the Pilot
rock/Nixyaawii rockets were
handed their first loss of the sea-
son thursday, falling to Powder
Valley, 48-36, in a nonleague neu-
tral site contest at eastern Oregon
University.
tanner corwin threw for
324 yards and four touchdowns,
including a 43-yard scoring strike
to Logan Weinke for a 36-26
lead with 4:48 to play in the third
quarter.
but the badgers scored 22
unanswered points in the fourth
quarter, taking their first lead
of the game, 40-36, on a 51-yard
touchdown reception by roper
bingham with 4 minutes to play.
reece dixon, who passed for 251
yards and rushed for 250, iced the
game with 1:28 to play with an
80-yard touchdown run.
corwin and Weinke connected
for three touchdown passes — the
others going for 9 and 45 yards.
corwin also threw an 83-yard td
pass to tyasin burns, but was also
picked off three times — twice in
the end zone.
Weinke finished with 10
catches for 220 yards for the
rockets. burns added 167 yards
rushing and a touchdown, and 121
yards receiving.
the rockets (6-1 overall) face
adrian/Jordan Valley in the Spe-
cial district 3 title game Nov. 1 at
eastern Oregon University.
Boys soccer
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Hermiston’s Kambree Baker (9) blocks Southridge’s Mattie Stayrook (10) during Thursday’s game at
the Dawg House.
by Vertrees for a 12-8 lead.
When Stubbs rotated back
around to the service line, she
took the bulldogs’ 19-13 lead
and parlayed it into a 23-13
advantage, with combes put-
ting down a thunderous back-
row kill in the rally.
Vertrees had back-to-back
kills to end the set.
“i love to hit from the back
row,” combes said. “if i miss,
i want them to set me again, i
will get it. i love playing the
front row too. i like to hit.”
in the second set, the Suns
led 8-3 after an ace by Stay-
rook, but the bulldogs were
able to pull within 8-7 with
back-to-back kills by baker
and dowdy.
tied at 10-10, baker served
the next three points for Herm-
iston, including an ace and
a double block by Malayna
See Dawgs, Page B2
RIVERSIDE 9, FOUR RIV-
ERS 0 — after a long trip out to
Four rivers, riverside is bring-
ing home a 9-0 eastern Oregon
League win to show for it.
“you already made a three hour
trip out here, might as well get out
there and run a bit,” Pirates coach
Jose duenas said of his team’s
strong start.
Gerardo Lopez led riverside
with a hat trick, while Humberto
Sanchez also scored two goals.
christian rea, diego Magana,
ezequiel ramos and edwin
Pacheco were also goal scorers.
the win is riverside’s (9-3, 8-0
eOL) eighth in a row. the Pirates
go for their ninth at home on Sat-
urday versus Nyssa.
PENDLETON 5, CROOK
COUNTY 2 — despite strug-
gling with what Pendleton coach
Alex Erazo called “selfish play” in
the first half, the Buckaroos recov-
ered in the second for a 5-2 victory
at crook county in intermountain
conference play.
“i think we saw the opportunity
to score a lot of goals and played a
little bit as individuals rather than
as a team,” Erazo said of the first
half, which Pendleton led 2-1.
but following a discussion with
his group during the break, the
buckaroos came out and poured
See Prep roundup, Page B2
Ravens sweep Bucks to end regular season
bucks stay close for
two sets before ravens
run wild in the third
By BRETT KANE
East Oregonian
PeNdLetON — to close their
regular season, Pendleton volleyball
played one of its toughest matches so
far.
the third-ranked bucks (10-8,
6-4 iMc) wrapped up intermoun-
tain conference play on thursday
night’s senior celebration, hanging
close with the visiting No. 1 rid-
geview ravens (21-4, 10-0 iMc) for
two 25-22 sets before a 25-13 third
set kept the match out of reach as
the ravens stayed undefeated in the
league.
The loss halted a five-match
streak and marked the second three-
set defeat Pendleton suffered against
ridgeview this season.
“We stuck with them in both
matches,” said senior setter Sami
Spriet after finishing her high school
career’s final match on Warberg
court. “We know (ridgeview is)
going to be a really great team every
year.”
although the bucks ended the
night with a loss, they hung onto their
No. 3 spot in the league standings,
earning themselves a ticket to dis-
tricts next Saturday. the opponent
and site has yet to be determined.
“these girls played the game of
their lives tonight,” Pendleton coach
amanda Lapp said. “they’re peak-
ing at the right time of the season. it
was awesome to see.”
The first set saw the scoreboard
pull even at nearly every other
point until Pendleton junior middle
blocker Josie Wilson hit a kill that
gave Pendleton a brief 22-21 lead.
Unforced errors soon handed the set
to ridgeview.
the ravens put three unanswered
See Bucks, Page B2
Staff photo by Ben Lonergan
Pendleton’s Sami Spriet (9) hits the ball during the first set against the Ra-
vens. The Ridgeview Ravens defeated the Pendleton Buckaroos in three
sets at Pendleton High School on Thursday night.