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E AST O REGONIAN Saturday, december 7, 2019 FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS | FACEBOOK.COM/EOSPORTS B1 Area athletes garner all-state honors for soccer, volleyball riverside’s edwin Pacheco selected to 3A/2A/1A first team for soccer By ANNIE FOWLER East Oregonian bOardmaN — river- side senior edwin Pacheco leads a group of local ath- letes selected to all-state soccer and volleyball teams, voted on by coaches Manning Pacheco throughout the state. Pacheco, a defender for the Pirates, was a first- team selection for the boys 3a/2a/1a soccer team, while teammate Gerardo Lopez, a junior forward, was placed on the second team. The Pirates finished eastern Oregon League play at 10-0 and won the league title. they lost in the state quarterfinals to Ore- gon episcopal. umatilla senior mid- fielder Jose Alaniz also was a second-team pick. On the honorable men- tion team are forward Jefri coria and defender cris- tian alaniz of umatilla; midfielder Ulyses Lopez and goalkeeper Jose Torres of riverside; and defender marcos rangel of Irrigon. All players but Jose Ala- niz, were first-team all- league selections. torres was co-eOL Goalkeeper of the year. Voted to the girls 3a/2a/1a soccer team were riverside forward marisol Pacheco (sec- ond team); umatilla for- ward devina monreal (honorable mention); riv- erside defender bianca avalos (honorable men- tion; and umatilla keeper Nataly Vazquez (honorable mention). For 2a volleyball, Weston-mcewen junior Jesse Manning was named to the second team as an outside hitter. manning led the tiger- Scots with 287 kills, 396 digs and 45 aces. On the honorable PIONEERS ESCAPE TIGERSCOTS Mac-Hi breaks away in second half to record season’s first win Bucks drop tournament opener to Crescent Valley and baylor to get into the playoff as long as No. 1 LSu beats No. 4 Georgia for the Sec championship. “We didn’t really think far ahead but it’s obvious what was at stake, more than just the rose bowl,” left tackle darrin Paulo said. “It’s dis- appointing. I can’t really wrap my head around it right now. We knew that Oregon was a good team and we knew that we can’t overlook them so we didn’t look beyond that but we knew, everyone knew, what was at stake besides the rose bowl.” the utes got back into the game with td passes from tyler Huntley redmONd — Pendleton had no answer for crescent Valley’s 6-foot Hua Wa’a on Friday afternoon. the junior post player scored a game-high 17 points as the raiders handed the bucks a 53-37 loss at the ridgeview tip-Off tournament. “She is very athletic,” Pendle- ton coach Kevin Porter said of Wa’a. “She is legit. We held her scoreless in the second half. I can hang my hat on that.” Pendleton trailed 12-10 after the first quarter, but the Raiders extended their lead to 29-18 at the half, and 45-29 at the end of the third quarter. “they had big second and third quarters, that’s what separated us,” Porter said. “We shot 48 percent from the field, but we had too many turn- overs, which cost us possessions.” muriel Hoisington led Pendle- ton with nine points, six assists, five rebounds and four steals. Sami Spriet added five points and four rebounds, while chloe taber had five points. the bucks (0-2) will continue tournament play Saturday, taking on Lebanon at 1 p.m. IRRIGON 47, LA PINE 42 — trailing by three points at the half, the Knights (1-1) went on a 36-28 scoring spree over the final two quar- ters to beat the host Hawks at the La Pine Invitational. Sophomore JaLay Burns tossed in a team-high 24 points to go along with 12 steals and four assists. alyssa Luna added nine points — all in the second half — and hauled down six rebounds. HEPPNER 47, DUFUR 29 — Sydney Wilson scored a game-high 18 points, and had six steals, to lead the mustangs to a nonleague home win over the rangers. Heppner jumped out to a 12-6 lead at the end of the first quarter, and led 24-11 at the half. madison ashbeck added 14 points and seven rebounds for Hep- pner, which improved to 2-0 on the young season. Zabrena master- son chipped in eight points and six rebounds. Jessica Brown and Kierstin White each had seven points for dufur, while Piper Neal had seven rebounds. PILOT ROCK 44, IMBLER 15 — Lillie brewer tossed in 15 points and had eight steals as the rockets cruised to a nonleauge vic- tory over the Panthers at the Joseph tournament. “It was a good win,” Pilot rock coach amylee Perrine said. “We took an early lead and kept to the whole way.” Sophomore emily Lambert added 11 points and hauled down eight rebounds, while rylee bray handed out four assists. the rockets (2-0) will play Joseph at 3 p.m. Saturday. STANFIELD 61, SHERMAN 41 — the tigers improved to 2-0 with a nonleague victory over the host Huskies (0-1) at the Sherman Invitational in moro. Nyah tejeda led the tigers with 17 See Oregon, Page B2 See Roundup, Page B2 A tHeNa — Last year, it took the mac-Hi girls basketball team over half a season to record their sea- son’s first win. On Friday night, it only took one game. the win rang in the Pio- neers’ season opener, in which they took down the host Weston-mcewen tigerScots 40-30 in a nonleague contest. although they trailed by just two points at halftime, they broke the game open in the sec- ond half to take control of the game once and for all. “We came out a little slow, a little sluggish to start,” said mac-Hi head coach chris bry- ant, who started his first sea- son with the Pioneers on Friday. “but we came back in the sec- ond half to show more of what we’re all about.” the Pioneers grabbed a 4-0 lead to start, but the tigerScots battled back with key baskets from senior forward trinity Hearn and junior wing bailey munck. the tigerScots’ great- est deficit for the quarter would be four points, and munck’s basket with 1:06 remaining had them trailing just 9-7 at the buzzer. Hearn and sophomore guard charli King put together an early four-point run in the sec- ond quarter to tie the game at 11-11, but mac-Hi senior guard Kylie reichert found the net after a near two-minute scoring drought to push the Pioneers back out front again. King and senior forward cloe davis went on a four-point streak that let the tigerScots clinch a 15-13 lead at halftime. “We definitely have a lot to work on,” said reichert, who finished the night with nine points. “We came out a little slow. We haven’t had any game experience so far this season, so it was a whole new atmosphere.” Staff photo by Ben Lonergan Weston-McEwen’s Charli King (3) drives past McLoughlin’s Victoria Garcia (21) during the first period. The McLoughlin Pioneers defeated the Weston-McEwen TigerScots 40-30 at Weston-McEwen High School in Athena Friday night. the score would tie twice more before mac-Hi tore away for good midway through the third quarter. the Pioneers took a six-point lead off of senior center Victoria Garcia’s basket at 2:19. Junior center Andrea uribe-Garcia and sophomore guard darby rhoads knocked down two unanswered bas- kets that hoisted the Pioneers to a 30-21 lead by the end of the quarter. the tigerScots could do lit- tle to catch up for the remainder of the contest. “We were surprised by how physical they were,” bryant said of Weston-mcewen. “We weren’t prepared for that. but (our team) really came together in the second half.” the Pioneers opened the final quarter with three straight points at the line, and junior forward daniela angel hit a 3-pointer as mac-Hi took their first of two 15-point advan- tages. Garcia gave them their second at 38-23 with 2:52 left to play. King, munck, and senior guard ellie Scheibner went on a six-point streak in the final sec- onds to pull within 10 points of the Pioneers, but could not beat the buzzer. “they’re a great team,” reichert said of the tigerScots. “they’re great competition. there’s always a winner and a loser at every game, and it just happened to be us tonight.” mac-Hi (1-0) will shoot for another win at 6 p.m. Sat- urday at dayton-Waitsburg. Weston-mcewen (0-2) will play Gaston at 4 p.m. Saturday. No. 13 Oregon ends No. 5 Utah’s playoff hopes SaNta cLara, calif. — the one constant all season for utah was the ability to control the trenches against any opponent. With a possible playoff berth and first Pac-12 title in school his- tory on the line, the utes more than met their match against Oregon. CJ Verdell ran for 208 yards and broke open the game with two long touchdown runs in the fourth quar- ter, and No. 13 Oregon spoiled No. 5 utah’s playoff hopes with a 37-15 victory in the Pac-12 championship game Friday night. “unfortunately we came up PREP ROUNDUP East Oregonian By BRETT KANE East Oregonian By JOSH DUBOW Associated Press mention team are Hep- pner junior Sydney Wil- son (outside hitter), and Weston-mcewen senior emma Olson (libero). Wilson had 192 kills on the season, along with 376 digs, 13 blocks and 70 aces. Olson finished the sea- son with 540 digs and 51 aces. all three volleyball players were named to the blue mountain conference first team. short tonight,” coach Kyle Whit- tingham said. “disappointing thing is we lost in the one area we’ve been undefeated this year: line of scrimmage. We didn’t win the line of scrimmage for the first time all season, which is, like I say, disappointing. Surprising really.” the utes (11-2, No. 5 cFP) came into the game hoping to make a case for one of the four playoff spots with a conference title but instead got overmatched by Ore- gon (11-2, No. 13 cFP) and lost their second straight Pac-12 cham- pionship game. utah held 11 of 12 opponents to less than 100 yards rushing and led the nation by allowing 56.3 yards rushing per game, prompt- ing plenty of pregame talk about how the utes’ physical dominance could be the determining factor. the ducks took that personally and responded. “Definitely put a little chip on our shoulders,” Verdell said. “We try not to focus on the outside noise too much. Hearing they’re the most physical team in the Pac-12 made us want to come out here and work even harder.” the utes fell into a 20-0 hole in the first half and then gave up a 70-yard td run to Verdell after cutting the deficit to 23-15, paving the way for the winner of the big 12 title game between Oklahoma
