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Hermiston’s Cadenas, Coughlin win regional titles
Bulldogs will send 4
to state tournament at
the Tacoma Dome
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
SPOKANE — Sam Cadenas
and Dustyn Coughlin won regional
titles, and Hermiston advanced
four to state from Saturday’s 3A
Region 4 Tournament at Rogers
High School.
Cadenas, just a sophomore, won
Coughlin
Cadenas
his first regional title, beating Cam-
eron Dubose of Yelm 5-2.
The match against Dubose
was one Cadenas (35-7) wanted.
Dubose beat Cadenas by two
points at the Gut Check Tourna-
ment in January.
Coughlin, who was third at
the district tournament, pinned all
three of his regional opponents. He
finished with a first-round pin of
Armani Tonuao of North Thurston
in the championship match.
At 160, junior Trevor Wagner
finished second, losing the title
match 15-4 to Nolan Casey of
Peninsula.
Wagner had pinned his first
two opponents before running into
Casey.
Sophomore
Hunter
Dyer
punched his ticket to state with a
fourth-place finish at 132 pounds.
He was pinned in the third-place
match by Mateo Escobar of Shadle
Park in 2:09.
Jon Lee (195) finished fifth and
will make the trip as an alternate.
The Bulldogs finished fourth in
the team standings with 97 points.
Mt. Spokane won the regional title
with 220 points, followed by Yelm
(165) and Kamiakin (101).
“We have work to do as a team,”
Hermiston coach Kyle Larson said.
See Wrestling, Page B2
Cardinals take early
flight over Timberwolves
Cardinals use nine-point
run in the first quarter
to keep BMCC down
By BRETT KANE
East Oregonian
B1
PREP ROUNDUP
Cougars
secure league
title with win
over Loggers
East Oregonian
SPRAY — In one of its high-
est-scoring games of the season,
the Echo girls basketball team
wrapped up the regular season
with a 73-27 road victory over the
Big Sky League’s bottom-ranked
Mitchell/Spray Loggers on Satur-
day afternoon.
The win marks the second
lopsided win the No. 1 Cougars
scored over the Loggers this sea-
son, having defeated them 67-10 in
January.
Rachel McCarty paved the
way to the win with a game-high
20 points. Alayna Denney led the
Loggers with nine points.
The Cougars (17-7, 10-2 BSL),
who won the league title, will face
South Wasco County at 6 p.m. Fri-
day to tip off the district tourna-
ment in Madras.
Girls basketball
CROSSHILL CHRISTIAN
41, IONE/ARLINGTON 34 —
Too many fouls by the Cardinals
led to free throws by the Eagles,
who posted a nonleague home win
over Ione/Arlington.
The Cardinals got a team-high
13 points from Jessica Medina.
Crosshill Christian was led by
Kalika Gross, who finished with a
game-high 17 points.
The Cardinals (14-9, 9-3 BSL)
will play Dufur at 3 p.m. Friday to
begin district play at Madras High
School.
JOSEPH 54, NIXYAAWII 40
— The Golden Eagles concluded
their season following a loss
against the Eagles in Enterprise on
Saturday.
Kyella Picard led the Golden
Eagles with nine points. Joseph’s
Sabriana Albee finished with a
game-high 23 points.
Nixyaawii (10-13, 6-6 OOL) did
not qualify for district play.
WALLOWA 56, HELIX 15
— The Grizzlies ended their sea-
son with a home loss to Wallowa.
Helix (8-15, 0-12 OOL) finished
the season at the bottom of the Old
Oregon League standings.
Boys basketball
ENDLETON — The Blue Moun-
tain women’s basketball team
suffered its second loss to North
Idaho on Saturday, and the sec-
ond time around wasn’t much
different from the first.
The Timberwolves took one 30-sec-
ond lead early in the first quarter, but pro-
ceeded to give up a nine-point Cardinals
run as the NWAC East Region’s fourth-
ranked Cardinals (14-10, 8-5 NWAC)
took charge early on and handed BMCC
(3-21, 1-12 NWAC) an 82-53 home loss.
“It was the same song, different
verse,” Blue Mountain coach Adam
Driver said. “They have a lot of length
and athleticism. They used it to their
advantage. It frustrated our shorter
guards a little.”
North Idaho’s Sydnie Peterson made
a 3-point jumper in the opening minute
of the first quarter, and Blue Mountain’s
Madi McKrola answered back with a
basket to put the Timberwolves on the
board and pull within one point of the
Cardinals.
Katie Skramstad, who led the Tim-
berwolves with 13 points, had a layup to
give her team a 4-3 lead — their only
one for the remainder of the game —
with 7:52 left in the quarter.
North Idaho’s Anna Schrade posted
a layup of her own that sparked a nine-
point run that kept the game out of the
Timberwolves’ reach for good. Blue
Mountain gave up three turnovers along
the way — they would suffer 17 by the
end of the first half, and 24 by the game’s
end.
“That put us in a hole,” Driver said
of his team’s turnovers. “We just had
too many. Our shot selection wasn’t
Staff photo by Ben Lonergan
See Timberwolves, Page B2
Blue Mountain’s Jenna Van Steenkist (32) leaps to take a shot against the Cardinals.
North Idaho defeated the Timberwolves 82-53 in Pendleton on Saturday afternoon.
P
NIXYAAWII 67, JOSEPH 61
— The Golden Eagles were able to
stave off a late push by the Eagles
to secure the Old Oregon League
title in Enterprise.
Nixyaawii was led by Tya-
sin Burns, who finished with 21
points. Joseph’s Chase Murray led
all scorers with 25 points.
The Golden Eagles (20-5, 11-1
OOL) will begin district play
See Roundup, Page B2
Denny Hamlin wins
3rd Daytona 500; Ryan
Newman hospitalized
By JENNA FRYER
AP Auto Racing Writer
dayTONa beaCH, Fla. —
Ryan Newman flipped across the
finish line, his Ford planted upside
down and engulfed in flames, a
grim reminder of a sport steeped in
danger that has stretched nearly two
decades without a fatality.
At the finish line, Denny Hamlin
made history with a second straight
Daytona 500 victory in an an over-
time photo finish over Ryan Blaney,
a celebration that quickly became
muted as word of Newman’s wreck
spread.
“I think we take for granted
sometimes how safe the cars are,”
Hamlin said. “But number one, we
are praying for Ryan.”
Roughly two hours after the
crash, NASCAR read a statement
from Roush Fenway Racing that
said Newman is in “serious condi-
tion, but doctors have indicated his
injuries are not life threatening.”
NASCAR scrapped the tradi-
tional victory lane party for Ham-
lin’s third Daytona 500 victory,
rocked by Newman’s accident 19
years after Dale Earnhardt was
killed on the last lap of the 2001
Daytona 500. Earnhardt was the
last driver killed in a NASCAR Cup
Series race.
Newman had surged into the
lead on the final lap when Blaney’s
bumper caught the back of his Ford
and sent Newman hard right into the
wall. His car flipped, rolled, was hit
on the driver’s side by another car,
AP Photo/Terry Renna
See NASCAR, Page B2
Ryan Newman, top center, goes airborne as he is hit by Corey LaJoie (32) on the final lap of the NASCAR Daytona
500 auto race at Daytona International Speedway on Monday in Daytona Beach, Fla.