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THE BULLETIN • SUNday, JUNE 6, 2021
NCAA BASEBALL
REGIONALS
Dernedde’s big
day lifts Beavs
The Oregon State Bea-
vers entered the weekend
on life support.
Kyle Dernedde made
sure they still have a pulse.
The unheralded fresh-
man had the best game
of his young career to
keep the Beavers’ season
alive, slugging them to
a 10-5 victory over Mc-
Neese State in the NCAA
baseball tournament at
Lupton Stadium.
Making just his sixth
career start in a do-or-
die game, Dernedde
was undaunted by the
moment, clubbing a pair
of bases-loaded dou-
bles en route to a ca-
reer-high six RBIs as the
second-seeded Beavers
staved off elimination in
Fort Worth, Texas.
The six RBIs tied the
OSU school record for a
postseason game, equal-
ing Bill Rowe’s perfor-
mance against Hawaii 15
years ago.
“I’ve grown up an Ore-
gon State baseball fan and
watched teams before us
come through … and go
down the first game and
battle back and do amaz-
ing things,” Dernedde, a
Tualatin native, said. “So,
for me, it’s pretty special
to be a part of it now. It’s
hard to fathom, but it’s ex-
citing and we have a long
ways to go.”
The win advances the
Beavers (35-23) to the
Sunday round of the los-
ers’ bracket, where they
will play the loser of a Fri-
day night game between
No. 1 seed TCU and No.
3 seed Dallas Baptist at
11 a.m. Pacific. The Bea-
vers will have to win that
game and then another
on Sunday evening to
force a winner-take-all fi-
nal on Monday.
Dernedde went 2 for
3 and produced the two
biggest swings of the
season. In the fourth in-
ning, with the game tied
2-2, he crushed a three-
run double to left-center
field with two outs, giv-
ing the flatlining Beavers’
offense a jolt. And then,
with the Beavers cling-
ing to a 7-5 lead in the
eighth, Dernedde broke
the game open, ripping
a three-run double to the
left field corner.
Dernedde said he
thought it was the first
time in his life he’s finished
with a six-RBI game.
“He’s just consistent
with his work ethic,” team-
mate Ryan Ober said.
“Kyle is out there every
single day taking extra
stuff, just waiting for his
name to be called.”
In addition to Derned-
de’s memorable perfor-
mance, Oregon State
received solid pitching,
particularly from its bull-
pen, and contributions
from players up and
down the lineup to keep
the season alive.
Ober (2 for 5, two RBIs,
two runs scored) and
Garret Forrester (2 for 3,
two runs scored, one RBI)
continued their strong re-
gional play.
Starting pitcher Coo-
per Hjerpe was solid in his
postseason debut, strik-
ing out nine and allowing
four runs in 4.1 innings.
And the OSU bullpen was
even better, as three re-
lievers combined to allow
just one unearned run
and two hits over the final
4.2 innings. Chase Watkins
earned the win, giving up
one run and striking out
three in three innings.
The Oregon Ducks
faced off against the
Gonzaga Bulldogs in the
Eugene Regional Satur-
day night in a game that
ended past The Bulletin’s
press deadline.
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PREP GIRLS BASKETBALL
Sticking
around
Mountain View seniors stay
with team post-graduation
BY BRIAN RATHBONE • The Bulletin
REDMOND —
K
ailynn Bowles’ quads were so
sunburned they blended in with
her bright red Mountain View
basketball jersey. To a slightly lesser extent, it
was apparent that Liliana Overcash had spent
the day before baking in the sun.
Friday afternoon was spent outside at the re-
hearsal for Saturday’s afternoon graduation at
Mountain View High. Later that evening, the four
seniors on the Mountain View bas-
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ketball team were back on the hard-
wood taking home a 51-29 win over
• High school
Redmond.
scores and
results in
Saturday, Mountain View students
Scoreboard
will walk across a stage and receive
on B2
their high school diplomas capping
off a week of high school gradua-
tions across the state. But Bowles, Overcash and the
rest of the senior athletes won’t be done with high
school. A couple days after wearing their cap and
gowns and snagging their diplomas, they will put on
their team’s uniforms to continue a season that will
last few more weeks.
“It makes it feel not real, like we aren’t graduating
yet,” said Bowles. “We still have to be at school for a
couple more weeks. It just hasn’t settled in that we
have graduated.”
It’s just one more surreal moment in a school year
full of them.
See Mountain View / B3
Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin
Mountain View High School’s Kailynn Bowles (12) shoots over a Redmond High School defender during the first half
Friday night in Redmond.
NFL
NBA COMMENTARY
Trail Blazers search for next coach turns
into power play amid Lillard’s demands
BY JOHN CANZANO
The Oregonian
Michael Ainsworth/AP
Dallas Cowboys’ cornerback Trevon Diggs, left, celebrates with Micah
Parsons, right, after Parsons made an interception during practice in
Frisco, Texas, on Thursday.
Minicamps are mostly
proceeding amid
debate about offseason
BY SCHUYLER DIXON
AP Pro Football Writer
Detroit players joined a co-
ordinated effort by the NFLPA
to say they were going to stay
away from the team’s volun-
tary offseason program before
most of them showed up for
practices.
Conversations with first-
year coach Dan Campbell
found enough middle ground
for some players to think twice
about skipping. Around the
league, mandatory minicamps
starting next week are going on
mostly as planned.
Emphasis on “mandatory,”
which means players can be
fined for no-showing.
“I personally don’t have the
funds to hand back to the or-
ganization, so I will 100% be
here,” Miami tight end Mike
Gesicki said.
“They also give out free food
in the facility, so I’ll be coming
for breakfast, lunch, dinner,”
Gesicki said, prompting laugh-
ter from reporters. “It’s really
a special place. We’ve got wa-
ters and Gatorade in the fridge,
snacks in the weight room. It’s
a nice place to be. Happy to be
here.”
Joking aside, a brewing
standoff between players and
coaches or their bosses seems
to have faded, and there is a
sense around the league that
conversations could lead to
foundational changes in the
structure of the offseason.
See NFL / B3
Hand it to Aaron Goodwin
today. The kingpin of Good-
win Sports Management and
Damian Lillard’s agent may be
engineering one of the most
deft power plays in Trail Blaz-
ers’ history.
Terry Stotts and the organi-
zation parted ways on Friday.
Camp Lillard wasted no
time in making it clear it
wants the keys to the empire.
I’ll leave out the — “or else” —
part for now. But in the wake
of Stotts’ departure Lillard
told Yahoo! Sports, “Jason
Kidd is the guy I want.”
Goodwin was Kidd’s agent
at the beginning of his NBA
career. The Lakers’ assistant is
now with Jeff Schwartz, best
I can tell. But still, I couldn’t
help but wonder what Good-
win and Lillard are up to here
and where it might go next.
Chauncey Billups, a well-
known Neil Olshey confi-
dante, was also mentioned as
a short-list candidate.
Congrats, Neil.
You always wanted to star
in a soap opera. Break a leg.
Kidd’s baggage is troubling.
The Lakers looked past it and
hired him anyway. I wonder
now if Blazers’ controlling
owner Jody Allen will do the
same. Or will she risk alienat-
ing Lillard and having to start
all the way over?
That’s where our state’s
NBA organization finds itself
today and I’m fascinated by
how this will play out.
Jack Dempsey/AP
Portland Trail Blazers’ Damian Lillard (0) passes the ball against the
Denver Nuggets during Game 1 of a first-round playoff series on May
22 in Denver.
Remember, Kidd was ar-
rested and pleaded guilty
in 2001 for domestic vio-
lence. More alleged abuse of
his then-wife was well doc-
umented in their divorce
in 2007. And he also once
pleaded guilty to driving im-
paired after crashing his SUV
into a utility pole.
As a player in college at Cal,
Kidd started the mutiny that
got Lou Campanelli fired. As
a pro, he ran Byron Scott out
of a head coaching job. Then,
when Kidd’s playing career
ended, he became a coach
himself. His first season on
he job he was fined $50,000
by the NBA for intentionally
spilling a drink on the court
to stop play because he was
out of timeouts. Later, Kidd
demanded full control of the
Nets basketball operations
and when the organization re-
fused he forced his way out.
Today’s question: Does Lil-
lard actually want Kidd?
Or does he just want out of
Portland?
Lillard will be the league’s
first $50-million-a-year
player. He got a sweetheart
sneaker deal with Adidas. No-
body disputes that Goodwin
does a magnificent job rep-
resenting his clients. But the
Blazers aren’t the client here.
Lillard is. None of what we’re
seeing puts the franchise first.
At different points of his
career, Goodwin has repre-
sented LeBron James, Kevin
Durant, Chris Webber, Da-
mon Stoudamire and Gary
Payton.
See Blazers / B2