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SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 2015
SPORTS
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BY SAM BARBEE
HERMISTON HERALD
With the majority of He-
lix’s tennis team in Europe
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la’s No. 2 singles player
recovering from knee sur-
gery, Thursday’s match
between the Griswald High
School Grizzlies and the
Vikings was full of mixing
and matching.
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to just two losses. It’s the
second straight win for
the boys and the second
straight loss for the girls,
though they only trotted
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Sidney Webb did her best
Billy Jean King imperson-
ation and downed Helix’s
No. 1 boys singles player
Caiden Marks, dispatching
him 8-1.
“I think we did OK,”
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vin Meade said. “It’s still
pretty early in the season to
get an indication of where
we are as a team. From top
to bottom, all of our players
know there’s still stuff they
need to work on.”
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tilla cruised through its sin-
gles matches with a single
blemish.
In place of Ramiro Ru-
bio, who was resting, and
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Umatilla High School junior Sydney Webb smiles after winning
a point against the No. 1 boys singles player from Griswald
High School.
Alejandro Madrigal, who
is recovering from the knee
surgery, freshman Elian Ar-
menta stepped into the No.
1 slot Thursday and faced
Jon Shaw. Shaw would take
the match 8-5, but Meade
pointed out the valuable ex-
perience the frosh received.
“It’s probably something
completely foreign to him,
partly because he’s the No.
3 singles player, but also
because he’s a freshman,”
Meade said of Armenta. “ ...
The kid has a lot of oppor-
tunity. He probably should
have won that match, but
it’s something we can work
on moving forward. You
have to lose a lot before you
can win a lot.”
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were Giovanni Armenta,
who won 8-5 over Erik
Jones in the No. 2 slot,
Douglas Gomez, who slid
past Cody Dunn 8-5 at No.
3, and Gage Bourrie, who
topped Allen Holden 8-1.
In the boys doubles,
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gar Madrigal and Junior
Coria topped Marks and
Jake Sprenger 8-4, and Joel
Escamilla and Quentin Cor-
dona beat Allen Alden and
Cody Dunn 8-3.
In the lone match on the
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da Coria was downed by
Lynne Roberts 8-2.
The most interesting
match of the day was an
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Umatilla High School junior Sydney Webb returns a rally point Thursday during her match up
against the No. 1 boys singles player from Griswald High School.
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said she’s used to playing
against boys regularly, in-
cluding every day at prac-
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Marks due to three un-
forced errors, but roared
back to win 8-1.
To Meade, though,
Thursday wasn’t about the
win. He has a bunch of
young players who don’t
get to play matches very of-
ten, and it was important to
him to get them into a live
scenario. The goal Thurs-
day was to improve his
players, and he thinks that
happened.
“The value of playing
(Thursday) would be get-
ting some expereince for
our younger players,” Me-
ade said. “I play my top
kids pretty hard. I know
that they’re always ready
for a match. Part of it is just
training the younger play-
ers to get into the mindset
of (being ready to play).
There are some players that
— yes, they won — but
they were nervous. They
were timid. They didn’t
play as hard as they do in
practice. That’s just some-
thing that will come along
with experience .. Today
was a great opportunity to
get the younger players’
feet wet and throw them
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won the Buck Track Classic Thursday, racking
up three event wins and a number of second
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country state champion Fabian Cardenas run-
ning like a state champion and Eastern Ore-
gon-bound Amie Zitterkob taking an event.
Echo also placed well.
Junior long-distance standout Josiah Nied-
erwerfer took the 3,000-meter run in 9 min-
utes, 34.11 seconds, edging teammate Angel
Castellanos by four seconds. Hermiston dom-
inated the event, as junior Donnell Rome took
third, nine seconds off the pace. Niederwerf-
er also placed second in the 1,500-meter run,
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fending state cross country champion, Fabian
Cardenas, won the 1,500 meter in a blistering
4:07.63.
Cardenas also took second in the in the 800
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winner Nolan Byerga of Pendleton.
The Bulldog boys also took the 4 x 100
meter relay, as the tandem of Hiram Michel,
Alexis Mercado, Felix Garcia and Javier Gon-
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from La Grande by nearly three seconds.
Luis Medina placed second in the 110-me-
ter high hurdles, running a time of 17.53, two
seconds behind race winner Tristin Warne of
Mac-Hi. Sheridan Zumwalt took fourth in the
300-meter hurdles with a time of 46.64, about
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Tyler McAbe won the boys long jump,
springing for a jump of 20-1, nearly an inch
better than runner-up Owen Lanning of Waits-
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with a jump of 19-04.
Will Sharkey took third in the pole vault,
clearing 11 feet, about a foot and a half short of
event winner AJ Timpy of Irrigon.
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niors, with one sophomore, com-
bined to go 3-for-7 with two runs
scored. The nine spot, which was
a tag team from Kylee Green and
Barton, never failed to reach and
scored two important runs.
Post Falls got two runs in the
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to shallow center and Abi Melton
walked. An out later, Bowers sin-
gled, plating Goleeke, but was
thrown out trying to stretch her
single into a double. Taylor Ek-
ness followed with a single, plat-
ing Melton to give the Trojans an
early 2-0 lead.
Hermiston responded in the
second when Kopacz walked,
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Elory Jones, moved to third on a
wild pitch and eventually scored
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pull Hermiston within a run at 2-1.
Post Falls came right back with
two of their own. Kira Haskew
led off the third with a walk, and
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fence, scoring Haskew all the way
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on a late throw to the plate to get
Haskew and scored a batter later
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make the score 4-1.
Transfer Trey Neal had a good day throw-
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On the girls side, sophomore Aubrey
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100-meter sprint. The Hermiston sophomore
ran a quick time of 12.59, edging the future
Mountaineer by just 11 tenths of a second.
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fourth, about a second off the pace.
In the 200 meter, Zitterkob and Lincoln
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sophomore by nearly four tenths in a time of
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ing a time of 28.53.
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Elizabeth Herbes.
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also future Mountaineer, Berenice Chavez
came in fourth. She posted a 2:41.31, edging
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second.
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winning team on the legs of Zitterkob, Adri-
ana Madrigal, Sonia Lemus-Cisneros and
Kassandra Galbraith, posting a day-best time
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hundredths of a second in one of the closest
races of the day.
In the girls’ throwing events, Hermiston’s
Jazmin Gutierrez placed second with a shot-
put toss of 32-08, nearly a foot shorter than
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of 31-04. Jeira Carillo took fourth with a toss
of 31-05.
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discus posting a 89-10 throw, and Sandoval
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Echo’s Elizabeth McCarty posted the third-
best javelin toss of the day, a 109-09 effort,
The Bulldogs tacked on another
in the third when Barton walked,
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then scored on a wild pitch to cut
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It was then that Lete pulled
starting pitcher Julissa Almagu-
er, who threw 50 pitches in three
innings, for the junior Naylor. It
proved to be the right decision as
Naylor effectively shut down the
Trojans.
“It was nice for us, and it was
nice for Naylor, too,” Lete said.
“She came in, and I think it helps
Julissa out, too. It picks her up.
She came out, shut the ball down,
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some things out of her that were
exciting to see.”
Then Hermiston got its bats
out.
Jones singled, Weems walked
and Barton singled to score Jones
to move the count to 4-3. Then Hin-
kley ripped her two-out single, and
Hermiston went ahead for good.
“(The win) shows that we didn’t
get down on each other,” Drotz-
mann said of the come-from-be-
hind victory. “We were staying
pretty positive the whole game,
and that’s a good thing. That’s
something we need to be able to
keep the whole season: the ability
to come back.”
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Landon, Soto and Dever all reached and
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and three in the top half of the seventh, but
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Lewis couldn’t say enough about Dever,
Sanguino and Soto.
“Those three have been carrying this team
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defense-wise and with the sticks, especially
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a tough one to Orting (WA) 5-2 Friday night in
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Ephrata, Washington.
day. First pitch is scheduled for 11 a.m.
Dylan Grogan got the start and went four-
plus innings until he struggled with his control.
Orting got two in the second and one in each
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defending 2A/1A state champions were too
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Thyler Monkus, Klay Jenson and Tony much for the Echo Cougars on Thursday in a
non-league game.
Flores had the only three hits for the Tigers.
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“Orting’s a good club,” head coach Bryan
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make you earn it. I thought we could’ve played the lead down to 7-3 in the third and then add-
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have one game under our belt, I guess.”
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double header today against Cascade (Leaven-
worth) and Cashmere today. Play starts at 11 Bryan Bailey said. “I bet we had six or seven
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a.m.
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team as the Vikings gave up “too many” innings felt like a victory.
“We had a good day,” he said. “The out-
unearned runs, according to head coach
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day, Sophomore hurler Diego Soto went
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hits.
2B — Keesha Sarman 2, Wright (Union); Monique Montoya (Echo). 3B — Cynthia
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eight feet short of La Grande’s Shanya Coo-
per’s meet-winning toss.
To round out the area performers, Echo’s
Swaggart and Kelsey Ranger placed third and
seventh, respectively, in the long jump. Swag-
gart jumped 14-08, about a foot short of the
best jump of the day, and Ranger leaped 14-06.
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Hermiston’s 6-4 victory over the Post Falls (ID) Trojans on Monday at
Rocky Heights Elementary School. Hinkley’s two-out, two-run single in
the fourth put Hermiston up for good.
ble header, Hermiston broke
open a 4-4 game with six runs
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away with a 10-5 win. Kopacz
hit a double to plate Drotzmann
to set off the explosion. Later,
Kopacz took a double off the
fence in center but was thrown
out at third trying to turn it into
a triple.
Hermiston again takes the
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for the Spring Break Invitation-
al. The Bulldogs square off with
Oregon City at noon Monday
and at 4 p.m. against Franklin.
The Hermiston baseball team
defeated Pasco 8-2 on Wednesday
in non-league play.
Taking advantage of two Pasco
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the second inning to pull away in
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Dylan Caldwell was 2-for-4 with
a double and four RBIs, Michael
Gossler added a 2-for-2 day with a
double for Hermiston (1-1).
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six innings, and Chase Root threw
a scoreless seventh to close out the
game.
Jose Vasquez gave Pasco (0-
2) its only lead of the game with
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Hermiston added one run in the
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