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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2015 HERMISTONHERALD.COM • A11 SPORTS Hermiston lacrosse shows promise following losses BY SAM BARBEE HERMISTON HERALD Last spring, the Herm- iston lacrosse team lost to &DQE\ E\ JRDOV LQ LWV final game of the year. This spring, the Bull- dogs scored six of sev- en third-quarter goals to mount a second-half comeback, but the Can- by Cougars proved to be too much, holding off the Bulldogs 14-12 Sunday afternoon at Sunset Ele- mentary School. The game was the third of the week for the Bull- dogs (1-2). They lost to Southridge (Washington) 11-7 on March 16 and beat Century 12-6 on Fri- day. Though head coach Scott Hammond said three games in a week can, and will, cause fa- tigue, it wasn’t an excuse. “I just thought we were way too inconsis- tent,” he said. “We gotta play more consistent. I thought we played really well on Friday night, but I thought we looked a little bit slow, a little bit tired (on Sunday). That’s not an excuse. We gotta keep working and keep getting better.” George Westfall led the Bulldogs with four goals, and AJ Schoonover and Bradley Giusti had three apiece. Bulldog goalkeeper Chris Jones turned away seven shots in total, and Hammond said a num- SAM BARBEE PHOTO Hermiston lacrosse player Tucker Salinas (22) drives against Canby’s Chris Morris during the second half of Hermiston’s 14-12 loss Sunday at Sunset Elementary School. ber of the goals allowed weren’t his fault. “He’s solid for us, real solid,” Hammond said of Jones. “A lot of those goals, we put him in a really bad position. We gotta work better as a team defensively, staying in front of our guy, help side. That’s not all on him by any means.” Hammond said, while his Bulldogs were timid in their first contest of the week, by the third game the timidity was gone. Hermiston scored the first goal of Sunday’s game off the opening face-off and led 5-2 after the opening quarter. The lead wouldn’t last, however. Canby scored five goals in the second quarter to Hermiston’s one and took a 7-6 lead at halftime. No Canby play- er scored more than one goal in that period in a very balanced attack. Hammond has been preaching competition and competitiveness, and, in the third quarter, Hermiston showed it can fight. After giving up three straight to start the sec- ond half, Hammond took time to talk with his club with the Bulldogs down :HVWIDOO WKHQ JRW hot and hit the back of the net three times in the third quarter. His third of the quarter and fourth of the day tied things up at 11 to complete the come- back, but Hammond said his team spent a bit too much energy in that time. “We just gotta stay consistent throughout,” Hammond said of falling behind in the second and coming back in the third. “If we don’t put ourselves in that position in the sec- ond of being down, then we could already be in a good position and add to a lead at that point, in- stead of having to claw back and having to use up all our energy to come back in the game.” Canby scored the first three goals of the fourth quarter, and Schoonover’s last score, with about two minutes left, proved to be too little too late. Despite the frustrat- ing loss, Hammond was satisfied his team played better than the last time it took on Canby. Hammond said the Bulldogs compet- ed last year but just didn’t have the ability to stay with a decent Canby team. This year, Canby had to hold off the Bulldogs in a close, competitive game. In his post-game address, Hammond told his play- ers they should have won, that they can beat that team. “I don’t think (that game’s) anywhere close to our potential,” Ham- mond said. “It’s still real- ly early in the season. We have a ton of things we can still be better at. We could have done a couple (more) things right and won that game.” Still, he thinks the team’s outlook is bright this season, with most of the roster made up of freshmen and sopho- mores. “There’s no doubt this is moving in the right di- rection,” he said. “We’re light years ahead of where we were last year. We’re just not where we want to be.” Hermiston next plays at 5 p.m. today against the Richland Bombers at Sun- set Elementary School. Vikings fall to Dufur Saturday The Umatilla baseball team came away from Sat- urday’s doubleheader in Dufur with two losses. The Vikings lost to the Dufur Rangers 13-3 in the opener, and Kennedy snuck past the Vikings 4-3 in the ¿QDOH The Vikings committed ¿YH HUURUV LQ WKH UXQ loss, allowing seven un- earned runs. Cory Landon, Josh De- ver and Cody Samson had the only hits for Umatilla in WKH¿UVWJDPH7KH9LNLQJV VFRUHG WKH ¿UVW UXQ RI WKH ballgame when Landon sin- gled, stole second and third and scored on a ground ball off the bat of Dever. The lead wouldn’t last as Dufur plated seven in the bottom half, with four of those un- earned. In the second game, Umatilla stuck close to Kennedy and even had a FKDQFH WR ZLQ LQ WKH ¿QDO inning. Kennedy struck ¿UVW VFRULQJ WZR LQ WKH ¿UVW 8PDWLOOD DQVZHUHG in the second, when Tris- ten Sanguino walked and scored on a double from Ernesto Barrea to make the count 2-1. Kennedy tacked on two more in the fourth to take a 4-1 lead, and Umatil- la got one back in the sixth after back-to-back doubles from Jair Andrade and Kole Keller to cut the lead in half at 4-2. Umatilla got one more in the seventh when Emilio Bernal walked and scored. With the tying run on base, Dever, who Vikings skipper Corleone “Booter” Lewis called his best hitter, popped up to right to end the threat and the game. Dever pitched all seven er recover. The Kodiaks won despite committing HLJKW HUURUV 7KH ¿UVW QLQH Cascade batters reached base in that second inning, producing the seven runs. 6WDQ¿HOG WKRXJK ZRXOG come back in the top of the third, plating six of its own. The Tigers capitalized on three Cascade errors in that inning, and Thyler Monkus and Ryan Bailey each had RBI singles. Monkus started on the bump and went four in- nings, allowed 12 runs (nine earned) on nine hits, walked six and struck out one. Hunter Barnes was stellar in relief, tossing two innings and allowing just one unearned run on one hit. Jason Fitzpatrick was 2-for-4, Dylan Grogan DUFUR 13, scored two runs and Ryan UMATILLA 3 (5) Bailey had two RBIs. UHS 100 02 — 3 3 5 In the second game of DHS 700 42 — 13 7 0 WKH GD\ 6WDQ¿HOG¶V EDWV WP: T. Tibbets LP: C. Landon 2B: K. Bales (DHS) never came to life. Cash- ——— mere starter Tyler Chip- KENNEDY 4, UMATILLA 3 KHS 200 200 PDQ DOORZHG MXVW ¿YH EDVH 0 — 4 3 0 runners in six innings and UHS 010 001 struck out seven in the one- 1 — 3 3 1 2B: D. Arritola (KHS), H. Melsness (KHS), J. hit shutout. Cashmere took Andrade (UHS), K. Keller (UHS). D OHDG LQWR WKH ERWWRP of the sixth inning and plat- HGVL[JLYLQJWKHPDUXQ advantage, initiating the mercy rule. 7KH 6WDQ¿HOG 7LJHUV Grogan had the only hit baseball team continued IRU 6WDQ¿HOG QRWFKLQJ D its season-opening slide, VLQJOH LQ WKH ¿UVW LQQLQJ losing a pair in Cashmere, Barnes started on the bump, Washington on Saturday. went three innings and al- The Tigers lost the open- lowed four runs (all earned) er of the doubleheader to on four hits and struck out Cascade (Leavenworth) one. Keith Wampler and DQGZHUHRQHKLWLQD Fitzpatrick were solid in EOXGJHRQLQJ relief, combining for 2.2 in- 6WDQ¿HOG JDYH XS nings and just one run, but seven runs in the bottom Justin Keeney didn’t have half of the second inning that kind of success. He to Cascade and could nev- didn’t record an out and al- The Hermiston softball team dropped both of its games at the Spring Break Invitational in Clackamas, ORVLQJ WKH ¿UVW WR 2UHJRQ &LW\ DQG WKH VHFRQG WR )UDQNOLQ In the opener, Hermis- The Hermiston boys golf ton was one-hit — the lone team had its best day ever knock being a bunt single in Grandview, Washington. by cleanup hitter Mikay- ,Q WKH ODVW ¿YH \HDUV WKH la Kopacz. The Pioneers’ %XOOGRJV¶ EHVW ¿QLVK ZDV pitcher struck out 12 in the second, and they never had dominant performance. DQ\RQH EUHDN 0RQGD\ In the nightcap, Hermis- Hermiston did both. WRQFDPHXSVKRUWLQ The Bulldogs shot 25- a barn-burner with Frank- over 313 as a team, claim- lin. Hermiston scored in ing the team title. Paden WKH ¿UVW ¿YH LQQLQJV EXW La Coursiere, who battled couldn’t push one across windy conditions along the ODWH +HUPLVWRQ JRW LWV back nine, held on to even runs on just four hits. par, which ended up being Julissa Almaguer pitched the lowest score of the day. all but one , throwing the Hermiston head coach ¿UVWWZRDQGWKH¿QDO Mike Frink said the condi- ,QLWV¿QDOWZRJDPHVDW tions started calm but slow- the Spring Break Invitation- ly picked up until condi- al in Clackamas, Hermiston tions on the back-nine were split with Milwaukie and YHU\GLI¿FXOW host Clackamas. Hermiston La Coursiere was 2-un- WRSSHG WKH 0XVWDQJV der going into the back in the morning and dropped nine and had to work hard LWV ¿QDOH WR WKH KRVW to keep his score from bal- Cavaliers. looning. In the morning, Herm- “It was a good round, let’s put it that way,” Frink said. .HHJDQ&UDIWRQ¿QLVKHG SOLUTION: Another solution could be to erect a screen, something Ganvoa mentioned, that merely blocks the glare coming off the roof. This isn’t a huge deal. It’s a minor problem, but it could become a greater issue down the road. A game can’t be called every time a baseball game is played at Armand Larive in March in the early afternoon because of a blinding glare. It would severely cripple any type of early-season Baseball and sun are frenemies. They go well together, but the sun can be a dangerous spectator at a baseball game. Hermiston can’t let the sun become such a huge problem that games are called. Let’s hope this is the last time this happens, but we can’t assume it will be. Let’s make sure it never happens again. — Sam Barbee is the Hermiston Herald sports reporter. He can be reached at sbarbee@ hermistonherald.com continued from page A10 but also because a school wants its complex to look good, or, as Ganvoa put it, “aesthetically pleasing.” The school district should do something, however, to lessen or eliminate the glare. One solution is by painting that one roof matte black. That way the surface would absorb all the sun’s light hitting it DQGQRWUHÀHFWDQ\RILW innings in the 4-3 loss to Kennedy, and, according to Lewis, “pitched a hell of a game.” Lewis was also im- pressed that his team made the nightcap a competitive ballgame after getting rout- ed in the opener. “It was a good game, we just took a little too long to get the bats going,” Lewis said Sunday. “I was very happy the way, after getting UXQQHG WKHQ FRPLQJ EDFNWKHQH[WJDPHPLQ- utes later and losing by one. I was really impressed with the attitude they came back with. They came back and battled.” Umatilla starts its league schedule April 3 when it hosts Vale for a double- header starting at 2 p.m. ——— BASEBALL scheduling. But it has to be thought about. It has to be a concern, and a solution has to be found. Ganvoa and I talked about protocol for if this happens again. He said SOD\HUVDQGRI¿FLDOV will wait it out, like a rain delay, and resume play once the glare is VXI¿FLHQWO\JRQH%XW they’ll have to notify the conference and the state if it becomes a bigger problem so teams aren’t ¿UVWOHDUQLQJDERXWWKH situation when it happens. ORZHG¿YHUXQVDOOHDUQHG on two hits. 6WDQ¿HOG KRVWV 8QLRQ Cove on Thursday at 11 a.m. ——— CASCADE (LEAVENWORTH) 13, STANFIELD 10 SHS 006 022 0 — 10 9 4 CHS 071 140 X — 13 10 8 WP: C. McMatton LP: T. Monkus 2B: D. Grogan (SHS), K. Kish (CHS). 3B: A. Murdock (CHS). ——— CASHMERE (WA) 10, STANFIELD 0 (6) SHS 000 000 — 0 1 0 CHS 202 006 — 10 7 0 WP: T. Chipman LP: H. Barnes 2B; J. Frazier (CHS), P. Landdeck (CHS). 3B: M. Elliot (CHS). GOLF third with a 4-over 76 and beat Zillah’s No. 1 player in a one-hole playoff for third place. Zac Adams, made ¿YH RQ KLV ¿UVW ¿YH KROHV and shot 1-under 35 on the EDFNQLQHWRVDOYDJHD¿IWK place 5-over 77. Hermiston’s next tour- nament is April 3 at Eagle &UHVW5LGJH LQ 5HGPRQG The event is slated to start at 9 a.m. SOFTBALL iston broke open a 2-2 tie ZLWK VL[ UXQV LQ WKH ¿IWK Abi Drotzmann had an RBI single in the rally, and Ko- pacz and Almaguer both stole home. Taylor Betz threw a complete game, allowed just six hits and struck out one. ,Q WKH ¿QDOH &ODFND- mas jumped out to a quick OHDG ZLWK ¿YH LQ WKH ¿UVW 7KH ¿UVW ¿YH &DYDOLHUV KLW safely, with two notching doubles, providing all the cushion they would need. The Cavs got eight more in the fourth to break the game open. Hermiston tried to re- spond in the fourth and ¿IWKLQQLQJVJHWWLQJWZRLQ the fourth and three in the ¿IWKEXW&ODFNDPDV¶SLWFK- ing proved to be too much. Elory Jones was the lone offensive bright spot for Hermiston, going 2-for-3 at the plate, scoring two runs and stealing three bases. ,QWKH¿IWKVKHUHDFKHGRQ a single and stole second, third and the plate to notch Hermiston’s fourth run. Hermiston plays again March 31 at Summit. First pitch is set for 4 p.m. ——— HERMISTON 10, MILWAUKIE 5 (6) MHS 020 011 1 — 5 6 4 HHS 001 161 X — 10 7 1 WP. T. Betz LP: L. Paschel-Lloyd 2B: J. Hinkley (HHS). ——— CLACKAMAS 13, HERMISTON 5 (5) HHS 000 32 — 5 6 5 CHS 500 80 — 13 15 2 WP; A. Zehr LP: T. Betz 2B: M.Kopacz (HHS), J. Haelhan (CHS), A. Godinez (CHS).