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SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 2015 HERMISTONHERALD.COM • A9 SPORTS Viking softball falls to Mac-Hi JV team scored a run and Joye Gar- cilazo, Brittnay Wheeler, Paz and Milly Rodriguez Against a largely junior each had hits in the loss. varsity roster, the Umatilla “I like the fact that we softball team had a rough hit the ball against a pret- day Wednesday. W\ JRRG SLWFKHU´ ¿UVW\HDU The Lady Vikings al- Umatilla coach Monty Wil- lowed six runs in a mis- liams said. “That team is a WDNH¿OOHG ¿UVW LQQLQJ HQ good. That team is a cham- URXWH WR D ¿YHLQQLQJ pionship program over loss to the defending 4A there. That is a program state champion Mac-Hi Pi- that we should model (ours) oneers JV team in Umatilla. after.” Chelsea Winters had a Before the season, Wil- single and scored a run for liams spoke about limiting the Lady Viks; Mari Paz mistakes, especially not BY SAM BARBEE HERMISTON HERALD throwing the ball around while on defense. Despite being successful the last few games, Umatilla strug- gled with that again. ,QWKH¿UVWLQQLQJZKHQ Mac-Hi plated six, Uma- tilla threw the ball around and gave the Pioneers extra runs. In the second inning, Umatilla allowed a batter to reach after she struck out looking. That extra out would come around to score. “We had the wheels FRPHRIIWKDW¿UVWLQQLQJ´ Williams said. “We did the thing we said we weren’t going to do: We threw the ball around today. We made mistakes. We made silly mistakes.” Umatilla, though, didn’t roll over. The majority of the Lady Viks’ at-bats end- ed with a ball put in play. In the second, Winters UHDFKHGRQDQLQ¿HOGVLQJOH and moved to second on a ground-out from Bridgett Dunham. Rodriguez then notched her hit, and Paz singled an out later to drive in Winters from third. ,Q WKH ¿IWK 3D] HDUQHG D VSRW DW ¿UVW DIWHU JHW- ting drilled in the ribs and moved to second when Bri- anna Regian walked. Gar- cilazo then laced a double into the right-center gap, plating Paz easily from third to put Umatilla’s sec- ond run on the board. “The other thing I did like was the fact that we fought in the last inning to come back and extend the game,” Williams said. “We didn’t quit. We still went up to the plate and hit the ball.” Mac-Hi, though, never VWUXJJOHG WR ¿QG RIIHQVH The Pioneers scored in each inning and had at least one hit in each inning, as well. For Williams and the Vikings, though, this game was a tune-up for the start of the league slate, which kicked off Friday against Vale. “I wanted to see a good team (today), and I saw a good team today,” Williams said. 6WDQ¿HOGWHQQLVFRQWLQXHVGHYHORSPHQWYV,RQH BY SAM BARBEE HERMISTON HERALD At a 4A/2A/3A/1A Special District 4 tennis match between Stanfield and Ione on Thursday, the name of the game was de- velopment. Stanfield graduated many of its experienced tennis players from last season, and Ione had a hefty number of newcom- ers, as well. Plus, with Stanfield’s head coach Lisa Logan not present, assistant Monica Geh- rke used Thursday as an opportunity to improve. That’s all she was after. “Usually I ask them what they think they need to work on when they get off the court,” Gehrke said. “We just kinda put those in perspective of what they need to work on., but, for the most part, I think they did alright. This is only the second match of the season for most of them.” On the boys side, Ione took three-of-four from the Tigers, with Jan Glasen topping Hank Gehrke 8-0. Kai Arbogast beat Austin Thompson 8-0, and Bryan Fowler slipped past Gehrke 8-5. Stanfield’s Thompson sealed the lone boys win, beating Cardinals’ Italian foreign exchange student Enrico Macciotti 9-7. “I do think that Ione’s boys were stronger than my boys (Thursday),” Monica Gehrke said. She said Glasen, who is a foreign exchange student from Germany, is a very good player with instincts and talent. Gehrke said once Glasen figured out his backhand was consistently working against Hank Gehrke, he kept going back to it. “He had skills,” she said. Thompson and Macci- otti’s match might have SAM BARBEE PHOTO 6WDQÀHOG·V+DQN*HKUNHWKH7LJHUV·1RVLQJOHVSOD\HUWULHV WRPDLQWDLQDUDOO\DJDLQVW,RQH·V-DQ*ODVHQ7KXUVGD\LQ 6WDQÀHOG*ODVHQZHQWRQWRZLQ SAM BARBEE PHOTO 6WDQÀHOGMXQLRU<D]]PLQ&KDYH]VHUYHVGXULQJDGRXEOHVPDWFKDJDLQVW,RQHRQ7KXUVGD\LQ 6WDQÀHOG&KDYH]ZLWKKHUSDUWQHU*XLW]HOO&KDYH]EHDW7LPDQG7RP*RXOG been the most evenly matched match of the afternoon, with neither player having any real leg up in skill or experience. Thompson and Macci- otti traded game wins until the match was tied at eight, but Thompson took control and outlast- ed Macciotti in the end. It was Macciotti’s first match of the season and his young career. “He did very well,” Ione coach Maureen McElligott said. “It’s nice to see improvement in him.” On the girls side, things were much more even. The lineups on both sides were full of first- year players, creating some very competitive and even matches. Stanfield’s No. 1 dou- bles team Yazzmin Chavez and Guitzell Chavez beat the No. 1 Ione boys team of Tom and Tim Gould 8-1. Playing as the No. 1 girls doubles team, Na- talia Esquivel and Edith Ibarra had a 6-5 lead, but they couldn’t hold it and lost to Maia Fuchs and Katelyn Bess 8-6. Fuchs and Bess also took on Melissa Hood and Z.Z. Ruloph and won 8-2. Ione’s Erica Nelson and IRUWKH¿UVWUXQRIWKHEDOO- game. Dever kept Vale at bay continued from page A8 for the first two innings, a high fastball past the Vale allowing just one hit, but VKRUWVWRS LQWR OHIW ¿HOG $ Vale pushed one across batter later, with runners in the third to tie things DW¿UVWDWWKLUGDQGQRERG\ at one when Tanner Ro- out, Dever helped himself mans walked, stole sec- E\ JURXQGLQJ LQWR D ¿HOG- ond, moved to third on a er’s choice to plate Landon wild pitch and scored on another wild pitch. Af- ter a quiet home half of the third, Vale got three, capped by an RBI field- er’s choice off the bat of Lane Cummings. Vale got its final three in the top half of the sixth, highlighted by a two-run single from Mar- co Ramirez to give Vale its 8-1 lead. In the opener, Vale jumped to a quick 1-0 lead after the first inning and added to it with one in the third, two in the fourth and one in the sixth. Umatilla threatened, though, loading the bases with one out, but a field- SOFTBALL: committing seven errors, with six coming in the third inning alone. Herm- iston had six straight bat- ters reach on errors that inning but could only push HERMISTON 6, across the four runs. REYNOLDS 1 Julissa Almaguer toed RHS 000 010 the slab in the front end, 0 — 1 6 2 allowing the nine runs, HHS 400 020 X — 6 5 2 with seven earned, on sev- C. Vance and C. Curtis. T. Betz and B. Naylor. en hits, walked two and 2B: M. Grose (RHS). K. Wheeler (HHS). 3B: M. Kopacz (HHS). HR: A. Drotzmann (HHS). struck out one. Lete said the freshman threw well but was let down at times REYNOLDS 9, by her defense. HERMISTON 4 “They hit her, but we ,Q WKH ¿UVW JDPH RI WKH gave them some runs, afternoon, Hermiston too, that we could’ve tak- head coach Lete said her en away and tighten the Bulldogs came out “tight” score,” Lete said. “We and couldn’t rally from an also left runners on base, HDUO\GH¿FLW which doesn’t help.” Drotzmann went 2-for- ——— 3 that game, but Reynolds REYNOLDS 9, scored in every inning but HERMISTON 4 the second while holding 301 211 1 Hermiston to just four in RHS 9 7 7 the third. HHS 003 000 0 Reynolds won despite 4 2 3 BASEBALL: followed with a double to SXW %HW] LQ KHU ¿UVW MDP of the day: runners at sec- continued from page A8 ond and third with just one The Bulldog bats were DZD\ 6DUDK 6WDQ¿OO WKHQ TXLHW XQWLO WKH ¿IWK LQQLQJ shot a single into left, plat- when Moser led off with ing Laine from third. It was a single up the middle and all Betz would allow that then promptly stole sec- inning, coaxing a couple of ond with Kopacz at the HDV\SRSÀLHV dish. The first baseman In the seventh, Reynolds lashed one to the fence in again threatened. After two right for a triple, scoring quick outs, Alison Walton Moser easily from first. and Cheyenne Vance both Jones then grounded out singled, but Betz induced to the second baseman, a foul-territory popout to but Kopacz didn’t take her battery mate Breyanna off until after Jones had Naylor to end the threat and been put out at first. This the game. set up a close play at “The girls are learning home, but the throw was how to turn a ballgame just enough off-line that around, and that’s huge Kopacz slid in under the for us” Lete said. “They’re tag for Hermiston’s sixth learning how to come back and final run. IURPDWZRWKUHHUXQGH¿FLW Reynolds, though, didn’t and score runs. Whether we go down easy. The Raiders win or not, we’re learning JRW RQH LQ WKH ¿IWK ZKHQ how to face those challeng- Raven Laine singled with es. That’s mental toughness one out and Madi Grose right there.” Kelsey Van Os won an 8-7 nail-biter over Na- talie Cornejo and Aman- da Carillo, and Stanfield earned a win from Brenna Holt and Payton Henning, who beat Reiah Waite and Natalie Grigg 8-3. In their second match, Hannah Flynn and Nelson beat Lanessa Bautista and Bri- anna Carnejo 8-0. In girls singles match- es, Rita McElligott topped Esquivel 8-6, Ione’s Ka- rina Rios knocked off Candida Rojas 8-1 and Stanfield’s Nicole Hood slipped past Ione’s Babali Peterson 8-5. McElligott said many of the matches were much closer than the scores in- dicate, and that’s tough to tell sometimes with one- set, first-to-eight match- er’s choice and a strike- out were all the Vikings could muster. Landon went the dis- tance for the Umatilla Vikings, giving up just the five runs and striking out nine. ——— Vale 8, UMATILLA 1 es. The winning and losing wasn’t important to either Gehrke or McElligott, however. With so many players new to the game — some even playing their first matches ever — it was important to get them experience playing in matches to determine where they are as players but also to have fun. “My idea is you do as well as you want to do,” McElligott said. “I can show you and tell you what to do, but I can’t do it for you. So, you have to take it that step further and have to want to do it, and I think most of them do, so that’s good, and most of them have fun, so that’s half the battle right there.” VHS 001 304 0 — 8 6 0 HHS 100 000 0 — 1 2 5 A. Webber and J. Schoorl. J. Dever, D. Soto and C. Landon. 2B: A. Webber (VHS). ——— VALE 5, UMATILLA 1 VHS 0 — 5 UHS 0 — 1 101 201 000 100 Hermiston’s next game is Tuesday at Madison. First pitch is set for 3:45 p.m. ——— SAM BARBEE PHOTO Hermiston’s Taylor Betz comes home with a pitch with a Reyn- olds runner on second during the Bulldogs’ 6-1 win over the Raiders Friday at Rocky Heights Elementary School.