SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 2015
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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.
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The Lady Vikings al- Umatilla coach Monty Wil-
lowed six runs in a mis- liams said. “That team is a
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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for the first two innings,
a high fastball past the Vale allowing just one hit, but
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batter later, with runners in the third to tie things
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out, Dever helped himself mans walked, stole sec-
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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
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the slab in the front end,
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allowing the nine runs,
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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
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by her defense.
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“They hit her, but we
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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,
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which doesn’t help.”
Drotzmann went 2-for-
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scored in every inning but
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the second while holding
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Hermiston to just four in RHS
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the third.
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Reynolds won despite 4 2 3
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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.
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Reynolds, though, didn’t and score runs. Whether we
go down easy. The Raiders win or not, we’re learning
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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.
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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.”
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A. Webber and J. Schoorl. J. Dever, D. Soto and
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VALE 5, UMATILLA 1
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Hermiston’s next game
is Tuesday at Madison.
First pitch is set for 3:45
p.m.
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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.