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A8 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2015 SPORTS ROUNDUP: Buckaroos frustrate Hermiston softball BULLDOGS HERMISTON HERALD The Hermiston Bulldogs softball team had a frustrat- ing day Tuesday, losing to Pendleton 13-1 in six in- nings. The Bucks plated eight runs in the fourth inning to turn a 2-0 game into a 10-0 game in a heartbeat. Herm- iston (7-15, 1-8) made “a couple” of mistakes with Bucks in scoring position, KHDGFRDFK.\OHH/HWHVDLG extending innings and giving Pendleton more opportuni- ties. Kalene Wheeler singled home Jaime Hinkley for Hermiston’s lone run in the ¿IWK :KHHOHU ZDV IRU with the RBI. Mikayla Ko- pacz and Hinkley were 2-for- 3 as well. Hermiston now enters the home stretch of its schedule with just three league games remaining. The Bulldogs host The Dalles Friday, Hood River Valley on Tuesday and close in the season in Pend- OHWRQ0D\$OO¿UVWSLWFK times are set for 4:30 p.m. ——— PENDLETON 13, HERMISTON 1 HHS 000 010 — 1 9 1 PHS 011 803 — 13 12 0 T. Betz and J. Hinkley; K. Murphy and M. WissenÀuh. 2B: M. Kopacz (HHS), J. Hinkley (HHS), E. Richards (PHS), A. Morrison (PHS). HR: T. Grass (PHS) 2. TIGERS continued from page A7 them to get some PT and get after it.” 6WDQ¿HOG WKRXJK UHOLHG on its lineup mainstays for most of the production Tues- day. Hunter Barnes singled home Flores and Klay Jen- VRQLQWKH¿UVWLQQLQJWRWDNH a quick 2-0 lead. TCP came right back in the top half of the second, however, when *UHJ &RYHUGHOO KLW KLV ¿UVW of two doubles. Sam Harlow then dinked one into center ¿HOG SODWLQJ &RYHUGHOO IRU 7&3¶V¿UVWUXQ 7KHQ 6WDQ¿HOG EURNH LW open in the third. With one out, Flores walked, bringing up Grogan. On the second pitch of the at-bat, Grogan lined CHALLENGE: continued from page A7 “It was smaller back then,” he said. “Now there’s a lot more people. It’s the same race. It must’ve done well because it’s the same race (and) everyone’s doing it (still).” Blackburn said that in the past the cross coun- try team has raised about $3,500 from the fundrais- er, which features partici- pants running various dis- BOYS GOLF The Hermiston tennis team had a successful tourna- ment at Bend Saturday, beat- ing both Hood River Valley and Pendleton. Against the Eagles, Herm- iston prevailed 5-3. Katelyn Millard and Deb- ra Johnson grabbed the two singles wins with Millard winning the No. 2 matchup 6-1, 6-1, and Johnson taking the No. 4 match 6-2, 7-6 (7- 2). Jaycee Ternes lost the No. 1 match after a tiebreaker, and Athen Reid lost in straight sets. In doubles action against the Eagles, Hermiston lost just once. Briana Wolfe and Chey- anne Peterson won in straight sets 6-1, 6-1, 6-0; Kylie Mark- wick and Whitney McMahon won in straight sets 6-1, 7-5; the No. 3 pair of Devyn Wolfe and Mackenzie Hill cruised 6-0, 6-0; and the No. 4 pair of Breena Wadekamper and Reed Middleton lost after a third-set tiebreaker. In the second match of the day against Pendleton, the Bulldogs waltzed to a 6-2 de- cision. Ternes, Hill and Wolfe each won singles matches in straight sets, and Wolfe and Peterson won in straight sets in No. 1 doubles action. Markwick and McMahon GURSSHG WKH ¿UVW VHW RI WKHLU second match but won 2-6, 6-3, 10-4 in a comeback vic- WRU\-RKQVRQDQG5HLG¿OOHG out the wins with a straight- set victory. “Kylie Markwick and Whitney McMahon played the best I’ve seen all year,” head coach Jason Sivey said. “You could tell they wanted to win, not just play some tennis.” As a whole, Sivey said, his team’s “mental game was better (Saturday).” “Against Pendleton, you could actually tell they want- ed to win,” he said. Hermiston heads to Hood one into the wind and over WKHIHQFHLQOHIWFHQWHU¿HOG,W cleared about 10 feet left of the 365-foot sign and was estimat- ed to be about 370 feet in total. It was Grogan’s second dinger in a week and third on the sea- son. Johnson said Grogan has been hitting more line drives lately, as opposed to early in the season when he was pop- ping up too much. “He can generate some power,” Jenson said. “He was in a little bit of a slump (earlier),” Johnson added. “Now he’s in a groove. “I said, ‘I bet the ball looks pretty big right now,’ and he said it does when you’re hit- ting well.” *URJDQ ¿QLVKHG IRU with three RBIs, a double and a home run, increasing his season average to .407, good for second best in the club. Bailey leads the Tigers with a .420 clip. After Grogan’s home run, the Tigers then broke open the game when Barnes singled, Allan doubled to plate Barnes and then Curiel, Keeney and Blankenship had their hits. “It’s contagious,” Grogan said of the two-out hitting. “It pumps us up.” Returning from his injury, Flores was solid on the hill. In ¿YH LQQLQJV KH DOORZHG ¿YH runs — four earned — on seven hits, walked four and struck out 10. Flores cruised XQWLO WKH ¿IWK DOORZLQJ MXVW one run on four hits but tired D ELW LQ KLV ¿QDO LQQLQJ DQG started to leave the ball up. 6WDQ¿HOG WDFNHG RQ DQ- other run in the sixth when Grogan doubled home Thy- ler Monkus, and Jenson and Grogan combined to slam the tances on the Butte, and he’s shooting for $3,500 to $4,000 this year. Each participant will have their name entered in a drawing to win one of 45 prizes ranging from gift FHUWL¿FDWHV WR D EDUEHFXH grill to a Blu-ray player. Winners must be present to claim their prize. The funds raised go to help the cross country run- ners in several ways. First, it helps pay for the T-shirts given to runners every sea- son. Blackburn’s predeces- sor, Jake Puzey, started the tradition of providing the athletes with a free T-shirt, and the Butte Challenge is a major part of paying for those shirts. Money raised from the event also provides funds for travel costs and meet Zac Adams and the Herm- iston boys golf team ran away with both the individual and team titles at the Hermis- ton Invite at Big River Golf Course Tuesday. Adams shot a career-low 68, which was the by far the lowest of the day on a windswept course, beating Brayden Pulver (75) and Chase Snodgrass of The Dalles (76). As a team, Hermiston shot 318, eight strokes better than runner-up Pendleton. Starting Monday, Herm- iston will be in Redmond for the 5A Special District 2 dis- trict tournament, which runs through May 13. GIRLS TENNIS River today. for a 4 p.m. match against the Eagles. BOYS TENNIS The Hermiston boys didn’t fare as well as their counter- parts in Madras on Saturday. Playing three of the top tennis teams in the state — Summit, Band and Madras — Hermis- ton came away with just two wins. Patrick Wicks and Thom- as McCullough took home the lone win for Hermiston in a doubles match. Kaleb Jorgenson and Skyler Grigg each won sets in a day that saw Hermiston get knocked around and suffer two ankle injuries. No. 1 doubles pair Tyler Wadekamper and Jacob Snell tried to solidify a spot at dis- tricts, but head coach Shann West said they just didn’t have their best day. He said when players have an off day, like Wadekamper and Snell had Saturday, they often get frustrated and over-hit balls, which the pair did. :HVW VRXJKW WR ¿QG SRVL- tives, though. “You’re able to see where other kids are,” he said. “You see what the next level is for high school players. Hopeful- ly we can understand that’s where we can be.” Hermiston hosts Hood River Valley at 4 p.m. today. door from the bullpen. With just two leagues games ahead of them, the Tigers are aiming to host a district game, which they did last year. “It’s so important,” Gro- JDQVDLGRIFOLQFKLQJWKH(2/ title. “It’s one thing we real- ly want to do. It’s one of our goals every year.” 6WDQ¿HOGKHDGVWR3RUWODQG Saturday for a doubleheader. The Tigers take on Portland Christian at 11 a.m. and Clats- kanie at 1 p.m. ——— STANFIELD 9, TRI-CITIES PREP 5 TCP 010 040 0 — 5 7 1 SHS 206 001 X — 9 11 3 T. Mercado, I. Nelson, P. Geist and S. Harlow; T. Flores, K. Jenson, D. Grogan and T. Monkus. 2B: G. Coverdell 2 (TCP), D. Grogan (SHS), S. Allan. 3B: J. Amoto (TCP). HR: D. Grogan (SHS). fees for the cross country team. The Butte Challenge course traverses around the Hermiston Butte, overlook- ing Funland Park and easily seen throughout the city. Saturday’s event features a 5-kilometer run, 5-K walk “I’ll play like that for the rest of the year if we continued from page A7 can, and I think we’ll be DOULJKW´ /DQFH +DZNLQV The Buckaroos finished said. “I told the boys it kind with 12 hits, includ- of sucks to lose like that, ing six doubles, four of but if we play like that, then which collided with the I’m pretty happy.” wall. Hermiston is reach- Hermiston conversely ing the brink of postsea- PDQXIDFWXUHGLWV¿YHUXQV son elimination. With using small ball and a bit three games remaining, of luck. Root opened the they trail third-place The game with a double down Dalles by two games. WKH OHIW ¿HOG OLQH DQG KH Only three teams in the scored three batters later on league hold the possibil- a Tyler Sexton groundout ity of participating in the to second. The Bulldogs state playoffs. scored two more when ——— Tolan smoked a ball to PENDLETON 6, ¿UVW EDVH EXW 3HQGOHWRQ¶V HERMISTON 5 Brady Smith missed pitch- er Caden Smith running to R H E ¿UVW DQG WKH EDOO ERXQFHG HERM 300 010 10 — 9 2 into the dugout allowing 5 PEND 300 001 11 — two runners to score. 6 12 1 Gammel and Sexton C. Root and L. Gammel. C. Smith, W. Morris and Q. Cockburn. W — W. Morris. L — C. each hit go-ahead sacri- (6) Rott ¿FHÀLHVWRWKHRXW¿HOGWR 2B — C. Root (HERM); M. Gossler (HERM); score Daniel Gossler to C. Smith (PEND); B. Hergert (PEND) 2; Q. Cockburn (PEND); K. Quinn (PEND) take leads at 4-3 and 5-4. HEADINGS: want to.” Division III schools don’t offer athletic schol- continued from page A7 arships; they just help ,,,FODVVL¿FDWLRQ/DVWVHD- ZLWK ¿QDQFLDO DLG +HDG- son, the Bruin’s posted a ings turned down athletic 32-1 record with the only scholarships from smaller loss coming in the Division schools to go to George III championship game to Fox because it felt right to her. Thomas More 83-63. “Playing with them, Success isn’t foreign to the Bruins. They’ve posted I had a lot of fun, and it 22-straight winning sea- looked like the girls had sons; they’ve been ranked a lot of fun, but they were in the top 25 at least once in still serious and still com- the past 11 seasons; they’ve petitive, but they wanted to TXDOL¿HG IRU WKH 1&$$ be there.” Headings plans to study tournament 11 of the past 15 seasons; and they’ve exercise science and possi- TXDOL¿HGIRUWKH)LQDO)RXU bly pursue physical thera- three of the past six seasons py. The move to Newberg while advancing to the title also isn’t a big source of game twice in that period, nerves for Headings. She in 2009, when they won and her family moved to it, and in 2015, when they +HUPLVWRQ IURP /HEDQRQ Oregon, about 20 miles took second. Despite all that, howev- east of Corvallis, and has er, Headings said the pro- family in the area. Headings admits things gram’s success played a small role in her decision. have been a blur since the She said she didn’t even close of her senior basket- know how well the Bruins ball season. In four short ¿QLVKHG WKLV VHDVRQ XQWLO months, Headings went after she had already decid- from no plans to play col- ed to attend. It was just the lege basketball, to con- sidering it, to garnering cherry on top. “It wasn’t a game-chang- interest to committing to a er,” Headings said. “The school. “I’m really glad I made really big thing for me was those girls aren’t playing my decision to play,” Head- there because they were ings said. “It’s a new chap- paid to — it’s because they ter. I’m excited.” and 10-K. The Butte Scoot is also available for chil- dren in a course adjacent to Funland Park, and Hermis- ton cross country runners will run it with the youth. After the Butte Scoot, an LQÀDWDEOH FDVWOH ZLOO EH EORZQXSLQWKH¿HOG “It’s just a fun family event,” Blackburn said. “You got the kids run. It’s right there by Funland, so kids can play at Funland. We’ll have hot dogs, all the prizes — it’s the funnest event when you can have your whole family there.” HERALD FILE PHOTO Runners from all across the region came to run in the 15th annual Butte Challenge in Hermiston last year. Funds raised from the eYent EeneÀt the Hermiston youth cross country program. 5K RUN, 5K WALK, 10K RUN, KID'S BUTTE SCOOT All races begin & end at Hermiston's Butte Park DRAWINGS • FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY Online registration & race information at WWW.BUTTECHALLENGE.COM REGISTER ONLINE BY APRIL 23RD TO ORDER A CUSTOM TECHNICAL RACE T-SHIRT All proceeds benefit THE HERMISTON CROSS COUNTRY PROGRAM