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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,
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extending innings and giving
Pendleton more opportuni-
ties.
Kalene Wheeler singled
home Jaime Hinkley for
Hermiston’s lone run in the
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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-
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times are set for 4:30 p.m.
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Richards (PHS), A. Morrison (PHS). HR: T.
Grass (PHS) 2.
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them to get some PT and get
after it.”
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on its lineup mainstays for
most of the production Tues-
day.
Hunter Barnes singled
home Flores and Klay Jen-
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a quick 2-0 lead. TCP came
right back in the top half of
the second, however, when
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of two doubles. Sam Harlow
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open in the third. With one out,
Flores walked, bringing up
Grogan. On the second pitch
of the at-bat, Grogan lined
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“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
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second match but won 2-6,
6-3, 10-4 in a comeback vic-
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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
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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.”
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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
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runs — four earned — on
seven hits, walked four and
struck out 10. Flores cruised
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one run on four hits but tired
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started to leave the ball up.
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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
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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.
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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-
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title. “It’s one thing we real-
ly want to do. It’s one of our
goals every year.”
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Saturday for a doubleheader.
The Tigers take on Portland
Christian at 11 a.m. and Clats-
kanie at 1 p.m.
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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
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the rest of the year if we
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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-
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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.
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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
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take leads at 4-3 and 5-4.
HEADINGS:
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Division III schools
don’t offer athletic schol-
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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
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Headings plans to study
tournament 11 of the past
15 seasons; and they’ve exercise science and possi-
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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
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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
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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
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“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