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SATURDAY, MAY 9, 2015
SPORTS
Hermiston boys dominate last-chance meet
EO MEDIA GROUP
Honing in on disciplines
was the name of the game
at Friday’s Columbia Riv-
er Conference last-chance
track meet for most athletes
squarely set for next week’s
meet, including Hermiston
sophomore Audrey Lincoln.
The unquestioned No.
2 sprinter in the district be-
hind reigning sprints cham-
pion Jetsena Mattson of
Hood River, Lincoln set to
work to cut more time off
of her best race — the 100
meters — putting her other
disciplines aside for the day.
“Since I was just running
the 100, I was just trying
to run as fast as I can,” she
said.
Entering the season, the
diminutive Lincoln had
yet to cross the 13-second
threshold in a race. She’s
done so each time out this
season and did so again on
Friday. Her 12.63 time was
0.90 seconds faster than any
of the 17 athletes racing Fri-
day. It was 0.11 seconds off
of her personal-best.
Chris Behrendt and Trev-
or Sweet ran hip-to-hip
in the boys version of the
100 meters, with Behrendt
nudging Sweet at the line in
11.44 seconds.
Tyler McCabe followed
up Behrendt’s spring suc-
cess with a win of his own
in the 200 meter in a person-
al-best time of 23.01.
Trey Neal swept the boys
throws with wins in the shot
put, discus and javelin. His
shot put of 47-02.5 feet and
discus of 134-10 throws
were well below his person-
al bests, but he shattered his
previous best by 16 feet.
Other winners included
Will Sharkey, pole vault,
Jazzmin Gutierrez, shot put,
Tyler Rohrman, 110-me-
ter hurdles, Donnell Rome,
3,000 meters, Sara Ortiz,
200 meters, the boys 4x400
team of McCabe, Alexis
Moreno, Sheridan Zum-
walt and Behrendt, the No.
2 4x100 meter team of Joey
Gutierrez, Mercado, Jona-
than Hinkle and Rohrman,
as well as the girls 4x100
team of Lillie Wheeler, Or-
tiz, Lesley Risueno and Lin-
coln.
The victories set the Bull-
dogs up nicely for a boys
team win. They outscored
The Dalles and Pendleton
by more than 100 points.
The Dalles took the girls
side, scoring seven more
than Hermiston and 20 more
than Pendleton.
BOYS TENNIS
Following a 5-3 loss to
Hood River Wednesday
with four singles losses,
the Hermiston boys re-
bounded Friday with a
big 6-1 win over the rival
Pendleton Buckaroos.
In the No. 1 singles
spot, Valentino Whitsell
came out on top, edging
Henry Holdman 6-3, 6-4.
Playing singles instead of
doubles for the first time
this season, Stephan Piers
and Thomas McCullough
both used a third-set tie-
breaker to dispatch their
opponents. Piers topped
Daniel Medina 6-1, 5-7
(10-6), and after dropping
the first set, McCullough
rolled past Peter Wallace
4-6, 6-0 (10-6).
Continuing their like-
ly march to state, Tyler
Wadekamper and Jacob
Snell eased past Gareth
Haug and Jeremy Co-
chrane 6-0, 6-3, and the
pairs of Race Latham and
Cameron Meade and Pat-
rick Wicks and Jason Mor-
ris didn’t lose a set.
Friday’s match against
Pendleton was Hermiston’s
final dual of the season be-
fore the team heads to dis-
tricts next weekend, which
begins at 8 a.m. Friday at
Sunriver Resort in Bend.
The tournament concludes
Saturday.
HERMISTON 6,
PENDLETON 1
Singles: Valentino Whitesell (HER) def. Henry
Holdman (PEN) 6-3, 6-4; Lincoln Johnson (PEN)
def. Caleb Jorgenson (HER) 6-1, 6-2; Stefano
Peiris (HER) def. Daniel Medina (PEN) 6-1,
5-7 (6-10); Thomas McCulough (HER) def.
Peter Wallace (PEN) 4-6, 6-0 (10-6).
Doubles: Tyler Wadekamper and Jacob
Snell (HER) def. Gareth Haug and Jeremy
Cochrane (PEN) 6-0, 6-3; Race Latham
and Cameren Meade (HER) def. Peter
Wallace and Silas Johnston (PEN) 6-0, 6-0;
Patrick Wicks and Jason Morris (HER) def.
Josh Mendoza and Henry Scanlon (PEN)
6-0, 6-0.
Hood River tennis slips past Bulldogs
Snell, Wadekamper
transition to
partners paying off
BY SAM BARBEE
HERMISTON HERALD
Jacob Snell and Tyler
Wadekamper started the 2015
tennis season as Hermiston’s
top two singles players. With
districts just a week away, the
duo is two weeks into a tran-
sition to doubles play. So far,
it appears to be going well.
The pair cruised past
their Hood River opponents
Wednesday evening 6-2, 6-0,
and they say they’re starting
to learn each other’s tenden-
cies with every match they
play. Despite their success,
Hood River took the day 5-3.
“I think it’s really good
right now,” Wadekamper
said. “We’re kind of knock-
ing it out right now heading
into districts. I think we’ve
learned a lot going down to
Boise, going down to Bend.
We’ve grown a lot as team-
mates and I think it’s going
to be really good going into
districts.
“It’s definitely different
when you’re not on your
own,” he added. “You have
kind of like a brotherhood:
He’s relying on you. You’re
relying on him. You’re play-
ing for each other, not neces-
sarily for yourself.”
Wadekamper and Snell’s
skill sets are complementa-
ry. Snell is left-handed, tall,
long and plays well at the net.
Wadekamper is right-handed
and prefers to sit back and hit
ground strokes or forehands
and backhands.
The seniors have craft-
ed their own style of play
almost independent of first-
year coach Shann West, who
admitted doubles tennis is
his weakness. He’s been im-
pressed with how Snell and
Wadekamper figured out how
to play together.
“Those guys are smart
tennis players, and they un-
derstand the game,” West
said. “They play a lot and
study it and they’re coming
up with their own style based
on what they know and what
works for them, and that’s
awesome.”
Race Latham and Camer-
on Meade, on the other had,
have been playing doubles
together all season. At the
Capital Classic in Boise a
couple weeks ago, the No.
2 pair went 7-1 and reached
the finals. Wednesday, they
struggled to put away the
match.
Up 1-0 in sets and 4-1 in
the second set, Latham and
Meade let their Eagles oppo-
nent back in the match. The
second set would get to 6-5
before a double fault by HRV
ended the match.
West said, although
Latham and Meade play
well together, they got a bit
“lackadaisical” at the end of
the their match and made it
closer than it had to be.
“They were very close
to sweeping it until the mo-
mentum shifted,” he said.
“They’re right where they
need to be. You learn from
mistakes, and they know
they have to stay focused the
whole time, and that’ll help
at districts next week.”
Although Hood River
swept the Bulldogs in sin-
gles matches, Caleb Jor-
genson’s No. 3 match stood
out. The sophomore lost
6-4, 6-4, but his effort and
desire to improve has been
a point of pride for West all
year. Against a solid oppo-
nent, Jorgenson “battled”
the whole match and didn’t
go down easy. It made West
happy with the result despite
the loss.
“That’s just what Caleb
does — he battles with ev-
erybody he plays,” West
said. “He does a really good
job. Every once in a while he
comes up on the short end
of it, but I can’t think of any
match that I was disappoint-
ed with his effort. It’s one
of the things he does — he
gives great effort. I let him
know that every time.”
With the district tour-
nament looming, West is
optimistic about his team’s
chances. Though the Bull-
dogs share a district with tra-
ditional tennis powers Sum-
mit and Bend, things have
been looking up lately.
“We’re as prepared as
we’ll ever be,” West said
of districts. “Hopefully the
guys will show up and play
like they can.”
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HOOD RIVER
VALLEY 5,
HERMISTON 3
Singles
Scottie Ziegnev (HRV) def. Valentino Whitsell
(HHS) 6-0, 6-0
Victor Garibo (HRV) def. Skyler Grigg 6-3, 6-0
Will Ferrick (HRV) def. Caleb Jorgenson (HHS)
6-4, 6-4
Aiden Sova (HRV) def. Thomas McCullough
(HHS) 6-1, 6-0
Doubles
Tyler Wadekamper and Jacob Snell (HHS) def.
Brandon Campos and Michael De La Rosa
(HRV) 6-2, 6-0
Cameron Meade and Race Latham (HHS) def.
Cole Suzpael and Hugo Sandoval (HRV) 6-0,
7-6 (7-5)
Quinn Tyler and Sawyer Bogart (HRV) def. Pat-
rick Wicks and Jason Morris (HS) 6-3, 7-6 (7-2)
Koby Grigg and Stefano Peirra (HHS) def. Sam
Rauston and Simon Hoavange (HRV) 4-6,
6-4, 10-5
Tiger, Viking tracksters shine at Umatilla Finale
HERMISTON HERALD
Andrea
Lemus-Cis-
neros has spent much of
the 2015 track and field
season recovering from a
right quadriceps injury.
Thursday, at the Umatil-
la Finale, her final home
meet,
Lemus-Cisner-
os showed why she has
signed to sprint at East-
ern Oregon University
next season.
The senior won the
100-
and
200-meter
sprints, clocking 12.77
seconds in the 100 and
26.40 in the 200. The 100
time was her best since
she set a personal record
at McLoughlin April
3. It was the first time
since April 17 at River’s
Edge in Umatilla that Le-
mus-Cisneros broke 13
seconds. Lemus-Cisne-
ros also teamed up with
Berenice Chavez, Alee-
sha Watson and Gabriela
Contreras Thursday to
win the 4x400-meter re-
lay in 4:43.19.
Amie Zittkerob ran
just the 4x100-meter
relay, teaming up with
ZITTERKOB:
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It turns out, Zitterkob
was capable of setting
school records.
At the 30th Annual Ki-
wanis Invitational last
month, Zitterkob set a
school record in the girls
200-meter sprint, break-
ing teammate Andrea Le-
mus-Cisneros’ record of
25.72 from 2014 by clock-
ing a speedy time of 25.71.
After the race, she was
happy with how she ran,
but Mosher approached
her solemnly. He said she
was slow and he was disap-
pointed, prompting Zitter-
kob’s satisfaction to evap-
orate.
“I was so bummed out,”
she said of Mosher’s joke.
When Mosher broke into
a smile and told her she set
a school record. Zitterkob’s
emotions rebounded imme-
diately.
“I was super excited,”
she said.
---
As Mosher talks about
Lemus-Cisneros, her sis-
ter Sonia and Kassandra
Galbraith to post a 51.63
time.
The Umatilla girls
won their side of the
event with 197 points,
while the Stanfield girls
finished third with 198.
The Stanfield and Uma-
tilla boys tied for third
with 118 points each.
Stanfield’s
Hunter
Braithwaite had a day
for the Stanfield Ti-
gers, winning both the
200-meter and 300-me-
ter high hurdles. The se-
nior was the only athlete
to run under a minute
in the 200, finishing in
54.86, and was comfort-
able in the high hurdles
at 43.55.
Fabian Cardenas of
Umatilla continued to
dominate the 1,500-me-
ter run, posting a time of
4:21.56. He also won the
800-meter run, clocking
a 2:01.62. Cardenas just
missed a PR in the 800.
He set his personal best
time of 2:00.96 at the
McLoughlin Carnival of
Speed April 3.
Milan Davchevski of
Stanfield continued to
improve in the throwing
events, placing second
in the shot put and sixth
in the javelin. His shot
put toss of 39-07.50 feet
set a new personal best,
eclipsing his previous
best of 38-7.50. His jav-
elin throw of 111-03 was
nearly five feet off his
personal best.
For Umatilla, Gen-
esis Lugo kept turning
in good distances. The
junior thrower finished
second in both the shot
put and discus. Her
shot toss of 35-4 set a
new personal best, but
her second-place discus
heave of 93-01 was eight
feet short of her best
mark.
Umatilla is off this
weekend as it prepares
for the 3A Eastern Ore-
gon League meet in Nys-
sa on May 16. Stanfield,
meanwhile, heads to
Weston-McEwen Sunday
for the Weston-McEwen
CBC meet, which starts
Zitterkob, his voice be-
comes shaky. The two share
a special bond, and their re-
lationship is one of mentor
and student rather than just
coach and athlete.
“Amie Zitterkob the per-
son is cooler than Amie Zit-
terkob the athlete,” Mosher
said. “She’s extremely spe-
cial to me.”
The feeling is mutual.
“He’s always believed in
me and pushed me to be as
hard as I can be,” she said.
From that first day of
Zitterkob’s sprinting career,
Mosher knew she could
be special, but not even he
thought she would get to
these heights.
“She’s
exceeded,”
Mosher said. “The girls
have exceeded from how
things worked out.”
In three short years,
Zitterkob went from not
wanting to run any meets
to winning most of them.
She hasn’t lost a 100- or
200-meter sprint since
March 21 and has posted the
fastest 100- and 200-me-
ter times in Oregon 3A.
She is already signed with
teammates Lemus-Cisner-
os, who is third in the 100
and second in the 200, and
Berenice Chavez to Eastern
Oregon University.
Naturally, Zitterkob is
enjoying the decision she
made three years ago and
reaping the benefits of her
coach’s confidence.
“I just had so much fun
with it and realized I loved
it so much,” she said of
track.
When talking about Zit-
terkob, Mosher spoke of
her legacy. With a school
record in her pocket, a
scholarship on her résumé
and a state title on her mind,
Mosher said Zitterkob will
leave Umatilla High School
as one of the best sprinters
to ever walk its halls.
She’s earned and also
deserves every bit of recog-
nition, he said.
“She’s a great human,”
Mosher said. “There’s no
other words I can come up
with besides great human.
I’m serious when I say
Amie the person is cooler
than Amie the athlete. Peo-
ple don’t see that.”
at 11 a.m., and the Tigers
will host the 2A Colum-
bia Basin Conference
championship meet May
15, with events begin-
ning at 10 a.m.
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