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SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2015
SPORTS
Cardenas sets 3A state track record Thursday
BY ERIK SKOPIL
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ter championship seemed
an inevitability for Fabian
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a fast time was a different
story.
One peek around the
starting line of Thursday’s
state championship race
at Hayward Field told the
Umatilla distance ace that
if he were to reach his goal
of breaking the 20-year old
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it would be done on his
own.
The opening quarter
mile did nothing to change
that opinion.
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who nearly eclipsed James
Longoria of Nyssa’s state
meet record in last year’s
win. “I was kind of looking
back to see what they were
doing. They were taking it
easy and waiting for me to
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Cardenas obliged.
The junior powered
around the track for the fast-
est seven-and-a-half laps in
meet history stopping the
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than Longoria’s time. The
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swifter than any previous
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he said of the blazing time.
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move
dropped the majority of the
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Catilin Gabel hung on his
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before Cardenas turned on
the afterburners for one last
record-breaking push. Os-
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seconds behind Cardenas.
The last 100 meters were
a race between Cardenas and
the clock.
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was looking at the clock the
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year to end.
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cused on getting ready for
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not thinking about last year.
It’s just making sure we’re
hitting good so we’re ready
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The Tigers have now
won nine of 10 games and
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two in a row in April — one
to Irrigon and one to the
same Vale Vikings — the
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the losses coming to Dufur
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in the playoffs.
Jenson said he would put
his team up against any-
body’s at this point.
“We’re solid. Hopeful-
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said. “That’s what we want-
ed. We had goals: league
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champs — got that. We’re
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We’re playing good right
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Friday wasn’t the best
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but it was good enough.
Johnson said he wants to
see more offensive produc-
tion from his team.
“We gotta be able to
push across maybe a few
more here and there and ex-
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Monkus walked to lead
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ley doubled with one out to
drive him in for a quick 1-0
lead. Vale got its one run in
the second when two sin-
gles and an error allowed
the Vikings’ one and only
run to cross the plate.
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lead for good in the third
inning when Flores sin-
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Grogan followed with a
sharp single of his own to
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third.
The score remained
2-1 thanks to some clutch
Hermiston
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LaCoursiere shot an 82
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Another steady day on with a 163 total to tie for
the links brought the Herm- WKDQG$GDPVDQG&UDI-
iston Bulldogs in at fourth ton each shot 165 to tie for
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Crescent Valley junior
tion concluded at the Class
5A OSAA boys golf cham- Kevin Geniza shot even par
for the tournament to take
pionships Tuesday.
,W¶VWKH¿UVWWLPHLQPRUH the individual title with a
than four decades that a score of 70-74—144.
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Hermiston boys team placed
5A Boys State Championships
at the state tournament.
Emerald Valley Golf Club, Creswell
Up two spots from last Final Round, Par 72
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309-311—620
dogs jumped Woodburn Summit
Bend
316-317—633
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team score of 661. Their Hermiston 330-331—661
327-340—667
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Eagle Point
339-335—674
WKLUG EHVW RQ WKH GD\ EXW Pendleton 332-344—676
335-342—677
not enough to pass Crescent Corvallis
Wilsonville
358-343—701
Valley in third with a total Lebanon
350-373—723
of 653.
Leaderboard
Summit held off defend- Player
Kevin Geniza, Crescent 70-74—144 E
ing champion Bend to take Cole Chrisman, Summit 74-78—152 8
the team title with a 620 Marcus Frazier, Lebanon 73-80—153 +9
Jack Loberg, Summit 75-80—155 +11
score.
Max McGee, Bend 77-78—155 +11
The highest-placing lo- Josh Goins, Lebanon 77-79—156 +12
Donahue, Summit 80-76—156 +12
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Ryan DeCastihos, Bend 79-78—157 +13
ZDVQ¶W D %XOOGRJ WKRXJK Rhett Pedersen, Bend 81-77—158 +14
and Pendleton junior Reilly Michael Kuenzi, Silverton 82-76—158 +14
Higlin, Summit 81-78—159 +15
Hegarty tied for 13th with Max
Ben Wasserman, Summit 80-79—159 +15
a two-round total of 80- A.J. Martinez, Woodburn 79-83—162 +18
82—162. He was the only Reilly Hegarty, Pendleton 80-82—162 +18
Kuznetsov, Woodburn 80-83—163 +19
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Jacob Miller, Corvallis 77-86—163 +19
WRS WKRXJK DQG 3HQG- Paden LaCoursiere, Hermiston 81-82—163 +19
Adams, Hermiston 84-81—165 +21
leton slipped to seventh in Zac
Keegan Crafton, Hermiston 82-83—165 +21
team scoring with a 676.
Mason Krieger, Mtn View 89-76—165 +21
Hermiston’s top individ- Alec Berrey, Crescent 84-81—165 +21
ual placer was senior Paden Hermiston Scores
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44-38—82 (163)
was followed closely by se- Paden LaCoursiere
Keegan Crafton 39-44—83 (165)
nior teammates Zac Adams Anders Lind 42-43—85 (168)
Jared Thacker 45-45—90 (177)
and Keegan Crafton.
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Kelsey Ranger, of Echo, won
the 3A girls long jump Thurs-
day at the OSAA track and
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Hayward Field.
four leaps.
“I did not think that I
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who juggled javelin throws
with her jumps and was
kept out of the loop of her
positioning
throughout.
“My last two jumps were
scratches. I was mad. I was
like ‘I’m so done with this’.
Then I got a really good
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Defending state cham-
pion Treiquella Osborne of
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Fabian Cardenas, of Umatilla, celebrates after setting a 3A
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meet record in the 3,000-meter run Thursday at the OSAA
er won based upon second
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best distance.
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gave it everything I had those steps all afternoon.
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She landed a clean jump mate Elizabeth McCarty
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championship for Cardenas. WKH FRPSHWLWLRQ OHDG EXW WKURZRIVHYHQLQFK-
+H ZRQ ODVW \HDU¶V the mark of 16-1 1/4 was es off of winner Whitney
meters in surprising fash- six inches off her personal Lindsey of Camas Valley.
ion and followed it up with best and was not improved 0F&DUW\ ZDV DOVR ¿IWK LQ
a one-sided cross country upon on the subsequent the discus.
championship in the fall.
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don’t get a lot of state cham-
pions from our school. It’s
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Kelsey Ranger of Echo
was less certain of her
standing in the Class 1A
long jump Thursday. Con-
sidered the favorite due
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junior struggled with her
pitching from Jenson. The
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and second after an er-
ror and hit-by-pitch in the
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play to end the threat. He
did similar wiggling in the
sixth when an error and a
walk put Vale in the same
situation but with two outs.
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center to keep the Vikings
at bay.
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wasn’t easy. He struck
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then allowed a single and
walked a batter to put run-
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with one away. Then he
buckled down. He again
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batter on a knuckleball to
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trophy.
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until Wednesday to host
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Tigers are currently slot-
ted as the seventh-ranked
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they could move before the
rankings freeze today. Pos-
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10th) or Salem Academy
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“We just gotta stay
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the arms fresh and every-
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of his team’s preparation
for state next week. “I like
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fense. We’ve treated every
game like a state game so it
shouldn’t be a huge differ-
ence with higher stakes and
all that. We just gotta come
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Jam es
Thom as
B radshaw
Ju l. 29, 1938
O ct. 17 , 2008
I still m iss you so
m u ch an d love you !
Ju an ita B radshaw
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Frederick
P. L opez
D ec. 4, 1922
A pr. 26, 1945
B u ried in the Lorrain e
Am erican Cem etery in
Sain t Avold, Fran ce.
First fam ily visit by his
you n ger brother D an iel on
April 26, 2015.
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Jon es
M ar. 8, 1967
M ar. 29, 2007
M iss you so m u ch,!
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M ay 28, 2014
O u r H ero from the
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W e love an d m iss you !
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F eb. 17 , 2015
W e m iss you so m u ch!
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Love you ,
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Charee & Kaden
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