SPORTS
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
SCOREBOARD
SPORTS CALENDAR
Football standings:
Week 4
Wednesday, September 23
In three weeks of football, Stanfield has
been a surprise. Following a disappoint-
ing 2014 filled with injuries and unmet
expectations, the Tigers have steamrolled
through their first three games en route to
a 3-0 record and plus-97 point differential.
Having a healthy Dylan Grogan has been
the difference to the Tigers, with a fresh(er)
Thyler Monkus helping to wreak havoc on
opposing defenses. Stanfield gets Imbler
this week, a team that’s 1-2 and coming off
a 34-20 win.
Meanwhile, Umatilla just didn’t have
enough against Irrigon. It was close after
a half, but the Knights proved to be too
athletic and explosive on offense for the
Vikings. Irrigon now leads a Columbia Basin
Conference that appears wide open with
Stanfield, Heppner and the Knights all
undefeated with large point spreads. But
Umatilla finds itself one of three teams
with 2-1 records in the 3A Eastern Oregon
League. The Vikings get White Swan (WA)
this week, which beat the Vikings last
year. But the Cougars are 0-3 this year and
coming off a 20-0 defeat.
Hermiston is struggling. With a young
quarterback, and young everything else, it
will take time to get back into champion-
ship form. Hermiston heads to Lewiston to
take on the 3-0 Bengals who played Herm-
iston close for a half here last season.
And Echo scored a mind-blowing 84
points against a beleaguered Harper/
Huntington squad. Klay Jenson’s hip injury
from a week ago had no bearing, as the
Cougars piled on the points. But Echo has
to turn around and make the long drive to
Wallowa to play the always tough Cougars
this week.
Umatilla @ McLoughlin, 2 p.m.
5A: Columbia River Conference
School
Record
PF PA
Pendleton
2-1 (0-0)
65 99
Hood River
2-1 (0-0)
122 68
The Dalles
1-2 (0-0)
83 66
Hermiston
0-3 (0-0)
46 145
3A: Eastern Oregon League
School
Record
PF
Vale
2-1 (0-0)
103
Umatilla
2-1 (0-0)
33
Nyssa
2-1 (0-0)
42
Riverside
0-2 (0-0)
14
PA
70
51
45
63
2A: Columbia Basin Conference
School
Record
PF
Irrigon
3-0 (0-0)
139
Heppner
3-0 (0-0)
138
Stanfield
3-0 (0-0)
130
Culver
2-1 (0-0)
123
Weston-McEwen 2-1 (0-0)
111
Pilot Rock/Nixyaawii 0-2 (0-0)
32
PA
20
40
33
81
61
58
1A: Special District 1
School
Record
PF
Joseph
1-1 (1-0)
90
Crane
3-0 (0-0)
172
Adrian
2-0 (0-0)
78
Wallowa
2-1 (0-0)
130
Powder Valley
2-1 (0-0)
146
Pine Eagle
2-1 (0-0)
86
Echo
2-1 (0-0)
154
Jordan Valley
1-2 (0-0)
136
Harper/Huntington 0-3 (0-0)
20
Prairie City/Burnt R. 0-3 (0-0)
32
Monument/Dayville 1-2 (0-0)
56
PA
64
22
52
74
105
200
64
106
202
148
123
Volleyball standings:
Week 4
3A: Eastern Oregon League
School
Record
S W S L
Vale
11-1 (0-0)
26
5
Nyssa
8-6 (0-0)
25 20
Riverside
6-3 (0-0)
19 14
Umatilla
3-9 (0-0)
9 26
2A: Columbia Basin Conference
School
Record
S W S L
Culver
12-2 (1-0)
30
7
Pilot Rock
7-3 (1-0)
17 13
Weston-McEwen 10-6 (0-0)
31 19
Heppner
7-6 (0-0)
17 15
Stanfield
4-4 (0-1)
16 14
Irrigon
2-6 (0-1)
5 17
1A: Old Oregon League
School
Record
S W S L
Echo
8-3 (1-0)
26 14
Griswold
7-2 (1-0)
20
9
Joseph
4-3 (1-0)
11
8
Powder Valley
10-5 (0-0)
24 13
Wallowa
0-9 (0-0)
0 22
Nixyaawii
3-6 (0-1)
12
1
Pine Eagle
3-6 (0-2)
12 17
Boys soccer
standings: Week 4
GA
3
8
9
18
GA
4
7
2
12
31
Girls soccer
standings: Week 4
5A: Columbia River Conference
School
Record
GF
Hood River
3-3-0 (0-0-0)
8
Hermiston
2-2-2 (0-0-0)
6
Pendleton
2-2-0 (0-0-0)
7
The Dalles
2-4-0 (0-0-0)
10
3A/2A/1A: Special District 2
School
Record
GF
Horizon (Tualatin) 2-1-0 (1-0-0)
7
PDX Adventist 2-0-2 (0-0-0)
8
Umatilla
1-2-0 (0-0-0)
6
PDX/Columbia 0-2-0 (0-0-0)
0
De La Salle N. 0-3-0 (0-0-0)
2
Riverside
0-4-0 (0-0-0)
0
Hermiston vs. Roosevelt, 4 p.m.
BOYS SOCCER
GIRLS SOCCER
Umatilla vs. White Swan (WA), 7 p.m.
Stanfield vs. Imbler, 7 p.m.
Hermiston @ Madison, 7 p.m.
GIRLS SOCCER
VOLLEYBALL
Umatilla @ McLoughlin, 4 p.m.
Hermiston @ Pendleton, 7 p.m.
Thursday, September 24
Friday, September 25
Echo @ Wallowa, 7 p.m.
CROSS COUNTRY
BOYS SOCCER
Hermiston @ Lewiston (ID), 7 p.m.
Hermiston @ The Dalles, 3:30
p.m.
Umatilla @ The Dalles, 3:30
p.m.
KNIGHTS:
105 yards on 22 carries and
three touchdowns, said.
“Coach just told us, ‘Hey,
it’s gonna be our turn in the
second half. You just gotta
wait.’ We gotta listen to
Coach Sheller because he’s
always right. And that’s
what we did.”
Irrigon’s wing-T ground
attack wore down the Uma-
tilla defense in the second
half. Two- and three-yard
runs became ¿ve- and si[-
yard runs, with Vera and
Carlos Zacharias breaking
a few. Irrigon also had a
couple long touchdown
completions to Zacharias
called back with holding
penalties.
Umatilla head coach
Mike Mosher, though,
is convinced that 39-12
doesn’t tell the whole sto-
ry. He said if a couple big
plays were eliminated, it’s
a different game.
“2verall, I think we
played pretty damn tough
FOOTBALL
continued from Page A8
Irrigon an 18-6 lead.
Then Umatilla scored
just before half, wildly
swinging the momentum
back to the home team. In
the halftime huddle, Shell-
er told his team to settle
down, and they did.
“Things went their way
in the ¿rst half,” Irrigon se-
nior Freddy Vera, who had
blocks, and Shayanne Connell had eight
assists.
TIGERS:
continued from Page A8
Saturday at Union.
The Bobcats swept the Tigers 3-0 (13-
25, 19-25, 15-25) in a match head coach
Angie Connell called “inconsistent.”
“We just did not stay consistent,” she
said. “We had some strong moments,
but then we saw some moments where
we were just losing our momentum out
there.”
Connell said Union has some “pretty
good” hitters who were ¿nding the back
corners of the court.
“(The players) were ¿nding it tough to
get all the ones we couldn’t block,” Con-
nell said.
Britton Braithwaite came up with 10
GA
13
12
15
17
GA
10
1
7
13
13
16
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9320 or reach him by email
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BOYS SOCCER
StanÀeld sZeeps 1i[yaaZii
The Stan¿eld Tigers volleyball team
broke a two-match losing streak Mon-
day, sweeping Ni[yaawii 3-0 (25-11,
25-17, 25-11) Monday in Stan¿eld.
The Tigers (4-4, 0-1) hosted a Ni[y-
aawii (2-5, 0-1) program that is in its sec-
ond year of e[istence and still building.
Maddie *rif¿n had 11 aces, 10 assists and
three kills to lead the way. Katie Burns
chipped in with seven kills and Kenzie
*onzales had si[ kills.
Stan¿eld hosts Weston-Mc(wen at
5 p.m. on Thursday. It’s Stan¿eld’s sec-
ond Columbia Basin Conference match
and Weston-McEwen’s debut.
Umatill blows by
City Christian
After a slow start, the
Umatilla boys soccer
program has found its
groove.
Umatilla
continued
its winning streak with a
5-1 win Saturday at City
Christian.
The Vikings (3-3, 2-1
E2/) scored just three
goals in its ¿rst three
matches in its 0-3 start,
but has scored 15 goals
in its last three matches in
three wins.
Head coach Pedro 2r-
tiz called it a “dif¿cult
game” due to the condi-
tions and small pitch size.
But with the adversity,
2rtiz liked the way his
team moved the ball.
“I belive they began to
understand what Im ask-
ing of them and are get-
ting better at it.”
Miguel
Aguilar
opened the scoring off
a long pass from Diego
Saldana in the 15th min-
ute, and Saldana found
Javier *arcia ¿ve min-
utes later in the penalty
area for Umatilla’s sec-
ond. In the 32nd, Douglas
*omez dribbled into the
penalty area and his shot
was saved, but Saldana
headed in the rebound for
a 3-0 lead. *omez then
controlled a rebound off a
corner kick from *erardo
Coria in the 37th minute
and found the back of the
net for a 4-0 lead.
City Christian got its
goal int he 50th after a
defensive mistake, and
Umatilla got it back in
the 70th when Saldana
received a pass from *o-
mez, dribbled past two
defenders and scored.
Umatilla travels to
Mc/oughlin on Wednes-
Stanfield @ The Dalles, 3:30 p.m.
Saturday, September 26
CROSS COUNTRY
ROUNDUP
5A: Columbia River Conference
School
Record
S W S L
The Dalles
8-1 (1-0)
21
2
Hood River Valley 2-1 (1-0)
6
3
Hermiston
3-3 (0-1)
7
8
Pendleton
2-2 (0-1)
7
7
5A: Columbia River Conference
School
Record
GF
Hood River Valley 5-0-1 (0-0-0)
15
Hermiston
4-1-1 (0-0-0)
12
Pendleton
1-2-1 (0-0-0)
7
The Dalles
1-5-0 (0-0-0)
6
3A/2A/1A: Special District 4
School
Record
GF
Riverside
4-1-0 (2-0-0)
24
Umatilla
3-3-0 (2-1-0)
13
Irrigon
1-0-1 (1-0-1)
6
City Christian 2-1-2 (0-1-1)
17
Culver
0-4-1 (0-3-0)
7
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day for a 4 p.m. kick-off.
Soccer
Bulldog boys, girls
play Rex Putnam to
1-1 draws
HERMIST2N 1, RE;
PUTNAM 1 — At Herm-
iston, 90 minutes wasn’t
enough as the Bulldogs
and Re[ Putnam ended in
a 1-1 tie.
No details from the
game were reported.
HERMIST2N 1, RE;
PUTNAM 1 — At Herm-
iston, the Bulldogs —
just like the boys team —
couldn’t settle the game
with Re[ Putnam in 90
minutes and ended in a
1-1 tie.
The Bulldogs (2-2-2)
ne[t take on Madison on
the road on Thursday at 7
p.m.
Hermiston @ Borah (ID), 10 a.m.
VOLLEYBALL
Umatilla vs. Vale, 1:30 p.m.
Umatilla vs. Nyssa, 5:30 p.m.
Echo @ Joseph, 1 p.m.
against (Vera and Zachari-
as),” he said. “Those are a
couple talented kids. I felt
we played pretty good. Just
¿nish the second half and
things are a little different.
“I think that was a lot
closer than 39-12.
———
Irrigon 39, Umatilla 12
Irrigon (3-0) 12 6 15
6 — 39
Umatilla (2-1) 6 6
0
0 — 12
First Quarter
UHS — Hunter Cook 12-yard run (Extra
Point No Good), 7:36
IHS — Carlos Zacharias 32-yard run
(Extra Point No Good), 5:08
IHS — Freddy Vera 6-yard run (2-Point No
Good), 2:08
Tuesday, September 29
BOYS SOCCER
Hermiston vs. The Dalles, 4 p.m.
GIRLS SOCCER
Hermiston @ The Dalles, 4 p.m.
Volleyball
Hermiston vs. Hood River Valley,
7 p.m.
Echo @ Griswold, 5 p.m.
Second Quarter
IHS — Austin Rice 8-yard pass from Nate
Verley (2-Point Good), 5:07
UHS — Tristen Sanguino 14-yard pass
from Jesus Ramirez (Extra Point No
Good), 0:27
Third Quarter
IHS — Vera 3-yard run (2-Point Good),
1:33
IHS — Vera 15-yard run (Extra Point
Good), 0:10
Fourth Quarter
IHS — Carlos Zacharias 25-yard run
(Extra Point No Good), 3:59
Statistics
RUSHING — IHS (48-291, 5 TD): F. Vera
22-105, 3 TD; C. Zacharias 13-147 2 TD;
A. Rice 13-39. UHS (40-195, 1 TD): J.
Ramirez 15-91; H. Cook 14-73, TD; J.
Dever 11-31.
PASSING — IHS (1-5-1, 22 yards, 1 TD):
N. Verley 1-5-1, 1 TD. UHS (10-20-1, 80
yards, 1 TD): J. Ramirez 10-18-1, 80
yards, 1 TD; K. Webb 0-2-0, 0 yards.
Bulldogs XC second
to Hood River
Host runs away with
meet, Hermiston
stays close
By SAM BARBEE
Staff Writer
The Hermiston Bull-
dogs cross country team is
rounding into form, as both
the boys and girls teams ¿n-
ished in second place at the
Hood River “Skip” Sparks
Invitational in Hood River on
Wednesday, Sept. 16.
Hood River took both ti-
tles with 34 points on the boys
side and 29 on the girls side.
Hermiston (42, 40) wasn’t far
behind, and Washougal (WA)
¿nished third on the boys side
with 62 points, and Sandy
closed the top-three on the
girls side with 73 points.
Angel Castellanos, Josi-
ah Niederwerfer and Hayden
(arl ¿nished si[th, seventh
and eighth for the Bulldogs,
Donnell Rome placed 10th
and sophomore Isaac Sanchez
¿nished 11th. 2nly Sanchez
(17 minutes, 2.75 seconds)
was over 17 minutes. Hood
River’s Justin Crosswhite,
Quinn Fetkenhour and Jesse
Wiley took the top three spots.
2n the girls’ side, Hermis-
ton sophomore Melany Solo-
rio ¿nished fourth (2105.7),
Morgan Hancock was si[th
(2125.91), freshman /aura
=epeda (2211.14) was ninth
and senior So¿a *ispert
(2213.03) was 10th. Sopho-
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Hermiston sophomore
Melany Solorio runs all
alone during the Hood River
“Skip” Sparks Invitational on
Wednesday, Sept. 16.
more Hannah (arl (2239.7)
rounded out the Hermiston
¿ve in 14th.
/ate in both races, Hood
River seemed to be in control,
but, coach Troy Blackburn
said, the Bulldogs closed the
gap. With ¿ve boys in the top
11 and four girls in the top 10,
Blackburn is encouraged by
what he saw Sept. 16 and what
they can do moving forward.
“Both sides improved and
are getting better,” he said.
Hermiston’s ne[t meet is
Friday at the Bridgette Nel-
son Memorial in The Dalles.
Running begins at 330 p.m.
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