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SPORTS/CLASSIFIEDS A12 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2015 Tigers stun Knights in come-from-behind win Stanfield erases 20-point deficit to beat Irrigon By ERIC SINGER Staff Writer Friday’s game between the Irrigon Knights and Stan¿eld Tigers looked on paper to be one of the best games of the season. The game featured two undefeated teams sitting at the top of the CBC against each other, battling it out for possible playoff posi- tioning. When the game was ¿- DAWGS: continued from Page A10 24-yard ¿eld goal on their ¿rst overtime drive, Sandy was taking shots at the end zone. A Sanders pass on second down almost found Gabe Poulin in the back of the end zone, but it was just a bit too far. Then, on third down, Sanders over- threw Robert Snyder and Ena picked it off close to his goal line, and almost managed to score to seal the win. But he came just short, and Hermiston had to make another defensive stop late. Cue Ena. After a holding penalty on ¿rst down and losses of 13 and 2 yards on their next two plays, the Pioneers (0- 6) found themselves in a 3rd and goal situation from TIGERS: continued from Page A10 Dylan Grogan accruing most of the yards. Heppner, with Logan Grieb, Kaden Clark and Tommy %red¿eld, are an explosive bunch on offense that can run and pass with results. They even have COLBRAY: continued from Page nally played, it lived up to its billing and more as Stan¿eld erased a 20-point de¿cit to defeat the Irrigon Knights 49-41 in Irrigon. “I thought we played a pretty good game,” said Ir- rigon coach Steve Sheller. “I thought if we could have got one more touchdown ahead of them, it could have done it. The Stan¿eld Tigers just did not roll over and die tonight.” The game played out to be a tale of two halves, as Irrigon dominated the ¿rst half on both sides of the football. The Knights (5-1, 1-1 CBC) offense was moving up-and-down the ¿eld at will behind the back¿eld trio of Freddy Vera, Carlos Zacharias and Austin Rice. On Irrigon’s ¿rst pos- session Zacharias took the hand-off from quarterback Nathan Verley and bounced around the left edge before outrunning the Stan¿eld de- fense for a 46-yard touch- down run. A successful two- point conversion gave the Knights an 8-0 lead with just under 10 minutes left in the ¿rst quarter. Stan¿eld (6-0, 2-0 CBC) wasted no time to show off their offensive ¿repower as Thyler Monkus took the hand-off from quarterback Dylan Grogan and scam- pered 65-yards to the house to cut Irrigon’s lead to 8-7 early in the ¿rst quarter. Then Irrigon began to run away, as Freddy Vera found the end zone twice in the quarter with a three- yard touchdown run and a 24-yard touchdown recep- tion from Verley to give the Knights a 22-7 lead in the ¿rst quarter. The Irrigon trio ¿nished with 291 yards and two touchdowns on the ground in the ¿rst half. The second quarter saw plenty of back-and-forth action, as the Tigers and Knights traded scores twice to send the teams to half- time with a 35-21 score fa- voring Irrigon. Stan¿eld coach Davey Salas knew that his team was better than what the scoreboard showed, and challenged his players to step up. Monkus and Grogan were almost unstoppable on the ground in the game, combining for 37 rush- es and 404 yards and ¿ve touchdowns overall. The Tigers sealed the win on a 16-yard touch- down run by Grogan with just six seconds remaining in the game. the 35, with a shot to the end zone almost guaran- teed. Ena read the play per- fectly, jumped it and ran it back to mid¿eld. That gave Hermiston a chance to win with just a ¿eld goal, but that wasn’t necessary. Garcia plowed into the end zone on sec- ond down, and Hermiston’s players rushed the ¿eld in celebration. “Both teams battled hard,” head coach David Faaeteete said. “I told the kids, ‘This is gonna be a tough battle. Regardless of a team’s win-loss record, they’re gonna come in and ¿ght because everyone’s hungry for a W. The later in the season you get, the hun- grier you are.” Both teams, though, seemed uninterested in winning in the ¿rst half. Of 15 ¿rst half drives, 11 were three-and-outs and both teams combined for ¿ve holding penalties, all but ending drives. Hermiston took a 7-0 lead with 1:39 left in the ¿rst quarter when quar- terback Nathan Hunsaker, ¿lling in for the injured Dayshawn Neal, hit Jerry Ramirez on a screen pass, and the junior tight end weaved his way through the Pioneers defense, mak- ing would-be tacklers miss and breaking a few before crossing the goal line for a 13-yard touchdown. Hermiston would lead just about the rest of the game until a late Sandy drive made things exponential- ly more interesting. About halfway through the fourth quarter, Sandy embarked on a nine-play, 64-yard drive capped by 10-yard pass to Grayson Fenwick to tie things up. Hermiston was whistled for a pass interfer- ence penalty the play be- fore on 2nd down to set up the touchdown. Sandy only had the ball down at Herm- iston’s goal line because Sanders slipped away on a strange play. With a third-and-one from Hermiston’s 41, Sanders ran a silent, quick- snap quarterback sneak and was piled around, but somehow he slipped out and gained 25 yards, set- ting up the pass interfer- ence penalty and later the touchdown. A long punt return from Mitch Brown got Hermis- ton down to the Sandy 26, but a fumble on a zone-read exchange gave Sandy the ball, who simply knelt to send the game to overtime. Then it was Ena’s cue to snatch back the momentum that lead to Hermiston’s win. “It honestly just means we got heart and we’re ready to come out and ¿n- ish,” Ena said. “It was a good game and I’m glad we won.” Hermiston will play is ¿rst Columbia River Con- ference game Friday at The Dalles. ——— a good back-up quarterback option in Kevin Smith, who passed for 227 yards, four touchdowns and one inter- ception on 8-of-12 passing against Tri-Cities Prep in re- lief of Clark a few weeks ago. “They’re explosive,” Salas said of Heppner’s offense. “They stick to their blocks re- ally, really well. They play for each other. They don’t care who gets the credit.” Stan¿eld has proven it can slow down explosive offenses. It held a good Weston-McEwen offense to just 14 points two weeks ago, and held a high-pow- ered Irrigon offense to just seven second-half points last week. Heppner, though, has more weapons than ei- ther Weston-McEwen or Irrigon. To Salas, Stan¿eld has to do two things: start fast and match Heppner’s toughness, as well as be sound in all three phases — offense, defense special teams — because the Mustangs will do all three. Salas pointed to two games Hermiston 13, Sandy 6 SANDY (0-6) 0 0 0 7 0 0 — 6 HERMISTON (1-5) 7 0 0 0 0 6 — 13 First Quarter HERMISTON — J. Ramirez 13-yard pass from N. Hunsaker (Extra Point Good), 1:39 Fourth Quarter SANDY — G. Fenwick 10-yard pass from K. Sanders (Extra Point Good), 7:10 Second Overtime HERMISTON — O. Garcia 2-yard run Statistics RUSHING — SANDY (31-18): G. Fenwick 31-18; K. Sanders 7-(-)7; R. Snyder 1-3; A. Herrera 1-3; A. Soenyun 1-0. HERMISTON (45-193, 1 TD): O. Garcia 18-75, 1 TD; N. Hunsaker 15-58; M. Brown 9-52; H. Simon 3-8. PASSING — SANDY (14-32-2, 123 yards, 1 TD): K. Sanders 14-32-2, 123 yards, 1 TD. HERMISTON (10-20-2, 149 yards, 1 TD): N. Hunsaker 10-20-2, 149 yards, 1 TD. this year — the 46-26 win over Imbler and last week’s Irrigon win — as two games Stan¿eld spotted leads. Salas said Stan¿eld cannot spot Heppner a lead of any size. “We’re coming together at the right time,” Salas said. “I knew it would be a tough stretch of games. We just beat Weston-McEwen. We just 195-pound debut. Re- enan doubled up on Far- go titles at 182 this sum- mer for the second time in his career as Colbray was a runner-up in Free- style and Greco at 195. The interesting part of this bout will be if Reenan has gotten his weight up and will be able to handle the 13-pound jump. There’s no question that he has the strength but the drastic weight change can take a toll on him. Outside of that, this match can be super en- tertaining because both guys have pretty great offense and aren’t afraid to go big with throws since they both have pretty great Greco back- grounds.” Colbray didn’t par- ticipate in this event last fall after sustaining a concussion in Herm- iston’s 31-27 football loss at Coeur d’Alene last season. Colbray declined a return to the gridiron this season, cit- ing injury concerns that could jeopardize his col- legiate wrestling career. Colbray is currently be- ing recruited by Cornell University in upstate New York, Iowa State University and Oregon State University. If you’d like to watch Colbray’s match live, you can do so by creat- ing an account and pur- chasing a month-long subscription for $20 at www.Àowrestling.org. beat Irrigon, two of the top dogs in the CBC. We’re right there. We’re really right there. 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