WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2015
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Mustangs, TigerScots on course for title clash
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HEPPNER — The Hep-
pner Mustangs turned in
another very impressive
four quarters for another
blowout victory in Colum-
bia Basin Conference play
on Friday.
The Mustangs held Ir-
rigon’s vaunted offense
to 165 yards and ran up a
huge lead by halftime be-
fore winning 61-14.
Heppner (8-0, 4-0 CBC)
led 41-0 when the two
teams headed to the locker
rooms, and has outscored
the CBC 229-39 this sea-
son.
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ing it the old-fashioned
way with solid defense and
a strong offensive line, and
that continued Friday.
“Defensively we were
sound again, and I was
pleased again with how the
offensive line played. They
continue to improve,” he said.
Weston Putman led the
defense with 10 tackles and
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had two interceptions and
Putman had another.
The offensive line paved
the way for 424 rushing
yards, of which C.J. Kindle
took the lion’s share with
195 on 12 carries. He had a
long of 58 and scored two
touchdowns.
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on six carries with a touch-
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had 60 yards on eight car-
ries and two scores, and
Kaden Clark and Caden
Hedman each scored on
the ground.
Clark was 1 for 5 pass-
ing for 12 yards.
Irrigon (5-3, 1-3) was
led on offense by Austin
Rice with 48 yards on 13
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errez adding 31 yards and
two touchdowns on six car-
zone three times. He also
passed for two touchdowns
going 2-of-4 for 54 yards.
Makiah
Blankenship
added 110 yards on 12 car-
ries with two touchdowns,
Justin Shelby chipped in
two touchdowns on three
carries for 56 yards, and
Justin Keeney ran nine
times for 32 yards and a
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3-1).
“I was a little worried
about the hangover from
last week,” Salas said of
W E S T O N - M C E W- the Tigers’ lopsided loss to
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At Culver, the TigerScots sponded well.”
Pilot Rock (0-7, 0-4) was
maintained their collision
course with Heppner for led on defense by Braydon
the league crown with a Postma with 12 tackles and
road win on Friday. Details Chris Weinke added nine.
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were not reported.
The TigerScots (6-2, and Patrick Roe connected
3-1) have won three in a for the Rockets’ only touch-
row and have allowed just down in their last home
18 points total since open- game with McCall throw-
ing the CBC season with a ing a 55-yard pass to Roe.
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The TigerScots host regular season by hosting
Heppner in the regular sea- Culver at 7 p.m. next Fri-
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The Rockets wrap up
p.m.
their season at Irrigon at 7
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Rock, the Tigers bounced
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of the season in big way on man, the Vikings stormed
Friday, and did it without into Friday’s rivalry match-
their top offensive weapon. up and the Pirates were
Thyler Monkus twisted never able to climb out of
his ankle at the end of a 24- the hole they dug with four
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offensive play and didn’t
with 440 yards of offense,
return.
Coach Davy Salas said but trailed 35-12 at the half
he’ll be back next week, and were too inconsistent
to come back.
though.
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“We didn’t feel the need
to risk it,” he said. “He was and ready to go and we just
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but it was more of a just a Riverside (2-5, 0-2) coach
Dave Boor said.
cautionary thing.”
Felipe Olvera led Riv-
In his absence quarter-
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off for 114 yards on 15 and Ricardo Mendoza
carries and reached the end rushed for 73 yards on 14
ries. Fredy Vera still man-
aged to average 4.67 yards
a carry, but was limited to
42 total on nine tries.
Heppner will try to wrap
up another CBC title when
it travels to Weston-McE-
wen next week for a 7 p.m.
game.
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regular season at home
against Pilot Rock. They’ll
need a win plus a little
help to earn a state playoff
berth.
carries.
Umatilla (5-3, 1-1) sta-
tistics were not available at
press time.
The Vikings can secure
a playoff berth in next
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Vale at 7 p.m.
Riverside closes out the
season at Nyssa at 7 p.m.
(MT).
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— At Ione, the Cardinals
(2-5, 1-4 SD4) got quar-
terback Jason Juarez back
from his shoulder inju-
ry, but it wasn’t enough
against a stout Rangers (6-
2, 3-2) defense.
Ione coach Stan Weiper
said the Cardinals were
looking to mount a come-
back and pulled within
36-14 in the fourth with
plenty of time to play, but
their next drive ended near
the end zone on a fumble
that Dufur scooped up and
returned for a touchdown.
Dufur quarterback Der-
ek Frakes also had a cou-
ple big plays, scrambling
for a long touchdown and
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the back of the end zone on
fourth down.
Juarez scored one of
Ione’s touchdowns on an
11-yard run and Alessan-
dro Panozzo had the other
with an onside kickoff re-
turn, his third of the sea-
son.
Ione was also without
starting running Henry
Padberg (knee) for the
second straight week, and
won’t get him back for
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against South Wasco at 7
p.m. in Ione.
PINE EAGLE 54,
ECHO 6 — At Pine Ea-
gle, the Cougars (2-6, 0-4)
limped into the offseason
with a lopsided loss in Fri-
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nale.
No details were report-
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games of the season.
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the Bulldogs (4-4, 2-1)
wrapped up second place
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not reported.
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ished fourth and out of
playoff contention.
BOYS SOCCER
The Umatilla boys soc-
cer team rounded out its
regular season with a 5-0
win over Irrigon on Satur-
day.
The Vikings (7-5-1, 6-2-
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tilla sits in second place
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side. Umatilla is 17th.
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a hat trick, and two coming
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sists from Diego Saldana.
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ute, bounced off the post
and in, and the other was in
the 35th. Sandwiched be-
tween, Saldana sent a pen-
alty kick home in the 31st.
Elian Armenta got into
the scoring party early in
the second when he got
to a loose ball just outside
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hat trick in the 63 when he
chased down a loose ball in
the penalty area and scored.
The Vikings wait until
Oct. 31 when the OSAA
rankings to freeze to know
where and who they play.
As the No. 2 team in Spe-
cial District 4, they receive
an automatic bid into the
16-team tournament that
starts next week.
Kodie Arnold named homecoming queen
By SAM BARBEE
Staff Writer
The balloons rose from the pa-
per-covered boxes on the track at
Kennison Field last Friday and a
cheer rose. The purple and gold
balloons reserved for the home-
coming king and queen went sky-
ward in front of senior Kodie Ar-
nold and her father.
As the balloons rose in front of
her, Arnold’s father bent to whis-
per in her ear that she had won.
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drew Bourque had the idea for
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ago, the event has grown from
a relatively small 200-person
event into a nationally known
event hosting upwards of
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website, more than 1,000
participants registered, 65
percent of them female.
“I don’t know if we could
handle many more,” he said.
But the race isn’t for the
runners alone. Campers are
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spectators warm. It’s a rem-
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of races which were held in
mid-November, when the
Immediately her face lit up and she
jumped, smiling. Then the emo-
tion came as the sash was laid over
her shoulder and the tiara placed
on her head. Arnold’s escort, Bob
Coleman, was the in locker room
for halftime.
Arnold is blind, but one
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Arnold, with the help of her father,
has worked her way into a routine,
knowing when and where, for in-
stance, her father will pick her up
winter begins to bite. There
are also hot dogs available.
“It’s a way to bring the
families out,” Bourque said.
“Bring the families out, come
see the Hermiston-Boardman
area. Maybe we need to tie it
in with a two-day event with
a winery somewhere.”
The course, though, isn’t
for the feint of heart. The soft
mixture of sand and dirt was
noted as treacherous by sev-
eral runners, and one or two
rolled an ankle.
“If your legs aren’t strong,
if your ankles aren’t strong,
you can turn an ankle at the
wrong spot,” Papenfuss said.
“It’s like trail running, you’re
on trails and its a little bit
treacherous, but that’s what
makes it fun, too.”
from school. He’s got a spot and
is almost always in that spot at the
prescribed time.
So one day, he wasn’t in that
spot for one reason or another,
but a car back from it. Arnold
exited the building and made her
way to the usual spot, and casual-
ly opened the door and sat down.
The driver, who clearly didn’t
know Arnold, looked through the
rear windshield at her father, who
chuckled and walked around the
A Very Poplar run raises
money for Hermiston Agape
House, a local social services
organization.
Board member Doug Al-
varez couldn’t be happier
with how the race has grown
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ing it’s far exceeded Agape
House’s expectations.
“It’s been terrific for us,”
Alvarez said. “It’s amazing
how it’s grown. That first
year, we didn’t know what
to expect and we had may-
be 100, 150 people. But
then when they saw the
venue, people come across
the finish line saying, ‘I
can’t wait to tell my friends
about this.’ It’s just amaz-
ing the way this place has
grown.”
passenger side.
Once there, he said hello, and
Arnold responded. After a pause
she said, “I’m in the wrong car,
aren’t I?”
When those balloons were re-
vealed and Arnold named queen,
the Hermiston student section and
stands erupted. Fellow court mem-
bers smiled and hugged the new-
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ground.
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James Neeway, of Richland, nears the end of
the 15-kilometer course Saturday during A
Very Poplar Run at the Boardman Tree Farm.
Neeway won the race with a time of one hour, 45
seconds.
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in a pack like last year ... It
looked just like last year.”
Except that the Eagles
had more in the tank down
the stretch. All those nag-
ging minor injuries and ill-
nesses sustained by Hermis-
ton had their effect Saturday.
Earl just didn’t have the legs
down the stretch he normal-
ly does, and Angel Castella-
nos, who hadn’t run a race
in nearly three weeks, had
the same issue.
The one Bulldog who
did kick was sophomore
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strong in sixth place. But it
wasn’t a bad race for Herm-
iston by any stretch. Earl
was third, Sanchez sixth,
Josiah Niederwerfer and
Donnell Rome were eighth
and ninth, respectively, and
Castellanos was 11th.
“All in the last 200 me-
ters was where they passed
us,” Blackburn said. “But
our guys went out and
fought and ran our hearts
out. I think next week at
state it’s a different race, and
if they race the way they did
today with a little more legs
they should be able to do it.”
The girls side was a dis-
appointment, but Blackburn
was disappointed in the ef-
fort, just with the result. Se-
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school race, started strong
with the leaders but faded
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12th.
But Blackburn is looking
at the point spreads. Two
years ago, Hermiston was 20
points out of third place, and
last year they were 15 points
from third. This season, the
Bulldogs were in striking
distance from qualifying as
a team and even sent a cou-
ple girls by themselves.
“We were in the race un-
til the last mile,” Blackburn
said. “We were right there
for the state race until the
last mile.”
To bring the girls up to
speed, Blackburn said they
need to start training in the
summer, the earlier the bet-
ter.
“We gotta start training
in June so we can run well
in October,” he said. “It’s
a step in the right direc-
tion. We have a strong core
coming back. If you have a
strong core, you can build
around it. With that strong
core, we’ll be able to build
on this year with (girls
coach) Crystal (Delgado)
and what she’s doing with
those girls so next year we
can make it to state. That’s
our goal now. They’re look-
ing there.”
The state meet is next
Saturday at Lane Commu-
nity College in Eugene. The
girls race starts at 1:15 p.m.
and the boys race at 1:50
p.m.
———
RESULTS:
Team Scores:
Boys: 1. Hood River Valley (32) 2. Hermis-
ton (37) 3. Pendleton (63) 4. The Dalles (87)
Girls: 1. The Dalles (47) 2. Hood River Val-
ley (52) 3. Pendleton (53) 4. Hermiston (69)
Individual results:
Boys:
3. Hayden Earl (17:09)
6. Isaac Sanchez (17:11)
8. Josiah Niederwerfer (17:14)
9. Donnell Rome (17:15)
11. Angel Castellanos (17:23)
19. Emmanuel Ibarra (18:18)
22. Graydon Fritz (18:36)
Girls:
5. Melany Solorio (21:23)*
7. Morgan Hancock (21:44)*
12. Sofia Gispert (22:08)
22. Sidney Tovey (22:57)
23. Laura Zepeda (23:07)
24. Hannah Earl (23:26)
27. Heidi Fuentes (23:56)
*Denotes qualified for state as an
individual
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