WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2015
Hermiston Lions
shutout Eagles for title
Allowed just 7
points all season
The Hermiston Lions
completed the perfect season
Oct. 24, downing the Eagles
25-0 in the championship
game at Kennison Stadium
to earn its second straight
league title.
Head coach Kelly Allen
said the game was closer
than the score indicated, and
a big second half propelled
the Lions after taking a 7-0
lead into the half.
The Lions started the sea-
son with three straight shut-
outs, topping Umatilla, 20-0
before downing the Vikings,
47-0, and the Redskins, 35-0.
The Lions allowed their ¿rst
points the next week against
the Cowboys in a 41-7 win,
then shutout the Eagles 25-0
before winning the title by
the same score.
Fourth-grader Landon Shil-
hanek quarterbacked the Lions
this season and last, leading
both teams to Grid Kids titles.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO BY MELISSA PURSWELL AND LISA MCELROY
Isaac Corey (3) looks for running room behind teammates Bradley Hottman (13), Landon Shilhanek
(15) and Jack Thomas during the Lions 25-0 championship win over the Eagles on Oct. 24.
Fish and Wildlife to remove carp
to improve waterfowl habitat
Starting today, the U.S. Fish and Wild-
life Service will start removing carp to be-
gin a waterfowl habitat improvement proj-
ect for Curlew Pond on the Peninsula Unit
of McNary National Wildlife Refuge.
The carp will be eliminated using a chem-
ical that only affects ¿sh called Rotenone.
The FWS said in a news release that
people using the area, which are primari-
ly waterfowl hunters this time of the year,
will see dead carp littering the pond for the
next 2-3 months, but Rotenone dissipates
quickly and the water is safe for people,
dogs and other wildlife.
“While hunting may be impacted this
year, in the long run the number of wa-
terfowl using Curlew Pond will increase
dramatically,” said Lamont Glass, McNary
National Wildlife refuge manager. “With-
out carp, aquatic vegetation will grow
back, and ducks, geese and swans will have
a dependable food supply.”
This winter, large numbers of ¿sh-eat-
ing birds can be expected to congregate in
the area.
“The seagulls and bald eagles are show-
ing up for a free meal,” said Dan Haas, Vis-
itor Services Manager for the refuges. “All
the dead carp provide birds all they can eat
with no effort wasted on hunting. We ex-
pect good opportunities for the public to
see large numbers of birds at Curlew Pond
for the next couple of months.”
For more information on the project, the
public can contact the FWS at 509-546-
8333 or mcriver@fws.gov.
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ecuted much better. I think
our kids just showed a lot of
guts defensively in the sec-
ond half.”
On the offensive side for
Pendleton (3-6, 1-2 CRC),
the Buckaroos could not
get much going. The Buck-
aroos had just 68 yards of
offense in the ¿rst half, and
quarterback Kai Quinn only
completed six of his 19 pass
attempts as the Bulldogs
defense was constantly put-
ting pressure on the Bucks’
QB.
“That was one of our big
keys of the game was to
make him uncomfortable in
the pocket,” said Faaeteete.
“He completed a fair share
though and kudos to him.”
Quinn ¿nished the game
14-36 for 113 yards with
two interceptions and one
touchdown. The lone Buck-
aroo touchdown came on a
four-yard pass from Quinn
to Nick Lani with just 17
seconds remaining in the
game to get the score to the
28-12 ¿nal.
“I’ve always been con¿-
dent that we could put some
points on the board, and we
just weren’t able to do that
until the last-second,” said
Davis.
The only other Buck-
aroos score came early in
the second quarter, when
Bucks’ linebacker Marcus
Taylor intercepted a pass
from Hunsaker and ran it
back 64-yards for a touch-
down — Taylor’s second
pick-six of the season. The
extra point was no good,
which put the score at 7-6
in favor of the Bulldogs.
It appeared the intercep-
tion might be a momentum
changer for the Buckaroos,
but the Bulldogs quickly
answered with an eight-
play, 80-yard drive in 3:34
of game time, capped off
with a 36-yard play-action
touchdown pass from Hun-
saker to Tucker Salinas to
put the Bulldogs on top,
14-6.
Then after forcing a
three-and-out from the
Bucks, the Bulldogs struck
quickly again as Hunsaker
ran a quarterback draw up
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SPORTS
RUNNERS:
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of the race.”
The course was wet and
muddy in places, slowing
down the times overall.
That didn’t affect Carde-
nas much, who ran his best
time in three tries on the
LCC course. During that
¿rst mile, Cardenas pulled
away from the leading
pack of Ibrahim, Scott and
several others. But Carde-
nas’ second-mile split
increased from the ¿rst,
and the gap between he
and Ibrahim and Scott just
kept expanding. Cardenas
had no trouble maintain-
ing his pace with nobody
on his tail.
“This year, I’m better at
that because I’ve been run-
ning more mileage than I
did last year,” he said.
Cardenas is expecting
to run collegiately, though
he is yet to commit to a
school.
“I’d like to thank my
family for supporting me,”
Cardenas said, gold med-
al around his neck. “Sad-
ly, they couldn’t be here
today, but they’ve been
supporting me all season.
They gave me what I need,
and I’m thankful for that.”
PHOTO BY JOSHUA BESSEX/EO MEDIA GROUP
Hermiston senior Josiah Niederwerfer climbs a berm
during the 5A boys race of the OSAA cross country
championships Saturday at Lane Community College in
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Hermiston boys. The Bull-
dogs lost just one runner
from last season’s third place
team, and seemed prime and
ready to return to Hermiston
as the top boys cross country
team in the state.
The season didn’t go
Herimston’s way, and nei-
ther did Saturday’s 5A Or-
egon State Championships
at Lane Community Col-
lege in Eugene. Hermis-
ton ¿nished ¿fth as a team
with 142 points.
Summit took the team
title after a very close race
with Crater. The Comets
had the ¿rst-, third- and
¿fth-place runners, though
came up short to Summit
who ¿nished second-,
sixth-, seventh-, eighth-
and ninth-place runners.
The only top-10 runner
not from Summit or Crater
was Bend’s Caleb Hoff-
man, who ¿nished fourth.
For Hermiston, Josiah
Niederwerfer entered the
track and the ¿nal 100
meters in ninth, but Sum-
mit’s Jett Ballantyne and
Marist’s Jerik Embleton
kicked past him to push
him off the podium. The
next Hermiston runner to
come across was Donnell
Rome, who placed 25th in
16:57.
“We did come in ex-
pecting better performanc-
es from everyone, but
during the race I passed
some teammates and they
just weren’t feeling good.
It’s not our best. We didn’t
run like Hermiston at all.”
Last year’s stalwart,
Hayden Earl, struggled all
season with nagging issues
that prevented him from
duplicating his junior sea-
son results. He ¿nished 31st
in 17:06. Angel Castellanos
¿nished 45th in 17:26 and
Isaac Sanchez crossed in
17:32, good for 49th.
half and one good look.
Numerous shots were
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run out opportunity or re-
when Ayden Prewitt found setting Crescent Valley’s
Rodriguez, who controlled attack.
“De¿nitely the old ad-
and easily Àicked it past
age ‘defense wins cham-
Olbrich in the 24th.
But despite the strong pionships’ was true to-
offensive performance in night,” Harshberger said.
the ¿rst half, Hermiston “All credit to my defense.
was content to play keep- That’s de¿nitely the one
away and win 3-1 in the area I’m not disappoint-
ed in. They did a fantas-
second half.
Its defense, which tic job. We talked about
aside from the early guarding the through ball,
goal was stout all night, and they stepped up and
became suffocating as did everything perfectly.”
But that seemingly
Crescent Valley only had
three shots in the second contentedness in the sec-
ond half is slightly worri-
some for Harshberger. He
wanted to put the Raiders
away in the second half
with a fourth instead of
contentedly playing for
the 3-1 win. He said it’ll
take two halves and 80
minutes to win going for-
ward.
“No easy games left,”
Harshberger said. “One
at a time, we’re focused
on Saturday — nothing
beyond Saturday. It’s just
going to get harder. We
need to be able to go out
and impose ourselves and
play our game if we’re
going to be successful.”
Bulldog boys leave
Eugene disappointed
Expectations were high
entering the 2015 cross
country season for the
SOCCER:
STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS
The Hermiston Bulldogs defeat the Pendleton Bucks 28-12 on
Friday in Pendleton.
STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS
Hermiston’s Hayden Simon dives through the line Friday in
the Bulldogs’ 28-12 win against the Bucks in Pendleton.
STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS
The Hermiston Bulldogs
defeat the Pendleton Bucks
28-12 on Friday in Pendleton.
the middle and scampered
74 yards for a touchdown to
put Hermiston on top 21-6
with just under six minutes
left in the second quarter.
After forcing anoth-
er Pendleton punt on
the next possession, the
Bulldogs offense made
quick work yet again in
the quarter, drawing up a
¿ve-play, 66 yard drive in
just 1:14 of game time that
was capped off by a four-
yard read-option keeper
by Hunsaker for his third
rushing touchdown of the
half to increase the Bull-
dogs’ lead to 28-6.
In that quarter, the
Hermiston offense had a
pretty balanced attack of
QB keepers, base runs, and
play-action passes. Hunsa-
ker says that balance will
be crucial for the Bulldogs
in the playoffs.
“We have to be able
to run the ball and get the
play-action pass,” he said.
“We did that tonight and
got some pretty big plays
out of it.”
But even with the win,
Faaeteete said the game
ended with a little bit of a
sour taste in his mouth.
“I think we shot our-
selves in the foot in the
second half,” he said. “We
didn’t come out as en-
ergi]ed as the ¿rst half.
We have to ¿nish better.
We didn’t tonight, and it
showed.
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