Hermiston
Herald
HermistonHerald.com
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2015
Stanfi eld
advances to
Semifi nals
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eld’s playoff run
Stanfi
reminiscent of 1957 title team
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HISTORY
By SAM BARBEE
Staff Writer
Before the Stan¿ eld Tigers beat Vernonia, 56-
26, two weeks ago in the 2A OSAA quarter¿ nals,
it had been 58 years since a Tigers football team
won a playoff game.
That was the 195, when the Stan¿ eld Tigers,
then in Class B, went 10-0, part of a 26-game
winning streak that ended with 1958’s ¿ rst con-
test, a 28-13 defeat to Maupin.
That 1957 Tigers team was a juggernaut.
They allowed just six points during the regular
season and just 19 points between the regular sea-
son and playoffs. They ¿ nished the regular sea-
son with ¿ ve straight shutouts a 6-0 thriller over
Pilot Rock, consecutive 39-0 wins over McEwen
and Echo, a 38-0 win over Heppner and a 37-0
win over then-rival Umatilla. Stan¿ eld also had
shutout wins over Fossil (74-0) in the opener and
a 46-0 throttling of Joseph. The lone regular sea-
son non-shutout was a 46-6 drubbing of Elgin.
In all, Stanfield averaged 40.4 points per game
and allowed a staggering 1.9. To put that in perspec-
tive, the best offense in Stanfield’s division this sea-
son is averaging just over 50 points per game (Hep-
pner), and the best defense is allowing 12.7 points
per game (Reedsport). No team has allowed fewer
than 100 points, much less fewer than 20.
By comparison, Stan¿ eld struggled through
the ¿ rst two rounds of the playoffs, beating Union
26-6 and Merrill 27-7. But they had no trouble
with Powers in the Class B title game, running
away with a 46-0 win. The Dec. 5, 1957, issue of
the Hermiston Herald includes a front-page story
on the title game. It reads, in part “The Tiger su-
periority was shown in the opening moments of
the game when Walt Wolfe grabbed two Powers
fumbles” and the Tigers scored a touchdown af-
ter the second turnover. The story mentions that
an impromptu dinner was held at a restaurant in
Stan¿ eld, and an impromptu dance broke out as
well. Stan¿ eld tries to maintain its best football
season since then when it plays No. 4 Kennedy
in Hillsboro on Saturday at noon.
PLAYOFFS
ABOUT TOWN
Horneck
building
dedication
Wednesday
Hermiston Agricultural
Research and Extension
Center will dedicate the
Don Horneck Memorial
Building and host and open
house on Wednesday.
The building dedication
will occur at
2 p.m. at the
Hermiston
Agricultur-
al Research
and Exten-
sion Center,
2121 S. First
Horneck
St., Hermis-
ton.
The building houses the
agronomy lab, insect rear-
ing rooms, tissue culture
room and room to house
equipment. It is dedicated in
memory of Don Horneck,
an extension agronomist
at Oregon State University
who died Sept. 28, 2014.
.Horneck, who lived in Irri-
gon, was a specialist in soil
fertility and had worked for
OSU since 2000.
“This facility is a tre-
mendous addition to this
research and extension
center and will signi¿ cant-
ly aid staff to provide new
research based informa-
tion to the region’s agri-
culture community,” said
Phil Hamm, director of the
OSU Hermiston Agricul-
tural Research and Exten-
sion Center.
Good Shepherd
recognized for
good outcomes
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For more on Stanfi eld’s playoff run this
season, see Page A9.
Girl Scouts rededicate peace pole after vandalism
By JADE McDOWELL
Staff Writer
After a “peace pole” hon-
oring veterans was vandalized
at McKenzie Park, a local Girl
Scout unit put its replacement
in the safest place they could
think of right in front of the
police station.
The pole was rededicated
on Nov. 11 in front of the Bob
Shannon Safety Center by the
Girl Scouts of Oregon and
Southeast Washington Service
Unit 22.
Troop leader Michelle Kane
said the original peace pole
was installed in 2007 after the
Girl Scouts decided they want-
ed to use the funds from their
annual father-daughter ball for
a community project.
“Since the funds came from
the community we wanted to
give back to the communi-
ty,” Kane said. “After much
See PEACE, A16
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Good Shepherd Health
Care System has received
national recognition for ex-
cellence in patient outcomes
and ¿ nancial strength. The
recognition comes from
iVantage Health Analytics
and the National Organiza-
tion of State Of¿ ce of Rural
Health after an analysis of
4,000 acute care hospitals
nationwide using 66 differ-
ent metrics.
The award for patient
outcomes refers to low
numbers for mortality rates,
readmission within 30 days,
infections and other adverse
outcomes related to hospital
stays. The data is collected
by the Centers for Medicare
& Medicaid Services and
made public in an effort to
increase transparency, em-
power patients and give hos-
pitals constructive feedback.
Good Shepherd president
and CEO Dennis Burke
called the award “truly an
honor, and a team effort.”
“We have a strong bond
with our community,”
he said in a news release.
“Many of the people we treat
are our neighbors, friends,
and, in some cases, family.
Our staff feels a strong sense
of duty and accomplishment
in striving to provide the
best quality services in each
of our departments.”
Michael Topchik, senior
vice president of iVantage
Health Analytics, said in a
statement that hospitals in
the top 25 percent nation-
wide should take pride in
their status.
“On this occasion of
National Rural Health Day,
taking place nationally on
November 19, it’s an honor
to celebrate their achieve-
ment as they continue to
serve their communities de-
spite the many market, reg-
ulatory and ¿ nancial pres-
sures they face,” he said.