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S PORTS Hermiston A11 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2015 HERMISTONHERALD.COM Hermiston sweeps Southridge Boys and girls combined to win by 42 points By SAM BARBEE Staff Writer They say it’s not how you staUt Eut how you ¿nish :ith how the 1o +eUP- iston JiUOs EasNetEaOO teaP started Friday night, it didn’t PuFh Patter how they ¿n- ished The %uOOdogs MuPSed to a - Oead whiOe IorFing six-straight Southridge Suns turnovers and went on to win - -ansen (dPiston Oed the way with Soints Ior the Bulldogs, and Maddy -uul and Sara 5aPire] were also in douEle ¿gures with 1o Suns were in douEle ¿gures “Defensively we did a great job early shutting Southridge down to (nine) Soints in the ¿rst half,´ head FoaFh Steve +offert said “So we take away a lot of good things :e need to take away the things we do well and the things we do in SraF- tiFe the shooting, defensive helS, weak side helS was PuFh better´ It was the defensive ef- fort that SroSelled the Bull- dogs (-) Southridge (-) didn’t sFore a Soint until the Park in the ¿rst Tuarter when $ri MF.en]ie Pade one of two free throws, and the Suns didn’t reFord a ¿eld goal until Megan Solensky, Southridge’s only freshPan, hit a layuS with seFonds on the FloFk In that ¿rst Tuarter, South- ridge turned the ball over a total of ten tiPes, while the Bulldogs Foughed it uS just twiFe “The last two days we worked on a lot of denials and ball Sressure ² let your teaPPates Pake the steals, don’t reaFh, don’t foul and let soPebody Pake it haSSen for you,´ +offert said “<ou See BULLDOGS, A12 STAFF PHOTO BY SAM BARBEE Hermiston sophomore Maddy Juul (center) drives into a crowd of Southridge Suns including Shyler Sullivan (21), Haley Thomas (2) and Jaid Harris during the Bulldogs’ 52-27 win Friday night in Hermiston. Hermiston goes 2-1 in 4-way dual Back-to-back pins loses Bulldogs one dual By SAM BARBEE Staff Writer STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS Nixyaawii’s Hunter McKay shoots the ball guarded by StanÀeld’s Tyler Monkus in the Tigers’ 75-5 win against the *olden Eagles on Monday in StanÀeld. Tigers, Golden Eagles sSliW in 6Wan¿eld Nixy girls win by 20, Tiger boys by 10 By SAM BARBEE STAFF WRITER DesSite shooting just 33 SerFent in the ¿rst half, the A 1ixyaawii *olden (a- gles were hanging with the A Stan¿eld Tigers in an inter-division non-league basketball gaPe Monday night in Stan¿eld The Tigers shot Ser- Fent that half, and 0 Ser- Fent froP 3-Soint range, but led just 3- 1ixy’s ]one defense and athletiF baFk- Fourt forFed nine ¿rst-half turnovers by the Tigers and turned theP into Soints, staying Flose desSite the Soor shooting But a - Tigers run to start the seF- ond half gave Stan¿eld all the Fushion it would need, and it withstood a desSerate th Tuarter by the *olden (agles to hold on for a - win to give the *olden (agles their ¿rst loss of the young season 1ixy- aawii was Slaying without its -foot- junior forward &handler &ase “Obviously they hit soPe shots, and we didn’t stiFk with the gaPe Slan,´ *olden (agles FoaFh Shane 5ivera said “They were the better teaP tonight for sure´ Stan¿eld (-) was look- ing to rebound after a Soor SerforPanFe Saturday in a - loss to 8nion where it didn’t shoot the ball well The Tigers Post Fertain- ly rebounded offensively, shooting SerFent (- ) froP the ¿eld as a teaP and 3 SerFent (-) froP deeS -uniors Dylan *ro- gan and Thyler Monkus did Post of the daPage ² *rogan inside and Monkus froP range *rogan oFFuSied the high Sost against 1ixy’s (- ) -3 ]one, and was a forFe rebounding and sForing +e ¿nsihed with Soints, with 0 of those FoPing in the seFond half and in the deFiding third Tuarter Monkus did Post of his daPage froP the 3-Soint line, Paking a gaPe-high four threes to eventually knoFk the *olden (agles out of their Sreferred ]one defense “Considering the way we shot the ball Saturday, I was really haSSy the way we FaPe out today (and shot),´ Stan¿eld FoaFh ViF- tor Baros said “It’s like I See BASKETBALL, A12 SandwiFhed by two largely uneventful duals, +erPiston Bulldogs found thePselves in a ¿ght with the 3ost Falls Trojans and FaPe uS just a hair short $fter easily disSatFhing the &aldwell &ougars -, +erPiston found itself down - after ¿ve of the ¿rst six PatFhes went the Trojans’ way But +erPiston resSond- ed in the higher weights, re- Fording six straight wins and three by fall $ll -Sound soShoPore Beau Blake had to do was not get Sinned and +erPiston, uS - at the tiPe, and the Bulldogs would wraS uS the FoPe-froP-be- hind viFtory Blake sFored a two-Soint take down in the third Seriod to go uS -, but two esFaSes by his oSSonent, senior .aPeron :elker, sent the PatFh to overtiPe, where he took down Blake then Sinned hiP with one seFond left That Sut it to -Sounder Daylon (ng to try the saPe, and he was Sinned PuFh sooner, giving 3ost Falls a FoPe-froP-be- hind dual viFtory at - “I kinda feel like it was our .una dual froP last year,´ Bob &olePan said, referenFing a Peet against a tough Idaho sFhool that left +erPiston with a win “<ou Fould de¿nitely see that their teaP was just better :e had good guys lose, we had bad guys lose, but it was little things, like one Soint away froP a Pajor deFision and not getting it or one Soint for a stalling Fall so it would go into bigger Soints´ Down -, +erPiston showed why it’s Srobably 2regon’s best wrestling Sro- graP Valen Wyse, who went 3-0 on the day, started the FoPebaFk with a -3 deFi- sion over $lius De/a5osa, followed by a 3- deFision by soShoPore -oey *utier- re] over &olten .a]Pier]- Fak and BroFk MFDonough toSSing .aleb Ferris - at 0 Sounds Then the Sins started &olePan TuiFkly stuFk .ellen Dyler, -ohn +enry /ine Sinned Brad 1oesen in the seFond round, then SaP &olbray easily defeated IsaaF ShadduFk to Sut +erPiston uS 30- after being down -3 It was a huge swing STAFF PHOTO BY SAM BARBEE Hermiston senior Sam Colbray (top) controls the head of Deer Park senior Trevor Eicher during a 4-way dual meet Saturday at Hermisotn High School. The two-time Idaho state champ Eicher beat the three-time Oregon state champ Colbray by decision in double overtime. STAFF PHOTO BY SAM BARBEE Hermiston junior CJ Hendon (front) is lifted by Caldwell junior Cyrus Salcedo during a 4-way dual meet Saturday at Hermiston High. Hendon won by decision. for +erPiston after the lower weights were totally doPi- nated by 3ost Falls ForPer state FhaPS /iaP Tarvin was toSSed by Matt MF/eod -, with Tarvin not doing PuFh on the offen- sive &- +endon Fouldn’t do PuFh, either, against T- Wolf at Sounds, and -ason BurFhell sFored a Pajor de- Fision over $- Tuia at - For ¿rst-year head FoaFh .yle /arson, the FoPebaFk was great But the loss, how- ever narrow, dePonstrates what they Pust iPSrove at “We had two overtiPe PatFhes that we lost,´ he said “We had state SlaFers Give a thoughtful gift that gives all year long! SAVE 42% on a gift subscription Convenient home delivery every Wednesday. 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Subscription will continue at the regular Hermiston Herald rate after the promotional term ends. getting beat Those are the kinds of situations where you Fan’t have that stuff and win dual Peets We Fan’t get Sinned, that’s six Soints That’s a lot of Soints I think we’ll learn froP it, and Pay- be it’s the best thing for us´ In the bookend Peets, +erPiston was Flearly the better teaP With the exFeS- tion of the 5obert 5odrigue] Sinning to &hristian +ud- son and Tuia, *utierre] and Blake losing by deFision, +erPiston largely Fruised Sast the &aldwell &ougars Isaiah Aguilar, wrestling at 3 Sounds, and /iaP Tarvin started the dual with deFision viFtories over Dante &arreno and IsPael &erros, resSeF- tively, before +udson Sinned 5odrigue] to Pove the overall Fount to - Andy Wagner then beat Brandon *on]ales 0-, followed by ViFtor Barba’s deFision over Tuia - +erPiston then took Fon- trol of its ¿rst dual of the day, winning four straight PatFh- es with three by Sin MF- Donough stuFk Ben Solis in 33, &olePan Sinned Mat- thew 5ohrdan] in , and, after /ine Fruised to a - deFision over Travis MitFh- ell, &olbray Sinned Triden MitFhell in 3 The ¿nal dual of the day for +erPiston Srovided one highlight, and it was unex- SeFted The ¿rst ten PatFhes of the dual Srovided Soints for +erPiston Tarvin and 5o- drigue] both earned forfeits, TuiFkly Sutting +erPiston uS -0 Wagner then Sinned -ake Miller in seFonds, follwed by Tuia’s longer Sin at 33 +endon, with a - de- Fision, toSSed Brent +odg- son and Wyse Sinned Dean /oFkwood in seFonds, as well *utierre] and MF- Donough eaFh sliSSed by with deFisions to Sut the Bulldogs uS -0, the /ine earned a forfeit to Sut +erP- iston ahead -0 This set uS a largely in- FonseTuential PatFhuS be- tween the three-tiPe state FhaPS &olbray and a two- tiPe Idaho state FhaPSion Trevor (iFhner It was a re- See WRESTLING, A12