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
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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