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SPORTS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2016 HERMISTONHERALD.COM • A11 Bulldogs take care of Eagles Hermiston earns five pins in blowout of Hood River The Hermiston Bulldog wrestlers kept its brilliant 2015-2016 season rolling with a big win over Hood River Valley in a 5A Spe- cial District 4 dual meet on Thursday. Hermiston lost only one match on the night, when Hood River’s Ryan Zeller earned a 19-7 ma- jor decision win over Hermiston’s Ruben Mad- rigal to earn the Eagles’ only four points of the dual. From that point on, it was all Hermiston. Liam Tarvin start- ed off Hermiston’s roll with a pin against Noah Wachsmuth at the 3:37 mark of the match, and Andy Wagner followed up with a 5-0 decision win over Jason Shaner to boost Hermiston up 15-4 early. Then after five-straight forfeited matches from Hood River from 132 pounds to 160 pounds, Ju- lio Leiva picked up right where the team left off, earning a 9-4 decision win over Oscar Villegas to put the ‘Dawgs up 48-4. Hermiston then closed Powder Valley muscles past Cougars on the road POWDER VALLEY 49, ECHO 43 — At Echo, the Badgers scored 20 points off turnovers to beat the Cougars on Sat- urday in their Old Oregon League match-up. Gus McGinn led Pow- der Valley (14-5, 7-3 OOL) with 15 points and nine rebounds and Tanner Eu- banks added nine rebounds to go with eight points. Each team turned the ball over 20 times, but Echo (7-14, 5-5) was only able to turn the Badgers’ miscues into ¿ve points. Carlos Chavez led the Cougars with 19 points and Michael Thompson added eight points to his team-high 11 rebounds. Echo closes regu- lar-season play on Friday at Wallowa at 7:30 p.m. ——— PV (14-5, 7-3) 12 11 13 13 — 49 EHS (7-14, 5-5) 10 5 14 14 — 43 POWDER VALLEY — G. McGinn 15, C. Browne 10, I. Colton 9, T. Eubanks 8, S. Dixon 5, C. Day 2, H. Davis. (19-48) ECHO — C. Chavez 19, M. Thompson 8, B. Gibbs 7, B. Moffit 5, J. Dorn 4, Z. Gerkhe, D. Craig. (18-52) 3-pointers — PV 6-17, EHS 6-18. Free throws — PV 5-14, EHS 1-4. Fouls — PV 12, EHS 16. Fouled out — C. Day (PV), J. Dorn (EHS). NYSSA 51, UMATIL- LA 35 — At Umatilla, the Vikings their third game in a row, but could take solace in knowing their district standing couldn’t be affected going into Sat- urday’s Eastern Oregon League match-up. No de- tails were reported. Umatilla, which will have the No. 3 seed in the district tournament, ¿n- ishes the regular season at Vale on Friday at 7 p.m. took time with 12 seconds left to draw up his own play. It went to Grogan at the continued from Page A10 high post, but he was dou- Irrigon pulled ahead ear- bled teamed and could do ly in the second quarter with nothing but force up a shot. Stan¿eld’s offense falling It went begging, adding an- apart. While Irrigon scored other four minutes onto the six points to open the quar- clock. ter, Stan¿eld committed There, Stan¿eld basi- four turnovers in its ¿rst cally dominated. Rice hit a ¿ve second-quarter posses- 3-pointer — Irrigon’s only sions and watched as the overtime points — to push Knights built a nine-point the Knights ahead 47-46, lead. But Dylan Grogan got but Bailey answered back two points and Bailey hit a 3 with his 3-point play to give to cut the Knight lead back the Tigers a two-point lead. to four with 4:04 remaining Then Irrigon turned it over in the quarter. Later, with again — the Knights had Irrigon up 19-13, Bailey hit three cough-ups in the ¿- another 3, this one with 1:56 nal period — and Bailey left, to cut the Knight lead to made a free throw and three. Tony Flores made two Despite shooting just with three seconds left to 30 percent (3-10) in the ice it. second quarter, Stan¿eld With the Irrigon sweep outscored Irrigon 10-8 in behind them and a dan- the period, but still trailed gerous Weston-McEw- 19-18. en team on the horizon, The back-and-forth na- Baros said it’s imperative ture of the contest was a to focus on the TigerScots, theme all the way through. giving his team all of ¿ve In the second half, neither minutes to celebrate Sat- team led by more than urday’s emotional win. four points, with Stan¿eld “They’re a good team. holding the one four-point Weston’s a good team,” lead at 38-34 after Bailey Baros said. “I don’t take opened the quarter with ¿ve them for granted.” Bailey agreed. points and Thyler Monkus “(Next) we go to added two more. Rambo started to rack up the Stan- Weston, keep up our high ¿eld fouls with aggres- level of play, and we carry sive and athletic drives,but it into districts and state.” Stan¿eld’s last CBC couldn’t convert on the free throws. As a team, Irrigon game of the year is Friday shot just 33 percent (7-21) at 6 p.m. Irrigon ¿nishes from the free throw line. up with Culver the same Meanwhile, Stan¿eld shot day 4:30 p.m. ——— 74 percent (17-23) for the IHS (15-6, 6-3) 11 8 14 11 3 — 47 game, 77 percent (10-13) in SHS (15-5, 7-2) 8 10 13 13 8 — 52 the second half, and 86 per- IRRIGON — A. Rice 18, X. Rambo 11, F. cent (6-7) in the extra frame. Vera 9, H. White 5, O. Vera 2, D. Vera 2, L. J. Phillips, E. Carillo. After taking a timeout Covarrubia, STANFIELD — R. Bailey 19, D. Grogan 16, T . Flores 9, T. Monkus 6, L. Moreno 2, with 44 seconds left to draw J. Carrillo, J. Galarza, A. Nunez, D. Brooks, up a play, Irrigon turned it E. Angel, N. Sanchez, J. Garcia, B. Woods, Esquivel. over. Rather, Stan¿eld stole E. 3-pointers — IHS 6, SHS 5. Free throws — it. Monkus jumped in front SHS IHS 16. 7-21, SHS 17-23. Fouls — IHS 17, of a skip pass, and Baros TIGERS: BULLDOGS: continued from Page A10 ly because it worked itself into foul trouble with six first-quar- ter fouls, sending Hermiston to the free throw line eight times that period. Hermiston also changed its defense in the second quarter, switching to a full-court man- to-man defense in an attempt to throw off the Riverhawks’ offense. It worked. “We like to switch up our defense once they adjust,” Juul said. As the Riverhawks’ of- fense began to stall, the Bull- dogs’ offense took off. They never shot worse than 48 percent from the Àoor as a team in any quarter, and shot a near-unbelievable 80 per- cent (8-10) in the third quarter that saw Hermiston’s lead go from 12 at the break to 23 af- ter three quarters. With outside shots not falling — Hermiston shot just 5-14 from deep — it STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS Hermiston’s Liam Tarvin gets tied up with Hood River’s Noah Wachsmuth during the Bulldogs’ 72-4 win against the Eagles on Thursday in Hermiston. out strong with four- straight pins to close out the dual, with Brock Mc- Donough at 182 pounds, Bob Coleman at 195 pounds, Sam Colbray at 220 pounds, and Beau Blake at 285 pounds to vault Hermiston to the 72-4 win. All-in-all, Hood Riv- er forfeited six matches overall with Isaiah Agu- ilar (120 pounds), Jadon Estes (132 pounds), C.J. Hendon (138 pounds), Will Sharkey (145 pounds), Valen Wyse (152 pounds), and Devin Bos- ner (160 pounds) the ben- eficiaries of those match- es. Hermiston has just two meets left in the regular season before districts be- gin, and it starts Saturday when they travel to Ore- gon City for a tournament that begins at 10 a.m. ——— HERMISTON 72, HOOD RIVER VALLEY 4 106 — Ryan Zeller (HR) def. Ruben Madri- gal by 19-7 major dec. (0-4) 113 — Liam Tarvin (HE) pins Noah Wachsmuth, 3:37 (6-4) 120 — Isaiah Aguilar (HE) wins by forfeit (12-4) 126 — Andy Wagner (HE) def. Jason Shaner by 5-0 dec. (15-4) 132 — Jadon Estes (HE) wins by forfeit (21-4) 138 — CJ Hendon (HE) wins by forfeit (27-4) 145 — Will Sharkey (HE) wins by forfeit (33-4) 152 — Valen Wyse (HE) wins by forfeit (39-4) 160 — Devin Bosner (HE) wins by forfeit (45-4) 170 — Julio Leiva (HE) def. Oscar Villegas by 9-4 dec. (48-4) 182 — Brock McDonough (HE) pins Trystan Fisher, 1:36 (54-4) 195 — Bob Coleman (HE) pins Mark Reyes, 1:27 (60-4) 220 — Sam Colbray (HE) pins Max Lane, 1:39 (66-4) 285 — Beau Blake (HE) pins Justin Wilson, 4:37 (72-4) Knights manage to hold off Tigers IRRIGON 38, STAN- FIELD 32 — At Stan¿eld, Taylor Davis scored a sea- son-high 17 points to guide the Knights past the Tigers in a key Columbia Basin Conference match-up on Saturday. Stan¿eld coach Daniel Sharp said the score was within one or two points for most of the fourth, but “Irrigon was able to exe- cute some things down the stretch and make some free throws to pull away.” Yazzmin Chavez led Stanfield (9-11, 4-5 CBC) with 16 points and Nata- lia Esquivel scored 12. Beatriz Aguilera added nine points for Irrigon (8- 12, 4-5). The outcome, along with Culver’s win at Heppner on Saturday, created a three- way tie for third place that will not last long. Irrigon hosts Culver at 6 p.m. on Friday to ¿nish the regular season. Stan¿eld closes out at Weston-McEwen on Friday at 7:30 p.m. NEAL: continued from Page A10 “I thought he was a bas- ketball player who should come play football,” Faae- teete said. Neal obliged, and started playing linebacker. He was athletic and could move, but one day he started rush- ing the passer from a three- point stance and Faaeteete knew where Neal would play. “I just looked at him like, ‘Yeah, that’s your po- sition,’” Faaeteete said. “He didn’t learn a lot of his ¿ne motor stuff (until recently). Great get off, he already had that. Just teach- ing him the technique stuff really improved his game. And playing with an expe- rienced defensive line he had coming in really helped WRESTLING: continued from Page A10 4) Wade Kirkpatrick, Hermiston 145 POUNDS 1) Morgan Holcomb (Pendleton) def. Will Sharkey (Hermiston) by 9-3 decision 152 POUNDS 2) Valen Wyse (Hermiston) loses to Lane Stigall (N. Marion) by 16-6 maj. dec. 160 POUNDS 3) JD Peters, Pendleton 5) Devin Bosner, Hermiston 170 POUNDS 1) Brock McDonough (Hermiston) def. Julio Leiva (Hermiston) by 7-4 decision 182 POUNDS 1) Bob Coleman (Hermiston) pins Lane Marshall (Ore. City), 5:24 7) Greg Lee, Pendleton 195 POUNDS 2) Marcus Taylor (Pendleton) loses to Steffen Jacobsen (Wilson) by 11-5 decision 5) Kenny Bevan, Hermiston 220 POUNDS 1) Sam Colbray (Hermiston) pins Nicholas Ledbury (Estacada), 0:50 5) Corey Mason, Hermiston 6) Jeff Priester, Pendleton 285 POUNDS 1) Beau Blake (Hermiston) pins Jacob Banks (Pendleton), 2:37 was Juul who dominated stretches. With Edmiston and Ramirez getting pen- etration off the bounce, it forced the Riverhawk de- fense to collapse upon them, leaving Juul open at the block. One time, the ball reversed to Edmiston in the corner, and two Riverhawk defenders moved to close out on the shooter, leaving Juul, again, wide open on the block. “Those are team points, for sure,” the sophomore said. ——— IHS (8-12, 4-5) 6 6 10 14 — 38 SHS (9-11, 4-5) 4 8 9 11 — 32 IRRIGON — T. Davis 17, B. Aguilera 9, J. Burns 6, K. McLaughlin 6, A. Zacarias, L. Mills. STANFIELD — Y. Chavez 16, N. Esquivel 12, C. Curiel 7, M. Griffin 3, B. Braithwaite 2, C. Hopper 2, M. Banderas, B. Watson, G. Chavez, S. Connell, A. Carrillo. 3-pointers — IHS 1, SHS 3. Free throws — IHS 9-13, SHS 7-14. Fouls — IHS 14, SHS 17. PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE Thursday, February 11 Echo @ Wallowa, 7:30 p.m. WRESTLING WRESTLING Hermiston @ Pendleton, 6 p.m. Echo @ Hermiston Tournament, TBD Friday, February 12 Saturday, February 13 BOYS BASKETBALL Hermiston @ Pendleton, 7:30 p.m. Umatilla @ Vale, 7 p.m. Stanfield @ Weston-McEwen, 6 p.m. Echo @ Wallowa, 7:30 p.m. SWIMMING Hermiston @ Districts @ Hood River, 10 a.m. POWDER VALLEY 44, ECHO 33 — At Echo, Samantha Kerns’ dou- ble-double led the Bad- gers past the Cougars in a sloppy Old Oregon League game on Saturday. The two teams combined for 63 turnovers with Pow- der Valley (14-7, 9-2 OOL) committing 37 of those. Kerns ¿nished with 11 points, 14 rebounds, and added three locked shots and four steals. Kelsey Ranger led Echo (11-12, 4-7) with 16 points, and Hannah McCarty added nine points, eight rebounds and ¿ve steals. Echo ¿nishes the regular season on Friday at Wal- lowa at 6 p.m. ——— UMATILLA 35, NYS- SA 33 — At Umatilla, the Vikings wrapped up the No. 1 seed in the district tournament by beating the second-place Bulldogs on Saturday in Eastern Oregon League play. Details were not reported. Umatilla (18-5, 7-1) closes regular-season play on Friday at Vale with a 5 p.m. tip-off. him blossom into the player he is today.” Neal quickly gained weight as he was thrust into the ¿rst real weights program of his life. He add- ed 30 pounds int he next two seasons and played at around 260 pounds this season, though was listed at 250. ““Once you get him on the ¿eld, you notice that he’s a step quicker than a lot of kids his age,” Faae- teete said. “And he’s got a little tenacity and a big mo- tor. You (could) de¿nitely tell there was something different about his style of play.” Neal had one other offer. Montana State Northern, located in Havre, Mon- tana and where teammate Hayden Simon is commit- ted, and Boise State was showing interest, yet never offered. Hawaii showed in- terest shortly before his vis- it to Eastern. Despite the lack of inter- ested from larger schools, Neal is happy with his de- cision. “I don’t know if up- set’s the word,” he said. “I wasn’t really surprised, ei- ther. I feel like their loss. They didn’t want to give me the chance. That’s on them.” Happy for a couple rea- sons. First, he said it’s an extremely family atmo- sphere in Cheney. He loved the campus and found the happy medium between be- ing close enough to home while simultaneously being far enough away from it. In two years at Hermis- ton, Neal recorded 161 total tackles, 67 of which were solo, and led the team in both categories. He also led Hermiston in sacks (19.5), quarterback hurries (35) and tackles for loss (38.5). He also forced ¿ve fum- bles, recovered three and returned one for a touch- down. Neal’s best season came as a junior on Hermiston’s state championship team. In 12 games, Neal had 100 total tackles, 31 solo, 12.5 sacks, 21 hurries 25 tackles for loss, two forced fum- bles, two fumbles recov- ered and scored the touch- down. “I just want to thank all my coaches back in Ione getting me started,” Neal said. “Thank all the coach- es here for getting me on track. Thank all of my councilors, all my teachers, all my friends for helping me out when I needed it. And my family most of all for supporting me.” PINE EAGLE INVITE — At Pine Eagle, the Heppner Mustangs, Irrigon Knights and Echo Cougars were all in action on Saturday afternoon ¿nishing up their last compe- tition before district tourna- ments begin. Heppner turned in the best performance of the three ¿nish- ing tied for sixth place with 79 points, while Irrigon ¿nished No. 12 with 53 points and Echo at No. 14 with 30 points. Heppner was carried by two-time state champion Ryan Smith, who remains un- beaten on the season after tak- ing ¿rst place at 113 pounds. In that ¿rst place match, “The dump pass was open so we used it.” Hermiston continues its Columbia River Conference schedule Tuesday with a 7 p.m. date at Hood River Val- ley. ——— T-D (10-8, 2-2) 17 7 12 13 — 49 HHS (16-3, 4-0) 17 19 23 20 — 79 THE DALLES — I. Telles 13, K. Hoylman 8, S. Watson 8, J. Bonham 7, L. Cimmiyoti 6, B. McCall 3, J. Thomasian 2, M. Heemsah 2, I. Taylor, E. Weir, K. Jesch. HERMISTON — S. Ramirez 22, M. Juul 21, J. Edmiston 20, H. Meyers 4, K. Padilla 4, S. Gilbert 3, K. Heehn 3, J. Thomas 2, S. Stefani, R. Andreason, K. Smith, H. Thompson. 3-pointers — T-D 4, HHS 5. Free throws — T-D 9-15, HHS 22-32. Fouls — T-D 19, HHS 13. WRESTLING Echo @ Hermiston Tournament, TBD GIRLS BASKETBALL Hermiston @ Pendleton, 5:45 p.m. Umatilla @ Vale, 5:30 p.m. Stanfield @ Weston-McEWen, 7:30 p.m. PV (14-7, 9-2) 5 9 11 19 — 44 EHS (11-12, 4-7) 5 11 10 7 — 33 POWDER VALLEY — S. Kerns 11, S. Ste- vens 9, H. Feik 8, M. Hufford 8, A. Jiminez 3, K. Wiliams 3, L. Nedro 2, S. Sexton, T. Combs. (16-37) ECHO — K. Ranger 16, H. McCarty 9, D. Tarvin 3, L. Cox 3 S. Stone 2, E. Parks, T. Swaggart, L. Wiggins. (12-50) 3-pointers — PV 4-10, EHS 2-16. Free throws — PV 8-15, EHS 7-16. Fouls — PV 18, EHS 20. Fouled out — H. McCarty (EHS). Smith defeated Baker’s Jace Hays in a sudden victory 2-0 in the ¿rst round of overtime. Echo ¿nished the meet with only three plac- ers, as Kyle Ranger took ¿fth place at 113 pounds, James Stradley sixth at 195 pounds, and Ian Faulkner sixth at 195 pounds. ——— PINE EAGLE INVITE 113 POUNDS 1) Ryan Smith (Heppner) def. Jace Hays (Baker) 2-0 in SV-1. 5) Kyle Ranger (Echo) pins Red Colnot (Pine Eagle), 2:18 126 POUNDS 4) Carson Brosnan (Heppner) pinned by Jay Goldblatt (Grant Union), 2:01 132 POUNDS 5) Damon Sawyer (Irrigon) def. Eduardo Munoz (Adrian) by 8-6 dec. Tuesday, February 15 BOYS BASKETBALL Hermiston vs. The Dalles, 7 p.m. GIRLS BASKETBALL Hermiston @ The Dalles, 7 p.m. 145 POUNDS 4) Josue Aguilera (Irrigon) pinned by Bryson Shira (Adrian), 2:05 6) Will Lutcher (Heppner) loses by 7-0 dec. to Adam Van Meter (Nyssa) 152 POUNDS 6) Tim Jaca (Heppner) loses at 3:12 with injury 160 POUNDS 6) Franco Sanchez (Irrigon) loses by 7-3 dec. to Zyler Hermens (Enterprise) 170 POUNDS 5) Brady Harrington (Irrigon) pins Zac Brown (Imbler), 0:48 182 POUNDS 6) Sabasytian Futter (Heppner) pinned by Cole Kiesecker (Joseph) at 1:41 195 POUNDS 3) Tucker McAllister (Irrigon) pins Zachary Davis (Crane), 3:57 6) James Stradley (Echo) pinned by Hadley Boethin (Grant Union), 0:28 220 POUNDS 2) Cord Flynn (Heppner) loses by 5-1 dec. to Samuel Williams (Crane) 6) Ian Faulkner (Echo) pinned by Gavin Hawkins (Union) 2:22 285 POUNDS 1) Kasey Kroske (Irrigon) pins Jose Covarru- bia (Irrigon) at 2:29 5) Aaron Math (Irrigon) pins Adrian Huerta (Crane), 2:08 37 TH ANNUAL HERMISTON SPORTS BOOSTERS STEAK FEED & AUCTION Saturday, March 5th • 5:30pm Auction starts at 7:00pm Hermiston Community Center FOR TABLE RESERVATIONS, $ 40 call Paul 541-567-5215 or formore info., call Joe 541-571-4478 on per pers Everyone 21 years & over welcome. 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