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:
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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:
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“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:
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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
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