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SPORTS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2016 erty was whistled for 24 fouls, a number most pur- ple and gold clad fans in continued from Page B1 attendance felt could have Ramirez added 12 been much higher — and points and eight rebounds they weren’t wrong. The and sophomore Maddy Bulldogs were able to Juul chipped in 11 points. match the Falcons in the department, The Bulldogs out-re- physicality bounded Liberty 40-28 though, without rack- while causing 23 turnovers ing up fouls of their own DQG ¿QLVKHG ZLWK VHYHQ and committing just 14. Liberty’s Jaidyn Thomas “Usually we don’t play led the game with 19 points very physical teams and so playing a physical team and Pimentel added 16. The win earned the Bull- was nice because now dogs a seventh-straight we’re going to be play- WULS WR WKH VWDWH TXDUWHU¿- ing more physical teams a QDOV DQG WKH EUDFNHW¶V ¿- state,” Edmiston said. “So nal site, which will begin it’s a good refresher of bet- Wednesday at Gill Colise- ter teams than were in our conference.” um in Corvallis. The No. 5 Bulldogs While the Falcons may not have given the Bull- will open the tournament dogs much preparation bracket against hometown in the way of a tightly favorite No. 4 Corvallis at contested game, they did 3:15 p.m. on Wednesday. “We’re excited because help them prepare for the physical style of play they we’ve been working real- expect to encounter. Lib- ly hard in practice and we BULLDOGS: were kind of upset with last year’s results,” An- dreason said of their 51-46 loss in the championship game, “so it’s a good feel- ing to get back.” “They know that this game is the only way they’re going to get back to have a shot,” Hoffert said. “If we don’t win that ¿UVW JDPH ZH GRQ¶W JHW D shot at what we want. My seniors keep the team fo- cused and they know that one game at a time was KRZ ZH JRW WR WKH ¿QDOV last year, and so that’s how we’re going to approach it this year.” ——— LHS (13-12) 11 14 7 16 — 48 HHS (22-3) 20 14 20 17 — 71 LIBERTY — J. Thomas 19, Ke. Pimentel 16, A. Grenfell 9, C. Smotherman 2, A. Gallegos 2, Ka. Pimentel, B. Romeo, K. Magera, M. Jobe, C. Estocapio, E. Maki, M. Williams. HERMISTON — R. Andreason 15, J. Edmiston 13, S. Ramirez 12, M. Juul 11, H. Meyers 7, S. Gilbert 7, K. Heehn 3, K. Padilla 2, C. Wheeler 1, H. Thompson, J. Thomas. 3-pointers — LHS 7, HHS 4. Free throws — LHS 5-8, HHS 11-32. Fouls — LHS 24, HHS 7. Fouled out — E. Maki, A. Gallegos (LHS). HEPPNER: ray chipped in four points on 2-of-2 shooting, but the continued from Page B2 Mustangs’ primary scor- ers were limited to 13 total double digits for the re- points. mainder when he dropped Senior post Patrick Col- in a trey with 1:25 left in OLQV¿QLVKHGZLWKVHYHQMX- the frame to make it 35-23. nior guard Logan Grieb had +H¿QLVKHGWLHGZLWK7LOOHU ¿YH DQG VHQLRU JXDUG &- with 11 points. Kindle was held to a single Heppner was led by se- free throw. nior forward Weston Put- “They’re a physical man with 10 points going team,” Hueckman said 3 for 5 from beyond the of the Mustangs. “We’ve 3-point arc, and hit one of played physical teams all those to give the Mustangs year though. Our league is a 9-8 lead at the end of the extremely physical, I mean, ¿UVWTXDUWHU playing through the refs, Junior post Kevin Mur- playing through everything, we were used to that.” Rosenbalm was happy with how the players rep- resented themselves on the court, though, and the Mus- tangs continued to play like the game was on the line even as Burns put it out of reach in the fourth quarter. “They fought until the HQG XQWLO WKH ¿QDO EX]]- er,” he said. “That’s we talked about. You have to play with whatever you HERMISTONHERALD.COM • B3 Red 2 Red reverberates across Echo By ANTONIO SIERRA Staff Writer No cyclist took longer than Joe Myers to complete the Echo Red 2 Red Cross Country Mountain Bike Race on Saturday. But the true accomplish- ment of his race was not re- ÀHFWHGLQWKHVHYHQKRXUVDQG 15 minutes he spent on the 32- mile course. It was that he was the only person to complete the race on just one wheel. After hugging his wife, the Bellingham, Washing- ton man gave a simple an- swer to the question of the biggest challenge of unicy- cling through a mountain bike course. “Finishing,” he said. Myers, 59, took up mountain unicycling, or “municycling,” as a way to improve his health and has been riding in Red 2 Red have for 32 minutes and that’s what they did. They never gave up, they never hung their heads, they nev- er got wrapped up in any- thing else, they just played basketball. And as a coach that’s all you can ask for.” He said the end of the season always hurts, wheth- er it’s in defeat or victory — like their football season WKDW¿QLVKHGZLWKDVWDWHWL- tle. PHOTO BY ANTONIO SIERRA Two cyclists bike by the Umatilla River at the Echo Red 2 Red Cross Country Mountain Bike Race. for the past four years. While he used to start with the rest of the pack, the laborious nature of municycling meant he was forced to leave the course EHIRUHKHFRXOG¿QLVK So this year, he started at 6:10 a.m. and spent the next seven hours going over a course that winded many seasoned two-wheel riders. “Even in football, it was terrible to say the goodbyes, to have that group split up one last time, and we won the state championship,” said Rosenbalm, who was an assistant coach for the football team. “It’s emo- tional both ways and it’s just bad that all this group won’t be together again. That’s the worst part of it.” Win or lose, Burns will go through that process to- day when it plays Imbler in the 4th/6th place game at 10:45 a.m. at Pendleton Convention Center. ——— BHS (22-6) 8 15 12 14 — 49 HHS (21-5) 9 4 10 6 — 29 BURNS — T. Hueckman 19, Z. McDonald 11, T. Tiller 11, S. Davies 5, N. Modey 2, T. Reid 1, B. Friedrichsen, T. Recanzone, J. Blackburn, T. Case, A. Stewart-Graf. (17-48) HEPPNER — W. Putman 10, P. Collins 7, L. Grieb 5, K. Murray 4, W. Steagall 2, C. Kindle 1. (10-43) 3-pointers — BHS 7-22, HHS 3-16. Free throws — BHS 8-14, HHS 6-15. Fouls — BHS 11, HHS 14. Fouled out — P. Collins (HHS). Way To Go Nixyaawii! TITLE: would be a culmination of the program’s extra work, continued from Page B1 from alumni like Maloree Moss and Jenny Hoffert, WKHEDOOGRZQWKHÀRRUDQG like Tavin Headings and take advantage of their Abi Drotzmann, and count- height,” Hoffert said. “If less others. they can take advantage of “It would be an amazing your height, beat you down ¿QLVKWRD\HDUDQGLWZRXOG WKH ÀRRU DQG JHW D SRVW RQ give a lot of respect to all the block before you can the teams that were there in react, then they have an ad- the last eight to 10 years,” YDQWDJH%XWDVIDUDV¿YH Hoffert said. “It would RQ¿YH VSHHG ZH KDYH WKH make a lot of girls happy — advantage. We have to take Tavin, Abi, going back to advantage of that in transi- my daughter’s class (with) tion on the offensive end, Maloree Moss and Jenny and the defensive press side ... I could name dozens of to make them make mis- players in the last 10 years takes.” it would mean a lot to. They If the Bulldogs are to win know we have this saying, the three games necessary ‘Tradition never graduates.’ and is crowned champion And they’re still gonna feel of Oregon girls 5A bas- UHVSRQVLEOH IRU WKH ¿QLVK ketball, it wouldn’t be just we had this year. Winning for this team, these seniors the title or not, they have or this town. 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