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
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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-
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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
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shot at what we want. My
seniors keep the team fo-
cused and they know that
one game at a time was
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last year, and so that’s how
we’re going to approach it
this year.”
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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
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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,
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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take advantage of their Abi Drotzmann, and count-
height,” Hoffert said. “If less others.
they can take advantage of
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the block before you can the teams that were there in
react, then they have an ad- the last eight to 10 years,”
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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. To Hoffert, it respect for us.”
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