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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2016
SPORTS
Vikings fall to Pilot in twin bill
The Pilot Rock Rock-
ets remained undefeated
with their fourth and ¿fth
wins of the season in a
non-league doubleheader at
home against the Umatilla
Vikings on Thursday, 7-3,
12-2.
Pilot Rock starting
pitchers Levi Thieme and
Bryson Pierce controlled
their outings and made
big impacts at the plate as
well. Thieme struck out
18 batters, walked four
and gave up three earned
runs on four hits in a com-
plete-game effort in the
opener. He also batted 2 for
3 with a solo home run that
put Pilot Rock (5-0) up 4-3
in the bottom of the fourth
inning. He also drove in an
insurance run with a double
in the sixth, and later scored
on an error.
Pierce went 2 for 4 in
the morning game, and also
helped his own cause in the
afternoon game going 2 for
3 with three RBI and a run.
Pierce pitched four com-
plete innings and allowed
no runs on two hits and
three walks. He struck out
nine.
The Rockets scored the
bulk of their runs in a 10-
run third that saw Chris
Weinke, Iverson Winters
and Thieme each scored
twice. Winters, Thieme,
Pierce and Wesley Pur-
cell all hit RBI during the
frame, which featured six
hits, three walks, one hit
batter, two passed balls and
one error.
Of the nine runs al-
lowed by Umatilla starter
Diego Soto off seven hits,
just three were earned. He
struck out two and walked
ECHO:
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nique Montoya, Hannah
McCarty and Gonzales
each scored twice.
The Cougars lashed
nine hits, ¿ve of which
were doubles, and capi-
talized on the numerous
Colton errors, especially
in the second. In that sec-
ond, Echo sent 14 batters
to the plate and scored
eight runs, though four
were unearned. Echo was
balanced, with hitters up
and down the lineup turn-
ing in quality at-bats, an-
other point of emphasis
for Bailey entering the
contest.
“(We) took advantage
of every mistake (Colton)
made,” Bailey said. “We
weren’t hesitant and took
advantage of it.
In the second, Montoya
led off with a double into
left center, and moved
to third when McCarty
was beaned and Gonza-
les walked. After Beth
Millbrodt struck out, Cu-
riel started the rally with
a two-run double, giving
Echo the lead for good at
2-1. Pendleton transfer
Hilliard followed with an
RBI single plating Gon-
zales, and Christopher
reached on Colton’s ¿rst
error of the inning, plating
Curiel and giving Echo a
4-1 lead. {Erika} Parks
then reached on Colton’s
second error of the frame,
which itself allowed Hil-
liard to score, then after a
throwing error compound-
ing the original error with
the glove, allowing Chris-
topher to jaunt across the
plate for a 6-1 Echo lead.
Kenzie
Blankenship
then singled, but a bad
throw from left ¿eld gave
Parks time to score.
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work hard and they have
high goals and aspirations
for the season. They show
up early and ready to go at
practice and are a bunch of
team-¿rst guys.”
Stan¿eld had perhaps
its best test yet Tuesday
when the team traveled to
The Dalles to take on the
Kennedy Trojans. The Tro-
jans held a 4-2 record and
had scored 55 runs (9.2
average). The result of that
SOFTBALL
PREP SCHEDULE
Wednesday, March 30
BASEBALL
Hermiston @ La Salle Prep,
4:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 31
TENNIS
Hermiston boys @ Davis (WA),
3:30 p.m.
Hermiston girls @ Davis (WA),
3:30 p.m.
Lacrosse
Hermiston @ Richland, 7 p.m.
Friday, April 1
BASEBALL
Hermiston vs. Rex Putnam
(DH), 4 p.m.
Umatilla vs. Stanfield (DH),
1 p.m.
GOLF
Hermiston boys @ Eagle Crest,
8 a.m.
SOFTBALL
Hermiston @ Reynolds (DH),
3 p.m.
Echo vs. Umatilla, 1 p.m.
TENNIS
Stanfield @ Condon, 3 p.m.
TRACK AND FIELD
Hermiston @ Gresham at Mt.
Hood CC, 4 p.m.
Umatilla @ McLoughlin, noon
Echo @ McLoughlin, noon
three.
Thieme went 3 for 4 at
the plate with two RBI and
Winters was 2 for 3 with
two RBI.
Seth Cranston led Uma-
tilla (2-2) going 2 for 3 with
a run.
Results from Umatilla’s
game at home on Tuesday
against Sherman were not
available by press time.
Montoya walked in her
second at-bat of the inning,
and McCarty reached for
the second time when she
was hit by another pitch.
After a pop-up to second
base gave Colton its sec-
ond out, Milbrodt singled
this time, scoring Blan-
kenship.
Echo threatened in the
third, getting Christopher
to third. She walked, stole
second and moved to
third on a Parks ground-
out, but Blakenship’s
hard-hit line drive into
center field was gloved
there by Shelby Marshall
to end the threat.
In the fourth, Echo put
it away. Montoya walked
to lead off, then McCarthy
and Gonzales followed
with nearly identical line
drive singles into center
¿eld, giving Echo the bas-
es loaded an no out. Mon-
toya scord on a wild pitch
during pinch-hitter Rachel
Campana’s at-bat, which
ended in a walk, then Pol-
lick, also pinch-hitting,
doubled into left-cen-
ter, plating Gonzales and
Campana to put Echo up
12-1. McCarty scored on a
wild pitch during Pollick’s
at-bat.
Hilliard reached on
an error, but Pollick was
thrown out at the plate in a
5-3-2 play, making up for
the lost out. Christopher
then reached on an error,
and, after Parks popped
out to second base, Blan-
kenship ripped a single
into left ¿eld, scoring both
Hilliard and Christopher,
providing the ¿nal scor-
ing.
For an Echo team that
had struggled in its ¿rst
two games with plate dis-
cipline, was better at de-
¿ning the strike zone on
Thursday and not chasing
pitches outside of it. Echo
game was not available by
press time
So can the Tigers sustain
this torrid pace?
“I don’t know, we’re
going to be facing some
better competition com-
ing up in our (non-league)
and league schedules,”
he said. “If the team can
stay healthy I think we can
make a deep run into the
postseason.”
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R H E
SHS
021 145 — 22 17 1
RHS
000 01 —
1 0 0
Flores, Renner (5), and Monkus. Killion,
Calvillo (4), Sorenson (4).
2B — Bailey, Renner, Flores, Grogan (SHS).
Saturday, April 2
GOLF
Hermiston boys @ Eagle Crest,
8 a.m.
Hermiston girls @ Eagle Ridge,
TBD
LACROSSE
Hermiston @ Mt. Spokane
(WA), 1 p.m.
TRACK AND FIELD
Stanfield @ Sherman County,
11 a.m.
Monday, April 4
GOLF
Hermiston boys @ Wildhorse
Invite, noon
Hermiston girls @ Pendleton,
noon
TENNIS
Umatilla @ McLoughlin, 3 p.m.
Tuesday, April 5
BASEBALL
Stanfield @ Riverside (DH),
1 p.m.
Umatilla @ Sherman, 4 p.m.
SOFTBALL
Umatilla @ Irrigon (DH), 3 p.m.
Echo @ Riverside, 1 p.m.
TENNIS
Stanfield vs. Ione, 4:30 p.m.
TRACK AND FIELD
Hermiston vs. The Dalles, 4 p.m.
———
Game 1
R H E
UHS
000 300
0 — 3 4 4
PR
012 103 X — 7 9 0
C. Keller, J. Dever (6) and catcher. L.
Thieme and catcher. W — Thieme. L —
Keller.
2B — T. Sanguino (UHS); L. Thieme, B.
Pierce, J. Brickey, I. Winters (PR). HR — L.
Thieme (PR).
Game 2
R H E
UHS
000 02 —
2 5 3
PR
00(10) 2X — 12 10 3
D. Soto, A. Wilson (3) and catcher. B.
Pierce, I. Winters (5) and catcher. W —
Pierce. L — Soto.
2B — S. Cranston, J. Dever (UHS); B.
Pierce (PR).
batters only struck out
twice, learning the value
of putting the ball in play.
“It’s pretty easy to de-
fend strikeouts. You don’t
have to do anything,” Bai-
ley said. “A lot of these
teams, if you just put the
ball in play, they have to
¿eld in cleanly, throw it
cleanly and catch it clean-
ly, so there’s room for er-
ECHO 18, HEPPNER
4 (6 innings) — At Hep-
pner, Kenzie Blankenship
homered twice in the sixth
inning as the Echo Cougars
piled on with 10 runs in the
frame to pull away from
the Heppner Mustangs in a
non-league game on Mon-
day.
Blankenship’s ¿rst home
run came with two on and
no outs to make it 11-4, and
her second went for two
runs with two outs to make
it 18-4. They were her only
two hits of the game.
Monique Montoya went
4 for 5 and scored four runs
for Echo (3-1), Erika Parks
went 3 for 4 with two runs
and Hannah McCarty was 2
for 3 with three runs. Chey-
enne Hilliard, Jamie Chris-
topher and Montoya all had
two RBI.
Alyssa Ray pitched the
entire game and ¿nished
with eight strikeouts and
two walks. She allowed
four earned runs on nine
hits.
Jessica Kempken (3 for
3) Miranda Lemmon (3 for
4) were the only Mustangs
with multiple hits and Mor-
gan Correa led Heppner
(2-3) with two RBI. Lem-
mon pitched the ¿rst 4 1-3
innings and left with the
score 7-1. She allowed four
earned runs on eight hits
with one strikeout and one
walk.
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R H E
EHS
110 42(10) — 18 15 1
HHS
010 030 —
4 9 4
A. Ray and E. Parks. M. Lemmon, D.
Durfey (5) and T. Hamby. W — Ray. L —
Lemmon.
2B — C. Hilliard 2, M. Montoya 2, H.
McCarty 2 (EHS); M. Lemmon, M. Correa,
J. Kempken (HHS). 3B — J. Christopher
(EHS). HR — K. Blankenship 2 (EHS).
ror. You can make things
happen by just putting the
ball in play.”
Echo is back on the dia-
mond for a 4:30 date with
Heppner/Ione in Heppner.
———
CHS
100 00 — 1 2 5
EHS
080 4X — 14 9 1
M. Gonzales and E. Parks; C. Weinburg-
er and C. Neff.
W — M. Gonzales (EHS). L — C. Wein-
burger (CHS).
2B: C. Curiel (EHS), E. Parks (EHS), K.
Blankenship (EHS), M. Montoya (EHS), A.
Pollick (EHS).
Bulldogs pound Pasco
By SAM BARBEE
Staff writer
The Hermiston Bull-
dogs thoroughly domi-
nated the Pasco Bulldogs
in an interstate varsity
softball game in Pasco on
Friday, never allowing a
runner past second base in
12 innings while scoring
early and late in a 11-0,
15-0 sweep.
“It was really nice to
see the girls be aggres-
sive,´ ¿rst-year Bulldogs
coach Kate Greenough
said. “They’re starting
to realize how good they
are.”
In the opener, the Bull-
dogs (6-3) used patience
and late-at-bat adjust-
ments to slowly pull away
from Pasco, in addition to
an all-out approach on the
bases.
Hermiston got its run-
ners on by seeing pitches,
fouling balls off and, ul-
timately, working walks.
From there, Hermiston
continually applied pres-
sure to the Pasco defense,
taking extra bases when-
ever opportunities pre-
sented themselves.
On one occasion, a
Hermiston runner scram-
bled from ¿rst to third
on a passed ball after the
wayward pitch took a
sharp bounce off the un-
forgiving backstop. An-
other time, Hermiston
moved a runner from ¿rst
to third on a single bunt,
trading two bases for one
out.
“We were aggressive,
always looking for the
next bag,” Greenough said.
“And when they saw (the
open bag) they took it.”
Though Hermiston’s
run output was low early
in the game — just a run
on ¿ve hits — the batters
worked four walks and
constantly had runners
aboard. Hermiston was
patient and, according to
Greenough, were always
watching the game and
always learning. They
never started swinging at
pitches out of the strike
zone. Including the night-
cap, Hermiston struck
out one time and it was
swinging.
“They were taking
the ¿rst at-bats for what
they were and made ad-
justments in their sec-
ond at-bats,” Greenough
said. “You’d love to jump
on teams early, but they
were learning and mak-
ing adjustments.”
The Bulldogs broke
through late, scoring two
in the fourth, three in the
¿fth and four in the sev-
enth to win going away.
Rebecca Englebrecht
and Julissa Almaguer
tripled in the win. Al-
maguer struck out four
and walked two in ¿ve
innings in the circle to
earn the win. Taylor Betz
closed the door, tossing
two innings with two
punchouts.
In the nightcap, Herm-
iston was clearly com-
fortable at the plate, and
scored eight runs in the
second inning to again
win convincingly. This
time, instead of playing
an aggressive version of
smallball, the Bulldogs
took Pasco pitches into
the gap. Four of Herm-
iston’s six hits were for
extra bases. Almaguer,
Englebrecht and Jaime
Hinkley each doubled,
and Amanda Baron tri-
pled. Hinkley also stole
three bases, giving her a
total of four on the day.
“The girls were al-
ways in control,” Gree-
nough said. “It was great
to see.”
Betz tossed all ¿ve in-
nings of shutout ball on
two hits while striking
out four and walking two.
The results of Hermis-
ton’s home game against
Summit weren’t available
by press time Tuesday.
———
Game 1
HHS
100 231
4 — 11 12 1
PHS
000 000
0 — 0 1 3
J. Almaguer, T. Betz (6), J. Hinkley;
Carpenter, Bodnar.
W — J. Almaguer. L — Carpenter.
3B: R. Englebrecht, J. Almaguer (HHS).
———
Game 2
HHS
281 22 — 15 6 0
PHS
000 00 — 0 2 2
T. Betz, J. Hinkley; Lopez, Carpenter
(3), Stark.
W — T. Betz. L — Lopez.
2B: J. Almaguer, R. Englebrecht, J.
Hinkley.
3B: A. Baron (HHS).
SB: J. Hinkley 3 (HHS).
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