WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2016
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Special Olympics athletes net wins
A group of 31 athletes
and 12 coaches from the
Hermiston/Pendleton
Special Olympics Local
Program #510 recently
traveled to Beaverton to
compete in the Special
Olympics Regional Bas-
ketball Competition.
Kristi Smalley, com-
munications
manager,
said the luck of the Irish
was with them during the
event, which was held
close to St. Patrick’s Day
— the majority of the ath-
letes brought home gold.
A pair of 5-on-5 teams
both brought home gold:
The Currents, who also
received the sportsman-
ship award, were under
the leadership of first
time Special Olympics
basketball coach Cal Har-
ris. The Shockers were
guided by head coach
Mark Smalley.
At the Individual Skills
Competition, athlete Misty
Larson earned a gold medal,
Mary Ann Wright, earned a
bronze medal, Lyall Arey
earned a silver and Kelly
Wiseman placed ¿ fth. The
ISC athletes were coached
by Remick Arey and Ray-
mond Trotter.
In the 3-on-3 division,
The Lightning came away
with bronze medals and
the sportsmanship award
for Division D under the
watchful eyes of coaches
Kirsten Kinsel and Lindy
Thompson. The Thunder
stormed their way to a
gold medal and also the
sportsmanship award for
Division C coached by
Stu Bance, John Driesen
and Kristi Smalley.
Special Olympics pro-
vides training and compe-
tition for individuals with
a developmental/intellec-
tual disability. For more
information about the
upcoming sports season,
which includes track and
field events, Bocce and
golf, call Stu Bance at
541-376-8132 or Randy
Brown at 541-278-6168.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Special Olympics team Currents: Andrea Eiden, coach Cindy Middleton, Jose-Angel Ramos Garcia, Jeff McEachran, Rian
Middleton, Steven Reed, Andi Sue Reid, coach Jennifer Reed, Veronica Turner, Justin Winters, coach Cal Harris.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Special Olympics team Shockers: Sean Boyd, Jason Cargill,
Steven Gutterud, Cody Heaps, Brian Vandenakker, Trampus
Jeffreys, Bobby Phillips, Timothy Vickere, coach Mark Smalley.
Special Olympics team Thunder: coach John Driesen, Jeremy
Hansen, Chris Gillpatrick, Jonathan Wilson, Jillian Smalley,
Tammy Koenig, Christina Williams, coach Kristi Smalley.
PREP ROUNDUP
Baseball
Bulldogs fall to
Falcons on the road
The Hermiston Bulldogs
baseball team allowed four
runs to the La Salle Prep Fal-
cons in the bottom of the ¿ fth
inning on Wednesday, March
30, letting the game slip away
to earn the 5-2 loss in non-
league action.
Until that point, the Bull-
dogs (4-3) and Falcons were
deadlocked in a 0-0 tie as
both offenses were struggling
to get anything going against
each teams’ pitchers. Tyler
Sexton got the start for Herm-
iston and was solid through
the ¿ rst four innings, but in
the ¿ fth inning he left some
pitches up in the zone and the
Falcons capitalized for those
four runs.
Sexton ¿ nished his outing
with a respectable line, toss-
ing 4.2 innings while allow-
ing four earned runs on ¿ ve
hits, three strikeouts and three
walks. Slade Gritz relieved
Sexton in that ¿ fth inning,
and allowed one unearned
run on four hits over the last
1.1 innings while striking out
one and walking two. Gritz
also had two hits on offense,
leading the team.
“We hit some balls hard
and they caught them,”
Hermiston assistant coach
John Christy said of the
teams’ ¿ ve-hit offensive per-
formance. “There were too
many rollovers and four-,
¿ ve-hoppers right to guys.
We need to be more balanced
at the plate.”
Hermiston next hosts Rex
Putnam for a doubleheader
on Friday at 4 p.m.
———
R H E
HHS
000 002
0 — 2 5 3
LSP
000 041 X — 5 9 1
T. Sexton, S. Gritz (5) and K. Caldwell; O.
Arnston and J. Lynch.
W — O. Arnston. L — T. Sexton.
PILOT ROCK 15, HEP-
PNER 14 — At Pilot Rock,
the former league foes com-
bined for 29 runs on 23 hits
and eight errors in a non-
league game on Monday.
Chris Weinke (3 for 5)
drove in four runs and Levi
Thieme (3 for 4) added three
RBI for the Rockets (8-1),
who got 3 2-3 innings of
shutdown relief from Bryson
Pierce to pull out the win.
Pierce allowed one run on
four hits and struck out six
after entering with the Rock-
ets trailing 13-4 in the fourth
inning.
Weinke’s double with two
outs in the sixth inning scored
Jake Brickey and Devin Bar-
kley for the tying and winning
runs for the Rockets. Weinke
and Brickey each scored three
times.
Weston Putman took the
loss on the mound, but led the
Mustangs (0-4) at the plate
going 3 for 5 with four RBI
and two runs. C.J. Kindle (3
for 3) scored four times and
drove in a run.
———
PREP SCHEDULE
R H E
HHS
454 100
0 — 14 11 5
PRHS
202 443 X — 15 12 3
W. Putman, P. Collins (5) and C. Kindle. I.
Winters, D. Ward (2), B. Pierce (4) and C.
Weinke. W — Pierce. L — Collins.
2B — P. Collins, W. Putman (HHS); C.
Weinke, L. Thieme (PRHS).
Friday
Game 1
R H E
UHS
000 000 —
0 1 3
SHS
450 001 — 10 11 0
Landon. Grogan and Monkus/Keeney. W
— Grogan, L — Landon.
2B — Curiel, Bailey, Woods, Grogan
(SHS).
Game 2
R H E
UHS
010 000
1 — 2 1 7
SHS
013 011 X — 6 8 4
Dever, Cranston (6). Flores, Bailey (5) and
Grogan. W — Flores, L — Dever.
2B — Bailey, Grogan (SHS).
Saturday
Stanfi eld vs. Burns (DH), 2 p.m.
Umatilla at Vale (DH), 2 p.m.
Ione at Burns, Noon
PREP GOLF
PREP SOFTBALL
Wednesday
Hermiston, Pendleton at Hood
River (Indian Creek), 10 a.m.
Friday
Echo vs. Burns, 2 p.m.
Saturday
Friday
Heppner at Echo, 11 a.m.
Umatilla at Vale (DH), Noon
Weston-McEwen at Riverside
(DH), 1 p.m.
Heppner at John Day GC, 11 a.m.
PREP TENNIS
Thursday
Umatilla at Riverside, 4 p.m.
Friday
PREP TRACK & FIELD
Friday
Helix at Riverside, 4 p.m.
Ione at Mac-Hi, 4 p.m.
Stanfi eld at Sherman, 2 p.m.
Irrigon, Ione, Echo, Stanfi eld,
Pendleton, Mac-Hi, Pilot Rock,
Weston-McEwen at Umatilla,
Noon
PREP LACROSSE
Saturday
Saturday
Hermiston, Pendleton at Oregon
Game 1
R H
HHS
001 00 —
1 1 3
RHS
021 53 — 11 14 0
Almaguer, Naylor (5), and Betz. L —
Almaguer.
STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS
Hermiston junior Anders Lind watches his putt on the
18th green at the Wildhorse Resort & Casino on Monday
in Mission. The Hermiston boys À nished second in the
invitational event and Lind tied for fourth in the boys
individual scoring.
At the plate, Irrigon’s
Fredy Vera went 1-3 with a
leadoff solo home run in the
¿ rst inning, and scored three
runs.
In game two, Pilot Rock’s
Levi Thieme was the one
dazzling on the mound, al-
lowing ¿ ve hits and two runs
over seven innings with sev-
en strikeouts. The Rockets
tagged Irrigon starter Johnny
Phillips for three runs in the
¿ rst inning to give Thieme
enough cushion to keep the
Knights at bay.
Chris Weinke and Iverson
Winters each had two hits in
game two for the Rockets,
while Bryson Pierce had one
hit and two RBI. For Irrigon,
Zack Henrichs had two hits,
while Vera had one hit and
one run scored.
———
Game 1
R H E
PRH
000 000
0 — 0 1 0
IHS
101 411 X — 8 8 0
Pierce, Winters (5). Rice. W — Rice,
L — Pierce.
2B — Phillips (IHS). HR — F. Vera (IHS).
Game 2
R H E
PRH
301 000
1 — 5 8 0
IHS
101 000
0 — 2 5 1
Thieme. Phillips, White (4), and Henrichs
(7). W — Thieme, L — Phillips.
2B — Winters (PR), Kroske (IHS).
KNIGHTS
SPLIT
WITH ROCKETS — At Ir-
rigon, the Pilot Rock Rockets
and the Irrigon Knights split
a Friday doubleheader with
Irrigon taking game one 8-0
and Pilot Rock game two 5-2.
In game one, Irrigon’s
Austin Rice took care of the
Pilot Rock batters tossing sev-
en shutout innings where he
struck out 12 batters, walked
four, and allowed only one
hit. The lone hit came off the
bat of the Rockets’ Bryson
Pierce in the fourth inning.
Heppner, Echo, Helix, Weston-
McEwen, Pilot Rock, at Stanfi eld
Invite, 11 a.m.
Hermiston at Parkrose, 4 p.m.
Tigers sweep Vikings
in doubleheader
The Stan¿ eld Tigers ex-
tended their unbeaten streak
to nine games by sweeping
a doubleheader against the
Umatilla Vikings on Friday
afternoon, winning game one
10-0 and game two 6-2.
Dylan Grogan started the
game on the mound for Stan-
¿ eld in game one and ¿ nished
with another fantastic outing,
tossing six innings and al-
lowed only one hit with 15
strikeouts. He struck out the
¿ rst 12 batters in the game,
and the only hit he allowed
was a soft liner into right ¿ eld
off the bat of Jesus Ochoa.
In game two, the Vikings
started pitcher Josh Dever on
the mound and he gave the
Tigers ¿ ts. Dever struck out
six batters over his ¿ ve in-
nings on the mound.
Umatilla led 1-0 early
before Stan¿ eld scored four
runs in the second and third
innings to grab the momen-
tum. The game marked the
¿ rst time this season Stan¿ eld
had scored less than 10 runs
in a game, something that
Tigers coach Bryan Johnson
was happy to see.
“It was kind of nice to be
in a closer game as a coach,”
he said. “We faced a good
arm in Dever and we haven’t
seen that type of pitching in
these games yet.”
At the plate, Ryan Bailey
had a solid day for Stan¿ eld
hitting a combined 4-7 with
two runs and two RBI, and
Grogan went 2-6 with three
runs and three RBI.
For Umatilla, Ochoa and
Jessie Hernandez were the
only players to get hits on Fri-
day with one apiece.
———
City, 10 a.m.
PREP BASEBALL
Softball
Hermiston split with
Reynolds
After dropping game one
of a Friday doubleheader with
the Reynolds Raiders 11-1, the
Hermiston Bulldogs bounced
back in a big way in game two
to take a 19-2 victory in Trout-
dale.
In game two, Hermiston (6-
3) held an 8-2 lead at the start
of the seventh and ¿ nal inning,
but the offense churned out 11
runs in the inning to place a
big seal on the victory.
Fifteen batters came to the
plate during that inning as the
team racked up nine hits one
walk and one hit-by-pitch in
the inning alone.
Hermiston was led on of-
fense by Mikayla Kopacz,
Jamie Hinkley and Sydney
Stefani as each player went
3-5 at the plate. Kopacz added
two RBI, four runs scored, and
a solo home run while Stefani
added three runs and three
RBIs. Hinkley also scored one
run and had two RBIs.
On the mound, Breanna
Naylor got the start for the
Bulldogs but pitched just
one inning and allowed just
two walks. Julissa Almaguer
came on in relief in the sec-
ond inning and pitched ¿ ve
strong innings allowing eight
hits and two runs over that
span.
As active as Hermiston’s
bats were in game two, they
struggled mightily against the
Raiders’ pitching in game one.
Hermiston mustered just one
hit in the game, which came
off the bat of Hinkley in the
third inning.
Almaguer got the start on
the mound in the ¿ rst game,
and allowed nine runs on 10
this and two walks with one
strikeout over her four in-
nings on the mound. Taylor
Betz pitched just 0.1 innings
in relief, allowing four hits
and two runs before the game
was called due to the 10-run
rule.
———
Hermiston vs. Lincoln, 5:30 p.m.
E
Game 2
R H E
HHS
030 050 11 — 19 17 1
RHS
001 100
0 — 2 10 5
Naylor, Almaguer (2), Betz. W — Alma-
guer.
2B — Hinkley, Naylor, Stefani, Jones,
Kopacz (HHS). Grose, Siebert (RHS). HR —
Kopacz (HHS).
PILOT
ROCK
4,
ECHO 0 — At Pilot Rock,
Pilot Rock’s Teyha Ostrom
threw a no-hitter against the
Echo Cougars on Saturday,
striking out 11 and walking
just two in a non-league
game.
Through the ¿ rst three
innings, Ostrom was in a
duel with Echo’s MacK-
enzie Gonzales as Gon-
zales had allowed no runs
and only one hit with three
walks to that point.
But in the fourth in-
ning, it started to unravel
for Echo. After Gonzales
retired the first two bat-
ters, Ostrom reached on
an error and then Gon-
zales issued two straight
walks to Desiree Mad-
dern and Rhyanne Oates
to load the bases. Bekah
Roe knocked in two runs
on an RBI single to cen-
ter field to break the 0-0
deadlock.
Gonzales
¿ nished
the game allowing four
runs (one earned) and
¿ ve hits with four strike-
outs and six walks.
———
R H
EHS
000 000
0 — 0 0
PRH
000 211 X — 4 5
Ostrom and Walker. Gonzales. W —
Ostrom, L — Gonzales.
E
3
1
ECHO 22-22, UMA-
TILLA 2-1 — At Echo,
the Echo Cougars com-
bined to outscore Umatil-
la 44-3 in a pair of wins
on Friday afternoon, tak-
ing the first game 22-2
and the second game 22-
1.
MacKenzie Gonzales
started game one for Echo
and tossed five innings
with nine strikeouts while
allowing two runs on two
hits and two walks. Alys-
sa Ray started game two
and also pitched all five
innings with eight strike-
outs while allowing one
run on three hits.
For Umatilla, Millie
Rodriguez led the Vi-
kings’ offense with two
hits on the day, including
an RBI double in game
two.
———
Game 1
R H E
UHS
001 10 —
2 2 7
EHS
1423 3X — 22 12 1
Rodriguez, Trujillo (1), Journot (4). Gonza-
les. W — Gonzales, L — Rodriguez.
2B — Parks, Christopher, Blankenship,
McQuown, Gonzales (EHS).
Game 2
R H E
UHS
000 10 —
1 3 4
EHS
1162 3X — 22 13 1
Trujillo and Rodriguez (4). Ray. W — Ray,
L — Trujillo.
2B — Rodriguez (UHS). Blankenship,
Gonzales, Pollock, Campana (EHS). HR —
Blankenship (EHS).
Tennis
MAC-HI 9, UMATIL-
LA 3 — At Milton-Freewa-
ter, the Pioneers overcame
heavy winds and the Uma-
tilla Vikings for a 7-1 win
in girls tennis on Monday.
The teams split their boys’
matches 2-2.
“The wind played a huge
part in tonight’s match,
but the players powered
through,” said Mac-Hi
coach Michelle Snyder.
———
Girls: Mac-Hi 7, Umatilla 1
Singles
Elise Griffi th (M) def. Sidney Webb 2-6,
7-5 (10-6)
Maria Castillo (M) def. Brenda Mendoza
6-3, 6-1
Jacky Reyes (M) def. Mey Lopez 8-1
Erika Landa (M) def. Fatima Sanchez 8-5
Doubles
Ana Rodriguez/Emily Cuellar (M) def.
Daisy Garcilazo/Jenny Vasquez 6-0, 7-5
Yessenia Garcia/Aly Munoz (U) def. Joci
Alvarez/Jennifer Robles 6-2, 6-4
Jadie Jackson/Lexxy Shelton (M) def.
Marlee Brundage/Cinthis Rodriguez 8-2
Nicole Flores/Evelyn Garcia (M) def. Diana
Gutierrez/ Chyann Hinsley 8-2
Boys: Mac-Hi 2, Umatilla 2
Singles
Rigo Ponce (M) def. Junior Coria 7-6
(7-4), 7-5
Giovani Armenta-Garcilazo (U) def. Deazen
Zerba 4-6, 6-4 (12-10)
Douglas Gomez (U) def. Cristian Contre-
ras 8-3
Doubles
Jose Abrego/Francisco Robledo (M) def.
Umatilla 7-5, 6-2.