WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2016
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Bulldog boys inish
third in districts
After the irst three rounds
of the boys 5A Special Dis-
trict 1 tennis tournament
were completed on a warm,
sunny day in Hermiston on
Friday, mother nature appar-
ently decided to add some
intrigue for the inal two
rounds on Saturday.
Because of torrential
rains, the teams were forced
to relocate to the indoor facil-
ities of the Pendleton Tennis
Center. There, the Summit
Storm clinched the district
championship with 38 points
ahead of Mountain View (in
second with 16.5 points) and
Hermiston in third (with 10.5
points).
Hermiston still had sin-
gles player Jacob Snell and
doubles pair Race Latham
and Cameron Meade alive
for day two, but both ended
up with fourth place inishes
with defeats in the semii-
nals. Snell fell to Summit’s
Cole Younger in three sets,
winning the irst set 6-3
before falling 7-6 and 6-3.
Latham and Meade fell
to the Bend duo of Aaron
Banquer-Glenn and Nicolas
Campbell in two sets 6-4 and
6-2.
Summit’s Carter Quigley,
the bracket’s No. 1 seed, won
the singles title, and Sum-
mit’s Andy Jones and Dylan
Warren won the doubles title.
The three Hermiston
players will now prepare
for the 5A state tournament,
which will kick off Thursday
at the Portland Tennis Center.
In 5A girls action, Herm-
iston didn’t qualify any com-
petitors for the state tourna-
ment.
BASEBALL
HEPPNER 13, CULVER
6 — At Culver, the Heppner
Mustangs rode a complete
game from starter Patrick
Collins to end the regular
season with a 13-6 over the
Culver Bulldogs on Saturday
afternoon.
Collins struck out 10 Bull-
dogs in the game and gave
up eight hits six runs (four
earned) and three walks to
earn the win. The Mustangs
(5-13, 4-7 SD6) offense
backed Collins up by crank-
ing out 12 hits to get their 13
runs, with Collins picking up
two of the hits with a double
and one RBI.
Jake Lindsay led the
Mustangs with four hits on
the day, inishing 4-5 at the
plate with a double and four
RBIs. Kevin Murray also
picked up two hits at the dish
with two runs, while Will
Lutcher led the team with
three runs scored.
The two teams were
scheduled to play a double-
header, however the second
game was canceled due to
weather.
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R H
E
HHS
234 022
0 — 13 12
3
CHS
002 030
1 — 6 8
6
W — P. Collins. L — C. Little.
2B — Murray, Lindsay, Collins (HHS).
Alegre, Little (CHS). 3B — Little (CHS).
SOFTBALL
PILOT ROCK 12-11,
IRRIGON 2-4 — At Irri-
gon, the Pilot Rock Rock-
ets wrapped up the regular
season on Saturday with a
sweep of Irrigon to extend its
winning streak to six games.
The Rockets (22-3, 14-1
SD6) hit three home runs on
the day, led by Teyha Ostrom
with two — her irst two of
the season — and Sara Wein-
ke with one. Weinke had
a dominant day overall on
offense, combining for ive
hits, three runs scored and six
RBI to go with her home run.
Other top performers for
the Rockets were Bekah
Roe with four hits and four
runs scored and Ostrom had
ive hits, three runs scored
and ive RBI. Ostrom start-
ed game one in the pitching
circle and struck out ive
Knights in ive innings, and
gave up three hits and two
runs.
Irrigon’s (12-11, 5-10)
regular season comes to an
end, while Pilot Rock awaits
its opponent for the Special
District 6 title game to be
played on Saturday at 1 p.m.
in Pilot Rock.
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PREP BASEBALL
Friday
TBD at Stanield (EOL District title),
3:30 p.m.
Milwaukie at Hermiston (5A Play-in
Game), 4:30 p.m.
PREP SOFTBALL
Friday
Hermiston at Sandy (5A Play-in Game),
5 p.m.
PREP TRACK & FIELD
Thursday
3A/2A/1A State Championship Prelims
(at Hayward Field, Eugene), 10 a.m.
Friday
6A/5A/4A State Championship Prelims
(at Hayward Field, Eugene), 9 a.m.
3A/2A/1A State Championship Finals (at
Hayward Field, Eugene), 2:30 p.m.
Saturday
6A/5A/4A State Championship Finals (at
Hayward Field, Eugene), 9:30 a.m.
PREP TENNIS
Friday
Hermiston at State Tournament (at
Portland Tennis Center), Noon
Saturday
Hermiston at State Tournament (at
Portland Tennis Center), 9 a.m.
Prep Standings
BASEBALL
Columbia River Conference (5A)
Conf. Ovr. RS RA Rnk
Hood River 10-2 20-5 186 103 2
Hermiston 6-6 13-11 97 85 14
Pendleton 4-8 13-12 140 111 20
The Dalles 4-8 10-14 105 124 18
Bulldogs fall to Bucks
Hermiston lets
Pendleton get
away late in
league finale
By MATT ENTRUP
Staff Writer
The Hermiston Bulldogs
couldn’t get on the bases
and Pendleton softball’s
Alexis Morrison couldn’t
have gotten off them any
quicker on Friday as the
Buckaroos poured on nine
runs in the inal three in-
nings of a 12-2 win in their
Columbia River Confer-
ence inale.
Morrison got on base
ive times and made the
round trip four times while
advancing seemingly at
will. She scored three runs
of her own volition, twice
on wild pitches.
“(Morrison) can get on
on a single and she can be
on home plate three or four
pitches later before we’ve
even swung the bat, so she’s
a great spark plug,” said
Pendleton coach Tim Cary
STAFF PHOTO BY KATHY ANEY
Pendleton runner Alexis Morrison slides safely home during Friday’s Columbia River
Conference game in Hermiston despite the efforts of Hermiston catcher Jaime Hinkley and
pitcher Breyanna Naylor.
said of his leadoff hitter.
Morrison (2 for 3, two
walks) did just that in the
third inning to give Pendle-
ton (21-4, 10-2 CRC) a 2-0
lead.
She technically reached
on an error, and then
promptly took second and
third on throwing mistakes
by Hermiston (14-12, 5-7).
A wild pitch brought her
home before Ellie Richards
took a swing in her at-bat.
She nearly added a steal
of home plate in the sixth
inning but a catcher’s in-
terference gave her the
automatic run to make it a
8-0 Pendleton lead. Herm-
iston catcher Jamie Hinkley
thought she had Morrison
in no-man’s land between
third and home, but as soon
as the ball left her hand
Morrison was off. Hinkley
stood in front of the plate
calling for the ball, but
Morrison beat it there and
was forced to dodge Hin-
kley before sliding across
home.
“(Coach Cary) usual-
ly trusts me to know my
judgment when I should go,
when I should test it, when I
should stay safe,” she said.
“There was two outs, I was
just thinking I might as well
chance it.”
Her intuition was dead
on, and Bulldogs coach
Kate Greenough said she
was seeing the same thing
Morrison was in a suscepti-
ble Hermiston defense.
See BULLDOGS, A10
Game 1
R H E
PTR
057 00 — 12 15 0
IHS
000 20 —
2 3 1
W — Ostrom.
2B — S. Weinke, M. Dave (PTR). HR — S.
Weinke, T. Ostrom (PTR).
Game 2
R H E
PTR
104 410
1 — 11 15
2
IHS
301 000
0 — 4 9
3
W — Holman.
2B — K. Deist (PTR). HR — T. Ostrom
(PTR).
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STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS
Senior Corey Mason takes aim on his clay target during a practice session for the Hermiston High School shooting team on
Thursday in Hermiston.
Hermiston High School trapshooting team finding its way in year one
By ERIC SINGER
Eastern Oregon League (3A)
Conf. Ovr. RS RA Rnk
Stanield 12-0 24-2 312 56 3
Vale
10-2 16-9 224 147 8
Nyssa
7-5 12-14 178 227 20
Joseph
4-8 7-15 143 187 26
Elgin
4-8 4-14 79 160 28
Umatilla
3-9 7-12 115 143 25
Riverside 2-10 3-20 72 273 33
Special District 6 (2A/1A)
Conf. Ovr. RS RA Rnk
Irrigon
10-2 15-5 199 94 3
Sherman 8-4 17-7 220 122 8
Dufur
6-6 11-13 184 202 21
Heppner
4-7 5-13 136 155 26
Culver
1-10 6-14 99 216 30
SOFTBALL
Columbia River Conference (5A)
Conf. Ovr. RS RA Rnk
Pendleton 10-2 21-4 227 75 2
The Dalles 6-6 17-9 214 128 9
Hermiston 5-7 14-12 170 164 12
Hood River 3-9 10-15 115 132 14
Eastern Oregon League (3A)
Conf. Ovr. RS RA Rnk
Wes.-McE 14-2 17-4 282 54 5
Vale
13-3 18-7 226 141 7
Echo
13-3 18-7 254 89 9
Enterprise 10-6 12-10 213 202 13
Grant Union 9-7 14-9 240 138 17
Riverside 6-10 11-13 197 199 24
Nyssa
5-11 6-17 172 284 27
Elgin
2-14 2-16 62 271 31
Umatilla 0-16 1-22 70 443 35
Special District 6 (2A/1A)
Conf. Ovr. RS RA Rnk
Pilot Rock 14-1 22-3 293 53 1
Union
12-3 16-3 193 76 2
Burns
9-6 16-8 193 145 5
Irrigon
5-10 12-11 167 138 13
Heppner 4-11 7-16 127 238 18
Culver
1-14 6-18 113 256 26
Staff Writer
HERMISTON — Herm-
iston high school senior Jes-
se Clark takes his stance at
post No. 3 on the trap ield
at the Hermiston Gun Club.
He waits for his chance.
When his time comes
he pulls his Mossberg 835
shotgun into position and
loudly yells, “Pull!”
The clay pigeon takes
light, Clark takes his aim
and ires, and a shower
of orange-painted shards
crumbles to the ground.
Clark is one of 21 Herm-
iston students that are a part
of the irst-year high school
trap shooting team, one of
three schools in the state of
Oregon that compete under
the USA High School Clay
Target League. The pro-
gram was started by Herm-
iston Gun Club member
John Adams, who saw the
results of the Clay Target
STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS
The Hermiston High School shooting team practices
Thursday at the Hermiston Gun Club outside of Hermiston.
League following its start-
up in the state of Minnesota
and thought Oregon could
develop a league with simi-
lar results.
“They started (the USA
Clay Target League) about
10 years ago and over the
course of those 10 years
they’re up to almost 10,000
kids to shoot trap as a high
school sport,” Adams said.
“They’ve developed a scor-
ing software and everything
and it’s branched out 17
states now and it won’t be
long until it’s in all 50.”
In total, the nation-
al league has more than
13,000 students from 446
different schools in those
17 states in 2016, which is
an increase of 14 states and
more than 3,700 students
from the 2015 totals ac-
cording to USAClayTarget.
com.
Adams said those sta-
tistics and seeing the inter-
est from students so far in
Hermiston has him excited
for the future of the sport.
“I’ve been involved in
trap shooting for at least
20 years and it’s a sport
that really has been on the
decline,” Adams said. “I
mean the average age of a
trap shooter is an old retired
guy that travels around in
a motorhome around the
country to shoot. This pro-
gram has brought so many
youth into the sport and has
helped clubs bring in many
more members.”
The idea to put togeth-
See AIM, A10
Stanield dojang wins 21 medals at regional championships
Eight members of the
Eastern Oregon Family
Taekwondo dojang earned
21 medals at the 43rd An-
nual Northwest Martial
Arts Championships held
May 7 at Mt. Hood Com-
munity College.
Six of those medals
were gold, two apiece
won by Aaron Sanchez
(6-7 age group, green belt
division) and Natividad
Sanchez (12-13, blue).
Luis Ibarra (12-13, blue)
and Osvaldo Sanchez
(10-11, green) also won
gold.
Natividad added a sil-
ver to his haul, Ibarra
added a silver and bronze,
and Osvaldo also pushed
his medal count to three
with two bronze.
Melissa
Shilhanek
(18+, blue) added three
silver medals, and Miseal
Sanchez (10-11, green)
and Rene Sanchez (12-
13, green) each had two
silver.
Contestants competed
in weapons, forms, spar-
ring and board breaking.
Eastern Oregon Family
Taekwondo is located on
West Coe Street in Stan-
field and is coached by
the Watson family (Er-
win, Lorry, Kameron and
Bailey). It will offer fam-
ily rates during the month
of June and a free one-
week class for beginners.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO COURTESY OF ERWIN WATSON
Eastern Oregon Family Taekwondo was well-represented
at the 43rd Annual Northwest Martial Arts Championships
held May 7 in Gresham at Mt. Hood Community College.
Pictured from left to right are: BACK ROW, Coach Kameron
Watson, Rene Sanchez , Mario Sanchez , Melissa Shilhanek
, Coach Erwin Watson; MIDDLE ROW, Coach Lorry Watson,
Luis Ibarra, Natividad Sanchez , Miseal Sanchez , Osvaldo
Sanchez, Coach Bailey Watson; FRONT, Aaron Sanchez.