WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
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Bengals run
over Bulldogs
Hermiston
remains winless
on the season
STAFF PHOTO BY KATHY ANEY
STAFF PHOTO BY KATHY ANEY
Viking running back Jesus Ramirez (2) scampers downield
as Logan Weinke (4), of Pilot Rock/Nixyaawii, works to make a
tackle Friday in Umatilla.
Viking running back Trent Durfey (34) makes long yardage
during Friday’s game agains Pilot Rock/Nixyaawii in
Umatilla.
VIKINGS DEFENSE KEEPS ROCKETS GROUNDED
Umatilla shuts out
Pilot Rock to stay
undefeated
By MATT ENTRUP
Staff Writer
The Umatilla Vikings
defense turned in a domi-
nant performance to beat
the Pilot Rock Rockets
20-0 in an inter-classiica-
tion football match-up on
Friday.
Umatilla’s defense set
the tone right away by
forcing Pilot Rock to go
three-and-out on the game’s
opening drive when Eli-
jah Pine crashed through
the line and dragged down
Chris Weinke for a sack on
third down.
The Vikings (2-0) held
the Rockets (0-2) to just
90 total yards of offense
and gave up only four irst
downs. The Rockets were
1-for-9 on third down.
“I think we did what we
needed to do to stop them,”
said Umatilla linebacker/
running back Trent Durfey.
“It was a good win.”
“It could have been bet-
ter, but shutouts are pret-
ty good too,” said Uma-
tilla running back Jesus
Ramirez. “We haven’t had
one of those in awhile.”
The Vikings’ last shutout
was ive seasons ago when
they did it twice, the second
time a 9-0 win over Vale on
Oct. 21, 2011.
Umatilla’s irst drive on
offense would be telling for
what fans could expect to
see the rest of the way.
Durfey kept the Vi-
kings on schedule with
strong running between the
tackles, Ramirez added a
change-of-pace out of the
backield, and Umatilla was
able rely on its speed on the
outside to put the ball in the
end zone despite a costly
penalty.
The
Vikings
were
lagged nine times for 80
yards, and picked up their
irst of the game when Pine
was called for a blindside
block to nullify Kaden
Webb’s defense-splitting
scramble that would have
been a 26-yard touchdown.
It didn’t take Umatilla
long to recover, though, and
two plays later Webb found
wide receiver Diego Soto
open on a post route for a
36-yard score. Leonel Coro-
na converted the extra point.
A fumbled hand-off was
recovered by Pilot Rock’s
Logan Weinke to end Uma-
tilla’s next drive. It was the
irst of four turnovers (three
on fumbles).
Pilot Rock responded
with its best drive of the
game, moving the ball to
See VIKINGS, B2
Echo Cougars rally over rival Ione
By WILL DENNER
For the Hermiston Herald
Echo stayed true to its
season mantra in defeating
rival Ione, 34-28, at home –
inish strong.
“We’ve adopted that in
all our sports and they did
it,” head coach Rick Thew
said. “... We kept playing
hard. Let them back in it a
little bit but stayed strong.”
The Cougars (1-1) held
a 22-8 lead at halftime over
the Cardinals (0-2) in front
of their fans, but went quiet
as they came back out in the
third quarter.
Echo received the sec-
ond half kickoff and put
together a drive that burned
nearly 10 minutes of clock,
it stalled in the red zone.
Quarterback Devan Craig
led Ty Mulder on a 4th and
18 pass, but the sure-hand-
ed tight end dropped what
could’ve been a touch-
down.
The next Echo drive
ended in a fumble, and
Ione took advantage. Car-
dinals running back Cord
Flynn, who rushed for two
touchdowns and passed
for another on a designed
trick play, bulled his way
through the Echo defense
from 10 yards out and took
a 22-20 lead on his two-
point conversion run.
“I gotta give it up to
Cord, he played one heck of
a game,” Echo senior line-
backer Klay Jenson said.
“That kid is an animal. He’s
a tank. It’s impossible to
take him down unless you
hit him low.”
Echo battled back in the
fourth quarter, however. Af-
ter getting a punt blocked,
the Echo defense, which
Thew said the team focused
on cleaning up after giving
up 42 points to Siletz Valley
last week, stood tall in key
moments.
The Cougars stopped the
Cardinals on fourth down,
before Cougars running
back Noah Scott broke runs
of 53 and 25 yards. Scott
only rushed six times, but
racked up 136 yards and a
touchdown in his limited
touches. Thew also cred-
ited guard Ian Faulkner,
who pulled around on all of
Scott’s big runs to provide
him space.
“It’s our play for him
to get in the open ield
and take care of business,”
Thew said.
Scott’s runs set up full-
back Ethan Hobson’s one-
yard touchdown up the gut.
Echo reclaimed a 28-22
lead, but not for long.
Ione tied the game up
at 28 on the next drive, but
when Cardinals quarter-
back Dan Doherty tried a
two-point conversion run
up the middle, Jenson tack-
led him behind the line of
scrimmage.
With 1:16 remaining,
game tied, Echo quarter-
back Devan Craig lipped
an option run to Zach Geh-
rke, who found the right
edge and took it 45 yards
to the end zone. A walk-
See ECHO, B2
Hermiston Herald
Hermiston
headed
home on Friday night still
in search of its irst win as
the Lewiston (Idaho) Ben-
gals blew out the Bull-
dogs, 38-13. Lewiston
(3-0) tore the Bulldogs
defense apart with its
passing game, as quarter-
back Colton Richardson
completed 27-37 (73 per-
cent) passes for 344 yards
and three touchdowns,
while the leading rusher
had just 26 yards.
For Hermiston (0-2),
sophomore quarterback
Andrew James on Friday
completed 16-29 passes
(55 percent) for 194 yards
with one touchdown and
two interceptions, while
adding a team-best 67
rushing yards on 13 car-
ries.
Tucker Salinas was the
top receiver for Hermis-
ton with 108 yards and a
touchdown off of four to-
tal receptions.
Receiver
Dayshawn
Neal had three catches for
47 yards.
Hermiston will return
home this week to host
Mountain View of Bend at
7 p.m. for its irst league
game of the season.
Mustangs start fast,
beat Prospectors
Hermiston Herald
HEPPNER — Friday
night turned into the Lo-
gan Grieb show for the
Heppner Mustangs.
The senior athlete
accounted for four to-
tal touchdowns — three
rushing, one passing —
and racked up 231 all-pur-
pose yards as the Heppner
Mustangs defeated the
Grant Union Prospec-
tors 36-20 at the Morrow
County Fairgrounds.
“He’s one of our big
senior playmakers, so
it was good to see that
performance tonight,”
Heppner coach Greg
Grant said.
Heppner (2-0) scored
24 of its 36 points all in
the irst quarter and used
a bit of luck to swipe the
momentum at the start.
Grant Union fumbled
the opening kick off re-
turn, which Heppner’s
Tim Jaca recovered at
the Prospectors 31 yard
line, setting up a 6-yard
touchdown run by Koby
Daugherty just 35 sec-
onds into the game to give
Heppner the 8-0 lead.
After forcing a turn-
over on downs on the next
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