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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017
SPORTS
Flynn defends
district title
Hermiston Herald
The Heppner/Ione wres-
tling team is sending two
members to the state cham-
pionships after Cord Flynn
and Trevor Antonucci each
qualified during Friday’s
2A/1A Special District 4
championships at Armand
Larive Middle School.
Flynn (33-1) brought
back his second straight dis-
trict title at 195 pounds by
pinning Pine Eagle’s Joseph
Aguilar in 2 minutes, 46 sec-
onds in the championship
bout. It was his second pin
of the meet, and after receiv-
ing a bye in the first round
he beat Joseph/Wallowa’s
Gavin Baldwin in 1:17.
Antonucci (20-10) had to
wrestle four times, but also
went out with a win by pinning
Grant Union/Prairie City’s Eli
Sheedy in 54 seconds in the
second-place match.
Antonucci had suffered
his first defeat of the after-
noon in the district cham-
pionship with a 10-2 loss
to Joseph/Wallowa’s Ste-
ven Beckman. He won his
other two matches by pin
over Union/Cove’s Lincoln
Deem in 1:11 and Elgin’s
Kenneth Terry in 1:30.
Heppner finished fourth
in team points with 97.
Grant Union won the team
title with 228, Crane was
second with 177 and Enter-
prise was third with 117.5.
It will be the second state
championships berth for
Flynn, who reached the final
match as a junior last season
before finishing second to
Culver’s Jaiden Jones.
The wrestlers have met
once this season with Flynn
winning by pin (3:15) in the
championship at the Jo-Hi
Invite on Jan. 7.
It is the first state tourna-
ment qualification for Anto-
nucci.
Heppner
145-pound-
er Carson Brosnan just
missed out on a state berth
with a third-place finish. He
reached the first-place match
before suffering defeats to
district champion William
Johnson of Crane and then
Enrique Delgado of Adrian
in the second-place match.
Other district champi-
ons were Shane Lund (113
pounds) and Cole Farwell
(120) of Enterprise; Blake
Butler (126) of Pine Eagle;
Jayson Blackburn (132) of
Union; Clay Johnson (138)
and Drew Lusco (220) of
Grant Union; William John-
son (145), Elijah Epling
(152) and Samuel Williams
(285) of Crane; Tanner
Owen (160) and Donnovan
Tate (182) of Elgin; Rylie
Warnock (170) of Joseph.
The state championships
will be held at Portland’s
Veterans Memorial Colise-
um starting at 8:30 a.m. on
Friday, Feb. 24.
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2A/1A Special District 4 championships
Heppner placers
1st place — Cord Flynn (195)
2nd place — Trevor Antonucci (106)
3rd place — Carson Brosnan (145)
4th place — Jacob Wallace (160)
5th place — Leo Waite (132); Charles
Cason (145); Zach Bredfield (152)
6th place — Ethan Holmgren (170)
ANGEL CARPENTER/EO MEDIA GROUP
This file photo shows Heppner/Ione’s Cord Flynn receiving
the Mick Dougharity Outstanding Wrestler Award.
RFD-TV PHOTO BY ANDY WATSON
Callahan Crossley of Hermiston finished in 4th place in the barrel racing to advance to the next level at The American Semi-
Finals in Fort Worth, Texas, last week (Feb. 14). Her time of 13.928 earned her $7,632 and a fourth-place standing. In the Friday,
Feb. 17 performance, Crossley finished eighth with a time of 19.272, which was not fast enough to advance to the finals.
BULLDOGS:
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Hermiston (15-6, 5-2
CRC) owed part of its suc-
cess to a balanced score
sheet, which has been
something of a rarity this
season. Four players fin-
ished in double figures for
Hermiston, led by Xavier
Rambo with a game-high
16. Behind him, Chance
Flores had 15, Jordan
Ramirez had 13 and Hunter
Walls had 12.
“I thought people were
pretty unselfish at times,”
Arstein said of the balance,
“and we’ve talked about
getting more assists as a
team so that was a pretty
good night. We took some
steps in the right direction
and it’s nice to get a couple
wins in a row here.”
Hermiston led for the
majority of the game,
holding an 18-9 advantage
after one quarter and a 34-
16 lead at the break. Hood
River’s offense picked up
a bit in the second half,
scoring 36 total points but
the Bulldogs boosted their
scoring as well to keep a
sizable cushion.
The abundance of fouls
called meant numerous
trips to the free throw line
for Hermiston where they
managed a solid 20-27 (74
percent) mark to Hood Riv-
er’s 8-18 (44 percent).
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UP NEXT
Stanfield, seeded No. 2
in the state tournament, will
host a first-round game at 6
p.m. Friday against 15th-
seed Oakland (17-9). The
winner will advance to play
in the 2A state tournament
quarterfinal March 2 in
HRV
HHS
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22 — 52
24 — 75
Hermiston headed to
Pendleton for the third-
and-final meeting with the
Buckaroos this season on
Tuesday night. Pendle-
ton won the previous two
contests. The game started
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W-M
20 13 15 20 — 68
SHS
17 26 20 25 — 88
WESTON-MCEWEN — S. Broncheau 25,
E. Reger 13, G. Hungerford 9, B. Speed
8, B. Dearing 6, J. Speed 4, J. West 3, B.
Rudolph,
STANFIELD — D. Grogan 31, T. Flores
16, E. Angel 10, J. Garcia 9, J. Galarza 8, T.
Monkus 6, B. Woods 4, R. Bailey 4.
3-pointers — W-M 4, SHS 8. Free throws
— W-M 12-22, SHS 18-33. Fouls — W-M
21, SHS 21. Fouled out — J. Speed (W-M);
B. Woods, J. Garcia (SHS).
HOOD RIVER — J. Tactay 11, J. Mears 9,
E. Siekennen 7, B. Wilson 7, C. Flores 6, D.
Kurahara 3, C. Orr 3, M. Williams 2, T. Wells
2, T. Hugh 2.
HERMISTON — X. Rambo 16, C. Flores
15, J. Ramirez 13, H. Walls 12, R. Andrea-
son 5, A. James 5, K. Moss 5, P. Wicks 2, T.
McCullough 2.
3-pointers — HRV 2, HHS 4. Free throws
— HRV 8-18, HHS 20-27. Fouls — HRV 29,
HHS 20. Fouled out — D. Kurahara (HRV).
Technicals — T. Hugh, D. Kurahara, Coach
(HRV),
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