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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 2017
Herald Sports
IN BRIEF
Batter up: softball
teams to register
With summer just around
the corner, it’s time for teams
to register for softball leagues
through Hermiston Parks &
Recreation.
•Mens: ASA, unlimited
home runs, double headers.
(Tuesdays and Wednesdays).
Costs $450 per team
•Recreational Coed A
League: ASA, 3 home runs
progressive, single headers,
teams that want to be compet-
itive. (Mondays). Costs $390
per team.
•Recreational Coed B
League: ASA, 3 home runs
progressive, single headers,
a combination of two play-
ers from recreation, A and/
or men’s league are allowed.
(Thursdays and Fridays).
Costs $390 per team.
•Recreational Coed C
League: ASA, 3 home runs
progressive, single headers.
No player from Recreation A
or B league or men’s league
are allowed. (Thursdays and
Fridays). Costs $390 per
team.
All leagues run from May
through July. The games are
at 6 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 9
p.m. at Theater Sports Park,
1800 N.W. Sixth St., Herm-
iston.
For more information, vis-
it www.hermistonrecreation.
com. To register, call 541-
667-5018 or stop by the recre-
ation office, 180 N.E. Second
St., Hermiston.
Pheasant boasts fun
Described as a high-pow-
ered, explosive, athletic show,
Micro Wrestling Federation
is coming to Hermiston.
The 2-Day Midget Wres-
tling Fiesta! is Friday, April
14, and Saturday, April 15.
Shows are at 8 p.m. at The
Pheasant Blue Collar Bar &
Grill, 149 E. Main St. Herm-
iston. The event also cele-
brates The Pheasant’s 100th
anniversary.
Tickets include VIP ($40),
front row ($30) and general
admission ($20). In addition,
standing-room only will be
available when the seats run
out. VIP tickets for the Satur-
day performance are already
sold out. For tickets, visit
https://thepheasant.ticketleap.
com. For more information,
call 541-567-3022.
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Boise man wins Red 2 Red back 2 back
Jamey Yanik overcomes
bad luck to win again
on a borrowed bike
By ERIC SINGER
Staff Writer
Jamey Yanik’s drive from his
home in Boise, Idaho to Echo on
Saturday was nearly all for noth-
ing.
Making the trip to compete in
the Red 2 Red mountain bike race,
Yanik got all the way to Echo and
realized he left a key part for his
bike at home. It rendered his high-
end racing bike useless for the day
and left him scrambling for an al-
ternative.
Lucky for him, Yanik was able
to track down a fellow competitor
with a spare bike to borrow, allow-
ing him to still compete. And yet
even on a spare bike that he had
never ridden before, the 41-year-
old Yanik still managed to win
both the men’s elite class and the
overall top men’s award, finishing
the long course in just over 1 hour,
51 minutes on a partly-cloudy and
breezy day.
“Funny how things work out,”
Yanik said with a chuckle on Sat-
urday. “It did take the fun out of it a
little, not being on my bike though.
It would’ve made this even more
special if I had been on my bike
because I’m real comfortable with
it, but it still worked out.”
This year the riders were riding
on the course’s original setup, af-
ter organizers had altered it the last
few years to try and change things
up.
“It was probably one of our eas-
ier courses this year,” race organiz-
er Stephanie Myers said, “which is
leading to some really fast times.”
Yanik was one of 318 registered
competitors in the ninth annual
race. He is now two for two at Red
2 Red, after he won the men’s title
in 2016 with a time just over two
hours.
Going through the twists, turns
and hills of the roughly 32-mile
long course running through the
Echo West vineyard, Yanik said he
did not really feel like he was going
as fast as he was. He won the elite
men’s class by nearly four minutes
ahead of second place Evan Plews
(1:55.27) of Wenatchee, Washington
and six minutes ahead of third place
Jacob Hull (1:57.04) of Portland.
“Honestly, I was kind of just
riding in the pack for a while,”
Yanik said. “And then after awhile
at some of the changeovers I could
glance back and see where guys
STAFF PHOTO BY ERIC SINGER
Racers in the men’s elite and Category 1 roll up Main Street in downtown Echo for the start of the Red 2 Red
mountain bike race on Saturday.
STAFF PHOTO BY ERIC SINGER
Adam Moore, of Portland,
approaches the finish line of the
Echo Red 2 Red mountain bike race
on Saturday. Moore competed in the
Category 2 men’s class ages 19-39
and finished with a time of 1:57.06.
were at and could tell my lead was
growing, but yeah I didn’t think I
was as fast as I was.”
On the women’s side, there
was only one elite class rider and
that was 31-year-old Fairlee Frey
who took first place, as well as the
top women’s prize, with a blazing
time of 2:05. The 318 racers were
split up into 26 different categories
based on age and skill level that
raced on three different lengths of
course.
The elite and Category 1 riders
rode for 32 miles, the Category 2
and 3 riders rode 24 miles, and the
Category 3 juniors and open be-
ginners approximately 12 miles.
Myers said that the overall turn-
out for the event was down slight-
ly from previous years, though she
believed a few factors caused the
dip. The biggest reason was that
the race was rescheduled from a
previous date in early March be-
cause of lingering snow and ice on
the trails.
Myers said that the reasons for
the delay was unusual because
of the normally-mild winters of
Eastern Oregon allows Echo to
be one of the few rideable trails in
the Pacific Northwest early in the
season. However an unseasonably
snowy and icy winter this year put
the organizers in a predicament.
And on top of that, spring break
for most schools in the Pacific
Northwest was this week, which
took away a chunk of usual com-
petitors as well.
Red 2 Red is looking forward
to its 10th anniversary next year,
where Myers said afterwards that
organizers will hope to make it
bigger and better, and even set
a preliminary date for Saint Pat-
rick’s Day, which happens to fall
on a Saturday in 2018.
Yanik said he hopes he can
make it back to defend his crowns.
“I’d like to for sure,” he said,
“But we’ll have to see what life
throws my way. It’s a super fun
course here.”
TRIP TO THE HOSPITAL
While there were a few racers
that did not finish, one racer in par-
ticular had a scary way to go out.
Adam Bergerson, a 42-year-old
from Salem, wiped out on one of
the corner turns on the trail and
crashed, landing hard on his right
shoulder. It required a trip to Good
Shepard Health Care System in
Hermiston, where he was diag-
nosed with a Grade 3 shoulder
separation at his collarbone.
He did return to Echo after he
was released from the hospital,
and said he will have to have sur-
gery some time in the next week.
ONE-WHEEL MAN
For the fifth straight year,
60-year-old Joe Myers drew some
eyes at the finish line on Saturday
he again competed on his unicycle.
Myers finished the full 29-mile
long course in 6 hours, 36 minutes
after he started out on the course at
5:54 a.m.
He gets such an early start to
avoid being a roadblock for the
other racers, and said he only owns
a unicycle and not a bicycle for
health reasons.
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Contact Eric at esinger@eas-
toregonian.com or 541-966-0839.
PREP ROUNDUP
Boys golf takes third
at Wildhorse course
The Hermiston boys fin-
ished third at a prep golf
event at Wildhorse Resort
and Casino on Monday.
The Dalles won the
boys’ team title with a 323
and Hermiston was third
with 338.
Ander Lind was third
with a 77 to lead the Bull-
dogs.
———
Team Scores
BOYS — The Dalles 323; Pendleton 333;
Hermiston 338; Hanford 358; Mac-Hi 366;
Baker 372; Pasco 381; La Grande 386.
GIRLS — Pendleton 409; La Grande 494.
Boys Medalists — 1, Gabe Cach,
Hanford, 75; 2, Chase Snodgrass, The
Dalles, 75; 3, Anders Lind, Hermiston, 77;
4, Devon Caruso, Pomeroy, 78; 5, Nathan
Som, Pendleton, 79.
Hermiston Boys — Jared Thacker, 82;
Anders Lind, 77; Kayden Mecham, 103;
Blue Blackhurst, 96; Tyler Cameron, 83.
Baseball
MAC-HI 13, RIVER-
SIDE 3 — At Boardman,
the Pioneers jumped on a
pitching change by the Pi-
rates and plated seven runs
during a five-hit inning to
take the lead for good in a
non-league baseball game
on Monday.
Jesse Jones doubled to
drive in Adrian Martinez
to tie the score 3-3, then
Keaton Smith drew a walk
three batters later to push
in Jones for the eventual
game-winner. It was one of
eight walks in the game for
the Pioneers.
Martinez and Taylor
Turner both went 3 for 4
for Mac-Hi (3-3) and com-
bined for five RBIs, and
Devon Cothey and Eric
Rencken both went 2 for 2.
Andruw Sorensen went
2 for 2 and Sterling Bither
drove in a pair of runs to
lead Riverside (0-7).
Jones picked up the win
and pitched the first 3 2/3
while allowing three runs
on four hits with two strike-
outs and no walks. Jesus
Vela pitched the last 2 1/3
with no runs on three hits
with three strikeouts and no
walks.
Aramis Corpus pitched
the first four complete for
Riverside and left after al-
lowing two runs on six hits
with four strikeouts and
two walks.
UP NEXT
Riverside hosts Nyssa
on Friday for its Eastern
Oregon League openers in
a doubleheader starting at
1 p.m.
———
(6 innings)
R H E
M-H
002 074 — 13 16 0
RHS
000 300 —
3 7 1
W — J. Jones. L — S. Bither.
2B — A. Martinez, J. Jones, J. Vela (M-H);
A. Sorensen, A. Rodelo, M. Hegar (RHS).
3B — A. Corpus (RHS).
UMATILLA 19, HEP-
PNER 8 (5 innings) — At
Heppner, Seth Cranston hit
a three-run homer during
Umatilla’s six-run second
inning and the Vikings add-
ed nine more in the third to
get their first win on Mon-
day.
Cranston finished 2 for
3 with three runs and five
RBI, and Andrew Wilson
went 2 for 2 with three runs
and four RBI to lead Uma-
tilla (1-3-1).
Cody Samson pitched a
complete game and gave up
six hits while striking out
five and walking seven.
Tim Jaca went 2 for 3
with three RBI to lead Hep-
pner (1-5) and Payton Leh-
man was 2 for 4 with two
RBI.
UP NEXT
Umatilla hosts Irrigon
for a doubleheader at 1 p.m.
on Friday that will open
Eastern Oregon League
play.
Heppner plays its Spe-
cial District 6 openers on
Saturday in a doubleheader
at Sherman starting at 11
a.m.
———
(5 innings)
R H E
UHS
369 10 — 19 10 1
HHS
304 01 —
8 6 1
W — C. Samson. L — K. Wilkins.
2B — S. Cranston, A. Wilson (UHS); P.
Lehman 2 (HHS). 3B — T. Jaca (HHS). HR —
S. Cranston (UHS).
Hermiston falls in
title game in Keizer
The Hermiston Bulldogs
punched their ticket to the
championship game of the
Volcanoes Spring Break
Tournament in Keizer on Fri-
day afternoon with a 5-1 win
over Central Catholic before
falling in the title game to
Sprague, 10-0.
Brylee Dufloth earned
the win for the Bulldog on
Friday, tossing six innings
with no earned runs on two
hits. He struck out four and
walked five.
Assistant coach John
Christy said Dufloth’s effi-
ciency on the mound was
critical, and the key to the
team’s success in the tourna-
ment thus far.
The four-run rally in the
first inning was enough to
secure the win.
Hermiston won the open-
ing game of the tournament
Thursday morning 5-3 over
Cleveland with Lukas Tolan
on the mound. Tolan threw
six innings and allowed two
runs on five hits, striking out
four and walking none.
But in Game 2 on Thurs-
day afternoon, the Bulldogs
lost 8-3 to Summit after Ca-
den Schwirse was chased in
the third inning after throw-
ing 65 pitches and allowing
four earned runs on five hits
and five walks.
Box scores from Satur-
day’s game were not imme-
diately available.
———
Thursday
R H E
CLE
100 110
0 — 3 5 5
HHS
030 020 X — 5 5 4
L. Tolan and S. Gritz; Healy and Cobb. W —
Tolan. L — Healy.
3B — Wyatt Nolan (HHS).
Thursday
R H E
HHS
100 101 —
3 5 5
SHS
323 000 —
5 5 4
C. Schwirse, J. Ramirez (3) and S. Gritz; D.
Steelhammer and J. Hardy. W — Steelham-
mer. L — Schwirse.
2B — W. Nolan, M. Brown (HHS). Mackem,
Scalley (SHS)
Friday
R H E
CCHS
010 000 —
1 2 1
HHS
400 010 —
5 8 1
B. Dufloth, A. James (6) and S. Gritz. P
Hogland and B. McNeil. W — Dufloth.
L — Hogland.
2B — W. Nolan (HHS)
3B — I. Hendricks (CCHS)
KENNEDY
13-15,
HEPPNER 7-5 — At Hep-
pner, six-run innings by the
Trojans put the Mustangs
into holes they wouldn’t
climb out of on Friday in
non-league baseball action.
Kennedy (7-2) scored six
in the fifth to pull away late
in Game 1 to win 13-7, and
then answered Heppner’s big
first inning in Game 2 with
six runs in the second and
added eight more in the third
to get a big lead in a 15-5 win
in five innings.
Heppner (1-4) had pulled
within 5-4 in the bottom of
the fourth in Game 1 when
Beau Wolters (3 for 3) hit an
RBI double. Kennedy scored
all six of its runs in the sixth
with two outs when three
straight walks pushed the
first run across the plate, then
two singles, an error and an-
other single brought the rest
in.
It was another Wolters
double followed by an er-
ror and singles by Kannon
Wilkins and Matt Orem that
put Heppner up 4-1 after one
in Game 2, but Kennedy’s
second featured seven hits,
three hit batters and a walk.
———
Game 1
R H E
KHS
302 062
0 — 13 12 3
HHS
003 103
0 — 7 6 3
B. Traeger, B. Beyer (5). L. Wilhelm, K. Gibbs
(5). W — Beyer. L — Gibbs.
2B — B. Beyer, J. Suing 2, S. Grosjaqcues
(KHS); B. Wolters 2, W. Steagall, K. Wilkins
(HHS).
Game 2 (5 innings)
R H E
KHS
168 00 — 15 17 1
HHS
400 10 —
5 7 0
D. Moreno, S. Grosjaqcues (4), J. Suing
(5). K. Wilkins, K. Smith (3), T. Jaca (4). W —
Moreno. L — Wilkins.
2B — B. Beyer, J. Suing, S. Grosjaqcues
(KHS); B. Wolters (HHS).
Tennis
(GIRLS) MAC-HI 4,
UMATILLA 2 — At Mil-
ton-Freewater, the Pio-
neers came back from their
spring break strong and
coach Danny Sanchez said
it was evident the players
had been practicing while
school was out.
“They are starting to
improve day by day with
more practice time over the
break,” he said. “We will
start to get tested over the
next month with some good
teams ahead.”
One match Mac-Hi
couldn’t take was at No. 1
singles where Kairy Esc-
obedo defeated Karina Sal-
dana 8-4.
———
Singles
Kairy Escobedo (U) def. Karina Saldana 8-4
Kasey Lesko (M) def. Fatima Sanchez 8-2
Jessica Hernandez (M) def. Kaytlinn Abbott
8-0
Andrea Maldanado (U) def. Ciera Werhan
6-4
Doubles
Emily Cuellar/Janelle Martinez (M) def. Kairy
Escobedo/Fatima Sanchez 8-0
Evelyn Garcia/Nicole Flores (M) def. Kayti-
linn Abbott/Andrea Maldanado 8-1
(BOYS) UMATILLA
5, MAC-HI 1 — At Mil-
ton-Freewater, the Vikings
swept singles play to earn a
convincing win over the Pio-
neers on Monday.
Gio Armenta beat Julian
Villegas 8-2 at No. 1 singles,
and Mac-Hi coach Danny
Sanchez said he thought the
Pioneers did well.
“The Umatilla boys are a
strong team that has a good
chance on winning districts
this year,” he said. “I was
pleased on the toughness the
Mac-Hi boys showed against
a strong team, they kept
fighting for every point.”
———
Singles
Gio Armenta (U) def. Julian Villegas 8-2
Elian Madrigal (U) def. Spencer Wells 8-2
Joel Escamilla (U) def. Juan Alcantar 8-0
Freddy Madrigal (U) def. James Hager 6-2
Doubles
Gio Armenta/Elian Madrigal (U) def. Jorge
Alvarez/Esgar Parra 8-4
Conner Humbert/Brandyn Chaney (M) def.
Freddy Madrigal/Joel Escamilla 8-6
See ROUNDUP, A9