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WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2017
SPORTS
Ione Thousand Yard Shoot winners announced
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Casey Jones of Heppner (left) is awarded his cash prize in
the Thousand Yard Shoot.
IN BRIEF
Champions tour
offers rodeo action
Some of the biggest
and baddest bulls will be
matched up against cow-
boys from across the Pa-
cific Northwest during The
Coastal Farm & Ranch
Challenge of Champions
Tour.
Presented by Bonney’s
Ag & Auto Repair, catch
the action Saturday at 7:30
p.m. at Farm-City Arena
at the old Umatilla Coun-
ty Fairgrounds, 515 W.
Orchard Ave., Hermiston.
Tickets are $14 in advance
or $17 at the gate. Kids
5-and-under are free. The
gates open at 6 p.m. The
event features bull riding
and freestyle bullfighting.
Also, earlier in the day,
the Rascal Rodeo offers a
chance for kids and adults
with mental or physical
disabilities to be a cow-
boy or cowgirl for the
morning. Individuals with
special needs are invited
to experience rodeo fun
Saturday from 10-11 a.m.
at the rodeo arena at the
old fairgrounds. People
should enter by the post
office.
No horse or rodeo
experience is required.
Participants will receive
a T-shirt and other free
items. Register at www.
rascalrodeo.org. Also, vol-
unteers are still needed to
help with the event from
9-11:30 a.m. For more
information, contact 509-
528-5947 or info@rascal-
rodeo.org.
The public is invit-
ed to meet some of the
cowboys and a live bull
Saturday from 11 a.m. to
1 p.m. at Bonney’s Ag &
Auto, 81600 Highway 395
North, Hermiston. Also,
free hot dogs, refresh-
ments and test drives are
offered from 10 a.m. to 1
p.m.
Then, head back to the
fairgrounds at 5 p.m. for
a peddle tractor pull off.
Kids ages 4-11 will be
divided into four classes,
with the top in each class
winning a peddle tractor.
For more information
or to buy tickets, visit
www.aftontickets.com/
event/795. Tickets are also
available in Hermiston at
Bonney’s, Tom Denchel
Ford and Hermiston Chrys-
ler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram.
Tournament gets
ready to tee off for
Meadowood
As of Monday morn-
ing, only 32 spots remain
for the Camp Meadowood
Springs Benefit Golf Tour-
nament.
The popular golf tour-
nament is sponsored by
the Hermiston Elks and
in honor of the late Ray-
mond “Whitey” Schroth.
It raises money for the
summer camp experience
for children and teenagers
who have communication
and/or learning challeng-
es. Open to 140 men and
women, ages 21-and-old-
er, the event is in its 37th
year.
The golf play is June
2-4 at Big River Golf
Course in Umatilla. The
cost is $170 per golfer.
The fee includes two days
of golf, a practice round,
Friday night barbecue and
cocktail party, Saturday
banquet, on-course re-
freshments, tee prizes and
a hole-in-one prize. Addi-
tional fees for a two-per-
son best ball and skins play
on Saturday are $10 each.
A non-golfer package is
available for $135, which
includes the evening gath-
erings, Meadowood golf
shirt, a tee sign and spon-
sor recognition.
For more information,
call Bob Schroth, tour-
nament co-chair, at 541-
567-6367 or contact Me-
gan Olsen at Big River at
541-922-3006 or megan@
golfbigriver.com.
Hunting and shooting
enthusiasts traveled to
Ione on May 6 to compete
for bragging rights and
a cash prize at the annu-
al Ione Thousand Yard
Shoot.
Heppner native, Ca-
sey Jones, took the grand
prize after a shoot-off
with several other partic-
ipant who had hit the tar-
get. Casey was awarded
$200 cash, of which he
donated $100 back to the
fundraiser.
The winner for the
open-site 500 yard target
was Jules Martino of Sil-
verton for the second year
in a row. Martino also re-
ceived $200 cash.
Randy St. Marie of
Portland was the winner
of the gun raffle for a
Howa Caliber 204 Talon
Heavy Barrel, sponsored
by Garner’s Sporting
Goods in Pendleton.
The annual event is a
fundraiser for kid’s prizes
at the fishpond and other
games at the annual Ione
Fourth of July celebra-
tion.
This
year’s
event
sponsors were: Blagg
Rifles, Route 74 Restau-
rant, Snow-McElligott,
Bob Hubbard, Magnum
Opus, Cordova Coolers/
Steve’s Outdoor Adven-
tures, Halvorsen Farms,
Mark Anderson Builder,
Ione Market & Deli, Ta-
cos Hometown, Garner’s
Sporting Goods and Ione
Rural Fire Department.
Tacos Hometown, the
taco truck out of Ione,
was on-site to provide
lunch.
Jules Martino of Silverton (left) is awarded his $200 prize for
winning the 500 yard shoot.
BASEBALL:
8-2) pitcher Conner Coerper
and smacked it into left field,
scoring both runners and put-
ting Hermiston on top 4-2.
The sophomore finished with
a team-best two hits on the
day with three RBIs and one
run scored.
Hermiston’s final run
came in the fifth inning, when
Brylee Dufloth sprinted to
home from third base on a
passed ball and barely beat
the tag at home to give Herm-
iston a 5-2 lead. That run
proved to be huge insurance
run for the Bulldogs, because
the Eagles gave everything
they had for a rally attempt in
the seventh inning.
With two outs, Hood Riv-
er scored one run on Ramirez,
who came on in relief of To-
lan, and then drew a walk to
put the tying and go-ahead
runs on base. After a passed
ball, those runs moved up to
second and third with Herm-
iston still just needing the final
out to claim victory. Ramirez
said he didn’t get too nervous
on the mound in the situation,
he just knew he needed to do
his job.
“I told myself ‘Just throw
strikes’ and I knew my infield
and outfield had my back,”
Ramirez said.
And it worked, as Ramirez
induced an easy groundball
to shortstop where Caden
Schwirse threw out the batter
for the final out to earn the save.
“It’s a big win for us,”
Ramirez said. “That is a good
team over there and we want
to play our best here to finish
the season.”
The win mixed with a
loss by The Dalles on Friday
moves Hermiston into third
place in the CRC, the final
postseason spot for the con-
ference. And with now two
games left, Christy believes
the best is yet to come for the
Bulldogs.
“I think our upside is pretty
huge,” he said. “This is where
we wanted to be by the end of
the season in terms of playing
well and hopefully we can
continue doing it. We keep
telling the kids, anything can
happen in the playoffs and
we’re a scary team and I think
a lot of teams can overlook
us, but we have a lot of guys
who can do positive things.”
Contact Eric at esinger@
eastoregonian.com or 541-
966-0839.
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tem,” he said. “It returns, at
least most schools to a re-
gional league, and its better
travel for most — Umatilla
not so much.”
Sheller said that while
he’s hopeful the OSAA will
revisit the 5A idea in future
years, he’s not going to
spend any time dwelling on
the decision.
“Ultimately my thoughts
on it are we will play who-
ever we’re told to play and
we’re going to coach up our
kids and be competitive ei-
ther way,” he said.
school placements.
Written suggestions and
proposals on these issues,
as well as other classifica-
tion related subjects can
be emailed to the OSAA
at bradg@osaa.org to be
shared with all committee
members for review and
discussion.
The next public meeting
of the Classification and
Districting Committee will
be held at 9 a.m. on Mon-
day, May 22, at the Al Kad-
er Shriners Headquarters in
Wilsonville.
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A fly ball to center field off
the bat of Joel Mendez should
have been the Bulldogs’ third
out, but the wind kept push-
ing it further toward the fence
which twisted Hood Riv-
er’s centerfielder around and
caused him to drop the catch,
giving Hermiston new life.
That brought Jordan
Ramirez to the plate with two
outs and runners on second
and third with only one thing
on his mind.
“If the pitcher throws
me a fastball down the pipe,
I’m hitting it to the outfield,”
Ramirez recalled with a
smile.
And on a 1-0 count,
Ramirez jumped on a fast-
ball from Hood River (16-7,
OSAA:
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Bow explained one of
things he’s looking at are
percentage of student pop-
ulation engaged in athlet-
ics, since private schools
tend to have a much high-
er number of participants
than Umatilla despite their
comparable total enroll-
ments.
Nearby, Irrigon and Riv-
erside are near the cutoff
for 2A and Irrigon Athlet-
ic Director Steve Sheller
said he cast his vote for the
5-class structure that would
have dropped the Knights
down a level.
“To be honest with you
I like the looks — just I’m
an Eastern Oregon guy and
I like the looks of how the
east part of the state looks
in a 5A classification sys-
The committee won’t
make its final proposal until
Oct. 16 at a Special Clas-
sification and Districting
Meeting. Since it spent so
much time deciding be-
tween a 6A and 5A model,
the committee is seeking
feedback on cutoff points,
league alignments and
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