WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2017
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SPORTS
Riverside Pirates remain
undefeated after victory
Local slate
PREP FOOTBALL
Friday
Hermiston at Ridgeview, 7 p.m.
Riverside at Umatilla, 7 p.m.
Vale at Irrigon, 7 p.m.
Weston-McEwen at Stanfield, 7 p.m.
Powder Valley at Echo, 7 p.m.
STAFF PHOTSO BY ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
Riverside’s Julian Elvert Jimenez goes toe-to-toe with Nyssa’s Abram Castro during
Saturday’s match at Don Hendrix Memorial Field.
Riverside’s Quincy Castillo faces Nyssa defenders. The
Pirates remain undefeated, as they went on to win, 14-3.
until Nyssa knocked one in
past Riverside goalkeeper
Kevin Ruelas.
After the break, the
Bulldogs scored again on
a penalty kick just seconds
after the Pirates put their
sixth goal on the board.
Nyssa scored one more
goal on its own accord be-
fore Riverside unleashed
a scoring fury in the final
25 minutes. The Bulldogs
had to ultimately play a
man down after two of
their players were injured,
including senior goalkeep-
er Jeremias Martinez. The
small Special District 4
school came to Boardman
with only one substitute.
Along with Peralta’s
second half efforts, seniors
Misael Madrigal and Luis
Olvera and sophomore
Ulyces Lopez all scored.
But it was Peralta’s skillful-
ness on the field that elevat-
ed the Pirates on their home
field
“He’s one of the brains
of the team,” assistant
coach Jose Duenas said.
“He gets along with ev-
erybody. Everybody plays
together for each other
and I think everything just
worked out for him today.”
Next on Riverside’s slate
is a trip to Irrigon on Satur-
day, Oct. 7. As for Nyssa,
they will host Umatilla on
Friday.
Stanfield defense preserved win over Culver
STANFIELD 22, CUL-
VER 20 — It came down
to the final seconds of the
game, as Stanfield was
looking at it’s fourth po-
tential consecutive loss of
the season. As the clock
counted down, and Culver
worked its way down it’s
home field into field goal
range the Tigers had no
choice but to get in forma-
tion and put pressure on the
kicker. And it worked. The
Bulldogs missed wide left,
and Stanfield came away
with the 22-20 win.
“We made a few mis-
takes on good drives, but
ultimately kept our heads in
the game and kept playing
defense,” head coach Davy
Salas said.
The Tigers (1-3 over-
all, 1-0 CBC) didn’t do
a good job of wrapping
up Culver’s running back
and allowed themselves to
get into a 20-8 deficit. But
Salas told the team as long
as they stay with the game
plan, things would start to
click. And they did.
The comeback was a
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Once both teams re-
turned, the Bulldogs were
giving up too many yards
on penalties — part of the
reason why the Eagles
eventual scoring drive was
continued.
“We didn’t come out and
start very well in the third
quarter,” Faaeteete said.
“Some penalties extended
their drive and some pen-
alties killed our drive when
we got something going.”
By the end of the night
Hermiston had given up 79
total yards on nine penal-
ties, and as a result allowed
Hood River to get points of
its own on the board.
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Hermiston varsity foot-
ball coach David Faaeteete
will be on hand to preview
the Bulldogs’ game against
Ridgeview in Redmond as
well as look back on their
victory over Hood River.
SCOREBOARD
PREP ROUNDUP
HERMISTON HERALD
Hermiston
Linebackers Club
meets Thursday
The Hermiston Line-
backer Club will hold its
weekly meeting from noon
to 1 p.m. on Thursday at
Desert Lanes Bowling Al-
ley, 1545 N. First St.
Those that will attend
By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
STAFF WRITER
Riverside returned to
league play Saturday after
narrowly defeating Mc-
Loughin earlier in the week
to remain undefeated.
The Pirates hoped to
continue their streak, and
did so easily against Nyssa
at Don Hendrix Memori-
al Field at Riverside High
School.
The 14-3 victory moved
Riverside to 7-0 on the sea-
son, and 2-0 in league play.
The No. 2 Pirates controlled
the entire 80 minutes, scor-
ing five of their goals in the
first half and having little to
no trouble against the Bull-
dogs (3-4 overall, 1-1 Spe-
cial District 4).
“We expected that to be
easy,” head coach Francis-
co Velazquez said.
Velazquez and the team
prepared for the match by
studying their opponents,
and with Nyssa making
the three and a half hour
trip after losing three of its
last five games, the Pirates
knew they had the advan-
tage.
Senior Jose Peralta was
the star of the show and fin-
ished the day with six goals
of his own. He scored Riv-
erside’s first two goals in
the 6th and 7th minute. The
first was on a free kick, and
he followed that up will an
easy tip in after some action
in front of the goal.
Peralta would add one
more goal to the board be-
fore the half and fellow
senior Ricardo Navarro
and Julian Elvert Jimenez
would each tally a score.
The Pirates went into
halftime nearly shutting out
the Bulldogs, but a late foul
in the box extended play
BRIEF
team effort, but a few play-
ers led the pack. Senior run-
ning back Adrian Renner
finished the night with 199
yards and one touchdown
on 16 carries. Fellow senior
Justin Keeney added 108
yards on 11 carries and had
three catches for 32 yards
and one touchdown.
Senior
quarterback
Shayne Keltz went 3-for-6
for 82 yards and two touch-
downs. Sophomore running
back Mason Smith also re-
corded one catch for 30
yards and a touchdown.
Stanfield will return
home where the Tigers will
finish out their season with
three straight home games.
Up next is a match up
against Weston-McEwen.
Culver will remain at home
next week and host Grant
Union.
IRRIGON 50, RIV-
ERSIDE/IONE 0 — The
Knights had no trouble on
the road Friday. Irrigon
handed Riverside its first
league loss in shut-out fash-
ion as both teams opened
conference play. The efforts
on both offense and defense
Back-to-back pass inter-
ference calls on the defense
moved the Eagles all the
way to the Bulldogs’ 5-yard
line. Their first touchdown
came with nine seconds
left in the third quarter, and
they would score again in
the final 10 minutes of the
game. But Hermiston’s first
half efforts and an insur-
ance touchdown from Neal
to open the fourth quarter
put Hood River in too big
of a hole to crawl out of
and that’s just fine with the
Dawgs.
“It’s huge,” James said
of the victory. “It shows us
we have the ability to win
but we still can’t have a bad
week. ... We’ve just got to
keep the same momentum,
the same attitude.”
were worthy of praise from
head coach Steve Sheller,
and it was quarterback Jada
Burns who got a lot of it.
The junior varsity quarter-
back entered the game ear-
ly in the third quarter, and
led multiple touchdown
drives en route to Irrigon’s
50-0 victory.
“I really like working
with good kids, and I have a
lot of good kids but there’s
something about Jada that
stands out,” Sheller said.
Also having a good
night is the junior running
back duo of Josue Aguilera
and Lino Covarrubia. Agu-
ilera has been the star of the
offense for the past couple
weeks, and tonight he put
on another show for the
Knights (3-1 overall, 1-0
EOL). He ran for 200 yards
and four touchdowns on
25 carries and Covarrubia
rushed for 147 yards on 16
carries. Sheller adds these
performances would have
been difficult to execute
without the offensive line
playing lights out.
“He’s a tough kid and a
tough runner,” he said of
Aguilera. “But even he’ll
Hermiston will travel
to Ridgeview in Redmond
this week, and won’t return
home until Oct. 13 to face
Bend.
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Boxscore
Hermiston Bulldogs (2-2, 1-1) vs. Hood
River Valley Eagles (2-1, 1-1)
Friday, Sept. 29, 2017
Hermiston
Hood River Valley
0
0
34 0 —
0 7 —
6
7
1st
2nd
11:54 – HHS Andrew James 11 yd TD
rush (Dayshwan Neal PAT) 7-0
11:31 – HHS Andrew James 1 yd TD
rush (2pt pass fail) 13-0
5:45 – HHS Jonathan Hinkle 19 yd TD
rush (Neal PAT) 20-0
2:08 – HHS Tyler Rohrman 66 yard recep-
tion from James (Neal PAT) 27-0
0:27 – HHS Dayshawn Neal 42 yard
reception from James (Neal PAT) 34-0
3rd
0:09 – HRV Michael Jones 5 yd TD rush
(Riggs Bardin PAT) 34-7
4th
10:52 – HHS Neal 19 yd TD rush (PAT
blocked) 40-7
7:21 – HRV Jones 36 yd reception from
Caden Leiblein (Bardin PAT) 40-14
tell you that he couldn’t
get those yards without the
o-line being tough off the
ball and controlling the line
of scrimmage.”
At the half, Irrigon was
up 28-0 and once the teams
returned to the field the de-
fense continued to shut the
Pirates (2-2, 0-1) down.
“The Riverside kids
were tough, and fought
hard all night,” Sheller said.
“This is nothing to hang
their heads over.”
Up next, Irrigon will face
Vale at home while River-
side will travel to Umatilla
to continue league play.
Girls Soccer
UMATILLA 2, IRRI-
GON 0 — At Umatilla, the
Vikings picked up their first
league victory of the season
with a shutout over Irrigon
on Friday afternoon.
Umatilla (2-3-2, 1-0-1
EOL) earned the victory on
goals by Devina Monreal
and Mayra Ortiz.
The Vikings will next
play on Friday at Nyssa,
while Irrigon (0-6, 0-2) will
play Riverside on Saturday
at 1 p.m.
1st Downs
Penalties
Turnovers
Rushing
Passing
Total
HHS
18
9, 79
1 fumble
39, 220
200
420
HRV
14
4, 20
1 fumble, kept
46, 186
46
232
Passing
HHS Andrew James 10-11- 0-200- 2
HRV Vaden Leiblein 3-19- 0-46- 1
Rushing
HHS Andrew James 8, 45, 2TD
HHS Jonathan Hinkle 8, 61, TD
HHS Peter Earl 3, 7
HHS Dayshawn Neal 5, 33, TD
HHS Joey Guttierez 2, -1
HHS Keaton Mikami 1, 34
HHS Garron Anderson 2, 7
HHS Unamed JV players 4, 8
HRV Caden Leiblein 12, 38
HRV Michael Jones 23, 83, TD
HRV Bailey Holste 7, 48
HRV Matthew Tichenor 2, 12
HRV Tanner Wells 1, 5
Receiving
HHS Dayshawn Neal 3, 71, TD
HHS Tyler Rohrman 1, 66, TD
HHS Joey Gutierrez 4, 37
HHS Luke Walchli 1, 8
HHS Keaton Mikami 1, 18
HRV Michael Jones 1, 36, TD
HRV Trenton Hough 1, 5
HRV Matthew Tichenor 1, 5
PREP VOLLEYBALL
Thursday
Riverside at Irrigon, 6 p.m.
Heppner at Pilot Rock, 5 p.m.
Friday
Nyssa at Stanfield, 1 p.m.
Union at Stanfield, Noon
Powder Valley at Echo, 4 p.m.
Saturday
Heppner vs. St. Paul (at Sherman), 10
a.m.
Irrigon at Stanfield, Noon
Echo at Joseph, 1 p.m.
Ione at Mitchell/Spray, 1 p.m.
PREP BOYS SOCCER
Today
Irrigon at Hermiston (JV), 4:30 p.m.
Friday
Umatilla at Nyssa, 3 p.m.
Saturday
Riverside at Irrigon, 3 p.m.
PREP GIRLS SOCCER
Thursday
Irrigon at Mac-Hi, 4:30 p.m.
Friday
Umatilla at Nyssa, 5 p.m.
Saturday
Riverside at Irrigon, 1 p.m.
PREP CROSS COUNTRY
Thursday
Heppner, Helix, Weston-McEwen,
Stanfield at Mustang Invitational (Heppner),
4 p.m.
Saturday
Hermiston, Pendleton, Stanfield at Rich-
land (WA) Invite, TBD
Umatilla at La Grande Invite, TBD
Prep Standings
Through Oct. 1
PREP FOOTBALL
5A SPECIAL DISTRICT 1
Lg Ovr PS PA Rnk
Mtn. View 3-0 5-0 175 64 3
Bend
3-0 4-1 163 85 14
Hermiston 2-1 3-2 128 91 4
Pendleton 2-1 3-2 180 79 21
Hood River 1-2 2-2 117 95 22
Summit
1-2 2-3 115 137 8
Redmond 0-3 0-5 54 212 23
Ridgeview 0-3 0-5 66 214 31
3A EASTERN OREGON LEAGUE
Lg Ovr PS PA Rnk
Nyssa
1-0 3-0 81 43 14
Irrigon
1-0 3-1 106 43 8
Burns
1-0 3-2 158 108 9
Umatilla
0-1 3-2 137 147 21
Riverside 0-1 2-2 64 109 26
Vale
0-1 2-3 128 147 19
2A COLUMBIA BASIN CONFERENCE
Lg Ovr PS PA Rnk
Heppner
1-0 2-3 116 144 5
Stanfield
1-0 1-3 54 118 21
W-McEwen 0-1 1-3 51 113 20
Culver
0-1 0-5 78 181 23
*Pilot Rock
2-3 108 178 X
1A SPECIAL DISTRICT 1
Lg Ovr PS PA Rnk
Cove
2-0 4-1 214 123 6
Wallowa
2-0 4-1 296 194 8
HEPPNER
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a 3-yard touchdown rush for
a 14-6 Heppner lead early
in the second quarter. Two
possessions later, Heppner
took over at the TigerScots’
37 and on its first play of the
drive Wolters took a sweep
handoff and dashed 37 yards
for a touchdown.
Coby Dougherty added
his second touchdown of the
game on a 20-yard rush late
in the second quarter to send
Heppner to halftime with a
32-6 lead and cruise in the
second half.
Heppner rushed for 279
yards as a team as the offen-
sive line won the battles in
the trenches.
“We felt all along that
we have an offensive front
that can be good when they
work together,” Grant said.
“It’s all about communica-
tion and they all know what
to do, but they’re all doing
different things and not jell-
ing. We’re finally starting to
trust and do some things and
we’re really close.”
While the win was good,
it was a frustrating game
for Grant and the Heppner
coaches because of mistakes
that piled up as the game
went on. The defense strug-
gled to tackle at times, let-
ting Weston-McEwen turn
big negative losses into pos-
itive gains, and the offense
fell into lulls where the exe-
cution lacked.
“My assistant said it best,
we’re mercurial. We look
like we know what we’re do-
ing one minute and the next
minute we don’t,” Grant
said. “The kids are trying
really hard but we just have
to clean up technique and
things. I’m happy for them
because they’ve been work-
ing hard and making strides,
but I just know gee whiz if
we can do a few things better
Crane
2-0 3-1
Harper Chart. 1-0 2-1
Echo
1-1 3-2
Huntington 1-1 1-1
Powder Va. 1-1 1-3
Adrian
0-1 3-1
Joseph
0-2 2-3
Pine Eagle 0-2 1-4
Prarie City 0-2 0-5
224
110
230
45
58
158
130
156
14
78
80
186
110
150
102
144
219
263
2
22
11
24
20
7
29
30
35
PREP VOLLEYBALL
5A COLUMBIA RIVER CONFERENCE
Lg Ovr SW SL Rnk
Pendleton 4-1 9-3 25
8 12
Hood River 4-1 9-5 25 14 15
The Dalles 2-3 4-8 12 25 25
Hermiston 0-5 2-12 9 33 27
3A EASTERN OREGON LEAGUE
Lg Ovr SW SL Rnk
Vale
5-0 17-5 47 21 3
Burns
4-1 11-6 30 16 8
Irrigon
3-2 16-5 43 14 14
Nyssa
2-3 5-10 15 35 25
Umatilla
1-4 7-11 25 35 32
Riverside 0-5 0-15 3 41 39
2A COLUMBIA BASIN CONFERENCE
Lg Ovr SW SL Rnk
Culver
4-0 16-1 42
8 1
Heppner
3-1 13-5 34 15 8
W-McEwen 2-2 13-7 39 24 5
Pilot Rock 1-3 12-7 34 22 12
Stanfield
0-4 1-13 3 35 37
1A BIG SKY LEAGUE
Lg Ovr SW
South Wasco 4-0 18-7 46
Dufur
4-1 8-9 27
Ione
2-2 6-16-1 20
Sherman 2-2 3-2 11
Cond./Wheeler 1-4 5-13 17
Mitch./Spray 0-4 1-9
5
SL Rnk
23 9
30 19
41 39
7 33
36 53
26 59
1A OLD OREGON LEAGUE
Lg Ovr SW SL Rnk
Powder Va. 7-0 16-9 42 28 7
Helix
5-2 14-5 45 16 20
Joseph
5-2 11-8 33 23 16
Echo
5-3 9-6 29 19 28
Wallowa
3-4 4-7 14 24 32
Cove
3-5 7-10 27 30 42
Nixyaawii 1-6 1-6
4 20 60
Pine Eagle 1-8 1-12 5 35 58
PREP BOYS SOCCER
5A COLUMBIA RIVER CONFERENCE
Lg Ovr GS GA Rnk
Hermiston 1-0 6-3 31
8 15
Hood River 1-0 5-2 19
8 1
The Dalles 0-1 3-4 18 17 16
Pendleton 0-1 1-6
5 29 25
3A/2A/1A SPECIAL DISTRICT 4
Lg Ovr GS GA Rnk
Riverside 2-0 7-0 42
9 2
Nyssa
1-1 3-4 40 33 29
Umatilla
1-1 1-5-1 6 36 33
Irrigon
0-2 1-6 13 35 43
PREP GIRLS SOCCER
5A COLUMBIA RIVER CONFERENCE
Lg Ovr GS GA Rnk
Hood River 1-0 4-2 15
5 4
Hermiston 0-0-1 3-5-1 8 19 26
The Dalles 0-0-1 0-6-1 0 32 30
Pendleton 0-1 1-4-1 12 31 31
3A/2A/1A SPECIAL DISTRICT 2
Lg Ovr GS GA Rnk
Riverside 1-0-1 4-1-2 12
2 5
Umatilla 1-0-1 2-3-2 10 13 15
Nyssa
1-1 1-4
6 17 18
Irrigon
0-2 0-6
6 21 27
how much better we can be.
I’d love to see their effort be
rewarded.”
For Weston-McEwen, the
little offense it could mus-
ter mostly came from quar-
terback Brett Speed, as the
senior ran for 62 yards and
a touchdown on 15 carries,
and also threw for 49 yards
on 5 of 11 passing. Running
back Jacob Speed was un-
able to show off his speed
for most of the game, finish-
ing with just one net rushing
yard on eight carries. McGill
was the team’s second lead-
ing rusher with 21 yards on
seven carries with his score.
“They came out and
punched us in the mouth
over and over again,”
Weston-McEwen coach Tra-
vis Glover said. “I’ve always
said football is a game of
inches and they took every
one of them. Outside of that,
we got beat by a great foot-
ball team and we have to put
things back together and get
ready for Stanfield.”
Weston-McEwen
will
look to regroup next week
at Stanfield while Heppner
gets a bye week to try and
clean up things before host-
ing Culver on Oct. 13.
“I’m happy for the kids,”
Grant said. “We had a pretty
tough start and a good cou-
ple of weeks to give the kids
some confidence.”
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HHS
8 24
8 12 — 52
W-M
6 0
6
0 — 12
PASSING — (HHS) J. Wilson 2-11, 23,
TD, INT; K. Smith 1-1, 13. (W-M) B. Speed
5-11, 50, INT.
RUSHING — (HHS) Be. Wolters 15-
151, 3TD; C. Dougherty 10-72, 3TD; G.
Hanna-Robinson 5-34; Bl. Wolters 5-9; J.
Wilson 2-10; K. Wilkins 1-9; J. Lehman
1-(-6). (W-M) B. Speed 15-62, TD; J. Speed
8-1; K. McGill 7-21, TD; B. Rudolph 4-(-2); P.
Munck 3-19; L. Albert 2-17; V. Nowokowski
1-4; H. Lantz 1-(-2).
RECEIVING — (HHS) Bl. Wolters 1-16; G.
Hanna-Robinson 1-13; Be. Wolters 1-7, TD.
(W-M) P. Munck 5-50.
FIRST DOWNS — HHS 17, W-M 12. PEN-
ALTIES — HHS 6-55; W-M 5-30. TIME OF
POSSESSION: HHS 19:49; W-M 28:11.
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