WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2017
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PREP FOOTBALL
Bulldogs beat Ridgeview;
Vikings sink Pirates
Hermiston wins
third straight
game; Umatilla
victorious at home
HERMISTON HERALD
Hermiston traveled back
to Central Oregon on Fri-
day night and brought home
a football win, beating the
Ridgeview Ravens, 48-26.
Hermiston (4-2 overall,
3-1 Special District 1) used
a balanced offense to take
down the Ravens, running
for 259 yards and pass-
ing for 214 more. Andrew
James kept up his efficient
play, completing 12-of-15
passes with three touch-
downs, and rushing for 100
yards on eight carries with
a score. As usual, James’ fa-
vorite target was Dayshawn
Neal, as Neal hauled in six
passes for 97 yards with a
score.
The pair hooked up for
the touchdown to open the
game, with Neal catching a
36-yard score for an early
7-0 lead. James also threw a
50-yard touchdown pass to
Joey Gutierrez in the third
quarter and a 3-yard score
to Keaton Mikami in the
fourth.
Jonathan Hinkle had a
big day on the ground for
the Bulldogs, rushing for
105 yards and two scores
on 14 carries.
Hermiston’s
defense
forced two turnovers, but
gave up 300 rushing yards
on 54 attempts to the Ra-
vens. Ridgeview tied the
game at 14-14 with 8:37
left in the second quar-
ter, but scores by Hinkle,
James and Gutierrez gave
the Bulldogs a 35-14 lead
and momentum going into
halftime.
Hermiston will next host
Bend on Friday night at 7
p.m. in its traditional fall
Homecoming game.
UMATILLA 44, RIV-
ERSIDE 16 — The Uma-
tilla Vikings easily hand-
ed the Riverside Pirates a
44-16 loss Friday night to
move to 4-2 on the season,
and 1-1 in the Eastern Ore-
gon League.
Senior
quarterback
Kaden Webb went 12-for-
17 for 250 yards and three
touchdowns, and ran for 54
yards and one touchdown
on six carries.
“It felt pretty good,”
Webb
said.
“Overall,
through the nigh,t it felt
like I was throwing the ball
pretty well, receivers were
going and making plays so
that’s nice to see.”
One of those plays was a
72-yard touchdown pass to
senior running back Trent
Durfey with three seconds
left in the third quarter. The
6-foot 2-inch 210-pound
back ran through River-
side’s defense the entire
night.
By that point in the
game, the Vikings had a
comfortable lead over the
Pirates (2-3 overall, 0-2
EOL).
After Umatilla’s open-
ing drive ended with a punt
on 4th-and-10, the defense
took the field and wouldn’t
be on the field for long.
Riverside’s senior quarter-
back Mason Hegar fumbled
as he was swarmed by the
Umatilla defense, and Vi-
king linebacker Zaquary
Funderburk recovered the
ball on the Pirates 1-yard
line. Webb found sopho-
more running back Arrik
Russell for Umatilla’s first
score of the night.
The defense continued
to make big plays, and was
again the reason for the
Vikings next touchdown.
After a bad snap from Riv-
erside’s punter on fourth
down, Umatilla recovered
the ball to bring Webb back
out. Twenty six yards and
six plays later, he ran for
two yards to extend the Vi-
kings lead to 16-0.
Riverside struggled to
contain the Vikings in the
first quarter, and couldn’t
quite find its rhythm on
offense but a momentum
changer to open the second
quarter stopped Umatilla’s
chance at a shutout.
The team’s traded touch-
downs as Umatilla scored
on the ensuing drive to ex-
tend its lead to 22-8.
The Vikings scored one
more time before the half.
Sophomore running back
Pedro Alvarez ran in a 36
yarder to add six points to
the board.
The ground game was
as much of a factor as the
passing game. Winds were
gusting throughout most of
the night, but it worked in
Umatilla’s favor. Although
it sent some of Webb’s
passes long and may have
caused a few wrinkles in
play calling, the Vikings
were able to establish the
run early which opened
things up later on.
“We were trying to es-
tablish the run game,”
Webb said. “If we do that it
sucks guys into the box and
opens it up for throws. Es-
tablishing the run game is
just about our first thought.”
Trent Durfey led the
team with 11 carries for
75 yards. While Alvarez
racked up 78 yards on just
nine carries.
STANFIELD
38,
WESTON-MCEWEN 16
— At Stanfield, the Tigers
continued to play well at the
right time as they picked up
their second league victory
of the season with a big 38-
16 win over Weston-McE-
wen on Friday night.
Stanfield (2-3 overall,
2-0 CBC) ran for 335 yards
on the TigerScots, with Jus-
tin Keeney running for 112
yards and two touchdowns
and Adrian Renner gaining
103 yards with two more
scores. Shayne Keltz also
ran for one touchdown.
“It’s probably the best
we’ve looked all season,”
Stanfield coach Davie Salas
said. “We’re playing good
football at the right time
like we did tonight. We
started the season a little
rough, but I kept telling the
kids to keep believing in
themselves and the results
will come and that’s what
we’re seeing right now.”
The win gives the Tigers
a chance to play for their
second straight CBC title in
two weeks when they play
Heppner, something that
Salas said the team is ex-
tremely happy about.
ECHO 68, POWDER
VALLEY 38 — At Echo,
the Cougars tallied 670
rushing yards and 10 total
touchdowns as they defeat-
ed the Powder Valley Bad-
gers 68-38 on Friday night.
Quarterback
Devan
Craig took advantage of
some open running lanes
as he led the team with
402 rushing yards and five
touchdowns, while also
throwing for two more
scores. Behind Craig,
Damien Curiel ran for 102
yards and two touchdowns
while catching an 81-yard
touchdown pass, and Zack
Gehrke added another 80
yards and one touchdown.
On defense, Echo (4-2
overall, 2-1 Special Dis-
trict 1) gave up 180 rush-
ing yards and 158 passing
yards, but picked up three
interceptions and three
fumble recoveries to help
keep the Badgers at bay.
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Riverside sweeps Irrigon
By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
STAFF WRITER
On Saturday, the Irrigon
Knights welcomed the Riv-
erside boys and girls soccer
teams for a doubleheader.
The Pirates certainly made
their presence known as
both teams shut out the
Knights by a combined 15
goals.
Irrigon was fielding
a first-year girl’s varsity
program against the ex-
perienced Pirates. At first
the competition was even-
ly matched. The Knights
inexperience
definitely
showed but it took a while
for the Pirates to find their
groove in very windy con-
ditions.
Small mistakes on
both sides, like inaccurate
short passes or missed op-
portunities to down the
ball, caused possession
to change frequently. But
once Riverside settled
down, the Pirates began
to dominate. They scored
four goals in 20 minutes,
and entered the half up by a
comfortable margin.
“I liked the girl’s pres-
sure,” Riverside head
coach Carlos Velasco said.
“We worked on that, on
pressuring the ball.”
The Pirates continued
to put the pressure on in
the second half, holding
the Knights scoreless with
only three shots on goal.
Riverside had to grind out
its victory down four play-
ers, which left the team
without any subs.
“At the end they kind of
got tired,” Velasco added.
The athleticism and en-
durance the girls showed
against Irrigon is going
STAFF PHOTO BY ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
Riverside’s senior forward Nahomy Claustro fights off an Irrigon defender in Saturday’s
game at Irrigon High school. The Riverside Pirates won 4-0.
to be something they will
need to tap into as they near
the end of the regular sea-
son. Saturday’s win moves
them to 5-1-2 on the season
and 2-0-1 in league play.
The Pirates hold the top
spot in Special District 2.
While the Knights won’t
continue into the postsea-
son, Irrigon head coach Joe
Cobb celebrates the small
victories, which he sees in
the improvements the girls
make week to week.
“I thought the kids —
we have progressively got
better each game,” Cobb
said. “I tell them the goal
every game is to get better,
and I like to try to get the
ball in the goal. But I didn’t
feel we went out there and
embarrassed ourselves. I
thought we went out there
and played our kind of
game.”
Unlike the girls, the
boy’s match up was un-
even. They took the field
after the girl’s game and
with Irrigon entering the
game winless and River-
side undefeated it was only
a matter of time before the
Pirates began their reign.
They earned their eighth
consecutive victory after
defeating the Knights 11-0.
The Pirates (8-0 over-
all, 3-0 Special District 4)
scored four goals in the
first half, one was off a free
kick by sophomore Ulyces
Lopez with just six minutes
to go until the half.
Riverside’s comfortable
lead increased dramatical-
ly in the opening minutes
of the second half. The Pi-
rates scored three goals in
the first six minutes against
the Knights (0-9, 0-3), who
were playing without any
subs. A goalie change by
Irrigon stopped the Pirates
from tallying more goals,
but Riverside cemented it’s
No. 1 standing with this
massive win.
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CROSS COUNTRY
Hermiston girls place second in Richland
BY HERMISTON HERALD
The Hermiston cross
country team joined Pend-
leton, as well as a number
of Washington and Idaho
schools in the Max Jen-
sen Richland Invitational
on Saturday. The stacked
field took laps around Car-
michael Middle School as
their regular season winds
down.
Hermiston was coming
off of a not-so-hot finish in
Portland a week ago, and
head coach Troy Black-
burn was impressed with
how well they performed
this time out.
“I was excited, espe-
cially after last week,”
he said. “This week they
bounced back. This year
we did very well which
will give us momentum
going into districts.”
The Bulldogs hit the
same speed bump last year
and struggled at this invite,
but this time around was
another story, even with
one of the boy’s top run-
ners out.
Hermiston
finished
within the top 10 in both
the girls and boys 3-mile
Division II race. The girls
placed second with 89
points while the boys fin-
ished in seventh place with
183 points. The boys could
have easily placed in third
or fourth if it weren’t miss-
ing a runner but there are
still many things to cele-
brate.
Seniors Melany Sol-
orio and Isaac Sanchez
were once again the No.
1 runners for each team.
Both finished third in their
respective races. Solor-
io clocked 19:21.51 and
Sanchez ran sub-16 to fin-
ish 15:55.60. In fact, he
shaved of 35 seconds from
his course record.
Two other Bulldogs
from the girls team fin-
ished in the top 20. Fresh-
man Amanda Nygard
rounded out the top five in
19:24.63 and sophomore
Shelia Solorio came in
17th place (20:10.30).
“All the girls did well,”
Blackburn said. “They are
performing very well. We
looked much stronger than
we did in the past.”
For the boy’s, Hermis-
ton’s next finisher behind
Sanchez was fellow senior
Emanuel Ibarra. Ibarra ran
16:52.96 for 23rd place,
and junior Angel Benites
followed in 29th place
(16:59.21)
“They both ran tough,”
Blackburn said. “(Angel)
has always despised hills
and he usually struggled
but this time he got past
that, which was great for
him.”
Official varsity team
scores are listed below.
UP NEXT: Hermiston
will compete in two meets
this week. First its junior
varsity will compete in
the Helix Stubblebuster on
Thursday, while the var-
sity squad takes some ex-
tra time to prepare for the
George Fox XC Classic at
Willamette Mission State
Park on Saturday.
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Coaches can report
game scores and statistics
by calling 1-800-522-0255
or emailing sports@herm-
istonherald.com.
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Cross country official varsity
team scores
Girl’s 3-mile Division II
1. Charles Wright Academy
2. Hermiston
3. Lewis and Clark
4. Pullman
5. Nathan Hale
6. Southridge
7. Hanford
8. Franklin (WA)
9. Archbishop Murphy
10. Riverside
11. Lakes
12. Pendleton
13. Trout Lake
14. Sunnyside
15. College Place
16. East Valley (Spokane)
17. Othello
70
89
133
137
148
193
208
231
238
251
265
267
278
311
364
371
484
Boy’s 3-mile Division II
1. Pullman
2. North Central
3. Lakes
4. Central Valley
5. Charles Wright Academy
6. East Valley (Spokane)
7. Hermiston
8. Rocky Mountain
9. Riverside
10. Nathan Hale
11. Lakeside (Nine Mile)
12. Interlake
13. Bethel
14. Sunnyside
15. Tri-Cities Prep
16. Mt Spokane
17. Wenatchee
18. Archbishop Murphy
19. Othello
20. Pendleton
54
122
141
142
146
177
183
184
216
222
269
272
309
342
414
431
466
468
482
560
SCOREBOARD
Local slate
PREP FOOTBALL
Friday
Bend at Hermiston, 7 p.m.
Riverside at Burns, 7 p.m.
Irrigon at Nyssa, 7 p.m.
Umatilla at Vale, 7 p.m.
Culver at Heppner, 7 p.m.
Joseph at Echo, 7 p.m.
PREP VOLLEYBALL
Thursday
Weston-McEwen at Heppner, 5 p.m.
Condon/Wheeler at Ione, 5 p.m.
Culver at Stanfield, 5:30 p.m.
Hermiston at Hood River Valley, 6:30 p.m.
Friday
Irrigon at Burns, 1 p.m.
Umatilla at Vale, 1 p.m.
Riverside at Burns, 5 p.m.
Umatilla at Nyssa, 5:30 p.m.
Saturday
Hermiston at Pendleton Tournament, 8 a.m.
Irrigon at Vale, 11 a.m.
Riverside at Nyssa, Noon
Umatilla at Burns, 1 p.m.
Echo at Cove, 2 p.m.
Riverside at Vale, 3 p.m.
Irrigon at Nyssa, 4 p.m.
PREP BOYS SOCCER
Wednesday
Riverside at Mac-Hi, 4:30 p.m.
Thursday
Hermiston at The Dalles, 4:30 p.m.
Saturday
Irrigon at Nyssa, 1 p.m.
Umatilla at Riverside, 1 p.m.
PREP GIRLS SOCCER
Thursday
Mac-Hi at Irrigon, 4:30 p.m.
The Dalles at Hermiston, 7 p.m.
Saturday
Umatilla at Riverside, 1 p.m.
Irrigon at Nyssa, 3 p.m.
PREP CROSS COUNTRY
Thursday
Heppner, Helix, Stanfield, Weston-McE-
wen at Helix Stubblebuster, TBD
Friday
Pendleton, Mac-Hi, Umatilla,
Weston-McEwen at Mac-Hi Gutbuster, TBD
Saturday
Hermiston at George Fox XC Classic, TBD
Prep Standings
Through Oct. 8
PREP FOOTBALL
5A SPECIAL DISTRICT 1
Lg Ovr PS PA Rnk
Mtn. View 4-0 6-0 196 70 1
Bend
4-0 5-1 198 114 10
Hermiston 3-1 4-2 176 117 5
Pendleton 2-2 3-3 186 100 18
Hood River 1-3 2-3 137 125 24
Summit
1-3 2-4 144 172 13
Redmond 1-3 1-5 84 232 22
Ridgeview 0-4 0-6 92 262 29
3A EASTERN OREGON LEAGUE
Lg Ovr PS PA Rnk
Nyssa
2-0 4-0 115 71 6
Umatilla
1-1 4-2 181 163 20
Irrigon
1-1 3-2 112 93 16
Burns
1-1 3-3 186 142 11
Vale
1-1 3-3 178 153 14
Riverside 0-2 2-3 80 153 31
2A COLUMBIA BASIN CONFERENCE
Lg Ovr PS PA Rnk
Stanfield
2-0 2-3 92 134 18
Heppner
1-0 2-3 116 144 7
Culver
0-1 0-6 85 233 22
W-McEwen 0-2 1-4 67 151 23
*Pilot Rock
2-3 108 178 X
1A SPECIAL DISTRICT 1
Lg Ovr PS PA Rnk
Cove
3-0 5-1 294 159 8
Wallowa
3-0 5-1
Crane
3-0 4-1
Echo
2-1 4-2
Adrian
1-1 4-1
Harper Chart. 1-1 2-2
Huntington 1-2 1-2
Powder Va. 1-2 1-4
Prarie City 0-2 0-6
Joseph
0-3 2-4
Pine Eagle 0-3 1-5
364
284
298
222
116
45
96
14
168
162
200
84
224
102
140
174
220
329
224
287
10
3
9
6
23
25
26
35
28
29
PREP VOLLEYBALL
5A COLUMBIA RIVER CONFERENCE
Lg Ovr SW SL Rnk
Pendleton 5-1 10-4 28 13 11
Hood River 5-1 10-7 28 21 16
The Dalles 2-4 6-9 18 28 24
Hermiston 0-6 2-13 11 36 27
3A EASTERN OREGON LEAGUE
Lg Ovr SW SL Rnk
Vale
6-0 18-5 50 21 5
Burns
5-1 13-6 36 16 8
Irrigon
4-2 18-5 49 15 14
Umatilla
2-4 8-11 28 35 33
Nyssa
2-5 6-13 18 44 27
Riverside 0-7 0-18 3 49 39
2A COLUMBIA BASIN CONFERENCE
Lg Ovr SW SL Rnk
Culver
5-1 20-2 53 13 1
Heppner
5-1 15-7 41 24 8
W-McEwen 2-3 14-10 46 35 6
Pilot Rock 2-4 13-8 38 25 14
Stanfield
0-5 2-17 6 47 34
1A BIG SKY LEAGUE
Lg Ovr SW
South Wasco 5-0 19-7 49
Dufur
4-1 9-9 30
Ione
3-2 7-17-1 23
Sherman 3-3 5-3 18
Cond./Wheeler 1-4 5-15 19
Mitch./Spray 0-6 1-11 5
SL Rnk
24 6
30 19
44 40
10 31
42 54
32 59
1A OLD OREGON LEAGUE
Lg Ovr SW SL Rnk
Powder Va. 10-1 19-10 52 31 10
Joseph
9-2 15-8 45 25 12
Helix
7-4 16-7 52 23 25
Echo
6-4 10-7 33 23 26
Wallowa
5-6 6-9 21 30 33
Cove
5-7 9-12 34 37 39
Nixyaawii 1-9 1-9
4 29 56
Pine Eagle 1-11 1-15 5 44 57
PREP BOYS SOCCER
5A COLUMBIA RIVER CONFERENCE
Lg Ovr GS GA Rnk
Hermiston 1-0-1 6-3-1 32
9 14
Hood River 1-0-1 5-2-2 22 11 1
The Dalles 1-1 4-5 23 21 16
Pendleton 0-2 1-7
7 33 28
3A/2A/1A SPECIAL DISTRICT 4
Lg Ovr GS GA Rnk
Riverside 3-0 8-0 53
9 2
Nyssa
2-1 4-4 44 36 24
Umatilla
1-2 1-7-1 9 43 34
Irrigon
0-3 1-7
9 60 40
PREP GIRLS SOCCER
5A COLUMBIA RIVER CONFERENCE
Lg Ovr GS GA Rnk
Hood River 1-0-1 4-2-2 16
6 11
The Dalles 1-0-1 1-6-1 1 32 26
Hermiston 0-0-2 3-5-2 8 19 21
Pendleton 0-2 1-6-1 12 36 32
3A/2A/1A SPECIAL DISTRICT 2
Lg Ovr GS GA Rnk
Riverside 2-0-1 5-1-2 16
2 9
Umatilla 1-0-2 2-4-2 10 22 17
Nyssa
1-1-1 1-4-1 6 17 18
Irrigon
0-3 1-7
8 25 27