WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2018
Dawgs defeat Eagles
Hermiston is now
2-0 in league after
Friday night win
ROUNDUP
Stanfield falls to
Heppner 33-55
in sixth and the Irrigon
Knights (96) were seventh.
For Hermiston, Ruben
Madrigal was the first
winner of the day at 113
pounds, where he defeated
Baker’s Johnny Niehaus
by a 19-15 decision. Then,
Adrian Tuia won at 145
pounds with a 14-5 major
decision over Eagle’s (ID)
Luke Chapman, Joey Guti-
errez won at 195 pounds
with a pin in 44 seconds
over Irrigon’s Brady Har-
rington, and Beau Blake
won a 3-2 decision at
285 pounds over Dallas’
Ashten Brecht.
The remaining Bull-
dogs to reach the medal
stand were Adrian Del-
gado (2nd, 106 pounds),
Isaac Lambert (4th, 113),
Gage Shipley (5th, 120),
Sam Marsengill (6th,
120), Shawn Pourier (6th,
126), Daymian Rivera
(4th, 145), Daniel Faae-
teete (4th, 160), Zach Kirk-
patrick (2nd, 170), Jake
Palmer (2nd, 182), Moi-
ses Avila (5th, 182), Sean
Stewart (3rd, 220), and
Garrett Hills (4th, 285).
Riverside finished the
day with eight of its 11
wrestlers earning spots on
the podium. The best fin-
ishes for the Pirates came
with Fernando Ortega (106
pounds), Abraham Silva
(113) and Christian Reyes
(132) all earning third
place in their weight class.
The rest of the Pirate
placers were Andrew
Barker (4th, 120 pounds),
Ethan Snyder (5th, 138),
Jose Puerta (5th, 145),
Allan Gutierrez (5th, 220),
and Michael Carroll (6th,
285).
Irrigon finished the day
with seven of its nine wres-
tlers on the podium, with
Harrington’s runner-up at
195 leading the way. The
remaining placers were
Roberto Ayala (4th, 152),
Josue Aguilera (5th, 160),
Alex Walls (3rd, 170),
Christian Michaels (5th,
170), Kevin Ortega (5th,
195), and Kaleb Kendrick
(3rd, 285).
HERMISTON HERALD
Girls Basketball
HEPPNER 55, STAN-
FIELD 33 — At Stanfield,
the Heppner Mustangs
picked up their 12th win of
the season after thumping
the Stanfield Tigers on Sat-
urday night.
Freshman Sydney Wil-
son led the Mustangs (12-4
overall, 4-1 CBC) with 15
points and five rebounds
on an efficient 7 for 12
shooting, and Jacee Currin
added 14 points. For the
Tigers, Kendra Hart had a
game-high 25 points.
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By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
STAFF WRITER
HERMISTON — It
had been a while since the
Hermiston girls basket-
ball team was riding a win
streak. The Bulldogs hadn’t
put up three or more consec-
utive wins since February of
2017, but after back-to-back
wins against La Grande and
a league opening win in
The Dalles, Hermiston was
beginning to shake its pre-
season woes.
Now, the wins are begin-
ning to pile up as the Bull-
dogs take their fourth
straight victory with a 56-34
win over Hood River Val-
ley in the Dawg House.
Despite the cleanup Herm-
iston has to do in order to
vie for the top spot in the
league, the Bulldogs (6-11
overall, 2-0 Columbia River
Conference) remain unde-
feated in conference play
and for the first time have
some momentum as they get
into the brunt of their league
schedule.
“It’s a confidence booster
and we were able to win a
game where we didn’t nec-
essarily play well,” head
coach Juan Rodriguez said.
“We did what we needed
to and those are the types
games we’re going to have.
I just told the girls that it
being our last year in this
league, every team is going
to give us their best shot
because they want to beat us
and not many teams have.”
It was Hermiston’s first
league game at home, but
despite the advantage it took
a while for the Bulldogs to
get settled.
The Eagles (8-8, 0-2)
knocked down three of the
last four made baskets in the
first quarter to build a 15-12
lead over the Bulldogs.
Hermiston’s good defen-
sive pressure at the start of
the half forced six Hood
River turnovers, but the
Eagles were able to hold on
to the ball in the final three
minutes to have one of its
only leads of the night.
Senior Maddy Juul —
who played her first game
since the start of the season,
and finished the game with
five points — sank some free
throws to put the Bulldogs
within striking distance.
For a team that has strug-
gled from the charity stripe,
Hermiston was able to make
six of its nine free throws
late in the second quarter to
enter the break up 24-23.
Having Juul back in the
rotation and coming of the
HERMISTONHERALD.COM • A13
SPORTS
HHS
9 16 15 15 — 55d
SHS
10 8 11
4 — 33
HEPPNER — S. Wilson 15, J. Currin 14,
M. Combe 7, M. Nichols 5, M. Correa 4,
S. Grant 2, M. Ashbeck 2, J. Mahoney 2,
J. McCullough 2, K. Gray 2, M. Mitchell,
M. Silvia.
STANFIELD — K. Hart 25, K. McClure
4, S. Sharp 2, A. Carillo 2, C. Blanken-
ship, J. Wallace, C. McCann, L. Keltz, A.
Griffin, K. Soto.
Boys Basketball
STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS
Hermiston’s Jayden Ray shoots the ball in front of Hood River’s Ashlynn Dawson in the
Bulldogs’ 56-34 win against the Eagles on Friday in Hermiston.
bench is a different role for
the CRC’s reigning Player
of the Year.
“For me, having her
come off the bench as a sixth
player, that doesn’t happen
very often,” Rodriguez said.
“Obviously we’d like her
to play a lot more, but with
her knee we just want to
have her play for the rest of
the season. ... Being able to
bring her in to back up Jor-
dan (Thomas) is a little bit of
a luxury, even though she is
a little bit hobbled.”
With Juul able to rest and
Thomas, the 6-foot-3 junior
whose presence inside has
been a big reason for Herm-
iston’s success, Rodriguez is
now able to dig even deeper
into his bench to help stall
an athletic team like Hood
River.
“They’re an athletic
team, surprisingly athletic,
and they do a lot of things
well but they use their ath-
leticism and to get to the
basket,” Rodriguez said.
When the teams returned
to the floor there was no
stopping the Bulldogs, who
had given up nine points
to Hood River’s biggest
threat, senior Lauren Orr.
They held Hood River to
only three points in the third
quarter, while scoring 18
themselves.
“The biggest adjust-
ment was to just keep them
in front and forcing them to
pass, which is where they
struggled a little bit,” Rodri-
guez added. “When we were
able to do that, then they
started turning the ball over,
they couldn’t score as well
and that’s where we had the
advantage.”
Junior Maddie Wilson
was the most effective in the
third, scoring half of her 10
points to boost Hermiston’s
lead to 42-26.
Much like free throws,
earlier in the season Herm-
iston struggled with confi-
dence and putting together
a full four quarters of play.
With the four consecutive
wins, the Bulldogs’ confi-
dence is up and as of late,
they have been aggressive
until the final buzzer.
Hermiston
again
increased its lead with the
aid of Wilson. The Bulldogs
held the Eagles scoreless
with 5:20 left on the clock,
and had their bench come in
to play the final two minutes
of the game.
Sophomore
Jazlyn
Romero, as well as the
other starters, got a round
of applause as they took the
bench. Romero led the team
with a game-high 15 points.
Thomas pitched in 10 points
along with Wilson.
For Hood River, Orr fin-
ished with a team-best of 10
points, while the rest of the
Eagles were held to single
digits.
———
HRV
15 8
3
8 — 34
HHS
13 11 18 14 — 56
HOOD RIVER VALLEY — L. Orr 10, H.
McNerney 7, B. Frazier 6, H. Baker 4, G.
Meyers 4, B. Ihde 3.
HERMISTON — J. Romero 15, M. Wilson
10, J. Thomas 10, H. Thompson 8, M. Juul
5, J. Ray 2, S. Stefani 2, P. Palzinski 2, R.
Meyers 2.
3-pointers — HRV 2, HHS 2. Free throws
— HRV 4-9, HHS 12-22. Fouls — HRV 19,
HHS 12.
HEPPNER 48, STAN-
FIELD 43 — At Stan-
field, the Heppner Mus-
tangs grabbed 20 offensive
rebounds to help their big
second half surge to steal a
victory from the Stanfield
Tigers on Saturday night.
The Tigers (8-13 over-
all, 1-4 CBC) led 23-15
at halftime and 41-33
after three quarters, but
the Mustangs’ work on
the offensive glass led to
a 15-2 advantage in the
fourth quarter to earn the
win. Trent Smith led the
Mustangs (9-7, 4-1) with
17 points and Kevin Smith
added 11.
Eduardo Nunez led the
Tigers with 13 points and
Brody Woods added 11.
————
HHS
SHS
9
18
15 — 48
10 13
6
18
2 — 43
JOSEPH 56, ECHO 39
— At Echo, the Cougars
fell back to .500 in Old
Oregon League play with a
loss at home to Joseph on
Saturday.
Echo (8-13 overall, 5-5
OOL) next plays at Nixy-
aawii on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
PINE EAGLE INVITA-
TIONAL — At Halfway,
the Heppner Mustangs put
together a seventh place
finish with 52 points at the
Pine Eagle Invitational on
Saturday.
Leo Waite had the best
performance of the group
as he pinned Grant Union’s
Braden Spencer at 5:47
to win first place at 126
pounds. Trevor Antonucci
came close to the title at
120 pounds, but dropped
a 3-0 decision to Joseph’s
Zeb Ramsden and settled
for second place.
Wrestling
FARM-CITY TOUR-
NAMENT — At Herm-
iston, the host Hermiston
Bulldogs had four individ-
ual champions and 16 plac-
ers as they captured the
team title of the Farm-City
tournament on Saturday at
the Dawg House.
The Bulldogs finished
in first place with 269
points, holding off the
Dallas Dragons who fin-
ished in second place with
266 points. The River-
side Pirates (100) finished
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