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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2018
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Alice Todryk is lone Bulldog to bring home state title
KENT FRASURE/THE OREGONIAN
Hermiston’s Alice Todryk is announced as the winner of the girls 100-pound championship after pinning Grants Pass’ Samantha Dara Saturday at the OSAA State Championships in Portland.
HERMISTON HERALD
G
RESHAM — Of the 43 wrestlers spread
across seven local teams who made the
trip to the OSAA State Championships
that began on Friday, only one made the
trip back with a state title.
Sophomore Alice Todryk was Herm-
iston’s last chance at not leaving Portland
without a championship finish on Saturday, and she
did not disappoint.
In the girls’ 100-pound weight class final on
Saturday, Todryk pinned Grants Pass sophomore
Samantha Dara in 3:48 to claim the championship,
the only individual title of the weekend for the Bull-
dogs. To reach the finals, Todryk also scored a win
by fall against Oregon City’s Emma Baertlein in
3:48.
Stanfield
falls to
Pilot Rock
By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
STAFF WRITER
PENDLETON — Earlier
in the season against Pilot
Rock and its skilled senior
class, Stanfield had fallen
by as many as 29 points and
as few as 22
But on Saturday at the
Pendleton Convention Cen-
ter, the Tigers (12-15 over-
all, 3-5 CBC) stayed with
the Rockets (18-6, 8-0)
until their athleticism and
high level of play was too
much to keep up with, run-
ning to a 56-41 victory in
the Columbia Basin District
Tournament.
The Tigers were the clear
underdog, but managed to
hang with the best in ways
they couldn’t earlier in the
year.
Head coach David Bailey
said the game showed the
team’s growth and maturity.
Pilot Rock maintained
its early lead throughout the
entire game.
The teams combined for
25 turnovers in the first half,
and were only shooting, at
best, 29 percent from the
field.
Helping Stanfield stay in
the game was senior Brody
Woods, who finished with
a team-best 12 points and
a double-double after col-
lecting 12 rebounds. Elias
Esquivel chipped in 10.
It was the last year of the girls tournament being
an exhibition event, as girls wrestling will officially
become an OSAA-sanctioned sport beginning next
school year (Hermiston is moving to the Washing-
ton Interscholastic Activities Association next year,
where girls wrestling is also a sanctioned sport).
Four Hermiston boys wrestlers earned spots on
the podium on Saturday. Joey Gutierrez (195) and
Beau Blake (285) both earned fourth place finishes,
while A.J Tuia (145) finished fifth and Ruben Mad-
rigal (106) came in sixth.
Gutierrez was bounced from title contention in
the semifinals where he was pinned by the even-
tual state champion Avery Jaramillo of Thurston in
3:19. He then scored a win in consolation before a
medical forfeit left him with a fourth place finish.
For Blake, he lost his semifinal match to No. 1 seed
Iosefa Polamalu of Sandy by a close 4-2 decision.
He then scored a win by fall in consolation before
a 3-2 decision defeat left him with fourth place, an
improvement from last year’s fifth place finish at
state.
Tuia lost his semifinal match by a hair, a 3-2
decision, relegating him to consolation. There,
Tuia lost another match by decision before finally
defeating Thurston’s Seth Morales by a 3-1 deci-
sion to claim fifth place.
As a team, Hermiston finished in 12th place with
60.0 points and fell from their place at the end of
the first day of competition Friday, which was 10th
place with 44.0 points.
During the first day, Gutierrez, the No. 2 seed at
195 pounds, picked up a win by forfeit and a win
by fall in just 57 seconds to move on to the semi-
See WRESTLING, A11
Irrigon survives double OT to
become new district champs
Two Bulldogs
finish in top
six at state
By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
STAFF WRITER
GRESHAM — After the
preliminaries of the OSAA
Swimming State Champion-
ships, only two local swim-
mers continued swimming
through the weekend.
The two-day meet, at
the Mt. Hood Commu-
nity College Aquatic Cen-
ter, featured Hermiston and
Pendleton’s best — includ-
ing a combined four relay
teams and eight individual
qualifiers.
Hermiston’s Ryan Bar-
nard and Carson Wrathall
made up its relay teams and
would also try for a spot in
the finals in two individual
events each.
Barnard’s chances at top
finish were kept alive after
narrowly making the cut in
the boys 200-yard individual
medley.
He was the sixth and
U
MATILLA — It takes unrelent-
ing endurance to outlast your
toughest competition, which is
something the Irrigon boys basket-
ball team focuses on every practice.
“It’s 90 percent of what we do,”
junior Keith Flemming said. “We
don’t even touch the basketball
during practice, we run.”
The Knights have outran, out-
played and more often than not dom-
inated their opponents. But when
it came to league play, they were
going to have to give a little more,
especially when it was time to face
Umatilla.
The Vikings and Knights played
twice during the regular season,
and would meet again Friday for
the Eastern Oregon League district
championship.
On the defending champs’ home
court, Irrigon had to use the endur-
ance it has built up all season long
to come away with a 53-48 dou-
ble-overtime victory.
Soon after tipoff in the second
overtime period, the Knights (20-4
overall, 7-3 EOL) found themselves
down after Umatilla just banked one
of its nine 3-pointers.
Junior Uriel Garcia had attempted
a three from the left corner earlier in
the game with no luck, but this time
it put the Vikings (20-6, 8-2) up by a
single point, 48-47.
The back-and-forth lead changes
STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS
See IRRIGON, A11
Umatilla’s Kaden Webb drives between Irrigon’s Leo Carrillo and Daniel Vera in
the Knights’ 53-48 double overtime win against Viking on Friday in Umatilla.
HERMISTON HERALD
See SWIMMING, A11
SCHEDULE
Local slate
PREP BOYS BASKETBALL
Saturday
No. 12 Umatilla at No. 5 Horizon Christian
(3A First Round), 4 p.m.
No. 9 Catlin Gabel at No. 8 Irrigon (3A
First Round), 6 p.m.
No. 16 Stanfield at No. 1 Western Menno-
nite (2A First Round), TBD
PREP GIRLS BASKETBALL
Saturday
No. 9 Central Linn at No. 8 Heppner, 1
p.m.