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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2018 HERMISTONHERALD.COM • B1 Herald Sports Follow sports on Twitter @HHeraldSports GREAT WEATHER, COMPETITION Lady Bulldogs nearly catch Kamiakin at Kiwanis Invite By ERIC SINGER STAFF WRITER H ERMISTON — Mother Nature has not been kind for local track and field athletes this spring. Heavy rain showers wiped out a meet in Pendleton to begin the season, and a mixture of gray clouds, cold temperatures, light rains and high, steady winds have been a constant visi- tor for nearly every meet of the season. However, on Friday afternoon, the weather was finally on the athletes’ side. Blue skies and sunshine covered Hermiston High’s Kennison Field and temperatures sat in the low 70s for Hermiston’s annual Kiwanis Twi- light Invitational, which was a pleasant sight to the athletes competing. “It was a big stress reliever,” Pend- leton’s Edwin Linares said of the weather. “It makes me hope there are going to be more sunny days ahead and less rainy ones. I was getting tired of the rainy season, having to bring sweats every where.” Ten schools — Hermiston, Pend- leton, Kamiakin, Chiawana, Hanford, The Dalles, La Grande, Baker, Moses Lake, Mac-Hi — and hundreds of ath- letes littered the grounds of Kennison Field for the meet, which brought a lot of good competition. It was another strong performance for the Hermiston Bulldogs’ girls team, which battled for first place all day long before settling into second place with 144 points — just 20 points behind first-place Kamiakin. The shining star for the Bulldogs was the rock-solid 4x100-meter relay team of Scout Reagan, Madison Wil- son, MaKaylee Young and Elsa Torres. The foursome finished in first with their best time of the season and finally broke the 50-second threshold with a 49.01. It’s the third time in four meets that those four have finished in first place. See TRACK, B3 Nicholas Breshears, of Hermiston, leads a group of steeplechase runners over the waterjump Friday at the Kiwanis Invitational at Kennison Field. Participants in the third heat of the 110-meter hurdles jump over their first hurdles Friday at the Kiwanis Invitational at Kennison Field. Tyler Rohrman, of Hermiston, leads the final heat of the 110-meter hurdles Friday at the Kiwanis Invitational at Kennison Field. STAFF PHOTOS BY KATHY ANEY Sorey, Currin fare well at Hermiston Intermountain High School Rodeo Association hosted its annual event HERMISTON HERALD HERMISTON — The Inter- mountain High School Rodeo Asso- ciation hosted its annual rodeo at the Farm-City Pro Rodeo arena in Hermiston, beginning Friday and lasting through Sunday afternoon. Among the top of the leaderboard were a few local competitors includ- ing Heppner’s Jacee Currin, who had the busiest and most success- ful weekend as she finished sixth or better in five different events. Cur- rin began the weekend with a sec- ond-place finish Friday in girls cut- ting with 141 points, only three points behind Haines’ Samantha Kerns with 144 points. Currin then finished first in breakaway roping (2.65 seconds), second in goat tying (7.81 seconds), fourth in barrel rac- ing (18.029 seconds), and sixth in pole bending (21.49 seconds). Pendleton’s Trent Sorey had a productive weekend for the Inter- mountain boys. He soared to a win in the tie-down roping with a time of 9.74 seconds — with nearly a two-second cushion on second place. Sorey also finished fourth in team roping as the header with heel- ing teammate Zane Taylor in 11.17 seconds. Both Currin and Sorey were in the top 11 of all-around stand- ings heading into the weekend, with Currin 11th in the girls stand- ings and Sorey sixth in the boys. So both competitors’ performances this weekend will surely give them a boost. Also for Intermountain, Hep- pner’s Jaiden Mahoney finished in second place in barrel racing with a time of 17.886 seconds. Her time was just one-tenth of a second behind Kerns for first place. SCHEDULES Local slate PREP BASEBALL Friday Joseph at Stanfield (DH), 1 p.m. Burns at Riverside (DH), 1 p.m. Nyssa at Umatilla (DH), 1 p.m. Irrigon at Vale (DH), 2 p.m. Hermiston at Pendleton (DH), 3 p.m. PREP SOFTBALL Thursday Umatilla at Weston-McEwen (DH), 3 p.m. Friday Riverside at Irrigon (DH), 1 p.m. Hermiston at Pendleton (DH), 3 p.m. Saturday Tri-Cities Prep (WA) at Echo (DH), 12 p.m. PREP TRACK & FIELD Friday Riverside at Nyssa Invite, 1 p.m. Hermiston at Gresham, 2 p.m. Umatilla at Connell (WA) Invite, 3:30 p.m. Saturday Irrigon, Stanfield, Heppner, Helix, Condon/ Wheeler at Sherman Invite, 11 a.m. PREP GOLF Friday Heppner at Enterprise Invitational, 11 a.m. STAFF PHOTO BY KATHY ANEY Jaiden Mahoney, of Heppner, competes in barrel racing Saturday at the 2018 Intermountain High School Rodeo at the Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center in Hermiston. PREP TENNIS Wednesday Hermiston (girls) vs. Hood River, 4 p.m. Thursday Riverside at Weston-McEwen, 4 p.m. Umatilla at Ione, 4 p.m. Friday Hermiston (boys) at Capital (ID), TBD Saturday Hermiston (boys) at Capital (ID), TBD Weston-McEwen, Mac-Hi, Umatilla, Stanfield, Helix, Ione at Tri-Cities Court Club, TBD PREP LACROSSE Friday Wenatchee at Hermiston, 7 p.m.
