WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2018
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Hermiston hosts boys tennis district matches
Three girls will
compete in state
tournament
By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
STAFF WRITER
HERMISTON — The 5A
Special District 1 Boys Ten-
nis Championships wrapped
up Saturday at Armand Lar-
ive Middle School.
Seven teams, including
Hermiston and Pendleton,
competed over Friday and
Saturday at Hermiston High,
Sandstone Middle School
and ALMS. The Bulldogs
had three seeded entries:
No. 8 Hayden Cissna in sin-
gles, and doubles pairs No.
4 Patrick Wicks and Thomas
McCullough and No. 7 Matt
Eckhardt and Trent Pitney.
Cissna made it the far-
thest out of any local player
and was Hermiston’s only
placer. He finished sixth
after a tough match against
Summit on the final day of
competition.
“It’s been such an accom-
plishment just getting to
sixth (place) and being able
to play someone like that in
the last round, it really made
me emotional,” Cissna said.
“But once I started focus-
ing in, it really brought my
game together and the pres-
sure just added to me doing
STAFF PHOTOS BY KATHY ANEY
Hermiston’s Patrick Wicks makes a forehand shot Saturday at the district championships in
Hermiston.
my best.”
Cissna’s Day 2 started
early with a 9 a.m. match
against TJ Fourneir of
Mountain View where he
took an 8-6 victory. The win
pitted him against Summit’s
Cade Doan in the fifth-sixth
place match. Doan topped
Cissna, 6-1, 6-4, but the
Bulldog’s efforts didn’t go
unnoticed.
The long rallies and grit
in the second set impressed
Hermiston head coach
Shann West.
“I thought Hayden played
the best tennis I’ve seen him
play,” West said. “It’s always
nice to see people rise to the
occasion for events like this
and the kid he was playing
has obviously played a lot
more tennis, but he (Cissna)
had his mindset right.
“He was determined to
get that win so that was awe-
some to see him show some
excitement and some emo-
tion when he was playing
and do something special
and place for us.”
Before Cissna wrapped
up the day for Hermiston,
Wicks and McCullough had
a match of their own to play.
The duo fell into the conso-
lation bracket after Day 1,
and handily defeated their
competition to face Bend’s
Magnus L’Argent and Kyle
Taylor in the consolation
finals.
“They got stuck in the
tough bracket,” West said
of the duo’s first day. “The
atmosphere of that was
championship style match
play, unfortunately we came
up a little short but glad they
were able to go out of the
winners bracket playing the
best tennis.”
The senior pair only gave
up two games en route to
the finals and then defeated
Bend, 6-3, 6-2, for their last
match as Bulldogs.
“It felt really good,”
Wicks said. “The four years
being together, it was a
really good time.”
Hermiston’s
Eckhardt
and Pitney made it through
the first round of play after
winning the tiebreaker,
Hermiston’s Hayden Cissna makes a forehand shot Saturday
at the district championships in Hermiston.
7-5, 4-6, 14-12, but were
knocked out in Round 2 by a
tough Hood River duo.
No other Bulldog made
it past the first round and
neither did any Pendleton
Buckaroos.
Summit swept the dou-
bles competition with four
pairs advancing to state, and
in singles play Hood River
Valley took the top two
spots followed by Bend and
Summit.
With the boys hosting
the district champions in
town, the girls team trav-
eled to Bend to play some
tough competition in hopes
of making it to state.
Senior Mackenzie Hill
will be pitted against Chur-
chill sophomore Youha
Tanaka in Round 1 of state.
Hill advanced to the state
tournament after earning
the fourth and final quali-
fying spot. Doubles pair of
Reed Middleton and Breena
Wadekamper will be fac-
ing a tough draw in No. 2
seeded duo from Corvallis,
Olivia McGough and Sarah
Forester.
The state tournament will
begin Thursday.
SOFTBALL
Locals earn state berths
at district track meets
right back in the fifth when
Kirah McGlothan scored
following a groundout to
shortstop from Alexi Bre-
haut for a 4-3 lead.
But for the most part,
the bats were stymied
by Hermiston pitching.
Noland picked up the win
in the circle as she threw
three innings of shutout
relief with only one hit
allowed. She gave up a
one-out double in the sev-
enth to Kirah McGlothan,
but stranded her with a
strikeout and a groundout
to end the inning.
Noland relieved senior
Julissa Almaguer, who
returned Friday after miss-
ing most of the season with
a knee injury and tossed
four innings with three
strikeouts and allowed
four runs. Greenough was
thrilled to see Almaguer
back in the circle, on senior
day no less.
“This team trusts her so
much and it’s nice to see
them relax when she can
play for them,” Greenough
said. “Just having her back
whether she’s full-go,
whether she’s a little here
and there, she’s just so
valuable to this program.”
The loss for Pendleton
also snaps its 22-game win
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STAFF PHOTO BY KATHY ANEY
Pendleton third baseman Kalan McGlothan looks in disbelief at the umpire who signals that
Hermiston’s Kylie Green is safe during Friday’s league finale.
streak this season, though
coach Tim Cary did not
appear to be too upset with
the defeat.
“It might be the best
thing for us,” Cary said.
“I think that our focus in
practice has been kind of
ho-hum; I think things have
been relatively easy for us
for quite some time and
sometimes when you win,
win, win you forget you
have to work hard for it.
“This might be good to
get us refocused, get back
to hard work and under-
stand that anybody can beat
any team on any given day,
and Hermiston proved that
today.”
It’s a momentous win
for the Bulldogs, who will
hit the road next week for
a road play-in game, the
kind of win that can lift a
team to do some special
things in the postseason.
But until then, the Bull-
dogs are going to enjoy the
long-awaited victory over
Pendleton.
“We beat the No. 1
team,” Noland said in dis-
belief. “We finally did it.”
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R H E
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HHS
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2 — 5 7 1
(P) L. Richards and K. Solomon. (H) Ju.
Almaguer and B. Noland, B. Noland (5)
and H. Pennington. W — Noland, L —
Richards.
2B — Ki. McGlothan (PHS); S. Atilano,
Ja. Almaguer (HHS). HR — Ka. McGlo-
than (PHS).
Local slate
PREP BASEBALL
Friday
Stanfield vs. TBD (district final at Stanfield),
3:30 p.m.
PREP SOFTBALL
Friday
Hermiston at St. Helens (5A play-in), 5 p.m.
Saturday
Riverside vs. Irrigon (district semifinal at
Echo), 1 p.m.
Echo vs. Riverside/Irrigon winner (district
final), 3:30 p.m.
PREP TRACK & FIELD
Thursday
Umatilla, Riverside, Irrigon, Weston-McE-
wen, Heppner, Stanfield, Helix, Ione, Echo
at OSAA State Championships (Eugene),
All day
Friday
Hermiston, Pendleton, Umatilla, Riverside,
Irrigon, Weston-McEwen, Heppner,
Stanfield, Helix, Ione, Echo at OSAA State
Championships (Eugene), all day
Saturday
Hermiston, Pendleton at OSAA State
Championships (Eugene), all day
PREP TENNIS
Thursday
Hermiston girls at OSAA 5A State Champi-
onships (at Portland Tennis Center)
UMATILLA — Over
the weekend, Umatilla
hosted the Eastern Oregon
League district champion-
ships where a number of
Vikings, and other local ath-
letes, qualified for state.
On the girls team, Patty
Burres swept the sprints,
winning the district title in
the 100-, 200- and 400-meter
dash. Burres ran a new sea-
son best in the 100 (13.03)
and edged out Irrigon’s Ana
Zacarias for first place in the
200 (27.09). The two run-
ners also placed first and
second in the 400. Burres
ran sub-60 seconds for a
new season best (59.49) and
Zacarias followed closely,
finishing in 1:01.14.
Nancy Ortiz won the 100-
meter hurdles with a per-
sonal record (PR) of 16.35,
and Riverside’s Faith Rosen
also qualified for state after
placing second in the same
event (16.40). Ortiz com-
pleted the sweep of the hur-
dle events after winning the
300-meter race in 48.71.
Riverside and Umatilla’s
4x100-meter relay teams
finished in first and second,
respectively. The Pirates
clocked 52.24 and the
Vikings finished in 52.61.
Umatilla came back to win
the 4x400-meter relay in
4:18.42.
In the field, Umatilla’s
Maria Moreno-Mendez fin-
ished second in discus (96-
08.75), Irrigon’s Brianna
Rice threw a new PR in jav-
elin (124-03.50) for a dis-
trict title and Viking fresh-
man Chantal Lemus made
it to state in the triple jump
after finishing second with a
new PR (32-03.00).
Umatilla’s Trent Durfey
won the only district title
in the 110-meter hurdles
(16.40) while another Viking
runner also made it to state.
Zayne Troeger placed sec-
ond in the 800 meters
(2:05.67) and 3,000 meters
(9:45.17). Umatilla’s 4x100-
and 4x400-meter relay teams
will also be making the trip
to state after qualifying with
second place finishes.
The Vikings continued
their success on the field.
Julian Gutierrez won the
district title in the high jump
(6-02.00) and then placed
second in the long jump
(19-07.00). Joel Escamilla
finished second in shot put
after throwing a new PR of
42-10.50 and Anthony Ibarra
placed first in pole vault (12-
00.00), a new PR, and sec-
ond in javelin (148-02).
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