WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 2018
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Bulldogs end one era only to start another
Hermiston athletics wrapped up its final year as
a member of the OSAA with state titles, league
championships and other memorable moments
By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
STAFF WRITER
H
ERMISTON — It’s some-
thing most athletic pro-
grams build its success
on: the rise, or fall, of its football
program.
For the Hermiston Bulldogs, the
2017 football season marked more
than the start of the athletic year
that would end in heartbreaking
fashion nearly nine months later
with a loss in the softball quarter-
finals. It also marked what would
be the final year as a member of
the OSAA. The storyline was fol-
lowed in almost every sport, and
the self-titled “Farewell Tour” had
an impressive first stop.
The most memorable per-
formance of the year goes to
the football team after the Bull-
dogs defeated Churchill 38-35 on
November 25 for the school’s first
Class 5A state football title since
hoisting the trophy in 2014, and for
the first time ever the state champi-
ons won’t be defending their title
come next season. Instead, Herm-
iston will move into a league with
WIAA’s Class 4A football champi-
ons, Richland, and 3A playoff con-
tenders, Kamiakin.
Behind First-Team All-State
quarterback Andrew James and
Coach of the Year, David Faae-
teete, the Hermiston football team
leads the top moments within
Hermiston athletics for the 2017-
18 season.
“We did have a good year,”
Hermiston athletic director Larry
Usher said. “I know there are some
other programs that probably had
some higher expectations and
would have liked to have done a
lot better but overall, it was a good
year and you say it was a good year
mainly because you won a state
championship in football which is
kind of the crown jewel.
“To go out winning a state foot-
ball championship was really really
nice, and of course winning another
conference championship in boys
basketball to get that back on track
was really nice as well,” he added.
The Columbia River Confer-
ence title, the last of its kind with
the reclassification happening
across all classes in the OSAA,
was the next stop on the Farewell
Tour.
The boys basketball team has
had one true opponent in the CRC,
and it was their cross-county rivals,
the Pendleton Buckaroos. For the
past couple of years, it was Pendle-
ton dominating the Bulldogs, win-
ning four consecutive league titles.
But Hermiston finally dethroned
the Bucks on its way out.
A 50-46 win over Pendle-
ton on February 20 at the Dawg
House gave Hermiston the league
championship, which was the first
under head coach Casey Arstein.
The Bulldogs will return nearly
their entire roster after losing
only three seniors to graduation,
and the experience will be nec-
essary as the team will prepare to
face tough opponents in the WIAA
Class 4A/3A hybrid Mid-Colum-
bia Conference.
Things aren’t only looking up
for boys basketball: The wres-
tling program will feature reign-
ing 100-pound champion Alice
Todryk, who will now be compet-
ing in WIAA-sanctioned events —
something the OSAA will start for
the first time next year.
Also seeing improvements this
year was the softball program,
which went from a 10-17 season
with seven freshman on the roster
to a 17-10 year and a quarterfinal
appearance.
The Bulldogs battled in the
postseason after finishing league
play 6-6 behind first place Pend-
leton, and won their play-in game
10-5 and then made it through the
first round of the playoffs with a
4-3 win. The 11-8 loss in the sec-
ond round was devastating, but it
also showed what a year can do for
the Bulldogs, who like the baseball
program will face tough competi-
tion in Richland and Kamiakin.
The athletic year wrapped up
with Hermiston’s final trip to the
historic Hayward Field for the
state track and field champion-
STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS
Hermiston’s Jordan Ramirez (33) and Cody Thacker (45) celebrate as time runs out on the clock in the Bulldogs’
38-35 win against Churchill in the 5A state championship game on November 25 in Hillsboro.
STAFF PHOTO BY KATHY ANEY
Hermiston’s Stephanie Miears prepares to release the discus during the
OSAA State Track and Field Championships on May 18-19 at Hayward
Field in Eugene. In Class 5A, Miears finishes fourth with a personal best of
124 feet, 1 inch.
ships, where the girls team earned
a third place finish after recording
50 points and senior Tyler Rohr-
man won the 5A 110-meter hurdle
state championship with a personal
best of 14.09.
“Of course to finish off the year
with our girl’s track program doing
as well as they did and even some
of our boys that did fantastic and
kind of exceeded expectations, it
was a good, fun way to finish off
the year,” Usher said.
“Overall, I thought it was a
great year for our athletic pro-
gram,” he added.
The excitement and momen-
tum will be needed when Herm-
iston enters the very tough MCC
next year.
Teams like Richland, a Class 4A
school that brought home a foot-
ball and baseball state champion-
ship; and Southridge, which won
the Class 3A baseball state title,
will be just a couple of the schools
Hermiston will face in the now
nine-team league.
“The competition level, it just
got really, really stiff,” Usher said.
“We didn’t just join a better league,
we joined, arguably — and I think
anybody in the WIAA would argue
from top to bottom overall when
you look at all sports — the most
competitive league in the state
of Washington. There’s no ques-
tion. They bring out so many state
champions, it is unbelievable what
the Mid-Columbia Conference
does.”
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