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A10 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM Five locals suited up one last time at Les Schwab Bowl Three Dawgs, two Bucks take part in annual Les Schwab Tires Bowl By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ STAFF WRITER HILLSBORO — For Hermiston senior Joey Gutierrez, Saturday’s Les Schwab Tires Bowl had some glaring similarities to the 2017 football season. He stepped back onto the field at Hillsboro Sta- dium, the very same field where just six months ago he helped his Bulldogs to a OSAA Class 5A state cham- pionship. He was joined by some fellow Bulldogs as Hermiston’s Jonathan Hin- kle and Beau Blake also made the trip. Most impor- tantly, his family was there, yet again. It was something Gutierrez had trouble put- ting into words, but after a grueling four-sport season was thankful for. “It was exciting,” he said of being one of the many seniors to be selected to compete one last time. “It gave me the chance to play one more high school game even after winning the state championship.” The Les Schwab Bowl, in its 71st year, pits the North against the South as each team is filled with the top graduating seniors from Oregon 6A and 5A high schools. Joining the three players from Hermiston was Pendle- ton’s Nick Bower and Shaw Jerome. Both players were standouts for the Buckaroos last fall and Jerome said it was a thrill to be a part of the game. “Playing with the best in Oregon was one experience WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 2018 SPORTS BEN LUDEMAN/THE OREGONIAN Hermiston’s Jonathan Hinkle prepares to take the field for the annual Les Schwab Tires Bowl on Saturday in Hillsboro. I will never forget,” Jerome said, “and I met a lot of life- long friends and even future teammates attending (West- ern Oregon University). It was also a cool feeling knowing you are one of the best and getting recognized in rural Eastern Oregon!” The teams had a week’s worth of practices at Pacific University’s campus in For- est Grove, and Gutierrez admits that the start of the week wasn’t pretty. “It felt weird the first cou- ple days of practice, we were all a little out of shape,” he said, “but by the end of the week, I was home.” Not only did Gutierrez feel at home on the football field, but he was returning to the very field Hermiston won its first state title since 2014 and the first under head coach David Faaeteete, who also served as the assistant coach in Saturday’s game. “We had some down time before the game and it defi- nitely set in that we’re back at the same field and it was nice taking it and reliving those moments,” Gutierrez said. “But no matter the score, no matter how much time is left on the clock, you have to live for the moment,” he added. In the North versus South matchup, the North broke a three-year losing streak with a 24-7 victory. The five locals that com- peted all fared well on the South team. Hinkle finished with the third most rush- ing yards — second best on the South’s team — with 43 yards on 10 carries. He caught two short passes good for four yards, and Jerome went long for a 34 yard reception. Gutierrez notched five tackles and 0.5 tackles for a loss. But this time around, it was less about the numbers and more about the memo- ries shared with teammates, and for some the new bonds formed on the gridiron. “Going into it I didn’t really know anybody, I only knew the guys that came with me,” Gutierrez said, “but coming out of it I made brothers for life.” For most of the locals, their sports careers aren’t coming to an end just yet. Gutierrez and Hinkle will continue playing football at Eastern Oregon University next year while Jerome will be attending Western Ore- gon University to play foot- ball and Bower to Pacific University to play football and baseball. HUNT Continued from Page A9 see more useful hunting unit maps in the regulation handbooks. “If you don’t grow up in it, you don’t know where such-and-such falls are,” he said. “If you don’t know the area like the back of our hand, you’re basically shooting in the dark.” Buckley said he takes the regulations seriously and strives to understand and follow them so he is on the right side of the law. Larry Moody of Pend- leton said he has had to call ODFW for clarifica- tion on regulations. He, too, suggested better maps. Moody, like Buckley, said the description of boundar- ies are hard to understand when you plan your hunt. Simplifying the regula- tions is complicated, Myatt said, and “a pretty heavy lift for us. And the prob- lem wasn’t created over- night. It was many decades in the making.” The team split work into three phases. The first was to focus on making the handbook more read- er-friendly, from improv- ing the organization to get- ting rid of redundancies. “If there was some- thing really important, we felt like we needed to say it over and over again in there,” he said. That’s going away, along with the heavy use of legalese. Some regu- lations used the language of the state laws. In this year’s handbook, Myatt said the team collected everything related to youth hunting and collected them in a two-page section. The team also added more maps and tables to present information. “I feel like we got about 70 percent of the way there,” he said. “We have a lot more planned for the coming year.” The second phase is happening now — review- ing the general hunt- ing regs, weapon restric- tions and youth programs. The team came up with 32 proposals, and Myatt last week in Baker City briefed the state Fish and Wildlife Commission about those. Some of the major change are: • Standardize the min- imum draw weight for bows at 40 pounds for all big game mammals. • Eliminate the prohi- bition against decoys with moving parts when big game hunting • Simplify requirements for legal muzzleload- ers and make it clear sab- ots or saboted bullets are unlawful. Two other propos- als would require legis- lative approval. The first would limit leftover tag purchases to people who previously applied for a tag but did not draw. This would allow more peo- ple an opportunity to hunt each year. The second would streamline limits on non-resident tags, capping those at 5 percent of all deer, elk, pronghorn, and bear controlled hunt tags. The team reworded sev- eral regulations, includ- ing prohibiting rifle hunt- ing without a valid deer or elk tag during certain peri- ods and the proof of sex requirements. The team also culled regulations it deemed unnecessary or redundant. For a full list of the pro- posals, visit https://bit. ly/2spD7KJ. Myatt explained drop- ping the draw weight of a bow to 40 pounds from 50 would put Oregon in line with other states and remove a barrier to youth and smaller hunt- ers. Besides, he said, the technology for archery equipment has advanced to where a 40-pound bow today delivers the same effect a 50-pound bow did years ago. Delyria said he wants the state to allow mechani- cal broadheads for archery hunting, which deploy their blades in flight. He said there is plenty of evi- dence to show they make for faster kills. Mechanical broad- heads have drawn the most public comment, Myatt said, and the commis- sion received a briefing on them. But they are not on the recommended list of changes for now. Myatt said there is no good evi- dence to show mechani- cal broadheads are more effective than traditional broadheads, particularly on larger game such as elk. For now, he said, Oregon remains one of two states in the lower 48 that pro- hibits them. The last of the three phases, Myatt said, “is where we dig into the hunts themselves.” That means they will consider- ing scheduling, size and shape. Wyatt said the goal of simplifying and updating the regs is to entice more people to hunt in Oregon. The project does not touch on the cost of hunting, which was the top compli- ant from Delyria, Buckley and Moody. The commission con- siders the final proposals when it meets Sept. 14 in Bandon. (Except for leg- islative concepts, which would go before state law- makers in the 2019 legis- lative session.) Myatt said hunters and the rest of the public can come to testify or send comments to odfw. commission@state.or.us. Oregon State Police Sgt. Tim Brown over- sees fish and game troop- ers based in Pendleton. He said the revisions might not make the handbook any shorter, but likely eas- ier to read. He was prag- matic about what it means on his end and for hunters. “I don’t have an opinion one way or the other,” he said. “If it’s a rule, we’re going to enforce it.” ALL-STARS Continued from Page A9 said. “I’m with Jordan (Ramirez) mostly every day and we compete against each other and try to make each other better. A lot to do with it was coach (John) Christy, I could really do any of it without him, he taught me a lot. I just want to thank him for that.” That competitive drive and help from the coach- ing staff helped Wyatt to his best season in purple and white. Wyatt led the team with .447 average, on base percentage of .488 and slug- ging percentage of .645. He tied for team-best 14 RBIs with Ramirez and had the second-most runs (14), one behind Ramirez with a team-high 39 runs scored. This summer, the two will be able to hone in their skills before preparing to face even tougher competi- tion in the WIAA. But for the brother-sister duo it’s simply about enjoying the game they love, that they grew up on. “I really started doing it because my dad always SOFTBALL ALL-STATE FIRST TEAM Pitcher Lauren Richards, Pendleton, sr.; Ariel Carlson, Marist, jr.; Payton Goodrich, Hillsboro, sr.; Maddie Mayer, Putnam, sr.; Kayelynn Simmons, Dallas, jr.; Han- nah McNerney, Hood River Valley, sr. Catcher Abby Doerr, Marist, so.; Lauren Wal- lace, Dallas, sr.; Zoe Munn, HRV, sr. Infield Taylor Dow, St. Helens, jr.; McKenzie Staub, Hillsboro; Abby Siroshton, Marist, sr.; Gillian Willis, Eagle Point, sr.; Sydney Stefani, Hermiston, jr. Outfield Hannah Sisul, La Salle Prep, sr.; Emma Classen, Dallas, jr.; Savana Decker, Thurston, so.; Haylee Baker, HRV, jr. Utility Maggie Roth, Silverton, sr.; Lauren Decker, HRV, jr.; Miyah Smith, Eagle Point, sr. SECOND TEAM ALL-STATE Pitcher Riley Shopp, Eagle Point, so.; Allicite Frost, Ridgeview, so. 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Utility/DH Marshall Davis, Bend, sr.; Dalles Seufalemua, The Dalles, so. HONORABLE MENTION Pitcher Ethan Krup, Crescent Valley, jr. Catcher C Cole Frey, Bend, sr. First Base Logan Peterson, Summit, sr. Infield Cameron Losey, Hillsboro, sr.; Caden Leiblien, Hood River Valley, jr.; Joe Rea, St. Helens, so. Outfield Evan Hockett, Ridgeview, jr.; JJ Mears, Hood River Valley, sr. Utility/DH revor Duran, Thurston, sr.; Gage Mills, Crescent Valley, jr. PUBLISH DATE: June 27th, 2018 in the EO, HH, WCC & BME. DEADLINE: June 20th, 2018 Jeanne Jewett 541-564-4531 Audra Workman 541-564-4538 jjewett@hermistonherald.com aworkman@eastoregonian.com Kimberly Macias 541-278-2683 Angela Treadwell 541-966-0827 kmacias@eastoregonian.com atreadwell@eastoregonian.com
