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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
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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.
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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.”
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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
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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.
Catcher
Kiara McCrea, Hillsboro, fr.; Saman-
tha Thompson, Eagle Point, sr.
Infield
Brooklyn Mercier, St. Helens, sr.;
Sydney Nash, Central, so.; Jordan
Dippel, Dallas, sr.; Bailey Sundberg,
Churchill, sr.; Kalan McGlothan,
Pendleton, sr.
Outfield
Mikayla Schweinsberg, Putnam,
sr.; Kassidy Noon, Central, jr.; Katie
Drieling, Marist, jr.
Utility
Olivia Jetgvig, Thurston, so.; Natalie
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baseball and how he was
really good at it and I always
wanted to be as good as him
out there doing it,” Bailee
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Hermiston, so.
THIRD TEAM ALL-STATE
Catcher
Kila Solomon, Pendleton, sr.
Infield
Ally Wessel, Lebanon, sr.; McKenna
Williams, Marist, jr.; Aspen Garton,
Pendelton, jr.; Alexi Brehaut, Pendle-
ton, sr.
Outfield
Corie Dodge, Eagle Point, sr.; Sage
McVay, Ridgeview, fr.
Utility
Faith Vadelund, Putnam, so.; Hailey
Nelson, Summit, sr.
BASEBALL
FIRST TEAM ALL-STATE
Pitcher
Cole Wilkinson, Churchill, sr.; Larson
Kindreich, Crater, sr.; Ben Vavrosky,
Wilsonville, sr.; Colton Meyer, Silver-
ton, sr.; Daniel Naughton, Pendleton,
sr.
Catcher
Ben Leid, Crescent Valley, jr.; Treve
Earhart, Dallas, sr.
First Base
Connor Coerper, Hood River Valley,
sr.
Infield
Trevor Antonson, Wilsonville, jr.;
Briley Knight, Crescent Valley, sr.; Trae
Frodge, Crater, sr.; Nick Bastendorff,
Crater, sr.; Hayden Love, Summit, sr.
Outfield
Nick Bower, Pendleton, sr.; Curran
Mitzel, Hillsboro, sr.; Jacob Dukart,
Sandy, sr.; Preston Fisher, Thurston, sr.
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said, “and I just love the
sport.”
Wyatt added, “I love it
with all my heart and put
everything into it.”
Polamalu, Sandy, sr.
SECOND TEAM
Pitcher
Jaret Stewart, Dallas, sr.; Andrew
Ward, Thurston, sr.; Nolan Turin, Sandy,
sr.; Greyson Losee, Hood River Valley,
so.; Caden Mathisen, Bend, so.
Catcher
Cade Crist, Thurston, so.; Wyatt
Noland, Hermiston, jr.; Colby Bonner,
Sandy, sr.
First Base
Trevor Groves, Churchill, sr.
Infield
JD Pinion, Corvallis, sr.; Chase Elliott,
Thurston, sr.; Adam Stevens, Wilson-
ville, sr.; Tyler King, Sandy, sr.; Reece
Gordon, Bend, jr.; Isaac Beaman, Hood
River Valley, jr.
Outfield
Taylor Holder, Crescent Valley, so.;
Steve Talamantes, Bend, sr.; Noah
Francis, Thurston, sr.; Kyle Lund, Chur-
chill, sr.; Sam Waterman, Summit, sr.
Utility/DH
Marshall Davis, Bend, sr.; Dalles
Seufalemua, The Dalles, so.
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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.
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