SPORTS/NEWS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2019
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Hermiston’s Romero, Palzinski
pick up wins at Strandberg
By ANNIE FOWLER
STAFF WRITER
the 200 with a PR of 22.98
seconds, while Freddy Men-
doza was sixth in the 800 in
a time of 2:03.71, and Seth
Buck cleared a personal best
12 feet for sixth in the pole
vault.
Central Valley won the
boys team title with 90.5
points. Hermiston was 16th
with 12 points.
Hermiston had a pair of
winners on Saturday at the
Strandberg Invitational at
Central Valley High School
in Spokane.
Jazlyn Romero won the
javelin with a toss of 129
feet, 11 inches, while soph-
omore Paige Palzinski won
HERMISTON AT KAMIAKIN
the shot put with a mark of
Hermiston’s
Jazlyn
37-8¾.
Palzinski also was sev- Romero unleashed a per-
enth in the discus (106-10), sonal best throw of 146
while Sheridan Deike was feet, 1 inch Thursday to
third in the jave-
win the javelin event
lin (96-5), and Bai-
in a Mid-Columbia
ley Young added a
Conference meet at
fi fth-place fi nish in
Kamiakin.
the shot put (33-9).
Romero’s
mark
On the track,
is the fourth best
McKaylee Young
in the state this
fi nished
second
spring, regardless of
Romero
in the 100 meters
classifi cation.
in a personal best
Paige
Palzinski
time of 12.60 seconds. She placed fi rst in the shot put
also was seventh in the long with a mark of 36-7 3/4.
jump with a leap of 15-9½.
Bailey Young followed at
Jayden Ray added an second, throwing a personal
eighth-place fi nish in the best 34-11 3/4.
400 (1:03.40), while the
In the 100-meter dash,
4x100 relay team of Abi- MaKaylee Young fi nished
gail Sharon, Young, Kam- second at 12.80. Amanda
ryn Aldred and Ray fi nished Nygard fi nished third in
sixth in a time of 53.77.
the 800-meter at 2:32.86.
The Hermiston girls were In the 1600-meter, Sydney
seventh in the team stand- Sanchez placed fi fth with
ings with 49 points. Central her personal best time of
Valley won the team title 5:44.18, and Shelia Solrio
with 115.
set a season record with her
For the boys, the 4x100 6:00.47, eighth-place fi nish.
relay team of Benjamin
Jayden Ray placed third
Wicks, Thomas Reagan, with a PR in the 300-meter
Donovan Wilson and Gar- hurdles, fi nishing at 50.63.
rett Walchli placed sixth
Hermiston’s Broc Rem-
with a time of 45.34.
mer placed third in the
Walchli also was sixth in men’s high jump event
(5-8), then went on to set a
personal record in the long
jump, soaring 19-7 3/4.
Remmer wasn’t the only
Bulldog to have a record
day. In the 1,600, Hermis-
ton occupied the sixth, sev-
enth, eighth, and ninth spots
in the top 10, with each ath-
lete setting a new personal
record.
Anthony Duron placed
sixth, crossing the fi n-
ish line at 4:49.70. Greg-
ory Anderson fi nished sev-
enth at 4:52.21, and Jackson
Shaver (4:53.11) and Angel
Benites Vera (4:53.87) were
right behind him.
In the 200-meter, Simon
Headings (sixth; 24.23),
Freddy Mendoza (eighth;
24.49), and Skyler Stubbs
(ninth; 24.77) all set new
PRs.
Mendoza also set a per-
sonal record in the 400-
meter, placing fourth at
53.06. Headings followed
up at fi fth with a PR at
53.10, and Freddy Ibarra
placed eighth with a PR at
57.31.
Hermiston’s 4x100 relay
team, consisting of Benja-
min Wicks, Thomas Rea-
gan, Donovan Wilson, and
Garrett Walchli placed third
with a time of 46.35.
Ibarra, Anderson, Benites
Vera, and Heredia teamed
for a third-place fi nish in the
4x400 relay, clocking in at
3:54.55.
Hermiston’s Seth Buck
tied for fourth in the pole
vault with Walla Walla’s
Dash Simon with a personal
record of 11-06.
PREP ROUNDUP
Dawgs close out season with loss to La Grande
HERMISTON HERALD
Hermiston closed out its
season Monday with a 7-5
nonleague loss to visiting
La Grande.
Finishing fourth in the
3A division of the Mid-Co-
lumbia Conference, the
Bulldogs did not qualify for
the postseason.
The Bullodgs (1-16) led
3-0 after four innings, but
the Tigers got back in the
game with three runs in the
top of the third inning, get-
ting help from a two-run
single by Justin Frederick.
La Grande (12-6) added
four runs in the top of the
seventh to take a 7-3 lead.
Hermiston hung two runs on
the board in the bottom of
the seventh, but it wouldn’t
be enough.
Wyatt Noland went
2-for-3 with a double and
two RBIs for the Bulldogs,
while Ethin Randolph and
Gave Hunter also had two
hits.
HANFORD
14-16,
HERMISTON 6-6 — The
Bulldogs closed out their
fi rst season in the Mid-Co-
lumbia Conference on Fri-
day with a pair of losses to
the visiting Falcons.
Hermiston used four
pitchers in an attempt to
contain the high-scoring
Falcons. Jordan Ramirez
allowed six runs, and Chase
Elliott fi ve.
Hermiston (1-15 MCC)
tied the score at 3-3 in the
bottom of the second inning
in the second game, but
Hanford pulled away for
good with fi ve runs in the
third and six more in the
fourth.
Seth Prewitt gave up 11
runs over three innings.
Trevor Wagner belted a
home run in the third inning,
but it would not be enough
to keep up with Hanford.
Tennis
HERMISTON GIRLS
AT CAPITAL INVITE —
The Bulldogs fi nished 15th
in the team standings at the
two-day Capital Invite in
Boise.
Hermiston earned 181
points at the event, which
featured 36 teams from
three states. Bishop Kelly
(Boise) won the team title
with 269 points.
In girls No. 4 singles,
Cydney Lind reached the
championship match with
wins over opponents from
Eagle, Fruitland and Bishop
Kelly. She lost a 6-2, 6-1
match to a player from Tim-
berline in the fi nals.
In No. 1 doubles, Ashlyn
Hofbauer and Violet Mitch-
ell lost to a team from Pasco
in the semifi nals, 6-3, 6-1.
In No. 1 singles, Addie
Caplinger was 1-1, while
Adriann Stewart fi nished
2-1 at No. 2 singles.
“I’m very proud of how
the Hermiston girls per-
formed this year,” said
coach Jason Sivey. “Addie
is a freshman and played a
lot of tough seniors. Cydney
is new to the program and
also competed great.”
HERMISTON BOYS 4,
CHIAWANA 3 — The Bull-
dogs made a clean sweep of
their four singles matches
last Tuesday against Chi-
awana, but the Riverhawks
claimed all three doubles
matches to end the day.
Hermiston’s day was
highlighed by Hayden Cis-
sna’s 6-0, 6-2 No. 1 sin-
gles win. Cissna and Matt
Ekhardt were honored for
senior night before the
matches began.
“Those two kids are the
foundation of the team, and
have really helped build the
program to what it is right
now,” coach Shann West
said. “They’re both having
excellent seasons.”
CHIAWANA GIRLS 6,
HERMISTON 1 — Cyd-
ney Lind scored Hermis-
ton’s only win on Tuesday
with a 7-5, 6-1 No. 4 singles
win. The Bulldogs dropped
three singles and three dou-
bles matches to Chiawana.
Staff photo by E.J. Harris, File
A great egret stands perched on the branch of a willow tree on Sand Island in the Columbia
River near Irrigon. Sand Island off ers ample nesting habitat for the native bird populations.
Eastern Oregon offers myriad
bird-watching opportunities
By JADE MCDOWELL
NEWS EDITOR
Friday was Audubon
Day, but every day is a
good bird-watching oppor-
tunity in Umatilla County.
Multiple wildlife ref-
uges are less than an hour’s
drive away for residents.
Keely Lopez, refuge
manager for the Mid-Co-
lumbia River National
Wildlife Refuges, said
those refuges — Umatilla,
McNary, Cold Springs and
McKay Creek — have been
specifi cally developed and
maintained for migratory
fowl.
“Snow geese have been
a big draw, especially at
McNary,” she said.
Sand pipers, grebes,
ducks, herons and many
more species are also on
display. While the refuges
“really shine in the winter,”
she said, there are great
opportunities year-round to
see a variety of birds.
“I just saw a fl ock of
goslings at McNary this
morning,” Lopez said.
Between February and
November bird watch-
ers are more apt to see
large migratory waterfowl.
Now, songbirds including
fi nches, yellow warblers,
red-winged black birds and
lazuli buntings are return-
ing from their trip south for
the winter.
Lopez
recommended
would-be bird watchers
check ebird.org for updates
on bird sightings in the area.
The website crowd-sources
reports from around the
world.
Each of the area’s wild-
life refuges maintained
by U.S. Fish and Wildlife
has public access for wild-
life viewing, either through
trails, roads or lookout
points. The refuges are
open from sunrise to sun-
set — both prime times for
catching a glimpse of wild-
life before the heat of the
day sets in.
Even if people don’t
spot a good variety of bids
during a refuge visit, Lopez
said, there is also an array
of native fl owers and other
plants to be enjoyed.
The Oregon Depart-
ment of Fish and Wildlife
also operates a network of
Columbia Basin Wildlife
Areas at Irrigon, Coyote
Springs, Power City and
Willow Creek. Each offers
its own array of bird spe-
cies for viewing, as do the
trails around McNary Dam
and Hat Rock State Park.
The Umatilla National
Forest offers bird watch-
ing opportunities. A full
guide of the 214 species of
birds that have been spot-
ted in the 1.4 million acres
of forest can be found at
www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/
FSE_DOCUMENTS/fsb-
dev7_016072.pdf.
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