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Wednesday, september 18, 2019
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HERMISTON HERALD
Contributed photo by troy blackburn
The Hermiston girls cross country team placed second Saturday at the Oregon City Invite. Runners include (from left) Cydney
Sanchez, Lydia Shult, Alexia Serna, Emily Collinsworth, Ellie Ernst and Ashley Treadwell.
Hermiston girls second at Oregon City Invite
HERMISTON HERALD
Hermiston’s girls cross-country
team placed second with 104 points,
and junior Amanda Nygard finished
sixth overall Saturday at the Oregon
City Invite.
Nygard crossed the finish line in
19:30.42, while sophomore Cydney
Sanchez finished eighth with a time
of 19:57.89.
“Every girl ran at least a minute
and a half faster than they did last
week (at Runners Soul),” Bulldogs
coach Troy Blackburn said.
Rounding out the field for Herm-
iston were Ellie Ertnst (29th), Alexia
Serna (31st) and Emily Collinsworth
(36th).
Franklin topped the team leader-
board at 46 points. The Dalles and
Westview followed Hermiston at 116
points each, tying for third.
Franklin’s boys also took first in
the team standings with 30 points,
while Hermiston’s placed seventh
with 187.
Senior Gregory Anderson was the
Bulldogs’ top runner for the day, plac-
ing 13th at 16:44.83.
Following Anderson were Logan
Springstead (30th), Jackson Shaver
(47th), Freddy Ibarra (55th) and Zach-
ary Turner (59th).
“We’re still working on improv-
ing,” Blackburn said of the varsity
boys. “But we still saw a lot of great
improvements today. We’re only get-
ting faster.”
Girls soccer
WALLA WALLA 4, HERMIS-
TON 1 — Cydney Lind knocked
down a penalty kick in the 47th min-
ute, but it wasn’t enough to overcome
Walla Walla on Saturday.
“We had great opportunities to
score,” coach Freddy Guizar said,
“but we were overcommitted and shot
over the goalie. We came in knowing
it was going to be tough.”
Hermiston will host its first home
game of the season at 7 p.m. Tuesday
against Kennewick. Guizar hopes to
have keeper Lanie Gomez and mid-
fielder Elizabeth Hernandez recov-
ered from their injuries and back on
the field.
“We want to take that big win,” he
said.
Boys soccer
Alexis Ruiz netted a hat trick, and
Emmanuel Arredondo and Carlos
Mejia scored two goals each as Uma-
tilla’s boys soccer team trampled over
Portland Christian 11-0 on Thursday
evening.
“We expected more,” Umatilla
coach Pedro Ortiz said. “We expected
a stronger team. We gave it our best.”
Arredondo and Mejia gave the
Vikings a hot start with two goals
each in the first half, and Ruiz sank
his first of three before the first 40
minutes were up, as well.
The sophomore forward recorded
his final two goals in the second half
to help complete Umatilla’s road
shutout.
Oliver Burman and Jose Ala-
niz also scored goals for the Vikings
along the way.
“We controlled the tempo of the
game,” Ortiz said. “We did good work,
but we still need to work on some mis-
takes that happened (today).”
On the girls side, Umatilla fell to
the unbeaten Portland Christian Lions
in a road loss Thursday.
Volleyball
RIVERSIDE 3, UMATILLA 1 —
Riverside took the Eastern Oregon
League opener against Umatilla in
four sets, 25-19, 25-14, 23-25, 25-17.
“We’ve just been struggling with
coverage and communication on
where everybody is supposed to be,”
Umatilla coach Desirae Zamudio said.
Umatilla’s Danica Harseen con-
nected on all 11 of her service
attempts in the match, while Chantal
Lemus also went 10-11 on services in
the loss.
Hermiston School District launches “I Love My Bulldogs” tour
Pac/West Communica-
tions moved into its new digs
in Hermiston as part of the
company’s plan to expand
government affairs and pub-
lic relations services to East-
ern Oregon and Washington.
The office is in the
Columbia
Professional
Building, 1050 W. Elm Ave.,
Hermiston, and will serve as
the company’s regional base
of operations.
“Our mission has always
been to give a clear and
influential voice to our cli-
ents, especially those who
are overlooked by the pow-
ers that be,” according to a
statement from Pac/West
Communications President
Paul Phillips. “The Colum-
bia Basin is a powerhouse
of innovation, growth, and
development in the Pacific
Northwest. We’re eager to
enhance and promote that
work.”
Pac/West will staff the
Hermiston office with Phil-
lip Scheuers and Daniel Wat-
tenburger, two local profes-
sionals who have first-hand
knowledge of the region and
its issues.
Scheuers for the last 10
years has worked on gov-
ernment affairs and eco-
nomic development, spe-
cifically in Eastern Oregon.
Wattenburger was an editor
at the East Oregonian news-
paper for more than a decade
and specializes in communi-
cation and understands rural
Oregon politics, economy,
natural resources, education
and health care.
Ryan Tribbett, senior vice
president of government
affairs for Pac/West, stated,
“Phil and Daniel have an
authentic rural Oregon per-
spective and the know-how
to convey those principles
and priorities in Salem.”
Fall weather
arriving on time
By JADE MCDOWELL
NEWS EDITOR
A wet start to the week
is ushering in the feeling of
fall.
Jim Smith of the Pend-
leton office for the National
Weather Service said it’s not
unusual to get rain in the
middle of September.
“It’s generally about this
time we get the first decent
fall storm for the year,” he
said. “It’s definitely fall
temperatures here through
most of the week.”
Rain was falling in Herm-
iston on Monday, and Smith
said Monday morning that
there was a 70% chance of
more rain Tuesday, with a
chance of showers Wednes-
day and a possibility of rain
continuing beyond that.
“It’s a pretty wet week,”
he said.
Temperatures
are
expected to rise again at the
end of the week after the
rain moves through the area,
but NWS also predicted a
chance of snow in the high-
est elevations on Tuesday,
with snow levels at 6,500 to
7,5000 feet.
So far 2019 has seen a
colder than usual Febru-
ary and March, followed
by a warmer than usual
spring and a relatively aver-
age summer, according to
temperature graphs on the
NWS website. Smith said it
is hard to give precise fore-
casts weeks out, but Uma-
tilla County residents can
likely expect average pre-
cipitation for the month
with warmer than average
temperatures.
People can now access
National Weather Service
forecasts with the touch of
a button by pinning mobile.
weather.gov to their home
screen on their iPhone or
Andriod device.
HERMISTON HERALD
Hermiston High School
athletes were spread-
ing the Bulldog spirit Fri-
day with visits to Hermis-
ton elementary and middle
schools.
The first-ever “I Love
My Bulldogs Day” brought
about 200 student athletes
to classrooms around the
school district to inspire
younger students with
talks about hard work,
commitment and commu-
nity engagement, accord-
ing to a news release from
the district.
Athletic director Larry
Usher said in a state-
ment that the high school-
ers enjoyed seeing how
excited the younger stu-
dents were to meet them.
The athletes even signed a
few autographs.
“It was an incredible
opportunity for our high
Good Shepherd to hold
open house Thursday
HERMISTON HERALD
Contributed photo by Hermiston school district
Highland Hills Elementary School principal Jake Bacon takes a selfie with Hermiston High
School athletes visiting his school for I Love My Bulldogs Day on Friday.
school kids, even more
than we thought,” Usher
said. “For the K-5 kids in
particular, it was a power-
ful mentoring opportunity.”
Athletes were able to
say hi to younger siblings
and their former teach-
ers during the tour. During
their Highland Hills Ele-
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mentary stop, the athletes
were able to help English
Language Learner students
in the Newcomers Class
practice their English.
Good Shepherd Health
Care System will hold an
open house and ribbon cut-
ting Thursday after a major
renovation to its diagnostic
imaging lobby and labora-
tory draw stations.
The
remodel
has
expanded the lab from
two draw stations to four,
increased the number of
registration offices and
will improve patient flow,
according to a news release
from Good Shepherd.
“We were able to add
more registration offices
that significantly expedited
the patient registration pro-
cess for both departments,”
GSHCS chief operating
officer Jim Schlenker said in
a statement. “Additionally,
the offices are even more
private than before, helping
us protect patients’ private
health information during
registration.”
He said the remodel fea-
tures warm, calming colors
to help patients feel com-
fortable as they wait to be
seen.
The open house will be
Thursday from 5-7 p.m. in
the diagnostic imaging wait-
ing area at 610 N.W. 11th St.
in Hermiston.