SPORTS
Wednesday, september 25, 2019
HermIstOnHeraLd.COm • A11
Umatilla holds off Stanfield
to improve to 3-0 record
By ANNIE FOWLER
STAFF WRITER
UMATILLA — Who is
this Umatilla football team?
The Vikings opened the
season 3-0 for the first time
in 5 years, handing Stanfield
a 27-20 loss on Thursday at
Milt Durand Field.
“This is a year we have
been able to coach for all
four quarters of all three
games,” Umatilla coach
Dan Durfey said. “They
played a really good foot-
ball game.”
Stanfield, which opened
the season with convincing
wins over Irrigon and Cen-
tral Linn, found the Vikings
to be a whole other beast.
“That was fun,” Tigers
coach Davie Salas said.
“One game never defines a
team. You need these game
to get you where you want
to go.”
Tied at 20-20 at the end
of the third quarter, the
Vikings went to work. They
ended a 49-yard drive with
a 7-yard touchdown pass
from Andrew Earl to Izayah
Rodarte with 11:18 let in the
game.
Stanfield turned the ball
over on downs on its next
possession, but the Vikings
gave the ball back with a
fumble at its own 44-yard
line.
The Tigers drove down
to the Umatilla 7-yard
line, but the Vikings drove
them back 8 yards, and two
incomplete passes had them
giving the ball back to Uma-
tilla, who ran out the clock.
The
Vikings
(3-0)
matched the Tigers (2-1)
touchdown for touchdown
in the first half, then took
the lead at 20-14 with 4:24
to play in the first half on
a 10-yard pass play from
Earl to Cody Thacker. Jose
Medina made good on the
PAT.
YAKIMA — Kendall
Dowdy had a big day for
Hermiston on Saturday as
the team took a non-league
volleyball match from
Davis.
Dowdy had seven kills,
16 assists, 15 digs and
six ace serves as Hermis-
ton posted a 25-18, 28-30,
25-16, 25-20 victory.
Grace Vertrees added 11
kills, 14 digs and nine aces,
while Courtnee West had
12 assists and six digs, and
Halee Stubbs 16 digs.
The Bulldogs will play
a Mid-Columbia Confer-
ence match Thursday at
Southridge.
HERMISTON
3,
PASCO 0 — Hermiston
notched is first win of the
season Thursday with a
25-10, 25-13, 25-18 MCC
win at Pasco.
“It’s always nice to get a
win under your belt,” Bull-
dogs coach Amy Dyck said.
“Being efficient and con-
sistent was a key tonight.”
Avery Treadwell led
Hermiston with seven kills,
while Kendall Dowdy had
12 assists to go with five
digs and four kills.
Soccer
SPOKANE — With five
starting players absent Sat-
already a herculean effort.
Adding nine schools, two
more covers, two more fea-
Three weeks have passed tures and close to 20 more
since the 2019 Kickoff mag- pages was going to make
azine appeared in the North- that more of a challenge —
east Oregon publications of not to mention coordinating
EO Media Group, including that big of a change on a rel-
in the East Oregonian and atively short turnaround.
With that in mind, and
the Hermiston Herald.
not wanting to
We’ve received a
entirely overwhelm
lot of positive feed-
back so far, includ-
the sports staff at
ing from those in
those publications
the coverage area of
with the first run, the
the EO and HH who
decision was made
picked it for the first
that, for year one of
the combined proj-
time.
Bond
ect, we would add
But we also have
the teams in a small
gotten some feed-
back expressing disappoint- dose and go with the schools
ment, particularly from some of Umatilla County.
The Morrow County
Morrow County readers. Not
in the overall product, but in football teams would remain
why the four schools from in the EO/HH combined fall
Morrow County were not preview section as they had
included, and just the Uma- been previously.
tilla County schools were.
We knew this decision
It’s those comments I could elicit some negative
would like to address.
feedback, and it wasn’t an
As I wrote a few weeks easy one to make. Nobody
ago, the reach of the Kickoff likes to be left out, and we
magazine was expanded this don’t like leaving anyone
fall. Previously it had been out. I’m certain there would
run in The Observer (where have been some great con-
I am also the sports editor) tent that would have come
and in the Baker City Her- from those schools this fall,
ald, and was a widely pop- which does make it sting on
ular and often referred-to our end.
But we also wanted to see
publication. It was included
in the EO, HH and Wallowa how it would be received
County Chieftain this fall for before completely diving in
headlong.
the first time.
From what I have been
We met in July, just a
few weeks after EOMG pur- told, the reviews have been
chased The Observer and more than positive. The fact
Baker City Herald, to dis- that we have schools that
cuss what adding the Kick- want to be in it in the future
off magazine to the EO, HH shows that the publication is,
and WCC would look like. as we hoped, gaining popu-
We viewed it as a test run, larity in a new demographic.
I do want to apologize
one that would take some
time to figure out the best to those schools who, for
approach to, especially at this edition, were left on the
outside.
first.
But rest assured that we
I can attest to the fact
that, for the previous four have heard you, and that
years, getting out a football upcoming sports collabora-
tab that featured team pre- tions between our combined
views for 13 or 14 schools, resources in the EOMG’s
three unique covers and four east region will include
or five feature articles (and Morrow County.
And, perhaps, reach even
doing so in a little over a
week with a small staff) was further.
By RONALD BOND
EO MEDIA GROUP
they score,” Durfey said of
Rodarte’s play. “It shifts the
momentum quickly.”
Arellano ran for 203
yards on the night for the
Tigers.
“We were nervous about
him,” Durfey said. “We
have a young line and they
are bigger and older. Our
young guys never faltered.”
Arellano has more than
500 yards rushing in three
games.
“We blocked well and he
ran well,” Salas said. “We
will run him all day and his
legs are there. We just have
to get the ball into the end
zone to win games.”
staff photos by Kathy aney
TOP: Cody Thacker (33), of Umatilla, fends off Stanfield’s
Ryan Elizares during Thursday’s game in Umatilla. BOTTOM:
Hobs Hurty (33), of Stanfield, runs the ball under pressure
from a couple of Vikings.
“He is a big target and
has good hands,” Durfey
said of Thacker. “It’s nice to
have that in the arsenal.”
Enrique Arellano scored
both of Stanfield’s touch-
downs in the first quarter on
runs of 2 and 5 yards.
Stanfield 14 0 6 0 — 20
Umatilla 7 13 0 7 — 27
sCOrInG
s — enrique arellano 2 run (Kaden
Combe run)
U — pedro alvarez 5 run (Jose medina
kick)
s — arellano 5 run (run failed)
U — Izayah rodarte 75 kickoff return
(kick failed)
U — Cody thacker 10 pass from
andrew earl (medina kick)
s — arellano 1 run (run failed)
U — rodarte 7 pass from earl (medina
kick)
Pedro Alvarez scored
on a 5-yard run to open the
score for the Vikings, and
Rodarte added a 75-yard
kickoff return to pull Uma-
tilla to within 14-13.
“That is a game changer
when you run it back after
Hermiston Bulldogs win twice on volleyball court
HERMISTON HERALD
Football tab well
received, looks to
improve
urday, Hermiston was no
match for Shadle Park.
The Hilanders scored
early and often in the first
half, en route to a 6-0 non-
league victory.
“We had to take players
off the bench,” Bulldogs
coach Freddy Guizar said.
“It showed the girls that on
any given day, it might be
your turn to be a starter.”
A rough first half saw
Shadle Park take a 5-0 lead
at the buzzer, but they only
managed one shot in the
final 40 minutes.
“It wasn’t our best game
at all,” Guizar said, “but it
showed us what we need to
improve on. Our girls just
didn’t perform. It wasn’t
our game to play.”
Hermiston (1-4) will
host Southridge at 7 p.m.
Thursday in a Mid-Colum-
bia Conference contest.
HERMISTON
2,
PASCO 0 — Jayden Ray
finally got the goal she’s
been waiting for all season.
The junior center mid-
fielder capped off Herm-
iston’s scoring with the
match-winning goal as the
Bulldogs took down vis-
iting Pasco on Thursday
night.
The goal was Ray’s first
of the season, and the sec-
ond of her high school
career.
It also marked the Bull-
dogs’ first victory of the
season.
“It was exhilarating,”
said. “I’ve been waiting for
that all year.”
The score was locked
at 0-0 at the half, as both
teams struggled to connect
with the net.
“Coming (into the sec-
ond half), we were moti-
vated,” Ray said. “We
knew we could beat them
and get the win. We knew
we were better than they
were.”
Sophomore midfielder
Giselle Cisneros opened
the scoring with a goal at
33:30, and Ray’s followed
in the 64th minute.
“We’re slowly improv-
ing,” Hermiston coach
Freddy Guizar said. “They
weren’t the same team that
has been playing all year.
They were hungry. They
wanted it.”
Cydney Sanchez was
right behind Nygard, fin-
ishing 13th (19:37.30).
Rounding out the Bulldogs’
scoring were Ellie Ernst
(58th), Alexia Serna (68th)
and Julianna Joyce (70th).
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