Contributed photo of Jordan MittelsdorfRiverside's Skylar Wightman (7) comes in to score after hitting a home run against Umatilla on Friday in a league softball game in Boardman.

UMATILLA — La Grande and Enterprise came over the mountains to claim the boys and girls team titles on Friday at the River’s Edge meet in Umatilla, but that didn’t mean it wasn’t a day full of wins for local athletes.

Eight boys’ events and six girls’ were topped by locals, and two won multiple events.

Weston-McEwen’s Hayden Scott won both the 800-and 1,500-meters for the second-place TigerScots boys. He timed in at 2:02.57 in the 800 to hold of Cove’s Tim Stevens by three seconds, and 4:12.51 in the 1,500 to earn a four-second win over Heppner’s Hunter Nichols.

He was the only boy to win multiple titles, and Irrigon’s Ana Zacarias won the girls’ 100 and 200 in 13.88 and 28.20. She nipped Pilot Rock’s Abby Rigby at the line in the 200, but Rigby got her payback in the 400 which she won ahead of Zacarias with a time of 1:01.50.

Riverside’s Faith Rosen won the 100 hurdles in 17.47 ahead of Umatilla’s Nancy Ortiz (17.72), and Ortiz also placed second in the 300 hurdles (52.30).

Mac-Hi’s Bianca Garcia won in javelin with a throw of 122-8 taht was more than enough to outdistance Umatilla’s Aleesha Watson (121-6) and Weston-McEwen’s Maddi Muilenburg (115-4).

Weston-McEwen’s Bryce Thul tied for the win in long jump with South Wasco’s Ana Popchok with a leap of 15-1.

Other notable finishes for girls were Umatilla’s Maria Moreno-Mendez with a new personal record of 32-10 to place second in shot put, and Irrigon’s Alexus Williams with a PR of 12:27.84 for second in the 3,000.

Back in boys’ action, Weston-McEwen’s Jacob Speed had a PR to win the 400 meters in 52.06, and was second in both the 100 and 200 to Lyle/Wishram’s Brandon Montoya.

Heppner’s Derek Howard won shot put with 45-11, and Umatilla’s Alec Williams was second with a PR of 43-9.5.

Mac-Hi’s Landon Warne just missed a 150-foot discus through last week, but nearly got it this week with a 149-07 PR to win that event, and Hermiston’s Carson Wrathall had a PR in pole vault to win with height of 11-6.

Pilot Rock’s Devin Hasher set his highest mark of the season to win high jump at 6-1, and Irrigon’s Justin Iveson continued his dominance in triple jump with a winning leap of 41-1.

Arlington’s Ben Evans had a season-best throw of 153-1 to place second in javelin.

Baseball

HOOD RIVER 1-14, HERMISTON 0-10 — At Hood River, the Bulldogs nearly came back but couldn’t avoid the sweep on Friday to open Columbia River Conference play.

Locked in a scoreless Game 1, Hermiston (6-9, 0-2 CRC) was unable to get anything going against Hood River (10-5, 2-0) starter Connor Coerper and managed just two hits in the game.

The Eagles finally broke the tie in the bottom of the sixth when Trevor Lariza doubled and then Lucas Viuhkola singled to drive in pinch runner Jacob Smith.

Slade Gritz gave the Bulldogs hope with a two-out single in the seventh, but a fly out ended the game.

Hood River jumped on the Bulldogs early in Game 2 and led 10-1 after two innings.

UP NEXT

Hermiston will host Hood River on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m.

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Game 1 R H E

HHS 000 000 0 — 0 2 2

HRV 000 001 X — 1 6 0

W — C. Coerper. L — L. Tolan.

2B — T. Lariza (HRV).

STANFIELD 18-12, NYSSA 0-2 — At Stanfield, the Tigers got a pair of runaway wins on Friday and scored 30 runs off 18 hits against the Bulldogs to stay unbeaten in Eastern Oregon League play.

Game 1 saw everybody getting in on the offense for Stanfield (11-1, 5-0 EOL) with 14 hits to go around. Dylan Grogan was 2 for 2 with three runs, Klay Jenson was 2 for 3 with two runs, Brody Woods and Ryan Bailey each hit 2 for 4 with two RBI, Shayne Keltz was 1 for 1 with two RBI, and Thyler Monkus, Adrian Renner and Tony Flores each had three RBI.

Woods pitched four complete innings for the win and gave up no runs on two hits with nine strikeouts and four walks.

Jenson took the mound to start Game 2 and overcame some early control issues to last five complete with nine strikeouts and three walks. He allowed both runs on three hits.

Nyssa took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning after a walk put a runner on and wild pitches helped bring him around.

Stanfield got it back and then some in the bottom of the frame, which started with back-to-back walks followed by back-to-back errors to make it 3-1.

Hunter Barnes went 2 for 3 with three RBI to lead Stanfield at the plate, and Bailey and Flores each drove in two.

UP NEXT

Stanfield looks for its 12th win in a row in a non-league game at La Grande on Tuesday at 4 p.m.

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Game 2 (6 innings) R H E

NHS 101 000 — 2 3 6

SHS 311 007 — 12 4 2

W — K. Jenson. L — A. Gonzalez.

3B — T. Flores (SHS).

Softball

IRRIGON 6-0, ECHO 5-4 — At Irrigon, the Knights and Tigers split a Special District 1 doubleheader on Friday as errors continued to plague Irrigon.

The Knights (10-5, 2-1 SD1) were able to avoid paying for their mistakes in Game 1 thanks to a clutch pinch hit by Karrizma Luna in the bottom of the seventh inning.

With two outs and two on, Luna snuck a single down the first-base line to plate the winning runs.

Echo (5-5, 1-1) had taken a 5-4 lead in the top of the seventh when Kenzie Gonzales hit a single to center and Monique Montoya scored from second base.

Gilman started in the circle and had six strikeouts before leaving after being hit by a line drive back up the middle in the third inning. She was not seriously injured, but Mya Chapman took her spot on the rubber and finished out the game of the win. Jada Burns went 3 for 3 at the plate.

Chapman got the start in Game 2, and pitched well, but couldn’t get any support as errors led to all three Echo runs in the first inning and Cougars starter Alyssa Ray pitched a three-hit shutout.

UP NEXT

Echo plays two league games at Grant Union today starting at 1 p.m.

Irrigon will be at Umatilla for a single league game on Tuesday at 4 p.m.

RIVERSIDE 27-25, UMATILLA 2-0 — At Boardman, Skylar Wightman’s threw a no-hitter in the pitching circle and hit a home run with eight total RBIs to help her Riverside Pirates sweep Umatilla 27-2 and 25-0 in an Eastern Oregon League doubleheader on Friday afternoon.

Wightman got the win for Riverside (10-3, 2-1 EOL) in Game 2 after striking out 10 Vikings (1-9, 0-3) as well. The junior also threw two innings in Game 1 with four strikeouts, but Bianca Avalos got the win with five strikeouts in three innings.

Also doing damage at the plate for Riverside was Alexis Villegas (3 for 3, double, 3RBI), Emily Kirby (three hits, five RBI, triple, double) and Sadie Hasbell collected three hits. Jocelyn Rodriguez and Lizette Sanchez also collected their first career varsity hits.

UP NEXT

Riverside travels to Columbia White Salmon (WA) for a doubleheader on Tuesday at 2 p.m., while Umatilla will host Irrigon on Tuesday at 4 p.m.

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Game 1 R H E

UHS 000 11 — 2 1 9

RHS 11130 3X — 27 11 3

WP — B. Avalos.

2B — A. Villegas, E. Kirby (RHS). HR — S. Wightman (RHS).

Game 2 R H E

UHS 000 00 — 0 0 6

RHS 1203 10X — 25 13 0

WP — S. Wightman, LP — C. Alvarez.

2B — M. Hagar (RHS). 3B — E. Kirby (RHS).

Tennis

WESTON-MCEWEN 9, RIVERSIDE 3 — At Boardman, the Weston-McEwen TigerScots boys and girls tennis teams made easy work of the Riverside Pirates on Friday, as the boys compiled a 5-1 record while the girls went 4-2.

“I’m so proud of how the players persevered and played so well in not so perfect conditions,” Weston-McEwen coach Troy Olson said.

Weston-McEwen’s lone loss in the girls matches came at No. 3 singles where Krysta Calvert fell to Riverside in a tiebreaker 8-6. In the five other girls matches, Weston-McEwen won 31 of the 40 games that were played.

On the boys side, Riverside won the No. 1 singles match when Austin Thompson beat Ryan Schmidtgall in a close 6-4 match. But then Weston-McEwen rolled again, winning 30 of the 48 games.

UP NEXT

Weston-McEwen heads to Mac-Hi on Tuesday at 4 p.m., while Riverside will go to Mac-Hi on Monday.

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Singles (Girls)

Johanna Albert (W) def. Veronica Rodriguez 6-1

Emmaline Irvine (W) def. Belinda Lomas (7-5)

Krysta Calvert (W) lost 8-6

Singles (Boys)

Austin Thompson (R) def. Ryan Schmidtgall 6-4

Kellen Fairchild (W) def. Donovan Carmack 8-3

Curtis Papineau (W) def. Brandon Juarez 6-3

Doubles (Girls)

Bagdon/Swafford (W) def. Mendoza/Gaytan 6-2

McIntyre/Ford (W) def. Ramos/Gonzalez 6-0

Olson/Davis (W) def. Aldrich/Sepulda 6-1

Doubles (Boys)

Shafer/Froese (W) def. Bedollo/Altamarino 8-2

Davison/Papineau (W) def. Cambero/Reyes 8-2

Shaw/McDonough (R) def. Bryan/Mann 8-5