SPORTS
10 A The Observer
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Harris named District 7 player of the year Kopitar's OT goal lifts Elgin's Justin Harris was tabbed as the Special District 7 player of the year recently when the postseason awards were announced. Harris is one of just five seniors out of the 31 players to receive honors. Harris was also named a firstteam catcher along with Union/Cove's Brenlon ~1oore, also a senior. Harris had one heck of a senior campaign at the plate, behind the plate and on the mound. For the season he hit .418 with three home runs and 19 RBis in 55 recorded at-bats. On the mound, llarris finished 5-2 for the 11-R Huskies, recording a 1.82 ERA. H e had 82 strikeouts in 50 innings pitche d. Harris ended his high school career with a one-hit, 17 strikeout game in a 5-0 victory against Pine Eagle. · Many other local players were also named to the Special District 7 all-league team. Wallowa/ Imbler's Andrew Fullerton (senior) and Union/ Cove's Kaleb Poor both were named first-team pitchers. Elgin's Kyle Ludwig (senior) made the first team at first base, while Dalton Opie of Union/ Cove and Wes McDaniel of Wallowa/Imbler were honorable mentions. First-team infielders included Union /Cove's TyCoon and Braxten Anderson, Elgin's Blu
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Risseeuw and Wallowa/Imbler's Wesley Conrad. Union/ Cove's Brazin Wellington, along with Kody Swift and Casey Robertson of Wallowa/ Imbler were all second-team infield selections. Andrew Naughton of Elgin was an honorable mention. In th e outfield, Chris Ross of Union/Cove and Sheldon Rlair of Elgin recieved first-team honors, while DJ. Lizotte of Elgin and Wallowa/ Imbler's Joe Griffin and Kyle Johnson were named to the second team. Union/ Cove's Marshall Short (senior) earned first-team ELGIN'S JUSTIN HARRIS f1nished designated hitter. strikeouts for the Huskies in 20 12. Casey Furgerson of Elgin was overall and 9-3 in the Special second-team designated hitter, District 7. and Reed Graves of Wallowa/ The league also had 11 playImbler was honorable mention. ers named to all-state teams at Union/ Cove coach Greg the 2A/ lA level. Poor was named the league's Harris (catcher), Fullerton coach of the year after leading (infield) and Kaleb Poor (utilia very young Bobcats squad to a ty) were all first-team all-state share of the league title and a selections. berth in the state playoffs. Coon (infield) and Blair Union/ Cove finishe d 12-10
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(outfield) made second team all-state. Ludwig (first base), Risseeuw (infield) , Ross (outfield) and Pine Eagle's Colter Marks (outfield) earned third-team honors. Moore (catcher) and Conrad (infield) were honorable mentions.
NEWARK, NJ (AP) - Anze Kopitar scored a spectacular goal on a breakaway with 11:47 left in overtime Wednesday night and the Los Angeles Kings beat the New Jersey Deviis 2-1 in Came 1 of the SLanley Cup Finals. Kopitar faked a backhand shot, put the puck on his forehand and beat a prone Martin Brodeur. Los Angeles has won all nine of its road games in the playoffs, an NHL record. The Kings are now one win shy of tying the NHL record tor postseason road victories. More importantly, they are three wins away from the franchise's first NHL title. They have won 11 consecutive road playoff games dating back to last season. Kopitar saw Justin Williams battling with Devils detenseman Bryce Salvador and forward Dainius Zubrus along the boards. "I wanted to make sure I went to the middle," Kopitar said. "I don't know if he heard me or not, but I yelled for the puck and he chipped it. It was perfect, right on my tape. It happened pretty quick and Twas able to finish it off." As soon as h e rifled the puck into the net, Kopitar raised his hands and banged himself into the boards, facing the crowd off to Brodeur's right. "To put it past a goaltender like Marty is a good feeling," Kopitar said. The veteran goaltender dejectedly skated off to the locker room as the rest of the Kings piled on Kopitar. This the third straight series in which the Devils have lost the first game. "I think it was probably the worst game in the playoffs for us," Devils leading scorer Ilya Kovalchuk, who was limited to one shot. "Maybe we were a little too nervous before the game started, but it's all excuses. We've got to make sure we know what we didn't do right and be a different team next game." Fourtlt-line center Colin Fraser scored in the first period for the Kings, the No. 8 seed in the Western Conference who beat the top three teams to get to th eir first Stanley Cup Finals since 1993. Amon Volchenkov tied it late in tlte second period for New Jersey, the East's sixth seed. Kings goaltender Jonathan Quick finished wir.h 17 saves in what was a relatively easy night. Brodeur had 23 saves as the Devils lost in overtime fOI-just the second time tltis postseason; they have won four times. LA is 3-0 in overtime this spring.
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Wednesday's Games Miami 115, Boston 11 1, OT , Miami leads series 2· 0 Toda y's Games San An!on1o at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m. Friday's Games Miami at Boston, 5:30 p.m.
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