PSU’s Strickland killed in shooting

Published 12:00 am Friday, August 2, 2019

Portland State athlete Deante Strickland died in Northeast Portland shooting on Friday.

Strickland, 22, starred in basketball and football for Central Catholic High as well.

The shooting took place at about 2 p.m. near Northeast 42nd Avenue and Holman Street. Two other people, reportedly his aunt and grandmother, were shot and taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening wounds, said the Portland Police Bureau. Police later arrested Tamena J. Strickland, 30, on a charge of murder and two counts of attempted murder.

Strickland played in 65 games over two seasons for PSU, averaing 7.4 points per game. He had turned out for football this year as a senior and was expected to contribute as a running back. The football Vikings will open camp on Monday at Camp Rilea on the Oregon coast.

In a statement released by PSU, men’s basketball coach Barret Peery said “we are better for having had Deante in our lives. His smile, passion and energy for life was second to none. … This entire community will miss him.”

Central Catholic football coach Steve Pyne noted that Strickland was on a state championship team, playing cornerback and wide receiver.

“Great young man, infectious personality. I am broken up about this,” Pyne said.

PICKLES

PORT ANGELES 5, Portland 4

The host Lefties overcame a 4-1 deficit by scoring in each of the final three innings as their three-game series with the Pickles began on Friday night.

Port Angeles got two runs in the seventh inning, tied the score at 4-4 in the eighth and won with no outs in the ninth on a single, walk, single and RBI single off reliever Nate Fleischli (0-2), of Stanford.

Portland’s Thomas Rudinsky (Lane Community College, ex-Lincoln High) hit his third home run of the summer wood-bat season, and John Arndorfer (Notre Dame, ex-Jesuit High) was 2 for 3 with an RBI.

The series continues with games Saturday and Sunday before the Pickles move to Bend for three games with the Elks. Then Portland will finish its season at home at Walker Stadium, taking on the Cowlitz Black Bears three times, Aug. 9-11.

Through Friday’s WCL play, the first-half champion Corvallis Knights were on top of the South Division second half with a 13-5 record. Portland was 10-9. Cowlitz was third at 9-10. In the North, Port Angeles was 11-8 in the second half and third, two games behind the first-half champion Victoria HarbourCats and Wenatchee AppleSox, both 13-6.

HOPS

HILLSBORO 7, Salem-Keizer 2

Five Hops combined on a four-hitter and right fielder Tristin English drove in three runs as Hillsboro won its fifth Single-A Northwest League game in a row.

English had a double and triple before 4,020 fans at Ron Tonkin Field to help back a pitching performance led by starter Tommy Henry, star of Michigan’s surprise run to the College World Series finals this year.

English’s two-run double drove in the third and fourth runs as the Hops jumped to a 5-0 lead in the opening frame.

David Garza Jr. began the parade with an RBI double. Andy Yerzy brought home the second run on a ground out. Daniel Wasinger’s single scored English to cap the outburst.

Henry pitched only the first inning but gave up no runs on one hit.

Another rookie, Ryne Nelson from the University of Oregon, worked the next 1.2 innings, giving up one run on one hit and three walks.

Jacob Stevens came on to get one out. Then Wilfry Cruz (3-2) went four innings, allowing one run on one hit and four walks, with three strikeouts. Nick Synder finished the final two innings, holding the Volcanoes hitless with one walk and three Ks.

Salem-Keizer went 1 for 11 with runners in scoring position and fell two games behind the Hops in the South Division second-half race. Hillsboro, which finished second to the Volcanoes in the first half, is 8-3. Salem-Keizer, the Eugene Emeralds and the Boise Hawks are all 6-5.

The three-game Hillsboro versus Salem-Keizer series continues at 7 p.m. Saturday and concludes with a game at 4 p.m. Sunday, the final outing before the NWL All-Star break.

PGA TOUR

Former Oregon Ducks Aaron Wise and Wyndham Clark were tied for 53rd and 68th, respectively, after two rounds of the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Wise fired a 6-under-par 64 on Friday for a 5-under 135 total. He moved up 76 spots from his first-round position.

Clark shot his second 68 for a 136, nine strokes behind the leader, Byeong Hun An.

KORN FERRY TOUR

Scott Harrington, a former Jesuit High golfer, was tied for third midway through the Ellie Mae Classic at TPC Stonebrae in Hayward, California.

Harrington had a second-day 66, 5-under, for a 36-hole score of 9-under 131.

Scott Gurschewski shot 61 to grab the lead at 129. Edward Loar also was 11-under but had played eight of his 18 holes when play was suspended by darkness.

Robert Garrigus, who played for Crescent Valley High, had his second 69 for a 138 total, good for a tie for 45th.

Rookie Norman Xiong, from the University of Oregon, appeared likely to miss the cut despite a 68. He totaled 141, and the projecton was that it would take 139 to make the final two rounds.