Blazers beat Kings for 11th time in a row
By Landon Hall
The Associated Press
PORTLAND — Rasheed Wal
lace showed his good, bad and
ugly sides Sunday, and he was
still able to smile at the end of the
Blazers 11th straight victory over
the Sacramento Kings.
Wallace picked up another
technical foul before teaming
with Bonzi Wells to power a
dominant fourth-quarter run as
the Portland Trail Blazers defeat
ed the Kings, 102-9,5 Sunday.
“Rasheed Wallace is a big-time
player,” said Wells, who had 13
points. “When he establishes
himself, nobody can stop him.
We just have to do our part and
play alongside him.”
Wallace scored 18 points and
Scottie Pippen added 15 points
and nine assists for the Blazers,
who held the Kings to two field
goals — a dunk by Scot Pollard
and a 20-foot jumper by Jason
Williams — in the first 10:39 of
the fourth.
The Kings’ lead over Seattle for
the No. 7 playoff spot in the West
slipped to just a half-game. The
SuperSonics played at Houston
later Sunday.
“If we beat the Sonics (Tues
day), we’re the seventh seed,”
Kings coach Rick Adelman said.
“They have the same schedule as
we have, and it’s going to be nice
to go against them as if it were a
playoff game.”
The teams entered the fourth
quarter tied at 77, and the Blazers
took the lead for good on a fast
break layup by Wells with 10:56
left. Williams’ long jumper
brought the Kings within two,
83-81, but Wells made a free
throw, had another transition
layup and blew by Predrag Sto
jakovic on the baseline to spark a
7-0 burst that made it 88-81 with
7:29 left.
Wallace then took over, hitting
a 21-foot jumper, a difficult re
verse layup and a 23-footer to
stretch the lead to 94-84 with
4:12 to go.
Wallace was animated
throughout the game, even by his
standards, complaining about
contact from Chris Webber and
Vlade Divac and yapping at the
officials. Wallace picked up his
38th technical foul of the season,
extending his NBA record, when
he hollered at referee Michael
Smith after fouling Webber with
2:43 left in the second quarter.
“They are winning; who cares
about a tech?” Webber said.
“That’s the reason that you’ve got
Rasheed. You draft him from col
lege because he is high-energy,
because he’s passionate, because
he’ll cry if you lose. That’s a real
player.”
Blazers coach Mike Dunleavy
was assessed a technical in the
third for screaming at Smith for
not calling a foul on Divac for
bumping Wallace.
“‘Sheed was doing a good job
of working and wasn’t getting
any calls. He sort of felt like he
was being picked on,” Pippen
said. “So I’m glad Mike sort of
took it out of his hands instead of
letting ‘Sheed get all rattled
about it.”
After making a short 8-foot
jumper with under a minute left
and the win secure, Wallace
glared at referee Ron Garretson.
But Wallace grinned wide in cel
ebrating the victory with his
teammates.
Webber led the Kings with 21
points and eight assists, Sto
jakovic had 18 points, and Divac
had 14 rebounds to go with 11
points.
Sacramento had just eight
turnovers — one off its season
low — but committed three in
the first minute of the fourth as
Portland pulled ahead.
The Kings, swept by the Blaz
ers for the second straight season,
haven’t beaten Portland since
Dec. 16,1997.
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runs came across on an RBI single
by Sarah Beeson and a sacrifice
fly from the bat of Kellie Wignton.
Vidlund pitched 6 2/3 strong
inning to push her record to 14-4
before giving way to Connie Mc
Murren for the save.
“We’re extremely happy with
[Vidlund’s] performance,” Gamez
said. “It’s extremely good for her
confidence.”
On Saturday the Ducks also
picked up the first contest of the
two-day series with a 3-1 win.
They got started early in the game,
scoring all three of their runs in
the top of the second.
Junior Triawn Custer opened
the inning with a walk, and Lind
sey Welch reached on an error. Jill
Robinson drove in Custer with
her sixth double of the season.
Vidlund knocked in Welch with
base hit and Hutchinson reached
on another error to score Robin
son for the final run of the inning.
Vidlund got the start for the
Ducks, but was unable to get out
of the third when she loaded the
bases with one out. McMurren
(12-12) came in and quieted the
Cardinal rally with a strikeout and
a ground ball to end the inning.
Stanford’s only run came in the
fifth when McMurren got into a
base-loaded situation with none
out. She only allowed the one run
when she issued a free pass to
Maureen LeCocq before getting a
double play and great throw from
Welch to nail Beeson at home.
“The defense stepped up for us
today and really helped Connie,”
Gamez said. “She’s been throwing
well and in the zone. We’re
pleased about where she is at this
point in the season.”
In the opening game of the trip,
Oregon’s bats showed some pop
in a 3-2 win over Cal. Robinson
and Welch both blasted home
runs to lead the Ducks’ charge.
Robinson got the offense running
in the top of the second when she
blasted her 12th dinger of the
year, giving the Ducks a 1-0 lead.
Oregon lit the scoreboard again
in the third. Welch crushed a two
run later to push the score to 3-0.
Cal would close the gap in the
bottom of the fifth, cutting the
lead to 3-2 on a single by Paulina
Duenas.
“Jill and Lindsey did a good job
of getting us started,” Gamez said.
“They gave us the spark at the
right time.”
McMurren pitched a complete
game to get her first of two wins
on the weekend. She also record
ed a save in 1/3 innings of relief
for Vidlund on Sunday.
The wins improved the Ducks’
conference record to 4-6 and
pushed them into sole possession
of fifth place heading into the sec
ond half of the season.
“We’re in the middle of the
hunt now,” Gamez said. “We’re
right where we want to be.”
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