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Rangers take two from Bobcats Lillard’s long buzzer
beater lifts Blazers
into second round
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The Union/Cove Bobcats base-
ball team has made strides in its ef-
fort to rebuild from a rough stretch
that saw it win only four games over
three years. The team has already
matched its win total from a year
ago, and hung with Dufur/South
Wasco County in a doubleheader
Monday in Union.
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PORTLAND — After Da-
mian Lillard hit his walk-
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Trail Blazers along in the
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pair of tough-to-take last-inning
losses, falling 4-3 in the opener of
Monday’s doubleheader and 5-4 in
the nightcap.
“We’re getting there,” head coach
Jon Reynolds said. “At this point
last year, we didn’t have a chance to
even do that. And we’ve been (close)
in all the games (except for two).
-
ence. We’re throwing strikes, we’re
playing defense, now we just have
to start hitting the ball. We have to
score more runs.”
The Bobcats entered the bottom
of the seventh of the opening game
trailing 4-1, but gave themselves
a chance to pull even despite not
getting a hit. Anthony Goodwater
walked with one out, Levi Oben-
dorf walked with two outs, and
Gannon Carreiro reached on an er-
ror to score Goodwater. D.J. Coon
was hit by a pitch to load the bases,
and Keegan Glenn hit a grounder
that was booted at second base to
score Obendorf. Dufur, though, got
out of the frame with the win when
Carreiro was thrown out at home
trying to also score on the error.
Reynolds, in hindsight, believed it
was still the right move to send the
runner in that scenario.
“You have to make them make a
play,” the coach said. “He’s bobbling
it at second base, the fastest guy on
the team is rounding third, I’m send-
ing him every time. I would rather
make that gamble than see with two
outs if the next guy is going to hit the
ball. They just made a good play.”
Union/Cove’s other run came in
the fourth inning on a Hunter Coon
RBI single.
Carreiro allowed three runs on 10
hits in 4-2/3 innings, striking out
four and walking three to keep the
Bobcats close.
Game two was another nail-biter
that Dufur stole late.
With the score tied at 4-4 in the
to the Thunder bench.
“That was the last
word,” he said afterward.
“That was having the last
word.”
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50 points and Portland
eliminated
Oklahoma
City from the postseason
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bottom of the seventh, Russell
Peters of the Rangers, the designated
home team in the nightcap, roped a
one-out double and scored on a two-
out single by Louis Red Cloud for the
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“He was solid all game. He’s just a
good ball player. He stepped up and
hit the ball,” Reynolds said of Peters.
Peters made a key play in the top
of the seventh as well with a diving
catch of a Hunter Coon liner that
prevented a double or triple.
The Bobcats took an early lead in
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D.J. Coon singled with one out,
moved up on a wild pitch and scored
on an error.
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fore the sophomore settled in. Glenn
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then he found the strike zone and
command of his curveball. He went on
to allow four runs on six hits, walk six
and strike out nine batters in 5-1/3.
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inning,” Glenn said. “I went back in
the dugout between innings and told
myself to relax a little bit. Went out
there, quit thinking as much, pitched
and it worked out.”
Union/Cove scored three times
in the top of the third without a hit,
taking advantage of three errors and
three walks by Dufur pitcher Brock
LaFaver. Errant throws by the pitch-
er allowed Carreiro and D.J. Coon
to score, and a wild pitch let Glenn
score for a 4-2 lead.
Dufur rebounded for two runs
in the home half of the third, then
the teams matched zeroes until the
Rangers’ winning hit.
Union/Cove managed just three
hits in the nightcap, two of which
were by Glenn, who felt the team
played well in spite of being swept.
“We got the loss, but it was two of
the best games we probably played
this year,” he said.
The Bobcats (3-5 overall, 1-4 Spe-
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Echo for a doubleheader Saturday.
115 victory on Tuesday
night.
With the game tied, Lil-
lard dribbled just inside of
halfcourt near the Blazers
logo and then pulled up
and hit the game-winner
at the buzzer from 37-feet.
After his wave, Lillard was
mobbed by his teammates
and the crowd chanted
“MVP! MVP!”
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3-pointers, second-most
game.
“All of those things that
we did to give ourselves a
chance to win were huge,”
Lillard said. “And my part
in it, I think, was probably
my most important per-
formance.”
Portland advances to
the Western Conference
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ner of the series between
the Nuggets and San An-
tonio. Denver won 108-90
earlier in the night to take
a 3-2 lead in that series.
It was the 12th straight
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Thunder, who have been
eliminated in the opening
round for three straight
seasons.
Russell Westbrook had
29 points, 11 rebounds
and 14 assists for his 10th
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ble and his second of the
series. Paul George added
36 points.
“Very, very disappoint-
ing. It’s as simple as that,”
George said. “We let this
one slip away but it is
what it is.”
Lillard had 34 points
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more than Westbrook and
George had combined
(32) for the Thunder —
but the Blazers had just a
61-60 edge going into the
second half.
The Thunder led 90-
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quarter. Westbrook hit a
3-pointer to extend the
lead while Lillard took a
break on the bench.
Oklahoma City went up
105-90 with 7:45 left on
Dennis Schroder’s pul-
lup jumper as Portland
struggled.
Lillard’s
3-pointer
pulled the Blazers within
108-103, but Westbrook
answered with his own 3.
CJ McCollum’s bank shot
cut Oklahoma City’s lead
to 113-109 with 1:39 left.
Maurice Harkless added
free throws to get the Blaz-
ers within two.
McCollum tied it with
a jumper with just under
a minute left, but George
scored on the other end.
Lillard’s layup re-tied it
then Westbrook missed a
layup with 18.3 seconds
left to set up Lillard’s epic
buzzer beater.
“I don’t care what any-
body says that’s a bad
shot,” George said about
Lillard’s 3. “But he made
it and that story will be
told, but it was a bad shot.
You live with it.”
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17 for the Blazers and
Enes Kanter had 13 points
and 13 rebounds.
LHS tennis splits home finale against TigerScots; girls golf wins
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The La Grande Tigers boys
tennis team went 4-3 in Tues-
day’s home match against the
Weston-McEwen
TigerScots,
while the LHS girls went 2-3 on
the afternoon. All the matches
were pro-set matches as op-
posed to the regular best-of-
three set matches.
LHS won two singles matches,
with Devin Ingram edging Elijah
Kelly, 9-8, after winning the tie-
breaker, 7-2, while Adam Remily
routed Harry Shaul 8-0. In dou-
bles, La Grande earned wins from
Nick DuVernay and Kaleb Myer
over Cade Bryan and Alex Wood
(8-3) and Mason Mellinger and
Gabe Blackman beat Elijah Kelly
and Cade Bryan (8-2).
Colm Cahill dropped an 8-2
match against Noah Kelly in sin-
gles and Cayson Forsberg fell to
away with wins for La Grande in
singles play. Bushman defeated
Shelby Yunk, 8-3, and Wilson
blanked Ace Jensen, 6-0.
Rebecca Conklin dropped an
8-2 set to Tenley Alderson, and
in doubles both teams of Brit-
tany Robles and Maritza Villago-
mez, and Marla Ortiza and Lilia
Torres dropped 8-0 matches.
The Tigers visit Nyssa
Thursday.
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Lebraun Albert, 8-2. In the other
doubles match, James Thurman
and Scott Remily lost to Noah
Kelly and Lebraun Albert, 8-4.
On the girls side, Brenna Bush-
man and Emily Wilson came
Katie Williams had a career-
best score of 87 to take third and
lead the La Grande Tigers girls
golf team to a victory Monday at
the Baker Invitational.
“I knew she was going to break
90 soon,” LHS head coach Cally
Goss said, noting Williams shot
a 38 on the front nine. “She has
been so close and striking the
ball so cleanly. It was nice to
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working really hard.”
Three of the four Tigers broke
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of 379. Morgan Tussey posted a
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lee McNeil added a 98 and Tori
Bowen had a 102.
“It was the most positive day
we’ve had all year,” Goss said.
“It was really good for our team.
I was so proud of them and they
were very excited to get the team
win.”
The Tigers are back on the
course today at Wine Valley in
Walla Walla, Washington.
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The Joseph Eagles boys track
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to take second at the Weston-
McEwen Small School Invite
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