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PREP BOYS BASKETBALL
NO. 1 REDMOND IS STATE TOURNEY BOUND
BY BRIAN RATHBONE
The Bulletin
REDMOND — For the first time
since 2006, the Redmond boys basket-
ball team is headed to the state tour-
nament.
The top-seeded Panthers are off
to Gill Coliseum in Corvallis for the
Class 5A quarterfinals next week after
a 78-58 win over No. 16 Milwaukie
Friday evening at Redmond High
School.
“We have been waiting for this for a
long time,” said Redmond senior Gar-
rett Osborne, the Intermountain Con-
ference Player of the Year. “It is nice to
have it secured.”
Through the game’s first 16 min-
utes the Mustangs played the Pan-
thers tough, leading midway through
the first quarter, then trailing only by
six points at halftime. It was even a
one-possession game one minute into
the third quarter.
Then in a span of a couple of min-
utes, the Panthers made five 3-point-
ers and threw down five dunks to take
a 19-point lead in the third quarter,
then cruise to the 20-point victory.
Senior guard Yoshi Saito said Red-
mond had never had a sequence like
that throughout its 20-5 season.
“We were in a zone,” said Saito, who
made two threes during the stretch
and finished with six points. “I will
remember that quarter forever. That
was awesome.”
Junior Evan Otten led the Panthers
with 26 points, Osborne finished with
22, and juniors Tanner Jones, Na-
than Wachs and sophomore Colton
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Redmond’s Garrett Osborne throws down an alley-oop dunk during the Panthers’ 78-58 win over Milwaukie in the first round of the Class 5A playoffs Friday night at Redmond
High School.
Horner each finished with eight.
The Panthers will play their quar-
Shower
Mark Keener, of
Jericho Road,
checks the tank-
less propane water
heater in the new
mobile shower
trailer introduced
at a homeless camp
outreach program
in Redmond on
Friday.
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Griffith said he spent nearly
half his life in prison, and when
he got out, he had trouble ad-
justing to life on the outside.
“I got out and couldn’t get a
job,” Griffith said. “So, I dug in
dumpsters.”
Griffith recently defeated
his methamphetamine habit,
and is also working on quitting
smoking.
He said the people with the
homeless camp outreach pro-
gram have given him access
to nicotine patches as well as
other services, and he he is in-
credibly grateful. He wishes he
could give something back, he
said.
One thing in particular he is
grateful for is the propane the
community has distributed to
him and the others that helps
people stay warm.
“I don’t know how I did it
back when they weren’t giving
out propane,” Griffith said. “I
think I just left the fire, went
and got in my sleeping bag,
and woke up in the morning
in my sleeping bag and started
the fire again.”
“If they ever run out of pro-
pane, people are going to die
out here,” Griffith said. “It gets
down to 10 below.”
Brenda Carroll, 51, is from
Redmond and lost her apart-
ment in 2013. She has been
homeless on the outskirts
of Redmond for about nine
months.
Running out of water is the
biggest hurdle for people like
Carroll. Without water, she
said, you can’t do much. You
terfinal game Wednesday at 1:30 p.m.
against No. 8 Ashland, which is com-
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can’t cook. You can’t stay clean,
and sometimes the only wa-
ter around is from the nearby
canal.
Carroll said four months ago
she had a tent she slept in. But it
collapsed, and all of her things
got soaking wet, so she ended
up with no clothes, no water,
no food, nothing, she said.
That is why she is grateful
for the services being provided,
she said. One thing that is im-
portant to her is cleanliness,
and she hopes there might be
a shower truck twice a week at
some point.
“Some people don’t take
showers at all because they
don’t make it on the day the
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shower is available,” she said.
“You don’t want to live out
here if you don’t have to,”
Carroll said. “A couple of my
friends have already passed
away, and they were sick. I’m
really devastated this situation
is going on in Central Ore-
gon for the homeless. We don’t
want to live this way. We don’t
want to have to subject our-
selves to this kind of life.”
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