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Three Warriors selected for all-league honors
The Daily Astorian
Three
Warrenton
Warriors
received all-league recognition,
announced at last week’s Lewis &
Clark League basketball tournament.
For the Lady Warriors, junior Tyla
Little was selected second team, and
senior Landree Miethe earned third-
team honors.
Of the 26 players on the girls’
all-league team (first team, second
team, third team, honorable mention),
league champion Portland Adventist
had five players named all-league,
with Coach of the Year Ty Johnson.
Rainier also had all five starters
named all-league, including junior
Desirae Hansen as Player of the Year.
For the Warrenton boys, senior
Christian Holt was selected
second-team.
Lauran Pratt of Oregon Episcopal
was named Coach of the Year, and
Catlin Gabel senior Jacob Adler was
honored as Player of the Year.
Daily Astorian/File Photos
LEFT: Warrenton senior Landree Miethe was named to the Lewis & Clark all-league third team this week. MIDDLE: Christian Holt, right, earned sec-
ond-team all-league honors. RIGHT: Junior Tyla Little was one of three Warrenton basketball players who received all-league recognition this week.
Lillard rallies Trail Blazers to 112-103 win
113 percent
average raise
in baseball
arbitration
By TERRANCE HARRIS
Associated Press
ORLANDO, Fla. — Damian Lillard felt
fresh after the All-Star break.
Aside from going to the Trail Blazers facil-
ity for treatment each morning, Lillard spent
the majority of his time at home watching tele-
vision, relaxing and consuming water. If his
first game back from break was any indication,
it was exactly what he needed.
Lillard scored 17 of his 33 points in the
fourth quarter to rally struggling Portland to
a 112-103 victory over the Orlando Magic on
Thursday night.
“I truly believe that break played a part in
me being able to come out fresh,” said Lillard,
who fought through picking up three fouls in
the first half. “Even though I got into foul trou-
ble early in the game, I still felt good. I didn’t
feel discouraged about that and I think that
played a huge part in that fourth quarter.”
Lillard brought the Blazers back from an
11-point deficit early in the fourth with a cou-
ple of big 3-pointers and drives to the bas-
ket during a stretch in which Portland out-
scored Orlando 16-4 to claim the lead. Lillard’s
3-pointer from the corner with 5:21 remaining
gave the Blazers their first lead since the first
quarter at 96-95.
Portland would not trail again even though
the game remained close down the stretch.
“He has done that often in his career,”
said Portland coach Terry Stotts, whose team
snapped a three-game losing streak. “When he
gets to rolling like that ... I don’t know if it’s a
normal thing but it’s certainly not surprising.”
But what may have been surprising was the
defense of seldom-used guard Shabazz Napier,
who put a stop to the penetration of Orlando
guard Elfrid Payton in the second half. Napier
played so well that Stotts played a three-guard
lineup for much of the final 24 minutes to allow
Napier, C.J. McCollum and Lillard to be on the
floor together.
“More than anything else it was his
defense,” Stotts said of Napier. “I liked his
defense on the ball and I just didn’t feel com-
By RONALD BLUM
Associated Press
AP Photo/Willie J. Allen Jr.
Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard (0) dribbles by Orlando Magic center Ni-
kola Vucevic, left, during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Orlando, Fla.,
Thursday. Portland won 112-103.
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fortable taking him out.”
The Blazers spoiled Terrence Ross’ Magic
debut and also sent Orlando to its sixth loss in
its last seven games.
The Magic led by as many as 14 points, but
the all-too-familiar breakdowns on the inte-
rior defense and the inability to get consistent
points outside of Nikola Vucevic plagued them
down the stretch.
Orlando coach Frank Vogel couldn’t hide
his frustration as his team’s already slim play-
off chances fade with each loss.
“That’s exactly what I’m talking about,”
Vogel said. “Up nine or whatever we were in
the fourth quarter, you should win that game.”
OSU’s Wiese wrapping up legacy-making career
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
CORVALLIS — Four years ago,
Sydney Wiese put her trust in Oregon
State coach Scott Rueck. She’s never
once doubted the decision.
“Coach Rueck had the vision of
doing something that had never been
done at Oregon State before. And I
had faith, with his character and the
way he was handling the recruiting
end, that it would be possible,” Wiese
said. “It was definitely a leap of faith
but I wanted to be part of something
special — and that’s definitely what
it has been the past few years here.”
Weise is playing out the final sea-
son of a legacy-making career for the
Beavers. She has been a constant in
recent years as the team has enjoyed
a dramatic rise as one of the nation’s
elite.
In December, she passed Stan-
ford’s Candice Wiggins to claim the
Pac-12 record for career 3-point-
ers and she currently has 352 to rank
18th on the NCAA’s all-time list.
She more recently passed Leilani
Estavan’s school record for career
assists with 592 and climbing. She’s
seventh in school history with 1,696
career points.
The 10th-ranked Beavers (25-3,
14-2) close out the regular season this
SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Anibal Ortiz/The Gazette-Times
Oregon State guard Sydney Wiese, middle, breaks through Oregon de-
fense to score during an NCAA college basketball game in Corvallis
in January.
weekend at home with games against
Stanford and California. Oregon State
is tied with the No. 8 Cardinal atop
the conference standings.
After the conference tournament
the following week, Oregon State
will likely host first-round NCAA
Tournament games as the team looks
to improve on last season’s Final Four
run.
When Oregon State hired Rueck
in 2010, the Beavers had seen a mass
exodus of players from a team that
dropped 17 straight games the pre-
vious season. He was left to build a
Division I roster nearly from scratch
and held open tryouts with the prom-
ise of walk-on status and a chance at
earning a scholarship down the road.
The Beavers’ climb was steady
and in 2014 — Wiese’s freshman year
— the team reached the NCAA Tour-
nament for the first time in 18 years.
After finishing a then-school record
13-5 in Pac-12 play, the Beavers were
runners-up in the conference tour-
nament and advanced to the second
round in the Big Dance.
The next season, Oregon State
popped into the AP Top 25 for the
first time since 1996, won the Pac-12
regular-season title to end Stanford’s
string of 14 seasons with at least a
share of it, and again advanced to the
second round in the NCAAs.
Last year, the Beavers collected
a first-ever conference tournament
championship, and, of course, that
first Final Four appearance.
Wiese grabbed Rueck’s attention
at Pinnacle High School in Phoenix.
She fell in love with Corvallis and
started as a freshman. The next year,
it became clear to her that Rueck’s
“vision” was turning into reality.
“I think my favorite moment was
the first time we won the Pac-12 reg-
ular-season championship. It was on
our home floor, it was my sophomore
year and it was senior day for Ali Gib-
son, who was the lone senior at the
time,” she said. “Just to be able to get
that win on our floor in front of our
amazing fans — it was crazy and it
was loud. There were balloons and
confetti, and it really felt like we were
on track.”
NEW YORK — San Diego
Padres first baseman Wil Myers
landed the biggest raise of all
the hefty salary increases in
arbitration.
The 168 players eligible for
arbitration as of mid-Decem-
ber averaged a 113 percent raise,
according to a study by The Asso-
ciated Press on Thursday.
Myers received a 26-fold
increase from $523,900 to an
average of $13.8 million as part of
an $83 million, six-year contract.
St. Louis right-hander Carlos
Martinez was next with a 18-fold
hike from $539,000 to an average
of $10.2 million in a $51 million,
five-year deal, followed by Atlanta
outfielder Ender Inciarte with an
11-fold raise from $523,000 to an
average of $6.1 million in his five-
year deal worth $30,525,000.
All three were eligible for the
first time.
Last year, players who filed for
arbitration averaged a 96 percent
increase.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TODAY
Boys Basketball — 2A State Playoff:
Knappa at Imbler, 5:30 p.m.; Washing-
ton 1B Regional: Naselle vs. Taholah
(at Tumwater HS), 8 p.m.
Wrestling — OSAA State Tourna-
ment, Portland Memorial Coliseum
SATURDAY
Girls Basketball — 4A Regional
Play-in: Junction City at Seaside, 7 p.m.
(840 AM, 98.1 FM); Washington 2B
Regional: Ilwaco vs. Raymond (at W.F.
West HS), Noon; Washington 1B Re-
gional: Naselle vs. Neah Bay (at Mount
Tahoma HS), 10 a.m.
Wrestling — OSAA State Tourna-
ment, Portland Memorial Coliseum
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Lewis & Clark All-League
Player of the Year: Desirae Hansen,
Rainier
Coach of the Year: Ty Johnson, Port-
land Adventist
First Team
Desirae Hansen, Jr., Rainier
Eriyanna Bristol, Jr., De La Salle
Krystian Brownell, Sr., Portland Chris-
tian
Demi Guild, Sr., Portland Christian
Sarah Halversen, Sr., PAA
Kira LaSage, Sr., PAA
(Warrenton selections)
Second Team
Tyla Little, Jr.
Third Team
Landree Miethe, Sr.
BOYS BASKETBALL
Lewis & Clark All-League
Player of the Year: Jacob Adler, Catlin
Gabel
Coach of the Year: Lauran Pratt, OES
First Team
Jacob Adler, Sr., Catlin Gabel
Dawson Carr, Jr., Rainier
Marquis Guntle, Sr., De La Salle
Ian Holzman, Jr., OES
Emerson Lamb, Sr., OES
Jordanos Lincoln, Sr., De La Salle
Demorisean Pennington, Jr., Portland
Christian
Dusten Sewald, Jr., Clatskanie
(Warrenton selections)
Second Team
Christian Holt, Sr.