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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2018 CONTACT US FOLLOW US facebook.com/ DailyAstorianSports Gary Henley | Sports Reporter ghenley@dailyastorian.com Ionescu lifts No. 8 Oregon over No. 10 UCLA As of Tuesday morning, Feb. 20 TOP 10 MEDAL WINNERS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Norway Germany Canada Netherlands France United States Sweden Austria South Korea Japan G S 11 10 B 8 11 7 5 8 5 6 6 5 3 5 4 4 5 3 4 4 3 0 4 2 4 4 2 2 2 5 3 By RON RICHMOND Associated Press Olympics coverage at bit.ly/DAOlympics SPONSORED BY: J&S Appliance & Home Furnishings JandSappliance.com OLYMPICS IN BRIEF US rides Zapolski, college kids to Olympic quarterfinals GANGNEUNG, South Korea — Tony Granato knew going into the Olympics that Ryan Zapolski would be his goaltender and that the college kids on the Team USA roster would be counted on to sup- ply offense. It’s worked just like Granato and the late general manager Jim Johannson had hoped, and just in time: Zapolski stopped 21 shots in his best game of the tournament and NCAA players Ryan Donato and Troy Terry dominated offen- sively in a 5-1 win against Slova- kia that put the United States into Wednesday’s quarterfinals against the Czech Republic. “Jimmy, like we said since Day One, this is his plan,” Granato said Tuesday’s win. “It’s been a really nice mix.” Zapolski and Donato both took hits to the head against Slova- kia, and both said they were fine afterward. It looked worrisome at the time. In a frightening play, Ladislav Nagy crashed into Zapolski’s head and the goaltender was down on the ice for several minutes. Need- ing to be on top of his game in the Americans’ first elimination game, Zapolski was, even after jamming his neck. Slovenia hockey player tests positive for doping PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — A Slovenian hockey player who became the third ath- lete to be caught doping at the Pyeongchang Olympics said Tuesday he tested positive for an asthma drug that he took under doctor’s orders and he had forgot- ten to seek approval for its use. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Ziga Jeglic tested pos- itive for fenoterol in an in-com- petition test. Fenoterol is a drug designed to open the airways to the lungs. “I take the mentioned drug due to asthma under medical advice,” Jeglic said in a statement, adding he was tested on Friday. “It has been prescribed to me after testing for respiratory problems in Slova- kia in 2017. Unfortunately I have forgot to declare it as (a therapeu- tic use) exception.” Jeglic was suspended from the games and has been ordered to leave the athletes village within 24 hours. — Associated Press SCOREBOARD PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE TODAY Girls basketball — Seaside at Asto- ria, 6 p.m. GIRLS BASKETBALL Seaside 44, Scappoose 40 Scappoose 5 16 12 7—40 Seaside 10 11 16 7—44 SCP (40): Sara Mills 7, Brodala 6, Staf- ford 6, Kopra 6, Smith 6, Wills 4, Esterly 3, Wegner 2. SEA (44): Bryre Babbitt 16, Hoekstre 8, Kiser 7, Garhofer 5, Davis 4, Ideue 4, Smart, Zagata. Photos by Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian Ruby Davis takes a shot under the basket for Seaside. Seaside girls survive with 44-40 win over Scappoose By GARY HENLEY The Daily Astorian SEASIDE — The regular sea- son is over, and the state playoffs have not yet started. It’s that time of year when teams are simply trying to live to play another day. Monday’s winner — the Sea- side Gulls, who managed to extend their season another 24 hours with a 44-40 victory over Scappoose, in a Cowapa League girls basketball playoff. It was a close, but non-dra- matic win for the Gulls, as neither team scored over the final four minutes of the game. “We survived,” said Seaside coach Mike Hawes, whose team improves to 8-16 overall. “I don’t know if we thrived, but we sur- vived. We make it hard on our- selves by giving the ball away too much, which makes it hard for us to get into an offense.” With the victory, Seaside will have to go through the whole pro- cess again Tuesday (6 p.m. tipoff), as the Gulls play at Astoria for the third-place spot in the league. Win or lose, Astoria’s ranking (14th) will move the Fishermen on to the regional play-in round this week- end. Meanwhile, a loss could end the season for Seaside, ranked 24th. Monday’s first half was a lop- sided free throw shooting contest, with the Gulls taking most of the shots. Seaside made just three field goals over the first two quarters, but made up for it at the line. The Gulls made 13-of-18 free throws, to just 3-for-4 for Scappoose. “(The Indians) were press- ing us, so we had some fast-break opportunities,” Hawes said. “We made free throws in the second quarter. We didn’t make many baskets (1-for-9), but we made free throws. We scored enough Annaka Garhofer gets the rebound for Seaside. to fend them off, and made just enough shots to keep a lead at the end.” The one exciting stretch was a 9-2 run by Seaside to end the third period. After the Indians had taken their largest lead at 31-28 with 2:40 left, Seaside’s Ruby Davis hit a short jumper that sparked the run. Annaka Garhofer scored on a layup, Emy Kiser drained a 3-pointer, and Bryre Babbitt fol- lowed a missed shot with a score in the final seconds, giving Sea- side a 37-33 lead. The Gulls put the game away in the opening minutes of the fourth, as Davis scored her second basket and Babbitt banked in a 3-pointer for a 42-36 advantage. Babbitt fin- ished with a game-high 16 points. “Both teams are not very adept at peeling off points,” Hawes said. Of Babbitt’s bank shot, Hawes said, “We haven’t had a lot of banked-in shots, so maybe we were due to get a little lucky. Bryre made some big shots tonight. “We’ll take it,” he said. “It will be harder tomorrow night at Astoria.” Astoria won the two regular season games this year, but the Gulls have a good track record in league playoff meetings with the Fishermen. In four league playoff games since the 1999-2000 season, Sea- side holds a 4-0 advantage, with victories in 2000, 2003, 2008 and 2012. Monday’s loss was the final game for the Indians — not just for the season, but Scappoose’s last appearance as a member of the Cowapa League. Scappoose jumps to the Class 5A level next school year. The Indians were 3-2 after five games this season, but were 2-16 over their final 18 games. The Gulls, meanwhile, overcame a five-game losing streak midway through the season, and have won five of their last 11. EUGENE — A missed free throw was all the motivation Ore- gon’s Sabrina Ionescu needed to take matters into her own hands. All she wanted was a chance to leave no doubt. Ionescu scored seven of her 23 points in overtime and the No. 8 Ducks outlasted No. 10 UCLA 101-94 on Monday night. “We’re just fortunate that we made a couple of stops in over- time,” Oregon coach Kelly Graves said, “and then Sabrina kind of put us on her back that last five min- utes. That was a heckuva win and I’m really proud of our team.” Ionescu added 12 assists for the Ducks (25-4, 14-2 Pac-12). Oregon’s 14th conference win matched its best from 1999-2000 when it won the Pac-10 title. The sophomore guard didn’t have a turnover in 42 minutes against the Bruins’ relentless defensive pressure. She also was 10 of 12 from the foul line and had six rebounds. “That’s what your All-Amer- ican’s gotta do, and she did it tonight,” Graves said. Oregon built a huge first-half lead before UCLA rallied while holding the Ducks without a field goal for the final 6:18 of regu- lation. With the game tied at 90 after Ionescu made one of two free throws, the Bruins had a chance for the win in regulation, but they missed a layup just before the buzzer. Ionescu took over in OT. She scored the first four points in the extra session and the Ducks didn’t look back as UCLA was 1 of 4 with three turnovers. “Especially after missing that free throw, I knew I wasn’t going to let my team down and our seniors down,” Ionescu said. “I should have made it. I think it tested us. We had to come back that five minutes and fight adver- sity and stay composed, and we did.” Satou Sabally led the Ducks with a season-high 25 points on seven 3-pointers, and Maite Cazorla had 24 points and seven assists. Cazorla also hit five 3-pointers and surpassed 1,000 points for her career. Sabally made her first seven shots from the arc, most of them off assists from Ionescu. “For a freshman in this kind of environment, (Sabally) showed what she’s capable of doing and had a great game,” Graves said. Jordin Canada and Monique Billings each scored 26 points and had double-doubles for the Bruins (21-6, 13-3). Canada’s 13 assists gave her 765 for her career, breaking the Pac-12 record of 757 by Stanford’s Sonja Henning in 1988-91. Billings had 10 rebounds and was 11 of 15 from the field. She scored 17 in the second half and overtime, and Canada had 16 ‘I’m so proud of how they responded,” UCLA coach Cori Close said. “I’m so proud of their fight, I’m so proud of the passion and aggression with which they played in the second half, and I’m so bewildered at how we came out in the first. Hebard hits 33 straight field goals for NCAA record By ANNE M. PETERSON Associated Press EUGENE — Oregon’s Ruthy Hebard set the NCAA record for consecutive field goals made for men and women Monday night. She came into the No. 8 Ducks game against UCLA with 30 straight makes, which was the women’s record. She made her first three shots to break the men’s record of 30 set by Yale’s Brandon Sherrod in 2016. Hebard finally missed a layup in the second quarter. Her streak spanned 11 quar- ters and two overtime peri- ods for the No. 8 Ducks. When it ended, the crowd gave her a nice ovation. She made her next attempt. Hebard finished the game with 14 points and 11 rebounds. She was 7-of-11 from the floor, and Oregon defeated UCLA 101-94 in overtime. “Gotta start a new one now,” she said with a smile after the game. Hebard, a 6-foot-4 sopho- more from Alaska, went 12-for- 12 from the floor against Wash- ington State on Feb. 11 and then went 12-for-12 again in a dou- ble-overtime victory over USC on Friday. She had made her final six shots in Oregon’s pre- vious game. She surpassed the women’s record of 28 straight against USC that was held by South- ern Utah’s Myndee Larsen in 1998. Andy Nelson/The Register-Guard Oregon forward Ruthy Hebard, left, battles with UCLA forward Michaela Onyenwere for control of the ball during overtime of Monday’s game.
