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12A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2018 CONTACT US FOLLOW US facebook.com/ DailyAstorianSports Gary Henley | Sports Reporter ghenley@dailyastorian.com SPORTS IN BRIEF Trail Blazers use 2nd-half charge to get past Pacers INDIANAPOLIS — The Port- land Trail Blazers may not need to rely exclusively on their dynamic duo to throw scoring punches any longer. Their new supporting cast trades jabs pretty well, too, and it could make a real difference to their long-term prospects. UP NEXT: BLAZERS • Portland Trail Blazers (4-2) at Houston Rockets (1-4) • Today, 5 p.m. TV: NSNW With Damian Lillard strug- gling Monday and C.J. McCollum scoring just 17 points, the Blazers got 17 points from Zach Collins and the first career double-dou- ble from former Purdue star Caleb Swanigan to put away the Indiana Pacers 103-93. “They’ve been great for us all season. They’ve been keeping us alive all season,” McCollum said, referring to Portland’s bench. “They’re the difference between us being an average team and a really good team.” Photos courtesy BuffaloBills.com Jordan Poyer looks to put the finishing touches on a run by Tom Brady in the first half of Monday night’s football game in Buffalo. Patriots top Poyer and the Bills, 25-6 The Daily Astorian Biles, Americans roll at world championships DOHA, Qatar — The jugger- naut led by Simone Biles keeps right on rolling, kidney stone or no kidney stone. The U.S. women’s gymnas- tics team cruised to a gold medal at the world gymnastics champion- ships on Tuesday, extending a run of dominance that only seems to be picking up momentum. The Americans posted a team score of 171.629 in winning their fourth straight world title, well clear of silver medalist Russia and bronze medalist China. The 8.766 margin of victory is the largest at a major international competition since the U.S.’s streak began in 2011. The gap between first and second was more than two times the margin between second and eighth. Even a couple of rare mis- steps by Biles, the reigning Olym- pic champion, did little to slow the Americans and their 21-year-old star. Biles is dealing with a kidney stone diagnosed last week and is attempting to fight through the pain. — Associated Press SCOREBOARD PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE TODAY Boys soccer — Seaside at Stayton, 5 p.m. B Astoria’s Jordan Poyer ponders a tough loss to New England on Monday Night Football, despite a great game for the Buffalo defense. UFFALO, N.Y. — The Buffalo defense lived up to expectations, but the Bills’ offense failed to show up Monday night at New Era Field, where the New England Patriots posted a 25-6 win over the Bills. New England led 9-3 at halftime and 12-6 heading into the fourth UP NEXT: BILLS quarter, but a few late mistakes by • Chicago Bears (4-3) the Bills and a defensive score for the at Buffalo Bills (2-6) Patriots dropped Buffalo to its sixth • Sunday, 10 a.m. TV: FOX loss of the season. Astoria’s Jordan Poyer had three tackles for the Bills, who were host- ing their first Monday Night Football game since 2008. For the season, Poyer is the third-leading tackler on the Buffalo defense, with 42 combined stops. The former all-state quarterback and defensive back for the Fishermen has a team-leading two interceptions for the Bills. Seahawks playing with confidence, freedom By TIM BOOTH Associated Press RENTON, Wash. — Seattle coach Pete Carroll has found a bigger mean- ing behind an audacious fourth quar- ter decision by rookie Michael Dick- son to run on fourth down out of his own end zone, a play that somehow managed to net a first down. The Seahawks are playing with a style Carroll wants to see and the freedom to try things that might oth- erwise seem foolish — like a punter running on fourth-and-8 at his own 3 rather than taking a safety like he was supposed to. The result is that the Seahawks UP NEXT: SEAHAWKS • Los Angeles Chargers (5-2) at Seattle Seahawks (4-3) • Sunday, 1:05 p.m. TV: CBS having won four of five after Sun- day’s 28-14 victory over Detroit, with six of the final nine games at home and Seattle in the thick of the NFC playoff conversation at midseason. “I like to think he showed you our mentality that we trust our guys and we work hard and work at it that you’re going to get faced with oppor- tunities, and I like our guys to be able to improvise well and find the ways to make special things happen,” Carroll said Monday. “We always look for guys who have special qualities and part of that is, the guys who have the background and courage and faculties to make those kinds of decisions.” Dickson’s 9-yard run with 2:18 remaining aside, the Seahawks once again used the formula that has worked for the past five games: play strong defense; control the ball offen- sively with the run; let Russell Wil- son use the pass game efficiently and not as the primary vehicle for Seat- tle’s offense. Seattle held promising young Detroit running back Kerryon John- son to 22 yards rushing on just eight carries and limited the Lions to just 34 yards total on the ground. The Sea- hawks ran 42 times for 176 yards — including Dickson’s run — and had the ball for nearly 35 minutes. Wilson also posted the first perfect passer-rat- ing game in Seahawks history while completing 14 of 17 passes for 248 yards and three touchdowns. Wilson’s 17 pass attempts matched the second-fewest of his career. The only time he threw less came in his rookie season when he was 7 of 13 passing against Arizona in a game Seattle won 58-0. He didn’t need to carry the offensive load through the air because of the success Seattle was having on the ground.
