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Tigard Beats Jesuit For Championship
Benson places fifth with 67-52 victory over Jefferson
(AP) — A tournament already
filled with upsets concluded with
another Saturday.
Eric Doak hit a game-tying 3-
pointer with five seconds left in
regulation, then made eight free
throws in the final minute o f over
time to hand No. 6 Tigard the
Class 4A state championship Sat
urday with a 69-59 victory over
No. 4 Jesuit.
“All I was thinking was ‘I’ve
got to knock this down,” ' Doak
said o f his tying 3. “This whole
team has shown unbelievable
heart after a lot o f people ques
tioned us coming into this tourna
ment.”
Ryan Gabel led Tigard (24-2),
which won its second state title,
with 21 points and seven rebounds
before fouling out late in over
time. Scott Dougherty, had 31
points, including four 3s, to lead
Jesuit(22-6).
Neither team enjoyed more than
a four-point advantage in the sec
ond half, which featured four lead
changes. The last came when Je
suit reeled o ff six unanswered
points to take a 50-46 lead with
2:09 left in regulation.
Jesuit, which hit 63 percent o f
its shots in the first half but only
47 percent in the second half, had
trouble connecting from the field
in OT and was forced to foul in
order to keep the game close.
Doak responded by scoring his
team 's last eight points from the
free throw line, finishing with 14
points. The Tigers also got 15
p o in ts from c e n te r Tom m y
Magnuson on 6-of-9 shooting.
In other tournament results,
Beaverton claimed Third Place
with a 59-39 win over Westview,
Grants Pass earned Fourth Place
witha63-55 victory overChurchill
and Benson upset Jefferson, 67-
52, giving the Techmen a Fifth
Place finish.
Blazers Make Drive Toward Playoffs
Portland’s own “Mighty
Mouse” Damon
Stoudamire takes care
of the offense in route
to a Blazer victory
against New Jersey
Friday at the Rose
Garden.
Stoudamire's
performance is a big
factor in the Portland
Trail Blazers' late
season resurgence as
an NBA contender. The
Blazers have won 12 of
the last 13 games,
counting Saturday's 82-
73 road loss to
Denver.
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Jayson W illiams on M onday, say
ing he tampered with evidence and
conspired to obstruct justice in
the shooting o f a lim ousine driver
at his home.
W illiam s, already accused o f
m anslaughter, was charged M on
day with hindering apprehension,
conspiracy to obstruct the adm in
istration o f law, w itness tam per
ing and two counts o f tam pering
with evidence, Hunterdon County
authorities said.
Prosecutors have said W illiam s,
34, was handling a gun recklessly
when 55-year-old Costas Christofi
was shot in W illiam s’ bedroom on
Feb. 14.
A w itness told Sports Illustrated
m agazine that W illiam s tried to put
the victim ’s palm and fingerprints
on the shotgun, then disposed o f
his own bloody clothes before po
lice arrived. The m agazine did not
identify the witness.
W illiam s’ brother reported the
shooting to authorities as a su i
cide.
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Oregon Seeded No. 2 in Midwest
Team opens NCAA tourney Thursday in Sacramento
(AP) - Two years ago, the
Oregon Ducks sat stone-faced
as the NCAA tournam ent selec
tion show handed them a piece
o f coal as their March M adness
gift: a No. 7 seed and a trip to
Buffalo, N.Y.
On Sunday, the D ucks’ for
tunes were vastly different. The
selection com m ittee rew arded
Oregon for w inning their first
Pac-10 regular-season title by
making the Ducks a No. 2 seed.
The com m ittee also did the
Ducks (23-8) a favor by keeping
them close to hom e for the first
two rounds. O regon will open
play in the M idwest Region in
Sacramento, Calif., against 15th-
seeded M ontana on Thursday.
“They recognized this is one
o f the toughest conferences in
the country and the fact we con
trolled our destiny down the
stretch,” Oregon coach Ernie
K ent said. “The biggest thing,
this is a chance to get o ff to a
great start and deal with a very
m anageable travel situation b e
cause we are staying in the same
tim ezone.
Oregon went 14-4 in the Pac-
10, claim ing its first outright
league title since the 1938-39,
when the “Tall Firs” went on to
win the inaugural NCAA tour
nament.
The Ducks had hoped to eam
one o f the four top seeds in this
year’s NCAA by winning the Pac-
10 tournament, which returned
after a 12-year absence. But Or
egon is lucky to still bea No. 2af)er
losing to Southern California in
the semifinals on Friday.
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Former Blazer Coach Hired at NBC
Former NBA Blazers’
head coach Mike Dunleavy
joined NBC as the color ana
lyst on its No. 3 basketball
team Thursday.
Dunleavy replaces Tom
Tolbert as the partner for
play -b y -p lay announcer
Mike Breen. Tolbert shifted
last w eekend to the
n e tw o rk ’s NBA studio
show, taking the spot o f
Jayson Williams, who was Mike Dunleavy
taken off the program after
being charged with manslaughter
is Dallas at Washington, although
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N BC already has taken two o f the
sion.
W izards' games off its schedule
Dunleavy’s debut will come
while Michael Jordan is out with a
March 31, in the middle game o f a
knee injury.
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Dunleavy will call three regu-
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will have a full slateof play
o ff duty.
He was fired by the Port-
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