WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2015
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IRRIGON
No. 1 Kentucky
survives Vanderbilt
Knights shock Bucks at buzzer
Aaron and Andrew Harrison
combined
for 11 points
down the
stretch that
were key
in helping the top-ranked
Wildcats hold off pesky
Romero lifts Irrigon
over Pendleton
Five combined
3-pointers by Riley
LaChance (16 points) and
Matthew Fisher-Davis
(13) helped Vanderbilt pull
within 58-54 with 2:36 left.
Aaron Harrison responded
with a big shot from long
range 27 seconds later, and
Andrew Harrison followed
with a jumper with 1:07 left
to provide some space.
Aaron Harrison added
two more free throws to
When Irrigon’s Adrian Romero rolled
shot 44 percent.
Sharapova barely
advances at
Australian Open
MELBOURNE, Australia
(AP) — Maria Sharapova
saved two match points in
a narrow escape against
No. 150-ranked Alexandra
Panova at the Australian
Open on Wednesday,
advancing to
third round
FACES the
with a 6-1, 4-6,
7-5 win.
Second-
seeded
Sharapova
made 51
unforced errors
Sharapova
as she went for
the lines, saving some of her
high-risk winners for when
she needed them most.
She faced two match
points in the 10th game of
the third set, ripping big
forehand winners on both
points against Panova, a
Australian Open without
previous majors.
Sharapova, who won the
2008 Australian Open and
By ERIK SKOPIL
East Oregonian
day’s tied contest with Pendleton, his quest
was singular: put it through.
With a motion inhibited by a defend-
er’s hand, Romero did just that, sending
the six-footer off the glass, the home crowd
59 at Irrigon High School.
“It was a relief,” said Romero, who scored
a game-high 24 points in the win. “I saw the
ball go up and I was just
praying it was going in.
Once it went in it was just
a relief.”
Irrigon
Romero scored seven
points, but none were big-
ger than the last basket.
With the game knotted
guard Anthony Landeros
drove to the basket only to
have his attempt sent to the
to chase him everywhere. We didn’t think
they were going to switch and it worked.”
Romero’s scoring spree came off the heels
of a Caden Smith three-pointer that gave
Pendleton a 57-54 lead with 4:18 remaining.
But, the Bucks would turn it over twice on
their next three possessions. First on a Smith
Bradt missed a cutting Quinn Cockburn on
the game’s penultimate possession.
“We fumbled around. We had guys falling
early. It was just one of those nights I guess,”
Pendleton coach Brian Broaddus said.”But,
en’t lost here in three and a half years.”
Irrigon’s last home loss came on Feb. 11,
2012, when Weston-McEwen did the deed.
Brian Broaddus.
See KNIGHTS/2B
“I don’t know
anything about
that. I don’t touch
footballs. I tackle
people.”
a massive 2A Columbia Basin
Conference win over Heppner
1958 — Bob Pettit of
member of the losing team to
win the NBA All-Star MVP
award, scoring 28 points and
grabbing 26 rebounds, even
though the East beats the
West 130-118.
2007 — Lovie Smith be-
coach to make it to the Su-
per Bowl when his Chicago
Bears win the NFC cham-
him when his Indianapolis
Colts take the AFC title.
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called timeout and drew up a play for the
reigning Class 2A Player of the Year.
“We just wanted to loop Adrian around,”
Preps
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
Pendleton
(9-5) center Wes Persinger with 1.3 seconds.
struggled with her serve in
the second and third sets
as the match extended to
2 hours, 32 minutes in a
temperatures topping 91
degrees.
— Vince Wilfork
New England Patriots
DT when asked about
the NFL’s inquiry into
the balls provided by
the team for its AFC
Championship win over
Indianapolis. Anon-
ymous sources told
ESPN on Tuesday that
11 of the 12 balls were
found to be signifi cantly
underinfl ated. NFL vice
president of football
operations Troy Vincent
told the AP the investi-
gation is still ongoing.
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Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Irrigon’s Adrian Romero takes the ball to the basket guarded by Pendleton’s Wes Persinger in
the Knights 61-59 win against the Bucks on Tuesday in Irrigon.
HELIX
EO Media Group
East Oregonian
es of their history books
for a walk down memory
lane on Saturday evening
basketball team had to follow it
up with a non-league, interdivi-
sional matchup in Umatilla.
Up 15 in the third quar-
School Hall of Fame
honors its 2015 class.
Following the girls
basketball game against •Griswold HS
the Echo Cougars, which Hall of Fame
tips off at 4 p.m., the ceremonies
fourth-quarter barrage from
the Vikings and guard Dylan
steal and layup with 1:21 left to
•Sat., 5:30 p.m.
handed Umatilla club 59-55.
“Umatilla really battled
of the most successful
spans in its girls’ program history with the
induction of the 1982 and 1983 Class B state
us all we can handle.”
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24 points, and Umatilla’s Eric
effort.
Sharp said the Vikings gave
their aggressive, pressuring de-
fense, but they didn’t move the
ball very well and their assist
totals were lower than usual.
has won six straight after drop-
ping a pair right before Christ-
mas, and Umatilla (8-9, 2-0
Eastern Oregon League) had
its brief two-game winning
streak snapped.
cia hit a three-pointer and
Dany Ayala hit one of two
from the line, Umatilla led 55-
54 with less than a minute and
a half left in regulation.
Sam Barbee photo
led 56-55 and wouldn’t trail
from there.
“You could kind of feel
the momentum shift a little,”
Sharp said.
———
Stanfi eld’s Dylan Grogan (22) tries to fi nger roll one home
as Umatilla’s Edgar Morales (left) and David Garcia de-
fend during the fi rst half of a non-league basketball game
Tuesday night in Umatilla.
STANFIELD 59, UMATILLA 55
SHS
8 20 16 15 — 59
UHS
7 14 16 18 — 55
STANFIELD — L. Moreno 4, R. Bailey 4,
E. Galarza 9, A. Nunez 0, E. Lockwood 1, T.
Flores 7, H. Braithwaite 3, D. Grogan 24, T.
Monkus 0, A. Montes 0, Davchevski 7.
UMATILLA — D. Ayala 2, J. Ramirez 0, E.
Garcia 21, G. Armenta 0, J. Coria, K. Webb 3,
D. Garcia 7, A. Jaime 10, J. Tejada 0, T. Sangui-
no 2, A. Simmons 0, E. Morales 1.
3-point fi eld goals — Stanfi eld 4, Umatilla
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EO fi le photo
Helix’s Terra Blevins hugs teammate
Wendy Wagner after the Grizzlies de-
feated Days Creek for the 1983 girls
basketball state championship.