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Page 2B SPORTS East Oregonian Friday, January 23, 2015 BOARDMAN NCAA Basketball Oregon State holds off UCLA rally Nyssa Associated Press CORVALLIS — Oregon State Coach Wayne Tinkle said his team “drew a line in the sand” during a timeout with about three minutes left against UCLA, with the Bea- vers having blown nearly all of a 17-point lead. “We came too far to give it up. We don’t lose the last four minutes at home,” he added. Gary Payton II had 18 points off a furious UCLA second-half rally to win 66-55 Thursday night. Malcolm Duvivier added 19 points for the Beavers, (13-5, 4-2 Pac-12), who are undefeated at home this season in 11 games. “We stuck together through thick and thin,” Duvivier said. “They had their runs and we didn’t let that overcome us. We just all knew we were going to win this game. We all just bought in and stuck to the game plan.” Bryce Alford scored 18 and Norman Powell added 13 and 10 rebounds for the Bruins (11-8, 3-3). “It’s going to be hard winning in someone else’s building shoot- ing 30 percent,” said UCLA Coach Steve Alford. The Bruins shot 30.6 percent. The Bruins cut the lead to two, 52-50, on a lay-in by Gyorgy Golo- man with 2:35 left. Olaf Schaftenaar responded with a 3-pointer on the next pos- session to give Oregon State a much-needed cushion and the Bea- vers held on to win. OREGON 75, USC 67 — At Eugene, Joseph Young scored 19 points and Elgin Cook added 15 to lead Oregon to 75-67 victory over Southern California on Thursday night. The win snapped a two-game Pac-12 losing streak for the Ducks (13-6, 3-3), who have won their last nine games against the Trojans with 12 points for Oregon, and Jalil Abdul-Bassit had 11 off the bench. Julian Jacobs and Katin Rein- hardt led USC with 16 points each. Jordan McLaughlin added 14 and Nikola Jovanovic had 10 to go with 10 rebounds. WASHINGTON 52, COLO- RADO 50 — At Boulder, Colo., Andrew Andrews connected on a straightaway jumper with one sec- ond remaining, lifting the Wash- ington Huskies past shorthanded Colorado on Thursday night for their third win in a row. Nigel Williams-Goss had 16 points to lead Washington (14-4, 3-3 Pac-12), which won at Colora- games here. Jaron Hopkins had 11 points. Wesley Gordon added 10 points for Colorado (9-9, 2-4), which lost its fourth in a row. No. 7 ARIZONA 89, STAN- FORD 82 — At Stanford, Calif., Stanley Johnson had 19 points and seven rebounds and No. 7 Arizona of the season Thursday night. Brandon Ashley added 17 points while playing with foul trouble in the Wildcats’ (17-2, 5-1 Pac-12) 10th straight win in the rivalry. Chasson Randle scored 26 points and became just the third Stanford player to reach 2,000 points and 15th in conference history. Anthony Brown added 18 points and nine re- bounds as the Cardinal (13-5, 4-2) had a three-game winning streak snapped. ARIZONA STATE 81, CALI- FORNIA 44 — At Berkeley, Calif., Bo Barnes matched his career high with 17 points off the bench, Kodi Justice had 16 and Arizona State pulled away with a big run in the PIONEERS: Moreno earns important win for district seeding Continued from 1B With a pin looking like more trouble than it was worth, Shaw let Feldmeier escape with each subse- quent takedown and pulled away in the third period. “He was stronger than I thought he would be, but I could see he’d be open for shots so I was just hop- ing to rack up as much (points) as I could before time ran out,” he said. Shaw’s win preceded a 26-sec- ond pin by 182-pound Pioneer Baker’s Sam Harper was one of seven on the night, and one of four by Mac-Hi. Also earning pins for the Pi- oneers were Isaac Riley at 132 (1:44), Gabe McAleaster at 138 (1:23), and Cole Skramstad at 152 (2:26). Skramstad used nearly every hold in the book on Baker’s John shoulders to the mat with 1:34 left in the second period. “I honestly don’t feel like I wres- tled all that well tonight,” he said. “I should have pinned (Stanford) in and he took me down. I just wasn’t ready to wrestle and I had to work back the whole match.” Skramstad’s six team points put Mac-Hi up 25-24 and the Pioneers never trailed again. “Really our four kids right there in a row are about as solid as you’re going to get with Cole, Alyx, Jef- frey (Jones) and Vince,” Chester said. “All four of those kids are just solid, solid, solid.” Skramstad, a two-time state placer, is one of two returning state - er, Jeffrey Jones, earned a win by forfeit at 170 pounds. The team expects to send a few this season and heavyweight Greg- ory Moreno showed why he’s one of the favorites to make the cut at districts with a 11-0 major decision over Will Goodwin in the match’s Moreno used his superior up- per body strength to toss Goodwin period. He led 3-0 after one period and 8-0 after two, but felt a little disappointed in the shutout win. “It could have been better,” he said, adding he’d prefer a pin. He said of his season, “This year has been great. The last two years that I had weren’t so (great), but this year I’m in it to win it.” “He’s had a really, really good year and should expect to be the No. 1 seed (at districts) now,” Chester said. “He’ll probably see that same Also earning a win for Mac- Hi on Thursday was 120-pounder Riley Chester, who held on for an 11-8 win thanks to a reversal with 13 seconds left. “It probably shouldn’t have been that close, but at the end it was what we wanted,” Beau Chester said. Riley, Chester and McAleaster are all sophomores. “I feel like our team did really well considering we’ve got some on our varsity squad,” Skramstad said. The Pioneers’ next action is on Friday, Jan. 30, when they host On- tario. ——— Contact Matt Entrup at men- trup@eastoregonian.com or (541) 966-0838. Follow him on Twitter @mattentrup. ——— MAC-HI 47, BAKER 30 285 — Gregory Moreno (MH) def. Will Goodwin, MD 11-0 106 — Zach Crisman (MH) win by FF 113 — Jace Hays (B) def. Deazen Zerba, PF 2:52 120 — Riley Chester (MH) def. Elijah Banister, 11-8 126 — James AhHee (B) win by FF 132 — Isaac Riley (MH) def. Logan Valentine, PF 1:44 138 — Gabe McAleaster (MH) def. Nick Blair, PF 1:23 145 — Marco Vela (B) def. Brandon Ryan, PF 1:26 152 — Cole Skramstad (MH) def. John Stanford, PF 2:26 160 — Alyx Shaw (MH) def. Dylan Feldmeier, 13-5 170 — Jeffrey Jones (MH) win by FF 182 — Vince Roff (MH) def. Sam Harper, PF :26 195 — Peter Baker (B) def. Josh Torres, PF 1:53 220 — Jacob Podolski (MH) win by FF HHS WRESTLING: Crane, Palmer impressive in varsity debuts Continued from 1B was up and the focus was there, as the Bulldogs topped the River- hawks 77-6. varsity grapplers win in sophomore Robert Crane and freshman Jake Palmer. “I thought some of our young kids competed well,” Tovey said. “The Dalles is a little shorthanded, but they have some pretty good kids, some talented kids. Kids like Robert Crane ... you’re a young kid, you’re wrestling up a weight, and he looked pretty good. And Jake Palmer, who’s a freshman — you’re out-gunned, and you do what you need to win.” The Bulldogs didn’t have a sin- gle wrestler lose. The only points garnered by The Dalles was a dou- ble-forfeit at 106 because Hermis- ton’s 106-pounder didn’t show up. pins, with four coming consecutively. The story of the match, though, for Hermiston was the performanc- sophomore Robert Crane and fresh- man Jake Palmer. At 152 pounds, Palmer faced junior Mitchell Waters and held off a furious third-round charge by The Dalles’ junior and won 9-7. Up Palmer was taken down with about a minute left to cut the match score to 8-7, but Waters let him up imme- diately in an effort to score another two points and was unable to drop Palmer again. A match before Palmer, Crane took on senior Colton Lee. Crane dominated, winning by technical fall in the third round. Crane had round and two in the second — and secured the TF before the minute “For those guys, that was a good thing,” Tovey said. Colbray continued his march through the 5A ranks this season, topping the No. 3 wrestler in the state in Joe Linebarger 3-2. Wrestling at 220, Colbray got a in the third to lead 3-0, but a last second takedown by Linebarger pushed the count to 3-2. Colbray admitted he didn’t push himself to the brink against Line- barger, and said he was just trying to survive the match. “Just winning here against a good guy who’s No. 3 at 220, not being full speed (is good),” Colbray said. “I know that, in my mind, if I had to pull off the match I could wrestle there at the end. It’s just a little bit of being catious and not wrestling to my full potential.” Following Colbray’s close win, Hermiston got its four-straight pins. Freshman Beau Blake pinned senior Jeffery Jimenez in 3:17 at 285, at 113, sophomore Jake Meads pinned freshman Ben Waters in 1:15, Liam Tarvin pinned Cole Davis in 1:18 and Joey Gutierrez pinned Maverick Winslow in 1:16 in the 138-pound match. Then came Crane’s technical fall win, then Palmer’s nail-biter. Bob a 5:44 pin over Jacob Schadt at 170 to close out the 77-6 win. “We’re getting pretty good as a team,” Tarvin said. “We wrestled pretty great. It’s getting to that time of year when things start getting tough. We just gotta stick together.” Immediately following the dual, Hermiston jumped on a bus to head to Corvallis to participate in the Reser’s Tournament of Champions in Hillsboro at Liberty High School. Matches begin at 11 a.m. Friday. ——— HERMISTON 77, THE DALLES 6 106 — Double forfeit 113 — J. Meads (Hermiston) def. B. Waters (The Dalles), fall, 1:15 120 — The Dalles forfeit 126 — L. Tarvin (Hermiston) def. C. Davis (The Dalles), fall, 1:18 132 — The Dalles forfeit 138 — J. Gutierrez (Hermiston) def. M. Winslow (The Dalles), fall, 1:16 145 — R. Crane (Hermiston) def. C. Lee, techinical fall, 17-1 152 — J. Palmer (Hermiston) def. M. Waters (The Dalles), 9-7 160 — The Dalles forfeit 170 — B. Coleman (Hermiston) def. J. Schadt, fall, 5:44 182 — The Dalles forfeit 195 — The Dalles forfeit 220 — S. Colbray (Hermiston) def. J. Linebarger, 3-2 285 — B. Blake (Hermiston) def. J. Jimenez (The Dalles), fall, 5:17 SCOREBOARD Local Slate PREP BOYS BASKETBALL Today Stanfield at Culver, 4:30 p.m. Mac-Hi at Ontario, 6:30 p.m. Nixyaawii at Joseph, 6:30 p.m. Hermiston at The Dalles, 7 p.m. Hood River at Pendleton, 7:30 p.m. Pilot Rock at Irrigon, 7:30 p.m. Weston-McEwen at Heppner, 7:30 p.m. Helix at Pine Eagle, 7:30 p.m. Ione at Horizon Christian, 7:30 p.m. Condon/Wheeler at Sherman, 7:30 p.m. Arlington at Dufur, 7:30 p.m. Saturday Heppner at Culver, 2:30 p.m. Weston-McEwen at Pilot Rock, 5:30 p.m. Nyssa at Umatilla, 5:30 p.m. Irrigon at Stanfield, 5:30 p.m. Mitchell/Spray at Arlington, 5:30 p.m. Echo at Helix, 5:30 p.m. Wallowa at Nixyaawii, 5:30 p.m. Vale at Riverside, 6 p.m. Condon/Wheeler at Ione, 6:30 p.m. PREP GIRLS BASKETBALL Today Stanfield at Culver, 4:30 p.m. Mac-Hi at Ontario, 5 p.m. Nixyaawii at Joseph, 5 p.m. Helix at Pine Eagle, 6 p.m. Pilot Rock at Irrigon, 6 p.m. Weston-McEwen at Heppner, 6 p.m. Condon/Wheeler at Sherman, 6 p.m. Ione at Horizon Christian, 6 p.m. Arlington at Dufur, 6 p.m. Pendleton at Hood River Valley, 7 p.m. The Dalles at Hermiston, 7 p.m. Saturday Heppner at Culver, 2:30 p.m. Weston-McEwen at Pilot Rock, 4 p.m. Irrigon at Stanfield, 4 p.m. Vale at Riverside, 4 p.m. Nyssa at Umatilla, 4 p.m. Mitchell/Spray at Arlington, 4 p.m. Echo at Helix, 4 p.m. Wallowa at Nixyaawii, 4 p.m. Condon/Wheeler at Ione, 5 p.m. PREP WRESTLING Today Hermiston, Pendleton at Reser’s Tourna- ment of Champions (Liberty HS), 9 a.m. Riverside at Gervais Tournament, 3 p.m. Heppner at Grant Union Tournament, Saturday Hermiston, Pendleton at Reser’s Tourna- ment of Champions (Liberty HS), 9 a.m. Riverside at Gervais Tournament, 10 a.m. PREP SWIMMING Saturday Pendleton, Hermiston at Hood River, 11 a.m. COLLEGE MEN’S BASKETBALL Today Oregon Tech at Eastern Oregon, 7:30 p.m. Yakima Valley at Blue Mountain, 8 p.m. Saturday Wenatchee Valley at Blue Mountain, 4 p.m. Southern Oregon at Eastern Oregon, 7:30 p.m. Nixyaawii Echo Pine Eagle Joseph Powder Valley Wallowa Helix 4-0 4-2 3-1 2-3 2-3 2-3 0-5 9-6 8-7 4-8 6-7 6-8 6-8 2-12 5 29 23 37 36 42 63 COLLEGE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Today Oregon Tech at Eastern Oregon, 5:30 p.m. Yakima Valley at Blue Mountain, 6 p.m. Saturday Wenatchee Valley at Blue Mountain, 2 p.m. Southern Oregon at Eastern Oregon, 5:30 p.m. GIRLS Class 5A CRC Hermiston Pendleton The Dalles Hood River Conf 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 Ovr 12-3 10-5 8-6 5-10 Rnk 1 7 9 31 Class 4A GOL La Grande Baker McLoughlin Ontario Conf 1-0 1-0 0-1 0-1 Ovr 9-5 6-9 3-10 3-14 Rnk 7 24 30 36 Class 3A EOL Umatilla Vale Nyssa Riverside Conf 2-0 2-0 1-2 0-3 Ovr 13-3 12-1 6-10 8-9 Rnk 5 6 23 28 Class 2A CBC Conf Weston-McEwen 3-0 Pilot Rock 3-0 Culver 1-2 Heppner 1-2 Stanfield 1-2 Irrigon 0-3 Ovr 10-4 7-5 9-7 6-8 5-9 5-8 Rnk 14 11 24 27 22 29 Class 1A BSL Conf Condon/Wheeler 4-0 Dufur 5-1 Sherman 4-2 Arlington 3-2 Ione 3-2 Horizon Christian 1-4 South Wasco 1-5 Mitchell/Spray 0-5 Ovr 13-1 8-5 6-7 9-6 3-8 4-10 3-12 5-9 Rnk 1 14 26 18 32 48 36 40 Class 1A OOL Echo Nixyaawii Powder Valley Wallowa Helix Joseph Pine Eagle Ovr 13-3 11-4 7-7 7-7 6-8 4-9 2-9 Rnk 11 9 23 28 33 44 51 Football NFL Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 25 At Glendale, Ariz. Team Irvin vs. Team Carter, 5 p.m. (ESPN) Basketball BOYS Class 5A CRC Pendleton Hood River Hermiston The Dalles OSAA Conf 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 Ovr 9-5 7-7 3-11 1-14 Rnk 4 27 24 29 Class 4A GOL La Grande Baker Ontario Mac-Hi Conf 1-0 1-0 0-1 0-1 Ovr 11-4 9-8 3-13 2-11 Rnk 11 27 39 29 Class 3A EOL Umatilla Nyssa Vale Riverside Conf 2-0 3-1 1-1 0-4 Ovr 8-9 8-8 5-9 5-12 Rnk 19 18 24 34 Class 2A CBC Conf Irrigon 3-0 Stanfield 3-0 Heppner 1-2 Weston-McEwen 1-2 Pilot Rock 1-2 Culver 0-3 Ovr 14-1 12-2 10-3 6-9 5-7 2-14 Rnk 1 2 3 20 28 39 Class 1A BSL Conf Horizon Christian 5-0 Dufur 5-1 Sherman 4-2 South Wasco 3-3 Mitchell/Spray 2-3 Arlington 1-4 Ione 1-4 Condon/Wheeler 0-4 Ovr 13-3 9-4 10-3 7-7 6-7 3-12 2-9 3-10 Rnk 1 10 9 18 31 51 44 55 Class 1A OOL Ovr. Conf. Conf 5-1 3-1 3-2 3-2 2-3 1-4 0-4 NBA Thursday’s Games Chicago 104, San Antonio 81 Utah 101, Milwaukee 99 Boston 90, Portland 89 L.A. Clippers 123, Brooklyn 84 Friday’s Games Toronto at Philadelphia, 4 p.m. Oklahoma City at Atlanta, 4:30 p.m. Indiana at Miami, 4:30 p.m. Charlotte at Cleveland, 4:30 p.m. Orlando at New York, 4:30 p.m. Chicago at Dallas, 5 p.m. New Orleans at Minnesota, 5 p.m. L.A. Lakers at San Antonio, 5:30 p.m. Houston at Phoenix, 6 p.m. Boston at Denver, 6 p.m. Sacramento at Golden State, 7:30 p.m. NCAA Men Top 25 Thursday’s Games No. 8 Notre Dame 85 Virginia Tech 60 DePaul 64, No. 24 Seton Hall 60 No. 2 Virginia 57, Georgia Tech 28 No. 23 Indiana 89, No. 13 Maryland 70 No. 3 Gonzaga 68 Saint Mary’s 47 Today’s Games VCU at Saint Louis, 4 p.m. PAC-12 CONFERENCE Conf. Ovr. Utah 5-1 15-3 Arizona 5-1 17-2 Stanford 4-2 13-5 Oregon St. 4-2 13-5 UCLA 3-3 11-8 Washington St. 3-3 9-9 Washington 3-3 14-4 Oregon 3-3 13-6 Colorado 2-4 9-9 Arizona St. 2-4 10-9 California 1-5 11-8 Southern Cal 1-5 9-9 ——— Thursday’s Games No. 7 Arizona 89, Stanford 82 Oregon State 66, UCLA 55 Washington 52, Colorado 50 Oregon 75, USC 67 Arizona State 79 California 44 Pct. .833 .889 .765 .706 .611 .500 .765 .667 .529 .500 .611 .529 Hockey NHL Thursday’s Games No games scheduled Today’s Games No games scheduled WHL Thursday’s games Kootenay 5 Edmonton 3 Today’s Games Moose Jaw at Regina, 4 p.m. Prince Albert at Brandon, 4:30 p.m. Vancouver at Lethbridge, 5 p.m. Swift Current at Calgary, 5 p.m. Prince George at Medicine Hat, 5:30 p.m. Spokane at Portland, 6 p.m. Everett at Kelowna, 6:05 p.m. Seattle at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m. Kamloops at Victoria, 6:30 p.m. Tennis Australian Open Friday At Melbourne Park Melbourne, Australia Purse: $32.9 million (Grand Slam) Surface: Hard-Outdoor Singles Men Third Round Tomas Berdych (7), Czech Republic, def. Viktor Troicki, Serbia, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4. Grigor Dimitrov (10), Bulgaria, def. Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus, 4-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3. Women Third Round Julia Goerges, Germany, def. Lucie Hradecka, Czech Republic, 7-6 (6), 7-5. Ekaterina Makarova (10), Russia, def. Karolina Pliskova (22), Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-4. Yanina Wickmayer, Belgium, def. Sara Errani (14), Italy, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. Peng Shuai (21), China, def. Yaroslava Shvedova, Kazakhstan, 7-6 (7), 6-3. Eugenie Bouchard (7), Canada, def. Caroline Garcia, France, 7-5, 6-0. Irina-Camelia Begu, Romania, def. Carina Witthoeft, Germany, 6-4, 6-4. Doubles Men Second Round Jamie Murray, Britain, and John Peers (16), Australia, def. Omar Jasika and John-Patrick Smith, Australia, 6-2, 6-3. Dominic Inglot, Britain, and Florin Mer- gea (14), Romania, def. Diego Schwartz- man and Horacio Zeballos, Argentina, 7-6 (6), 4-6, 6-2. Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, Pakistan, and Nenad Zimonjic (8), Serbia, def. Pablo Carreno Busta and Guillermo Garcia-Lo- pez, Spain, 7-6 (9), 6-4. Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini, Italy, def. Raven Klaasen, South Africa, and Leander Paes (10), India, 2-6, 6-4, 6-1. Benjamin Becker, Germany, and Artem Sitak, New Zealand, def. Julian Knowle, Austria, and Vasek Pospisil (13), Canada, 1-2, retired. Feliciano Lopez, Spain, and Max Mirnyi, Belarus, def. Rohan Bopanna, India, and Daniel Nestor (7), Canada, 7-5, 6-3. Women Second Round Klaudia Jans-Ignacik, Poland, and Andreja Klepac, Slovenia, def. Garbine Muguruza and Carla Suarez Navarro (6), Spain, 7-6 (5), 6-4. Alla Kudryavtseva and Anastasia Pavly- uchenkova (12), Russia. def. Alexandra Panova, Russia, and Heather Watson, Britain, 6-0, 6-2. Gabriela Dabrowski, Canada, and Alicja Rosolska, Poland, def. Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwan, and Sania Mirza (2), India, 7-6 (5), 6-4. Mixed First Round Cara Black, Zimbabwe, and Juan Sebastian Cabal (5), Colombia, def. Chan Yung-jan, Taiwan, and Marin Draganja, Croatia, 6-2, 5-7, 10-6. Anabel Medina Garrigues and Pablo Andujar, Spain, def. Darija Jurak and Ivan Dodig, Croatia, 6-2, 7-6 (4). runs by Riverside East Oregonian BOARDMAN — The Nys- sa boys basketball team made short work of Riverside in a 64- 33 Eastern Oregon League rout Thursday night. Riverside (5-13, 0-4 EOL) struggled to maintain possession against the Bulldog (8-8, 3-1 EOL) defensive pressure, turn- ing it over 30 times. When the Pirates did get looks offensively, they weren’t on target. The Bulldogs bounded out to a 35-16 edge. “We’ve just got better and more physical,” Riverside coach Clair Costello said. “Other teams are able to be more physi- cal than we are.” Costello brought freshman Felix Apricio up from junior - cio handled the promotion well, scoring seven points, grabbing seven rebounds and adding four swipes. Riverside hosts Vale on Sat- urday at 6 p.m. ——— NYSSA 64, RIVERSIDE 33 NHS (8-8) 18 17 19 10 — 64 RIV (5-13) 6 10 8 9 — 33 NYSSA — Olivera 12, Huffman 7, Rozzo 4, Pascacio 2, Simpson 2, Chavez 4, Fluentes 6, Martinez 5, Coble 11, Gonzalez 11. RIVERSIDE — Madrigal 4, Castillo 0, Rosales 0, Carmona 4, Roberts 4, Olivera 9, Dilla 0, Apricio 7, Navarro 0, Salagado 0, Garcia 2, Sorenson 3. 3-point field goals — NHS 3, RIV 2. Free throws — NHS 8-16, RIV 7-10. Fouls — NHS 18, RIV 15. Fouled out — Simpson (NHS). Technical foul — N. Madrigal (RIV). In other Thursday scores: Nyssa girls 40, Riverside 25. BLAZERS: Batum leaves game with injury Continued from 1B a turnover gave Portland the ball on the other end. But the Blazers struggled to score and settled for Thomas Robinson’s free throw to lead 89-87 with 26.6 seconds left. Turner hit the 3-pointer for the lead, and Lillard couldn’t get a shot off before the buzzer. The Blazers were hit before the game with the news that three-time All-Star LaMarcus Aldridge had torn a ligament in his left thumb and would need surgery. The 6-foot-11 power forward is expected to miss from six to eight weeks. Aldridge was injured in Monday’s 98-94 victory over the Sacramento Kings. He hurt the thumb when it came down hard on DeMarcus Cousins’ knee. “It’s tough,” Aldridge told reporters in Portland’s locker - nitely didn’t want to have any- thing like this going on right now.” Portland started Thomas Robinson in Aldridge’s spot against the Celtics. The injury is blow to the Blazers, who were already deal- ing with a depleted front line. Center Robin Lopez is out with a fractured right hand and center Joel Freeland is sidelined with a right shoulder strain. The Celtics shook up their lineup, starting Brandon Bass instead of Tyler Zeller. Coach Brad Stevens said before the game he wanted to see Bass and Sullinger play together. “We’re not accomplished enough to say we have to have oen starting lineup right now,” Stevens said pregame. The Celtics were coming off a 102-93 loss to the Clippers in Los Angeles on Monday night. After Bass hit a jumper and Marcus Thornton made a 3-pointer to put the Celtics up 33-27, the Blazers went on a 6-0 run to tie it at 33. Portland couldn’t pull in front until Mat- thews’ layup made it 39-38 with 2:39 left in the half, but Boston led 44-42 at the break. Matthews made a 3-point- er to give the Blazers a 56-52 lead, but forward Nicolas Ba- tum headed to the locker room pulling off the tape on his right wrist. Batum did not return. Lillard gave the Blazers a 72- 67 lead with a slam dunk over Bradley with 1.1 seconds to go in the third quarter. The Blazers were coming off a 118-113 loss to the Suns in Phoenix on Wednesday night.
