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TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2015 Sports shorts Snow forces NBA to postpone Nets- Blazers game NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA has postponed home games for both the New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets because of a snowstorm expected to batter the area. The Knicks were to have hosted the Sacramento Kings on Monday night at the same time the Nets were scheduled to face the Port- land Trail Blazers. Sacramento will instead return to Madison Square Garden on Tuesday, March 3, adding an extra game to what was to have been a seven-game trip. The Trail Blazers-Nets game was rescheduled for Monday, April 6. SPORTS 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS ECHO Dufur rallies to keep streak against Echo alive Cougars without win over Rangers for last 15 years Girls Hoops Dufur Echo 53 By SAM BARBEE EO Media Group Before Monday’s girls basketball tilt between Echo and Dufur, Cougar head coach JD Brazil wrote the scores of the last 15 meeting on the whiteboard in the Echo locker room. They were all losses. Through a half, Echo was in position to HHNRXWLWV¿UVWZLQRYHU'XIXULQQHDUO\ 46 two decades, but could only manage 19 SRLQWVLQWKH¿QDOKDOIFRPLQJXSVKRUW 46 Monday night in Echo. “It seems like we were playing against the name on the shirt just as much as what (Dufur head coach Hollie) Darden is do- ing,” Brazil said after the game. “For us, See ECHO/2B Sam Barbee photo Elizabeth McCarty (23) of Echo drives past Dufur’s Syn- dey Reed during the second half of the Rangers’ 53-46 win over the Cougars on Monday night in Echo. McCa- rty fi nished with 22 points. Prep Wrestling Bryant to have surgery, likely out for season EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — Kobe Bryant will have surgery Wednesday on his torn right rotator cuff, likely ending his 19th season with the Los Angeles Lakers. The team FACES announced Bryant’s sur- gery Monday. He injured his shoulder last week in New Orleans. Bryant The Lakers say they’ll an- nounce a timetable for Bry- ant’s recovery after surgery, but coach Byron Scott says Kobe “is probably not going to play” again this season. Bryant’s torn rotator cuff is likely his third straight season-ending injury. He missed the 2013 playoffs with a torn Achilles tendon, and he played just six games last season before breaking a bone near his left knee. The third-leading scorer in NBA history sat out eight games in the last month to rest his 36-year-old body, but he injured his shoulder while dunking. “I’m just trying to get my 2K rating up.” — Hassan Whiteside Miami Heat center told ESPN on motivat- ed him in Sunday’s record-breaking per- formance in Miami’s win over the Chicago Bulls. The reference to the popular NBA 2K15 basketball video game followed his Heat fran- chise-record breaking 12 shot blocks that accomponied his fi rst career triple-double. The video game took notice, upping his overall rating from 59 to 77 following the performance. THIS DATE IN SPORTS 1973 — UCLA, led by Bill Walton, sets an NCAA record for consecutive victories with its 61st win, an 82-63 victo- ry over Notre Dame. UCLA breaks the record of 60 set by San Francisco in 1956. Walton ¿QLVKHVZLWKSRLQWVUH bounds and 10 blocks. 1991 — The New York Gi- ants survive the closest Super Bowl when Scott Norwood’s \DUG ¿HOG JRDO DWWHPSW with 8 seconds left in the game goes wide. The Giants win their second Super Bowl LQ ¿YH \HDUV RYHU WKH Buffalo Bills. 2003 — Hermann Maier wins a World Cup super giant slalom in Kitzbuehel, Austria, 18 months after he almost loses his leg in a motorcycle crash. Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com Photo by Warner Strausbaugh for the East Oregonian Hermiston’s Sam Colbray (in white) tries to free himself from Crook County’s Gunnar Robirts on Saturday in the championship 195-pound championship at the Reser’s Tournament of Champions at Liberty High School. Robirts won 10-5 in an upset. &ROEUD\VWXQQHGLQ5HVHU¶V¿QDO Hermiston star takes first instate loss of prep career pion,” the announcer read. +LVFRQ¿GHQFHZDVDOPRVWDVLQ timidating as his undefeated record this year. Crook County’s Gunnar Ro- birts paid no mind. The senior for the Cowboys was aggressive early, By WARNER STRAUSBAUGH jumping to a four-point lead. for The East Oregonian Saturday’s crowd at Liberty High School was in an uproar at that HILLSBORO — During intro- point, especially those in the Crook GXFWLRQVIRU6DWXUGD\¶V¿QDOVRIWKH &RXQW\ VHFWLRQ7KH SRXQG ¿ Reser’s Tournament of Champions, nal was, by far, the loudest and most Sam Colbray walked to center stage excited the crowd was all weekend. Colbray’s legendary status in DFRQ¿GHQW\RXQJPDQ The junior 195-pounder mo- the wrestling world was enough to seyed onto the mat. Everyone else pique their interest; the chance to see him lose was unheard of. sprinted. $IWHU WKH LQLWLDO IRXUSRLQW GH¿ “Two-time state champion, six- time All-American, national cham- cit, Colbray got sloppy, later admit- ting he thought he was trailing by more than four. The end result was a 10-5 win IRU5RELUWVDQGWKH¿UVWEOHPLVKRQ Colbray’s record and only of his ca- reer wrestling in the state of Oregon. Hermiston head coach Shaun Williams said Crook County stud- ied Colbray’s previous loss in Far- go, N.D., at nationals. “They basically followed that same strategy,” Williams said. Colbray said it was a combina- tion of matchup management and sickness that got the best of him. +HKDVEHHQGHDOLQJZLWKDÀX like illness for a week, and said his leg was in pain during the match. “I know that I’m the best out there on the mat when I’m not STANFIELD Boys Hoops #2 Irrigon 68 #3 Stanfi eld 55 these guys, but Anthony es- pecially. He’s battling back spasms right now.” Even with the nagging STANFIELD — Antho- ny Landeros left it all on injury, Landeros’ “all” WKH ÀRRU GXULQJ 6DWXUGD\¶V proved enough to lead the Columbia Basin Conference second-ranked Knights past slugfest between Irrigon and the third-ranked Tigers 68- 55 Saturday night at Stan- 6WDQ¿HOG In the end, that included ¿HOG+LJK6FKRRO An individual 9-0 run himself. galvanized the Knights (16- The Knights senior guard lay on his back in agony fol- 1, 5-0 CBC) in the second ORZLQJ WKH FRQWHVW¶V ¿QDO half after the Tigers (13-3, whistle, requiring a helping 4-1 CBC) cut the 10-point hand to his feet and a few halftime edge to just three teammate’s shoulders to with 5:15 remaining in the lean on on his way to the third period. Despite the inability to sit comfortably visiting locker room. “He’s so competitive. in a defensive stance, Land- There’s no way that An- eros swiped Tiger ballhan- thony Landeros is going to dlers on successive posses- leave this gym without giv- sion leading to uncontested ing it his all,” Irrigon coach layins during the surge. The Knights outscored Mitch Thompson said. See IRRIGON/2B “That’s the same with all of See RESER’S/2B College Basketball /DQGHURV,UULJRQVDLOSDVW6WDQ¿HOG Guard battles through back spasms to lift Knights to win sick,” Colbray said. “He’s not going to touch me on a day when I’m not sick.” His throat, in particular, was bothering him to the point of feeling like he had less oxygen than normal, he said. Williams did not think the sick- ness affected the result. “We can all make up excuses, but at the end of the day, the other kid was the better kid on the day,” Williams said. “Anytime you step on the mat, you’re ready to go to battle. There are no excuses.” Colbray tested negative for strep throat during the week, but has been on antibiotics and has lost weight. Beaver stars sweep Pac-12 weekly honors Associated Press By ERIK SKOPIL East Oregonian Sam Barbee photo Irrigon’s Anthony Landero (11) tries to make a tough layup as Stanfi eld’s Hunter Braithwaite (21) and Tony Flores defend during the second half of Irrigon’s 65-55 win over third- ranked Stanfi eld on Saturday. CORVALLIS — Oregon State Beaver basketball received a rare coup on Monday. Men’s basketball player Gary Payton II and women’s basket- ball player Jamie Weisner were each selected as Pac-12’s top players of the week, the league announced. Payton averaged 19.5 points, 8.5 rebounds and 3.5 steals to lead the Beavers to a home sweep of the L.A. schools. He had 18 points, seven re- ERXQGV VL[ DVVLVWV DQG ¿YH VWHDOV against UCLA and followed that with a double-double against USC with 21 points and 10 rebounds. He also had a game-clinching steal and free throw in WKH¿QDOVHFRQGVDJDLQVWWKH7URMDQV ³,W¶V WKH ¿UVW RQH LQ P\ FDUHHU , don’t try to get it every week, just try to help the team,” Payton said at prac- tice Monday. “Do what I can for the team. It’s nice but we’ve got to stay focused on the battle.” His father, the legendary Gary Pay- ton, was named the conference player See BEAVERS/2B
