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)5,'$<-$18$5< Sports shorts UCLA upsets Utah LOS ANGELES (AP) Norman Powell scored 23 points and UCLA defeat- ed No. 11 Utah 69-59 for LWV¿UVWZLQ over a Top 25 opponent this season. Bryce Alford had 14 points and seven assists, and Isaac Hamilton added 11 points for the Bruins (12-9, 3-5 Pac-12). UCLA held a 33-30 halftime advantage and led the entire second half. Delon Wright scored 15 points and Brandon Taylor had 14 for the Utes (16-4, 6-2). Utah has not beaten UCLA in Los Angeles since 1961. Utah beat UCLA 71-39 WKH¿UVWWLPHWKHWHDPVPHW WKLVVHDVRQRQ-DQLQ6DOW Lake City. The Bruins are 10-1 at home and 2-8 in road and neutral-site games. SPORTS Prep Basketball Bulldogs go on offensive Hermiston routs Hood River Girls Hoops East Oregonian HOOD RIVER — The Hermiston Bulldogs knew there would be nights like these. That didn’t cause them to let up against the Hood River Val- ley Eagles in a Columbia Riv- er Conference girls basketball game on Thursday, however. The No. 2 Bulldogs routed the No. 31 Eagles 89-22, an Hermiston 89 Hood River 22 outcome coach Steve Hoffert said was necessary to keep Hermiston on the right path. “We talked about it com- ing into league (play), that there would be nights when we wouldn’t see the level of competition we were needing to see,” he said of a team with high goals for its season. “You have to basically dominate these games to get to where you want to go.” Sara Ramirez led Hermiston (14-3, 2-0) with 23 points and -DQVHQ (GPLVWRQ DGGHG HLJKW assists to go with her seven points. Abi Drotzmann chipped in 12 points and nine rebounds, and Kynzee Padilla grabbed eight boards. Rileigh Andreason also “He’s not supposed to come on Sunday. Obviously that would change some things. But I think he’s going to be a disciplined young man and stay in there until after the game.“ — Richard Sherman Seahawks CB on the possibility that his girl- friend could give birth to his fi rst child, a son, during the Super Bowl. THIS DATE IN SPORTS 1971 — UCLA starts its 88-game winning streak with a 74-61 win over UC Santa Barbara. 1983 ² -RKQ 5LJJLQV rushes for a Super Bowl-re- cord 166 yards on 38 car- ries to spark the Washington Redskins to a 27-17 victory over the Miami Dolphins. For Riggins, the game’s MVP, it’s his fourth consecutive 100- yard rushing game during the playoffs, also a record. 2010 — Andre Miller scores a career-high 52 points, including 25 in the fourth quarter and overtime, and -XZDQ+RZDUGKLWVDMXPSHU with 44.8 seconds left to lift the Portland Trail Blazers past the Dallas Mavericks 114-112. Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com Super Bowl XLIX “I don’t know what story y’all trying to get out of me. I don’t know what image y’all trying to portray of me.” — Marshawn Lynch See BASKETBALL/2B Prep Wrestling Echo opens new era Opening statements heard in Hernandez trial FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — Former New En- gland Patriots player Aaron Hernandez orchestrated the killing of a semiprofessional football player, FACES then covered up, prosecutors charged Thurs- day in opening statements, while the de- fense countered that authorities Hernandez ignored the ev- idence and zeroed in on their client from the beginning. The prosecution and defense teams laid out their cases in Hernandez’s murder trial Thursday, just days be- fore his old team was to play in the Super Bowl. Hernandez is charged with the 2013 killing of Odin Lloyd, who was dating the sister of Hernandez’s ¿DQFHH6KD\DQQD-HQNLQV Lloyd was found shot to death in an industrial park near Hernandez’s North Attleborough home, not far from Gillette Stadium. Hernandez had a $40 million contract as a tight end with the Patriots when KHZDVDUUHVWHGLQ-XQH and charged with murder. 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS AP Photo/Matt York Seattle Seahawks’ Marshawn Lynch adjusts his cap during an interview for NFL Super Bowl XLIX football game, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015, in Phoenix. Lynch talks about why he doesn’t talk By ROB MAADDI Associated Press Maegan Murray photo Irrigon’s Brandon Combs, right, takes down Echo’s Colton Evans during a match at Echo’s fi rst home wrestling meet in school history on Thursday. Combs won by pinfall in the third period. &RXJDUZUHVWOHUVKRVW¿UVWGXDOV By SAM BARBEE EO Media Group $WLWV¿UVWHYHUKRPHZUHV tling meet, the Echo Cougars took their lumps. In two duals on the mat, Echo lost to visiting Riverside (27-24) and Irrigon (19-12). Echo assistant coach Ray- mon Smith said it was good progress Thursday night be- cause Echo grappled both Irri- gon and Riverside earlier this season, and didn’t win a single match. After 11 matches Thurs- day night, Echo wrestlers had their arms raised four times. For Smith and the Echo pro- gram, that’s the highlight of the night. That success, said senior Payton Wright, comes from simply being on the mat and learning how to wrestle. “Experience is everything and knowledge is power in any sport,” Wright said. “Having the knowledge to know what to do now — to scramble, to chain wrestle, everything — that’s a huge key.” Echo freshman Hayden Hil- liard went 2-0, including a pin in just 18 seconds over Irrigon’s Ammon Byers. Wright also got a pin in his only home meet. “Once you wrestle for a long time, you can kind read kids — if they’re gonna be good or ag- gressive or not,” Hilliard said. “Right when we stepped on the mat, I kind of saw that that match was going to be pretty quick.” In Riverside’s opening dual against Irrigon (a 28-6 victory), three of the four matches were pins, and the one outlier saw Ulises Calvillo defeat Brandon Combes by 14-4 decision. Against Echo, it was slight- O\PRUHGLI¿FXOWIRUWKH3LUDWHV Hilliard and Wright both got wins over Pirates by way of pins, Edgar Guzman slipped past Colton Evans 15-14, and ,YDQ (VFREHGR DQG -DVRQ 1D varro both secured pins. For Riverside, the Pirates sent a lot of their younger, more inexperienced wrestlers to get some mat time. “We have some better old- er kids that these guys gotta piggyback on the weekends and wrestle some tournaments (and) sometimes are a little overwhelmed,” Riverside head coach David Boor said. “It was a good night. It was more of their competition.” Although Riverside won each of its duals, Boor said it was a good learning experi- See WRESTLING/3B College Basketball No. 3 Gonzaga outlasts PSU Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. — Kevin Pangos launched a long 3-pointer that missed early in the second half against Portland. But third-ranked Gonzaga re- bounded the ball and it came back out to Pangos, who shot from about the same place and sank that 3 to help break open a close game and lift the Bulldogs to a 64-46 victory Thursday night. “He’s an amazing player and a more amazing person,” coach Mark Few said of Pangos, who be- came the leading 3-point shooter in school history earlier in the game. Few noted that Pangos practices his shooting every night, long after #3 Gonzaga 64 Portland St. 46 practice has ended. “There’s a reason this happens,” Few said. “He comes down here every single night.” Domantas Sabonis had 13 points and 11 rebounds as the Bull- dogs extended the nation’s longest home winning streak to 37 games dating to 2012. Przemek Karnowski added 10 points and 11 rebounds for Gonza- ga (21-1, 10-0 West Coast Confer- ence), whose only loss was in over- time at then-No. 3 Arizona. PHOENIX — Marshawn Lynch FKDQJHG WKH VFULSW DQG ¿UHG EDFN DW KLV critics. After two days of giving only scripted answers, the Seattle Seahawks’ star run- ning back gave his most extensive com- ments of Super Bowl week, mostly tell- ing reporters why he won’t talk to them. “I don’t know what story y’all trying to get out of me. I don’t know what image y’all trying to portray of me,” Lynch said Thursday. “But it don’t matter what y’all think, what y’all say about me because when I go home at night, the same peo- ple that I look in the face — my family that I love, that’s all that really matter to me. So y’all can go make up whatever y’all want to make • Preview on 2B up because I don’t say enough for y’all to go and put any- thing out on me.” When Lynch arrived at the podium, a man with a reporter’s credential who said he was a teacher asked him to give his students a “shoutout.” But Lynch wouldn’t bite and began his unscripted statement. “Y’all shove cameras and micro- phones down my throat,” Lynch contin- ued. “But when I’m at home in my envi- ronment, I don’t see y’all, but y’all mad at me. And if you ain’t mad at me, then what y’all here for? I ain’t got nothing for y’all, though. I told y’all that.” Lynch, who had spurned reporters’ ef- forts to get him to talk at mandatory news conferences Tuesday and Wednesday, seemed frustrated that they were still trying. “I’m here preparing for a game. And y’all want to ask me these questions, which is understandable. I could get down with that. But I told y’all. I’m not about to say nothing. ... All of my re- TXLUHPHQWVDUHIXO¿OOHG´ NBA Aldridge added, Lillard snubbed Blazers are tied for third in the conference and he is averaging NEW YORK — Al Horford, 21.8 points.. The rest of the West reserves 3DXO 0LOOVDS DQG -HII 7HDJXH were picked Thursday as re- for the Feb. 15 game at Madison serves for the Eastern Confer- Square Garden in New York are ence All-Star team, giving the -DPHV +DUGHQ +RXVWRQ .OD\ sizzling Atlanta Hawks three Thompson (Golden State), Tim Duncan (San Antonio) and Chris selections. Kevin Durant and Russell Paul (Clippers). Head coaches in each confer- Westbrook were selected in the West, despite early season inju- ence had to vote for two guards, ries for the Oklahoma City stars. three frontcourt players and two The Miami Heat also had two re- players regardless of position. serves in Chris Bosh and Dwya- They couldn’t vote for players on their own teams. ne Wade. Cleveland’s Kyrie Irving, last But Portland surprisingly only had one in LaMarcus Al- year’s All-Star game MVP, and dridge. Point guard Damian Lil- ¿UVWWLPHU-LPP\%XWOHURI&KL lard was not among the seven cago were the other players an- reserves even though the Trail nounced to the East roster. Associated Press