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UCLA upsets Utah
LOS ANGELES (AP)
Norman Powell scored 23
points and UCLA defeat-
ed No. 11 Utah 69-59 for
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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with 44.8 seconds left to lift
the Portland Trail Blazers past
the Dallas Mavericks 114-112.
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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
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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
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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
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and charged with murder.
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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.
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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-
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Hilliard and Wright both got
wins over Pirates by way of
pins, Edgar Guzman slipped
past Colton Evans 15-14, and
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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-
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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
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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
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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-
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Aldridge added, Lillard snubbed
Blazers are tied for third in the
conference and he is averaging
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were picked Thursday as re- for the Feb. 15 game at Madison
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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
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only had one in LaMarcus Al- year’s All-Star game MVP, and
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lard was not among the seven cago were the other players an-
reserves even though the Trail nounced to the East roster.
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