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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2015 SPORTS 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS Sports shorts WAR ON 84 Mayweather- Pacquiao bout clears another hurdle (AP) — HBO and Show- time have agreed on how WKH\ZRXOGEURDGFDVWD¿JKW between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, promoter Bob Arum said Thursday, leaving only two remaining issues to be settled before the much anticipated 0D\¿JKWFDQEHVLJQHG Arum told The Associated Press that the rival networks have come to terms on an announcing team and other details for the pay-per-view blockbuster, and that talks this week have narrowed the remaining differences between the Mayweather and Pacquiao camps. Seattle’s Thomas will need surgery SEATTLE (AP) — Se- attle Seahawks All-Pro free safety Earl Thomas played the Super Bowl with a torn labrum in his left shoulder and will need offseason sur- gery to repair the injury. Thomas FACES suffered a dislocated shoulder in the ¿UVWKDOIRIWKH NFC champi- onship game. He returned to play the second Thomas half and played in last Sunday’s Super Bowl against New England wear- ing a brace to protect the shoulder. Thomas was in for every defensive play of the 28-24 loss. On Monday, Seattle coach Pete Carroll said Thomas might need surgery. Woods withdraws GXULQJ¿UVWURXQG SAN DIEGO (AP) — In an ominous start to his season, Tiger Woods walked off the course after 11 holes Thursday at the Farmers Insurance Open because of tightness in his lower back that he attribut- FACES ed to a fog delay. Woods began reaching for his lower back midway through the round on the Woods North Course at Torrey Pines, and his grimace became more pronounced. Billy Horschel picked up the tee for Woods on their 10th hole and took the ball out of the cup for him when Woods made birdie. Woods hit a safe shot to the middle of the par-3 third green. When it was his turn, he had caddie Joe LaCava pick up his ball marker and he waited for Horschel DQG5LFNLH)RZOHUWR¿QLVK before getting into a cart and driving to his car. “My son sure does know how to make an entrance! 2/5/15... Is it a coincidence or is he just that clever?! Either way I’m ecstatic.“ — Richard Sherman Seattle Seahawks CB on Twitter after the birth of his fi rst child on Thursday. Sherman wears No. 25 for Seattle. THIS DATE IN SPORTS 1970 — The NBA ex- pands to 18 teams with the addition of franchises in Buf- falo, Cleveland, Houston and Portland. Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com Staff photo by E.J. Harris Hermiston’s C.J. Hendon trips up Pendleton’s Brendon Bedolla in the Bulldogs’ 67-12 win against the Bucks on Tuesday in Hermiston. %XOOGRJVXQVDWLV¿HGZLWKZLQ Hermiston wins big over depleted Pendleton squad Wrestling with what’s on the Several bouts scoreboard but you’ve could have gone ei- got to pay attention to ther way, starting with what’s actually going WKH¿UVWRIWKHQLJKWDW on on the mat, and Hermiston Pendleton 126 pounds. so I think we’ve got Hermiston junior some work to do,” Andy Wagner took a Williams said. 3-2 lead into the third With Pendleton spotting the period and made it hold up to beat Bulldogs 32 points via four forfeits, Pendleton senior Tristan Holcomb. a Hermiston win was the expected +ROFRPE VFRUHG ¿UVW ZLWK D WDNH outcome. But Williams said an in- GRZQ DV WKH ¿UVW SHULRG ZRXQG WR jury-riddled Bucks roster gave his a close, but Wagner tied it up at 2-2 team more trouble than he’d antici- with a reversal just before the buzzer. pated, even without three-time state Wagner elected to start in the bottom champion Sam Colbray (illness) in position in Round 2, and after 39 the lineup. seconds of maneuvering was able to “It’s similar to the lineup that escape for the last points of the bout. we had at the Oregon Classic and “Last year we met at the Reser’s I thought that lineup was good Tournament and it was a real close enough to actually win the Classic,” match, too,” Wagner said. “It was Williams said. “We’ve got a lot of like 7-8 or 6-8, we’re always pretty illness going around … but you’ve close. I just stayed in good position always got to put your best lineup and kept him under control, and got on the mat no matter what and that’s the escapes and reversals when I what we did tonight.” needed them.” 67 By MATT ENTRUP East Oregonian Well before the Hermiston wres- tlers lifted a triumphant Jessee Rodelo onto their shoulders, the scoreboard on The Dawghouse wall had determined a lopsided Bulldog win in the War on 84. Rodelo had just pinned Pendle- ton 220-pounder Jeff Priester in the night’s last bout, and the Buckaroos’ fourth forfeit followed to bring the ¿QDOVFRUHWR But for those watching closely, said Hermiston coach Shaun Wil- liams, it was a much tighter dual than the scoreboard indicated. “It’s easy to get carried away 12 UMATILLA NBA Familiar result for Vikings Vale beats Umatilla for second time in a week Aldridge, Blazers blow out the Suns who won their second straight after a three- game skid. PORTLAND — La- Markieff Morris had Marcus Aldridge had 19 18 points for the Suns, points and 13 rebounds who dropped their third in a row. Phoe- for his team-re- nix climbed back cord 220th dou- into the game ble-double, and in the third pe- the Portland Trail Portland riod after trail- Blazers beat the ing by 19 in the Phoenix Suns ¿UVW KDOI EXW 108-87 on Thurs- ultimately the day night. Blazers thwarted Nicolas Ba- the rally with a tum scored 20 Phoenix dominant fourth points and Robin quarter. Lopez, playing Portland his second game opened the after missing 23 with a broken right hand, fourth with a 9-2 run to go up 75-67. Batum’s had 11 points and 12 re- See BLAZERS/2B bounds for the Blazers, By ANNE M. PETERSON Associated Press By SAM BARBEE EO Media Group )RUWKH¿UVWWLPHDOOVHD son the Umatilla Vikings are forced to look a losing streak directly in the face. The ninth-ranked Vi- kings suffered their second ORVVLQ¿YHGD\VWRGHIHQG ing Class 3A champion Vale Thursday, the latest, a 43-35 shortcoming at The Pit. Another poor shooting night from the Viks (16-5, (2/ DQG D ELJ ¿UVW quarter from Vale doomed Umatilla. With the loss, Umatilla trails Vale (18-1, 6-0) by two games in the Eastern Oregon League and is still up on Nyssa by two games. Umatilla trailed 41-30 with just 1:38 on the clock and cut the lead to as few DV VL[ LQ WKH ¿QDO PLQXWH but couldn’t get any closer than that. “Too little too late,” Umatilla head coach Scott Bow said. “We just didn’t have enough left in the tank. That’s a big gap to close.” Aleesha Watson led the Viks in scoring with nine points and Iri Campos add- “Andy is actually sick, but there’s a couple of times we should have scored that we didn’t score — it doesn’t matter if you’re sick or not,” said Williams. “It’s encourag- ing to see him winning matches like that because if you can win matches when you feel like that, now we’re on the right track. But at the same time for us to win a state title as a team, we need those bonus points.” While Wagner and Holcomb could be destined for different weight classes at districts, anoth- er of the night’s closest matches is likely to play out again at the Spe- cial District 4 tournament in Hood River next weekend. Hermiston’s Bob Coleman seemed to put his football skills to good use in a 7-5 overtime win over the Bucks’ Terrell Platt in the 170-pound bout. With 21 seconds left in the sud- den-death period, both wrestlers See BULLDOGS/2B 108 Sam Barbee photo Umatilla’s Aleesha Watson (20) and Vale’s Kami Hawkins (2) watch a loose ball bounce out of bounds during the fi rst half of Vale’s 43-35 win over Umatilla on Thursday at The Pit. kings with 15 points and made three 3-pointers in WKH ¿UVW TXDUWHU ,Q WKDW period, Vale jumped to a #2 Vale #9 Umatilla quick 16-4 lead. Hawkins and Madison Johnson each hit threes to open up the big cushion. ed eight. Watson made just Bow said it wasn’t like 1-6 from deep in another his defense was out of posi- URXJKQLJKWIURPWKHÀRRU tion, Vale just made tough, “(We) just gotta get her contested shots. more opportunities,” Bow “I told the girls, ‘Hey, said of the sophomore’s when they got hot like that rough patch. “We tried to we just need to sit through get her a bunch of oppor- it,’” Bow said. “Our de- tunities (Thursday), but fense was where it was (Vale’s) defense adjusted supposed to be. There’s really well and denied her no adjustments we can do. most of the game. I think And they’re not going to as a team we need to do a stay that hot.” EHWWHU MRE RI ¿QGLQJ ZD\V Umatilla never adjusted, to get her open.” staying with its aggressive For Vale, Kami Kaw- See UMATILLA/2B kins paced the visiting Vi- Girls Hoops 43 87 35 AP Photo/Don Ryan Portland Trail Blazers forward LaMarcus Aldridge blocks a shot by Phoenix Suns center Miles Plumlee during the second half of an NBA bas- ketball game in Portland on Thursday.
