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WAR ON 84
Mayweather-
Pacquiao bout clears
another hurdle
(AP) — HBO and Show-
time have agreed on how
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between Floyd Mayweather
Jr. and Manny Pacquiao,
promoter Bob Arum said
Thursday, leaving only two
remaining issues to be settled
before the much anticipated
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.”
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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
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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
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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-
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bounds for the Blazers,
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
By SAM BARBEE
EO Media Group
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son the Umatilla Vikings
are forced to look a losing
streak directly in the face.
The ninth-ranked Vi-
kings suffered their second
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ing Class 3A champion
Vale Thursday, the latest, a
43-35 shortcoming at The
Pit.
Another poor shooting
night from the Viks (16-5,
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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
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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
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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
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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.”
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Umatilla never adjusted,
to get her open.”
staying with its aggressive
For Vale, Kami Kaw-
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kins paced the visiting Vi-
Girls Hoops
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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.