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SPORTS WEEKEND, FEBRUARY 28-MARCH 1, 2015 Sports shorts NBA to release crunch-time reports NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA will begin revealing whether it determined referees’ crunch- time calls to be right or wrong. Starting Monday and continuing throughout the playoffs, the league will release play-by-play reports of all calls and relevant QRFDOOVLQWKH¿QDOPLQXWHV of close games. Such information had been shared only internally. The assessments will be released by 5 p.m. the day after each game and will stand as the league’s comment on whether the most-disputed calls were correct. The reports will focus on the last two minutes of games that were within ¿YHSRLQWVDWWKHWZRPLQXWH mark and all of any overtime periods. 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS State Wrestling +HUPLVWRQLQVHFRQGDIWHU¿UVWGD\ Logano follows Daytona win by taking Atlanta pole HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) — Daytona 500 winner Joey Logano won the pole for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway after FACES a qualifying session in which 13 drivers didn’t get on the track after failing to pass inspection. Among Logano those who didn’t get to take a lap Friday evening: Jeff Gordon, Matt Kenseth, Jimmie Johnson and Tony Stewart. /RJDQROHGWKH¿QDO session of qualifying with a blistering lap of 194.683 mph, taking advantage of temperatures in the 40s as the sun set on the 1.54-mile trioval. Bulls expect Rose back this season CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Bulls can breathe a little easier. They expect Derrick Rose FACES to return this season from his latest knee surgery. General manager Gar Forman said the star point Rose guard will miss 4-6 weeks after the operation )ULGD\WR¿[DPHGLDO meniscus tear in his right knee. Forman described it as a quick outpatient procedure and said Rose was able to walk out of the hospital. “No matter the logo Im (sic) gonna win that comeback player of the year.....“ — Darnell Dockett NFL defensive tackle on Twitter after being released by the Arizona Cardinals on Friday. Dockett, 33, missed all of last season after tear- ing his during training camp. He amassed 462 tackles, 41 sacks and four interceptions in 158 games in Arizona. THIS DATE IN SPORTS 1967 — Wilt Chamber- ODLQ PLVVHV KLV ¿UVW ¿HOG goal in four games to end his NBA record shooting streak RIFRQVHFXWLYH¿HOGJRDOV during Philadelphia’s 127- 107 victory over Cincinnati at Syracuse, N.Y. Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com Staff photo by Kathy Aney Brock McDonough, of Hermiston, wrestled Tommy Winningham, of Crater, Friday during the Oregon OSAA Wrestling State Champion- ships at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland. Rockwells both win on pins, move forward escape, providing enough ammunition for Coleman to reverse last year’s state result and defeat Barnett 7-3 to stay unbeaten in PORTLAND — Hermiston junior Bob Portland. “I’m a very mild-mannered guy,” Cole- Coleman was one of six Bulldog wrestlers to emerge unscathed from Friday’s opening man said. “But when you make me mad I two rounds at the OSAA State Wrestling kind of get mad.” The Bulldogs state title defense opened Championships at Memorial Coliseum. While Coleman’s passage into Satur- ZLWK D ÀXUU\ )ULGD\ EXW FORVHG ZLWK D GD\¶V VHPL¿QDOV PLJKW EH UHZDUG HQRXJK sputter. Thirteen of 15 Bulldog wrestlers KLVTXDUWHU¿QDOZLQRYHU6SHQFHU%DUQHWWRI won their opening matches, but only Liam Sandy was satisfying for a variety of rea- Tarvin (113), Andy Wagner (120), AJ Tuia (132), Coleman, Colbray (195) and Jesee sons. Barnett ousted the 170-pound Coleman Rodelo (220) were able to qualify for Sat- from state last year with a 6-2 consolation XUGD\¶V VHPL¿QDOV ,QFOXGHG LQ WKH GHIHDWV round victory. The rivalry continued onto ZHUHDSDLURITXDUWHU¿QDOPDWFKHV+HUP the gridiron. This time, Coleman and the iston coach Shaun Williams highlighted as Bulldogs not only knocked Barnett’s Pio- pivotal — CJ Hendon (126) and John-Hen- neers in the opening round of the state play- ry Line (182). Still, all 15 Bulldogs remain alive in the offs, but a Coleman tackle knocked Barnett championship or consolation bracket. out cold, too. “When we get beat, it’s about character,” Knotted in a hotly contested rematch Fri- day, another blow to the head turned things See WRESTLING/2B up a level. Barnett elbowed Coleman on an By ERIK SKOPIL East Oregonian Staff photo by Kathy Aney Bob Coleman, of Hermiston, defeated Spencer Bar- nette, of Sandy, Friday during the Oregon OSAA Wrestling State Championships at Veterans Memo- rial Coliseum in Portland. IRRIGON 1R.QLJKWVÀH[PXVFOHV Irrigon cruises past Vernonia to open state playoffs By MATT ENTRUP East Oregonian Anthony Landeros drained WKH JDPH¶V ¿UVW VKRW DQG WKH Irrigon Knights never looked back in a 97-40 win over Verno- QLDRQ)ULGD\LQWKH¿UVWURXQG of the Class 2A boys bas- BOYS HOOPS ketball state tournament. Landeros Irrigon scored 14 of his game-high 31 points in WKH ¿UVW IRXU minutes as de- fending state Vernonia champion Ir- rigon (26-1) opened on a 22-4 run. “We didn’t really know what to expect from Vernonia coming in, so we just had to play our game and play hard,” Landeros said. “We were excit- ed, shots were falling for every- body and everybody was ready to come in and play.” Landeros, the 2012 state SOD\HU RI WKH \HDU ¿QLVKHG WKH ¿UVW KDOI ZLWK SRLQWV and 2013 state player of the year Adrian Romero gave the Knights their largest lead of the ¿UVW KDOI ZLWK D GULYH WKURXJK the lane that ended in a layup and Irrigon ahead 44-24 with OHIWXQWLOKDOIWLPH+H¿Q ished with 23 points. NBA Another Blazer comeback PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — LaMarcus Aldridge had 29 points and 16 rebounds, and the Portland Trail Blazers rallied to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 115- 112 Friday night, spoiling Russell West- brook’s third straight triple-double. Westbrook, who fell and hit his face on Trail Blazers teammate Andre Rob- HUVRQ¶VNQHHLQWKH¿QDO seconds, had 40 points, 13 rebounds and 11 assists. He became the ¿UVWSOD\HUWRVWULQJWR Thunder gether three triple-dou- bles since LeBron James in 2009. The Blazers over- FDPHDSRLQWWKLUGTXDUWHUGH¿FLWDQG tied it on a tip shot by Aldridge with 4:33 to go. Rookie Mitch McGary came off the bench for a season-high 20 points — 12 in the third quarter — for the Thunder. Portland took the lead with 3:56 left RQ $UURQ $IÀDOR¶V SRLQWHU $OGULGJH and Westbrook traded baskets down the stretch before Aldridge made a free throw to put Portland up 111-110 with 44 sec- onds to go. $IÀDOR¶VIUHHWKURZVPDGHLW and Wesley Matthews’ attempt to inten- tionally foul Westbrook was ruled a shoot- ing foul on a 3-pointer. Westbrook missed WKH ¿UVW DQG 'DPLDQ /LOODUG PDGH IUHH WKURZVZLWKVHFRQGVOHIWIRUWKH¿QDO margin. See BLAZERS/2B 115 97 111 40 Staff photo by E.J. Harris Irrigon’s Freddy Vera puts up a shot guarded by Vernonia’s Jared Medearis (1) and Luke McCallum in the Knights’ 97- 40 win against the Loggers on Friday in Irrigon. But after putting up 30 points speech. LQWKH¿UVWTXDUWHU,UULJRQ¶V “It was just a matter of effort in the second frame left coach and the boys responded well,” Mitch Thompson with plenty See IRRIGON/2B of ammunition for his halftime
