SPORTS
WEEKEND, FEBRUARY 28-MARCH 1, 2015
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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
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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
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mark and all of any overtime
periods.
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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.
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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
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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-
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goal in four games to end his
NBA record shooting streak
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during Philadelphia’s 127-
107 victory over Cincinnati
at Syracuse, N.Y.
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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Irrigon cruises past
Vernonia to open
state playoffs
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
Anthony Landeros drained
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Irrigon Knights never looked
back in a 97-40 win over Verno-
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of the Class
2A boys bas- BOYS HOOPS
ketball state
tournament.
Landeros
Irrigon
scored 14 of
his game-high
31 points in
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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
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and 2013 state player of the
year Adrian Romero gave the
Knights their largest lead of the
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the lane that ended in a layup
and Irrigon ahead 44-24 with
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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-
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seconds, had 40 points,
13 rebounds and 11
assists. He became the
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Thunder
gether three triple-dou-
bles since LeBron
James in 2009.
The Blazers over-
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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
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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.
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and Wesley Matthews’ attempt to inten-
tionally foul Westbrook was ruled a shoot-
ing foul on a 3-pointer. Westbrook missed
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margin.
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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.
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“It was just a matter of effort
in the second frame left coach and the boys responded well,”
Mitch Thompson with plenty
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of ammunition for his halftime