FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2015
Sports shorts
Eagles lure Murray
away from rival
PHILADELPHIA (AP)
— DeMarco Murray got the
money he
wanted from
his former
team’s big-
gest rival.
The All-
Pro running
back agreed Thursday to
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the Philadelphia Eagles.
Murray’s deal was allegedly
valued at $42 million, with
$21 million guaranteed.
The Eagles also con-
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agreement on a three-year
contract with former San
Diego running back Ryan
Mathews. The tandem joins
Darren Sproles and Chris
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Murray helped the Cow-
boys win the NFC East title
last season while rushing for a
franchise-record 1,845 yards.
Judge denies
request to strike
gun testimony in
Hernandez trial
FALL RIVER, Mass.
(AP) — The judge
overseeing the murder trial
of former New England
Patriots
FACES player Aaron
Hernandez
has denied a
defense request
to strike
testimony from
an employee
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Hernandez
manufacturer
Glock who said surveillance
video showed Hernandez
carrying a gun through his
home less than 10 minutes
after the killing.
Hernandez lawyer James
Sultan on Thursday asked
for Wednesday’s testimony
to be stricken, but Superior
Court Judge Susan Garsh
denied the request.
Kyle Aspinwall’s
testimony was the most
conclusive to date that puts
a weapon in Hernandez’s
hand around the time of the
slaying.
“I was a little
nervous to come
out here. In the
beginning, I
was like, ‘What
was I thinking?’
I kind of had to
overcome that
hurdle.“
— Serena Williams
On ending a 14-year
boycott of the BNP
Paribus Open in Indian
Wells, California,
which begins play
today. Williams, 33,
began her boycott as
a teenager after being
booed on her way to
the 2001 title.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1894 — J.L. Johnstone of
England invents the starting
gate for horse racing.
2010 — Oregon’s Ashton
Eaton breaks Dan O’Brien’s
17-year-old world record in
the indoor heptathlon. Eaton
sets a mark of 6,499 points
at the NCAA indoor track
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passing O’Brien’s record of
6,476.
2011 — Golden State
ends Kevin Love’s consecu-
tive double-doubles streak at
53 games with a 100-77 win
over the Minnesota Timber-
wolves. Love is limited to
six points on 1-of-6 shoot-
ing, ending the NBA’s lon-
gest such streak since Elvin
Hayes had double-doubles
in 55 consecutive games in
1973-74. Love had 12 re-
bounds.
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PENDLETON
Pendleton’s
Darian Lind-
sey drives
past Silver-
ton’s Brooke
McCarty in
the Bucks’
54-42 loss to
the Foxes on
Thursday in
Corvallis.
Foxes bump Bucks
Pendleton eliminated
from state bracket
with loss to Silverton
Staff photo by
E.J. Harris
Silverton
54
Pendleton
42
nament.
Silverton (19-8) junior Alia Parsons
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span to catalyze a 15-1 run that ended
CORVALLIS — Fifth-seeded Silver- the Buckaroos (17-11) chances for vic-
ton used a second half scoring surge to tory and a shot at would have been a
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“I think they jumped on the oppor-
a decade Thursday at Gill Coliseum.
tunity when they were able to take it,”
The Buckaroos overcame a stagnant said Pendleton senior Darian Lindsey,
offensive start to catch the Foxes by who scored 10 points in the loss. “We let
halftime, but a Silverton counter-punch them hit some threes and after that we
proved to be a knockout, leading the kind of went downhill. We didn’t push
Foxes past Pendleton 54-42 in a conso-
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lation game at the Class 5A state tour-
By ERIK SKOPIL
East Oregonian
HERMISTON
Bulldogs repay Spartans
Hermiston advances
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in program history
Hermiston’s
Jansen
Edmiston
fi ghts for
a rebound
with Cor-
vallis’ Ana
Dursch-
Smith and
Stephanie
Vallanc-
ey-Martin-
son in the
Bulldogs’
56-49 win
against the
Spartans on
Thursday in
Corvallis.
By ERIK SKOPIL
East Oregonian
CORVALLIS — The Hermiston
Bulldogs were assessed top-billing en-
tering postseason play.
Through two tournament games at
Gill Coliseum they’ve yet to disappoint.
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over No. 4 Corvallis
sent the Bulldog play-
ers into leaping cel-
ebration and back to
Hermiston
the state championship
game for the second
time in school history.
They’ll play sec-
ond-seeded La Salle
Prep with a state title
Corvallis
on the line tonight at
6:30 p.m. The Bull-
dogs (24-3) and Fal-
cons (26-1) have see-
sawed back and forth all season as the
state’s top team. Hermiston claimed the
honor for good with a 61-57 win over La
Salle Prep on Jan. 16.
That victory had long been the feather
in the Bulldogs’ cap, but Thursday’s tri-
umph over Corvallis pulled “even”, said
Hermiston junior guard Sara Ramirez.
Corvallis ousted Hermiston from last
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what was the team’s largest loss over
the past three seasons. Thursday’s tour-
nament rematch was almost as much of
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for the game’s entirety and by as much
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closest the Spartans got in the second
half.
“It was payback,” Hermiston coach
Steve Hoffert said. “They knocked us
out last year and we felt we didn’t play
well. We wanted a shot at Corvallis and
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E.J. Harris
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College Basketball
Ducks press on at Pac-12 Tournament
By JOHN MARSHALL
Associated Press
LAS VEGAS — Joseph
Young scored 30 points, Elgin
Cook added 20 and Oregon held
on to beat Colorado 93-85 in the
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Thursday night.
Second-seeded Oregon (24-
8) broke out from a tight game
with its pressure defense, creat-
ing a string of turnovers to build
an 18-point second-half lead.
No. 10 seed Colorado (15-
17) made a late charge, but the
Ducks held on to earn a spot in
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or Stanford.
Jalil Abdul-Bassit added 15
points for Oregon, which scored
27 points off Colorado’s 13 turn-
overs.
Young, the Pac-12 player of
the year, also had seven rebounds
and four assists.
Josh Scott had 16 points and
Dominique Collier added 14 for
the Buffaloes. Askia Booker had
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Linke signs
with EOU
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
AP Photo/John Locher
Oregon’s Elgin Cook, left, shoots over Colorado’s Dustin
Thomas in the fi rst half of an NCAA college basketball game
in the quarterfi nals of the Pac-12 conference tournament
Thursday in Las Vegas.
Among those wins was a 73-
assists.
The Ducks put themselves 60 victory over Colorado on Feb.
inside the NCAA Tournament 18.
The Buffaloes needed to win
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regular season, winning nine of
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Sierra Linke nearly gave up on vol-
leyball following her senior season at
Pasco High School.
But when four-year colleges passed
on the 5-foot-9
outside
hitter,
Blue Mountain
Community Col-
lege coach Dave
Baty persuaded
her to join his
squad,
which
was coming off
its second cham-
pionship in three
Linke
seasons.
“Her hope was that she could go
(to a four-year school) and get every-
thing paid for and go for her degree
there,” Baty said. “It didn’t quite work
out that way, but if you long road this,
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