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Page 2B SPORTS East Oregonian PENDLETON Saturday, March 21, 2015 Men’s College Basketball Bucks go long, Favorites fare much better on Day 2 beat Kamiakin points for Gonzaga, which is making its 17th straight There were no big upsets NCAA Tournament ap- LQ WKH ¿UVW KDOI RI )ULGD\¶V SHDUDQFH EXW KDV JRQH ¿YH action in the NCAA Tourna- straight seasons without a ment. There will be, howev- trip to the Sweet 16. er, some good matchups in IOWA 83, DAVIDSON the round of 32, including one the state of Kansas has 52 — At Seattle, Aaron been anticipating for almost White scored 13 straight points as part of Iowa’s 20 years. The Atlantic Coast Con- 18-3 run early in the second ference ran its perfect start to half, and the seventh-seed- 6-0, and the Pac-12 is 4 for 4 ed Hawkeyes rolled into the VRIDU%LJ7HQWHDPVDUH round of 32. :KLWH ¿QLVKHG ZLWK ZKLOHWKH%LJLV points as Iowa (22-11) used LWV VLJQL¿FDQW KHLJKW DGYDQ- SOUTH REGION DUKE 85, ROBERT tage to overwhelm the cham- MORRIS 56 — At Char- pions of the Atlantic 10 Con- lotte, N.C., Quinn Cook ference regular season. Mike scored 22 points to help No. Gesell added 15 points for 1 seed Duke get off to a tor- the Hawkeyes. rid start. EAST REGION Freshman Jahlil Okafor MICHIGAN ST. 70, DGGHG DV WKH %OXH 'HY- ils (30-4) wasted little time GEORGIA 63 — At Char- getting their offense revving, lotte, N.C., Denzel Valentine KLWWLQJWKHLU¿UVWVHYHQVKRWV scored 16 points and went 6 and 12 of 15 to quickly build for 6 at the free-throw line in WKH¿QDOVHFRQGVKHOSLQJ a big lead. Michigan State hold on for SAN DIEGO STATE the win. Travis Trice scored 15 76, ST. JOHN’S 64 — At &KDUORWWH 1& -- 2¶%ULHQ points for the seventh-seed- scored 18 points for San Di- ed Spartans (24-11), who ego State, and Dwayne Pol- answered a push from the HH,,DGGHGSRLQWVRQ¿YH %XOOGRJV ZLWK D SRLVHG UXQ 3-pointers against his former to take back control. team. VIRGINIA 79, BEL- Skylar Spencer added 10 points and seven rebounds MONT 67 — At Charlotte, for the Aztecs (27-8), who 1& 0DOFROP %URJGRQ will face the top-seeded scored 22 points and Jus- tin Anderson re-emerged Duke on Sunday. as a scoring threat for sec- GONZAGA 86, ond-seeded Virginia. Anderson had 15 points NORTH DAKOTA STATE 76 — At Seattle, Kyle Wilt- on 4-of-6 shooting and An- jer scored 23 points to lead thony Gill added 16 points for the Cavaliers (30-3). Gonzaga to the victory. The second-seeded Zags NORTHERN IOWA (33-2) will play Iowa on Sunday to try to make the 71, WYOMING 54 — At second weekend of the Seattle, Paul Jesperson led NCAA Tournament for the ¿YH 1RUWKHUQ ,RZD SOD\- HUV LQ GRXEOH ¿JXUHV ZLWK ¿UVWWLPHVLQFH 6RSKRPRUH 'H[WHU :HU- 16 points, and Sean Tuttle ner had a career-high 22 VFRUHGIRUWKH¿IWKVHHG- points — all of them enter- ed Panthers. Northern Iowa (31-3) taining — while keeping North Dakota State (23-10) built a 21-point lead after within range for much of the VFRULQJ RI WKH ¿UVW points to start the second game. Kevin Pangos had 18 half. That lead was whittled Associated Press another two-run job that EULHÀ\SXWWKH%XFNVDKHDG KENNEWICK, Wash. 3-2 in the top of the fourth. Lindsey (3 for 4), Grass — The Pendleton softball team found its long ball in a (2 for 3) and Ellie Richards 8-3 win over Kamiakin on (2 for 4) accounted for sev- en of Pendleton’s Friday. Darian Lindsey SOFTBALL nine hits. Keirsten Mur- and Tiah Grass both phy picked up the hit two-run home ZLQ LQ KHU ¿UVW runs as part of a start of the season ¿YHUXQVL[WKLQQLQJ Pendleton and allowed two that gave the game earned runs while LWV¿QDOPDUJLQ VWULNLQJRXWVL[DQG “I thought (Ka- walking one. miakin’s pitcher) Pendleton (2- was throwing well, Kamiakin ZLOO SOD\ ¿YH but obviously she games over three- put a couple fat GD\ VWUHWFK QH[W fastballs too far out week starting on over the plate and a couple of our good hitters Monday against Milwaukie got ahold of them,” said and Oregon City at the Clackamas Tournament. Pendleton coach Tim Cary. ,W ZDV WKH ¿UVW RI WKH PENDLETON 8, ——— KAMIAKIN 3 spring for Grass, who set R H E PHS 100 205 0 — 8 9 2 the program’s single-season KHS 011 010 0 — 3 7 1 Keirsten Murphy and Mykal Weissen- record with 12 last year, and fluh. Ramsey, Lowry (4), Earle (6) and the second for Lindsey. Beckon. W — Murphy. L — Earle. — Weissenfluh (Pendleton); Ram- Lindsey had already sey 3B (Kamiakin). HR — Lindsey 2, Grass gone yard once in the game, (Pendleton); Beckon (Kamiakin). East Oregonian 8 3 Prep Golf Hermiston edges Pendleton for title %XOOGRJER\VZLQ VHDVRQ¶V¿UVWURXQG WKLUGIRUWKH%XFNVZLWKDQ 88, and said players were facing moist fairways and fast greens on the overcast East Oregonian afternoon. That didn’t stop Sea- THE DALLES — The side’s Sam Hinton from last time the Pendleton and breaking par, and he won Hermiston boys golf teams medalist honors with a were on the same course, three-under 68. WKH%XOOGRJVHGJHG3HQGOH- Hermiston’s other scores ton by a stroke at the two- were: Zac Adams 86, JD round state tournament. Thacker 86, Anders Lind 93. This time Hermiston in- Pendleton’s other scores creased that margin to 10 were: Dillon George 81, Da- strokes, and brought back kota Post 96, Jerald Geier 89. the team title with a score of +HUPLVWRQ¶V QH[W WRXU- 327 at the season-opening nament is Monday at the The Dalles Invite on Friday Grandview (WA) Invite held at The Dalles Country Club. DW %ODFN 5RFN &UHHN *ROI Keegan Crafton shot a Course in Sunnyside, Wash. 77 to lead Hermiston, and Pendleton is off until Paden Lacoursiere shot a 78. after spring break when Pendleton’s score of 337 they’ll play at the Rid- was paced by Riley Hegart geview Tournament on with a 79. April 3 at Eagle Ridge Golf 1DWKDQ 6RP ¿QLVKHG Course in Redmond. College Rodeo Blue Mountain rodeo extends region leads East Oregonian WALLA WALLA, Wash. ²7KH%OXH0RXQWDLQ&RP- munity College men’s rodeo team moved up to third place in the national standings with another dominant per- formance at the Walla Walla Community College double- header rodeos held March 13-15 at the Walla Walla Fairgrounds indoor arena. The Northwest Region leaders won team titles at both rodeos, and dominated the all-around leaderboard while FODLPLQJ¿YHHYHQWWLWOHV The women’s team also H[WHQGHG LWV OHDG LQ WKH UH- gion standings with twin team titles and a strong showing in barrel racing. The men’s team won most of its events in the sin- gle-round NW Region Ro- deo No. 2 on Friday. Jared Parke won the men’s all-around title while competing in tie-down rop- ing, steer wrestling and team URSLQJ +LV WRS HYHQW ¿QLVK was the tie-down title he claimed in a time of 10.2 sec- RQGV3DUNHLVUDQNHG¿UVWLQ the region in both tie-down and steer wrestling. Chase Hansen main- tained his season lead in the DOODURXQG ¿QLVKLQJ MXVW behind Parke in those re- JDUGV ZKLOH DOVR H[WHQGLQJ his season lead on the team roping heeler contender list. He and Clayton Hansen won the team roping with a 6.4. They also lead the season standings. Also topping their events DW WKH URGHR ZHUH %0&&¶V Tyler Potter with a 65 in bare- back riding, and Ryan Verling with a 68 in saddle bronc. Callahan Crossley won the women’s only event at the ¿UVWURGHRWLPLQJDWLQ barrel racing, and Danyelle :LOOLDPV ¿QLVKHG VHFRQG LQ the women’s all-around. The titles were more spread out in the two-round second rodeo, but the Tim- berwolves repeated with the men’s all-around title. This time it was Austin Thomp- son taking the honors with points in tie-down, steer wrestling and team roping. 7KRPSVRQ WLHG IRU ¿UVW in team roping, heeling for Jordan Tye for a two-round time of 18.6. He was second in tie-down with a 26.8. Michael Pederson was second in the all-around and ¿QLVKHGLQWKHVDPHSODFHLQ steer wrestling with a 15.5 on two. He teamed with Johnpatrick Pederson for third in team roping with 19.9 on two. Williams again placed second in the women’s all- around and was part of a bar- UHO UDFLQJ VZHHS E\ %0&& DV VKH ¿QLVKHG VHFRQG ZLWK D $OOLH %URZQ ZDV ¿UVWZLWKDDQG-HVVLFD Lewis was third with a 29.05. Eastern Washington Uni- YHUVLW\ KRVWV WKH QH[W GRX- bleheader on April 18-19. BRIEFLY HHSGA to host scramble at Big River UMATILLA — The Hermiston High School Golf $VVRFLDWLRQZLOOKRVWDWZRSHUVRQVFUDPEOHDW%LJ5LYHU Golf Course in Umatilla on Saturday, April 25. Coast is $55 per person ($40 for student) if registered by April 11. )RUPRUHLQIRUPDWLRQFRQWDFW%RE%ULQNOH\DW 571-4647 or Mike Frink at (541) 701-4724. to seven points twice but the Cowboys could get no closer. Wes Washpun scored eight of his 10 points in the ¿QDO PLQXWHV WR KHOS WKH Panthers advance to face fourth-seeded Louisville on Sunday. LOUISVILLE 57, CAL-IRVINE 55 — At Seattle, Freshman Quentin Snider hit the winning free throws and Terry Rozier made the saving steal for fourth-seeded Louisville. With the game tied, Snid- er snagged a rebound in the corner off a long miss by Luke Nelson and drew a foul when Will Davis II crashed into him. OKLAHOMA 69, AL- BANY 60 — At Columbus, Ohio, TaShawn Thomas had SRLQWV DQG %XGG\ +LHOG scored 15, carrying Oklaho- ma into the round of 32 after HDUO\H[LWVWKHODVWWZR\HDUV The Sooners (23-10), who led wire to wire, ad- vance to play on Sunday against the winner of the late game between Dayton and Providence. DAYTON 66, PROVI- DENCE 53 — At Colum- bus, Ohio, Dyshawn Pierre scored 20 points and Dayton rode a loud home-crowd ad- vantage to another NCAA Tournament victory. The 11th-seeded Flyers (27-8) will face Oklaho- ma on Sunday night, with a chance to reach the round of 16 for the second straight season. hit two free throws with 2:10 left to give his team the lead for good. MARYLAND 65, VAL- PARAISO 62 — At Colum- bus, Ohio, Dez Wells turned an offensive rebound into a three-point play with 1:44 left, and Varun Ram stripped away Valparaiso’s last chance as Maryland held off the determined Crusaders. :HOOV ¿QLVKHG ZLWK points for the fourth-seeded Terrapins (28-6), includ- ing that three-point play that made it 65-61. Melo Trimble had 14 points and 10 rebounds for Maryland, SOD\LQJ LQ LWV ¿UVW 1&$$ Tournament under fourth- year coach Mark Turgeon. WEST REGION WISCONSIN 86, COASTAL CAROLI- NA 72 — At Omaha, Neb., Frank Kaminsky had 27 points and 12 rebounds for his 12th double-double of the season, and No. 1 seed Wisconsin got the win. Sam Dekker had 20 points and Nigel Hayes add- ed 15 against a Coastal Car- olina team that gave a game effort but had no answer for the 7-foot Kaminsky or, for that matter, any of his hulk- ing teammates. KANSAS 75, NEW MEXICO ST. 56 — At Omaha, Neb., Frank Mason III scored 17 points to lead a balanced attack, and the sec- ond-seeded Jayhawks gave WKH%LJLWV¿UVWZLQRIWKH tournament after three losses on Thursday. MIDWEST REGION Perry Ellis added nine WEST VIRGINIA 68, points for the Jayhawks BUFFALO 62 — At Colum- (27-8), who will face sev- bus, Ohio, Tarik Phillip hit a enth-seeded Wichita State in ELJSRLQWHUIRU¿IWKVHHGHG the round of 32. West Virginia with 28 sec- onds left while the shot clock WICHITA STATE 81, was winding down. INDIANA 76 — At Oma- The Mountaineers (24-9) ha, Neb., Fred VanVleet will take on No. 4 Maryland matched his career high with (27-6) on Sunday. SRLQWV DQG 5RQ %DNHU Devin Williams, who led made big free throws late the Mountaineers with 17 for seventh-seeded Wichita points and nine rebounds, State. PENDLETON: Morris impresses with relief effort Continued from 1B Morris in particular caught the eye of Whitten. The unheralded sophomore allowed just one base runner in three innings of work in the second and kept the Fal- cons from adding to the 3-0 lead they opened with. ³, ZDVQ¶W UHDOO\ H[SHFW- ing that from him because he hasn’t really been one of our main pitchers,” Whitten said. “He might end up being one. He threw really well today.” 7KH %XFNDURRV VWUXQJ together more than one hit in an inning just once in 14 innings Friday. Kyler Lun- ny and Devon Roe notched back-to-back knocks in the RSHQHU¶V ¿QDO LQQLQJ 5RH¶V shot was a double, that plat- HG /XQQ\ %UDQGRQ +HUJHUW brought Rose around two batters later. 3HQGOHWRQ ¿QLVKHG ZLWK just seven hits on the day. Roe and Lunny had two each. Smith, Hancock and Papol had the other three. Papol shot a 2-2 pitch down WKH¿UVWEDVHOLQHIRUWKHRQO\ RWKHU%XFNDURRH[WUDEDVHKLW in the seventh inning of the second contest. “I think we need to be bet- ter,” O’Rourke said. “We’ve got a lot of good kids, we just need to sharpen some things Pendleton hosts another XS%XWLW¶OOFRPHDURXQG, think we’ll be getting hot at doubleheader on Monday. This time against Roseburg. the right time”. The Falcons starting pitch- First pitch on Monday is LQJ EHIXGGOHG %XFNDURR EDW- set for noon. ters all day. Jacob Anderson ——— HANFORD (WA) 8, PENDLETON 2 and Sawyer Henry — both Game 1 R H E seniors — combined for 12 HHS 040 004 0 — 8 11 2 PHS 000 000 2 — 2 3 0 innings of shutout ball. Ander- Jacob Anderson, Matthew True (7) and son allowed just one hit. Hen- Parke Donnell. Caden Smith, TJ Hancock Jack Peterson (6), Wes Persinger (7) ry was hit three times. They (3), and Alex O’Rourke. W — Anderson. L — Smith. each struck out seven batters. 2B — Dustin Durflinger (HHS) 2, Brady Anderson is considered Heid (HHS). Devon Roe (PHS). one of Washington’s top pitch- HANFOR D (WA) 4, PENDLETON 0 Game 2 R H E ing prospects and has litany of HHS 210 000 1 — 4 5 0 colleges chasing after him. PHS 000 000 0 — 0 4 4 Sawyer Henry, M. True (7) and Parker “He’s probably one of the Donnell. James Bradt, Wyatt Morris (3), better kids we’ll see all year Quinn Cockburn (6), Kai Quinn (7) and Alex O’Rourke. I would think,” Whitten said W — Henry. L — Bradt. 2B — Tony Papol of Anderson. OREGON: Young goes on 15-3 run before halftime Nobody more than Young, ZKR ZDV WKH ÀDVKLHVW SOD\- playing better in February HURQWKHÀRRU²DQGWKDW¶V and March, it has been those saying a lot considering the two guys leading us.” Ducks wore their neon yel- /H¶%U\DQ 1DVK KDG low and the Cowboys their points before fouling out in blazing orange. KLV¿QDOJDPHIRUQLQWKVHHG- Oklahoma State actually ed Oklahoma State (18-14). did a good job of keeping Senior transfer Anthony Young in check most of the Hickey added 17 points in ¿UVW KDOI GHQ\LQJ KLP WKH his NCAA Tournament de- ball and then clamping down but, and Phil Forte and Tav- ZKHQ KH ¿QDOO\ JRW LW %XW DULXV 6KLQH ¿QLVKHG ZLWK when they loosened up just points each. before the break, Young went “Give them credit, they’re on a roll. a tough team to stop,” said He started by draining a Cowboys coach Travis Ford, 3-pointer with 4:08 remain- whose team lost seven of its ing, and then hit another one last eight. “We tried a cou- from well beyond the arc. ple different things and they Young added two free throws, another 3-pointer, an 18-foot made shots.” Continued from 1B jumper and then was fouled with 2.2 seconds left, convert- ing both of those foul shots. Suddenly, the high-scor- ing senior guard had gone on a personal 15-3 run, digging the Ducks out of a 36-28 hole and giving them a 43-39 ad- vantage at the break. “You can’t give him any space,” Forte said. “He’ll make you pay for it.” Young’s biggest highlight may have come early in the second half. The 6-foot-2 guard raced ahead in transi- tion, gathered in a pass and threw down a dunk over Hickey before crashing to the ÀRRU²QRGRXEWLPSUHVVLQJ his father, Michael, a mem- ber of Houston’s Phi Slama Jama. Oklahoma State respond- ed with a spurt of its own, re- gaining the lead on Hickey’s 3-pointer midway through WKH VHFRQG KDOI %XW WKH Ducks still had another run in them, this time with every- body but Young getting into WKHDFW%\WKHWLPH'ZD\QH %HQMDPLQVWULSSHG1DVKDQG coasted in for a dunk, the 11-0 spurt had given the Pac- 12 runner-ups a 70-62 advan- tage with 6:40 left. The Cowboys trimmed WKHLU GH¿FLW WR D IHZ PLQXWHV ODWHU EXW %URRNV added another 3-pointer, Jor- GDQ %HOO DGGHG D GXQN DQG the Ducks put the game away from the foul line. HERMISTON: 1D\ORUJHWVFRQ¿GHQFHERRVWLQORQJHVWYDUVLW\RXWLQJ Continued from 1B broke open a 4-4 game with VL[UXQVLQWKHERWWRPRIWKH fourth to pull away with a 10-4 win. ³,W¶V D JRRG FRQ¿GHQFH boost for our kids,” Hermis- ton (2-1) head coach Kylee Lete said after the game. “We got some young players on WKH¿HOGULJKWQRZDQGHYHU\ advantage we can have (we’ll take). We had a lot of young kids step up in big ways for us tonight. I see them being H[FLWHGDERXWWKDWWRR´ Hinkley was 1-for-3 with WKH VLQJOH DQG 5%,V DQG Abi Drotzmann was 2-for-3, 0LND\OD.RSDF]KDGDQ5%, VLQJOH DQG ¿YH RWKHU %XOO- dogs notched hits. It was a group effort to SURGXFH WKH VL[ UXQV ZKLFK LQFOXGHG EXQWV VDFUL¿FH À\ EDOOVDQG5%,NQRFNV “The bottom part of our lineup was really young to- day,” Drotzmann said. “That showed them that they’re ca- pable of doing the same thing.” That bottom of the order, largely made up of juniors, with one sophomore, com- bined to go 3-for-7 with two runs scored. The nine spot, which was a tag team from .\OHH *UHHQ DQG %DUWRQ never failed to reach and scored two important runs. In her second and longest YDUVLW\ RXWLQJ %UH\DQQD Naylor picked up the win after two innings of shut- out ball in relief. The junior, who was on the junior varsity squad last spring, struck out one and threw just 26 pitches in her two frames of work. “It was nice for us, and it was nice for Naylor, too,” Lete said. “She came in, and I think it helps (starter) Ju- lissa (Almaguer) out, too. It picks her up. She came out, shut the ball down, had some FRQ¿GHQFH :H VDZ VRPH things out of her that were H[FLWLQJWRVHH´ The deciding inning of Game 1 was broken open when Kopacz hit a double to plate Drotzmann to set off the H[SORVLRQ/DWHU.RSDF]WRRN a double off the fence in cen- ter but was thrown out at third trying to turn it into a triple. ——— HERMISTON 6, POST FALLS 4 (5 Innings) Game 2 R H E PFHS 202 00 — 4 9 2 HHS 011 13 — 6 8 1 WP: Breana Naylor, LP: Brook Bowers 2B — Casey Goleeke (PFHS), Brook Bowers 2 (PFHS),
