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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-
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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
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points as Iowa (22-11) used
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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,
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ils (30-4) wasted little time GEORGIA 63 — At Char-
getting their offense revving, lotte, N.C., Denzel Valentine
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and 12 of 15 to quickly build for 6 at the free-throw line in
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a big lead.
Michigan State hold on for
SAN DIEGO STATE the win.
Travis Trice scored 15
76, ST. JOHN’S 64 — At
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scored 18 points for San Di- ed Spartans (24-11), who
ego State, and Dwayne Pol- answered a push from the
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3-pointers against his former to take back control.
team.
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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
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(33-2) will play Iowa on
Sunday to try to make the 71, WYOMING 54 — At
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points — all of them enter- ed Panthers.
Northern Iowa (31-3)
taining — while keeping
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game.
Kevin Pangos had 18 half. That lead was whittled
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another two-run job that
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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
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runs as part of a
start of the season
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walking one.
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was throwing well,
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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.
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spring for Grass, who set
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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).
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gone yard once in the game, (Pendleton); Beckon (Kamiakin).
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Hermiston edges
Pendleton for title
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88, and said players were
facing moist fairways and
fast greens on the overcast
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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.
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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
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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
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College Rodeo
Blue Mountain rodeo
extends region leads
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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
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The women’s team also
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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
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was the tie-down title he
claimed in a time of 10.2 sec-
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the region in both tie-down
and steer wrestling.
Chase Hansen main-
tained his season lead in the
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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
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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
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barrel racing, and Danyelle
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the women’s all-around.
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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.
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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
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steer wrestling with a 15.5
on two. He teamed with
Johnpatrick Pederson for
third in team roping with
19.9 on two.
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second in the women’s all-
around and was part of a bar-
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bleheader on April 18-19.
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to seven points twice but
the Cowboys could get no
closer. Wes Washpun scored
eight of his 10 points in the
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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
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scored 15, carrying Oklaho-
ma into the round of 32 after
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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.
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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,
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.”
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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
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shot was a double, that plat-
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brought Rose around two
batters later.
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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
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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
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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
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ters all day. Jacob Anderson
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and Sawyer Henry — both
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seniors — combined for 12
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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-
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Sawyer Henry, M. True (7) and Parker
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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.
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Nobody more than Young,
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and March, it has been those saying a lot considering the
two guys leading us.”
Ducks wore their neon yel-
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points before fouling out in blazing orange.
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Oklahoma State actually
ed Oklahoma State (18-14). did a good job of keeping
Senior transfer Anthony Young in check most of the
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his NCAA Tournament de- ball and then clamping down
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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.”
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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
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his father, Michael, a mem-
ber of Houston’s Phi Slama
Jama.
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ed with a spurt of its own, re-
gaining the lead on Hickey’s
3-pointer midway through
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Ducks still had another run
in them, this time with every-
body but Young getting into
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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
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added another 3-pointer, Jor-
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the Ducks put the game away
from the foul line.
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broke open a 4-4 game with
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fourth to pull away with a
10-4 win.
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boost for our kids,” Hermis-
ton (2-1) head coach Kylee
Lete said after the game. “We
got some young players on
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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
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“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
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never failed to reach and
scored two important runs.
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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
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things out of her that were
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Game 1 was broken open
when Kopacz hit a double to
plate Drotzmann to set off the
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a double off the fence in cen-
ter but was thrown out at third
trying to turn it into a triple.
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2B — Casey Goleeke (PFHS), Brook
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