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SPORTS
East Oregonian
Friday, April 3, 2015
NCAA Men’s Tournament
Kentucky looking to do what UNLV couldn’t
Wildcats aiming
for first perfect
season in 40 years
Kentucky’s Trey
Lyles waves
after the team’s
78-39 win over
West Virginia in
a college bas-
ketball game in
the NCAA men’s
tournament
regional semi-
finals, Friday in
Cleveland. Ken-
tucky advanced
to face Notre
Dame in the
regional finals
Saturday.
By JIM O’CONNELL
Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS — Twen-
ty-four years ago, UNLV arrived in
Indianapolis for a coronation dis-
guised as a Final Four.
The Runnin’ Rebels were a col-
lege basketball juggernaut. They
hadn’t lost all season. In fact, they
hadn’t lost for 45 straight games, a
streak that started with a run in the
previous season to a national cham-
pionship.
UNLV, led by Jerry Tarkanian,
the towel-chewing defensive genius,
arrived in Indianapolis needing two
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national champion since Indiana in
1976.
This week, Kentucky arrived in
Indianapolis for a coronation dis-
guised as a Final Four.
The Wildcats are a college basket-
ball juggernaut. They haven’t lost all
season.
Kentucky, led by John Calipari, a
coach who has turned recruiting into
an art form, arrived in Indianapolis
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undefeated national champion since
Indiana in 1976.
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nals. That was the round in which
UNLV’s undefeated dreams were
dashed by Duke, a team the Runnin’
Rebels had beaten by 30 points in
the championship game a year ear-
lier. Duke, which plays Michigan
State on Saturday, could get another
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chance to ruin a perfect run at the ti-
tle, but that is looking way down a
three-day road.
“I’ll never have a group of play-
ers like this again,” Tarkanian, who
died on Feb. 11, said the night of the
loss to Duke, a result that stunned the
sports world. “You only get a team
like this once in your career. This
was a very special group of kids.
“I’m just sick,” he said. “It meant
so much to these kids. I’m just hurt-
ing inside.”
When the game ended, Duke
coach
Mike
Krzyzewski had his own problem.
He had to get his team to settle down
after the upset because the Blue Dev-
ils still had a game Monday night for
the national championship.
“I thought all week we had a
chance but I wasn’t going to be Joe
Namath and say anything like that,”
Krzyzewski said 24 years ago. “I
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utes we could win, not knowing if
the kids could handle it. UNLV plays
with such ease and we play with so
much emotion.”
UNLV won its games by an av-
erage of 26.7 points per game. Only
two games were decided by less than
12 points, a 7-point win over Ar-
kansas in a 1-vs.-2 matchup and an
8-point victory over Georgetown in
the second round of the NCAA Tour-
nament.
“I remember in practice, Coach
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seven, to get used to their speed
and their quickness,” Grant Hill, a
freshman starter on that Duke team,
said Thursday in Indianapolis where
he will serve as a game analyst for
CBS. “We had a game plan, we’d
been in a number of close games,
we won some, some we didn’t, but
we had that experience, and they
had not been in many close games,
so our thing was let’s hit them ear-
ly, let them know we’re here, we’re
going to play, and let’s just manage
the game and keep it close, and if it’s
close, the pressure is going to be all
on them. That was our comfort zone,
how we played all year.”
UNLV’s starting lineup included
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son, Stacey Augmon and Greg An-
thony. It also had Anderson Hunt and
George Ackles. All were upperclass-
men.
Kentucky’s roster is so deep scu-
ba gear is recommended. Nine out-
standing underclassmen who have
all committed to ignoring minutes
for wins and it’s anybody’s guess
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NBA draft picks. Eight of the nine
players in the rotation are averag-
ing between 5.6 and 11.0 points per
game. Eight players have been Ken-
tucky’s leading scorer in a game this
season. The Wildcats did have three
game decided by six or fewer points,
but their average margin of victory
was almost 21 points per game.
HILLMICK:
Newest signee
will have
three years of
eligibility
Continued from 1B
versity, but transferred to EOU
after one season.
While the school lacked
a collegiate soccer program,
Hillmick and other EOU stu-
dents juggled training and
the competitive tournament
circuit with school work un-
til the school announced the
addition of a soccer program
this past fall.
He also served as an assis-
tant for his father Rob Hill-
mick on the Pendleton High
School varsity team the past
two seasons.
Head coach Stan Ro-
drigues extended Hillmick a
roster spot last month after an
exhibition match with a group
of incoming freshman.
“I was partially sought out by
him, but also partially promot-
ing myself,” Hillmick said. “I’m
excited. I feel like I have a good
shot to start.”
Hillmick is currently one
of three goalkeepers on the
roster.
The physical education
student has three years of el-
igibility remaining beginning
this fall.
The inaugural Mounties
soccer team will compete in
the Cascade Collegiate Con-
ference and begin competi-
tion in August.
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lives — it was important to get them in
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the season and his young career.
“He did very well,” Ione coach Mau-
reen McElligott said. “It’s nice to see
improvement in him.”
On the girls side, things were much
more even. Both girls lineups were full
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matched play.
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Yazzmin Chavez and Guitzel Chavez
beat the No. 1 Ione boys team of Tom
Gould and Tim Gould 8-1. Playing as
the No. 1 girls doubles team, Natalia Es-
quivel and Edith Ibarra had a 6-5 lead,
but couldn’t hold it and lost to Maia
Fuchs and Katelyn Bess 8-6. Fuchs and
Bess also took on Melissa Hood and
Z. Z. Ruloph and won 8-2. Ione’s Eri-
ca Nelson and Kelsey Van Os won an
8-7 nail-biter over Natalie Cornejo and
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from Brenna Holt and Payton Henning,
who beat Reiah Waite and Natalie Grigg
8-3. IN their second match, Flynn and
Nelson beat Lanessa Bautista and Bri-
anna Carnejo 8-0.
In some girls singles matches, Rita
McElligott topped Esquivel 8-6, Ione’s
Karina Rios knocked off Candida Rojas
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past Ione’s Babali Peterson 8-5.
McElligott said many of the matches
were much closer than the scores indi-
cate, and that’s tough to tell sometimes
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But the winning and losing wasn’t
important to either coach. With so many
players new to the game — with some
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a match to both see where they are as
players, but also to have a bit of fun in
the process.
“My idea is: you do as well as you
want to do,” McElligott said. “I can
show you and tell you what to do, but I
cant do it for you. So, you have to take
it that step further and have to want to
do it. And I think most of them do, so
that’s good. And most of them have fun,
so that’s half the battle right there.”
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don at 3 p.m., and Ione heads to Umatil-
la on April 7 for a 3:30 p.m. date.
Henry Holdamn (PHS) def. Dezan Zerba (MHS)8-4
Lincoln Johnson (PHS) def. Christian Gonzalez (MHS) 8-2
Doubles
Pendleton forfeit
Zack Lyon and Jose Abrego (MHS) def. Daniel Medina and
Isaac Page (PHS) 8-3
Peter Wallace and Silas Johnston (PHS) def. Humberto
Villegomez and Carlos Epifanio (MHS) 8-4
Julian Villegas and Ivan Martinez (MHS) def. Josh Mendo-
za and Henry Scanlan (PHS) 8-2
GIRLS TENNIS
PENDLETON 12, MAC-HI 1 —
At Milton-Freewater, the Buckaroos
depth overwhelmed the Pioneers, as
Pendleton won all but one match in the
dual.
The Bucks top six singles players
and all of their doubles pairings were
victorious. Top singles players Matil-
BOYS TENNIS
de Cittadini, Meagan Flanage and Sam
PENDLETON 5, MAC-HI 3 — At Bixler all won with relative ease.
Pendleton, the Buckaroos swept Mac-
Sisters Keren and Keziah Hampton
Hi in four singles matches on its way to defeated Pioneers Anniek Kievtisbosch
a 5-3 team victory over the Pioneers.
and Sam Tveidt 8-2 in a match of past
Gareth Haug, Jeremy Cochrane, state placers.
Henray Holdman and Lincoln Johnson
The Buckaroos will host La Grande
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time this season.
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PENDLETON 12, MAC-HI 1
Mac-Hi took three of four doubles
Singles
matches versus the undermanned Buck-
Matilde Cittadini (PHS) def. Elise Griffin (MHS) 8-3
aroos. With only 10 players, Pendleton
Meagan Flanagen (PHS) def. Jacky Reyes (MHS) 8-1
Sam Bixler (PHS) def. Maria Castillo (MHS) 8-4
forced to double up Haug and Cocrhane
Hannah Flanagen (PHS) def. Ericka Landa (MHS) 8-0
on the doubles court. The pairing was
Brandy Brown (PHS) def. Jessica Ibarra (MHS) 8-6
Jenna Senter (PHS) def. Karen Steele (PHS) 8-0
able to down Mac-Hi top doubles duo
Izzy Lepinette (MHS) def. Minnie Seo (PHS) 6-0
Alex Alvarez and Ulysses Zaragoza
Doubles
EXWWKHPDWFKFRXQWHGRI¿FLDOO\DV Keren Hampton and Keziah Hampton (PHS) def. Anniek
and Sam Tveidt (MHS) 8-2
a forfeit, as players cannot compete in Kievitsbosch
Kian Sperl and Christina Thompson (PHS) def. Ana Rodri-
guez and Emily Cuellar (MHS) 8-3
singles and doubles matches.
James and Julia Livingston (PHS) def. Sandra Perey-
Pendleton hosts La Grande on Mon- da Anna
and Gladys Guiterez (MHS) 8-2
Aleleia Sayre and Isabelle Chapman (PHS) def. Joci Alva-
day at 4 p.m.
rez and Jennifer Robles (MHS) 8-1
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Brooke Lapp and Brooke Marshall (PHS) def. Joulin Puer-
PENDLETON 5, MAC-HI 3
Singles
Gareth Haug (PHS) def. Allen Ng (MHS) 8-1
Jeremy Cochrane (PHS) def. Rigo Ponce 8-6
co and Ivette Lopez (MHS) 8-2
Abby Williams and Denae Smith (PHS) def. Camille Riley
and Stella Lee (MHS) 8-3
SCOREBOARD
Local Slate
PREP BASEBALL
Today
Riverside at Stanfield (DH), 1/3 p.m.
Vale at Umatilla (DH), 1/3 p.m.
Pendleton at Walla Walla, 3 p.m.
Union at Weston-McEwen, 4 p.m.
Hermiston at David Douglas, 4:30 p.m.
Saturday
Mac-Hi at Crook County (DH), 10 a.m./1
p.m.
Walla Walla at Pendleton, 11 a.m.
Stanfield at Irrigon, 11 a.m.
Dufur at Pilot Rock (DH), 11 a.m./1 p.m.
Heppner at Elgin (DH), Noon/2 p.m.
Sherman at Weston-McEwen (DH),
Noon/2 p.m.
PREP SOFTBALL
Today
Riverside at Echo (DH), 1/3 p.m.
Vale at Umatilla (DH), 1/3 p.m.
Pendleton at Walla Walla (DH), 2/4 p.m.
Reynolds at Hermiston (DH), 3/4:30 p.m.
Saturday
Weston-McEwen at Union (DH), 11 a.m./1
p.m.
Heppner at Irrigon (DH), 11 a.m./1 p.m.
Mac-Hi at Yamhill-Carlton, 1 p.m.
Mac-Hi vs. Banks (at Y-C), 2:30 p.m.
PREP TRACK & FIELD
Today
Pendleton, Mac-Hi, Riverside, Umatilla,
Stanfield, Irrigon, Pilot Rock, Weston-McE-
wen, Ione and Helix at Mac-Hi Carnival of
Speed (Milton-Freewater), 11 a.m.
Hermiston at East County Classic (Gresh-
am), 4 p.m.
Saturday
Heppner, Weston-McEwen, Condon/
Wheeler, Ione, Echo, Arlington at Sherman
County Invitational (Moro), 11 a.m.
Riverside at Madras Invite, 11 a.m.
PREP BOYS GOLF
Today
Hermiston, Pendleton at Eagle Ridge
(Redmond), 9 a.m.
Echo,Heppner at Pendleton CC, 9 a.m.
PREP GIRLS GOLF
Today
Echo,Heppner at Pendleton CC, 9 a.m.
Pendleton, Hermiston at Eagle Ridge
(Redmond), 1:30 p.m.
PREP BOYS TENNIS
Today
Riverside at Umatilla, 4 p.m.
PREP GIRLS TENNIS
Today
La Grande at Mac-Hi, 3 p.m.
Stanfield at Condon/Wheeler, 3 p.m.
Riverside at Umatilla, 4 p.m.
PREP RUGBY
Saturday
East Oregon Sasqautch at Lentz Park
Field (Portland), 1:30 p.m.
PREP LACROSSE
Today
Hermiston at Redmond, 3 p.m.
Saturday
Hermiston at Sisters, Noon
COLLEGE BASEBALL
Saturday
Columbia Basin at Blue Mountain (DH),
1 p.m.
COLLEGE SOFTBALL
Today
Walla Walla at Blue Mountain (DH), 2 p.m.
Eastern Oregon at Corban (DH), 2/4 p.m.
Saturday
Eastern Oregon at NW Christian (DH), 11
a.m./1 p.m.
Basketball
NBA
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W
L Pct
z-Atlanta
56 19 .747
x-Cleveland
49 27 .645
y-Toronto
45 30 .600
x-Chicago
45 30 .600
x-Washington
42 33 .560
Milwaukee
37 38 .493
Brooklyn
34 40 .459
Miami
34 41 .453
Boston
34 41 .453
Charlotte
32 42 .432
Indiana
32 43 .427
Detroit
29 46 .387
Orlando
22 53 .293
Philadelphia
18 58 .237
New York
14 61 .187
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W
L Pct
z-Golden State
62 13 .827
x-Houston
52 24 .684
x-Memphis
51 24 .680
x-Portland
48 26 .649
x-L.A. Clippers
50 26 .658
x-San Antonio
49 26 .653
Dallas
46 30 .605
Oklahoma City
42 33 .560
New Orleans
40 34 .541
Phoenix
38 38 .500
Utah
34 41 .453
Denver
28 47 .373
Sacramento
26 48 .351
L.A. Lakers
20 54 .270
Minnesota
16 59 .213
x-clinched playoff spot
y-clinched division
z-clinched conference
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11
11
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19
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22
22
23½
24
27
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42
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11
13½
12½
13
16½
20
21½
24½
28
34
35½
41½
46
Thursday’s Games
Cleveland 114, Miami 88
Houston 108, Dallas 101
Golden State 107, Phoenix 106
Today’s Games
New York at Washington, 4 p.m.
Charlotte at Indiana, 4 p.m.
Milwaukee at Boston, 4:30 p.m.
Toronto at Brooklyn, 4:30 p.m.
Detroit at Chicago, 5 p.m.
Oklahoma City at Memphis, 5 p.m.
Orlando at Minnesota, 5 p.m.
Denver at San Antonio, 5:30 p.m.
New Orleans at Sacramento, 7 p.m.
Portland at L.A. Lakers, 7:30 p.m.
NCAA Men
FINAL FOUR
Saturday
Michigan State (27-11) vs. Duke (33-4),
3:09 p.m.
Kentucky (38-0) vs. Wisconsin (35-3),
5:49 p.m.
Hockey
NHL
Atlantic Division
GP W
L OT Pts GF GA
x-Montreal 78 47 22
9 103 207 179
x-Tampa Bay 79 47 24
8 102 251 206
Detroit
77 40 24 13 93 223 211
Boston
78 40 25 13 93 207 200
Ottawa
77 39 26 12 90 222 205
Florida
78 36 27 15 87 198 211
Toronto
78 29 43
6 64 204 249
Buffalo
77 22 47
8 52 152 258
Metropolitan Division
GP W
L OT Pts GF GA
y-N.Y. Rangers 77 49 21
7 105 234 181
Washington 78 43 25 10 96 232 194
N.Y. Islanders 78 45 27
6 96 238 219
Pittsburgh 77 42 24 11 95 211 194
Columbus 77 38 35
4 80 214 237
Philadelphia 77 31 29 17 79 202 220
New Jersey 77 31 33 13 75 170 197
Carolina
77 28 38 11 67 177 214
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
GP W
L OT Pts GF GA
x-Nashville 78 47 22
9 103 224 193
x-St. Louis 77 47 23
7 101 233 191
x-Chicago 77 47 24
6 100 220 177
Minnesota 77 44 26
7 95 221 189
Winnipeg 77 39 26 12 90 217 204
Dallas
77 37 30 10 84 239 248
Colorado
77 35 30 12 82 207 218
Pacific Division
GP W
L OT Pts GF GA
y-Anaheim 79 50 22
7 107 232 217
Vancouver 78 45 28
5 95 225 211
Calgary
78 42 29
7 91 230 208
Los Angeles 77 38 25 14 90 209 194
San Jose
77 38 30
9 85 217 216
Edmonton 78 23 42 13 59 188 268
Arizona
77 23 46
8 54 161 256
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for
overtime loss.
x-clinched playoff spot
y-clinched division
Thursday’s Games
Columbus 4, N.Y. Islanders 3, SO
Washington 5, Montreal 4, SO
Ottawa 2, Tampa Bay 1, OT
Boston 3, Detroit 2
Florida 6, Carolina 1
N.Y. Rangers 3, Minnesota 2
St. Louis 4, Calgary 1
Chicago 3, Vancouver 1
Los Angeles 8, Edmonton 2
Friday’s Games
Chicago at Buffalo, 4 p.m.
Montreal at New Jersey, 4 p.m.
St. Louis at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.
Colorado at Anaheim, 7 p.m.
Arizona at San Jose, 7 p.m.
WHL Playoffs
First Round Division Semifinals (Best-
of-7)
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Brandon vs. Edmonton (Brandon wins
series 4-1)
Regina vs. Swift Current (Regina wins
series 4-0)
Thursday’s Game
Medicine Hat 5, Red Deer 2 (Medicine
Hat leads series 3-1)
Today’s Games
Kootenay at Calgary (Calgary leads series
3-1), 5 p.m.
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Kelowna 5, Tri-City 4 (OT) (Kelowna wins
series 4-0)
Thursday’s Game
Victoria 3, Prince George 0 (Victoria leads
series 3-1)
Portland 8, Seattle 5 (Series tied at 2-2)
Today, Apr. 2
Everett at Spokane (Everett leads series
2-1), 6:05 p.m.
Baseball
MLB Spring Training
Thursday’s Games
St. Louis 0, N.Y. Mets 0, tie
Detroit 3, N.Y. Yankees (ss) 2
Tampa Bay 10, Philadelphia 1
N.Y. Yankees (ss) 6, Pittsburgh 2
Cleveland 4, Cincinnati 3
San Diego 6, Milwaukee 5
Arizona 10, Chicago White Sox 2
Atlanta 6, Baltimore 5
Boston 8, Minnesota 5
L.A. Angels 3, L.A. Dodgers 2
Oakland 8, San Francisco 2
Friday’s Games
Tampa Bay vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla.,
10:05 a.m.
Washington vs. N.Y. Yankees at Tampa,
Fla., 10:05 a.m.
Milwaukee vs. Cleveland at Goodyear,
Ariz., 1:05 p.m.
Atlanta vs. Baltimore at Sarasota, Fla.,
3:05 p.m.
Minnesota vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla.,
4:05 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 4:05 p.m.
Cincinnati vs. Toronto at Montreal, 4:07
p.m.
Kansas City at Houston, 5:05 p.m.
N.Y. Mets at Texas, 5:05 p.m.
Chicago Cubs at Arizona, 6:40 p.m.
Colorado vs. Seattle at Peoria, Ariz., 7:05
p.m.
L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels, 7:05 p.m.
Oakland at San Francisco, 7:15 p.m.
football impacted
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program at Waterloo Uni-
versity in Canada when he
was athletic director.
Copeland is among those
who call the lack of a uni-
form testing program in col-
lege sports a glaring blind
spot for the NCAA, which
tries to regulate almost ev-
erything from recruiting, to
paying players, to gambling
and more.
“How ironic that the
NCAA has this TV contract
that brings in billions of dol-
lars for the tournament, but
no consistent rules to protect
the integrity of what they’re
selling,” said Travis Tygart,
CEO of the U.S. Anti-Dop-
ing Agency.
The diffuse policies in
play at the Final Four, and
around the country, do have
a few things in common:
—They have relatively
limited lists of banned sub-
stances.
—They don’t test blood
for human-growth hormone.
—They have no means of
dealing with cases that don’t
involve a positive test but
show other evidence of drug
use. That’s how Lance Arm-
strong and several athletes
implicated in the BALCO
scandal lost their records.
—Most schools don’t
have an independent agency
to evaluate results and mete
out punishment, which can
put administrators at odds
with their coaching staffs
and athletic departments.
The confusion over the
wide-ranging drug-testing
policies have had an impact
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programs this season.
Syracuse was put on
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coach Jim Boeheim was sus-
pended for nine games for vi-
olations that included failure
to adhere to a drug-testing
program that was deemed
too confusing by school
administrators. The NCAA
recommends schools adopt
their own drug policies but
can then sanction schools for
not following them.
Meanwhile, in January,
two Oregon players were
left behind for the college
football title game after pos-
itive drug tests. At least one
of those was for marijuana.
Shortly after that, an
NCAA committee recom-
mended an overhaul of
some facets of the drug-test-
ing policy — most notably
that marijuana testing on the
national level be scrapped
in favor of education and
intervention. Alcohol and
narcotics would be added to
the list of recreational drugs
that need to be more closely
monitored.
ATHLETE
OF THE WEEK
TONY
FLORES
Sophomore
Stanfield Baseball
Flores pitched a complete game
one-hitter in a 10-0 six-inning win
over Union on Friday. Flores struck
out 10 batters and never allowed a
runner past second base as the
Tigers picked up their first win of
the season.
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