FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2015
SPORTS
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PENDLETON
Moore named Player of the Year
Record 7 Wildcats
to enter NBA draft
LEXINGTON, Ky.
(AP) — Kentucky has a lot
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record seven players have
announced they will enter
the NBA draft.
In a news conference
Thursday, 7-footers Willie
Cau-
ley-Stein,
twin guards
Andrew
and Aaron
Harrison
and freshman forwards
Karl-Anthony Towns and
Trey Lyles all said they will
turn pro.
Also entering are 7-0 re-
serve center Dakari Johnson
and backup shooting guard
Devin Booker, completing
an exodus by the Wildcats’
top seven scorers.
The 6-11 Towns could
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overall on June 25 and
Cauley-Stein and Lyles
could soon follow with both
projected as possible lottery
selections. Booker is also a
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the rest projected to go in the
second.
Hurley hired as
new Arizona State
basketball coach
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) —
Arizona State has hired
Bobby Hurley as its basket-
ball coach.
The 43-year-old Hurley
spent the past two years as
the head coach at Buffalo,
where he led
Bulls to 23
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wins and an
NCAA Tourna-
ment berth this
past season.
He replaces
Herb Sendek,
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Hurley
March 24 after
nine seasons.
Hurley has an extensive
basketball background, play-
ing for father Bob Hurley Sr.
in Jersey City, New Jersey,
and four years at Duke. A
point guard, he led the Blue
Devils to national champi-
onships in 1991 and 1992
and was an All-American in
1993.
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involved in a near-fatal car
accident.
“It’s all about
family. I live here
in Pittsburgh now,
and since the end
of the season I’ve
had a chance to
enjoy my family
on a level I never
had before. It was
awesome.”
— Troy Polamalu
Pittsburgh Steelers
safety on why he de-
cided to retire Thurs-
day. He had two sea-
sons remaining on his
contract but decided
to forgo the fi nal two
to spend more time
with his family. Pol-
amalu was a pro-bowl
selection in eight of his
12 seasons in the NFL.
He won two Super
Bowls with Pittsburgh,
most recently Super
Bowl XLIII in 2009.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1996 — Norm Duke sets
a Professional Bowlers As-
sociation record with three
consecutive 300s. Duke, who
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consecutive 300s, opens the
second round with his third
perfect game of the day.
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BMCC sophomore
becomes first to
win major award
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ishes the past two seasons.
“To me it means a lot,” Moore
said. “I feel like I’ve worked pretty
hard all throughout my entire life.
To be recognized as a hard worker
that has done a lot in the NWAC,
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that’s just really amazing and in-
East Oregonian
credible to be the person that is rep-
Sophomore guard Mar’Shay resenting that.”
She was named the East Region
Moore added to her storied bas-
ketball career Thursday, becoming Most Valuable Player and the East
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ty College player to be recognized Year last month.
Moore was the NWAC’s most
as the Baden Women’s Basketball
Player of the Year given to the top dynamic scorer this season. Her
player in the Northwest Athletic 24.1 points per game were tied
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for best in the conference and the
BMCC guard Mar’Shay Moore Conference.
Moore led the Timberwolves to 123 points scored in four NWAC
has been names the NWAC
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the Year.
tournament, taking the Timber- in league history. She topped the
30-point mark twice during the
tournament, including 34 points in
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90 win over Columbia Basin in the
second runner-up game.
Behind Moore’s on-court hero-
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season with just seven available
players.
“We had a lot of bumps in the
road. I feel like that all seven girls
that played at the NWAC (tour-
nament), we fought through the
adversity. We played hard. That’s
what teammates do, they play for
each other,” Moore said.
“I’m very proud of Mar’Shay,”
BMCC coach Adam Driver said in
a statement. “She worked very hard
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PENDLETON
PENDLETON
Dark horse emerges Bucks
boot
Tigers
Freshman shines
in varsity debut as
Pendleton sweeps
La Grande
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
East Oregonian
With Pendleton’s pitching der-
by heading into the home stretch,
a dark horse came from out of the
clouds to earn a varsity roster spot
on Thursday.
Already 10 games into the sea-
son without a settled rotation, coach
Tim Cary was hoping to see one
of his pitchers
seize the No.
Softball
1 role in their
home-opening
doublehead-
Pendleton
er against La
Grande at Steve
Cary Field.
Following a
Pendleton sweep
with
back-to-
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back 12-2 wins
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freshman Alexi
Brehaut
may
have done just that.
Brehaut sparkled in her varsity
debut and held La Grande to three
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walked only one while showing
an effective change-up that had La
Grande swinging wildly at times.
Cary said Brehaut had earned
her chance during a scrimmage on
Wednesday.
“We’ve been kind of keeping
an eye on her during the freshman
games but it’s hard to gauge be-
cause the competition is obviously
different when you throw against a
freshman team,” he said. “But we
LA GRANDE — The
Buckaroos used a season-best
offensive performance to
cruise to a 16-4 non-league
trouncing of the La Grande
Tigers on Thursday.
Behind a four-hit perfor-
mance from junior Quinn
Cockburn, Pendleton (4-9)
posted highs in runs (16) and
hits (17).
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was a per-
fect 4-for-
4 at the
Pendleton
plate and
drove in
three runs,
including
RBI sin-
gles in the
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nings.
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scoring 11 runs to jump out
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Buck batters reached on base
hits to open the game, includ-
ing Kai Quinn and James
Bradt run-scoring triples.
Bradt brought in three
runs on the day.
Jack Peterson extended
the lead in the third with a
one-run double that followed
TJ Hancock stealing home.
Brady Smith allowed four
runs in the opening inning
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Pendleton freshman Alexi Brehaut throws from the pitching circle
Thursday in the Bucks’ 12-2 win against La Grande in the fi rst
game of a doubleheader in Pendleton.
could tell simply by the pitches she
had been throwing, and the change-
up that she’s been throwing, that
that’s certainly going to be effec-
tive, which is why we brought her
up for the scrimmage.
“I threw her right at our best hit-
ters and she mowed through them
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NBA
The Masters
Spieth sizzles on opening day
21 year-old shoots
8-under at Augusta
By DOUG FERGUSON
Associated Press
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) —
Jordan Spieth pulled off the un-
thinkable Thursday. With the
best opening round in 19 years,
he managed to make the Mas-
ters about a lot more than the
Grand Slam bid of Rory McIlroy
and the curious return of Tiger
Woods.
Spieth was must-see TV with
his 8-under 64 on a steamy after-
noon at Augusta National.
“It’s one of the better rounds
I’ve ever played,” he said.
That wasn’t the case for McIl-
roy, though his round wasn’t
awful. The world’s No. 1 play-
er saved par four times on the
front nine and scratched out a
71. Woods had three birdies in
his round of 73, and while it was
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the Masters, it was looked upon
as progress. Plus, his short game
looked like it was close to being
Warriors
race past
Trailblazers
Steph Curry breaks
own 3-point record
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Ste-
phen Curry eclipsed his own NBA re-
cord for most 3-pointers in a season,
scoring 45 points to rally the Golden
State Warriors to a 116-105 victory
over the Portland
Trail Blazers on
Thursday night.
Curry entered
Golden State the game four
shy of his mark
of 272 3-pointers,
which he set two
years ago in the
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Portland
Portland. He hit
six before half-
time and eight
overall, teaming with fellow Splash
Brothers star Klay Thompson to
bring the Warriors back from 13
points down.
Curry added 10 assists, and
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Jordan Spieth holds up his ball a birdie on the second hole
during the fi rst round of the Masters golf tournament Thurs-
day in Augusta, Ga.
back to normal.
But the day belonged to Spi-
eth, a 21-year-old Texan who at
least got into the Masters record
book as the youngest to lead after
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cord was within his reach, and he
didn’t even know it.
Spieth ran off six birdies in
a seven-hole stretch to reach 8
under through 14 holes, and the
last of those birdies summed up
a day when hardly anything went
wrong. He hit a 7-iron out of the
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