FRIDAY APRIL 24, 2015
Sports shorts
Cavs beat Celtics,
take 3-0 series lead
BOSTON (AP) — LeB-
ron James scored 31 points
and the Cleveland Cavaliers
moved one win away from
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years with a
103-95 vic-
tory over
the Boston
Celtics on
Thursday night.
The scrappy Celtics kept
it close, just as they did in
the previous two games,
and trailed 95-92 after Evan
Turner hit a 3-pointer with
2:45 left. But Kevin Love hit
two 3-pointers for a 101-93
lead with 26 seconds to go.
Cleveland can complete
the sweep of the best-of-
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Sunday in Boston. No NBA
team has won a series after
trailing 3-0.
Turner had 19 points
and Avery Bradley added
18 while Isaiah Thomas
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two games.
Rose allowed to
participate in All-
Star Game
SPORTS
HERMISTON
Wadekamper stepping
aside as volleyball coach
She cited a heavy workload that starts in
January of each year and ends in Novem-
ber with the volleyball season, and she also
When Becky Wadekamper was a hoop- cited a desire to watch her daughter, Bree-
ster at Northwest Nazarene University, na, actually play volleyball, something she
she was asked to move positions. It was a hasn’t had many opportunities to do.
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to move to point guard, a position she had daughter’s career out and would be done,
never played, which put her decidedly out both of us,” Wadekamper said Thursday as
of her comfort zone. She agreed, though she and her husband, Scott, drove to Boi-
with some resistance, because it was best se, Idaho, to watch Breena and son Tyler
play in a tennis tournament. “It just kind
for the team.
<HDUV ODWHU :DGHNDPSHU ¿QGV KHUVHOI of wears on you over the years. In junior
in a situation similar to that she faced in high, I was probably able to watch two of
college. She must choose one thing or an- her matches, and even though she was in
other: comfort or discomfort. Her team is our program last year, I still had respon-
sibilities at the gym, so I just wasn’t able
her family, and she chose discomfort.
Wadekamper is retiring after four years
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as the Hermiston head volleyball coach.
By SAM BARBEE
EO Media Group
— Barack Obama
President of the United
States makes light of
the NFL’s “Defl ategate”
scandal which centered
around the New En-
gland franchise. The
Patriots were in Wash-
ington D.C. as part of
the annual White House
visit made by the Super
Bowl winning team.
Obama also called the
Patriots “as good an
organization as there is
in professional sports.”
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After four years, Becky Wadekamper (facing) an-
nounced earlier this week that she is retiring as head
vollyeball coach at Hermiston High School.
PENDLETON
Getting with the program
Pendleton lineman
won’t be deterred
from realizing dream
NEW YORK (AP) —
Major League Baseball
Commissioner Rob Man-
fred says Pete Rose will
play some role during this
summer’s All-Star Game in
Cincinnati.
Speaking
FACES Thursday
with
the Associated
Press Sports
Editors, Man-
fred said he has
not determined
a timetable
Rose
to decide on
Rose’s appli-
cation to end his lifetime
ban from baseball. The ban
started in 1989 following an
investigation Rose bet on the
Reds to win while he was
managing the team.
Manfred plans to speak
with Cincinnati Reds owner
Bob Castellini on what role
the club would like to have
for Rose at the July 14 game.
Manfred says “you can rest
assured he will be allowed to
participate.”
MLB allowed Rose to
take part in the All-Centu-
ry team announcement at
Atlanta’s Turner Field during
the 1999 World Series and
a Reds’ ceremony in 2013
honoring their 1975 and ‘76
championship teams.
“I usually tell jokes
at these events,
but with the
Patriots in town,
I was worried 11
of 12 would fall
fl at.”
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
Karl Maasdam photo courtesy of OSU Athletics
P.J. Schubert, of Pendleton, takes a breather during the Oregon State spring football
game on Saturday, April 18 in Corvallis. Schubert is a preferred walk-on at offensive
line for the Beavers and wears No. 69 to honor former coach and Beavers lineman
Josh Linehan.
For most of his life, P.J. Schubert thought coaches
were just out to get him.
Naturally blessed with a rare blend of size and ath-
leticism, Schubert had no problem dominating oppo-
nents in sports like football and wrestling. But no mat-
ter how much better he was than his peers, he couldn’t
seem to get out of his coaches’ crosshairs.
“I had a big problem where I always felt like I was
getting picked on by the coaches, like the standard was
being held higher for me than the other kids,” said the
2014 Pendleton High grad.
Turns out he wasn’t imagining it.
“We saw how much he could be so we wanted more
out of him,” said Fred Phillips, who was Schubert’s
head wrestling coach and defensive coordinator at
Pendleton.
“But I was just a typical stubborn teenager, if you
told me to do one thing of course I want to do the op-
posite,” Schubert said.
Schubert did have a vision, though, and the means
to achieve it if he would fully commit.
“I always wanted to play football at Oregon State,
that was always my dream,” he said.
This spring Schubert realized that dream by taking
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sive guard.
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the guys I’ve looked up to my whole life and now I’m
here,’” he said.
But Schubert’s Beaver tale didn’t really start there,
and took several twists before delivering him to the
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fensive and defensive lineman his junior year at Pend-
leton, Schubert was still a soft 6-foot-3, 290 pounds
and hadn’t reached the radar of any major college pro-
grams.
That’s when he started looking at his coaches a little
differently.
“After awhile I started to catch on,” he said. “These
guys have lived a little longer than I have, maybe they
know something I don’t.”
The change in attitude was noticeable, but Schubert
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HERMISTON
Carson Morter selected for Les Schwab Bowl
Hermiston star’s
prep football
career not yet done
East Oregonian
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1963 — Bob Cousy ends
his 13-year career by scoring
18 points as the Boston Celt-
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NBA championship, beating
the Los Angeles Lakers 112-
109 in Game 6.
1993 — George Branham
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bowler to win a PBA Triple
Crown event when he beats
Parker Bohn III 227-214 in
the Tournament of Champi-
ons.
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The last pass Carson Morter
caught at Hillsboro Stadium went
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touchdown towards Hermiston’s
34-12 Class 5A state championship
victory over Silverton.
That grab came way back on
Nov. 29 and seemingly capped
off the greatest individual receiv-
ing season in Bulldog history. But,
Morter, a 5-foot-9 senior who at-
tends Hermiston Christian School,
will have one last chance to torch
defenses at Hillsboro Stadium on
June 20, acting as one of 80 Ore-
gon prep football players selected to
EO fi le photo
Hermiston’s Carson Morter dives to make a catch in front of Marist’s
Trevor Konrady in the Bulldogs’ 30-13 semifi nal win against the
Spartans on November 22 in Hillsboro.
play in the Les Schwab Bowl.
The all-star game, which is en-
tering its 15th year, splits the best
outgoing seniors from Classes 6A
and 5A into two 40-man rosters.
Morter, who will play on the South
team, will be the only Hermiston
player participating in the game.
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selection at wide receiver and cor-
nerback, but is tabbed to play wide
receiver this summer.
Morter caught 56 passes for
1075 yards and 15 touchdowns
during his senior year. His produc-
tivity did anything but shrink in the
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pionship victories. He led the team
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ing with 155 yards and a score ver-
sus Marist and 89 yards and another
score against the Foxes.
He was a three-position repre-
sentative on the all-Columbia Riv-
er Conference team. He also made
eight interceptions, returning one
for a touchdown.
Kickoff on June 20 is set for 6
p.m. Tickets will go sale on May 11.