WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 2015
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Houston staves off
elimination
HOUSTON (AP) —
James Harden had 26 points,
11 rebounds
and 10 assists,
Dwight
Howard
added 20
points and 15
rebounds, and
the Houston
Rockets bounced back from
two lopsided losses to avoid
elimination with a 124-103
victory over the Los Angeles
Clippers on Tuesday night
in the Western Conference
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The Rockets hadn’t lost
three straight all season, and
with their season on the line
they ended their skid to send
it back to Los Angeles for
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Houston used a 36-point
second quarter to take a
commanding lead and
withstood a third-quarter
surge by Los Angeles to lead
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points and 16 rebounds,
and Chris Paul added 22
points and 10 assists for the
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HERMISTON
Faaeteete approved by school board
Hermiston High
fills head coaching
positions for
football, volleyball
By SAM BARBEE
EO Media Group
The Hermiston Bulldogs didn’t
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their open head coaching
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David Faaeteete has
spent the last seven
seasons on Hermiston’s
sideline as an assistant
football coach, and was one of four
coaches to gain the school board’s
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Faaeteete will take over the cham-
pionship football program for Mark
Hodges, who retired two
weeks ago due to chronic
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also approved the hire of
Dorothy Smith to helm
the high school volleyball
program, replacing Becky
Wadekamper who also retired this
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“I love the fact that they’re
passionate about sports, but I love
the fact that they’re passionate
about kids more,” Hermiston
athletic director Blaine Ganvoa
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shows that they’re passionate about
kids, passionate about sports and
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Faaeteete said the plan for him to
follow Hodges has been in motion
since their second year in Herm-
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PENDLETON
Lankford grabs historic win
Nixyaawii
frosh becomes
school’s first
district medalist
By ERIK SKOPIL
East Oregonian
LeBron leads Cavs
to Game 5 win
CLEVELAND (AP)
— LeBron James scored
38 points, Kyrie Irving
added 25 and the Cleveland
Cavaliers held on for a
106-101 victory over the
Chicago Bulls on Tuesday
night to take a
lead in their
FACES 3-2
testy Eastern
Conference
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Showing no
ill effects from
a sprained left
ankle, James,
James
who added 12
rebounds, six assists and
didn’t have a turnover in 41
minutes, ensured the Cavs
will again play at home this
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They can wrap up the
best-of-seven series with a
win in Game 6 on Thursday
night back at United Center
in Chicago, where the teams
exchanged buzzer-beating
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“We can’t
defl ate ‘em. It’s
precautionary, I
guess.“
— CC Sabathia
New York Yankees
pitcher joking about the
increased security mea-
sures surrounding MLB
game balls that were
introduced this season.
The league is hoping to
avoid a scandal like the
NFL’s “Defl ategate” in
which New England Pa-
triots QB Tom Brady was
found to have conspired
to alter game balls be-
yond the legal limits.
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Nixyaawii’s Riley Lankford watches his ball after teeing off on the eleventh hole Tuesday during the 2A dis-
trict golf tournament at the Pendleton County Club.
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Mac-Hi’s
Colette
Robert
throws
from the
pitching cir-
cle during a
game early
this season
in Pendle-
ton. Robert
threw her
second per-
fect game
in three
outings
in a 15-0
win over
DeSales
(WA) in fi ve
innings.
Robert perfect once again
Mac-Hi star
throws second
perfect game in
less than a week
down all 15 DeSales (WA)
batters in sequence Tuesday
on the Pioneers way to a 15-0
run-rule shortened non-league
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game in Thursday’s double-
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was even more untouchable
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— Colette Robert was once DeSales batters require the
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Pioneer (21-1) defense to
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faced the minimum, sending
“She was just dealing
tonight,” Mac-Hi coach
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Thresa Acox tried to lay
down a bunt in the fourth
inning, but the ball ended up
in Robert’s glove and then
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Allesyn Lyons was the only
Irish player to make solid
contact, but the junior lined
out to Shannon Carter at
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two batters to conclude the
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Cockburn goes distance for Pendleton
Pendleton
The Dalles
Hermiston
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THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1952 — In an Appalachian
League game, Ron Necciai
of the Bristol Twins strikes
out 27 batters while pitching
a 7-0 no-hitter against the
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1976 — The New York
Nets overcome a 22-point
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the Denver Nuggets 112-106
and win the last ABA cham-
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2005 — Tiger Woods
misses the cut at the Byron
Nelson Championship to end
his record of 142 consecutive
cuts made over the last seven
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Needing a par on the 18th
hole at Cottonwood Valley,
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He taps in for a bogey and a
2-over 72, leaving him at 1
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It was on familiar terrain
that Riley Lankford accom-
plished his greatest golf
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The Nixyaawii freshman
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individual boys golf district
championships
Tuesday,
picking up the Class
4A/3A/2A/1A
Special
District 3 title at his home
course — the Pendleton
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here, so every Friday I come
here and golf — for the past
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said after shooting consec-
utive personal tournament
round bests of 79 and 77 to
win the title by two strokes
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Pendleton, Hermiston
win league games
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Pendleton (10-14, 6-5 CRC) scored
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and never trailed to take the season
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game back from injury as the Pend- sixth hits of the season, and drove in
leton Buckaroos beat The Dalles 10-6
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in Columbia River Conference baseball
CRC Softball
Buckaroos continue run of dominance
Pendleton routs The Dalles;
Hermiston falls to HRV
highlighted another huge day by the
offense with her seventh home run
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(17-7, 11-0 CRC) in their penultimate
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Pendleton rattled off 16 hits against
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Dalles to three hits and Alexis Morrison
Pendleton
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Prep Golf
Dawgs,
Bucks
headed
to state
For fifth straight
year both punch
through district
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REDMOND — The
Hermiston and Pendleton
boys golf teams are state-
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The Bulldogs inched
past the Buckaroos by a
stroke for third place at the
Class 5A Special District 2
tournament at Eagle Crest
Ridge, but Pendleton’s fourth
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advance to next week’s state
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