TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2015
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NCAA approves
30-second shot clock
INDIANAPOLIS
— College basketball is
undergoing a major overhaul
next season.
Men’s teams will use
a faster shot clock — 30
seconds
instead of
35 seconds
— and
have fewer
timeouts,
while
women’s teams will play
four 10-minute quarters
instead of two 20-minute
halves.
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Monday when the NCAA’s
Playing Rules Oversight
Panel approved a series of
changes that everybody
hopes will improve the
game.
The men’s committee had
spent months debating how
to increase scoring and speed
up play, especially late when
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made games seemingly drag
on endlessly and needlessly.
The most notable change
will be trimming the shot
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from 45 seconds to 35 for the
1993-94 season.
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Beaver ace Moore
drafted by Seattle
CORVALLIS (AP) —
Oregon State right-handed
pitcher Andrew Moore has
been selected in the second
round, 72nd overall by the
Seattle Mariners in the 2015
Major League Baseball
First-Year
Draft on
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Monday.
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Oregon State
player chosen,
assuring
that OSU
Moore
will extend
its streak of
having at least one player
selected every year since
1993.
Moore has pitched three
seasons for the Beavers,
going 27-9 over 51 games,
48 of which are starts. He
has a miniscule 2.10 earned
run average and has struck
out 251 to just 75 walks in
347 2/3 innings.
Moore has racked up
the honors while at Oregon
State. He’s been named
both an All-American and
All-Pac-12 performer in
both 2013 and 2015, and
was the Pac-12 Conference’s
Freshman of the Year in
2013. A digital commu-
nications major, he was
named Pac-12 All-Academic
Second Team in 2015, just
weeks after being named
Academic All-District 8.
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State player to be selected
by Seattle in the draft, with
Andy Peterson and Kavin
Keyes last selected in 2014.
“To be able to
contribute and
see how much this
means to Tampa
is my No. 1
priority.”
— Victor Hedman
Tampa Bay Lightning
defenceman on his two
assists in Monday’s
2-1 Lightning win over
Chicago. The Game 2
victory gives Tampa
Bay a 2-1 lead over
Chicago in the Stanley
Cup Finals.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1973—Secretariat, ridden
by Ron Turcotte, wins the
Belmont Stakes in record
time to capture the Triple
Crown. Secretariat sets a
world record on the 1½-mile
course with 2:24, and a
record for largest margin of
victory in the Belmont, 31
lengths.
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The Mac-Hi softball team celebrates after the Pioneers’ 4-0 win against Banks in the Class 4A state softball championship game Satur-
day in Corvallis.
Robert, Pioneers blank postseason foes to defend state title
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Mac-Hi’s Colette Robert throws from the pitching
circle in the Pioneers’ 4-0 win against Banks in the
class 4A state softball championship game Satur-
day in Corvallis.
CORVALLIS — The Mac-Hi Pioneers
completed their shutout of the Class 4A state
softball bracket with a 4-0 win over Banks on
Saturday.
It was the second straight title for the
Pioneers, and senior pitcher Colette Robert
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a 42-0 route of their four postseason oppo-
nents.
Robert only allowed three hits while
striking out eight, and said the win carried
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time she’d beaten the Braves in four tries,
but because she was using this postseason to
honor a fallen teammate.
“It was a little bit of a monkey on the back
thing,” she said of Banks, “and before the
game I sent up a prayer to my friend Maddie
Higgins. She played on my travel team with
me and passed away almost a year ago in
an accident, and so we’ve been playing for
Maddie.”
Even with the added emotion, Robert
was cool in the circle as she allowed only
two runners into scoring position in front of
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errors.
“It just came easy with this team,” she
said. “They work so well behind me and they
were there the entire time.”
The win also validated a coaching tactic
by Mac-Hi’s Nicole Christian, who sat a few
of her better hitters when they lost 8-2 to
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1st Round: 10-0 over Cascade
Quarterfi nals: 4-0 over Douglas
Semifi nals: 24-0 over Yamhill-Carlton
Championship Game: 4-0 over Banks
Postseaon play: 42-0 in four wins
Banks and pitcher Hannah
VanDomelen two months
ago.
“I knew there was a
chance we could see her
and they take as many
notes as possible on us,
so I didn’t want to show
everything that we had at
the beginning and I think it paid off with our
hitters,” Christian said. “It was a great job for
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time, and making that adjustment.”
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by Stefanie Copeland (2 for 3), Jenny Field
(2 for 3) and Robert (2 for 4).
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Pendleton title
defense falls short
in seventh inning
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
For the second year in a row the
5A OSAA softball state champion-
ship was won on late heroics.
Last season it was the Pendleton
Buckaroos scoring twice in the
sixth inning for a 2-1 win, but the
Putnam Kingsmen got their turn on
Saturday at OSU Softball Complex.
The Kingsmen scored on a
squeeze bunt in the bottom of the
seventh inning to edge the Bucka-
roos 3-2.
Pendleton coach Tim Cary said it
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that saw both teams come up with
big plays throughout.
“I think the two correct teams
were playing today for 5A. It was
just a great ballgame to watch.
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nately we didn’t get this one.”
Pendleton senior catcher Mykal
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sentiment after she and her four
fellow seniors received their high
school diplomas in a makeshift
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following the game.
“I’m really proud of my team.
We had good defense, we had good
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offense, but at the end of the day
Pendleton’s Madison Parker, center left, consoles teammate Tiah
Grass after the Bucks’ 3-2 loss to Putnam on Saturday in the Class they just came out on top,” she said.
“But I thought we played a really
5A state softball championship game in Corvallis.
good game.”
Both teams had great energy, a lot where we could’ve, should’ve,
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of excitement in the crowd, great would’ve, but I think both teams left of big plays that went Pendleton’s
atmosphere. It didn’t end up quite LWRXWRQWKH¿HOGDQG,GRQ¶WWKLQN way, and saved a run in the fourth
how we wanted it to, but it was a we should have any regrets on what inning before starting the ball in
heck of a game to be part of, too,” he we did. Sometimes you win and motion for the game-tying run in
said. “Each team had some chances sometimes you lose, and unfortu-
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