WEEKEND, AUGUST 29-30, 2015
Sports shorts
EOU releases
men’s basketball
schedule
LA GRANDE —
Preseason battles with
Gonzaga and
Metro State
highlight
the 2015-16
Eastern
Oregon
University
men’s basketball schedule,
which was released this week.
The Mountaineers travel
to Spokane on Nov. 7 to face
the Bulldogs, which went
35-3 last season and reached
the Elite Eight of the NCAA
tournament before being
eliminated by the soon-to-be
national champions Duke
Blue Devils.
EOU will kick off the
2015-16 campaign on Oct.
16-17 against Vancouver
Island, a premier program
in the Canadian Collegiate
Athletic Association. EOU
will host the 16th annual
Quinn Classic on Oct. 30-31,
and will face Metro State in
the Wendy’s Classic Nov.
20. Metro State, an NCAA
Division II powerhouse, has
reached the Final Four in two
of the last three seasons.
For the full schedule go to
www.eousports.com.
SPORTS
College Football
Mountaineers look to
start fast against Yotes
EOU football
opens season at
College of Idaho
East Oregonian
Eastern Oregon head football
coach Tim Camp leads the Moun-
taineers into his ninth season opener
on Saturday at College of Idaho.
With several key players
returning on offense and defense,
expectations are high for the No. 13
team in the NAIA.
“It’s a good feeling but at the
same time we’ve still got to go prove
it,” Camp said of the team’s coaches
poll ranking in a video posted on the
EOU Athletics website.
The Mountaineers open against
a Yotes team it defeated 47-7 and
45-21 in a pair of meetings last
season, but Camp warned against
taking any Frontier Conference
opponent lightly.
“It’s the toughest small college
football conference in the country,”
he said. “From top to bottom the
Frontier Conference is unbelievably
strong. From our very, very best,
whoever that is, to our teams that
don’t have the best records at the
end of the year are still very, very
tough and could quite possibly
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of other conferences.”
The Yotes return all 11 starters
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limit other teams after giving up
480 yards per game on defense last
season.
That could be tough Saturday,
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with school-record holder Jace
Billingsley and quarterback Zach
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MLB
Seager, Gutierrez power M’s
Scully to return for
67th season
LOS ANGELES (AP)
— Vin Scully will return for
a record 67th season in the
broadcast booth for the Los
Angeles Dodgers.
The news
FACES was revealed
in the second
inning of
Friday night’s
game against
the Chicago
Cubs.
Late-night
Scully
TV host Jimmy
Kimmel appeared on the
Dodger Stadium video board
and told the crowd via cue
cards without uttering a
sound.
His last card read: “God
bless us everyone.”
The 87-year-old Scully
stood up and waved from his
booth as the crowd cheered.
His consecutive years
of service make him the
longest-tenured broadcaster
with one team in sports
history.
“I remember your
blocked punt in
the Superdome.
It was one of the
most iconic plays
in sports history.”
— Barack Obama
President of the United
States said to former
New Orleans Saint Steve
Gleason, who is now
battling ALS. Gleason’s
NFL career is known
for the blocked punt
that led to a touchdown
during the Saints fi rst
game back home in the
Superdome a year after
Hurricane Katrina
devestated the city.
Obama was in the city
to remember the 10th
anniversary of the storm.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1974 — Moses Malone,
19, signs with the Utah Stars
of the ABA to become the
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from high school into major
professional basketball.
1998 — Toms River, N.J.,
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World Series with a 12-9
victory over Kashima, Japan.
Chris Cardone hits home
runs in consecutive at-bats —
including the game-deciding
two-run shot.
2000 — Anaheim’s Darin
Erstad goes 3-for-5 to reach
200 hits faster than any player
in 65 years as the Angels beat
Toronto 9-4.
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Seattle Mariners’ Franklin Gutierrez hits a solo home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game
against the Chicago White Sox Friday in Chicago.
Walker leaves game with injury
By JEFF ARNOLD
Associated Press
CHICAGO — Kyle Seager
and Franklin Gutierrez both
had three hits and a homer
and Taijuan Walker allowed
three hits before leaving with
an injury in the seventh inning
as the Seattle Mariners beat
the Chicago White Sox 2-0 on
Friday night.
Walker (10-7) suffered a
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working 6 1-3 innings. Walker,
who struck out six, experienced
discomfort while facing Chica-
go’s Adam LaRoche and walked
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power after being examined by
a team trainer.
Tom Wilhelmsen pitched the
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many opportunities.
The Mariners snapped a
scoreless tie in the sixth with
two solo home runs. Seager,
who entered Friday’s game
hitting .196 in August, led off
the inning with a homer to
right off White Sox starter John
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Zduriencik out
as Mariners GM
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
SEATTLE — A year to the day after
praising Jack Zduriencik as he was
rewarded with a contract extension,
Seattle Mariners President Kevin Mather
found himself speaking with ownership
this week on all the areas he believed the
club was lacking.
It was clear to Mather that Zduri-
encik’s time as Seattle’s general manager
was at an end and his regret was not
making a change sooner.
“I was so optimistic about 2015 at the
major league level that I waited too long
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College football
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Adams picked to
face former school
Adams joins Oregon after the
departure of Mariota, who decided
to leave school early to go pro.
Mariota was the second overall pick
in the NFL draft earlier this year,
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going to the Tennessee Titans.
Associated Press
Mariota set a Pac-12 single-
season
record for total touchdowns
Transfer Vernon Adams is listed
with 58 (including 42 via pass,
atop Oregon’s depth chart at quar-
15 on the run and one touchdown
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catch) in leading Oregon to a 13-2
of the season.
overall record and a spot in the
Adams, an FCS All-American,
College Football Playoff champion-
joined the No. 7 Ducks just two
ship game against Ohio State.
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Lockie attempted 27 passes,
math class he needed to graduate
completing
21 for 207 yards and
from Eastern Washington.
a
touchown
last season, playing
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mostly after Oregon had already
Friday, Adams was listed above Jeff
built a sizable lead over its oppo-
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Lockie, who was Heisman Trophy In this
Aug. 14, 2015, fi le photo, nent. But the junior impressed many
winner Marcus Mariota’s backup Oregon quarterback Vernon Ad-
in the spring game, completing all
last season.
ams heads to the locker room nine of his passes for 223 yards and
Adams, a two-time Big Sky after a closed NCAA college three touchdowns while leading his
Conference offensive player of the football practice in Eugene, Ore. team to a 35-29 victory.
year, threw for 10,438 yards and
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Oregon will host Eastern Wash- Washington. The rules allow players ourselves and do what we do best,”
ington to open the season Sept. 5.
with eligibility who have graduated Lockie said at the start of fall camp
Under NCAA rules he needed to to transfer to another school without
complete his undergraduate course- having to sit out a season.
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College Volleyball
T-Wolves
come up
empty
BMCC volleyball
loses three straight in
pool play
East Oregonian
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in unfamiliar territory after pool
play ended at the Chemeketa
Pre-Season Tournament on
Friday.
The Timberwolves were
winless in three matches, and
head coach Dave Baty said it
may be a good thing that his
young roster took defeats to
Walla Walla, Chemeketa and
Olympic to open the season.
“We haven’t had a day like
this in awhile, so this is a good
thing for us,” said Baty, whose
T-Wolves have won four of the
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“We have a lot of young players
and their eyes got a little big.
Everybody is coming in eager
to play us, and sometimes when
you have young players you
need that splash of water to the
face, so to speak, to kind of wake
you up and get you moving.”
Baty said he was encouraged
by the fact that the T-Wolves
won at least one set in each
best-of-three match, and held
the lead late on Chemeketa until
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Scores against Walla Walla
were 26-24, 19-25, 15-9; against
Chemeketa it was 22-25, 25-17,
15-13; against Olympic scores
were 25-18, 16-25, 21-19.
The Timberwolves will face
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consolation bracket Saturday
morning. Walla Walla and
Clackamas are on the other half
of the bracket.
Chemeketa
will
face
Bellevue and Linn-Benton will
play Olympic in the champion-
ship bracket.
EOU takes
two at
Big Sky
Challenge
East Oregonian
HELENA, Mont. — The No.
6 Eastern Oregon University
volleyball team closed out a
pair of tight matches to earn two
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Big Sky Challenge on Friday at
Carroll College.
The Mountaineers opened with
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host school 23-25, 19-25, 25-15,
15-13, then swept a pesky Great
Falls team 25-15, 25-23, 25-21.
“We had two tough matches
today, and after not responding
to the best of our ability this
morning, we did much better this
afternoon,” said head volleyball
coach Kaki McLean Morehead
in comments distributed by the
school. “Offense and defense
did a great job of setting pace
in the match. We have a tough
day again (Saturday) and are
looking forward to it.”
The Mountaineers (4-0)
were led against Carroll by
sophomore Emily Nay, who
registered a career-high 18 kills.
Sophomore middle Amanda
Miller added 13 kills and senior
Kendra De Hoog chipped in 10.
Junior setter Rachelle Cham-
berlain had her 11th career
double-double with 57 assists
and 13 digs, and defensive
specialist Piper Cantrell added a
career-high 32 digs.
EOU then posted its best team
attacking percentage (.360) of
the young season to take care of
Great Falls, and were led at the
net by Miller with 14 kills. Nay
added 11 kills and Kasaundra
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EOU continue tournament
play Saturday morning at 9 a.m.
against No. 5 Rocky Mountain.