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SPORTS
East Oregonian
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
NBA
Leonard leads Spurs to win over Trail Blazers
By RAUL DOMINGUEZ
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — The
San Antonio Spurs turned to
a veteran when they needed a
burst of energy.
Manu Ginobili scored
14 of his 17 points in the
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Antonio Spurs overcome
a listless start and beat the
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on Monday night.
“I think we all turned into
fans on the bench watching
him,” San Antonio reserve
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offensively. Making shots
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done for so long. But to be
able to do it this year, it just
goes to show his leadership
and what he brings to this
team. It was fun to watch
him.”
Kawhi Leonard added
19 points and nine rebounds
for San Antonio, which won
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improved to 4-0 at home.
Former Portland standout
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held to six points and six
rebounds, his lowest output
since signing with the Spurs.
With Aldridge being held
in
check,
the return of
Leonard and
Portland
Ginobili from
one-game
absences
proved crit-
ical.
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playing the second game of
a back-to-back after losing
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falling just four points of
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offense.
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each had a 3-pointer during a
12-2 run that put San Antonio
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Spurs had trouble closing out
the victory, just as they had in
their previous game against
winless Philadelphia.
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93
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they were unable to get any
closer.
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how to win,” Blazer point
guard Damian Lillard said.
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next nine points, capped by
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9-2 run with three blocks,
including two against Lillard.
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happened,” Ginobili said.
“They were not falling (early).
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it just sometimes happens.
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playing good defense, we
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what gave us a (cushion). If
we had played like this offen-
sively in Portland, we would
have lost by 20.”
Green and Boris Diaw
each had 12 points and Tony
Parker and Tim Duncan both
added 10.
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lead into the locker room at
halftime.
Putman led them with
150 yards on 17 carries and
scored on totes of 20, 4 and 7
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wonderful job today, all
glory goes to them,” he said.
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was amazing,” said Kindle,
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and a touchdown on 13
carries. “We had so much
room to run back there. We
came together really well as
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way for an offensive line that
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doing exactly what we need
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Heppner’s C.J. Kindle runs with the ball Saturday in the Mustangs’ 52-14 win
against Reedsport in Heppner.
defenders for his third
touchdown. Kindle ran in
the two-point conversion
to make it 32-0. Logan
Grieb also added a 43-yard
untouched
touchdown
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and the Mustangs said they
were playing as if every one
of them was necessary.
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just got to keep pounding it,
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down early and keep them
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up a punt that Kindle returned
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with 15 more yards tacked
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ran the ball into the end zone
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passed to Ryan Smith for the
conversion and a 40-0 lead
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combined on a sack on
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half, and held Reedsport to
3-of-9 on third down in the
game.
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defensive line and line-
backers and we had to run
side to side most of the
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came into the game looking to
prove something on that side
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saying and like they put in the
paper, battle of the defenses,
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to speak about ourselves
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It was Putman that sent
the starting unit to the
sidelines for good when he
scooped up a fumble that
teammate Kevin Murray had
dislodged from Reedsport
receiver Korde Parmenter
and returned it 24 yards to the
Braves 33.
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over lead-back duties to start
the second half, Putman
stepped behind center and
completed two passes to
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was an 11-yard touchdown
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actually. I was pretty glad
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but it will soon. This is an
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a neutral site to face No. 3
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going to be a good game next
week I think. Regis is a very
good team.”
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HEPPNER 52, REEDSPORT 14
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Scoring
First Quarter
H — Weston Putman 20 run (Kaden Clark
to Logan Grieb), 8-0, 9:13
H — Putman 4 run (Clark to Jake Lindsay),
16-0, 4:57
H — Grieb 43 run (Clark run), 24-0, 1:50
H — Putman 7 run (C.J. Kindle run),
32-0, :00
Second Quarter
H — Kindle 19 run (Clark to Ryan Smith),
40-0, 10:13
H — Putman 4 run (Pass inclomplete),
46-0, 4:08
Third Quarter
H — Caden Hedman 11 pass from Put-
man (PAT missed), 52-0, 2:45
R — Joey Herr 23 run (Kyle Barnes PAT),
52-7, :00
Fourth Quarter
R — Gage Billings 19 pass from Marc
Chaney (Barnes PAT), 52-14, 4:41
Statistics
PASSING — Reedsport (6-10-0, 87):
Tyler Tresch 5-9-0, 68; Marc Chaney 1-1-0,
19. Heppner (4-9-1, 57): Kaden Clark
2-5-0, 34; Weston Putman 2-3-0, 23; Coby
Daugherty 0-1-1, 0.
RUSHING — Reedsport (21-68): Joey
Herr 7-45; Griffin Kaufmann 6-16; Joseph
Hixenbaugh 3-5; Gage Billings 2-5; Tresch
3-(-3). Heppner (43-373): Putman 17-150;
C.J. Kindle 13-140; Logan Grieb 2-55; Kolby
Currin 4-14; Kaden Corbin 3-9; Kaden Clark
1-5; Coby Daugherty 2-0; Jake Lindsay
1-(-1).
RECEIVING — Reedsport: Korde
Parmenter 2-45; Hixenbaugh 3-14; Tyreece
Gardner 2-9; Billings 1-19. Heppner: Hed-
man 2-23; Putman 1-21; Lindsay 1-13.
Penalties — Reedsport 5-40; Heppner
2-15.
First Downs — Reedsport 6; Heppner 22
3rd Down Conversion — Reedsport 3-9;
Heppner 2-4.
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Tanner Trosin amassed
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for the win.
the afternoon, while Melvin
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home to California to win the lead and never trailed.
Eastern (4-7) trailed by as
Pac-12 North title.
many as 22 before receiving
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week
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at Memorial Stadium on
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freshman had his night cut
receiving yards.
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14 tackles, while senior just thrown a 3-yard touch-
defensive back Adam Bese down pass to Noah Togiai
when he was hit.
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chances of winning a Cascade
Collegiate Conference (CCC) six assists and six rebounds
Tournament Championship as Oregon State defeated
at Quinn Coliseum, as the Northwest Christian 74-52
Yotes utilized 22 EOU attack Saturday.
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errors and hit .303 to defeat
the Navy and Gold in straight freshmen scored in double
digits in their college debuts
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all on 3-pointers, and Tres
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jaw-dropping moments later, in overtime to NAIA Division 14 Mountaineers outscored
Gabe Marks dived to make I opponent Vanguard (Calif.) NCAA Division III opponent
a catch that exacted revenge on Saturday evening.
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and made a statement: The
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Cougars are back in the Washington
netted
his victory on Sunday afternoon.
game.
Sophomore guard Payton
seventh-straight
double-
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to give us respect until they 14 rebounds, while senior 21 points off the bench,
absolutely have to,” Marks guard Case Rada registered LQFOXGLQJ D IRU HIIRUW
said. “Now they have to.”
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Marks caught a 21-yard effort from beyond the arc. In forward Nikki Osborne
touchdown pass from Luke addition, sophomore guard notched a double-double
Falk with 3 seconds to play, Miles Loupe added a career- with 15 points and 10 boards,
sending Washington State to high 10 points and four ZKLOH VHQLRU JXDUG -RUGDQ
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Klebaum added 12 points.
UCLA on Saturday night.
EOU led at halftime, Maloree Moss added four
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dreamed about having a in the extra period.
game-winning drive at the
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Rose Bowl,” said Falk, who
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while growing up. “Any time Corvallis, Gary Payton II can VFRUHG SRLQWV -LOOLDQ
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win at the Rose Bowl in the State Coach Wayne Tinkle rebounds and Oregon upset
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to give us some momentum leadership by mentoring the on Sunday, marking the
“Nick was in the zone,”
Oregon State coach Gary
Andersen said. “There were
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good decisions, tucked the
ball and ran with his feet.”
Goff overcame a sluggish
start to pass for six touch-
downs and 453 yards to help
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losing streak.
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nearly every passing category,
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Pac-12) pile up a school-record
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opened the season with two
straight losses.
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who scored her 70th double-
double, made the second
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had two chances to win.
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went off the front of the rim
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of Alleyne. Cherry then had
a 3 bounce off the backboard
and rim as time expired.
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despite out-shooting Carroll
College 11-7, the Mountain-
eers lost a heartbreaker to
the Saints 3-2 in a penalty
kick shootout in the Cascade
Collegiate
Conference
(CCC) Championship on
Saturday evening.
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freshman forward Alexandria
Cuaresma netted goals to keep
EOU in the shootout. TEssa
Pitzer made two saves until
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Tayla Vaira to make it a 3-2
affair, and then sophomore
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came up empty to seal the
victory for the Saints.
Despite the defeat, EOU
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spot in the NAIA National
Tournament, and on Monday
morning learned that it will
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round contest. The Mountain-
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Biola (Calif.) on Saturday in
La Grande at 1 p.m.
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Associated Press writers
Josh
Dubow,
Michael
Wagaman and Kyle Odegard,
and EOU Sports Information
Director Seth Dahle contrib-
uted to this report.