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Arrieta, Keuchel
win Cy Young
Rosselle to
be enshrined
with OSU
teammates
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win, perhaps against his
most formidable competition
yet.
The Chicago Cubs righty
aced out
Dodgers
stars Zack
Greinke
and
Clayton
Kershaw to earn the NL
Cy Young Award by
a comfortable margin
Wednesday.
Arrieta topped the majors
with 22 victories, boosted
by a record 0.75 ERA after
the All-Star break. He
acknowledged the super stats
piled up by his Los Angeles
rivals spurred him.
Astros lefty Dallas
Keuchel won the AL Cy
Young Award, easily beating
David Price.
Keuchel led the AL in
wins, going 20-8 and helping
Houston reach the playoffs
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Pendleton native part of
best Beaver team ever
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
Former NFL QB
loses both parents
within same hour
BOSTON (AP) —
Former NFL quarterback
Doug Flutie says both of his
parents died within an hour
of each other.
Flutie said
FACES Wednesday on
his Facebook
page that father
Dick died of a
heart attack in a
Florida hospital
and that mother
Joan also
Flutie
suffered a heart
attack and died less than an
hour later.
Flutie wrote: “They say
you can die of a broken heart
and I believe it.”
Flutie did not elaborate
on the circumstances of
their deaths, but called them
“incredible parents and
grandparents” who had been
married for 56 years and
were always there for their
children.
The 1984 Heisman
Trophy winner at Boston
College, Flutie played 13
seasons in the NFL with
Chicago, New England,
Buffalo and San Diego.
He also spent a year in the
USFL with New Jersey,
and won three Grey Cup
titles in eight seasons in the
Canadian Football League
with British Columbia,
Calgary and Toronto.
“Any time you
play a team
where you spent
some time,
especially for as
much time as I
spent there, it’s
not just another
game.“
— Carson Palmer
Arizona Cardinals
quarterback on facing
the Cincinnati Bengals
on Sunday night. Palm-
er was drafted No. 1
overall by the Bengals
in the 2003 draft and
made the playoffs twice
with the team before
announcing he would
rather retire than play
out his contract prior to
the 2011 season. He
was eventually traded to
Oakland, which traded
him to Arizona in 2013.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1993 — Oregon and
Oregon State play to a 0-0
tie in Eugene. It’s the last
scoreless tie game in FBS
history due to the NCAA’s
institution
of
overtime
beginning in 1994.
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Staff photo by E.J. Harris
BMCC’s Armon Dean shoots running jumper over teammate Isaiah Harris Wednesday during
practice Wednesday in Pendleton.
T-Wolves sense
change coming
BMCC men looking to write different
narrative in Ellis’ third season
“We’ve got a lot of really
good athletes. I think that’s the
difference this year from any
Headed into his third season year that I’ve been here,” he said.
as head coach of the Blue “I think we’re a lot more athletic
Mountain men’s basketball team, than we’ve ever been, which is
Adam Ellis is still looking for his good. It allows us to do a lot of
different things that we haven’t
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The Timberwolves have gone done in the past.”
Ellis promises a more exciting
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seasons on the sideline, but Ellis brand of basketball for fans this
season, which tips off on Friday
can sense a change coming.
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
when Blue Mountain hosts Air
Force Base at 7 p.m.
“I think we’re going to push
the tempo. It’s a lot more enjoy-
able for the kids for to play, it’s
a lot more enjoyable for us to
coach, it allows us to do a lot of
different things with press a lot,”
he said. “Offensively, obviously
we’re going to try to get out and
go as much as we can, but also
hopefully that transitions into
higher scoring.
“That’s been a big issue with
where we’ve been in the past.
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STANFIELD
Monkus loud between the lines
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game speak for itself
By SAM BARBEE
East Oregonian
Thyler Monkus jogged over to
the sideline, removed his helmet
and set it down. He offered a
hand to shake and says softly,
“How are you?”
Softly because Monkus isn’t
vocal. He’s not a rah-rah leader
and isn’t going to give any impas-
sioned locker room speeches.
It’s a running joke amongst the
Tigers that he doesn’t speak, or
rarely does. It’s reminiscent of
a story about Calvin Coolidge, a
famously soft-spoken American
president who, at a dinner party,
was challenged in a wager that
he wouldn’t say two words. He
smiled and said, “You lose.”
Monkus, like Coolidge,
doesn’t speak, but acts.
“He’s not your typical ‘super-
star’ guy,” head coach Davy Salas
said. “He kind of plays angry all
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Stanfi eld’s Thyler Monkus rushes the ball in the Tigers’ 49-41
win against Irrigon on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015 in Irrigon.
the time, but he’s a nice kid. He’s
very reserved. He doesn’t let too
many people around.”
“As long as I’ve known
him, he’s always been quiet,”
classmate and offensive lineman
Hunter Barnes added.
That’s reminiscent of an NFL
running back who is reserved off
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Marshawn Lynch, the running
back from the Seattle Seahawks.
Monkus, though not a Seahawks
and Lynch fan, agreed with the
comparison. So did Salas.
“That’s a fair comparison,
it puts it on the money,” Salas
said. “He’s more business than
anything.”
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With an aggressive style that
walked the line of decency and at times
wantonly crossed it, the 2000 Oregon
State football team emerged from a
decade of losing seasons to win the
most games in program history.
“Teams knew that we were a team
that if we had a chance to hit you when
you were going out of bounds we were
going to take that
chance,”
said
Kyle Rosselle, a
Pendleton High
School graduate
and Beaver defen-
sive end from
1998-2001. “That
resulted in a lot
of late hits, and
unsportsmanlike Rosselle
penalties, but I
would also say that aggressiveness and
that edge intimidated other teams that
we played.”
Coming off coach Dennis Erick-
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campaign of the decade, the 2000
Beavers started the year unranked but
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an 11-1 record. After a 10-1 regular
season that included a 7-1 mark in the
Pac-10 and a 23-13 win in the Civil
War, the Beavers went up against No.
11 Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl
where they romped to a 41-9 win.
The team’s 11 wins is the most in
program history, and tonight at Mult-
nomah Athletic Club the Beavers will
be inducted to the Oregon Sports Hall
of Fame as members of the 2015 class.
Rosselle, now vice-principal at
Hood River Valley High School, plans
to attend the ceremonies, and said he
has several fond memories from big
games during his time as a Beaver.
But more than the win over Cali-
fornia in 1999 that clinched the team’s
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game that also featured an opossum
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through a thick fog — or the overtime
win over Oregon from that same
season, Rosselle said he takes pride in
being a part of the turnaround.
“Working with a program that
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seeing success come to that university,
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HEPPNER
Mustangs
fresh going
into semis
Heppner starters have
rarely been tested
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
The Heppner Mustangs should be
feeling fresh headed into Saturday’s
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Regis.
After again turning to the backups
early in the third quarter of last
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a game just once this season while
rolling to an 11-0 record.
Added up the starters’ 2015 season
boils down to about 24 quarters — or
just 6 games.
So what do the No. 2 Mustangs do
to make sure they’re able to answer
the bell when a team has them on the
ropes in the fourth quarter?
“Mostly it’s mental. You can
overcome being tired if you’ve got the
right mindset, and I think we do,” said
junior lineman Kevin Murray.
Coach Greg Grant said he makes
sure the team is working hard each
week in practice to make up for the
missed live reps as well.
“We just run, we just try to stay
in shape,” he said. “I don’t think you
get in shape in Friday’s or Saturday’s,
you get in shape Monday through
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