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SPORTS TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2016 Sports shorts Ducks demote defensive coordinator EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Oregon coach 0arN HeOfrich annoXnced 0onday that defensive coordinator Don PeOOXm wiOO move bacN to OinebacNers coach for the DXcNs. PeOOXm has been Oregon’s defensive coordinator for two seasons foOOowing the retirement of NicN AOiotti. HeOfrich said PeOOXm remains committed to imSroving the DXcNs’ Serformance on the ¿ eOd. The move comes two days after Oregon sTXandered a 31-0 Oead and Oost -1 in triSOe overtime to T&U in the AOamo %owO. The DXcNs ¿ nished - this season, their ¿ rst withoXt 10 wins since 200. PeOOXm, who SOayed for Oregon, was the DXcNs’ Oine- bacNers coach for 1 seasons before he was Sromoted to defensive coordinator. Coughlin resigns from NY Giants EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — With the New <RUN *iDQtV IDFiQJ D GiI¿ FXOt decision on his coaching IXtXUe aIteU IoXU stUaight \eaUs oXt oI the SOa\oIIs, ToP &oXghOin FACES waONed awa\ gUaceIXOO\, doing what was best for him. The Giants gave him 12 \ears to rXn one of the Coughlin NF/¶s À agshiS organi]ations. He deOivered two SXSer %owOs and restored the franchise to the OeagXe¶s eOite for a whiOe. ,t was mXtXaOO\ bene¿ ciaO, and so was the deSartXre 0onda\ when the \earoOd &oXghOin resigned rather than force coowners John 0ara and Steve Tisch to ¿ re him. The Giants annoXnced the decision one day after the Giants (1) caSSed their third straight Oosing season with a 35-30 defeat against PhiOadeOShia, their third in a row and sixth in seven games. 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS UMATILLA Vikings cruise after another slow start UmatiOOa girOs take down 0ac-Hi By SAM BARBEE East Oregonian AOO season Oong, the UmatiOOa 9ikings girOs basketbaOO teams has strXggOed with sOow starts. 0onday night whiOe hosting the 0ac-Hi Pioneers, it was no different. Mac-Hi The Vikings scored MXst seven Soints and Oed by one after the ¿ rst TXarter, bXt tXrned it on in the second Umatilla and third to SroSeO a 5-30 home win in their ¿ naO game before the start of OeagXe SOay. Sidney Webb Oed the way with 1 Soints and foXr assists, and AOeesha Watson with 10 Soints, nine reboXnds and ¿ ve assists. For 0ac-Hi, %rittney Erb Oed the way with nine Soints and three steaOs. ³We XsXaOOy do have a sOow start,´ Webb said, ³bXt in the second haOf we come back. , don’t know why we do that, bXt we do. It’s something that needs to change becaXse against better teams (it’s a 30 54 Staff photo by Sam Barbee Umatilla senior guard Sidney Webb (right) looks to pass while defended by Mac-Hi’s Brooke Smiley during the Vikings’ 54-30 home win Monday night. SrobOem).´ The sOow start was mainOy dXe to tXrnovers. UmatiOOa (10-) committed seven in that ¿ rst TXarter, aOOowing the Pioneers (-5) to hang aroXnd. UmatiOOa didn’t shoot weOO that TXarter, either, going 3 of 12 from the ¿ eOd, 1 of 6 from 3-Soint range and 0 for 2 from the free throw Oine. The Vikings bene¿ ted from a 0ac-Hi team that did OargeOy the same thing — six tXrnovers, 3-of-15 shooting, 0 for from the charity striSe. Things changed TXickOy in the second TXarter, thoXgh. Two %renda CamSos free throws to oSened the TXarter’s scoring to SXt UmatiOOa XS -6, then AOeesha Watson hit a rXnner two minXtes See VIKINGS/3B %Oazers bXrned in LiOOard’s retXrn NBA RandoOSh Oeads 0emShis over PortOand Memphis Grizzlies forward Jeff Green, left, tries to get past Port- land Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard, right, during the fi rst half of an NBA basket- ball game in Port- land, Ore., Monday, Jan. 4, 2016. seven free throws. CoXrtney Lee had 16 Soints, and 0ario ChaOmers added 10 for 0emShis. 0att %arnes retXrned to the GrizzOies after a two-game sXsSension for an aOtercation By ANNE M. PETERSON Associated Press with New York Knicks coach Derek Fisher in October. 0emShis was coming off a PORTLAND — Zach RandoOSh had 26 Soints and 2- Ooss in overtime to the 1 reboXnds off the bench, Utah Jazz on SatXrday night. RandoOSh, who sSent and the 0emShis GrizzOies beat the TraiO %Oazers 1- his ¿ rst six seasons with the on 0onday night to sSoiO %Oazers, came off the bench Damian LiOOard’s retXrn to with six Soints in minXtes and the GrizzOies had a the PortOand OineXS. 1-15 Oead after the LiOOard missed ¿ rst TXarter. Neither seven games for the LiOOard nor 0cCo- %Oazers becaXse of OOXm scored in the SOantar fasciitis in his Memphis Seriod. Oeft foot. The %Oazers The GrizzOies went -3 whiOe he extended the Oead was oXt, with CJ to 2-1, bXt AOOen 0cCoOOXm sOiding Crabbe’s baseOine over to Soint gXard. MXmSer cOosed LiOOard Oooked Portland the gaS to 36-32. rXsty at the start 0emShis Oed 3-3 of his retXrn and at haOftime, with the GrizzOies took LiOOard going 0 for 5. advantage, Oeading 0cCoOOXm’s 3-Sointer by as many as 20 earOy in the SXOOed the %Oazers into a foXrth TXarter. The %Oazers cOosed the 0-aOO tie bXt 0emShis gaS to 0-1 after LiOOard’s woXOdn’t Oet PortOand get in 3-Sointer with 611 Oeft. front, going on a 15-5 rXn to 0eyers Leonard hit another 3 take a 55-5 Oead caSSed by that got the %Oazers to -6, RandoOSh’s Oong MXmSer. RandoOSh became the bXt RandoOSh answered with a Oong MXmSer and PortOand third 0emShis SOayer with XOtimateOy coXOdn’t catch XS. mXOtiSOe games of 20-SOXs LiOOard Oed the %Oazers Soints and 10-SOXs reboXnds with 1 Soints. He shot of off the bench. He’s got nine 1 from the ¿ eOd bXt made aOO doXbOe-doXbOes this season. 91 AP Photo/Steve Dykes 78 “He’s his own man. You can’t really tell him what to do.“ — Danny Shelton Cleveland Browns de- fensive tackle on quar- terback Johnny Manziel, whose choice to go to Las Vegas rather than attend his team’s season i nale in Cleveland is just the latest incident that has teammates and team executives questioning his priorities. Manziel was ruled out of the game with a concussion, but was supposed to be at the stadium to receive treatments. He appeared for exit interviews on Monday but did not speak to reporters. THIS DATE IN SPORTS 1964 — .eith /incoOn of the San Diego Chargers, rXshes for 20 yards in 13 carries, catches seven Sasses for 123 yards, comSOetes one Sass for 20 and scores two toXchdowns in a 51-10 roXt of the %oston Patriots for the AF/ titOe. 1983 — ,n his 2nd game, Edmonton’s Wayne Gretzky scores his 100th Soint of the season with an assist in the OiOers’ -3 triXmSh over the WinniSeg Jets. Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com UMATILLA HERMISTON Defense keys UmatiOOa victory Big games net weekly award for Moss Vikings hoOd off Pioneers in finaO tXne-XS for OeagXe SOay East Oregonian A strong defensive effort Oed the UmatiOOa Vikings back to .500 on 0onday in a non-OeagXe win over visiting 0ac-Hi. The Vikings aOOowed the second fewest Soints they’d given XS this season in a 0-2 win that saw the Pioneers’ scoring troXbOes continXe. Pioneer gXard HXnter Yensen was abOe to get Ooose for a game-high 1 Soints, bXt onOy three teammates Moined him on the score sheet and 0ac-Hi (-) faiOed to sXrSass 30 Soints for the foXrth time in ¿ ve games after averaging 5.6 Soints in its ¿ rst eight games. The Vikings (-) started the game sOow on offense as weOO, and Oed - after the ¿ rst TXarter. %Xt UmatiOOa was abOe to bXiOd its Oead to 1-10 at haOftime and heOd on in a tightOy-contested second haOf. JXan Coria Oed a baOanced UmatiOOa offense with 10 Soints and three other SOayers chiSSed in eight. Tristen SangXino was one of Mac-Hi those, and added a team- high foXr reboXnds and three assists. The Vikings aOso SOayed a reOativeOy cOean game, tXrning the baOO over Umatilla MXst 13 times and sending 0ac-Hi to the free throw Oine MXst once. UmatiOOa heads into OeagXe SOay on a two-game XSswing and wiOO SOay at Riverside on ThXrsday at 30 S.m. 0ac-Hi wiOO try to end its ¿ ve-game Oosing skid tonight at DeSaOes (WA) at 30 S.m. ——— Boys Hoops 29 40 M-H (4-9) 4 6 9 10 — 29 UMS (7-7) 9 9 9 13 — 40 MAC-HI — H. Yensen 17, A. Zaragoza 5, L. Garcia 5, A. Garza 2, A. Martinez, B. Debord, E. Garcia, R. Walton, A. Delgado. UMATILLA — J. Coria 10, T. Sanguino 8, S. Cranston 8, K Webb 8, G. Armenta 2, J. Ramirez 2, D. Silverio 2, A. Simmons, S. Garcia, T. Durfey, J, Maret. 3-pointers — M-H 2, UHS 7. Free throws — M-H 0-1, UHS 7-14. Fouls — M-H 15, UHS 10. GXard Oed EOU to Sair of wins /A GRANDE — A triSOe-doXbOe and an oXtstanding foXrth-TXarter Serformance heOSed senior gXard 0aOoree 0oss garner Cascade CoOOegiate Conference (CCC) Red /ion POayer of the Week honors, the OeagXe annoXnced on 0onday afternoon. On Dec. 30 0oss taOOied 10 Soints, 10 reboXnds, and 10 assists to Oead the 0oXn- taineers Sast Northwest, -6. A short time Oater, the Hermiston native recorded nine of her team-high 1 Soints in the foXrth TXarter to Oift EOU over Ever- green, 0-55, on New Year’s Eve. On the season, 0oss is aver- aging 5. Soints, 3. reboXnds, and 3.2 assists Ser contest. EOU has won eight of its Oast Moss 10 games and sits in a three-way tie for second SOace in the CCC. The 0oXntaineers retXrn to the hardwood on Friday against Warner Paci¿ c CoOOege. TiSoff in PortOand is set for 530 S.m.
