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
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decision on his coaching
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\eaUs oXt oI the SOa\oIIs,
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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.
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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
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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.
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AP Photo/Steve
Dykes
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“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.
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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.