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Page 2B SPORTS East Oregonian HERMISTON: Strong defense leads to easy baskets Continued from 1B committed four transgressions LQWKH¿UVWWZRPLQXWHVWKRXJK still only trailed 6-5 after Maddy Juul’s layup. The score sat at 7-7 with around three minutes to go and La Grande made an early move, taking a 17-9 lead on an 10-0 run that saw two 2-pointers from Albrecht and 3-pointers from Collman and Lacey Miles. Hoffert took a full timeout immediately following Miles’ bucket, and the game really swung from there. Edmiston hit a 3-pointer at WKH ¿UVW TXDUWHU EX]]HU VWDUWLQJ a 15-0 run that lasted all the way until halftime. “I think today things started to click again like they were before the long trip,” Edmiston said. “We got our legs back.” $IWHUWKRVH¿UVW¿YHWXUQRYHUV Hermiston’s offense settled down, though it still struggled to score. Hermiston shot just 27 SHUFHQW IURP WKH ÀRRU LQ WKH ¿UVW KDOI DQG SHUFHQW (3-18) from behind the 3-point arch. Hampered by an 0-10 from WKH ÀRRU LQ WKH VHFRQG TXDUWHU La Grande wasn’t much better, shooting 22 percent (5-23) and 29 percent (2-7) from deep. “Honestly, I think if we put our minds to it then we’re pretty good at playing defense (and) getting baskets,” Edmiston said. “And if we play good defense, we get easy baskets.” But Hermiston did enough offensively to pull away. La Grande sank into a zone, daring Hermiston to shoot the Tigers out of it. Normally that’s a dangerous proposition against a good 3-point shooting team, but Tuesday night — for whatever reason — the shots weren’t falling. Rileigh Andreason, Shaelynn Gilbert and Kiana Heehn — none of whom forced any deep shots — could hit from range while Edmiston and fellow senior sharpshooter Sara Ramirez were a little off, as ZHOO 5DPLUH] ¿QLVKHG ZLWK points, and the shooting was just good enough to force La Grande back into a man-to-man defense in the second half. The Bulldogs took a 24-17 lead into the second half, and it PRYHGTXLFNO\WRZKHQD La Grande was penalized with a scorebook error and assessed a technical foul. The lead stretched to eight at 31-23 after Ramirez made a layup and was fouled and made the free throw, DQG/D*UDQGHFDPHZLWKLQ¿YH at 31-26 after Albrecht’s one three-point play. Minutes later, Collman was assessed a tech- nical after she disagreed with a foul call on Juul. The Hermiston sophomore made two of the four attempts. That pushed Hermis- ton’s lead back to eight at 34-26, and it was 40-28 at the end of the TXDUWHU Hermiston milked the clock PRVW RI WKH IRXUWK TXDUWHU DQG OHGE\DVPDQ\DVLQWKH¿QDO frame. The Bulldogs get a week off before traveling to the Yakima area for a game against Sunny- side next Tuesday at 5:45 p.m. The Grizzlies beat the Bulldogs 55-49 last season at the Dawg- house. ——— LHS (7-4) 17 0 11 14 — 42 HHS (11-3) 12 12 16 16 — 56 La Grande — A. Albrecht 15, K. Collman 11, M. Wilcox 7, K. Avila 4, L. Miles 3, B. Givens 2, D. Lester, M. Orton, C. Conrad, L. Jensen, K. Schelin, M. Tussey. Hermiston — M. Juul 16, S. Ramirez 16, J. Edmiston 11, R. Andreason 5, K. Padilla 4, H. Meyers 2, S. Gilbert 2, R. Meyers, K. Heehn, H. Thompson, J. Thomas. 3-pointers — LHS 3, HHS 5. Free throws — LHS 13-15, HHS 9-15. Fouls — LHS 12, HHS 10. Technical fouls — K. Collman (LHS) Wednesday, January 6, 2016 NFL Dalton has cast removed, could be backup QB vs Steelers Although Dalton got the cast removed on Monday, he has to rebuild the strength in his hand. Also, he hasn’t practiced in three CINCINNATI — Andy Dalton’s SDVVLQJ KDQG ZDV ¿QDOO\ IUHH RQ weeks, leaving him rusty — a bad Tuesday, liberated from the black cast combination for playoff time. So the that has covered his right forearm and Bengals are heading into the playoffs with McCarron as the starter. his spirits for the past three weeks. “This team’s built for this kind of And his coach held out the possi- bility he might have a backup role for stuff,” Dalton said. “AJ’s going to do a good job when things happen.” the Bengals’ playoff game. Coach Marvin Lewis indicated Call it one for the thumb. Dalton ran a couple of plays early in on Tuesday that there’s a possibility practice on Tuesday and threw a pass Dalton could be active as a backup, — with his left hand — before raising depending upon how his hand feels. his arm in celebration and heading The Bengals don’t have an experienced back to the sideline to continue his backup should McCarron get hurt. Receiver Mohamed Sanu has taken conditioning work. What are the chances he could be on snaps in wildcat formations and could the active roster when the Bengals host EHDQHPHUJHQF\TXDUWHUEDFN So McCarron will get a chance the Pittsburgh Steelers on Saturday to overturn a lot of bad history in his night? “I’d love to be in there playing,” fourth NFL start. The Bengals haven’t won a playoff Dalton said. His right thumb will likely prevent game in 25 years, the sixth-longest postseason drought in NFL history. it. The AFC North champions are They’re the only team in league history getting AJ McCarron ready to play to lose an opening-round game four against their division rival. Dalton \HDUV LQ D URZ $QG QR TXDUWHUEDFN broke the thumb on his passing hand with so little starting experience has while making a tackle during the won a playoff game since 1979, when Steelers’ 33-20 win at Paul Brown Gifford Nielsen led the Houston Oilers Stadium on Dec. 13. McCarron went to a win in San Diego, according to 2-1 as a starter in the past three games. STATS. By JOE KAY Associated Press PENDLETON: Bucks gain advantage with aggressive rebounding Continued from 1B comfortable doing that so we were able to help the person who was on her the whole time working their tail off and then she didn’t look so open, those lanes didn’t look as open.” Sand didn’t score again after the break in action, and Pendleton went on a 19-5 run the rest of the way for their third win in a row. “We realized she was scoring most of their points and we don’t want to get beat by a one-man team,” said Pendleton junior Haley Greb of Sand, who scored 17 of her game-high 22 points in WKH¿UVWKDOI³6KHKDGDJRRG drive … she could go both ways so you couldn’t really play her to the left … so we had to play her up and try to keep her off the foul line too.” Greb and sophomore Rylee Gentner drew the responsibility of guarding Sand most of the game, and both were also key scorers for the Bucks with Gentner’s 13 points coming in as the team high and Greb’s 11 a close second. Also big for the Bucks was senior Cece Hoffman, who jump started a 10-2 run WRFORVHWKHWKLUGTXDUWHUDQG ¿QLVKHGZLWKSRLQWVQLQH rebounds and six assists. Hoffman sank a mid-range jumper, then came up with a steal and hit Gentner on the fast break to extend Pendleton’s lead to 44-38 within a minute of that momentum-changing timeout. Baker’s Jayme Ramos scored on a fast break, but Pendleton’s Lauren Rich- DUGVWKHQDGGHGDOORIKHU¿YH points with a 3-pointer from the corner and later a pair of free throws to push the lead back to double digits for the ¿UVWWLPHLQWKHVHFRQGKDOI Then a 7-0 run to start the fourth gave Pendleton its largest lead of the game at 57-42 with 5:33 to play. “Lately our focus has been if we can polish up our defense that the offense will come to us and it really has made a difference,” Gomez said. “We really focus on being good aggressive defen- sive players and I think that had a lot to do with it.” Pendleton scored its points in spurts throughout the game, and used a 12-0 UXQLQWKH¿UVWTXDUWHUWRWDNH the lead for good. A drive from Sand gave Baker its second lead at 8-6 three minutes into the game, but Shelby Greb answered with a 3-pointer to give the %XFNV WKH JDPH¶V ¿QDO OHDG change. Another key for Pend- leton was excellent offense rebounding and the team ¿QLVKHG ZLWK RIIHQVLYH boards, 19 on defense. Kalan McGlothan led those efforts with 10 rebounds to go with seven points, Maureen Davies added eight boards and Gentner chipped in six. “We’re not that tall but we’re aggressive,” said Pend- leton’s Maureen Davies grabs a rebound in the Bucks’ 59-45 win against Baker on Tuesday in Pend- leton. Hoffman, a 5-foot-5 guard. “They did a great job and they always do a good job rebounding,” Gomez said. “There’s obviously things we can get better at, some little things, but they’re aggres- sive. They’re a good group of kids, they work very hard. +XVWOHLVQHYHUDTXHVWLRQLQ our game plan.” The win improved Pendleton to 4-1 in its last ¿YH JDPHV DQG +RIIPDQ said a recent tournament in Bend where they won two out of three really seemed to be a turning point in the season for a team that started the year with a completely QHZ VWDUWLQJ ¿YH DQG VHYHQ straight losses. “I think those three game and our team bonding then got us to where we played (Tuesday),” she said. “I feel like we are getting better,” said Greb. “We’re young but we’re going to get there. We’re getting better every game and I’m excited for the rest of the season.” Pendleton gets three more tune-ups before the start of league play, including a Jan. 19 date at Baker, and will play its next game on Saturday at Lebanon with a 3 p.m. tip. ——— Staff photo by E.J. Harris BHS (6-6) 13 19 10 3 — 45 PHS (4-7) 20 16 14 9 — 59 BAKER — B. Sand 22, K. Severson 6, J. Ramos 4, G. Huggins 4, R. Hughes 3, H. Collard 3, C. Bruce 2, S. Phillips. PENDLETON — R. Gentner 13, H. Greb 11, C. Hoffman 10, S. Greb 7, K. McGlothan 7, M. Davies 6, L. Richards 5, J. Lemberger, H. Porter. 3-pointers — BHS 3, PHS 3. Free throws — BHS 4-12, PHS 14-31. Fouls — BHS 25, PHS 17. Fouled out — S. Phillips, H. Collard (BHS). PREPS: Neal, Flores lead Hermiston boys to landslide win over La Grande Continued from 1B W-M (3-6) 9 6 17 12 — 44 LC (3-2) 17 8 5 23 — 53 WESTON-MCEWEN — A. Broncheau 11, S. Finifrock 8, C. Quaempts 7, B. Hillmick 6, A. Hill 4, A. Finifrock 4, S. von Borstel 2, J. Lambert 2, M. Muilenburg, A. Schroeder, K. Vescio. LIBERTY CHRISTIAN — Souve 22, Godwin 15, Loera 14, Steel 2, Gregg, Bush, Home. 3-pointers — W-M 3, LC 4. Free throws — W-M 11-26, LC 15-20. Fouls — W-M 19, LC 19. Fouled out — B. Hillmick (W-M). TOUCHET (WA) 53, HELIX 36 — At Touchet, Wash., the Helix Grizzlies struggled shooting the ball on the road against Touchet, resulting in the Grizzlies’ third loss of the season on Tuesday night. “It was just one of those nights where the ball just did not fall for us,” said Helix coach Kirk Flerchinger. “They’re a good team and we held our own, but just couldn’t hit shots.” Sadie Wilson led Helix with 10 points, while Char- mayne Bennett and Bethany Newtson added six points apiece. Helix won big in the battle of the boards, though, out-rebounding Touchet by 22 total rebounds. Helix next plays on Saturday at 4 p.m. when they host Powder Valley. ——— GHS (9-3) 7 12 10 7 — 36 THS (6-1) 18 12 8 15 — 53 HELIX — S. Wilson 10, C. Bennett 6, B. Newtson 6, M. Mize 5, P. Flerchinger 4, M. Tullis 4, E. Fehrenbacker 1. TOUCHET — C. Jo McKeown 20, D. Jaggar 12, K. Skramstad 11, A. Grudzinski 6, R. Miller 2, H. Kromm 2, J. Aceves. 3-pointers — GHS 0, THS 4. Free throws — GHS 10-18, THS 7-13. Fouls — GHS 12, THS 19. win of the season defeating HERMISTON 62, the Riverside Pirates 52-38 LA GRANDE 39 — At on Tuesday night. Ryan Bailey paced La Grande, the Hermiston Bulldogs rebounded from a 6WDQ¿HOG¶V RIIHQVH weekend loss with a win on the with a game-high 16 points road on Tuesday, pummeling and Antonio Flores added nine points. For Riverside La Grande by 21 points. The win makes it three wins (4-8), Noe Madrigal led the in four games for Hermiston team with 12 points and Eon (6-6), getting the Bulldogs Castillo netted nine points. ³:HSOD\HGKDUGLQWKH¿UVW back to .500 on the season. Tre Neal led Hermiston’s half,” said Riverside coach offensive charge with 17 Clair Costello. “Second half points, and Chance Flores we didn’t play well enough was close behind with 13 RQGHIHQVHDQGOHW6WDQ¿HOG points. Austin Naillon and get to the basket too much.” Riverside held a 15-13 Andrew James each added OHDGDIWHUWKH¿UVWTXDUWHUEXW nine points apiece. Hermiston dominated the Tigers battled back to grab WKHJDPHIURPVWDUWWR¿QLVK a 26-23 lead at halftime and jumping out to a 23-10 lead didn’t look back after that. “We’re struggling to DIWHUMXVWWKH¿UVWTXDUWHUDQG score,” said Costello, “we later holding a 39-23 lead ran the offense well in the at halftime. Hermiston also ¿UVW TXDUWHU EXW LW MXVW GHWH- won the free throw battle, riorated after that.” hitting 14-22 shots while La Riverside begins league Grande hit 8-15. play on Thursday when they Hermiston next hosts host Umatilla at 7:30 p.m. Summit on Saturday with 6WDQ¿HOG EHJLQV OHDJXH SOD\ tip-off set for 3:15 p.m. on Friday when they host ——— Pilot Rock at 3 p.m. HHS (7-5) 23 16 13 10 — 62 LHS (2-3) 10 13 13 3 — 39 ——— HERMISTON — T. Neal 17, C. Flores 13, A. Boys Basektball James 9, A. Naillon 9, D. Neal 5, H. Walls 4, C. Ortiz 3, P. Peterson 2, J. Garcia. LA GRANDE — Z. Jacobs 12, E. Siltanen 9, A. Peasley 5, J. Schiller 4, G.T. Blackman 3, B. Travis 3, I. Cranford 2, C. Brandt 1. 3-pointers — HHS 6, LHS 3. Free throws — HHS 14-22, LHS 8-15. Fouls — HHS 19, LHS 21. STAN (7-1) 13 13 14 12 — 52 RHS (4-8) 15 8 4 11 — 38 STANFIELD — R. Bailey 16, A. Flores 9, J. Garcia 7, B. Woods 6, T. Monkus 4, J. Carrillo 4, L. Moreno 3, A. Nunez 3. RIVERSIDE — N. Madrigal 12, E. Castillo 9, J. Carmona 6, F. Olvera 4, F. Aparicio 4, D. Rodriguez 2, S. Navarro 1. 3-pointers — STAN 4, RHS 5. Free throws — STAN 16-25, RHS 9-15. Fouls — STAN 18, RHS 23. STANFIELD 52, RIVERSIDE 38 — At LIBERTY CHRISTIAN %RDUGPDQ WKH 6WDQ¿HOG (WA) 47, WESTON- Tigers notched their seventh MCEWEN 43 — At Athena, the Weston-McEwen Tiger- Scots fell just short of their fourth win of the season, losing to Liberty Christian (WA) on Tuesday night. “We had plenty of chances,” said TigerScots coach Brian Pickard. “We had some good looks late, just couldn’t hit them. The kids played hard and played together tonight.” One area that hurt the TigerScots (3-5) on Tuesday was free throw shooting, as the team hit just 3-12 attempts in the game, which is unusual for a team that shot well from the stripe this season, said Pickard. “We had been shooting 71 percent as a team until tonight,” he said, “and in a four point game, that’s huge.” Shyler Mikesell led Weston-McEwen with 12 points, and nailed two of the teams’ four 3-pointers. Brett Speed was close behind with nine points. Weston-McEwen will now move on to league play starting on Friday, when they travel to Culver for a 4:30 p.m. tip-off. ——— W-M (3-5) 12 13 8 10 — 43 LC (6-2) 11 11 13 12 — 47 WESTON-MCEWEN — S. Mikesell 12, B. Speed 9, J. Patrick 7, S. Broncheau 6, E. Reger 5, K. Scott 2, A. Finifrock 2, X. Bailey, K. Rodriguez, R. Betts. LIBERTY CHRISTIAN — C. Kelly 18, C. Goodwin 12, N. Olsen 9, P. Eder 4, M. Goodwin 2, R. Utley 2. 3-pointers — W-M 4, LC 2. Free throws — W-M 3-12, LC 11-17. Fouls — W-M 19, LC 14. DESALES (WA) 61, MAC-HI 43 — At Milton-Freewater, the Mac-Hi Pioneers could not keep up with the DeSales Irish on Tuesday night, falling into a second half hole that the Pioneers could not climb out of on their way to the loss. Mac-Hi (4-10) trailed DW WKH HQG RI WKH ¿UVW TXDUWHUDQGDWKDOIWLPH but DeSales opened it up in WKHWKLUGTXDUWHUWRSXOODZD\ “They pressed us, turned us over, and started controlling the tempo,” said Pioneers coach Jordan Poyner. “They had an eight point lead at halftime and then scored eight unanswered to start the third TXDUWHUUHDOIDVW´ Hunter Yensen was the top scorer for Mac-Hi yet again, netting 24 points on 8-13 shooting and a team- high four 3-pointers. “He’s doing everything for us,” said Poyner. His athleticism is way up there, he’s dominating opponents, scoring every which way, and carrying us and providing a lot of offense. We’ve been in a lull offensively as a team, but Hunt- er’s been carrying the load.” Mac-Hi plays again next Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. when they host Waitsburg (WA). ——— DHS (5-2) 13 14 19 15 — 61 MHS (4-10) 12 7 9 15 — 43 DESALES — C. Midema 20, J. Crowley 12, J. Montero 12, Z. Lahey 8, I. Standard 6, J. Wiley 3. MAC-HI — H. Yensen 24, Ar. Garcia 6, A. Martinez 4, A. Delgado 3, E. Garcia, 2, L. Garcia 2, R. Walton 2. 3-pointers — DHS 3, MHS 7. Free throws — DHS 8-12, MHS 6-10. Fouls — DHS 9, MHS 9. TOUCHET (WA) 46, HELIX 19 — At Touchet, Wash., the Helix Grizzlies could not overcome an aggressive press defense in WKH ¿UVW KDOI OHDGLQJ WR D defeat at the hands of Touchet on Tuesday. “The press just killed us in WKH¿UVWKDOI´VDLG+HOL[FRDFK Ben Maney. “We weren’t ready for it and you could see LWUHÀHFWHGLQWKHVFRUH´ Helix (2-10) trailed 7RXFKHW DIWHU WKH ¿UVW TXDUWHU DQG ODWHU WUDLOHG 33-11 at halftime. The Griz- zlies did, however, win the battle of the boards, out-re- bounding Touchet 27-24. Justin Williams led Helix ZLWK QLQH SRLQWV ZKLOH ¿YH other players netted two points each. Helix next plays on Saturday when they host Poweder Valley at 5:30 p.m. ——— GHS (2-10) 4 7 2 6 — 19 THS (1-0) 22 11 7 6 — 46 HELIX — J. Williams 9, C. Marks 2, J. Shaw 2, G. Newtson 2, C. Dunn 2, T. Wilson 2. TOUCHET — C. Rinein 15, J. Kates 9, L. Butler 7, L. Garcia 5, J. Preciado 5, Acedado 3, L. Preciado 2, T. Wilson. 3-pointers — GHS 0, THS 2. Free throws — GHS 1-6, THS 10-21. Fouls — GHS 14, THS 7. SALE IN PROGRESS SAVINGS UP TO 50% 8 AM-6 PM Mon.-Sat. • 12 PM-4 PM Sun. 613 N Main St., Milton Freewater, OR 541-938-5162 • www.saagershoeshop.com
