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SPORTS TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2016 Sports shorts :arrLors ZLn tK straLgKt at Kome OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Stephen Curry scored 31 points and Draymond Green added 22 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Golden State Warriors to their 36th straight regular-season home win, 111-103 over the Miami Heat on Monday night. Klay Thompson added 1 points to help the Warriors (36-2) get halfway to Chicago’s record win total of 2 set in 1996-9 three games before the midpoint of the season. Dwyane Wade scored 20 points and Chris Bosh and Gerald Green added 15 apiece for the Heat, who had won eight of their past 11 games here. NFL suspends Bur¿ Ft tKree games CINCINNATI (AP) — Bengals linebacker Vontaze Bur¿ ct has been suspended for the ¿ rst three games of next season for repeated violations of the NFL’s rules against FACES dangerous hits on opposing players. His most recent penalty was for targeting Steelers Buri ct receiver Antonio Brown after an incompletion during Pitts- burgh’s 18-16 playoff win on Saturday night. The penalty for hitting Brown in the head moved the Steelers into range for the winning ¿ eld goal in the ¿ nal seconds. The NFL noted that Bur¿ ct had already been ¿ ned four times for dangerous hits on players during the season. The NFL said it’s also reviewing the conduct of other players and coaches during the acrimonious game. “We’re going to get them between the lines, between the plays, the whistle. So I mean, he’s going to be sore after the game. That’s how I see it, man. He comes out on a screen, he better not come at [me]. I’m cutting him. That’s where I’m at with it. “ — Darian Stewart Denver Broncos safety promising retribution for a helmet-to-helmet hit by Pittsburgh Steelers center Cody Wallace on Denver safety David Bruton Jr. during their regular sea- son game in December. The Broncos and Steelers meet in the divisional round of the playoffs on Sunday in Denver. THIS DATE IN SPORTS 1958 — The NCAA rules committee makes the ¿ rst change in football scoring rules since 1912 by adding the 2-point conversion. 2008 — The Green Bay Packers beat the Seattle Seahawks 42-20 to reach the NFC championship game. Ryan Grant recovers from two fumbles that put the Packers down 14-0 after only four minutes. Grant sets a team postseason record by running for 201 yards, and scores three times. Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS EO8 adds ZrestlLng for EotK genders Mountaineers will have only women’s team in inland northwest region By SETH DAHLE EOU Sports Information LA GRANDE — Wrestling is of¿ cially making its way back to the campus of Eastern Oregon Univer- sity, Director of Athletics Anji WeissenÀ uh announced at a press conference on Monday afternoon. Amidst reporters and cameras inside 4uinn Coliseum, WeissenÀ uh announced that EOU will be adding women’s wrestling and reinstating men’s wrestling beginning in the fall of 2016. “The addition of the programs will allow us to attract local and regional talent,” said WeissenÀ uh. “Eastern and Central Oregon have had and have a rich history of success in wrestling.” EOU received a startup fund of See EOU WRESTLING/3B College Football Gutsy call pays off for Alabama Alabama’s O.J. How- ard kisses the cham- pionship trophy after the NCAA college foot- ball playoff champion- ship game against Clemson Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, in Glendale, Ariz. Ala- bama won 45-40. By RALPH D. RUSSO Associated Press GLENDALE, Ariz. — Alabama needed it all to win the toughest national title game it had ever played during the NCAA Nick Saban dynasty. All of its Championship power. All of its speed. Even one gutsy trick. Derrick Henry, O.J. Howard and Kenyan Drake hit No. Alabama 1 Clemson with long touch- downs, and Alabama outlasted the dynamic play of dual-threat quarterback Deshaun Watson to win the College Football Clemson Playoff championship 45-40 on Monday night. The Crimson Tide (14-1) See CHAMPIONSHIP/3B 45 40 AP Photo/Chris Carlson HERMISTON Bulldogs rally to defeat No. 4 Storm Hermiston uses 12-3 run in 4th quarter to comeplete comeback on Summit By SAM BARBEE East Oregonian After trailing most of the game, the Hermiston boys basketball team rallied in the second half to down the No. 4 Summit Storm 56-53 Saturday in Hermiston to give the Storm just its second loss of the season. Before taking a 41-39 lead with 49 seconds left in From the third quarter, Saturday the Bulldogs’ (8-6) last lead was 5-4 in the ¿ rst quarter. Summit For interim head coach Dave Ego, the comeback was an indication of the improved “attitude and work Hermiston ethic” displayed by his group, which started last season 2-12. “It says our attitudes getting better,” he said. “Not hanging your head, and doing the things that we need to do. They kept working hard and it was a good effort down the line.” Early on, the height of Summit (8-2) gave Hermiston (8-6) some problems. Playing without Tre Neal, Summit’s tall front line affected numerous Hermiston shots at the rim, but led just 16-14 after the ¿ rst quarter. Hermiston started a small lineup — ¿ ve guards — and wanted to run the Storm into oblivion. It wasn’t quite working, though, 53 56 Staff photo by Sam Barbee Hermiston guard Chance Flores (1) rises for a layup over Summit’s Nick Mason during the Bulldogs’ 56-53 win Saturday in Hermiston. and Summit’s Jack Hurley hit a 3-pointer with 4:01 on the clock in the second quarter to take its largest lead of the game of eight points at 24-16. But, as happened all afternoon, Hermiston rallied to cut the halftime de¿ cit to just three at 30-2 behind the aggressive fast-breaking offense Ego employs, and a strong effort by 6-foot-5 senior Preston Peterson off the bench. “Going small like we did, we knew we could out-run ‘em,” Ego said. “That worked out for us. Peterson came in and played well and ran the À oor well for us defen- sively, and that was necessary for us. It was a good team effort.” Summit tried to extend its lead in the third quarter, leading by as many as ¿ ve after Cam Baker’s putback with 2:51 left to move the count to 39-34, but a -0 Bulldogs run gave them its ¿ rst lead since the second quarter, and the fourth quarter began with things tied up at 41. Then Hermiston’s offense came alive with help from its defense. “We did a good job of closing out and contesting,” Ego said of his team’s defense against a Summit squad that likes to, and can, shoot 3s, holding the Storm to just four. “We did a pretty good job of getting the post people inside. That’s another weakness for us especially with who we started.” Summit committed 24 turnovers on the day, while Hermiston made just nine and committed back-to- back turnovers just one. Hermiston started the fourth quarter with a massive 12-2 run with Dayshawn Neal, who ¿ nished with 15 points, and Chance Flores (1) doing most of the damage off those turnovers. Austin Naillon’s 3-pointer with 2:55 to go in the ¿ nal period gave Herm- iston its largest lead of ten points at 53-43, and Summit looked dead. Naillon ¿ nished with 20 points to lead all scorers. But the experience of the Storm showed as they made things inter- esting down the strech. In a minute, Summit had cut the lead in half at 53-48 when Russell Wells hit a 3, his only basket of the game, then, after Neal made one of two free throws, Hurley hit a 3 to See BULLDOGS/3B Seahawks thaw out from Minnesota, move on in postseason Carroll calls slow start, comeback ‘really cool’ By TIM BOOTH Associated Press RENTON, Wash. — Despite all of his rapid optimism, there came a point in the NFC wild-card game where doubt creeped into Pete Carroll’s mind. Not when the Seattle Seahawks were watching Blair Walsh line up for a poten- tial game-winning 2-yard ¿ eld goal in the ¿ nal seconds. Earlier. About 15 minutes of game-time earlier when the Seahawks were looking at a 9-0 de¿ cit and had done nothing offensively. “When they went to 9-zip it was a moment of, ‘Oh boy, we haven’t scored once, how are we going to score twice?’ There was a moment there questioning “When they went to 9-zip it was a moment of, ‘Oh boy, we haven’t scored once, how are we going to score twice?’” — Pete Carroll, Seattle Seahawks head coach what is going to happen next.” Carroll said on Monday. “And we came right back and got going, and got our score, and got the turnover and just À urried to the lead. Made it kind of fun. We were back in it. I thought the whole thing was really cool.” Thawed out from the sub-zero tempera- tures in Minnesota, the Seahawks were See SEAHAWKS/3B AP Photo/Jim Mone Minnesota Vikings kicker Blair Walsh (3) reacts after missing a i eld goal during the second half of an NFL wild-card football game against the Seattle Seahawks, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, in Minneapolis. The Seahawks won 10-9.
