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Sensational sophomore driving
Golden Eagles winning streak
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been key addition
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lineup this season
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the ball over
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Melissa
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the Golden
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win against
the Tigers in
Stanfi eld.
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East Oregonian
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team can earn an enviable
distinction when it takes the
court at Joseph tonight.
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their last 15 games in a row, the
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girls basketball this season, and
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program history.
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appear to be a team capable of
ending that run, and with the way
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could enter the district tournament
on a 22-game roll.
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been the play of sophomore guard
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coach Jeremy Maddern. “And I
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wins and about 19 points a game
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double-doubles and has posted
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rebounds and 10 assists.
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catch with my little
brother, and my
little sister asked
if he could climb
the tree. He never
actually got up.”
— David Long
Michigan Wolverines
verbal commit on coach
Jim Harbaugh, who has
been at the forefront
for his recent recruiting
antics, including climb-
ing a tree while on a
visit to Long’s house in
Los Angles earlier this
week. Long committed to
Michigan after the visit,
saying Harbaugh is a
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spent the night at a re-
cruit’s house in Arizona,
and even went with the
recruit to school.
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enter the Hall.
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Junior forward nets
14 points off bench
to lead charge
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la’s Sid-
ney Webb
(23) tries
to move
into the
lane
against
River-
side’s
Alondra
Caldera
(left) and
Brenda
Avalos
during
the
Vikings’
49-20 win
Thursday
in Uma-
tilla.
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ball last year.
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took the year off to focus on other
things, and now — halfway through
her junior season — things are
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in scoring Thursday night with 14
points,
grabbed
10 rebounds and Girls Hoops
swiped four steals
off the bench in the
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49-20 victory at
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loves coming off
the bench more
than she likes
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starting, to tell you
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to the bench when she struggled
early on. Bow said it took some time
for her to re-adjust to the speed of
varsity basketball.
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— when she recorded a career-high
in points, breaking her previous high
of 13 points set last week against
Vale — she says she once again is
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win at
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aided by forfeits
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putting her in better situations,” Bow
said. “This is usually that point of
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HOOD RIVER — The
Pendleton Buckaroos made
the trip down I-84 for a dual
with the Hood River Eagles
on Thursday night and head
home with a 51-20 victory.
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competed
hard,”
said
Pendleton
coach Fred
Wrestling
Phillips.
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we can get a
Pendleton
league win
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21-20 advantage in the nine
matches that were wrestled
on Thursday.
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coming over here, knowing
how many forfeits they
would have,” Phillips said,
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and went out and competed.”
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time of the season. We all just got
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Bow says that having her in the
right spots to be able to succeed has
also helped her improvement.
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