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East Oregonian
Friday, January 22, 2016
Men’s Basketball
Cook helps Oregon upset No. 21 USC
Associated Press
AP Photo/Chris Pietsch
Oregon’s Dillon Brooks, left, goes to the basket under
defensive pressure from Southern California’s Nikola
Jovanovic with Darion Clark, right, during the irst half
of an NCAA college basketball game Thursday, Jan. 21,
2016, in Eugene, Ore.
EUGENE — After getting
dominated on the glass in
Sunday’s loss at Colorado,
Oregon coach Dana Altman
had a pointed message for
Elgin Cook and Dwayne
Benjamin.
The time for leadership
from the two seniors was now.
Cook responded by
matching his career high with
26 points and Benjamin had
his best scoring game since
early December with 16 off
the bench to lead Oregon to
an 89-81 Yictory oYer No.
21 Southern California on
Thursday night.
“I told (Elgin) and
Dwayne that they played the
way seniors are supposed
to play, so I shouldn’t be
shocked,” Altman said. “I
was disappointed in them and
I expressed that to them after
the Colorado game. I think
they took it as a challenge.”
Chris Boucher added 16
points and nine rebounds for
the Ducks (15-4, 4-2), who
Southern Cal
Oregon
81
89
moYed into a tie for second
place in the Pac-12 with their
18th consecutiYe home win.
Oregon held the Trojans
(15-4, 4-2), the conference’s
best 3-point shooting team,
to 8 of 28 (28.6 percent)
from long range.
Boucher led the Ducks
to a 43-38 edge in rebounds.
Oregon also came within one
of its season low in turnoYers
with nine.
“We outrebounded them
and I thought that was a
big stat going into tonight’s
game,” Altman said. “The
second half we had only
three turnoYers. I thought
that was big.”
Freshman
Bennie
Boatright had 23 points and
12 rebounds, both season
highs, to lead USC (15-4,
4-2) before fouling out late
in the game. Julian Jacobs
also had 18 points, six
rebounds and ¿Ye assists for
the Trojans.
USC lost contact with the
Ducks when they rode a 13-1
run to a 71-56 lead midway
through the second half. The
Trojans neYer got closer than
seYen the rest of the way in
losing for the 11th consecu-
tiYe time to Oregon.
“”When another team
goes on a run, you haYe to
score with them,” USC coach
Andy En¿eld said. “We
missed a wide-open dunk,
we missed three wide-open
jump shots and we turned the
ball oYer twice.
“If you’re going to do that,
you’re going to giYe the other
team opportunities to score.”
Benjamin’s two steals in
Oregon’s press helped key the
run and, eYen though he didn’t
haYe a rebound for a second
straight game, the sixth man’s
defensiYe presence more than
made up for it.
“Those two big steals
he got in the press really
changed the momentum of
the game,” Altman said.
Benjamin’s 16 points,
which included three of
Oregon’s eight 3-pointers,
were the most he’s scored in
a dozen games.
“I just play the same way,”
Benjamin said. “My con¿-
dence is always there. I knew
it would come one game, and
tonight was the night.”
The lead changed hands
¿Ye times in the ¿rst half
before a 10-0 Oregon run,
highlighted by Benjamin’s
two 3-pointers, put the Ducks
up by nine on their way to a
46-41 lead at the break.
Oregon had three scorers
in double ¿gures by the half,
led by Cook”s 12 points and
10 each from Boucher and
Benjamin.
4UIC. TU5NA5OUND
Altman was concerned
that USC was coming off
an eight-day break before
Thursday night’s game. Now
comes UCLA, which has had
an extra day of rest before
Saturday afternoon’s Yisit.
Basketball
VIKINGS: 5iYerside cruises in boys’ game Men’s
Arizona beats Stanford
Uma-
tilla’s
Jesus
Ramirez
(2) draws
a charge
on Riv-
erside’s
Felipe
Olive-
ra (24)
during
River-
side’s 49-
32 win
Thursday
night in
Umatilla.
Continued from 1B
smothering, forcing 31 Pirate
turnoYers and grabbing 10
steals as a team. 5iYerside
(3-13, 0-4) didn’t score
until the 2:59 mark of the
second quarter when Abby
+ernandez got a layup to go
to make the score 20-2.
“We just wanted to play
our game and play us and go
crazy and pretty much just
be at that next leYel,” Coffey
said.
After jumping to a 12-0
lead after the ¿rst quarter
— and forcing 11 turnoYers
along the way — Umatilla
did nothing but extend the
lead. The Vikings scored on
their ¿rst three possessions
of the second quarter and
led 20-0 when Sidney Webb
scored with 6:16 on the
clock. Umatilla took a 26-4
lead into the locker room at
halftime while holding the
Pirates to just 14 percent
shooting
(2-14)
while
shooting just 38 percent
(12-31) itself. Usually a
good 3-point-shooting team,
Umatilla made just 1-9
Thursday night.
The Vikings and Pirates
are both on the road next
week at Vale and Nyssa.
———
RHS (3-13, 0-4) 0
4
8 8 — 20
UHS (14-4, 4-0) 12 14 12 11 — 49
RIVERSIDE — A. Caldera 6, S. Hasbell 4,
A. Hernandez 4, L. Mashos 3, F. Mabilla 2,
S. Andrade 1, K. Wightman, J. Shimer, B.
Avalos, E. Delfaso, D. Sanchez, S. Gonzalez.
UMATILLA — T. Coffey 14, S. Webb 11, M.
Paz 10, A. Watson 9, B. Campos 3, C. Dohman
2, G. Contreras, L. Journot, G. Lemus.
3-pointers — RHS 1, UHS 1. Free throws —
RHS 1-13, UHS 5-8. Fouls — RHS 7, UHS 16.
Staff photo by
Sam Barbee
Boys Basketball
RIVERSIDE
49,
UMATILLA 32 — At
Umatilla, coming off its
best game of the year, the
Umatilla Vikings came out
Àat against the 5iYerside
Pirates, and were blown out
49-32 at home on Thursday.
5iYerside’s three-quarter
court press gaYe the Vikings
problems all night, forcing
Umatilla into 18 turnoYers.
Kaden Webb of Umatilla
led all scorers with 14
points, with nine coming in
the second half and seYen
of those coming at the free
throw stripe. Noe Madrigal,
Eon Castillo and Felipe
OliYera each had 11 points to
pace the Pirates.
“We take eYery league
win as a big deal because
we haYen’t had too many in
the last couple years with
being so young and inexpe-
rienced,” 5iYerside coach
Clair Costello said. “So any
time you jump on somebody
at home and play fairly well
— that was the most excited
I’Ye seen them in the locker
room in a long, long time.”
The ¿rst quarter slogged
by with only 11 points and
5iYerside leading 6-5. Both
teams combined to shoot
just 24.5 percent from the
Àoor that quarter. Castillo’s
two-pointer with 21 seconds
left in the period gaYe 5iYer-
side a 6-5 lead, a lead it would
relent just once more.
It happened on the ¿rst
possession of the second
qaurter, when Jesus 5amirez
scored to put the Vikings up
7-6. But it was the last time
the home team would lead.
5iYerside embarked on an
8-1 run to take a 14-8 lead,
and Umatilla whittled it back
to two at 14-12 on a Webb
Àoater. But 5iYerside scored
¿Ye of the next seYen points
to take a four-point 19-15
lead into the half.
From there, it was all
Pirates. Up 24-20 in the
third quarer, 5iYerside used
a 9-3 run to take a 12-point
lead into the fourth quarter,
and it kept on growing. It
quickly ballooned to 17 when
Madrigal hit a 3-pointer with
about ¿Ye minutes left to push
the count to 44-27, and the
Pirates led by 20 after Castillo
hit a couple free throws.
Umatilla tried to crawl back
into it with 3-pointers, but they
all went begging. Umatilla
shot just 1-16 from deep.
———
RHS (7-10, 3-1) 6 13 14 14 — 49
UHS (9-9, 1-3) 5 10
8 9 — 32
RIVERSIDE — N. Madrigal 11, E. Castillo
11, F. Olivera 11, F. Aparicio 6, S. Navarro 3,
J. Carmona 3, D. Rodriguez 2, R. Rosales 2,
J. Garcia, H. Lopez, H. Hegar.
UMATILLA — K. Webb 14, A. Simmons
4, J. Coria 3, T. Sanguino 3, J. Ramirez 3,
T. Durfey 2, S. Cranston 2, S. Munoz 1, G.
Armenta, J. Tejada, D. Silverio, S. Garcia.
3-pointers — RHS 4, UHS 1. Free throws
— RHS 11-23, UHS 13-24. Fouls — RHS 18,
UHS 21. Fouled out — N. Madrigal (RHS),
J. Coria (UHS). Technical fouls — Riverside
bench.
STEWART: Teammates inÀuenced by positiYe attitude
Continued from 1B
seeP sKy, standoI¿sK, eYen
disinterested.
That’s why she’s suiting
up for Nixyaawii this season
instead of Weston-McEwen,
where she originally enrolled
to start her freshman year.
³, didn’t really ¿t in up
there,” she said. “I didn’t
talk to anyone. I wasn’t used
to those people.”
It didn’t take long for
Stewart to transfer back to
the familiar surroundings
of Nixyaawii, but it was too
late for her to be declared
eligible for the basketball
season and she had to spend
what should haYe been her
freshman season sitting in
the bleachers.
“It sucked I guess,” she
said of the feeling.
The Golden Eagles
certainly could haYe used
her on the court as they
struggled against the better
teams in the Old Oregon
League and saw their season
end with back-to-back losses
at the district tournament.
There were no hurdles
this season, though, and
Weston-McEwen’s loss has
been Nixyaawii’s gain in
eYery sense.
When asked to name
Stewart’s best attribute as
a player, Nixyaawii senior
Desiree Maddern didn’t talk
about the no-look passes,
her shooting range or her
tenacity on the glass. Instead
she went for a quality few, if
any, at Weston-McEwen got
to see.
“I think it’s her positiYe
attitude,” she said. “I think
it’s really rubbed off on
Staff photo by E.J. Harris/ile
In this Dec. 8, 2015 ile photo, Nixyaawii’s Mary Stew-
art and Pilot Rock’s Teyha Ostrom go for a loose ball in
the Golden Eagles’ 60-42 win against the Rockets in
Mission.
the rest of us, and she’s the
jokester, so it really brings us
laughter and it spreads to the
team and we really just get a
really good Yibe from each
other.
“She’s the type of person
not to brag, but when it
comes down to it she’s just
an all-around great person.
Just not in basketball. EYen
off the court she’s a good
person to get along with.
She’s a good friend, good
person to go to. Just a good
person in general.”
Nixyaawii junior
Sunshine Fuentes shares the
closest bond with Stewart
and said the selÀess nature
that leads her to buy lunches
for classmates can also be
a detriment on the court at
times.
“We were just always
taught, like say if somebody
on the team doesn’t haYe
a point, we want eYeryone
to haYe a point so it’s
fair for eYerybody,” said
Fuentes. “EYen if we’re
doing a screen and roll and
she wanted to pass to me,
I just tell her to driYe it to
the hoop because I know
she would haYe a higher
percentage to make it.
Sometimes she’ll get mad
at me like, ‘You need to
take it.’”
But when games are
close, like they were in
Nixyaawii’s - win oYer
Irrigon during a holiday
tournament, Stewart’s
competitiYe driYe takes
oYer.
“During tight games
you can de¿nitely see it,”
Maddern said. “That’s when
she’ll want to take the ball,
that’s when she’ll want to
one-on-one, so that’s when I
know to get a screen for her
or something just to get her
going again.”
As the team goes for win
No. 16 there seems to be
no stopping Stewart, and
by extension, the Golden
Eagles.
Nixyaawii will play at
Joseph today at 5 p.m., then
at Wallowa on Saturday at 4
p.m. to begin the second half
of the league schedule. Their
next home game is Friday,
Feb. 5 when they host Echo
at 6 p.m.
———
Contact Matt Entrup at
mentrup@eastoregonian.
com or (541) 966-0838.
for 12th straight time
JANIE MCCAULEY
Associated Press
STANFO5D, Calif. —
Gabe York made a long
3-pointer with 8:24 left on
the way to 19 points, and No.
12 Arizona surYiYed a Stan-
ford rally midway through
the second half for a 71-57
Yictory Thursday night.
5yan Anderson added 18
points on 7-for-7 shooting
and eight rebounds for the
Wildcats (16-3, 4-2 Pac-12)
in their 12th straight win
against the Cardinal dating
to a loss on Jan. 4, 2009.
Arizona’s Kadeem Allen
went down in the corner
by his team’s bench with
10:55 left then brieÀy left
for the locker room before
returning.
Grant
VerhoeYen
proYided a big lift in the
second half for Stanford
(10-7, 3-3), but the Cardinal
went cold when it counted
as Arizona pulled away for
good.
VerhoeYen’s three-point
play with 15:35 remaining
pulled Stanford within
39-37, then he conYerted
another three-point play
at 14:19 before a pair of
missed free throws by
Kaleb Tarczewski. Verho-
eYen took a charge at 13:20.
Stanford then made just
two of its next 14 ¿eld-goal
tries and went nearly 9
minutes between baskets.
Wildcats coach Sean
Miller won his 299th game.
BUCKAROOS: Next
dual against Mtn View
Continued from 1B
Taylor improYed his season
record to 19-9 on the season
with a win at 195 pounds
oYer +ood 5iYer’s Mark
5eyes. Taylor pinned 5eyes
at the 1:48 mark of the
match to earn the Yictory.
J.D. Peters also earned a
Yictory for Pendleton at 152
pounds by pinning Junior
Manzano at the 5:10 mark
in the third round. The win
improYes Peters’ impres-
siYe record to 1-6 on the
season.
Phillips said the Bucka-
roos could haYe easily had
two more wins in the match,
with Scott Chambers at 138
pounds and Jeff Priester
at 220 pounds. Chambers
came back from an early
de¿cit to fall in a 10-9
decision, while Priester held
a 9-6 lead with 30 seconds
remaining before getting
reYersed by +ood 5iYer’s
Yorick Infante to earn a 10-9
decision win for the Eagles.
Pendleton will next host
Mountain View for a dual
on Jan. 29.
———
PENDLETON 51, HOOD RIVER 20
106 — Chris Chambers (P) pins Justin
Lane, 5:31 (6-0)
113 — Ryan Zeller (H) def. Lane Evens
by 6-2 dec. (6-3)
120 — Noah Wachsmuth (H) pins Blake
Davis, 0:33 (6-9)
126 — Jason Shaner (H) def. Alex
Rendon by Tech Fall, 4:21 (6-14)
132 — Pendleton wins by forfeit (12-14)
138 — Dylan Peterson (H) def. Scott
Chambers by 10-9 dec. (12-17)
145 — Pendleton wins by forfeit (18-17)
152 — J.D. Peters (P) pins Junior Man-
zano, 5:10 (24-17)
160 — Pendleton wins by forfeit (30-17)
170 — Pendleton wins by forfeit (36-17)
182 — Pendleton wins by forfeit (42-17)
195 — Macus Taylor (P) pins Mark
Reyes, 1:48 (48-17)
220 — Yorick Infante (H) def. Jeff
Priester by 10-9 dec. (48-20)
285 — Jacob Banks (P) def. Max Lane
by 7-1 dec. (51-20)
ATHLETE
OF THE WEEK
MARY
STEWART
Sophomore,
Junior
-
Nixyaawii
Basketball
Stanfield Football
Stewart totaled 49
points and 26
rebounds for
Nixyaawii in a pair
of league wins over
Helix and Pine
Eagle last week.
She added seven
assists against Pine
Eagle, which was
the 15th win in a
row for Nixyaawii.
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