SPORTS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2016
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There is a number in front
of Duke again. After two
weeks of being one of the
unranked, the Blue Devils
are ¿ nally back in The
Associated
Press Top
25.
One of
the longest
streaks of
consecutive poll appearances
ended two weeks ago when
Duke dropped out of the
rankings. Its run of 167
consecutive polls started
with the preseason Top 25 of
2006-07. A run of four losses
in ¿ ve games knocked the
Blue Devils from the ranks
of the ranked.
A four-game winning
streak has Duke (19-6)
at No. 20 and if the Blue
Devils go on a run similar
to their last one they will be
ranked until sometime in the
2024-25 season.
Leading Russian
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dies suddenO\
MOSCOW (AP) — The
former executive director
of the Russian Anti-Doping
Agency has died, two
months after resigning
amid a doping scandal that
triggered the
of
FACES suspension
the country’s
tracN and ¿ eld
program.
In a
telephone
interview with
The Associated
Kamaev
Press on
Monday, RUSADA
spokeswoman Nataliya
.oshel con¿ rmed that Nikita
Kamaev died on Sunday. He
was 52.
“The preliminary cause
of death was a massive heart
attack,” RUSADA said in a
statement.
Kamaev is the second
former senior RUSDA
of¿ cial to die this month.
“All in all, as I
said last year,
it’s bigger than
basketball. It’s
about his family
and he has to
make sure he
does everything
right. I want
to make sure
that he’s doing
whatever he
needs to do to
be healthy and
get back on the
basketball court
whenever he’s
ready.“
— Dwyane Wade
Miami Heat guard
speaking to reporters
about the health of Heat
forward Chris Bosh. The
Associate Press reported
Monday night that Bosh
is experiencing another
blood-clotting issue and
his return this season is
in question. He leads
the Heat in scoring with
19.1 points per game.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1972 — Wilt Chamberlain
of the Los Angeles Lakers
becomes the ¿ rst player in
NBA history to score 30,000
points during a 110-109 loss
to the Phoenix Suns.
1997 — Jeff Gordon, 25,
becomes the youngest winner
of the Daytona 500 after Dale
Earnhardt crashes 12 laps
from the end to prolong his
Daytona 500 jinx.
2004 — Pittsburgh loses
an NHL-record 12th straight
home game, 8-4 to Toronto.
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Prep Wrestling
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Small school wrestling
teams compete at
district tournaments
East Oregonian
HERMISTON — The Riverside
Pirates and Echo Cougars ¿ nished
competition at the 3A District 1
wrestling district tournament on
Saturday, and the Pirates ¿ nished up
with a strong performance.
Riverside brought nine compet-
itors to the district tournament and
leave with eight of the nine qual-
ifying for state competition, as the
Pirates teamed up for a third place
team ¿ nish with 175 points. The
Nyssa Bulldogs ¿ nished ¿ rst with
482 points.
Riverside coach Richard Rock-
well was ecstatic with his teams’
performance on Saturday.
“We wrestled really, really well,”
he said. “At the beginning of the
season, I thought we might have a
chance to get four guys to state, and
to get eight of the nine guys in is
great.”
Riverside’s A.J. Rockwell and
Anthony Kernal each took ¿ rst place
¿ nishes at the district tournament,
as Rockwell won by a tech fall over
Ryan Vineyard from Nyssa at the
5:30 mark of the match and Kernal
won by a forfeit over teammate
Ricardo Mendoza.
The other state quali¿ ers for
Riverside were Silvestre Vazquez
(113 pounds), Andrew Barker
(113 pounds), Teyeler Hancock
(138 pounds), Ulises Calvillo
(145 pounds), Ivan Escobedo (152
pounds).
Rockwell said that the team will
be focusing on the basics as they
train for state competition in two
weeks.
Echo ¿ nished with two fourth
place ¿ nishers with Kyle Ranger at
113 pounds and Jason Fitzpatrick
at 182 pounds, which was good
enough to qualify for state compe-
tition. The Cougars also had a pair
of sixth place ¿ nishers with Austin
James at 120 pounds and Damian
Curiel at 145 pounds.
State wrestling competition will
take place on Feb. 26-27 at Veterans
Memorial Coliseum in Portland.
IRRIGON WINS DISTRICT
JOHN DAY — The Irrigon
Knights and Heppner Mustangs
competed in the 2A/1A District 4
tournament on Saturday afternoon,
and the Knights left the tournament
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Riverside’s Anthony Kernal (in black) wrestles Luis Teran, of De La Sal North Catholic,to victory Sat-
urday during the 3-A Special District 1 Wrestling Championships semifi nals in Hermiston. Kernal also
won the championship match.
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Riverside’s Aristotle Rockwell (in black) wrestles Clayton Sid-
doway, of Vale, in the 126-pound weight class Saturday during
the 3-A Special District 1 Wrestling Championships semifi nals in
Hermiston. Rockwell ended up pinning Siddoway.
with a ¿ rst place team ¿ nish with
171.5 points, while Heppner placed
ninth with 76 points.
Irrigon did, however, only ¿ nish
with one ¿ rst place winner which
was Kasey Kroske at 285 pounds.
Kroske earned the victory as he
pinned teammate Jose Covarrubia at
the 2:26 mark of the match, booking
each of their tickets to the state
tournament.
The Knights also had a few wres-
tlers just miss the cut on making it
to the state tournament, as Ammon
Byers (126 pounds), Damon Sawyer
(132 pounds), and Josue Aguilera
(138 pounds) all earned third place
¿ nishes on Saturday.
The Heppner Mustangs also
had two tickets punched to the
state tournament, as Ryan Smith
at 113 pounds and Cord Flynn at
195 pounds both won the district
title in their respective classes.
Smith remains undefeated on the
season at 32-0 after earning a 5-0
decision victory over Enterprises’
Cole Farwell in the 113 pound
¿ nal, while Flynn pulled out a 6-5
decision win over Elgin’s Calvin
Shaffer.
Trevor Chamberlain just missed
the cut for Heppner, as he turned
in a third place performance at
106 pounds after he pinned Burns’
Kolton Dahl at the 3:54 mark of the
match.
PILOT ROCK
Former Pilot Rock softball coach dies
Rick Hoisington
was a beloved
figure in Rocket
athletics
East Oregonian
The Pilot Rock Rockets lost
one of their all-time great sports
¿ gures over the weekend when
Rick Hoisington died at his
home on Saturday. He was 61.
No cause of death was
stated, but declining health was
Former
Pilot Rock
softball
coach Rick
Hoisington
passed
away Sat-
urday at
his home in
Pilot Rock.
one of the reasons Hoisington
retired from his position as
varsity softball coach after 14
seasons.
Also
the
Rockets’
announcer at home football
games, Hoisington was a
player’s coach that many in the
community looked up to.
Following Pilot Rock’s win
in the state championship this
past spring, players dedicated
their performance in the game
to him even though he’d never
coached them in high school.
“When I was in sixth grade,
See HOISINGTON/2B
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Prep swimming
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Pendleton’s
boys swim-
ming team
crowds the
podium af-
ter winning
the district
champi-
onship on
Saturday in
Hood RIver.
Pendleton, Hermiston
advance swimmers to
state meet
East Oregonian
HOOD RIVER — With a domi-
nant performance by their relay
teams, the Pendleton Buckaroos
again took the Columbia River
Conference district swimming
championship on Saturday in Hood
River.
The victory was led by a ¿ rst-
place ¿ nish from the boys team, and
the girls team placed second to give
the Bucks the overall title as well.
All three of the boys relays
won their races to qualify for the
state meet, and the girls 400-yard
Photo by Ray Ro-
driguez/The Dalles
Chronicle
freestyle relay will join them there
as well.
The boys 200-yard medley
relay earned Pendleton’s ¿ rst
title of the meet as Jon Jennings,
Dylan Clemons, T.J. O’Hanlon and
Grant Banister stopped the clock
in 1:47.20, six seconds ahead of
second-place Hood River.
Then with Lukas Johnson
swapped in for O’Hanlon, the Bucks
won by an even larger margin in the
200 freestyle relay. With second-
place The Dalles 11 seconds back,
Pendleton clocked 1:35.65.
The third relay gold would not
come as easily, though, and with
Hunter Frazier and Rylan Headley
joining Johnson and Banister, the
Bucks edged Hood River by a half
second with their time of 3:43.63.
Banister, a senior, was the only
Buck to swim on all three relay
teams.
Jennings, a junior, also won
individual titles in the 50 and 100
See SWIMMING/2B