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SPORTS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2016 Sports shorts (28UHOHDVHV OHDJXHIRRWEDOOVODWH LA GRANDE — Eastern Oregon University football coach Tim Camp released WKHWHDP¶V 2016 Frontier Conference schedule on Tuesday. The Mountaineers will open league play in Week 3 of the season at home against Southern Oregon on Sept. 3. Other home Frontier games for EOU are against College RI,GDKR6HSW0RQWDQD Tech (Sept. 24), Montana Western (Oct. 22) and Rocky Mountain (Nov. 5). The conference slate concludes with EOU at Carroll on Nov. 12. The Mountaineers have open dates on the schedule on $XJDQGDQG2FW 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS WAR ON 84 Prep Basketball BXFNVLQSOD\RIIPRGH Helix ousts ,RQH Pendleton’s Caden Smith (23) leaps high and manages to defl ect a shot by Javier Gar- cia (20), of Hermiston Tuesday at the Dawg- house. Tullis nets 23 points to lead Grizzlies to win Staff photo by Kathy Aney East Oregonian ,21( ² 7KH +HOL[ Grizzlies played one of their EHVWDOODURXQGJDPHVRIWKH VHDVRQWRSXWDZD\WKH,RQH Cardinals in an OSAA state SOD\LQ JDPH RQ 7XHVGD\ night. ³,RQH¶V D SUHWW\ SK\VLFDO WHDPDQGWKH\WULHGWRSUHV sure us from the start and Girls Hoops we were able to hold on in the Helix end,” Helix coach Kirk Flerchinger said. Macey Tullis had a Ione big game on WKH SHULP eter for the Grizzlies QHWWLQJ DOO VL[ RI KHU WHDPV¶ SRLQWHUV WR ¿QLVK ZLWK D JDPHKLJK SRLQWV Paden Flerchinger also had a solid game inside for Helix, ¿QLVKLQJZLWKHLJKWSRLQWV “Macey (Tullis) had a big JDPHIRUXVDQGVKH¶VJRWWHQ better and better,” Flerchinger said. “Our girls played hard and played great team ball tonight to get the win.” The Grizzlies rolled See PREPS/3B *ULI¿Q¶VGD\V DUHQXPEHUHGLQ :DVKLQJWRQ ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Washington president Bruce Allen has voiced what everyone has assumed for quite some time: Robert *ULI¿Q,,,LVGRQHLQ Washington. FACES ,QDQ interview Tuesday with the “Dan Sileo Show” on 1090 AM in San Diego, Allen replied “well, Grifi n no” when asked whether he thinks the 2012 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year will be with Washington next season. 6DLG$OOHQ³,VHH5REHUW getting an opportunity with DQRWKHUWHDP,WKLQNZH¶YH heard from some teams that DUHLQWHUHVWHGDQG,WKLQN KH¶VJRLQJWRKDYHDFKRLFH of a couple teams that will let him excel in the future.” *ULI¿QGLGQRWDSSHDULQ a game for the NFC East champions last season — and he only was active for one. Washington has until March 9 to cut him if they want to get his contract off the books for 2016. “There were many things that Chip had done that showed me he wasn’t building a championship team. The Broncos team I was on would have eaten Chip alive. I don’t think he could have handled the plethora of large personalities.” — Evan Mathis Denver Broncos offen- sive lineman and former Philadelphia Eagle with comments in an email with 9News in Denver on former Eagles coach Chip Kelly. Mathis said that Kelly was “impatient with certain personality types” and described his offense as “A never-evolving, vanilla offense.” 7+,6'$7(,1632576 ² :LOW &KDPEHU lain of Philadelphia shoots IRU IURP WKH ¿HOG against the Baltimore Bullets, DQ1%$UHFRUGIRU¿HOGJRDOV in a game without a miss. 1980 — The U.S. wins the hockey gold medal with DYLFWRU\RYHU)LQODQGDW the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y. 1993 — Steve Yzerman of the Detroit Red Wings scores his 1,000th career point with two goals and two assists in a ORVVWR%XIIDOR6DEUHV Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com 47 39 Pendleton closes out rivalry series strong By SAM BARBEE East Oregonian +(50,6721 ² )RU WKH 3HQG OHWRQ%XFNDURRVWKHSOD\RIIVZRQ¶W VWDUW QH[W ZHHN 7KH\¶YH DOUHDG\ started. )LUVW\HDU %XFNV KHDG FRDFK .\OH 7HGGHU XVHG WKH ¿QDO WZR Columbia River Conference contests to prepare his team for the emotion DQGSUHVVXUHSDFNHGSOD\RIIVDQGLI 7XHVGD\¶V ZLQ RYHU WKH ULYDO (Hermiston). 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