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LA GRANDE — Eastern
Oregon University football
coach Tim Camp released
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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
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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
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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
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Grizzlies played one of their
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sure us from
the start and
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were
able to hold
on in the
Helix
end,” Helix
coach Kirk
Flerchinger
said.
Macey
Tullis had a
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better and better,” Flerchinger
said. “Our girls played hard
and played great team ball
tonight to get the win.”
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ASHBURN, Va. (AP)
— Washington president
Bruce Allen has voiced what
everyone has assumed for
quite some time: Robert
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Washington.
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interview
Tuesday with
the “Dan Sileo
Show” on 1090
AM in San
Diego, Allen
replied “well,
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no” when
asked whether he thinks the
2012 NFL Offensive Rookie
of the Year will be with
Washington next season.
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getting an opportunity with
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heard from some teams that
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of a couple teams that will
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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.”
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against the Baltimore Bullets,
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in a game without a miss.
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the Winter Olympics in Lake
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the Detroit Red Wings scores
his 1,000th career point with
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Pendleton closes out rivalry series strong
By SAM BARBEE
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Columbia River Conference contests
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(Hermiston). They played a pretty
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Hermis-
ton’s Sara
Ramirez
helps cut
down the
net after
beating
Pendleton
Tuesday at
the Dawg-
house.
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in double digits to
down Pendleton
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East Oregonian
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Associated Press
PORTLAND — The
Portland Trail Blazers kept
up their midseason tear
through the NBA thanks to
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backcourt duo.
Damian Lillard and C.J.
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player to score at least 30
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between the Hermiston Bulldogs and the
Pendleton Buckaroos, the Bulldogs breezed to
victories by an average margin of 36 points.
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Hoffert said his team was guilty of looking ahead
to the postseason.
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EOU Sports Information
LA GRANDE — The third
meeting between the Eastern
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ball team and Northwest proved to
be no different than the regular
season series, as the Mountaineers
shot lights out from beyond the
arc en route to burying the Eagles,
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Coliseum.
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Senior guard Jordan Klebaum
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forward Madeline Laan added 21
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guard Payton Parrish chipped in 14
points off the bench and senior guard
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rebounds and three assists.
Brianna Fiso paced Northwest
with 19 points and six rebounds in
the losing effort.
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Klebaum and Laan carried EOU
early in the third stanza, as the
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the quarter.
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triples thanks to Parrish and senior
forward Nikki Osborne to snatch
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with 2:58 remaining in the third.
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