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SPORTS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2016 Sports shorts Roush, Rudd lead NASCAR Hall of Fame nominees DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Ron Hornaday Jr., Jack Roush, Ricky Rudd, Ken Squier and Waddell Wilson are joining 15 holdovers as nominees for the 2017 NASCAR Hall of Fame class. NASCAR announced the additions Wednesday. +RUQDGD\LVDIRXUWLPH Truck Series champion. Roush has the most owner wins (322) in NASCAR national series history. Rudd held the consecutive starts record until Jeff Gordon broke it last year. Squier is a legendary motorsports broadcasting pioneer. And :LOVRQLVDWKUHHWLPH premier series champion HQJLQHEXLOGHUDQGWKUHH WLPH'D\WRQDZLQQLQJ crew chief. )URPWKHSHUVRQ QRPLQHHOLVW¿YHLQGXFWHHV will be elected on May 25. PENDLETON 7:ROYHVVSXWWHULQKRPH¿QDOH Columbia Basin breaks away for lopsided win over BMCC women Columbia Basin’s Sierra Per- rez stops Emma Bowers (10), of BMCC, from going to the hoop Wednes- day in Pendle- ton. By MATT ENTRUP East Oregonian Needing a win to keep its postseason hopes alive, the Blue Mountain women’s basketball team looked like it’s ready for the offseason on Wednesday against Columbia Basin. The Timberwolves started fast, but soon were mired in turnovers that allowed the Hawks WR EUHDN DZD\ ZLWK D Women’s win at Mosby Court. Hoops The Hawks scored 29 points off of 23 BMCC turnovers and grabbed the lead for good with Columbia Basin WRSOD\LQWKH¿UVWTXDUWHU when Kylee Garrick’s jumper PDGHLW “We just did not get that consistent effort throughout defensively,” said BMCC Blue Mountain 1:$& (DVW coach Adam Driver. “The big WKLQJZDVSRLQWVRIIWXUQ overs. That’s the killer stat. Lose by 15 and get outscored by 20 on points off turnovers. You can’t live that way. “That’s kind of been the story of our season. We dig ourselves a deep hole and then struggle ¿OOLQJLWLQE\WKHHQGRIWKHJDPH´ 7KH +DZNV ¿QLVKHG WKH ¿UVW TXDUWHURQDUXQWKHQKLWWKUHHSRLQWHUV LQWKH¿UVWWKUHHPLQXWHVRIWKHVHFRQGTXDUWHU to push the lead into double digits when Holly (OOLVRQ¶VWKUHHPDGHLWZLWKOHIWLQ the frame. &ROXPELD%DVLQPDGH¿YHRILWVVHYHQWKUHH SRLQWHUVLQWKHVHFRQGTXDUWHUWROHDGDW halftime. “They shot the lights out,” Driver said. “I’m not sure what their shooting percentage was … they knocked them down for sure.” The Hawks were 19 of 39 (48.7 percent) IURPWKH¿HOGLQWKH¿UVWKDOIZKLOH%0&&ZDV See BMCC/2B Staff photo by Kathy Aney 88 73 Rangers’ Hamilton to start season on disabled list SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — Texas Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton will start the season on the disabled list because of an injured left knee. Rangers assistant general manager Thad FACES Levine said WKH¿YHWLPH $OO6WDU bothered by swelling in the knee, received a stem cell and platelet Hamilton rich plasma injection Monday, when he was examined by Dr. James Andrews. Hamilton, the 2010 AL MVP, will be on crutches IRUVHYHQWRGD\VDQG is projected to need eight weeks of recovery time. Levine said Hamilton likely would start a minor league rehabilitation assignment in late April and the Rangers hope he will return to their lineup in early May. Levine says “the reason ZHDUHJLYLQJKLPDQHLJKW week program is so we don’t cut any corners and give him a full spring training.” “My mother is homeless right now. Right now, she’s staying with her sister. I just decided to do what’s best for me and my family. It’s just a little bump in the road for us. We’ll overcome it.” — Peyton Barber Former Auburn Tigers running back speak- ing to the media at the NFL Draft Combine on Wednesday on why he decided to declare for the NFL draft as an underclassman. Barber ran for 1,017 yards and 13 touchdowns in 2015 as a redshirt sophomore, and is one of 24 running backs at the combine. THIS DATE IN SPORTS 1940²7KH¿UVWWHOHFDVW of an American hockey game is transmitted over station W2XBS in New York — the New York Rangers vs. the Montreal Canadiens at Madison Square Garden. 1964 — Cassius Clay wins the world heavyweight title when Sonny Liston is unable to answer the bell for the seventh round at Convention Hall in Miami Beach, Fla. Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS HERMISTON %XOOGRJVZUHVWOHUVQRWVKRUWRQFRQ¿GHQFH Hermiston ready to defend title while gunning for No. 10 By SAM BARBEE East Oregonian The state wrestling tournament just isn’t that big a deal for the Hermiston Bulldogs. After all, they’ve been regular attendees at the state’s biggest and most important tournament for at least a decade, and have won the thing eight of the past nine years. “We’ve been going for so long, DQG ZH¶YH EHHQ WR ELJJHU WRXUQD ments and bigger places, so it’s the big tournament, but it’s just another WRXUQDPHQW´ VHFRQGVHHGHG pounder Liam Tarvin said. “It’s just about wrestling,” WKLUGVHHGHG SRXQGHU %URFN McDonough added. So as the Bulldogs prepare this week to once again defend their state title starting on Friday at the Memorial Coliseum in Portland DPELYDOHQFHDERXWWKHVWDWHWRXUQD ment is the amount of success had ERWKWHDPZLVHDQGLQGLYLGXDOO\ 6DP&ROEUD\WKHWRSVHHG at 195 pounds, has won three state titles and is ranked second in the QDWLRQ DW DFFRUGLQJ WR )OR: UHVWOLQJRUJ %RE &ROHPDQ seeded second at 182 pounds, took third at last year’s tourney. Tarvin ZRQDVWDWHWLWOHDVDVRSK omore at 106 pounds. Needless to say, they aren’t worried. ³:H¶UH FRQ¿GHQW EXW ZH NQRZ what he have to do and we know how we’re gonna do it,” junior SRXQGHU 9DOHQ :\VH D 1R 1 seed, said. “We’re gonna keep it going like we have all year: EO fi le photo/Kathy Aney In this 2015 fi le photo, The Bulldog’s Bob Coleman (in black and wrestling like we’re representing yellow) wrestles Tanner Swinehart of Central during the 2015 5A Hermiston. So being tough and 170-pound championship match at Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum in moving forward.” Moving forward has been a Portland. rallying cry most season. After — and win the school’s 10th team wrestle hard, treat it like every a dual loss to Post Falls, Idaho WLWOH ² ¿UVW\HDU KHDG FRDFK .\OH other match,” he said. “Don’t get in December, the Bulldogs were Larson isn’t preparing any new overwhelmed. Don’t get too excited nearly unbeatable. In that defeat, the Bulldogs were complacent and messages. about what’s going on.” “I just want my guys to go Part of Hermiston’s perceived See HERMISTON/2B Prep Wrestling Local teams ready for state tournament weekend Region hopes to be ZHOOUHSUHVHQWHGRQ the podium (106 pounds) and Alex Rendon (126) both made the tournament as freshmen, and Scott Chambers (138) and Morgan Holcomb (145) TXDOL¿HGDVMXQLRUV Holcomb is the Buckaroos’ lone representative with state tournament By ERIC SINGER East Oregonian experience, qualifying in each of the ODVWWZRVHDVRQVZLWKKLVEHVW¿QLVK $IWHU D JUXHOLQJ IRXUPRQWK coming in 2014 where he placed VFKHGXOHWKHHQGLV¿QDOO\LQVLJKW WKLUGLQWKHSRXQGEUDFNHW :LWK WKDW \RXWK LQ PLQG %XFN IRUVRPHRI2UHJRQ¶V¿QHVW On Friday morning at 9 a.m. at aroos coach Fred Phillips said his the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in guys will need to be on their best Portland, the OSAA State Wrestling game come Friday. “It’s the state tournament, so Championships will begin and the road to a state championship for everyone is going to have tough more than 1,000 prep wrestlers will matches,” he said. “They just have start to be paved. So we take a look to show up and wrestle their best at the teams and the wrestlers that because that’s where it’s won. If it are heading to the tournament this were all on paper there would be no weekend and the path they face to point in it.” Holcomb grabbed the highest become a champion. seed for the Bucks, slotting in at No. DWSRXQGVZKHUHKHZLOOWDNH Pendleton Buckaroos Staff photo by Kathy Aney The Pendleton Buckaroos head on the No. 14 seed Terry McCord III In this Jan. 30, 2016 fi le photo, Alex Rendon, of Pendleton, domi- into the state tournament with some from Lebanon. Evens then drew in a nates Mountain View’s Tristan Baker during a dual meet at Warberg Court in the 132-pound weight class. See WRESTLING/2B youth and inexperience. Lane Evens
