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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2016
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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.
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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
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premier series champion
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crew chief.
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will be elected on May 25.
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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
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off of 23 BMCC turnovers and
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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.
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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)
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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big tournament, but it’s just another
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pounder Liam Tarvin said.
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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
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at 195 pounds, has won three state
titles and is ranked second in the
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seeded second at 182 pounds, took
third at last year’s tourney. Tarvin
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worried.
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what he have to do and we know
how we’re gonna do it,” junior
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1 seed, said. “We’re gonna keep
it going like we have all year:
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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
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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
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Local teams ready for state tournament weekend
Region hopes to be
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the podium
(106 pounds) and Alex Rendon
(126) both made the tournament
as freshmen, and Scott Chambers
(138) and Morgan Holcomb (145)
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Holcomb is the Buckaroos’ lone
representative with state tournament
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
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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.
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Pendleton Buckaroos
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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.
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youth and inexperience. Lane Evens