SPORTS
Friday, March 11, 2016
East Oregonian
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Pro Track & Field
Portland readies to host the track and ¿eld championships
By ANNE M. PETERSON
AP Sports Writer
PORTLAND — Oregon
is about to become the
hub oI eOite tracN and ¿eOd
leading to the Rio Games.
The U.S. indoor cham-
pionships open Friday at
the Portland Convention
Center, and next week the
venue will host the world
championships.
Then the attention shifts
to Eugene for the U.S.
Olympic Trials in July. In
between, Eugene also will
host the NCAA champion-
ships and the Prefontaine
Classic, the only Diamond
League international meet
in the United States.
“One of the great things
about this is, Portland is
the ¿rst stop on the road
to Rio,” said Vin Lananna,
president of TrackTown
USA President and U.S.
Olympic men’s head coach,
as he surveyed
the indoor track.
Lananna was instru-
mental in bringing the
indoor worlds to Portland,
and he also mounted the
successful bid to bring the
outdoor World Champion-
ships to Eugene in 2021.
This week construction
workers were putting the
¿nishing touches on the
banked 200-meter oval track
in the cavernous convention
hall. The track is ringed by
temporary stands for 7,000
spectators. Special sand for
the long and triple-jump pit
was brought in from Idaho.
“It (the track) was
constructed in a warehouse
and then it was taken apart,
in 1,400 pieces, and shipped
College Basketball
AP Photo/Anne M. Peterson
In this photo taken Monday, March 7, 2016, workers put
the inishing touches on the track at the Oregon Con-
vention Center in Portland.
over here to be put back
together,” Lananna said. “It
was like a gigantic jigsaw
puzzle.”
The nationals, set for
Friday and Saturday, will
have a very Oregon feel.
Portland’s Galen Rupp
is among the athletes who
will compete at nationals,
running in the 3,000 meters
on Friday night. Rupp has
DUCKS: Second half gets rough
Weber State edges
Portland State
Continued from 1B
against Washington on Feb. 28,
when Cook scored 26 points in the
86-73 victory.
The Huskies put a dent in their
NCAA Tournament hopes by
limping to the ¿nish, but kept a
glimmer of hope alive with a rout
over Stanford in the tournament’s
opening round.
Washington got off to fast start
against the Cardinal and kept
rolling against Oregon, hitting 10
of its ¿rst 13 shots — four of those
3s — to go up 26-14.
Oregon was ragged early,
forcing shots and passes in traf¿c,
riling coach Dana Altman with
numerous defensive breakdowns.
The Ducks settled down and
started Àying, harassing the Huskies
into dif¿cult shots, scoring in tran-
sition after turnovers and misses
during an 11-0 run that helped them
take a 39-38 halftime lead.
But after all the 3-pointers and
soaring dunks, the second half
turned into a defensive wrestling
match, with bodies hitting the Àoor
nearly every trip.
The Ducks gained a little separa-
tion midway through, when Dorsey
hit a 3 and Dwayne Benjamin
scored on a three-point play to put
Oregon up 64-54.
Associated Press
RENO, Nev. — Ryan Richardson scored 21
points and top-seeded Weber State edged No.
8 seed Portland State 78-74 in a Big Sky quar-
ter¿nal game on Thursday.
Big Sky
The Wildcats (24-8) will
face the winner of fourth-
seeded Idaho State and No.
5 seed North Dakota in a
Weber St.
semi¿nal game on Friday.
Richardson was 7 of 9
from the ¿eld, including 5
of 7 from beyond the arc,
with ¿ve rebounds and four
assists. Jeremy Senglin
scored 16 points while Joel Portland St.
Bolomboy and Zach Braxton
added 12 points apiece.
Weber State shot nearly 58
percent and was 11 of 23 on 3-point attempts.
Cameron Forte led Portland State (13-18)
with 25 points and seven rebounds. De’Sean
Parsons added 18 points.
Weber State led 46-37 at intermission, but
the Vikings chipped away to tie at 60 with 8:48
to go. It was tight from there, and Senglin’s
layup with 58 seconds left gave the Wildcats
a one-point lead. On the next possession,
Bolomboy blocked a layup attempt and Weber
State held on to advance.
78
74
Andrews brought the Huskies
back. He hit a pair of 3-pointers
and turned a steal into a pair of free
throws that cut Oregon’s lead to
71-69 with 5 minutes left.
Washington kept the Ducks
within reach from there, but never
could catch them.
“To look at this season as a
failure would be kind of dumb on
our part,” Andrews said. “So you
just take everything and learn from
it. We had an incredible season.
I said, we beat all the odds as far
as what the media thought and
what the coaches poll thought. So
I couldn’t be prouder of the guys in
this locker room.”
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Washington: David Crisp, who
made just four 3-pointers February,
had three in the ¿rst half. ...
Dejounte Murray and Malik Dime
had 13 points each.
Oregon: Boucher became the
¿rst player in Pac-12 history with
100 blocked shots and 30 3-pointers
in a season. ... The Ducks had a
17-8 edge in offensive rebounds.
WHAT’S NEXT
Washington is likely headed to
the NIT.
Oregon will face No. 15 Arizona
or Colorado in the semi¿nals Friday
night.
The top two ¿nishers in
each event at nationals will
represent the United States
at worlds.
“What we’ve tried to do
is really make this an athlete
focused meet, and we’ve
done everything we can to
create an athlete directed
event where they’ll have
a great competition, great
warmup, great crowd,”
Lananna said. “It’s been 36
months of work by a lot of
people.”
Some high-pro¿le U.S.
athletes are skipping the
indoor
championships,
including sprinters Allyson
Felix and Tyson Gay, as well
as middle-distance runner
Nick Symmonds. Because
it is an Olympic year, many
athletes prefer to focus on
the outdoor season.
already earned a spot on
the U.S. team for the Rio
Games with a ¿rst-place
¿nish last month in the
marathon trials.
Rupp is the American
record holder in the indoor
3,000 with a time of 7
minutes, 30.16 seconds.
Ashton
Eaton,
the
reigning Olympic gold
medalist in the decathlon,
plans to compete in the 60
and the long jump. Eaton,
an Oregon native who was
a standout for the Ducks,
holds the world records
for both the decathlon and
indoor heptathlon.
Fellow former Duck
Matthew Centrowitz is
among those entered in the
1,500, while Oregon alum
Laura Roesler, who won the
2014 Bowerman Award, is
entered in the women’s 800.
BEAVERS: OSU takes
lead with 7 minutes left
Continued from 1B
Oregon State, scoring 15
points in the ¿rst half.
Cal stretched the lead
to 10 early in the second
half, only to get sloppy and
allow the Beavers to rally
and keep it close.
The Beavers took the
lead with about 7 minutes
left after Bruce found
Payton in the corner for a
3-pointer, setting up a back
and forth ¿nish.
Raab had the biggest
baskets to put Cal ahead
and Mathews added a
3-pointer from the corner.
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Oregon State: Bruce
was 7 for 11 from the
Àoor, including 4 of 6
from 3-point range. ... The
Beavers made 9 of 16 from
the arc.
Cal: Jaylen Brown, the
Pac-12’s freshman of the
year, had eight points on
1-of-6 shooting.
AP Photo/John Locher
Oregon State forward Olaf Schaftenaar, right, and
California center Kameron Rooks vie for a rebound
during the irst half Thursday.
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