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Spurs match Bulls
record streak for
home wins
SAN ANTONIO (AP)
— LaMarcus Aldridge had
32 points and
12 rebounds
and the San
Antonio
Spurs
defeated the
similarly
short-handed Memphis
Grizzlies 110-104 on Friday
night to match the best home
start in league history with
their 37th in a row.
San Antonio’s streak tied
the season-opening mark
set by the Chicago Bulls in
1995-96 during their record
72-victory season. The Spurs
have won 46 consecutive
regular-season games at
home, dating to March 2015.
The Spurs won Friday
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missing the game with a
bruised right quadriceps and
Danny Green, Boris Diaw
and Patty Mills all sitting out
for rest. The Grizzlies were
without injured starters Marc
Gasol, Zach Randolph, Mike
Conley and three others.
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inning home
run seals win
East Oregonian
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Mac-Hi’s Bailey DeBord dives for a grounder in the Pioneers’ 11-0 loss to Orofi no on Friday in Mil-
ton-Freewater.
Maniacs thwart Pioneers
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Klinsmann under
pressure after loss
GUATEMALA CITY
(AP) — The United States’
path toward the 2018 World
Cup became considerably
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some puzzling lineup
choices and the American
defense
FACES self-destructed
Friday night
in a 2-0 loss
to Guatemala
in Guatemala
City.
Edgar
Castillo’s poor
Klinsmann
backpass set
up corner kicks that led to
Rafael Morales’ goal in the
seventh minute. A goal kick
by Paulo Motta went most
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the 15th and Carlos Ruiz ran
onto the ball, came in alone
on goalkeeper Tim Howard
and doubled the lead.
Seeking their eighth
straight World Cup berth,
the Americans had been
unbeaten in 21 games
against Guatemala since
January 1988 and had never
lost to Los Chapines in
World Cup qualifying but
now face a high-pressured
rematch Tuesday in
Columbus, Ohio.
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Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Orofi no’s Kolby Brink steals home on a passed
ball as Mac-Hi pitcher Justin Carlson waits for the
throw in the Pioneers’ 11-0 loss to the Maniacs on
Friday in Milton-Freewater.
— Mike Brey
Notre Dame men’s
basketball coach of the
strained calf muscle he
suffered while protest-
ing a call in his team’s
61-56 win over Wis-
consin on Friday in the
Sweet 16.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1946 — Hank Iba’s
Oklahoma A&M Aggies beat
North Carolina 43-40 for
their second straight NCAA
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scores 23 points, including
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Tournament history.
1973 — Bill Walton scores
44 points to help UCLA win
its record seventh NCAA
championship with an 87-66
triumph over Memphis State.
1992 — Former heavy-
weight champion Mike
Tyson is sentenced to six
years in prison for rape.
2006 — George Mason
stuns No. 1 seed Connecticut
86-84 in overtime to become
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the Final Four since LSU in
1986.
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HERMISTON
Hermiston blows out Pasco
Softball
Hermiston
11-15
Pasco
“No surgery
needed. But I’m
a little sore. I told
the guys I’m the
fi rst one taped on
Sunday.“
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Mac-Hi lineup in a non-league game,
and the Maniacs cruised to an 11-0 win
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Wilson struck out nine with no walks
and only gave up two hits to the Pioneers
Orofi no
(1-2), which started six underclassmen.
“He was throwing two pitches for
a strike, and when you do that you
give yourself a chance to dominate a
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Mark Michaud of Wilson’s fastball
Mac-Hi
and curve. “I wouldn’t even say
it’s us swinging at bad pitches, but
that’s always part of it when you’re
pitching well, getting guys to swing
at bad pitches. He filled it up and he challenged
See PIONEERS/2B
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East Oregonian
In the opener, the Bulldogs (6-3) used
patience and late at-bat adjustments to slowly
PASCO, Wash. — The Hermiston Bulldogs pull away.
Hermiston got its runners on by seeing
thoroughly dominated the Pasco Bulldogs in
an interstate varsity softball game in Pasco on pitches, fouling balls off and ultimately,
Friday, never allowing a runner past second working walks. From there, the visiting
base in 12 innings while scoring early and late Bulldogs continually applied pressure to the
home Bulldogs’ defense, taking extra bases
in the 11-0, 15-0 sweep.
“It was really nice to see the girls be whenever opportunities presented themselves.
On one occasion, a Hermiston runner
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how good they are.”
See HERMISTON/2B
On a cold night at Yantis
Park, the Mac-Hi Pioneers
blanked the Stayton Eagles
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Spring Break Crossover
Tournament game on Friday
night.
Mac-Hi was dominant on
offense, racking up eight hits,
six walks,
and
six
Softball
stolen bases
to
push
them to the
Stayton
11 runs.
“ W e
just wanted
to
come
through and
play
our
Mac-Hi
game and I
thought we
did a good
job consid-
ering how cold it was and i
thought the top of our lineup
was stellar today,” said
Micha Fortune was the
Pioneers’ top performer in
the batters box, reaching base
in each of her four at-bats
including three hits, one
walk, and four RBIs. Two of
those hits resulted in triples
and even came all the way
around to score on one due to
a dropped relay throw by the
second baseman.
The Pioneers led the
Eagles 7-0 after four innings,
and increased their aggres-
siveness on the base paths
to help break into the 10-run
differential rule to end the
game early.
After scoring two runs
already and with another
runner on second base, Mallory
Copeland stepped to the plate
and smashed a 2-1 pitch over
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home run to end the game.
It was Copeland’s second
hit of the day, having hit
an RBI single back up the
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PENDLETON
Bradt, Quinn deal up wins for Buckaroos
Strong pitching
highlights pair of
Pendleton wins
Buckaroos good starts on the mound
and beat Skyline (ID), 1-0, and Jerome
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Pendleton (6-2) scored its only run
against Skyline in the top of the fourth
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a lead-off double, then scored on back-
East Oregonian
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and Nick Bower.
Bradt pitched four complete and
BOISE, Idaho — The Pendleton
baseball team improved to 3-0 at the allowed four hits, struck out three
and walked three. Jack
Bucks Bags Tournament with a pair of
Peterson tossed the last
wins on Friday.
three, gave up two hits,
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Skyline didn’t have a runner past
second base the entire game.
A walk and an error by the Bucks
gave Jerome a 1-0 lead in the top of
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but Pendleton quickly got the run back
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three walks and later scored on a Devon
Roe single in the bottom of the frame.
The Bucks added two runs in the
second. Ryan Russell led off with a
single, then courtesy runner Gage
See BUCKS/2B
Baseball
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Skyline
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Men’s College Basketball
Altman: ‘I told Dillon to shoot it’
Oregon coach backs
Brooks after late-game
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By ABBEY MASTRACCO
Associated Press
AP Photo/Gregory Bull
Oregon head coach Dana Altman attends a news con-
ference before an upcoming regional fi nals basketball
game in the NCAA Tournament Friday, March 25, 2016,
in Anaheim, Calif. Oregon faces Oklahoma in an Elite
Eight matchup March 26.
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Oregon head
coach Dana Altman says that if anyone has
a problem with Dillon Brooks’ late-game
shooting choices or celebrations, they
should come to him.
Altman spoke up for his leading scorer
Friday after Brooks’ celebration of his
last-minute 3-pointer and a postgame
conversation with Duke coach Mike
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than the top-seeded Ducks advancing to
the Elite Eight.
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eight seconds of the NCAA West Region
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3-pointer with the shot clock expiring. He
made it and apparently celebrated a little
too hard for the Blue Devils’ liking, even
attempting to goad Duke guard Grayson
Allen into a celebration with him.
It became a controversy overnight, and
the Ducks are failing to understand why.
See ALTMAN/3B