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SPORTS 78(6'$<$35,/ 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS Sports shorts Men’s College Basketball T-Wolves softball snaps losing streak Villanova wins national title MOSES LAKE — The Blue Mountain Timber- wolves softball team split a doubleheader with the Big Bend Vikings on Saturday, taking the ¿UVWJDPHDQGWKHQ ORVLQJWKHVHFRQGJDPH The Timberwolves’ win in game one snapped a JDPHORVLQJVWUHDNGDWLQJ EDFNWRDZLQRYHU (GPRQGVRQ)HE Blue Mountain pushed DFURVVVHYHQUXQVLQWKH¿UVW inning against the Vikings LQ*DPHEHKLQGDQ5%, single from Addy Daubert DQGDWZR5%,GRXEOHIURP 6DUDK%RQQHU7KH7LPEHU wolves added two runs in the third inning and then one run apiece in the fourth and sixth LQQLQJVWRFUHDWHWKHFXVKLRQ ,Q*DPH%OXH0RXQ WDLQZDVXSDIWHUVFRULQJ seven runs in the fourth inning but couldn’t hold off %LJ%HQGZKLFKVFRUHG UXQVRIIKLWV Jenkins’ buzzer- beater takes down North Carolina By EDDIE PELLS Associated Press HOUSTON — One good VKRWGHVHUYHGDQRWKHU Kris Jenkins of Villanova ZDVQ¶WDERXWWREHRXWGRQH Jenkins overcame the shock of watching North Carolina’s 0DUFXV 3DLJH KLW D GRXEOH clutch 3 to tie it by spotting up behind the right side of the arc and draining a 3 of his own at National Championship Villanova North Carolina 77 74 Villanova players cel- ebrate after the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball champion- ship game against North Caro- lina, Mon- day, April 4, 2016, in Houston. Villanova won 77-74. the buzzer to lift Villanova to a YLFWRU\DQGWKHQDWLRQDO FKDPSLRQVKLS0RQGD\QLJKW What a shot — and what a JDPH The second-seeded Wildcats KDGDVL[SRLQWOHDGZLWK OHIWEXWZDWFKHGLWVORZO\ WULFNOH DZD\ ,W GLVDSSHDUHG ZKHQ3DLJHMXPSHG²DQGZLWK See TITLE/2B AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato Prep Roundup Messi back in hot water over taxes 0$'5,'$3² Spanish tax authorities said Monday they are investigating allegations of tax irregularities involving soccer player Lionel Messi after docu- FACES ments released by an interna- tional probe of offshore DFFRXQWV Messi’s family released a statement Messi denying wrong- doing and threatened to sue media outlets that released the information linking the Argentine player to accounts LQ3DQDPD%DUFHORQDVDLG it was supporting Messi and KLVIDPLO\ The soccer star was among those named in reports by international media who received a vast trove of data and documents leaked IURP3DQDPDQLDQODZ¿UP Mossack Fonseca, which specializes in creating offshore accounts which allegedly can EHXVHGWRDYRLGWD[ Messi and his father will go to trial in late May over three previous charges of tax fraud and potentially face nearly two years in prison if IRXQGJXLOW\ “Those that know me, know that I have always demanded excellence from myself. I have let myself and others down. I take full responsibility for my actions.“ — Abby Wambach Retired U.S. women’s soccer star, who was arrested in Multnomah County over the week- end for Driving Under the Infl uence of Intoxi- cants (DUII) Alcohol. Staff photo by E.J. Harris Pendleton junior Haley Greb chips her ball out of a bunker on the 12th hole on Monday at Wildhorse Resort & Casino golf course in Mission. Greb, Som lead Bucks to wins Hermis- ton junior Anders Lind watches his putt on the 18th green at the Wild- horse Resort & Casino on Mon- day in Mission. Staff photo by E.J. 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