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SPORTS THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016 Sports shorts Louisville announces more sanctions LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville has announced additional self-imSosed sanctions on its men’s basketball Srogram in the wake of an escort’s allegations, reducing scholarshiSs for the 2017-19 seasons and restricting of¿ cial recruiting visits and recruiting oSSortu- nities for staff. The school announced )eb. a Sostseason ban for the Cardinals after its investigation into allegations a former staffer hired an escort and other dancers to entertain recruits and Slayers determined that violations did occur. A release on Wednesday stated Louisville will lose one scholarshiS in each of the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons with of¿ cial visits reduced by one each in 2016-17 and ’17-18. Rockies rookie makes MLB history PHOENIX (AP) — Look out Denver! Here comes Trevor Story. The 23-year-old rookie made baseball history by becominJ the ¿ rst Slayer to hit a home FACES run in each of his ¿ rst three big-league games and the Colorado Rockies beat the Arizona Diamondbacks Story 4-3 on Wednesday. “It’s just kind of surreal right now,” he said. “It’s hard to e[Slain. I can’t really Sut words to it.” Story also is the ¿ rst Slayer in baseball history to hit a home run for each of his ¿ rst four hits, according to information Srovided to the Rockies by the Elias SSorts %ureau. “It was fun to watch him,” Rockies manager Walt Weiss said, “a young kid who has dreamt of this his whole life and shows uS and is Srobably better than his dream was — that ¿ rst game, that ¿ rst series. ... It is Tuite a story — Sun intended.” “No pressure, no diamonds. … I’m not trying to let any baggage hold me down from the past, but I do have a massive chip on my shoulder.“ — Robert Griffi n III Recently signed Cleve- land Browns quarterback on his midset as he pre- pares for the next chap- ter in his NFL career. Griffi n, 26, had numer- ous issues during his stint in Washington including a knee injury and tiffs with coaches that relagt- ed him to the bench for the 2015 season. THIS DATE IN SPORTS 1956 — Joe Graboski scores 29 Soints and Paul Arizin 26 as the PhiladelShia Warriors beat the Fort Wayne Pistons 99-88 to win the N%A chamSionshiS in ¿ ve games. 2010 — Don Nelson sets the N%A career record for victories by a coach in the Golden State Warriors’ 116-107 win over the Minne- sota Timberwolves. Nelson with 1,333 wins, surSasses Lenny Wilkens to move atoS the list. Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS Pro Basketball Trail %lazers clinch Slayoff berth Aminu, McCollum lead Portland over Oklahoma City By NICK DASCHEL Associated Press PORTLAND — Al-Farouq Aminu scored 27 Soints, C.J. McCollum had 26 and the Portland Trail %lazers clinched a Slayoff berth with a 120-115 win over the short-handed Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday night. Allen Crabbe hit four 3-Sointers and scored 16 Soints for Portland as six %lazers scored in double ¿ gures. Portland (43-37) won for the ¿ fth time in six games and became the ¿ rst team in N%A history to earn a Slayoff berth while returning a roster that had two or fewer Slayers NBA Oklahoma City Portland 115 120 with 1,000 or more minutes from the Srevious season (Damian Lillard, Chris Kaman). Enes Kanter had a career-high 33 Soints and 20 rebounds for the Thunder, and Dion Waiters had 25 Soints. Oklahoma City, which clinched the West’s No. 3 seed with Tues- day’s win at Denver, rested four starters, including All-Stars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook. Portland scored a season high for a ¿ rst half in taking a 72-59 halftime lead, making 25 of 42 shots. See BLAZERS/2B AP Photo/Craig Mitchelldyer Portland Trail Blazers guard C.J. McCollum shoots over Oklahoma City Thunder guard Dion Waiters during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, April 6, 2016. Port- land won 120-115. PENDLETON Timberwolves split with Chukars %lue Mountain Sicks uS walk-off win in second game of doubleheader By ERIC SINGER East Oregonian With the game deadlocked at 9-9 in the bottom of the ninth inning, %lue Mountain’s Chase Labbe steSSed to the Slate looking to be the team’s hero. The bases were loaded with two outs and Labbe stared down four- Baseball straight Sitches outside of the strike zone from Treasure Valley Treasure Valley Sitcher %randen Cutsforth to earn the walk-off walk to hand the Timberwolves a Blue Mtn 10-9 win in Game 2 of Wednesday’s doubleheader. “That was a great win,” Timberwolves coach %rad %aker said. “We had the lead and then we blew it but to come back and regain the lead is always something sSecial and it says a lot about this team.” Labbe went 1-3 with two runs scored and the walk in the game, with his lone hit coming on a crucial R%I single in the eighth inning to tie the game at 9-9. %aker said he was con¿ dent in Labbe steSSing to the Slate in the game-winning situation. “He’s always a Sretty Satient hitter,” %aker said. “Chase leads the team in walks so I knew he wouldn’t be swinging at bad Sitches so I de¿ nitely had trust in him so he was de¿ nitely a good one to have uS there.” The game had a heavy dose of offense to start, as both teams scored a combined 12 runs in the ¿ rst two innings with the Timberwolves (8-12, 2-4 NWAC East) holding a 7- lead. %ut %lue Mountain found some stability on the mound in the third inning as Nathan Pena came on in relief and allowed no runs 9-9 1-10 Staff photo by E.J. Harris BMCC’s Ben Ross dives back to fi rst base as Treasure Valley fi rst baseman Jerrod Seamons waits for the ball in the Timbers’ game against the Chukars on Wednesday in Pendleton. Staff photo by E.J. Harris BMCC’s Brock Breshears throws from the mound in the Timbers’ game against Treasure Valley on Wednesday in Pendleton. through his ¿ rst four innings on the mound. %lue Mountain added a run in the bottom of the sixth inning when SSencer Cordeiro led off the inning with a double and then came around to score two batters later on a Sassed ball to give %lue Mountain an 8- lead. %ut things started to unravel for the Timberwolves in the seventh inning when the Chukars offense started to get to Pena. Treasure Valley (14-13, 2-4) scored one run in the seventh to cut the lead to 8-6, and then scored three runs on three hits in the eighth inning to jumS in front with a 9-8 lead. Pena ¿ nished the game allowing four runs on seven hits with two strikeouts and one walk over his 5 2-3 innings of relief for %lue Moun- tain. However, the Timberwolves battled right back in the bottom half of the eighth inning with the run-scoring single by Labbe scored Cordeiro. And after Timberwolves Sitcher Trevor Oldham keSt the Chukars off the scoreboard in the toS of the ninth inning, the bats came through with two hits and two walks in the bottom of the ninth to earn the victory. The win ended a four-game losing streak for %lue Mountain and %aker said he hoSes it can act as a little Sick-me-uS as the Timber- wolves move forwarding towards the stretch of the season. “It’s huge when you get in those ruts Sractices aren’t as fun, guys heads are hanging and guys take things a little too serious so now we might see some smiles at Sractice and good to have some Sositive energy around,” %aker said. Cordeiro had a big day at the Slate, going 4-5 with two runs scored and two R%I, and Oldham went a combined 3-7 with two runs and two R%I over the two games to Sace the Timberwolves’ offense. Game 1 of the doubleheader did not go in %lue Mountain’s favor, as the Timberwolves fell 9-1 as Treasure Valley starting Sitcher Sam Wong held the T-Wolves to just three hits and one run over his 7.2 See T-WOLVES/2B Prep Roundup Greb Saces %uckaroos to win at Indian Creek Pendleton golf has big day in Hood River East Oregonian HOOD RIVER — For the second time this week Pendleton’s Haley Greb got the better of The Dalles’ Illiana Telles as the Sair ¿ nished 1-2 atoS the leaderboard at a golf match in Hood River on Wednesday. Greb had beaten Telles for medalist honors by seven strokes at Monday’s round in Pendleton, but had a much closer margin of victory at Indian Creek Golf Course. Greb shot a 76 to lead the team-chamSion %uckaroos, and Telles was right behind her with a 77. In what was essentially a district Sreview, Pendleton turned in the lowest team score with a 367 while Hermiston was in second with a 396. Hood River and The Dalles carded scores in the high 400’s. Pendleton coach Terry Prouse said it was good for her Slayers to get a Sreview of the course, which had several tricky holes with ravines, water hazards or elevated tee boxes that increase the level of dif¿ culty. “It’s good to Slay it so they know what to exSect at districts,” she said. “Now they’ve seen it and they know what to do. “It was a good day. The kids Slayed good. They didn’t think they Slayed good, but they did.” Shelby Greb was third with an 80. Next uS for the %ucks is a round at Awbry Glen Golf Course in %end on Tuesday. ——— Team Scores Pendleton 367 Hermiston 396 The Dalles 475 Hood River 487 Individual medalists 1, Haley Greb, PHS 76 2, Illiana Telles, The Dalles 77 3, Shelby Greb, PHS 80 Team Pendleton (367) — Haley Greb 76, Shelby Greb 80, McKenna Pratt 100, Megan George 111, Rylee Harris 125. PENDLETON 326 — At Hood River, the Pendleton boys golfers were the class of the course on Wednesday at Indian Creek Golf Course as every Slayer came in under 90 for the team title with a score of 326. Reilly Hegarty Saced the %uck- aroos with a 78 that was good for second Slace overall. The Dalles’ Tyler Vasser won with a 77. Rounding out Pendleton’s score were Nathan Som (82), Sam Kung (83), %rayden Pulver (83) and Jared Geier (88). “It was just a Serfect day,” said Pendleton coach Nels Nelson. “It was a good exSerience for (the Slayers) because it’s a little bit different conditions as far as greens and sloSe. The greens were excellent, but there’s a lot of break to them, they were Sretty ¿ rm and fast.” Pendleton’s next round will be on Monday at %end Country Club. See PREPS/2B
