SPORTS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2016
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In this fi le
photo, Haley
Greb of
Pendleton
competes
in the
85th Bob
Norquist Or-
egon Junior
Amateur
Champion-
ships held
June 22-26,
2015 at Ea-
gle Crest Re-
sort - Ridge
Course in
Redmond.
PENDLETON
Greb signs with Rams
Pendleton senior gets full
offer from Colorado State
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
Haley Greb determined early in life that she
wanted to play golf in college, and this past
August the Pendleton senior took the next big
step toward realizing that dream when she
PENDLETON
signed a national letter of intent to join the
Colorado State University women’s program
next fall.
Greb, who tied for second at the OSAA 5A
state championships in May and then won the
86th Bob Norquist Oregon Junior Amateur
in July, was offered the largest scholarship
available by Rams coach Annie Young.
“I got a full ride to go, I can’t wait for that,”
Greb said after Pendleton’s volleyball win
on senior night on Tuesday. “It’ll be super
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Photo courtesy of
Oregon Golf Associ-
ation/File
College Football
Chamberlin
to enter SOU
Hall of Fame
OSU’s Collins excels in new role
Former QBs
making impact
at other positions
for Pac-12 teams
Pendleton graduate
still holds scoring
records for Raiders
women’s basketball
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
East Oregonian
ASHLAND — Pendleton High
School alumnae Nicole Whitney
Chamberlin is one of six new
inductees into the Southern Oregon
University sports Hall of Fame.
Chamberlin, who graduated from
Pendleton in 1990, played basketball
at SOU for just two seasons from
1992-94 and became one of the
best scorers in program history with
1,251 points in those two seasons.
She set SOU single-season records
in 1992-93 with 580 total points and
21.5 per game before breaking those
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Photo courtesy of SOU Sports Information
This undated photo shows Pendle-
ton High graduate Nicole Whitney
Chamberlin in a basketball game
for Southern Oregon University.
AP Photo/Timothy J. Gonzalez, File
In this Sept. 24, 2016, fi le photo, Oregon State’s Seth Collins, left, gets behind Boise State’s Brandon
Arnold, right, to make a catch in the second half of an NCAA college football game in Corvallis.
CORVALLIS — The
change in position for Oregon
State quarterback Seth
Collins seemed inevitable at
the end of last season, when
he was used in several roles
in the fi nale against Oregon.
The writing was on the
wall: Utah State transfer
Darell Garretson would be
eligible to play this season,
and it looked like that was
where the Beavers were
leaning at quarterback.
Collins decided to leave
Oregon State and go some-
where where he could play at
quarterback — but he never
actually left school.
Instead, he became a
receiver.
Collins has embraced his
new role, joining a handful
of prospective QBs across
the Pac-12 who have traded
positions. These shifts are
usually out of necessity
if they want playing time
because another quarterback
in the so-called “Conference
of Quarterbacks” is estab-
lished as the starter.
In Collins’ case, he was
named Oregon State’s starter
at the beginning of last
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Prep Football
Mustangs poised to extend league winning streak at Culver
Heppner can clinch
playoff spot with
win over Culver
East Oregonian
HEPPNER
—
The
Heppner Mustangs weren’t
sure what to expect out of
themselves for the 2016
season.
The team had to replace
numerous
starters
and
all-state players from last
year’s state championship
squad, with some of the
replacements being fi rst-year
varsity players that coach
Greg Grant wasn’t sure how
long it would take those kids
to acclimate.
After a few eye-openers to
start the season, the Mustangs
appear to have slid onto the
right track now.
Following last week’s
52-20 win over Pilot Rock,
Heppner (5-1, 2-0 CBC)
remains in a two-way tie
atop the CBC standings with
Stanfi eld, but a win at Culver
on Friday would offi cially
clinch the Mustangs post-
season berth for the 20th
straight season.
That streak would tie
Heppner with Tigard for the
second-longest active streak
across all classifi cations,
trailing only a Jesuit team that
will likely extend its streak to
23 this season. Standing in
the Mustang’s way is a strug-
gling Culver (1-4, 0-1) team
that has allowed 60 points in
THURSDAY
MITCHELL/SPRAY/
WHEELER (2-3, 0-3) at
Ione (0-6, 0-3), 7 p.m. —
There are only three games
in the season left for the Ione
Cardinals, and the team is
running out of time to get win
No. 1. Thursday night may
be Ione’s best chance when
it hosts a Mitchell/Spray/
Wheeler team in the midst of
a three game losing streak.
Photo courtesy of John L. Braese/Malheur Enterprise
Irrigon’s Omar Vera (3) is tackled by a Vale’s Chikote
Buckway (33) while Cade Perry (5) looks on during
their football game on Oct. 7, 2016 in Vale.
back-to-back games, most
recently a 60-20 loss to Grant
Union last week.
Here’s a look at all this
weekend’s games from the
4A-1A levels:
FRIDAY
LA GRANDE (2-4, 1-1)
at MAC-HI (2-3, 0-1), 7
p.m. — The Pioneers came
back from their bye week last
week and opened up league
play with a disappointing
53-0 loss to Ontario last
week. Mac-Hi had less than
200 yards of offense in the
game and were not at full
strength due to academic
issues forcing players out of
the game.
Mac-Hi’s road does not
get any easier this week
against a La Grande team
that beat Baker last week and
has scored 110 points in its
last two games.
VALE (3-3, 2-0) at
UMATILLA (5-1, 1-1),
7 p.m. — Last week, Vale
showed it is not the power
team that it was last season
in a 34-28 overtime win over
Irrigon while Umatilla shut
out Riverside 34-0.
The game sets up to be
a key one for Umatilla. The
Vikings are currently in a
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Sports shorts
Rousey to headline UFC 207
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Ronda Rousey will
return to the UFC on Dec. 30 in Las Vegas,
fi ghting Amanda Nunes for the bantamweight
title.
UFC President Dana White confi rmed
Wednesday that Rousey will be
in the main event of UFC 207 at
T-Mobile Arena.
Rousey (12-1) hasn’t fought
since November 2015, when Holly
Holm stunned the previously
unbeaten champion with a second-
Rousey
round knockout at UFC 193 in
Melbourne, Australia.
While Rousey apparently kept training
after her loss, she took an extended break from
competition, working as a model and appearing
in a handful of fi lms as an actor. Rousey was
arguably the UFC’s biggest star when she
began her break, and she acknowledged having
suicidal thoughts after her loss.
“People are what’s
important. And an
opportunity to help
someone is more
important than anything
that I could have possibly
done on a baseball
diamond that day.“
— Tim Tebow
New York Mets minor leaguer
after an autograph seeker suffered
a seizure following Tebow’s debut
in the Arizona Fall League on
Wednesday. The man regained
consciousness as Tebow placed a
hand on him in prayer.
Matthews scores four goals in
historic debut for Maple Leafs
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Auston Matthews
needed 40 minutes to get into the NHL record book.
In the highest-scoring debut in modern NHL
history, Matthews scored four goals for the Toronto
Maple Leafs, but Kyle Turris scored
37 seconds into overtime to give
the Ottawa Senators to a 5-4 victory
Wednesday night.
Matthews got his fourth with 3
seconds left in the second period,
bringing his mother to tears in the stands.
The 19-year-old from Scottsdale,
Matthews
Arizona, is the 12th fi rst overall pick
to score in his NHL debut, however he’s the fi rst
player in NHL history to do it four times.
Matthews scored his fi rst three goal on his
fi rst three shots, and put Toronto ahead 3-2 with a
one-timer from inside the right circle on a feed from
Morgan Rielly 1:25 into the second period, and fans
showered the ice with hats.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1903 — The Boston
Pilgrims win the fi rst World
Series, 5 games to 3, with a
3-0 victory over the Pitts-
burgh Pirates.
1985 — Phil Simms
of the New York Giants
passes for 513 yards with
an NFL-record 62 pass
attempts in a 35-30 loss
to the Cincinnati Bengals.
Simms completes 40 passes
with 29 for fi rst downs, also
an NFL record.
1998 — For the fi rst time
in NBA history, the league
cancels regular season
games after labor talks
break off.
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