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College Football
Broncos outlast Cougars
Associated Press
BOISE, Idaho — Brett
Rypien threw for 442 yards
and three touchdowns as No.
14 Boise State overcame fi ve
turnovers to hold off BYU
28-27 Thursday night.
The Broncos (7-0), who won
their 23rd straight non-con-
ference home game, needed a
stout defensive performance
and a blocked fi eld goal to
secure the win.
BYU (4-4) attempted to
kick a 45-yard game-winning
fi eld goal with 16 seconds
remaining, but the kick was
blocked. However, the ball
didn’t cross the line of scrim-
BYU
27
#14
Boise State
28
mage and Mitch Juergens
recovered for BYU, giving the
Cougars the ball at the Boise
State 42 with 8 seconds left.
The Cougars, who beat Boise
State on a last-minute Hail
Mary play last season, couldn’t
duplicate the magic on the fi nal
play of the game as the ball was
knocked down in the end zone.
Boise State fumbled four
times, with BYU recovering
three and also intercepting
Rypien twice.
Jeremy McNichols carried
the ball 30 times for 140 yards
and scored the go-ahead touch-
down on a four-yard scurry
with 10:37 left in the game. He
also caught fi ve passes for 109
yards and another touchdown.
Thomas Sperbeck also caught
fi ve passes for 109 yards and
a touchdown for Boise State.
Rypien was 25-of-39 passing.
BYU quarterback Taysom
Hill fi nished the game 21-of-42
passing for 187 yards and added
48 yards and a touchdown on
13 rushes.
BYU’s Fred Warner and Nick
Kurtz each scored on intercep-
tion returns in the second quarter.
AP Photo/Otto Kitsinger
Boise State running back Jeremy McNichols (13) runs on a long touchdown
past BYU linebacker Fred Warner (4) during the fi rst half of an NCAA college
football game in Boise, Idaho, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016.
Prep Roundup
College Football
Pendle-
ton’s Isaac
Ukachukwu
(18) runs
for the ball
followed
by Bak-
er’s Omar
Benites
(3) in the
Bucks’
game
against the
Bulldogs on
Thursday in
Pendleton.
EOU
coming
off big
win
Staff photo by
E.J. Harris
Mounties host
Montana Western
for homecoming
East Oregonian
Buckaroos draw with Bulldogs
Pendleton snaps seven-
game scoreless streak
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — The Pend-
leton Buckaroos boys soccer team
snapped a seven game scoreless and
losing streak all in the same day,
drawing with Baker 1-1 on a rainy
Thursday afternoon at Blue Moun-
tain Community College.
Pendleton had some notable
players out of the game due to injury
and all-conference defender Lincoln
Johnson was limited due to a torn
meniscus that he is recovering from.
“We have had a rough season
with injuries, but I’m proud of my
team especially the few guys playing
up from the junior varsity team, who
helped us grit out a positive result,”
Pendleton coach Jeremy Talbot said.
Pendleton (1-10-2, 0-5 CRC)
scored its only goal of the game in
the second half when senior Brian
Ramirez sent a corner kick fl oating
towards the net, where it made
contact with a Baker defender and
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LA GRANDE — For the
fi rst time since 2008, the
Eastern Oregon Mountain-
eers hold the state’s bragging
rights after beating Southern
Oregon 39-29 last week to
sweep the two-game series
against the Raiders.
EOU pulled off the upset
with a different offensive
game plan than the one that
was deployed in the season-
opener. In the fi rst game,
See EOU/2B
#21 MT-Western
#12 EOU
Bulldogs Mountaineers
(4-3, 3-3)
(4-2, 4-2)
• Saturday, 1 p.m.
• at Community Stadium,
La Grande
• Radio: NewsTalk 103.1 FM
College Football
Oregon prepares to visit Cal in matchup of struggling Ds
Teams allowing
combined 81
points a game
By JEFF FARAUDO
Associated Press
BERKELEY, Calif. —
The last time Oregon trav-
eled south to play California,
the teams wound up scoring
a combined 100 points.
Two years later, it’s
hard to imagine the score-
board getting much less
of a workout when the
defense-challenged Ducks
(2-4, 0-3 Pac-12) and Bears
(3-3, 1-2) meet Friday night.
Oregon is surrendering
41.8 points per game —
125th nationally out of 128
FBS teams — and is coming
off a 70-21 loss two weeks
ago to No. 5 Washington. Cal
ranks 123rd, allowing 40.0
points per game, and has not
held the Ducks under 43 in a
game since 2010.
Cal coach Sonny Dykes,
whose Bears lost 59-41 to
Oregon at Levi’s Stadium in
2014, can relate to the Ducks’
defensive downturn.
“Sometimes when you
can’t stop the run, it makes it
hard to play good defense,”
he said. “We’ve dealt with
Oregon
California
Ducks
Golden Bears
(2-4, 0-3)
(3-3, 1-2)
• Today, 7:30 p.m.
• at Memorial Stadium,
Berkeley, Calif.
• TV: ESPN
that at times this year. It’s
hard the way people play
offense now.”
For Oregon, which began
the season ranked No. 24 but
hasn’t won since Sept. 10
against Virginia, getting a win
over anyone would provide
an “immeasurable” boost to
the team’s confi dence, coach
Mark Helfrich said.
Helfrich wants practices
to be tougher than games,
convinced that will lead to
success.
“Now it’s a matter of,
‘Hey, when you’re going
against this guy who’s a
fi fth-year senior and you’re a
redshirt freshman, or there’s
50,000 screaming people —
whatever the situation — you
execute exactly how you
practice,’” he said. “That’s
all we need. Nothing more,
nothing less.”
Cal’s tendency is to throw
the ball, but the Bears ran for
See OREGON/2B
AP Photo/Young Kwak, File
In this Oct. 1, 2016, fi le photo, Oregon head coach Mark
Helfrich instructs his team during the fi rst half of an
NCAA college football game against Washington State
in Pullman, Wash.
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NFL investigating Giants kicker
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The
NFL is going to re-open its investigation of
New York Giants placekicker Josh Brown and
the team has pulled him from its next game
after police released journal entries and emails
in which he admitted that he
verbally and physically abused his
former wife.
The King County Sheriff’s
Offi ce in Washington released
165 pages of documents that
were turned over to authorities
by Brown’s former wife, Molly,
Brown
after his arrest in May 2015. She
had accused him of more than 20 instances of
domestic violence.
The Giants said they want to review the
new information released by county law
enforcement offi cials in Washington and reach
a decision on the kicker’s future with the club,
possibly next week.
“I’m winning. Of course
I’m happy. That’s why
I don’t buy into the
rumors. I feel like I do
my job here and I feel
like I’ve done everything
that they’ve asked.
That’s why I haven’t
bought into the rumors.“
— LaMarcus Aldridge
San Antonio Spurs forward
addressing rumors that he’s un-
happy with his role on the team
and could ask for a trade during
the season. Aldridge made the
comments during a segment of
the Jim Rome Show.
Mariners will return entire
coaching staff for 2017
SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle
Mariners will bring back their entire
coaching staff for the 2017 season after
the club won 86 games and
barely missed the postseason.
The Mariners announced the
decision Thursday. Manager
Scott Servais said Manny Acta
(third base coach), Tim Bogar
(bench coach), Casey Candaele (fi rst base
coach), Mike Hampton (bullpen coach),
Edgar Martinez (hitting coach) and Mel
Stottlemyre (pitching coach) will all
return.
There will be one addition to the
coaching staff as Scott Brosius will join the
major league club as an assistant coach.
Brosius served as the hitting coach for
Triple-A Tacoma in the Mariners system.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1956 — Billy Howton of the Green
Bay Packers catches seven passes for 257
yards and two touchdowns in a 42-17
victory over the Los Angeles Rams.
1975 — Carlton Fisk homers in
the 12th inning to give the Boston Red
Sox a 7-6 victory over the Cincinnati
Reds and force a seventh game in the
World Series.
1998 — The New York Yankees
close out their historic season with
3-0 victory to sweep the Padres to win
their record 24th World Series.
2007 — Rob Bironas kicks an
NFL-record eight fi eld goals, the last
a 29-yarder with no time left to give
Tennessee a 38-36 win over Houston.
Bironas adds two extra points to set
the NFL record for most points by a
kicker, with 26.
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