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Los Angeles
Clippers
forward
Blake Griffi n
drives to
the basket
against
Portland
Trail Blazers
forward
Maurice
Harkless
and forward
Mason
Plumlee
during an
NBA basket-
ball game in
Portland on
Thursday.
NBA
LA clips Trail Blazers
Griffi n nets
double-double
to lead Clippers
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
PORTLAND — Blake
Griffi n had 27 points and
13 rebounds and the Los
Angeles Clippers opened the
AP Photo/
Steve Dykes
Los Angeles
Portland
114
106
season Thursday night with
a 114-106 victory over the
Portland Trail Blazers.
It was a contentious game
that had fans booing the offi -
cials after two fl agrant fouls
on Portland players in the
fourth quarter. Chris Paul hit
PENDLETON
Deven
Page (44),
of Pendle-
ton, jumps
high in an
attempt
to escape
Red-
mond’s
Colten
Morten-
son (22)
and Mario
Nonato
(65) at the
Round-Up
grounds in
a football
game on
Friday,
Sept. 30.
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
It takes a special kind of person
to play the game of football.
But it takes an extraordinary
person to play such a physical
sport while the ligaments holding
your collarbone together with your
shoulder are completely torn apart.
Pendleton senior running back
Deven Page is that type of person.
The 5-9, 180-pound Page
suffered a Grade 3 Acromioclavic-
ular (AC) joint separation — the
most severe separation — in the
fourth quarter of Pendleton’s game
against Redmond on Sept. 30, on a
play that the Buckaroos ran many
times this season.
“It was just a run off left tackle,”
Pendleton coach Erik Davis said,
“and he ran it for about six or seven
yards before he got tackled.”
Page got sandwiched by a pair of
Redmond defenders and taken to the
ground — where he landed directly
on his right shoulder. Immediately
after impact, Page knew something
was not right.
“I felt my shoulder pop,” he said,
“and oh man it hurt.”
“It didn’t look like much of a
hit,” Davis added, “but to see a kid
like Deven come staggering off the
fi eld like he did, you knew it was
bad.”
Two days later Page visited Dr.
Bradley Adams at Eastern Oregon
Staff photo by
Kathy Aney
Fall
Classic
returns to
Wrigley
Cubs host fi rst
World Series
game in 71 years
By JAY COHEN
Associated Press
CHICAGO — Chicago
Cubs slugger Kyle Schwarber
was followed by cameras and
cellphones. A couple of pitchers
from the Cleveland Indians
played hacky sack in the
outfi eld. The giant videoboard
in left fi eld fl ashed “World
Series.”
So, no, nothing like the last
Fall Classic at Wrigley Field.
The World Series returns
to one of baseball’s iconic
ballparks on Friday when the
Cubs and Indians face off in
Game 3 after splitting the fi rst
two nights in chilly Cleveland.
It’s the fi rst World Series
See SERIES/2B
Game 3
Cleveland
Chicago
Indians
Cubs
Series tied 1-1
• Today, 5 p.m.
• at Wrigley Field, Chicago
• TV: FOX
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Prep Volleyball
College Football
Helix, Echo
total six on
all-league list
No. 11 EOU plays at
College of Idaho
Mountaineers out for revenge against Yotes
East Oregonian
East Oregonian
Helix and Echo each landed
one player on the Old Oregon
League volleyball all-league fi rst
team when it was announced at
the district tournament this past
weekend.
Helix junior middle and right-
side Sadie Wilson represented
the Grizzlies while senior outside
hitter/setter Hannah McCarty was
chosen from the Echo Cougars.
In all, three Grizzlies and
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World Series
Page plays through the pain
PHS senior guts
out shoulder injury
to finish season
a 3-pointer that gave the Clip-
pers a 102-90 lead with 4:07
left and the crowd headed for
the exits.
Damian Lillard’s layup got
the Blazers within 107-102
with 35.9 seconds left but the
rally fell short.
It was the season opener
for the Clippers, the last team
in the Western Conference
to start the season. Portland
opened at home on Tuesday
LA GRANDE — The No. 11
Eastern Oregon football team
continues its pursuit of an NAIA
playoff berth with a road trip to
Caldwell, Idaho this week to play
College of Idaho.
It’s a rematch from Week 3
when the Yotes rolled into La
Grande and knocked of a Moun-
taineers team that was coming off
back-to-back wins over ranked
opponents.
it’ll make me think
Eastern Oregon
a couple times
coach Tim Camp
about just what
was left with a little
#11 EOU
COI
we need to do and
room to second
Yotes
how we need to go
guess
himself Mountaineers
(5-2, 5-2)
(3-5, 2-5)
about doing it.”
following
that
Other than its
20-7 loss, as the • Saturday, Noon
stalled
drives,
Mountaineers went • at Simplot Stadium,
Idaho
EOU
(5-2,
5-2
1-of-6 on fourth • Caldwell,
Radio: NewsTalk 103.1 FM
Frontier)
was
down and turned
able to come out
the ball over on
downs in the red zone three times. on top of College of Idaho (3-5,
“If anybody’s going to do 2-5) in total yards, yards per play,
anything different it will be me,” fi rst downs, penalties and time of
Camp said in an interview with possession. Both teams had two
EOUsports.com. “I was very interceptions.
aggressive going for it on fourth
“The one thing I’d like to
down, which I don’t know if I’ll differently is be on the winning
change that … but at the same time side at the end of the game, but we
are who we are,” Camp said.
The Mounties are again coming
off back-to-back wins over ranked
opponents after beating then No.
21 Montana Western 21-13 last
week on homecoming. It followed
a 39-29 win over then No. 8
Southern Oregon and gave EOU
its fi rst three-game winning streak
since 2011.
The Yotes followed their win
over EOU with four-straight
losses, but will be looking to ride
a wave of emotion coming off a
thrilling 44-41 win over then No.
17 Southern Oregon last Saturday.
“Each week I think they get
bigger and better, so we’re excited
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Schwarber won’t start Game 3
CHICAGO (AP) — Cubs star Kyle
Schwarber won’t be in the starting lineup for
the three World Series games this weekend after
he was denied medical clearance to play the
outfi eld following his return from knee surgery.
Schwarber tore a pair of knee
ligaments on April 7 and returned
in Tuesday’s Series opener.
He was 3 for 7 with a double,
two RBIs and two walks as the
designated hitter in the fi rst two
games at Cleveland, but with the
shift to Wrigley Field, there will be
Schwarber
no DH.
Chicago president of baseball operations
Theo Epstein says it’s too soon after the injury
for Schwarber’s knee to be fully tested, espe-
cially with quick moves required in the outfi eld.
Schwarber will be used as a pinch hitter. He
says it’s “not disappointing at all” and “it was a
long shot at the most.”
“It’s not that I read it — it’s
just in the air. You know it’s
just in the atmosphere and
people tell you and you
hear about it. You guys ask
me questions about it all the
time, so obviously I know,
but I’m not losing sleep on it.
It’s just wood on that fi re.“
— Kevin Durant
Golden State Warriors forward on
using criticisms to fuel himself. Durant
made the comments after an extra solo
shooting session on Thursday during
which he yelled phrases like ‘They say I
ain’t hungry?’ before each shot.
Cano, Seager among fi nalists
for Gold Glove awards
SEATTLE — Second baseman Robinson
Cano and third baseman Kyle Seager two of
54 players that were selected as
fi nalists for the annual Rawlings
Gold Glove awards — recog-
nizing the best defensive players
in baseball.
The fi nalists were announced
on Thursday.
At second base, Cano is up
against Detroit’s Ian Kinsler and Boston’s
Dustin Pedroia, while Seager is up against
Baltimore’s Manny Machado and Texas’
Adrian Beltre.
Cano, who led all AL second basemen
with a .996 fi elding percentage, is a two-time
Gold Glove winner, with both of his being
earned during his tenure with the Yankees in
2010 and 2012. Seager won the Gold Glove
at third base in 2014.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
2007 — The Boston Red
Sox win their second title
in four years with a 4-3 win
over the Colorado Rockies in
Game 4. Jon Lester pitches
shutout ball into the sixth
inning and Jonathan Papelbon
closes with his third save of
the Series.
2012 — Marco Scutaro
singles home the tiebreaking
run in the 10th inning, and
the San Francisco Giants
beat the Detroit Tigers 4-3 to
complete a four-game sweep
and win their second World
Series title in three years.
Pablo Sandoval, who hit
three homers in Game 1, is
selected Series MVP.
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