SPORTS
WEEKEND, NOVEMBER 12-13, 2016
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STANFIELD
Tigers get back to semifi nals
Stan-
fi eld’s
Dylan
Grogan
leans
over
the
goal
line
for a
touch-
down
in the
Tigers’
13-0
win
against
San-
tiam
on Fri-
day in
Stan-
fi eld.
College Volleyball
EOU heads
to CCC title
match
Mountaineers take
care of College of
Idaho in semifi nals
East Oregonian
Staff photo
by E.J.
Harris
LA GRANDE — The Eastern
Oregon Mountaineers are headed to
the Cascade Collegiate Conference
championship match after the team
defeated College of Idaho 3-1 in the
semifi nals on Friday night.
Eastern Oregon (28-2, 19-1) won
the match with
scores of 26-24,
25-20,
22-25,
Coll. of Idaho and 25-16. The
Mountaineers
out-performed
the Coyotes in
nearly
every
aspect
Friday
night, tallying a
EOU
.242 team hitting
percentage,
compared to the
Coyotes’ meager .131, and also
racking up 62 kills and 81 digs in the
match.
Leading the charge for Eastern
Oregon was Makayla Lindburg with
team-highs in both kills (16) and
digs (18), while Kasaundra Tuma,
Madisen Garlie and Amanda Miller
each added 11 kills for the Mountain-
eers.
Also leading the team was Confer-
ence Player of the Year Rachelle
Chamberlain with a match-high 50
assists for the Mountaineers, and
Garlie had a team-best seven blocks
as well.
Eastern Oregon will be back
on the court this afternoon to play
No. 2 seed Corban (22-5, 17-3) for
the CCC championship at 3 p.m. at
Quinn Coliseum. EOU and Corban
met twice during the regular season
with the Mountaineers winning both
matches by a combined 6-0 score.
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3
Stanfield’s defense comes up big in shutout win over Santiam
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
STANFIELD — No team in
Class 2A football has found the
end zone as often as the No. 2
Stanfi eld Tigers this season, and
No. 10 Santiam wasn’t about to
try and match them in a shootout
when the teams met in the state
quarterfi nals on Friday night at
Horyna Athletic Complex.
The game started under a thick
fog that turned the opposite side-
lines into a menagerie of ghostly
fi gures, and for most of the fi rst
half Stanfi eld’s offense was
nowhere to be seen as Santiam
dominated time of possession.
But the Wolverines were never
able to break an opportunistic
2A Quarterfi nals
#10 Santiam
#2 Stanfi eld
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13
Tigers defense that came up with
fi ve sacks and a pair of turnovers,
and Stanfi eld made the most of its
limited chances on offense for a
13-0 win.
Dylan Grogan and Makiah
Blankenship scored rushing
touchdowns, and Thyler Monkus
and Brody Woods forced turn-
overs to help Stanfi eld reach the
state semifi nals for the second
straight season.
See STANFIELD/2B
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Stanfi eld’s Justin Keeney breaks the tackle from Santiam’s
Colton Craigmyle in the Tigers’ 13-0 win against the Wolver-
ines on Friday in Stanfi eld.
Men’s College Basketball
NBA
Beavers coast to
win in opener
Portland slips past Sacramento in OT
Tinkle’s double-double paces
Oregon State to big victory
By KYLE ODEGARD
Associated Press
CORVALLIS — Tres Tinkle missed the fi nal
fi ve games of last season with a foot injury,
including Oregon State’s loss in the NCAA Tour-
nament.
He was cleared for basketball
activities just three weeks ago,
and after playing on Friday
Prarie View
night, Tinkle said his foot felt
fi ne.
“Regardless of my foot or
anything like that, I’m going to
be sore no matter what. I’ll just
Oregon State get treatment, stretch and I’ll
be good to go,” said Tinkle, the
team’s leading returning scorer
and rebounder from 2015-16.
Tinkle had 20 points and
15 rebounds and Drew Eubanks added 14 points,
eight rebounds and tied a school record with seven
blocks in the season opener Friday night as Oregon
58
78
See BEAVERS/3B
Lillard, McCollum
combine for 67 points
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
PORTLAND — Damian Lillard
thinks his Portland Trail Blazers
lack that “killer instinct” to put away
games when they should.
Lillard had 36 points and CJ
McCollum scored 31 to lead Portland
past the Sacramento Kings 122-120
in overtime Friday night.
The victory could have come
easier, though. The Blazers were up
106-101 with 1:19 to go in regulation,
yet nearly let this one slip away.
“It comes down to just manning
up,” Lillard said.
Still, he’ll take the win after the
teams traded the lead over the fi nal 2
1/2 minutes in the extra period.
Meyers Leonard made two free
throws to give Portland a 121-120
edge with 32 seconds remaining, and
Rudy Gay missed a jumper at the
other end.
Allen Crabbe hit one of two foul
shots for the Trail Blazers with 14.3
Sacramento
Portland
120
122
seconds left, giving the Kings another
opportunity. DeMarcus Cousins
missed a jumper and Gay was off
target on a 16-foot fadeaway at the
buzzer, sealing Portland’s seventh
straight victory over Sacramento.
“It’s just having that killer instinct
and being able to lock in for longer
spans of time,” Lillard said about
what the Blazers are missing 10
games into the season.
Portland coach Terry Stotts
agreed: “I think we’ve played well
in spots. Our goal is to play well for
longer periods.”
Cousins led Sacramento with 33
points. Gay had 29 points and 14
rebounds for the Kings, who were
coming off a 101-91 loss to the Los
Angeles Lakers the night before.
McCollum’s 3-pointer with 1:23
left in overtime gave Portland a
117-115 lead before Gay’s three-point
play put Sacramento back ahead.
See BLAZERS:/2B
AP Photo/Craig Mitchelldyer
Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard
shoots over Sacramento Kings center De-
Marcus Cousins during the second half of
Friday’s game in Portland.
Sports shorts
Kam Chancellor expected to play
SEATTLE (AP) — Strong safety Kam
Chancellor is expected to return after missing
the previous four games with a groin injury.
The timing couldn’t be better for Seattle
with the problems presented by New England
tight ends Rob Gronkowski and
Martellus Bennett.
Chancellor was injured just
before Seattle’s Oct. 16 win
over Atlanta and was slow in
recovering.
Kelcie McCray played well in
Chancellor’s absence, as the fi fth-
Chancellor
year player registered 30 tackles
during the span and played an
astounding 108 total plays in Seattle’s 6-6 tie
with Arizona. However, the 6-3, 225-pound
Chancellor brings a mix of physicality and
athleticism that’s diffi cult to replace.
The Seahawks kick-off against New
England on Sunday at 5:30 p.m. on NBC.
Bartolo Colon agrees to 1-year
deal with Atlanta Braves
“I’ll be remembered as
the biggest bust in NBA
history, but I can’t do
nothing about that.“
— Greg Oden
The former No. 1 overall draft
pick speaking to ESPN on Friday,
and said he would love to con-
tinue playing basketball, but he
is not healthy enough to do so.
Oden, 28, played just 82 games
in fi ve seasons with Portland as
knee injuries cut short his career.
ATLANTA (AP) — A person familiar with
the situation says the Atlanta Braves have
added another 40-year-old to their starting
rotation, agreeing to terms with Bartolo Colon.
The person spoke on condition
of anonymity to The Associated
Press because no announcement
is expected from the Braves until
next week on the reported $12.5
million, one-year deal with the
43-year-old Colon.
The agreement is subject to
Colon
a physical and comes one day
after the Braves announced an
agreement with 42-year-old R.A. Dickey.
Colon went 15-8 with a 3.43 ERA for the
New York Mets in 2016. He was picked for
the All-Star Game and became the oldest
player in history to hit his fi rst career homer
when he went deep at San Diego on May 7.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1892 — William “Pudge”
Heffelfi nger becomes the fi rst
pro football player by getting
$500 to play for the Allegheny
Athletic Association against
the Pittsburgh Athletic Club.
Heffelfi nger doesn’t disap-
point his bosses as he returns
a fumble for a touchdown to
give Allegheny a 4-0 victory.
2010 — Minnesota’s
Kevin Love grabs a fran-
chise-record 31 rebounds
and scores 31 points, the
NBA’s fi rst 30-30 game in
28 years. Moses Malone
was the last player to have a
30-30 game with 32 points
and 38 rebounds for Houston
against Seattle in 1982.
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