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SPORTS
East Oregonian
Saturday, November 19, 2016
Prep Volleyball
NBA
Umatilla setter Flores
honored by EOL
Trail Blazers lose third straight
East Oregonian
Conference champion Vale
tore through an undefeated
Eastern Oregon League season,
but was stopped short of a clean
sweep of the individual awards
when the All-EOL teams were
released this week.
The EOL’s coaches voted
Vale senior Drew Dobney
Player of the Year, and the
Vikings’ Shannon Steele as
Coach of the Year, but the
league’s Setter Award was
bestowed to Umatilla junior
Lupe Flores.
Flores’ play was recog-
nized despite a lack of offen-
sive weapons for Umatilla,
which struggled to a 1-9
league record while tying
with Riverside for fifth place.
Vale landed a league-high
three first-team nods and
eight total.
Irrigon, Umatilla and
Riverside combined to land
eight on one of the teams
including Flores.
Two setters made the
second team in Riverside
junior Masie Hancock and
Irrigon junior Mya Chapman.
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2016 All-EOL Volleyball
Player of the Year: Drew Dobney, sr., Vale
Coach of the Year: Shannon Steele, Vale
Setter Award: Lupe Flores, jr., Umatilla
FIRST TEAM
M Presley Jensen, jr., Vale
RS Abby Hamilton, sr., Vale
S Carli Feist, sr., Burns
OH Lindsey Taylor, sr., Burns
S Carlina Lancaster, sr., Nyssa
OH Hannah Mizuta, sr., Vale
SECOND TEAM
OH Tessa McFetridge, jr., Vale
OH Ally Sutcliffe, sr., Burns
M Dally Johnson, jr., Vale
M Rachel Duhn, jr., Burns
S Masie Hancock, jr., Riverside
DS Sable Kelso, jr., Vale
S Mya Chapman, jr., Irrigon
HONORABLE MENTION
OH Alex McBride, sr., Vale
DS AdriAna Medina, sr., Vale
M Nicol Gahley, sr., Burns
M Kassidy Hashagan, sr., Nyssa
DS Syriah Trujillo, fr., Nyssa
OH Emma Combs, fr., Irrigon
M Taylor Davis, jr., Irrigon
OH Sadie Hasbell, sr., Riverside
OH Nancy Ortiz, jr., Umatilla
M Brenda Campos, sr., Umatilla
Prep Football
Honkers garner 10
all-league selections
East Oregonian
The Arlington/Condon
football team enjoyed one
of its best seasons in school
history in 2016, and co-head
coach Pili Tutuvanu said
prior to the program’s first
state playoff game in 32 years
that the Honkers’ success
had been a true team effort
with no players standing out
above the rest.
That was reflected in
the All-Big Sky League
football teams, which were
announced Wednesday and
included 10 Honkers, but
just three on the first and
second team.
Freshman kicker/punter
Wesley Goad was the lone
first-teamer for the Honkers,
which finished third in league
play with a 4-2 record.
Senior defensive end
Benjamin Evans and soph-
omore linebacker Tyler
Longacre were named to
the second team. Evans also
earned an honorable mention
roster spot at tight end.
League
champion
Sherman had eight first-
teamers and 15 total selec-
tions. Second place Dufur
also had 15 total selections.
Ione senior running back
Cord Flynn was the high-
est-honored Cardinal with
second-team recognition.
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2016 All-Big Sky Football
First Team
Defense
DE TJ Kennedy, sr., Dufur
DE Max Martin, sr., Sherman
DT Ian Cleveland, jr., Dufur
DT C.J. Marsters, sr., Perrydale
LB Hagen Pence, jr., Dufur
LB Maverick Winslow, sr., Sherman
LB Haylen Janeofsky, sr., Perrydale
DB Bailey Keever, sr., Dufur
DB Jacob Justesen, jr., Sherman
Offense
QB Bailey Keever, sr., Dufur
C Colton Moore, sr., Perrydale
RB Maverick Winslow, sr., Sherman
RB Hagen Pence, jr, Dufur
RB Isaiah Coles, sr., Sherman
TE Jacob Justesen, jr., Sherman
TE Treve Martin, jr., Sherman
G Ryan Asher, sr., Sherman
G Ian Cleveland, jr., Dufur
K/P Wesley Goad, fr., Arlington/Condon
Second Team
Defense
DE Curtis Crawford, jr., Dufur
DE Benjamin Evans, sr., Arlington/Condon
DT Alex Hawes, sr., Perrydale
DT Kyle Hensley, jr., Sherman
LB Tyler Longacre, so., Arlington/Condon
LB Isaiah Coles, sr., Sherman
LB Treve Martin, jr., Sherman
DB Reese Blake, jr., Sherman
DB Asa Farrell, fr., Dufur
Offense
QB Kyle Fields, sr., Sherman
C Nic Lesh, jr., Sherman
RB Cord Flynn, sr., Ione
RB Cooper Butler, jr., Perrydale
RB Joe Jaeger, sr., Mitchell/Spray/
Wheeler
TE Kolbe Bales, sr., Dufur
TE Haylen Janesofsky, sr., Perrydale
TE Curtis Crawford, jr., Dufur
TE Jacob Pope, sr., Perrydale
G CJ Marsters, sr., Perrydale
G Travis Lucas, sr., Dufur
G Myles McCormick, jr., Mitchell/Spray/
Wheeler
K/P Kolbe Bales, sr., Dufur
Honorable Mention
Defense
DE Makoa Whitaker, jr., Sherman
DE Michael McGill, jr., Perrydale
DE Donald McElligott, sr., Ione
DT Luke Blinn, sr., Arlington/Condon
DT Rene McCoin, sr., Arlington/Condon
LB Joe Jaeger, sr., Mitchell/Spray/
Wheeler
LB Marco Anthony Valdez, sr., Arlington/
Condon
LB Ty Herlocker, sr., South Wasco
LB Myles McCormick-Lyons, jr., Mitchell/
Spray/Wheeler
DB Travis Lucas, sr., Dufur
DB Cooper Butler, jr., Perrydale
DB Javier Cazares, sr., Arlington/Condon
Offense
QB Daniel Domes, sr., Perrydale
QB Dawson Herlocker, sr., South Wasco
QB Marco Anthony Valdez, sr., Arlington/
Condon
C Ben Anderson, sr., Dufur
RB Sylas Aamodt, sr., Arlington/Condon
TE Benjamin Evans, sr., Arlington/Condon
G Austin Morter, jr., Ione
HERMISTON
Hermiston
High School
student
Logan Miller
makes a
move during
a recent
after-school
chess prac-
tice.
By BRETT MARTEL
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS —
Anthony Davis had 38
points, nine rebounds and
four blocks, Jrue Holiday
added 21 points in his first
action this season, and the
New Orleans Pelicans beat
the Portland Trail Blazers
113-101 on Friday night.
Holiday made his season
debut after
missing
the
first
12 games
Portland
to care for
his wife,
retired
soccer star
Lauren
H o l i d a y,
who had New Orleans
b r a i n
surgery last
month only
weeks after giving birth to
the couple’s first child.
Terrence Jones added 15
points, and Tim Frazier had
12 for the Pelicans. They’ve
won three of five after an 0-8
start.
Damian Lillard scored 27
points, and CJ McCollum 24
had for Portland, which has
lost three straight. Mason
Plumlee added 13 points
and 12 rebounds for the
Trail Blazers, who never got
closer than eight points in
the second half.
The crowd bellowed,
“Jruuuuue!” as Holiday
checked in, wearing goggles
as a precaution after missing
the last nine games of last
season because of an inad-
vertent elbow he took to the
head, fracturing his orbital
eye wall.
101
113
AP Photo/Gerald Herbert
New Orleans Pelicans forward Anthony Davis (23)
drives to the basket against Portland Trail Blazers for-
ward Noah Vonleh (21) in the second half of an NBA
basketball game on Friday in New Orleans.
Holiday wasted no time
getting involved. He assisted
on Jones’ layup the first time
he handled the ball on the
offensive end.
Within four minutes on
the court, Holiday scored
five points to go with a
rebound and assists, and
even had a block on Noah
Vonleh’s dunk attempt. He
wound up playing just more
than 23 minutes hitting an
array of jumpers, including a
3, as well as driving floaters
and layups. He finished
with seven assists, none
more crowd-pleasing than
his crisp bounce-pass to a
cutting Davis, who finished
the play with a thunderous
two-handed dunk.
Davis was making shots
from all over the court,
hitting a pair of 3s to go
with usual leaners, floaters,
layups and mid-range
jumpers.
The Pelicans made their
first significant push in
the final three minutes of
the first half. Portland was
down 51-47 after Plumlee’s
16-foot jumper, but Davis
responded with a 16-footer
of his own that sparked a
13-4 run to close out the half.
Davis added six more points
during the sport, hitting a
jumper, floater and spinning
a reverse layup off the glass
with McCollum climbing
on his shoulders. Davis also
rejected his third Lillard shot
of the half, and New Orleans
led 64-51 as the horn sounded
to end the second quarter.
New Orleans built the
lead up to 20 in the fourth
quarter and cruised to the
finished.
TIP-INS
Trail Blazers: Ed Davis
had 11 rebounds. Maurice
Harkless scored 10 points,
but went 2 of 7 from 3-point
range. ... Lillard fell three
points short of scoring 30 for
the third time in three games
against New Orleans. ...
Portland has scored 100 or
more points in 12 of its first
14 games. ... The Blazers,
which lost 126-109 in
Houston on Thursday night,
dropped to 3-4 on the road.
Pelicans: Alvin Gentry
reached his 800th career
game as an NBA head coach.
... New Orleans entered
the game ranked last in the
NBA in 3-point shooting at
29.1 percent (82 of 282),
but shot 37.5 percent (9
of 24) against Portland. ...
New Orleans won its second
straight home game after
starting 0-5 on its own floor.
... Center Alexis Ajinca sat
out with a sore left shoulder.
UP NEXT
Trail Blazers: Visit
Brooklyn on Sunday.
Women’s College Basketball
Beavers cruise; T-Wolves come up short
East Oregonian
CORVALLIS — The No.
24 Oregon State women’s
basketball team opened on
an 18-4 run and never looked
back as the Beavers coasted
to a 62-45 win over Portland
at Gill Coliseum on Friday.
Junior center Marie
Gulich led Oregon State
(3-0) with 14 points and six
rebounds, and senior guard
Gabriella Hanson added
11 points as the only other
player to reach double digits.
Oregon State shot 36.2
NCAA
NWAC
Portland
#24 Oregon St.
45
62
percent (21-of-58) from the
field, out-rebounded Portland
(0-3) 45-35, never trailed and
never allowed the Pilots to tie
the score. The Beavers were
up 33-12 at halftime and 51-38
headed into the fourth quarter.
Prior to the game Oregon
State held a special cere-
Blue Mountain Chemeketa
72
82
mony to hang their banners
from last season’s Elite
Eight and Final Four appear-
ances. The Beavers finish
up their current home stand
on Tuesday when they host
Marquette at 6 p.m. for their
first televised game of the
season (Pac-12 Network).
CHEMEKETA
82,
BLUE MOUNTAIN 72
— At Yakima, Wash., the
Blue Mountain women’s
basketball team suffered a
loss in its season opener at
the Yakima Valley Tip-Off
Tournament. No statistics
were available.
The Timberwolves (0-1)
will be back in action today
at noon when they face
Tacoma (0-1) in the consola-
tion bracket semifinals.
The winner will advance
to the fourth-place game on
Sunday morning at 10 a.m.
Men’s College Basketball
No. 14 Gonzaga pushes around Bryant
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
Associated Press
SPOKANE, Wash. —
One thing was obvious
when No. 14 Gonzaga took
the floor against Bryant on
Friday night: The Zags were
a whole lot bigger.
Gonzaga put that size to
good use.
Przemek
Karnowski
scored 22 points and Johna-
than Williams added 20 to
help Gonzaga beat Bryant
109-70.
Mark Few
Z a c h
NCAA
said. “You
Collins
take
what
added
18
they
give
points
for
Bryant
#14 Gonzaga
you.”
Gonzaga
F i v e
(3-0), which
players
is seeking a
scored
in
19th consec-
utive trip to the NCAA double figures for Gonzaga,
which shot 55.7 percent from
Tournament.
Karnowski and Collins are the floor to 42.6 percent for
both 7-footers and Williams Bryant. Gonzaga won the
is 6-9. Bryant’s tallest starter rebound battle 39-34, and
was Dan Garvin at 6-6.
had a 50-30 advantage on
“We had a huge size points in the paint.
advantage,” Gonzaga coach
Nisre Zouzoua scored 22
70
109
points and Adam Grant had
17 for Bryant (1-2), which
lost to Gonzaga the only
previous time the teams met,
in 2013.
“They have tremendous
size, not just in the starting
lineup but off the bench,”
Bryant coach Tim O’Shea
said. “Even on the wing
spots they’ve got tremen-
dous length.”
Gonzaga enjoyed a big
advantage at the free throw
line, sinking 34-of-45 free
throws. Bryant made 11-of-19.
Photo courtesy of
Delia Wallis
T-WOLVES: Williams continues strong tournament
Continued from 1B
Hermiston recognized
by Chess for Success
East Oregonian
The Hermiston chess
program received some
exciting news when it was
recognized as an official
Chess for Success site for the
2016-17 school year.
The designation comes
with several benefits for
Hermiston players such as:
waived entry fees at tour-
naments, donated practice
chess sets as well as one for
each player to keep at the end
of the season, an oversized
demonstration board and
lesson plans, chess reference
books and team T-shirts.
Hermiston had been
participating with Chess for
Success for the last 18 years,
but had done so without
corporate sponsorship and had
to assume all associated costs.
“It was frustrating to have
to ask these kids and their
families to come up with
over $20 per player to enter a
contest we frequently put on
ourselves, with those same
families often donating snacks
and time on top of the entry
fee,” team coach Delia Wallis
said in a prepared statement.
“Then, if the kids played well
and qualified for state, it was
another entry fee. Now, with
the official designation as a
Chess for Success site, the only
expectation for each student is
to learn and enjoy themselves.”
Hermiston competes in
Region 23, which covers
Umatilla, Morrow, Gilliam,
Union and Wallowa Coun-
ties. Hermiston will host the
Region 23 tournament for the
third time in row in February.
Wallis, who is also the
school librarian, coaches
the middle school and grade
school level chess teams as
well, and said she’s got about
44 players that consistently
show up for practices.
picked up its wins in the
third and fourth sets 26-24,
25-23, after Chemeketa took
the first two 25-18, 25-17.
“The loss to Chemeketa
was really disappointing, but
mostly because awe didn’t
feel like we were playing our
best on a variety of different
aspects,” said BMCC co-head
coach Jessica Humphreys. “I
don’t know so much that it
was more errors, but more
so that Chemeketa played the
best defense that we’ve seen.
Looking across the net there
were a few times when we
were really searching to find
creative ways to score. They
had a very good libero and a
solid block.”
Blue Mountain hit just
.176 for the match, and just
.085 in the sets it lost. Sopho-
more middle Kristin Williams
led the team for the second
straight match with 19 kills
on 33 attempts with a .394
hitting percentage. Sopho-
more Miah Perez added 12
kills and a team-high 22 digs.
Humphreys said another
area BMCC struggled in
against Chemeketa was in
serve-receive, where some
sloppily hit passes led to a
predictable attack at the net.
The T-Wolves cleaned
things up later against
Tacoma,
though,
and
streaked to wins of 25-16
and 25-12 while hitting
.321 as a team. Williams
came through big again with
seven kills on eight swings
and a .750 percentage.
Freshman Kiana Scott,
who came on strong at right
side hitter against Chemeketa
and held down the spot the rest
of the day, added seven more
kills with a .462 percentage.
The Timberwolves will
have to win four best-of-
three matches today in order
to advance to the champion-
ship match-up, where they’d
have to win twice on Sunday
to claim the program’s fifth-
straight NWAC title.
Humphreys said that
although the T-Wolves’
previous four titles all came
with undefeated runs through
the bracket, the team was
preparing for exactly this
situation with its demanding
practices during the season.
“I reminded that what
our focus has been the last
month, which has been
long fatiguing, strenuous
endurance-related practices
that were designed for this
day,” Humphreys said. “I
reminded them of how phys-
ically prepared we are for
this day, and then I reminded
them of what they have to
be proud of. There are only
eight teams left and they’re
one of them, and that’s
something to be proud of.
If we give it everything that
we have with full aggression
and confidence, I bet on our
team against anybody.”
The T-Wolves are one of
just two NWAC East squads
still alive, the other being
Walla Walla.
Blue Mountain’s first
match today is against
Bellevue at 10 a.m., and
the winner will play Walla
Walla at 1:30 p.m.
At the same time on
the adjacent court, Lower
Columbia will face Cheme-
keta to see which team will
advance to the champion-
ship round out of the top half
of the bracket.
The loser of that match will
play the team to emerge from
the losers’ bracket at 4:30 p.m.
All matches will be
broadcast live online via
the NWAC Sports Network
channel on Youtube.
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BMCC
18 17 26 25 16 — 2
CCC
25 25 24 23 18 — 3
KILLS — BMCC (60): K. Williams 19,
J. Mix 13, M. Perez 12, S. Schreier 9, K.
Scott 5, K. Chavez 1, B. Lomica 1. CCC
(70): T. Jones 19, I. Ochse 17, D. Fahndrich
16, H. Patterson 13, M. Ross 3, M.
Warinner 2.
BLOCKS — BMCC (7): K. Williams 4.5,
K. Chavez .5, B. Lomica .5, K. Scott .5, J.
Mix .5, S. Schreier .5. CCC (9): M. Warin-
ner 3, I. Ochse 2, H. Patterson 2, T. Jones
1.5, D. Fahndrich .5.
ASSISTS — BMCC (60): K. Chavez 56,
B. Tillotson 3, J. Mix 1. CCC (66): M. Ross
60, T. Bennett 5, I. Ochse 1.
ACES — BMCC (6): M. Perez 2, K.
Buckner 1, K. Cantu 1, B. Tillotson 1, J.
Mix 1. CCC (9): T. Bennett 3, I. Ochse 2,
T. Jones 1, E. Weidlich 1, D. Fahndrich 1,
M. Ross 1.
DIGS — BMCC (104): M. Perez 22, K.
Chavez 19, B. Tillotson 17, A. Vreeland
16, K. Cantu 12, J. Mix 11, B. Lomica 4,
K. Scott 2, K. Buckner 1. CCC (109): T.
Bennett 37, D. Fahndrich 21, T. Jones 20,
M. Ross 18, E. Weidlich 7, H. Patterson 3,
I. Ochse 2, R. Muresan 1.
BMCC
25 25 —
2
TCC
16 12 —
0
KILLS — BMCC (29): K. Williams 7, K.
Scott 7, M. Perez 5, J. Mix 5, K. Uhlenkott
3, K. Chavez 1, K. Buckner 1. TCC (14): J.
Johnson-McCoy 6, J. Reed 4, K. Shaffer 2,
E. Oguma 1, C. Buell 1.
BLOCKS — BMCC (4): K. Williams 1, K.
Scott 1, K. Buckner 1, J. Mix .5, S. Schrei-
er .5. TCC (4): M. Shaw 2, J. Johnson-Mc-
Coy 1, J. Reed 1.
ASSISTS — BMCC (25): K. Chavez 24, K.
Cantu 1. TCC (11): K. Shaffer 11.
ACES — BMCC (6): M. Perez 4, K.
Chavez 1, K. Cantu 1. TCC (1): J. Reed 1.
DIGS — BMCC (31): M. Perez 10, B.
Tillotson 7, K. Chavez 4, K. Cantu 4, J. Mix
3, K. Uhlenkott 2, Team 1. TCC (16): E.
Oguma 7, C. Buell 4, K. Losey 2, K. Shaffer
2, J. Johnson-McCoy 1.