SPORTS
WEEKEND, NOVEMBER 26-27, 2016
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STANFIELD
Stanfi eld at fi nal destination
OUT OF THE VAULT
Tigers won 1957
title in Hermiston
Houk, Gordon, Evans starred
in 46-0 win over Powers
East Oregonian
The No. 2 Stanfi eld Tigers will meet the No. 1 Regis
Rams at Kennison Field in Hermiston today at 4 p.m. to
decide the OSAA 2A football state champion.
It was 58 years, 361 days ago that the Tigers last
appeared in a football state championship, which was
also played in Hermiston.
Stanfi eld proved local prognosticators wrong and
brought back the title with a 46-0 romp over Powers
after being declared just a slight favorite heading into
the game on Saturday, Nov. 30, 1957.
See TIGERS TITLE/2B
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Stanfi eld quarterback Dylan Grogan, with ball, rolls out looking to pass as Adrian Renner (2) runs a route down-
fi eld against Kennedy in the 2A state semifi nals on Saturday, Nov. 19, in Hillsboro. Stanfi eld won 32-13.
Running game got Tigers’ 2016 season off to fast
start, defense leading the way down the stretch
East Oregonian
EO fi le photo
In this fi le photo from Saturday, Nov. 30, 1957,
Stanfi eld assistant football coach Bob Chapman
gets carried off the fi eld by two unidentifi ed Ti-
gers as quarterback John Houck (21) celebrates
the team’s 46-0 win over Powers in the Class B
state championship game played in Hermiston.
Even before the fi rst day of practice
on August 15, football players around
the state of Oregon were sweating
away the hottest months of the year in
the hopes of earning a shot at one of
the big blue trophies awarded to OSAA
state champions.
For the No. 2 Stanfi eld Tigers and
No. 1 Regis Rams, that hard work
and everything that fl owed from it
has paid off with a berth in Saturday’s
2A championship at Hermiston’s
Kennison Field.
It’s a rematch from Week 4 of the
regular season, a game won by Stanfi eld
in nail-biting fashion. Regis hasn’t lost a
game since.
Here’s week-by-week look at how
the 2016 season has shaped up for the
Tigers, which will kick
snaps at quarterback of
2A Football Finals
off against the Rams in
the season for injured
Hermiston at 4 p.m.:
senior Dylan Grogan
Week 1: Tigers 54,
and was 1-for-1 for 11
Enterprise 22
yards.
#2 Stanfi eld
#1 Regis
Tigers
Rams
The Tigers opened
Week 2: Tigers 43,
(11-1)
(10-2)
the season at home and
Cascade 20
rushed out to a big early • Today, 4 p.m.
It was another big
lead with fi rst-quarter • at Kennison Field,
game for the Tigers’
Hermiston
touchdowns by Mikiah
rushers against the team
Blankenship and Thyler • Radio: KOHU 1360 AM
out of Leavenworth,
Monkus.
Monkus
Washington. Stanfi eld
fi nished with 192 yards on 15 carries posted 430 yards on the ground led
with two touchdowns and Blankenship by Monkus’ 234 on just 15 carries. He
tallied 54 yards on six carries with one scored twice, and Grogan made his
score.
season debut with 95 rushing yards and
Adrian Renner also broke the century 5-of-10 passing for 89 yards.
barrier with 143 yards on 11 carries and
“Man that was just a tough, physical
two touchdowns, and Stanfi eld ran for game overall,” Stanfi eld coach Davie
475 yards.
Junior Shayne Keltz took his only
See DESTINATION/2B
College Football
Huskies keep Apple Cup in blowout
Pac-12
No. 6 Washington
makes statement
for playoff
committee in win
Lillard, McCollum
pace Trail Blazers
Portland ends Pelicans’ win streak
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
PULLMAN, Wash. —
Budda Baker was walking
to the sideline in the fourth
quarter when he was jostled
from behind by someone in
crimson, who then proceeded
to chirp at Washington’s
standout safety.
Baker heard what was said,
turned, and pointed at the
closed end of Martin Stadium.
“All I had to do was look at
the scoreboard,” Baker said.
It told the story of a day
of dominance by No. 6
Washington in a 45-17 rout
NBA
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
Washington defensive lineman Vita Vea kisses the
Apple Cup trophy after Washington beat Washington
State, 45-17 on Friday, Nov. 25, 2016, in Pullman, Wash.
of No. 23 Washington State
that put the Huskies into the
Pac-12 championship game
and on the cusp of a spot in
the College Football Playoff.
Washington (11-1, 8-1
Pac-12, No. 5 CFP) rolled
from the outset, using a
28-point fi rst quarter behind
three touchdown passes from
quarterback Jake Browning
to claim the Pac-12 North
Washington
WSU
45
17
title and keep the Apple Cup
in Seattle for a fourth straight
year
A win in the Pac-12 title
game next Friday against
Colorado or Southern Cali-
fornia would likely land the
Huskies in the college football
version of the fi nal four.
“It doesn’t matter. I’m just
glad the (Huskies) are there
and hopefully we’ll show up
and play our best game of
the year,” Washington coach
Chris Petersen said.
Browning threw for 292
yards but it was the fi rst
quarter that set the stage.
See APPLE CUP/2B
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
PORTLAND — Damian Lillard scored 27 points,
CJ McCollum added 24 and the Portland Trail Blazers
snapped the New Orleans Pelicans’
four-game winning streak with a
119-104 victory on Friday night.
Lillard added 11 assists for the
New Orleans Blazers, who were coming off a 1-4
road trip. It was the 2,000th win in
franchise history.
Anthony Davis, who went into
the game ranked second in the league
with an average of 31.3 points a
Portland
game, led the Pelicans with 31 points
and 13 rebounds.
The Blazers led by as many as
17 points in the third quarter, but the
Pelicans closed to 105-101 on Terrance Jones’ dunk
104
119
See BLAZERS/2B
Sports shorts
Davis breaks FBS receiving record
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — Corey Davis
of Western Michigan has become the career
FBS leader in yards receiving, setting the record
Friday night against Toledo.
Davis broke the mark of 5,005 yards set by
Trevor Insley of Nevada from
1996-99.
Davis came into the game
with 4,987 yards. After only one
reception for no gain in the fi rst
quarter, he set the record on a
touchdown drive late in the second.
Davis
Davis caught a 13-yard pass from
Zach Terrell on the fi rst play of the drive, and a
7-yarder moments later moved him past Insley.
The 6-foot-3 Davis has been a starter since
his fi rst season at WMU in 2013. He caught 67
passes for 941 yards that year, 78 catches for
1,408 yards and 15 touchdowns in 2014 and last
season, he caught 90 passes for 1,436 yards and
12 TDs.
“I’m sure you guys know
now we’ve been begging for
that play for a couple weeks
now, trying to get that done.
However, I didn’t want it in
the red zone. I wanted the
target in the red zone.“
— Doug Baldwin
Seattle Seahawks WR on giving the
middle fi nger to offensive coordinator
Darrell Bevell from the huddle before
throwing a 15-yard touchdown pass to
QB Russell Wilson in a 26-15 win over
Philadelphia on Sunday. ESPN report-
ed on Friday that Baldwin was fi ned
$12,154 by the NFL for the gesture.
Cavs set record in rout of Mavs
CLEVELAND (AP) — Kevin Love
scored 27 points, Kyrie Irving added 25 and
the Cleveland Cavaliers led by as many as
45 points in a record-setting 128-90 rout
of the Dallas Mavericks on Friday night.
After hitting 21 treys against
Portland on Wednesday, the
Cavs tallied 20 against the
Mavs to become the fi rst team
with back-to-back regular
season games of at least 20
three-pointers, according to Elias Sports
Bureau.
Love hit seven 3-pointers while Irving,
who made his fi rst 10 shots, scored 19 points
in the fi rst quarter. Irving’s big quarter came
two nights after Love scored an NBA-record
34 in the fi rst against Portland.
LeBron James, playing in his 1,000th
regular-season game, had 19 points and 11
assists.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1988 — For the fi rst time
in series history, Notre Dame
and Southern California enter
the game undefeated and
occupying college football’s
top two spots in the polls.The
No. 1 Fighting Irish win 27-10.
2005 — Marek Malik ends
the NHL’s longest shootout in
the 15th round to give the New
York a 3-2 victory over the
Washington Capitals.
2010 — Connecticut beats
Howard 86-25 to win its
82nd straight game, setting an
NCAA women’s record for
consecutive victories. Wash-
ington University in St. Louis,
a Division III school, had won
81 straight previous.
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