SPORTS
WEEKEND, DECEMBER 3-4, 2016
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PENDLETON
HERMISTON
T-Wolves drop home openers
Dawgs
fi nish
strong
for wins
Clackamas too
much inside for
Blue Mountain
East Oregonian
The Blue Mountain Timberwolves
men’s and women’s basketball teams
opened up the doors of Mosby Court
for the fi rst time in the 2016-2017
season on Friday evening, however
neither team earned a result they had
hoped for.
The Blue Mountain men lost a
close one to Clackamas 63-60, while
the women fell 101-74 to Grays
Harbor.
Men’s assistant
SPORT
coach Doug Baxter
said that though
the T-Wolves were
able to keep the Clackamas
game close from
start to fi nish, they
just could never get
enough baskets or
enough stops on
defense to charge to Blue Mountain
a lead.
“I felt we got
bullied around inside
in the fi rst half, giving up 14 offensive
rebounds,” Baxter said. “Second half
we were different, we matched their
physicality but couldn’t get a run
going.”
Blue Mountain (1-3) was led in
scoring by Isaiah Harris with 15
points on 6-9 shooting, and also had
a big game from Jared Mathews who
turned in a double-double with 14
points on 6-10 shooting to go with 20
rebounds.
“Jared played extremely well
inside,” Baxter said.
Baxter also pointed out Jamal
Logan as a key contributor in the
game for the Timberwolves, as
Logan pitched in seven points, three
rebounds, two assists, and two steals
in nearly 20 minutes of game time.
“Jamal was great off the bench for
Hermiston girls and
boys improve to 2-0
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Staff photo by Kathy Aney
David Bravo (1), of BMCC, goes up for a shot during Friday’s game against Clackamas Community
College at McRae Activity Center.
Huskies claim Pac-12 title
By JOSH DUBOW
Associated Press
SANTA CLARA, Calif.
— Taylor Rapp returned one
of his two interceptions for a
PAC-12 Championship
#8
Colorado
#4 Washington
10
41
touchdown and Myles Gaskin
ran for 159 yards to help No.
4 Washington strengthen its
case for a playoff berth with
a 41-10 victory over No. 9
Dakota
Eldridge, of
Elko, Nev.,
competes
in the steer
wrestling
event during
opening day
of National
Finals Rodeo
at the Thom-
as & Mack
Center on
Thursday in
Las Vegas.
Brett Le Blanc/Las
Vegas Review-Journal
via AP
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Washington
coach Chris
Petersen
holds the
trophy after
Washington’s
41-10 win
over Colo-
rado in the
Pac-12 Con-
ference cham-
pionship
NCAA college
football game
Friday, Dec. 2,
2016, in Santa
Clara, Calif.
College Football
Interceptions
help break open
close game
Posts Kynzee Padilla and
Maddy Juul came up big down
the stretch, and the Hermiston
girls basketball team advanced to
the championship of the Oxford
Suites Holiday Classic with a
46-40 win over Wilsonville on
Friday at The Dawghouse.
Juul scored a game-high 15
points and Padilla pulled down
some key late
rebounds
to
Girls Hoops help close out
the Wildcats
(0-1). Padilla
fi
nished with
Wilsonville
12 boards to go
with six points.
Hermiston
(2-0)
coach
Juan
Rodri-
guez said it
Hermiston
was a good
day for his bigs
to take over as
the Bulldogs’
outside touch was off for most
of the game.
“We knew there’d be games
like this when the three’s
wouldn’t be falling and we’d
need our posts to come up big,
and Maddy and Kynzee did
today,” Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez said Wilsonville’s
defensive scheme was giving
the Bulldogs trouble in the fi rst
half, and Hermiston led 19-17 at
halftime.
“They came out really
Colorado in the Pac-12 cham-
pionship game Friday night.
“We think we have a heck
of a team and we think we
belong in there,” coach Chris
Petersen said. “I think they’ll
do what they should do, which
is the right thing. ... These
guys have done everything
they’re supposed to do.”
The Huskies (12-1, No.
AP Photo/Marcio Jose
Sanchez
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Rodeo
Another close call for Rogers
WNFR completes
second round
East Oregonian
LAS VEGAS — In a city
where fortunes are made and
lost by the slimmest of margins,
team roper Garrett Rogers
experienced another close call
on Friday night in the second
round of the Wrangler National
Finals Rodeo.
The Helix header, who just
celebrated his 24th birthday
on Nov. 27 and is making his
fi rst WNFR appearance, made
another quick and clean catch at
Thomas and Mack Arena.
And just like he had in the
fi rst round, heeler Jake Minor of
Ellensburg, Washington, made
a fast snare on the back end but
could only lasso one hind leg.
What would have momentarily
the fastest time of the rodeo had
fi ve seconds tacked on for a 9.2
that placed 10th in the round.
They have 18.5 on two.
Later in the round, Luke
Brown and Jake Long stopped
the clock in 4.0 to win the
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Sports shorts
Puzey shatters distance world record
ORLANDO, Fla. — Altra Elite athlete Jacob
Puzey, a former cross country runner and coach at
Hermiston High School, ran into the record books
on Thursday at The Running Event trade show.
Puzey ran an average pace of 5:56 per mile
to set the new world record for the
fastest 50-mile run on a treadmill
originally reported by Competitor.
com.
He fi nished 50 miles in 4:57:45,
shattering the previous record of
5:57:31 by nearly an hour. His
Puzey
en route marathon split time was
2:38.
“I felt surprisingly great,” Puzey told
Competitor.com. “I didn’t have super high
expectations, I just wanted to see if I could run
the previous record’s pace. I happened to feel
really good today and going at a 5:56 pace felt
great. I put one foot in front of the other on the
treadmill and just kept going.”
“I don’t even know if I’m
subject to a drug test or
any laws from the NBA,
but I tried it, and it didn’t
help at all. But it was
worth it, because I’m
searching for answers
on pain.“
— Steve Kerr
Golden State Warriors coach
saying he smoked marijuana for
back pain he experienced the
past two years. Kerr went on to
say he hopes professional sports
league soften their stances on
marijuana use.
Straily earns Reds’ Most
Outstanding Pitcher award
CINCINNATI, Ohio — Dan Straily’s fairytale
2016 season continued to get better on Friday
night, as the Oregon native was named the Johnny
Vander Meer Most Outstanding Pitcher by the
Cincinnati Reds organization.
The 28-year-old right hander was
a unanimous winner of the team
award which was handed out at the
team’s fanfest in Cincinnati after he
went 14-8 with a 3.76 ERA in 34
games with 191 1/3 innings pitched,
and was the team leader in wins,
Straily
innings pitched and strikeouts (162).
Straily was a waiver-claim pickup by the Reds
just days before opening day with the primary role
of being a long relief pitcher out of the bullpen.
But due to injuries in the starting rotation, Straily
was inserted into the rotation in late April as a
spot-starter, before cementing a permanent spot in
the rotation for the remainder of the season.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
2000 — The 200-yard
rushing games by Mike
Anderson, Corey Dillon,
Warrick Dunn and Curtis
Martin mark the fi rst time in
NFL history that four runners
have 200 yards on the same
day. Anderson rushes for a
rookie record 251 yards in
Denver’s 38-23 victory over
New Orleans.
2005 — USC wins its
34th consecutive game
and 16th straight against a
ranked opponent, beating
No. 11 UCLA 66-19. The 16
victories against Associated
Press ranked teams is one
better than Oklahoma, which
won 15 from 1973-76.
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