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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2016
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HERMISTON
Prep Roundup
Knights All-around effort leads Hermiston to win
offense,
press past Balanced
shut-down defense
key for Bulldogs
’Scots
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Irrigon boys win
home opener
East Oregonian
IRRIGON — A stifl ing press
and strong half-court offense
lifted the Irrigon Knights to
an early lead they wouldn’t
relinquish in a non-league
game against former league foe
Weston-McEwen in its home
opener on Tuesday night.
Johnny Philips had a game-
high 24 points and the Knights
beat the TigerScots 72-43, using
big runs in the fi rst and third
quarters to seal it.
Irrigon was up 25-11 after the
fi rst quarter, using its full-court
press to force turnovers as it
built the lead. The TigerScots
(2-1) settled down and kept the
lead from growing in the second
quarter, but the Knights turned
in a 20-9 third quarter to get the
lead to 53-30 going into the fi nal
stanza.
Eric Carillo added 13 points
for Irrigon (3-1), and Hayden
White had nine.
“(Weston-McEwen) came
out in a 2-3 zone and we went
into a little high-low to get them
out of it,” said Irrigon coach
Davie Salas. “The big guys were
moving inside really well, and
we were able to distribute the
ball really well because of it.”
Brett Speed paced Weston-
McEwen with 18 points.
Both teams are playing at
tournaments on Friday with the
TigerScots playing at Kennedy
at 7:30 p.m. and the Knights
taking on Crane in Heppner at
3 p.m.
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East Oregonian
RICHLAND, Wash. — The
Hermiston Bulldogs boys basket-
ball team rolled to another victory
on Tuesday night,
is nice, he just
Boys Hoops
taking down the
hopes to see his
Hanford
(WA)
team continue to
Falcons on the road
trend in the right
Hermiston Hanford (WA)
67-52.
direction with its
The win pushes
play.
the Bulldogs to a
“It’s
always
perfect 4-0 on the
nice to win early,
season, the fi rst time the team has but you don’t want to get too
started 4-0 in more than a decade. confi dent,” Arstein said. “You want
Hermiston coach Casey Arstein to make sure you’re playing your
said that while the unbeaten streak best basketball in February and
March. But overall it was a great
effort, defensively we played pretty
well only giving up 11 points in the
second and third quarters and on
offense the scoring was spread out
with at least fi ve guys with seven
points.”
Chance Flores led the Bulldogs
with 21 points and sophomore
guard Jordan Ramirez put up 17
points, and Thomas McCullough
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PENDLETON
Buckaroos cruise to victory
Efficient offense
propels Pendleton
past Southridge
Pendle-
ton’s Tyler
Newsom
goes
up for a
rebound
against
South-
ridge’s
Mike
Hazel in
the Bucks’
76-48 win
against
the
Suns on
Tuesday
in Pendle-
ton.
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
After earning loss No. 1 of the
season over the weekend, the Pend-
leton Buckaroos knew they needed
to play faster and play with more
energy to get back
Boys Hoops in the win column
on Tuesday night.
A slow fi rst
quarter
helped
Southridge
cost the Bucka-
roos the win in
that game, and a
much-needed day
off on Sunday
may have been
Pendleton
just what the
Buckaroos needed
to re-focus them-
selves. And it all
seemed to work as the Buckaroos
bounced back in a big way on
Tuesday to defeat the Southridge
Suns 76-48 at Warberg Court.
“Today it was all about energy
and being ready to play at the start
and I thought we did that well,”
Pendleton coach Kyle Tedder said
after the game. “We came out,
played hard and had contributions
all over the place so I’m pretty
pleased with the collective effort.”
Pendleton (2-1) got a spark of
energy right from the start when
senior Johnny Stuvland fl ushed
home a one-handed dunk off a fast-
break assist from Caden Smith for
the team’s fi rst points of the game.
“That was big for us,” Smith
said. “It was defi nitely a spark that
we needed and it got the crowd
going too.”
After that it was all Buckaroos, as
the team led 13-4 after one quarter
and eventually built up a 30-point
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Staff photo by
E.J. Harris
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76
WM
11 10
9 13 — 43
IHS
25 8 20 19 — 72
WESTON-MCEWEN — B. Speed 18, B.
Dearing 8, B. Rudolph 5, S. Broncheau 4, K.
Broncheau 2, J. Speed 2, D. Froese, Q. Picard,
J. West.
IRRIGON — J. Philips 24, E. Carillo 13, H.
White 9, A. Gomez 5, A. Rice 5, K. Fleming 4,
A. Roa 4, L. Covarrubia 3, O. Vera 2, D. Vera.
3-pointers — WM 3-9; IHS 4-12. Free throws
— WM 4-7; IHS 9-15. Fouls — WM 15; IHS 12.
PILOT ROCK 68, HELIX
48 — At Helix, the Rockets used
their press defense to pull away
from the Grizzlies in the second
quarter and never looked back in
non-league play on Tuesday.
Chris Weinke scored a game-
high 17 points, Bryson Pierce
added 14 and Riley Lankford
chipped in 10, and Pilot Rock
(3-0) fi nished with 19 team
assists.
See PREPS/2B
NFL
Seattle loses Thomas for rest of the season
Seahawks defense loses
star safety and leader of
the secondary
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
AP Photo/Stephen Brashear
Seattle Seahawks’ Earl Thomas leaves the fi eld on a
cart after being injured against the Carolina Panthers
in the fi rst half of Sunday’s game in Seattle.
RENTON, Wash. — It was one thing
for the Seattle Seahawks to know they
would be without safety Earl Thomas
for one game, maybe two.
Now that the former All-Pro safety is
done for the rest of the 2016 season —
no matter how far Seattle may advance
in the playoffs — the Seahawks are
facing a new reality for the rest of this
year that doesn’t include arguably their
most important defensive player on the
fi eld.
“I don’t think you’re going to replace
Earl Thomas. He’s a very unique player.
But he’s very quiet. He’s not a guy who
adds a whole lot on the vocal side. He
does it with his play,” Seattle coach Pete
Carroll said on Monday. “Earl is Earl.”
The Seahawks now know the earliest
they will see Thomas back on the fi eld
is the 2017 season after he suffered a
broken lower left leg in Sunday’s 40-7
win over Carolina. While there was
an initial thought that Thomas could
return if the Seahawks made a deep
run in the playoffs, Carroll said further
examination on Monday determined the
recovery for the fractured tibia is too
extensive for the star safety to make it
back this season.
It’s a crushing injury to the player
that makes Seattle’s defense function
perhaps more than any other. And while
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Sports shorts
Red Sox acquire All-Star LHP
Chris Sale from White Sox
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — All-Star ace
Chris Sale is joining the reloading Boston Red
Sox. Boston acquired Sale on Tuesday for a
package of four prospects, including high-
priced Yoan Moncada.
Sale was a top trade target at
the winter meetings and the AL
East champion Red Sox were
getting him instead of Washington,
which also pursued.
The 27-year-old Sale has been
Sale
an All-Star in each of the last fi ve
seasons, fi nishing high in the Cy Young Award
voting every time. The lefty was 17-10 with a
3.34 ERA this year.
Sale joins a talented rotation that includes
recent Cy Young winner Rick Porcello, former
winner David Price and All-Star knuckleballer
Steven Wright.
“His work habits are off
the charts. He’s been
very attentive to the
program and sticking
with it. He’s there
evry day, he grinds
through it. I was very
encouraged to see him
running. We think he’s a
little ahead of schedule.“
— Jerry Dipoto
Seattle Mariners General Man-
ger speaking to MLB.com on the
rehab process of Seattle’s 2016
fi rst-round draft pick Kyle Lewis.
The No. 11 overall pick, Lewis
tore his ACL in July.
Former Heisman winner found
dead of suspected suicide
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Heisman
Trophy winner Rashaan Salaam was found
dead Monday night in a Boulder park less than
two miles from Folsom Field, where he carved
his name into the University of
Colorado record books as one
of the greatest players in the
program’s history.
The Boulder County coroner’s
offi ce was still investigating the
cause of the death of the 42-year-old
Salaam, who won the Heisman in
Salaam
1994. The body of the one-time
running back was found at Eben G. Fine Park in
Boulder. Police say foul play was not suspected.
Salaam’s mother, Khalada, told USA
TODAY Sports on Tuesday that police said
they suspect he killed himself. “They said they
found a note and would share that with us when
we get there,” Salaam’s mother said.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1985 — Auburn tailback
Bo Jackson beats Iowa quar-
terback Chuck Long by 45
points in the balloting for the
Heisman Trophy, the closest
vote in the 51-year history of
the trophy.
2008 — The Arizona
Cardinals clinch their fi rst
division title in 33 years by
beating the woeful St. Louis
Rams 34-10.
2014 — Robbie Keane
scores on a breakaway in the
111th minute, and Landon
Donovan wins his record
sixth MLS title in the LA
Galaxy’s 2-1 victory over the
New England Revolution in
the MLS Cup.
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