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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2016
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Trail Blazers snap losing streak
McCollum, Leonard lead
Portland over Kings
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
AP Photo/Craig Mitchelldyer
Portland Trail Blazers forward Meyers Leonard, left, re-
bounds the ball away from Sacramento Kings center
Kosta Koufos, right, during the second half of an NBA
basketball game Wednesdayin Portland.
PORTLAND — CJ McCollum
scored 20 points and the Portland Trail
Blazers snapped a six-game losing
streak with a 102-89 victory over the
Sacramento Kings on Wednesday night.
Meyers Leonard added 16 off the
bench for the Blazers,
playing without leading
scorer Damian Lillard
for the second straight Sacramento
game because of a
sprained left ankle.
DeMarcus Cousins
scored 28 points but the Kings had their
four-game winning streak snapped.
The Kings trailed by as many as 20
points in the second half but Cousins
made a pair of free throws that pulled
Sacramento within 85-76 with 5:50 left.
The Kings couldn’t get any closer and
89
Portland extended the
lead to 90-78 on Maurice
Harkless’ 3-pointer.
Portland
Matt Barnes’ corner
3-pointer with 2 minutes
to go pulled Sacramento
within 98-87, before
Cousins hit on a fl oater to get closer.
Mason Plumlee answered with a dunk
for Portland and the Kings couldn’t
catch up.
Plumlee fi nished with 12 points and
102
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Prep Roundup
Men’s College Basketball
Bucks
knock
off rust
with win
Brooks’ 3-pointer upsets Bruins
Pendleton boys
get first game in
three weeks
East Oregonian
MILWAUKIE — It wasn’t
pretty, but after 22 days
without a game the Pendleton
boys’ basketball team was just
happy to be taking the court
in Wednesday night’s game
against Dallas
Boys’ Hoops at Rex Putnam
High School.
The Buck-
aroos’ 47-34
Dallas
win was an
added bonus.
“ We ’ v e
kind of been
champing
at the bit
Pendleton
to get back
on the fl oor
and
they’re
excited
to
get the W,” said second-year
Pendleton coach Kyle Tedder.
“We were a little rusty, but we
got it done.”
Caden Smith scored a game-
high 11 points to pace Pendleton
(3-1) and seven Bucks scored
at least fi ve points. The Bucks
led 25-17 at halftime and 36-28
going into the fourth quarter.
Dallas (4-4) was the fi rst
team to try a box-and-1 defense
on the Bucks this season, and
Tedder said the scoring balance
was a plus but the team left
too many points on the fl oor in
the form of missed layups and
turnovers.
“Different guys got involved,
but I don’t know that the score
really indicates how we played,”
he said.
Going against a smaller
Dallas (4-4) lineup, Tedder had
also expected the Bucks to do a
better job controlling the posts
but too often were out of posi-
tion and gave up 14 offensive
rebounds. Carter Weisensee led
Dallas with 11 points.
“We came out pretty fl at,
which is to be expected to a
certain extent, but now we’ve
got the rust knocked off and
hopefully we’ll keep it going
and get back to playing like
34
47
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MAIN PHO-
TO: Ore-
gon’s Dillon
Brooks,
center, leaps
in the air in
celebration
after sinking
the game
winning
shot over
UCLA in
an NCAA
college bas-
ketball game
Wednesday
in Eugene.
LOWER
RIGHT: Ore-
gon’s Dillon
Brooks,
center right,
shoots over
UCLA’s
Thomas
Welsh, left,
Lonzo Ball
and Bryce
Alford, right,
for the win-
ning score.
AP Photos/
Chris Pietsch
No. 21 Oregon beats No. 2 UCLA
By RON RICHMOND
Associated Press
EUGENE — Ten years ago at
McArthur Court, it was Oregon’s
Aaron Brooks with the shot that
knocked off No. 1 UCLA.
This time the dagger was in the
hands of Dillon Brooks, and he
delivered against the No. 2 Bruins,
too.
Brooks hit a 3-pointer with 0.8
seconds left to give No. 21 Oregon
an 89-87 victory Wednesday night
in the Pac-12 opener for both teams.
Brooks, who fi nished with 23
points and nine rebounds, grabbed
Bryce Alford’s missed free throw
with 8.9 seconds to go, dribbled to
the right wing and pulled up for the
game-winning shot.
“It’s amazing,” Brooks said.
“You work on your game every day
and you dream of that moment.
“I want more moments like that
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#2 UCLA
87
#21
Oregon
89
Metu leads USC past Oregon State
By KYLE ODEGARD
Associated Press
CORVALLIS — Chimezie
Metu had 19 points and eight
rebounds and No. 22 Southern
California stayed undefeated
with a 70-63 victory over
Oregon State on Wednesday
night in the Pac-12 opener for
both teams.
Jordan McLaughlin added 10
points, eight rebounds and four
steals and Jonah Mathews had 10
Anibal Ortiz/The Corvallis Gazette-Times via AP
Oregon State forward Ben Kone (34) is points for the Trojans (14-0, 1-0).
Stephen Thompson Jr. scored
blocked by USC forward Charles Buggs
during the fi rst half of an NCAA college a career-high 24 points and
basketball game Wednesday in Corvallis. Drew Eubanks had 15 points
#22
USC
70
Oregon St.
63
and 15 rebounds for the Beavers
(4-10, 0-1).
Southern Cal went on a 13-0
run about midway through the fi rst
half to take a 24-9 lead. Oregon
State was held scoreless for nearly
5 minutes during the surge.
The Trojans led 34-17 at
halftime.
Southern California led by
double digits most of the second
half, but Oregon State was able
to cut the defi cit to six points in
the fi nal minute on a layup by
Eubanks.
The Trojans shot 27 for 33
(82 percent) from the free throw
line compared to 13 for 24 (54
percent) for the Beavers.
With about 7:30 left in the
game, Eubanks and Southern
California’s Charles Buggs got
tangled up on a rebound, Buggs
fell to the court, Eubanks appar-
ently stepped on him and Buggs
reacted angrily. During an
ensuing scrum, Oregon State’s
Tanner Sanders left the bench
and was ejected. Eubanks was
given a technical foul.
Sports shorts
Jackson gives N’western bowl win
NEW YORK (AP) — Justin Jackson ran
for 224 yards and three touchdowns to power
Northwestern to only its third bowl victory,
31-24 over No. 22 Pittsburgh in the Pinstripe
Bowl on Wednesday night.
“Justin’s day will go down as
one of the great performances by
a Northwestern running back,”
coach Pat Fitzgerald said.
Jackson, the game’s MVP , was
awed by the lights and monuments at
Yankee Stadium. But it was a more
Jackson
discreet spot in the locker room that
really bowled over Jackson.
“Like, Derek Jeter has peed in that urinal,”
he said.
Jackson had TD runs of 8 and 16 yards in
the second quarter, then went deep on a 40-yard
burst in the third that left one defender face
down on the turf following a fantastic fake and
gave the Wildcats (7-6) a 21-17 lead.
Former Mariners pitcher on
fi fth team change of offseason
“He describes his style
as angry. I wouldn’t
disagree with that.“
— Bill Belichick
New England Patriots coach when
asked about Miami Dolphins
running back Jay Ajayi, who is
coming off his third 200-yard
game of the season as the Patriots
and Dolphins prepare to meet in
Sunday’s regular-season fi nale.
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Left-
hander David Rollins has changed teams for
the fi fth time in just over a month on a waiver
claim by the Chicago Cubs from the Texas
Rangers, who also reclaimed
right-hander Brady Dragmire
from Pittsburgh for the second
time this offseason.
When the Rangers initially
received the 23-year-old
Dragmire on Dec. 2, they also
lost Rollins to Philadelphia.
Rollins
Rollins was fi rst selected
off waivers by the Cubs from the Seattle
Mariners on Nov. 18, and four days later
waived by the World Series champions and
claimed by the Rangers. The Phillies got
Rollins on Dec. 2, and then waived him
before he got reclaimed by Rangers earlier
this week.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1926 — Merlyn Phillips of
the Montreal Maroons scores
fi ve seconds into the game at
Chicago for an NHL record
for the fastest goal from the
start of a game a mark that
would be matched three times.
The Blackhawks win 5-4 in
overtime.
2006 — Texas Tech spots
Minnesota a 31-point, third-
quarter lead, then rallies for
a 44-41 overtime victory in
the Insight Bowl, the largest
comeback in Division I-A bowl
history. The previous record
for a bowl comeback was 30
points, set by Marshall against
East Carolina in the 2001
GMAC Bowl.
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