SPORTS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2017
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HERMISTON
Mired in turnovers, Bulldogs routed by Pirates
Boys Hoops
Hermiston goes quiet
in middle quarters
Davis
82
Hermiston
59
East Oregonian
For the ﬁ rst time this season the
Hermiston Bulldogs were run out of the
gym.
Head coach Casey Arstein was hard-
pressed to ﬁ nd positives in Tuesday’s
82-59 non-league loss to Davis out of
Yakima, Washington.
“It was a butt-kicking,” he said. “I’d
use a different word but that’s what it
was. There was nothing positive that we
did today.”
“Giving up twenty-plus points in
three of the four quarters, this was deﬁ -
nitely ugly.”
Hermiston (8-3) only trailed 25-20
after the ﬁ rst quarter, but Arstein said
turnovers and an inability to let them go
plagued the Bulldogs as they scored just
home tilt against Dallas that tips off at
7 p.m. The Bulldogs then host Moun-
tain View on Saturday at 3:45 p.m.
in a game that was rescheduled from
tonight.
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DHS
25 20 21 16 — 82
HHS
20 10
9 20 — 59
DAVIS — C. Kelley 17, B. Williams 13, A. Delgado 13, I.
Kimble 11, A. Guerrero 9, M. Gordon 8, K. Hooper 4, A.
Meza 4, C. Chavez 3, I. Pastrana.
HERMISTON — X. Rambo 16, H. Walls 11, J. Ramirez 11,
A. Mendez 7, A. James 5, C. Ortiz 4, T. McCullough 3, A. Earl
2, K. Moss 2, J. Hinkle.
3-pointers — DHS 4; HHS 6. Free throws — DHS 11-20; HHS
11-21. Fouls — DHS 19; HHS 19. Fouled out — A. James (HHS).
PENDLETON
Prep Roundup
Vera’s
buzzer
beater
lifts
Knights
19 more points in the second and third
quarters combined. Davis took a 66-39
lead into the ﬁ nal frame.
“We let (Davis) rattle us,” Arstein
said. “At times we attacked decent,
but we deﬁ nitely spent too much time
pouting, not moving on to the next
play.”
Collin Kelley led all scorers with 17
points for Davis (8-2), and Hermiston’s
Xavier Rambo led his squad with 16.
Hermiston’s next game is Friday’s
Buckaroos come up short
Pendleton falls
to Sunnyside
for fourth
straight loss
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
Irrigon boys beat
Weston-McEwen
for second time
East Oregonian
ATHENA — With the score
deadlocked at 52-52 with just
3.6 seconds left on the clock
on Tuesday night, the Weston-
McEwen TigerScots looked to
inbound the ball and set up a
potentially game-winning shot.
But instead, the Irrigon
Knights got their hands on the
inbounds pass and junior guard
Omar
Vera
Boys Hoops layed in the
game-winning
shot as the
buzzer sounded
Irrigon
to give the
Knights a 54-52
non-league
win. The basket
was Vera’s only
points of the
Weston-McEwen game.
Hayden
White
led
Irrigon (6-4)
with 20 points, Johnny Philips
had 16 and Austin Rice added
13 points for the game. Brett
Speed led Weston-McEwen
(6-5) with 19 points, while Shaw
Broncheau pitched in 20 points
to go with eight rebounds, six
assists and ﬁ ve steals.
It was the second time this
season that the two teams met,
as Irrigon won big against
Weston-McEwen 72-43 back on
Dec. 6 in Irrigon.
Weston-McEwen next plays
at Enterprise on Friday with a
7:30 p.m. start, while Irrigon
plays at Grant Union on Friday
with a 6:30 p.m. start.
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67
60
54
52
IHS
12 9 21 12 — 54
W-M
13 13 11 15 — 52
IRRIGON — H. White 20, J. Philips 16, A. Rice
13, D. Vera 3, O. Vera 2.
WESTON-MCEWEN — B. Speed 19, S.
Broncheau 17, G. Hungerford 8, E. Reger 5, J.
West 3.
3-pointers — IHS 3, W-M 4. Free throws —
IHS 7-14, W-M 8-12. Fouls — IHS 15, W-M 17.
TRI-CITIES
PREP
51, RIVERSIDE 40 — At
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On a night where the
outside
temperatures
plunged below 20 degrees,
the Sunnyside (WA) Griz-
zlies and Pendleton Bucka-
roos were anything but cold
when it came to shooting the
ball.
Both teams shot above 40
percent from the ﬂ oor and
combined for more than 120
points on Tuesday night, but
in the end
it was the
Girls Hoops u n b e a t e n
Sunnyside
team that
prevailed
Sunnyside
with
a
6 7 - 6 0
victory at
Wa r b e r g
Court
in
Pendleton.
Pendleton
It was the
f o u r t h
straight
loss
for
Pendleton (3-4), though head
coach Kevin Porter didn’t
seem to be too worried about
it following the game.
“That team (Sunnyside’s)
undefeated, they’re the No.
2 team in the second largest
classiﬁ cation in the state of
Washington and we played
them to a seven point game,”
he said, “and I’m pretty
happy with that.”
The 60 points were the
third highest the Bucks
have put up this season, and
the ﬁ rst time crossing the
60-point threshold since Dec.
3. Pendleton shot 25-48 (52
percent) from the ﬂ oor in the
game and 7-12 from 3-point
range, but it was hurt by 29
turnovers which most came
against a Sunnyside full-
court press that the Bucks
couldn’t seem to ﬁ gure out.
“I think we underesti-
mated how fast some of their
players were,” Pendleton
forward Maureen Davies
said. “They would get in
some of the passing lanes or
jump in as soon as the pass
was made, and then some of
our passes were a little more
lackadaisical, but we got
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Pendleton’s Maureen Davies (24) eyes the basket as Jessica Mendoza (22), of Sunnyside, defends during
Tuesday’s non-conference game at Warberg Court.
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Sports shorts
Report: Seahawks sign record-
holding returner Devin Hester
SEATTLE — The Seattle Seahawks ﬁ lled their
hole at kick returner ahead of Saturday’s ﬁ rst-round
playoff game against the Detroit Lions by signing
the best return man in NFL history.
In a move reported by several news
outlets, the team agreed to terms with
veteran Devin Hester on Tuesday. The
34-year-old is the NFL record-holder
with 20 return touchdowns with a
record 14 of those on punt returns.
The Seahawks are trying to
Hester
replace Tyler Lockett, who broke his
leg in Week 16, and used the trio of
J.D. McKissic and Paul Richardson on kicks and
Richard Sherman on punts last week.
The Baltimore Ravens waived Hester last month
after injuries and hesitancy limited him to 7.2 yards
per punt return on the season (17th in the NFL) and
24.5 yards per kickoff return.
“I thought they wanted
me back. I thought I
did everything I could
to help them win a
Super Bowl, was in the
community, was a good
guy. But you know, it
worked out.”
— Golden Tate
Detroit Lions WR on his depar-
ture from the Seattle Seahawks as
a free agent following the 2013
season. Seahawks coach Pete
Carroll said Tuesday he felt the
team’s desire to retain Tate wasn’t
properly conveyed. Detroit and
Seattle meet in the ﬁ rst round of
the NFL playoffs Saturday.
Huskies lose trio to NFL Draft
SEATTLE (AP) — Washington announced
Tuesday that wide receiver John Ross, safety
Budda Baker, defensive tackle Elijah Qualls
and cornerback Sidney Jones will forgo their
senior seasons and enter the NFL draft.
Each player is expected to be
an early-round selection.
Baker was a second-team AP
All-American after leading the
Huskies with 71 tackles while
grabbing two interceptions. Baker started all 41
games during his three years at Washington and
projects as a nickel cornerback in the NFL.
Jones started 39 of 41 games during his
three seasons, while Qualls was a ﬁ rst-team
All-Pac-12 selection this season.
Ross boosted his NFL prospects by leading
the team with 81 receptions for 1,150 yards and
17 touchdowns. He was voted the AP Pac-12
player of the year and was a second-team AP
All-American.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1976 — The Dallas
Cowboys become the ﬁ rst
wild-card team to make it to
the Super Bowl with a 37-7
rout of the Los Angeles Rams
in the NFC title game.
2000 — Top-ranked
Florida State, the preseason
No. 1, holds off Virginia
Tech 46-29 in the Sugar
Bowl to win the national
championship. Florida State
is the ﬁ rst team to go wire-to-
wire in the since preseason
rankings began in 1950.
2010 — No.6 Boise State
stuns No. 3 TCU 17-10 in the
Fiesta Bowl. The win makes
the Broncos just the second
school ever to go 14-0.
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