SPORTS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2016
HERMISTON
Prep Wrestling
Dawgs win
Oregon
Classic
1B
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Hermiston fends off Tigers
Rambo scores 23,
Bulldogs beat 4A
power La Grande
Four go undefeated
for Hermiston
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
East Oregonian
REDMOND — The Hermiston Bull-
dogs won the fi rst major state wrestling
title of the season over the weekend at
the Oregon Classic, book-ending its tour
with wins over Mountain View for the 5A
championship.
The Bulldogs’ perfect run through the
bracket at Deschutes County Fairground
came with four spotless individual
performances. Seniors C.J. Hendon (152
pounds) and Valen Wyse (160) both were
7-0, as was junior Kenny Bevan (220), and
junior Adrian Tuia (138) went 6-0.
Pendleton placed eighth for 5A teams
while Mac-Hi (4A), Riverside and
Irrigon (3A) and Heppner/Ione (2A) also
competed.
See OREGON CLASSIC/6B
The Hermiston Bulldogs boys
basketball team knew they were
in for a battle on Saturday night.
They welcomed the La Grande
Tigers into the Dawg House, the
No. 3 ranked team in Class 4A
for its non-league fi nale and it
turned out to be just as adver-
tised. Both teams passed around
the momentum
Boys Hoops throughout the
game
which
stayed tight until
the end, when
La Grande
Hermiston was
able to pull out
the 62-54 win
over La Grande.
“Both teams
played hard but
Hermiston
we got stops
when we needed
to
and
we
executed well
when it was tight,” Hermiston
coach Casey Arstein said. “La
Grande’s a great team and there’s
a reason they were unbeaten
coming in here, they’ll dominate
their league and I’m pretty sure
they’ll get down to the 4A state
tournament, but this is what we
need. We want these types of
hard games and hopefully that
gets us ready for league.”
Hermiston (10-3) benefi ted
from another strong performance
by senior Xavier Rambo, who
netted a game-high 23 points
including eight points in the
fourth quarter to help the Bull-
dogs seal the victory. Rambo’s
quickness on the court and the
ability to evade defenders and
drive to the basket consistently
has become a real weapon for
Hermiston.
“It’s nice having an athlete like
See HHS BOYS/6B
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62
College Track & Field
Robinson vaults
to heptathlon
victory
Former Buckaroo wins
for Portland State
PSU Athletics
NAMPA, Idaho — Sweet redemption.
A year after no-heighting in the pole
vault to fall out of the heptathlon at the
Ed Jacoby Invita-
tional, junior Donté
Robinson completed a
dominant run through
the seven-discipline
event
Saturday,
fi nishing with 4,900
points to win by 566.
Robinson, who’s
heptathlon attempt at
last year’s Ed Jacoby
Invite was his only Robinson
previous experience
with a multi-event in his Portland State
career, entered the day with a 280-point
lead after winning all four events Friday
with four straight personal bests.
See ROBINSON/6B
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Xavier Rambo, of Hermiston, goes up for a shot during Saturday’s game against La Grande.
Lady Bulldogs extend winning streak to four games
Shaelyn Gil-
bert (22), of
Hermiston,
looks for a
teammate
during
Saturday’s
game
against
West Valley
in Hermis-
ton.
Hermiston fi nishes out
non-league slate with
win over West Valley
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
NBA
Wizards burry
Blazers with 3s
WASHINGTON — Bradley Beal
scored 25 points and John Wall had 24
as the Washington Wizards took a page
from the Portland Trail Blazers’ playbook
by hitting 13 3-pointers in a comfortable
120-101 victory on Monday afternoon.
The Wizards, who rely less on the
3-pointer than almost any NBA team,
Hermiston coach Juan Rodriguez had
two reasons to smile on Saturday night.
The fi rst reason
being that his Bulldogs Girls Hoops
team was actually
able to get on the fl oor
in game action, after
two games last week West Valley
were called off due
to inclement weather.
The second reason was
that his Bulldogs team
pulled out a 61-51 win
Hermiston
over West Valley out
of Yakima, Washington
in its fi nal non-league
tuneup before Columbia
River Conference play starts up next
weekend.
The victory marked Hermiston’s
fourth straight win on the season as
See BLAZERS/2B
See HHS GIRLS/6B
Washington hits 13 shots
from behind the arc
By STEPHEN WHYNO
Associated Press
Staff photo by
Kathy Aney
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Sports shorts
Beard helps Owls upset EOU men
KLAMATH FALLS — Oregon Tech men’s
basketball was named the Cascade Collegiate
Conference’s team of the week coming off a
98-81 upset win over No. 5 Eastern Oregon on
Sunday.
Pendleton product Bryan Beard aided the
effort with 12 points on 5-of-8
shooting from the fi eld and pulled
in a pair of rebounds while also
registering a blocked shot and a
steal.
Oregon Tech (15-5, 8-2 CCC),
took control with a 14-3 run to
Beard
start the second half and led by as
many as 22 points.
Mitchell Fink led OIT with 27 points,
and Eastern (15-4, 8-2) was paced by Blake
O’Donnell with 16 points.
The win pulled Oregon Tech into a tie with
Eastern Oregon for fi rst place in the CCC.
“While we cannot
comment on the health of
our individual students,
we have implemented
modifi cations as we
transition back into full
training to prevent further
occurrences.“
— University of Oregon
Statement released in response and
Oregonian report that three foot-
ball players were hospitalized after
grueling workouts last week. ESPN
confi rmed offensive lineman Doug
Brenner, tight end Cam McCormick
and offensive lineman Sam Poutasi
are patients at PeaceHealth Sacred
Heart Medical Center in Springfi eld.
No. 11 Oregon easily handles
Oregon State to win Civil War
EUGENE (AP) — Payton Pritchard and
Oregon made the 40-mile bus ride a wasted
trip for Oregon State in the latest leg of college
basketball’s most-played rivalry.
As it turned out, the 347th
Civil War wasn’t much more
than a neighborhood skirmish.
Pritchard had 17 points and
Oregon scored the game’s fi rst
21 points in an 85-43 victory over Oregon State
on Saturday night.
“Defense,” Pritchard said of the fast start.
“When we start off going hard on defense,
locking up, that’s going to happen for us.”
Dylan Ennis added 16 points to help the
Ducks (16-2, 5-0 Pac-12) win their 14th
consecutive game their longest such streak in
70 years and 36th in a row at home.
Oregon moved up from to No. 11 in this
week’s Associated Press men’s basketball poll.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1971 — The fi rst Super Bowl
under the NFL-AFL merger
ends with Baltimore rookie Jim
O’Brien kicking a 32-yard fi eld
goal for a 16-13 victory over the
Dallas Cowboys.
1988 — The Denver Broncos
beat the Cleveland Browns for the
second straight year in the AFC
championship game. Defensive
back Jeremiah Castille strips
running back Earnest Byner
at the Denver 3-yard line with
65 seconds left in the game to
preserve a 38-33 victory.
2004 — New Jersey’s Patrik
Elias ties an NHL record by
scoring his fourth overtime goal
of the season in a 2-1 win over
Washington.
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