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SPORTS
East Oregonian
Saturday, January 21, 2017
Prep Roundup
Rockets overcome slow start, hang on for win
East Oregonian
PILOT ROCK — The
Weston-McEwen TigerScots
started fast, but the Pilot
Rock Rockets were able to
weather the storm and pull
away for a 59-51 victory on
Friday night.
“Both teams played really
hard,” Pilot Rock coach
Butch Wilson said. “We
had a slow start, which has
been the norm lately, but we
battled back and kind of ran
away in the second quarter
and then we were able to
hang on.”
Chelsea Quaempts had
a game-high 22 points for
Weston-McEwen (9-5, 1-1
CBC), while Bekah Roe led
Pilot Rock (11-3, 1-1) with
14 points while adding eight
rebounds and eight steals.
Also in double figures for
Pilot Rock was Rachel Will-
ingham with 12 points off the
bench and Kayla Deist with
11.
Weston-McEwen
next
hosts Stanfield today at
5:30 p.m., while Pilot Rock
travels to Heppner today for
a 5:30 p.m. start.
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W-M
16 9 12 14 — 51
PR
13 24
9 13 — 59
WESTON-MCEWEN — C. Quaempts
22, S. Finifrock 7, S. von Borstel 7, A.
Schroeder 5, K. Vescio 5, B. Hillmick 3, M.
Muilenburg 2.
PILOT ROCK — B. Roe 14, R. Willingham
12, K. Deist 11, J. Wilson 9, S. Weinke 8,
G. Austin 5.
3-pointers — W-M 4, PR 4. Free throws
— W-M 7-18, PR 11-15. Fouls — W-M 18,
PR 18. Fouled out — C. Quaempts (W-M).
NIXYAAWII
64,
JOSEPH 35 — At Mission,
a fast start led the Nixyaawii
Golden Eagles to their 13th
straight win on the season,
defeating the Joseph Eagles
64-35 on Friday night.
Nixyaawii (13-0, 6-0)
outscored Joseph — a team
that had lost just three games
before Friday — 26-2 in the
first quarter behind a lock-
down pressure defense which
led to success in transition.
“I’ll tell you what, that
first quarter we came out
running fast and got on
(Joseph) quick,” Nixyaawii
coach Jeremy Maddern said.
“We got a good start defen-
sively that led to some easy
baskets in transition ... it was
just a great start and a great
game by the girls.”
Kaitlynn Melton scored
a career-high 23 points to
lead Nixyaawii, while Mary
Stewart had 14 and Milan
Schimmel pitched in 11
points. Schimmel also led the
team with nine assists.
Nixyaawii next hosts
Wallowa today at 4 p.m.
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JHS
2 12
9 14 — 35
NCS
26 17 15
6 — 64
JOSEPH — A. Sykora 23, Team 6, A.
Cooney 4, L. Makin 2.
NIXYAAWII — K. Melton 23, M. Stewart
14, M. Schimmel 11, E. Butler 6, A. Tonas-
ket 2, S. Fitzpatrick 2, T. Broncheau 2, E.
Looney 2, T. Melton 2.
3-pointers — JHS 0, NCS 2. Free throws
— JHS 10-14, NCS 6-8. Fouls — JHS 9,
NCS 11.
CULVER 57, HEPPNER
36 — At Heppner, the
Mustangs remain winless in
Columbia Basin Conference
after a 57-36 loss to Culver
on Friday night.
Heppner (5-8, 0-3) was
stung early by a strong first
quarter from Culver as the
Bulldogs outscored the
Mustangs 16-5 in the opening
frame. Heppner played better
as the game went along,
but just didn’t have enough
to keep up with the No. 10
ranked Bulldogs.
Jacee Currin continued
her strong campaign for
Heppner with a team-high
20 points on 6-16 shooting
and Jenna Mahoney added
six points. Irma Retano led
Culver with 25 points and 15
rebounds.
Heppner next hosts Pilot
Rock today at 5:30 p.m.
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CHS
16 15 11 15 — 57
HHS
5 12 10
9 — 36
CULVER — I. Retano 25, M. Gamboa 11,
E. Bautista 9, J. Johnson 6, J. VanAlstyne
4, L. Alvarado 2.
HEPPNER — J. Currin 20, J. Mahoney
6, K. Gray 5, M. Correa 2, C. Grieb 2, N.
Propheter 1.
3-pointers — CHS 1, HHS 1. Free throws
— CHS 14-28, HHS 9-20. Fouls — HHS 18,
HHS 20. Fouled out — J. Johnson (CHS),
R. Dompier (HHS).
HELIX
50,
PINE
EAGLE 29 — At Halfway,
the Grizzlies used defense to
set the tone for Friday’s Old
Oregon League win on the
road.
Helix came away with 21
steals in the game and scored
40 points in the second and
third quarters combined to
take control of the game and
snap a three-game skid.
Kailey Mize and Arianna
Krol led them with five steals
apiece, and Macey Tullis
scored a game-high 18 points
for Helix (6-5, 2-3 OOL).
Sadie Wilson had a team-
high 11 rebounds to go with
six points.
Katelyn Jensen paced
Pine Eagle (0-10, 0-6) with
11 points.
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GHS
4 21 19
6 — 50
PE
7 10
5
7 — 29
HELIX — M. Tullis 18, A. Krol 6, S.
Wilson 6, C. Bennett 5, H. Christman 4, E.
Fehrenbacker 4, A. Wood 3, K. Mize 3, H.
Fehrenbacker 1.
3-pointers — GHS 4. Free throws — GHS
8-25. Fouls — GHS 9.
SOUTH WASCO 43,
IONE 28 — At Ione, the
Cardinals led at the end of
the first quarter, however
a lack of depth showed as
the game went along, with
South Wasco County taking
the 43-28 victory on Friday
night.
“The girls just got tired
and the substitutes just
couldn’t get rolling,” Ione
coach Nathan Heideman
said. “We rebounded well
and the shots were there, we
just couldn’t get them to go
in.”
Ione (0-13, 0-5 BSL) was
led in scoring by Maggie
Flynn with a game-high 12
points, and she also made
Ione’s two 3-pointers in the
game.
The Cardinals next play at
Horizon Christian today at 4
p.m.
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SWC
10 13
8 12 — 43
IHS
11 5
6
6 — 28
SOUTH WASCO — A. Birman 9, A.
Noland 8, J. Myers 6, J. Noland 5, L. Hull 5,
M. Davis 4, J. Wraught 2, K. Moody 2.
IONE — M. Flynn 12, I. Sandford 7, K.
Bass 5, M. Orem 3, S. Qualls 1.
3-pointers — SWC 1, IHS 2. Free throws
— SWC 4-14, IHS 8-18. Fouls — SWC 18,
IHS 15.
NYSSA 47, RIVERSIDE
26 — At Boardman, the
youth of the Riverside Pirates
showed Friday night as the
Nyssa Bulldogs pressured
them from the start and ran
away with a 47-26 victory.
“Nyssa was very aggres-
sive in the first half,” River-
side coach Clair Costello
said. “We played better in
the second half but we just
couldn’t stop them. They’re
just bigger and quicker than
us and we’re still not up to
that point yet.”
Lacey Mashos led River-
side (8-5, 2-2 EOL) with 13
points and Faith Rosen led
the team with six rebounds.
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NHS
12 9 14 12 — 47
RHS
3 2 10 11 — 26
NYSSA — B. Arredondo 11, K. Hernandez
9, M. Mitchell 8, M. Hartley 6, A. Arredon-
do 5, J. Martinez 3, L. Vela 2, C. Lancaster
2, A. Hernandez 1.
RIVERSIDE — L. Mashos 13, A. Caldera
8, Bi. Avalos 2, A. Hernandez 2, S. Wight-
man 1.
3-pointers — NHS 5, RHS 0. Free throws
— NHS 6-9, RHS 8-15. Fouls — NHS 16,
RHS 12.
BOYS BASKETBALL
WESTON-MCEWEN
71, PILOT ROCK 69 — At
Pilot Rock, Braydon Rudolph
sank a short jumper with two
seconds left on the clock to
give his Weston-McEwen
TigerScots a 71-69 win over
Pilot Rock on Friday night.
Shaw Broncheau led
Weston-McEwen (9-5, 2-0
CBC) with a game-high
26 points and Ethan Reger
pitched in 23 points as the
TigerScots remain unbeaten
in league play. Bryson Pierce
scored 25 points to lead Pilot
Rock (8-6, 1-1) and Chris
Weinke added 22 points —
including a 3-pointer with 15
seconds left in regulation to
tie the game at 69-69.
Pilot Rock next travels to
Heppner today for a 4 p.m.
start, and Weston-McEwen
hosts Stanfield for a 7 p.m.
start.
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W-M
18 27 16 10 — 71
PR
22 18 11 18 — 69
WESTON-MCEWEN — S. Broncheau 26,
E. Reger 23, B. Speed 7, G. Hungerford 6,
J. West 5, B. Rudolph 4.
PILOT ROCK — B. Pierce 25, C. Weinke
22, L. Thieme 8, D. Hasher 6, R. Lankford
4, B. Postma 4.
3-pointers — W-M 6, PR 2. Free throws
— W-M 9-24, PR 15-22. Fouls — W-M 22,
PR 21. Fouled out — J. Speed (W-M), D.
Hasher, B. Postma (PR).
HEPPNER
64,
CULVER 38 — At Heppner,
the Heppner Mustangs
picked up their first league
win on the season with a
64-38 victory over Culver on
Friday night.
Logan Grieb led Heppner
(9-4, 1-2 CBC) with 12 points
and added four assists, Wyatt
Steagall scored 11 points and
eight rebounds and Kevin
Smith pitched in nine points
and nine boards.
“We came out with a lot of
intensity defensively, which
is something we’ve been
talking about,” said Heppner
coach Jeremy Rosenbalm. “It
was a good team win.”
Heppner led 34-18 at
halftime and shot 42 percent
from the field (26 for 62) in
the game. Culver was paced
by Mike Davis with 16
points and shot 16 for 48 (33
percent).
Heppner next hosts Pilot
Rock today at 4 p.m.
————
CHS
8 10 12
8 — 38
HHS
15 19 15 15 — 64
CULVER — M. Davis 16, W. Basl 7, M.
Krueger 5, D. Gutierrez 4, I. Stevens 4, T.
Oliveres 2.
HEPPNER — L. Grieb 12, W. Steagall 11,
C. Hedman 9, K. Smith 9, N. Dias Martins
7, J. Lindsay 7, H. Nichols 4, K. Murray 4,
B. Wolters 1.
3-pointers — CHS 1, HHS 6. Free throws
— CHS 5-15, HHS 6-19. Fouls — CHS 20,
HHS 18.
NIXYAAWII
57,
JOSEPH 52 — At Pend-
leton, the Nixyaawii Golden
Eagles used a big fourth
quarter to push past the
Joseph Eagles 57-52 to stay
unbeaten in Old Oregon
League play on Friday night.
Behind big performances
from Mick Schimmel and
Noah Enright, Nixyaawii
outscored Joseph 24-11 in
the fourth quarter to get the
win.
“We put more press
on them in the full court
switched to a man-to-man
from a zone,” Nixyaawii
coach Shane Rivera said,
“and we were forced to go
small due to foul trouble and
I think our quickness made a
big difference.”
Schimmel finished with
a game-high 27 points and
Enright finished with 17.
The two teams played
the first quarter and a few
minutes of the second at
Nixyaawii’s gym, before
play was called due to a slip-
pery court. It’s an issue that’s
plagued Nixyaawii in a few
games this season, and both
coaches felt that it wasn’t
safe to keep playing.
Rivera said thanks to
some quick thinking, both
teams were able to make the
short trip to Pendleton High
School to finish out the game.
“It’s an odd situation but
it worked out for both sides,”
Rivera said.
Nixyaawii next hosts
Wallowa today at 5:30 p.m.,
and that game will also be
played at Pendleton High
School.
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JHS
15 18
8 11 — 52
NCS
11 11 11 24 — 57
JOSEPH — C. Murray 12, T. Homan 11, J.
Chrisman 9, A. Borgerding 9, C. DeLury 8,
T. Wandschneider 3.
NIXYAAWII — M. Schimmel 27, N. Enright
17, D. Barkley 6, C. Case 4, S. Hoisington 2,
J. St. Pierre 1.
3-pointers — JHS 5, NCS 8. Free throws
— JHS 11-18, NCS 9-14. Fouls — JHS 15,
NCS 15.
NYSSA 55, RIVERSIDE
40 — At Boardman, the
Nyssa Bulldogs used their
height advantage to smother
the Riverside Pirates in the
first half, building a lead too
large for the Pirates to come
back from in a 55-40 victory
on Friday night.
“We didn’t want to take
the ball at them in the first
half,” Riverside coach Clair
Costello said. “We did in the
second half and we hit some
shots finally and we actually
beat them (points-wise) in
the second half. We just have
to come out better because
we do this game-in and
game-out.”
Eon Castillo led River-
side (4-10, 0-4 EOL) with
nine points while Mason
Hegar had eight and Jassiel
Carmona had seven.
Riverside was scheduled
to play Vale today, but the
game has been moved to
Tuesday.
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NHS
13 14 11 17 — 55
RHS
7 2 13 18 — 40
NYSSA — A. Gonzalez 14, B. Thompson
11, J. Ortiz 10, P. Chavez 10, O. Tellez 6, I.
Hernandez 2, J. Fuentez 2.
RIVERSIDE — E. Castillo 9, M. Hegar 8,
J. Carmona 7, F. Aparicio 4, R. Rosales 3, J.
Garcia 3, A. Hernandez 2, A. Martinez 2, D.
Rodriguez 2.
3-pointers NHS 4, RHS 3. Free throws —
NHS 15-20, RHS 7-8. Fouls — NHS 9, RHS
21. Fouled out — F. Aparicio (RHS).
HELIX
43,
PINE
EAGLE 22 — At Halfway,
John Shaw had a double-
double with 15 points and
14 rebounds to lead the
Grizzlies to an Old Oregon
League win on Friday night.
Justin Williams added 13
points for Helix, which led
27-4 at halftime after opening
the game on a 12-1 run.
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scores and information by
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emailing sports@eastorego-
nian.com.
Tennis
Serena reaches 4th
round at Aussie Open
without dropping a set
By JOHN PYE
Associated Press
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Pendleton’s Wyatt Morris (11) looks for a teammate Fri-
day at Warberg Court during a Columbia River Confer-
ence game against Hood River.
Pendleton’s Tyler Newsom (22) looks for a teammate
Friday at Warberg Court as Dakota Kurahara (41), of
Hood River, defends.
BUCKAROOS: Will be tested with back-to-back
games next week against Baker and La Grande
Continued from 1B
Smith said. “It’s really hard
missing this many games,
getting this many games
canceled, but it can never be
an excuse or anything like
that. It’s a big test for us and I
feel like we’re heading in the
right direction.”
The Bucks will look to
make up a few of those lost
match-ups next week when
they are scheduled to host
Baker on Monday and La
Grande on Tuesday, both at
7 p.m.
Then it will be back into
CRC play at The Dalles on
Friday.
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HRV
PHS
12 12
24 21
4
11
12 — 40
13 — 69
HOOD RIVER — D. Kurahara 20, M.
Williams 4, Z. Moore 4, B. Wilson 3, J.
Mears 2, T. Wells 2, E. Siekkinen 2, C. Orr
2, J. Tactay 1, T. Hough.
PENDLETON — C. Smith 16, W. Morris
15, K. Curtis 7, S. Jerome 7, J. Szumski 6, J.
Stuvland 5, R. Russell 4, T. Newsom 4, D.
Thomas 3, R. Scott 2, S. Machado.
3-pointers — HRV 3-11; PHS 6-18. Free
throws — HRV 19-28; PHS 9-13.
PENDLETON: Davies, McGlothan big on the boards
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called one of better perfor-
mances this season.
“She knocked down some
outside shots, but she really
drove to the hole and dished
the ball out well,” Porter said.
“She also went 7-8 from the
free throw line which was
huge for us tonight.”
Also turning in strong
performance were Maureen
Davies with 12 points and
eight rebounds — five on the
offensive end — and Kalan
McGlothan had nine points
and six rebounds.
At halftime, Pendleton
held a 25-21 lead, though
Hood River (6-5, 0-1) scored
18 of its 21 points from
3-point range. That prompted
Porter to challenge his team
to step up their defense on the
perimeter — which they did
as Hood River hit just two 3s
for the rest of the game.
“The girls did a great job
in taking a responsibility
there and played hard,”
Porter said.
The win was big for
the Buckaroos, who were
playing in just their third
game since the first of the
year.
“Oh it’s huge since we’ve
been sputtering to play with
the weather,” Porter said.
“Hood River hasn’t been
able to play much either and
it showed some spots but in
the end we were able to get
it done.”
Pendleton
next
hits
the floor to host Baker on
Monday with a 5:15 p.m.
tip-off at Warberg Court, and
then travels to La Grande on
Tuesday.
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PHS
10 15 10 16 — 51
HRV
9 12 17 10 — 48
PENDLETON — H. Greb 18, M. Davies
12, K. McGlothan 9, K. Bradt 6, E. Nirschl
5, H. Porter 1.
HOOD RIVER VALLEY — E. Curtis 18,
H. Baker 10, L. Orr 7, H. McNerny 6, A.
Kinoshita 3, N. Lopez 2.
3-pointers — PHS 2, HRV 8. Free throws
— PHS 21-31, HRV 8-20. Fouls — PHS 15,
HRV 18.
MELBOURNE,
Australia
—
Serena
Williams is still on track
in her bid to win a record
23rd Grand Slam title.
The six-time Australian
Open winner beat fellow
American Nicole Gibbs
6-1, 6-3 in
the third
round on
Saturday,
when she
didn’t face
a
break
point until
she was
Williams
serving for
the match.
Dropping serve in that
game was her only lapse in
a match that then extended
just beyond the hour — to
63 minutes to be precise.
That made it one minute
and one game longer
than her only other match
against Gibbs.
Williams started the
tournament with difficult
assignments in the first
two rounds, but also got
through those — against
Belinda Bencic, with a
career-high ranking of
7, and Lucie Safarova, a
French Open finalist in
2015 — without dropping
a set.
She has set the tone for
the tournament. Williams
will next play No. 16
Barbora Strycova, who
beat No. 21 Caroline
Garcia 6-2, 7-5.
Ekaterina Makarova led
by a set and 4-0 but needed
three sets and almost three
hours to finally beat WTA
Finals champion Dominika
Cibulkova 6-2, 6-7 (3), 6-3.
“An amazing fight,”
Makarova said of her first
win over sixth-seeded
Cibulkova,
the
2014
finalist at Melbourne Park.
“I got, to be honest, a bit
tight at 4-0 in the second
set. But I’m still here. I
love this Grand Slam.”
In a momentum-swing
match featuring some long
streaks of games and 11
service breaks, Makarova
got the decisive break in
the eighth game of the
deciding set and closed it
next.
Makarova will play
either 2016 semifinalist
Johanna Konta, who beat
her in the fourth round
here last year, or former
No. 1-ranked Caroline
Wozniacki.
Mirjana Lucic-Baroni
continued her unlikely run
with a 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 win
over Maria Sakkari, and
so did American qualifier
Jennifer Brady.
Before this week, the
34-year-old Lucic-Baroni
hadn’t won a match at
Melbourne Park since her
debut at the Australian
Open in 1998. The 19-year
gap in between match wins
at a Grand Slam tourna-
ment broke the record set
by Kimiko Date-Krumm,
who went 17 years between
match wins at Wimbledon.
Lucic-Baroni reached
the
semifinals
of
Wimbledon in 1999 as a
17-year-old and captured
the
Australian
Open
doubles title a year before
that with Martina Hingis.
On the men’s side, No.
8 Dominic Thiem beat
Benoit Paire 6-1, 4-6, 6-4,
6-4 to set up a fourth-round
match against No. 11
David Goffin, who ended
Ivo Karlovic’s run 6-3, 6-2,
6-4.
The
37-year-old
Karlovic’s win in the first
round set an endurance
record — the 84 games
in the win over Horacio
Zeballos, which ended
22-20 in the fifth, was an
Open-era mark for the
tournament.