SPORTS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2017
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PENDLETON
Prep Roundup
Bucks win only home dual Bulldogs
Pend-
leton’s
Caleb
Tremper
wrestles
Hood Riv-
er’s Justin
Lane
in the
106-pound
bout of
Wednes-
day’s dual
in Pendle-
ton. Lane
won the
bout, but
Pendleton
won the
match 54-
25.
Staff photo by
Eric Singer
rebound,
win CRC
opener
Hermiston beats The Dalles
in boys basketball
East Oregonian
THE DALLES — After coming out fl at
in its fi nal league tune-up, the Hermiston
boys basketball team got back on track
Wednesday with a 75-52 rout of The Dalles
to open Columbia River Conference play.
“I just think it was from our defense,
we got out and pressured a little full-court,
half-court and that turned into a lot of easy
buckets on offense,” said Hermiston coach
Casey Arstein. “We did a much better job
taking care of the ball and executing and
pushing the ball when needed. We got
zoned a lot, but still got some good looks
at the rim.”
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ATHENA
TigerScots
pay tribute
Pendleton earns key district victory over Hood River
Weston-McEwen Hall of
Fame to honor 2017 class at
Friday’s basketball games
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
The Pendleton Buckaroos have competed in three
varsity duals inside Class 5A’s Special District 4 this
season, and have now won all three.
Pendleton overcame some strug-
gles at the lighter weight classes on
Wednesday night to take down the
Hood River Valley Eagles 54-25 on Hood River
Wednesday night. It was the lone
home wrestling dual of the season,
with special recognition for the
Buckaroo senior wrestlers before-
hand in their fi nal home match.
Pendleton
“We did some really good
things, but I think we need to get a
little better at those lighter weights
at competing when the chips are
down,” Pendleton coach Fred Phillips said after the
match. “But all-in-all, we won and for the most part
did a pretty good job but we obviously have things
25
54
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Lakers
center
Tarik Black
scrambles
on the fl oor
for a loose
ball as Trail
Blazers
forward
Meyers
Leonard
and guard
Allen Crab-
be defend
Wednesday
in Portland.
AP Photo/
Steve Dykes
Staff photo by Eric Singer
Pendleton’s Greg Lee goes for the pin against Hood River’s Alexander Pe-
droza in the 220-pound bout of Wednesday’s dual in Pendleton. Pendleton
won 54-25.
Gladiators, Scotties, Tigers and Tiger-
Scots.
High school students in Athena and
Weston have called themselves several
things throughout the years, and on Friday
the Weston-McEwen Hall of Fame will
induct four individuals and one team that
represent three different phases of the
school’s history between the girls’ and
boys’ basketball games against Culver.
Bill “W.H.” Hansell (Athena, Class of
1938), Merle Mathwich (McEwen, 1950),
and Clell Hasenbank (Weston-McEwen,
2006) will be inducted as well as three-
time state-champion volleyball coach
and athletic director Shawn White (1996-
present) and the 2005 state championship
girls basketball team. Hansell is being
inducted posthumously.
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NBA
Lillard, McColllum lead Blazers over Lakers
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
PORTLAND — Damian
Lillard scored 24 points and
the Trail Blazers beat the Los
Angeles Lakers 105-98 on
Wednesday night, capping
Portland’s celebration of the
40th anniversary of the team’s
1977 NBA championship.
CJ McCollum added 24
points for the Blazers, who have
won 11 straight regular-season
Los Angeles
Portland
98
105
games against the Lakers.
Los Angeles was led by
Lou Williams with 31 points,
including
six
3-pointers.
The Lakers were coming off
a 122-73 loss at Dallas on
Sunday, the most lopsided loss
in franchise history.
The Lakers trailed by as
many as 14 points in the third
quarter, but Williams made
three consecutive 3-pointers to
get Los Angeles within three
at 89-86 with just over nine
minutes to go.
After the Lakers got within
a point, Allen Crabbe’s pull-up
jumper gave the Blazers a
91-88 lead with 6:38 left. Nick
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Sports shorts
Adu to join Timbers for practice
PORTLAND (AP) — Freddy Adu will
train with the Portland Timbers during the
preseason, the team said Wednesday.
Adu, 27, is expected to join the Timbers this
week in training camp in Tucson,
Arizona, the team said.
When he was 14, Adu was
the No. 1 pick in the 2004 Major
League Soccer SuperDraft,
going to D.C. United. He is
the youngest player to score in
league history.
Adu
He left MLS for the fi rst time
in 2007 and bounced around Europe before
a two-year stint with the Philadelphia Union
from 2011-13. Overall, he played for 13 teams
in 13 years.
Adu most recently played for the NASL’s
Tampa Bay Rowdies but parted ways with the
team last year.
“That’s just unfortunate.
I think they kind of are
a little too hard on our
team for no reason ... I
don’t know if that should
be the retribution. I don’t
know what the course
should be. But I think
that’s harsh.“
— Richard Sherman
The Seattle Seahawks defen-
sive back talked with ESPN on
Wednesday about the possibility
of the Seahawks losing a sec-
ond-round draft pick for failing
to disclose Sherman’s knee injury
during the season.
Boston the latest NBA team to
secure a jersey sponsor
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Celtics will
take to the parquet court next season wearing a
General Electric Co. logo on their uniforms.
The team said Wednesday it
has a three-year deal that makes
the company its exclusive data
analytics partner. The agreement
calls for a GE patch in green and
white, not the traditional GE blue
on jerseys above the player’s left breast.
The Celtics are the third NBA team to
announce a deal to wear a sponsor’s patch on
its jersey since the league gave the go-ahead.
The Philadelphia 76ers and Sacramento Kings
also have deals that were worth a reported $5
million apiece.
Financial terms of the Celtics deal were not
announced.
GE moved its headquarters from
Connecticut to Boston last summer.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1913 — Jim Thorpe gives up
his track medals from the 1912
Olympic games as a result of his
having been a professional. He
had been paid $25 for playing in
a semipro baseball game.
2002 — Jennifer Capriati
produces the greatest come-
back in a Grand Slam fi nal
to overcome Martina Hingis
and defend her Australian
Open title. Capriati saved four
match points before clinching
a 4-6, 7-6 (7), 6-2 victory over
Hingis.
2007 — Mark Recchi
scores two goals, including
the 500th of his career, in
Pittsburgh’s 4-3 shootout win
over Dallas.
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