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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2017
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HERMISTON
Track & Field
Bulldogs bewildered by OSAA Cisneros,
Latest reclassification proposals
“To be honest, after communicating
Robinson
remain unkind to Hermiston
with other (athletic directors) around
the state, we all got a good
leading
laugh out of it.”
Vikings
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
Hoping to better help his school, Hermiston Athletic Director
Larry Usher made the trip to the OSAA offi ces in Wilsonville
on Jan. 30 for the reclassifi cation committee meeting.
However, Usher said he departed the meeting feeling as if
his testimony “fell on deaf ears.”
See BULLDOGS/2B
— Larry Usher,
Hermiston Athletic Director on the OSAA’s latest classifi cation proposal
that would have the Bulldogs playing in a league that would include
teams from Bend as well as east Portland.
NBA
McCollum sinks buzzer-beater
Portland
Trail Blaz-
ers’ C.J.
McCollum
(3) and
Damian
Lillard (0)
celebrate a
basket by
McCollum
against
the Dallas
Mavericks
during the
second half
of an NBA
basketball
game in
Dallas,
Tuesday,
Feb. 7, 2017.
McCollum
had 32
points and
Lillard had
29 in the
team’s 114-
113 win.
AP Photo/Tony
Gutierrez
Former Bulldog,
Buckaroo coming off
another big performance
East Oregonian
Alex Cisneros and Donte Robinson
remained in top form for the Portland State
indoor track and fi eld teams at meets over
the weekend.
Coming off his record-breaking cross
country
season,
redshirt sophomore
Cisneros has kept his
momentum rolling
during his fi rst indoor
track and fi eld season.
Cisneros, a 2014
Hermiston
High
graduate, broke his
second school record
at a meet in Seattle
Cisneros
on Jan. 27-28, and
this past weekend
ran the Vikings’ top
time of the season in
two events at meets in
Moscow, Idaho and
Pullman, Washington.
On Friday, Feb.
3, Cisneros placed
second in the 3,000
meters at the Idaho
Duals in a time of
Robinson
8:41.75, and on
Saturday, Feb. 4,
he was third in the mile in 4:20.63 at the
Cougar Indoor Invitational.
See VIKINGS/2B
PENDLETON
Trail Blazers guard scores final seven points to top Mavericks
By DAVE JACKSON
Associated Press
DALLAS — On a night when
Dirk Nowitzki turned back the
clock for the Dallas Mavericks,
C.J. McCollum had the fi nal
answer.
McCollum scored 32 points,
the last two on a runner from
the top of the lane with 0.9
seconds left to
give the Portland
Trail
Blazers
Portland
a 114-113 win
over the Dallas
Mavericks
on
Tuesday night.
Nowitzki fi nished with
25 points that included two
clutch 3-pointers, the second a
potential game-winner with 3.9
114
seconds left.
Portland
and Dallas —
Dallas
fi ghting for the
eighth and fi nal
playoff
spot
in the Western
Conference - battled through
a tense fourth quarter that saw
the teams trade 13-0 runs at one
point, then exchange leads six
113
times in the fi nal minute.
McCollum scored Portland’s
last seven points. On the fi nal
sequence, he took Mason Plum-
lee’s inbounds pass and split a
double-team of Harrison Barnes
and Wesley Matthews to break
into the clear.
“Once I caught it, I knew I
was going to attack right away,”
See BLAZERS/2B
Prep Roundup
Umatilla boys rebound for runaway league win at Vale
Cranston leads all
scorers with 17 points
East Oregonian
VALE — Following a
disappointing loss to Nyssa
on Monday, the Umatilla boys
basketball team was ready to
redeem themselves on Tuesday
night against Vale.
“The kids had a sour taste
from last night and they came
out and played like they wanted
it tonight,” Umatilla coach Derek
Lete said.
Umatilla started fast against
Vale, taking a 32-10 lead into the
halftime break and never let off
the gas as the fi nished off a 57-31
victory on Tuesday night. Seth
Cranston led all scorers with 17
points for Umatilla (14-7, 6-2
EOL), which Lete was pleased
to see.
“(Seth’s) really struggled
scoring this year and I talked
to him before the game about
his confi dence,” he said. “He’s
consistently one of the best
athletes on the fl oor every night,
but it always comes down to
shooting ... when he makes one
small mistake he beats himself
up. But tonight he brought a lot
of energy and it was nice to see
him have a game like this.”
Also reaching double fi gures
for Umatilla was Kaden Webb
with 12 points and Sebastian
Garcia with 10 points.
Umatilla will next host River-
side on Friday at 7:30 p.m.
———
UHS
13 19 17
8 — 57
VHS
4 6 15
6 — 31
UMATILLA — S. Cranston 17, K. Webb 12, S.
Garcia 10, T. Morris 5, T. Durfey 5, M. Garcilazo 4,
J. Maret 2, S. Miller 1.
VALE — J. Delong 6, R. Gomez 5, N. Carlson 5,
K. Brown 4, C. Kesey 4, F. Medrano 3, S. Clark 2.
3-pointers — UHS 11, VHS 2. Free throws —
UHS 5-12, VHS 3-11. Fouls — UHS 15, VHS 12.
Fouled out — T. Durfey (UHS).
See PREPS/2B
Schimmel big
in fi rst start
CTUIR member leads
Spanish-league team to win
East Oregonian
Jude Schimmel scored 15 points in her
fi rst professional start to lead Cadi La Seu
over Al-Qazeres 68-56 on Saturday, Feb. 4.
Schimmel had played 37 minutes total
as a reserve in her fi rst four games in
Spain’s fi rst tier Liga
Femenina de Balon-
cesto (LFB), and just
seven in the last two
games. She logged
26 minutes against
Al-Qazeres and was 4
for 6 from three-point
range while adding
a two-pointer and a
free throw to reach
Schimmel
her team-high total.
She also had four
rebounds, three steals and an assist.
Since joining the team in January,
Schimmel is second in three-point shooting
percentage at 38.5. She is a member of
the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla
Indian Reservation.
Cadi La Seu (8-10) has eight games left
in its season and plays next on Saturday,
Feb. 18, against Araski (9-9).
Sports shorts
Alabama wins after four overtimes
Falcons hire Sarkisian to run offense
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) — After
only one game as Alabama’s offensive
coordinator, Steve Sarkisian is heading to the
NFL.
Less than 24 hours after Kyle Shanahan
left to become head coach of the
San Francisco 49ers , the Falcons
announced Tuesday that Sarki-
sian would be his replacement.
The stunning move came
with Sarkisian less than a month
into what was to be his fi rst
Sarkisian
full season running Alabama’s
offense, a job he took over for the national
championship game for Lane Kiffi n.
Even though Sarkisian has only one year
of pro experience, Quinn expects a smooth
transition for the new coordinator, who is
familiar with many of the wide zone blocking
schemes that worked so well for Atlanta on its
way to the Super Bowl.
“Because it’s there. It’s
awesome to come out
here and do this. It
brings me back to why I
play the game. It’s kind
of crazy. It’s kind of
fun. It’s the stuff you did
when you were a kid.”
— Jerry Kelly
PGA professional when asked
why he would play a practice
round in 40 mph gusts and
sideways rain on Tuesday at the
AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Riley Norris scored
six of his 11 points in the fourth and fi nal overtime,
including the go-ahead free throws with 56 seconds
left, and Alabama fi nally put away No. 19 South
Carolina 90-86 on Tuesday night, over-
coming a career night by Gamecocks
star Sindarius Thornwell.
Thornwell fi nished with career
highs of 44 points and 21 rebounds.
He made 25 free throws, surpassing
LSU great “Pistol” Pete Maravich’s mark of 21 in
a Southeastern Conference game. But it was not
enough for South Carolina (19-5, 9-2).
Alabama (14-9, 7-4) had a 17-point lead in
the fi rst half and a 12-point edge with less than 5
minutes to go, watching the Gamecocks rally back..
The Crimson Tide trailed 70-63 with 2:12 left in
the second overtime, yet outscored South Carolina
11-4 to tie things once more. It was the Gamecocks
who rallied in the fi nal 90 seconds of the third
overtime after trailing 82-77.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1936 — Jay Berwanger,
University of Chicago half-
back and Heisman Trophy
winner, is the fi rst player ever
selected in the NFL Draft.
The Philadelphia Eagles
make the pick and eventually
trade his rights to the Chicago
Bears.
1997 — Scotty Bowman
becomes the fi rst NHL
coach to win 1,000 games
as Detroit beats Pittsburgh
6-5 on Brendan Shanahan’s
overtime goal. Bowman, the
coach of six Stanley Cup
champion teams, is 1,000-
452-255 in regular-season
games and 162-101 in the
playoffs.
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