SPORTS
Thursday, February 9, 2017
East Oregonian
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Women’s College Basketball
Pac-12 women’s title race likely in for a close finish
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated PRess
Stanford’s loss at home to UCLA
on Monday night signaled that the
Pac-12 women could be in for a
wild finish to the regular season.
The Bruins’ 85-76 victory over
the Cardinal popped Oregon State
into sole possession of the top spot
in the league standings at 11-1
in conference. Washington and
Stanford each have just two league
losses, while UCLA has three.
“Wow, this conference is really,
really good,” UCLA coach Cori
Close said after the win at Maples
Pavilion.
The Pac-12’s prowess is
reflected in the polls: Five confer-
ence teams are ranked in the AP
Top 25. The Cardinal are ranked
No. 8, while Oregon State is No. 9
— its highest ranking of the season
— and the Bruins are at No. 15.
Washington is at No. 10, while
Arizona State is No. 23.
UCLA’s victory on Monday was
its first at Maples since 1999. The
Beavers also beat Stanford there
72-69 in double overtime earlier
this season. Oregon State had never
won on the Cardinals’ home court.
Stanford’s latest loss came just
two days after longtime coach Tara
VanDerveer won her 1,000th career
game, becoming just the second
women’s coach to reach the mark.
UCLA was also the only team to
beat Oregon State in the conference
In this Jan.
29, 2017,
file photo,
Oregon
State
guard Syd-
ney Wiese
(24) breaks
through
Oregon
defense
to score
during
an NCAA
college
basketball
game in
Corvallis.
Anibal Ortiz/The
Gazette-Times via
AP, file
season: The Bruins won at Pauley
Pavilion 66-56 on Jan. 13.
“Six more games,” VanDerveer
said about the remaining confer-
ence slate. “Anymore, the confer-
ence race is about seeding for the
Pac-12 tournament. That’s the team
that gets the automatic bid. (And)
you’re not playing a balanced
schedule. For UCLA, they go
on the road again next weekend.
You’ve got to come out and play
every game and be aggressive.”
The Bruins and Beavers will face
off at Gill Coliseum on Sunday, one
of the key games in the final three
weekends of the regular season.
Oregon State has won seven
straight, certainly showing no drop
off from the team that went to the
Final Four last season. Before the
Bruins, the Beavers will face USC
on Friday night.
Oregon State is projected as a No.
2 seed in the latest NCAA Tourna-
ment selection committee rankings
that were released Monday before
UCLA’s victory over Stanford. The
committee will do one final top 16
reveal on Feb. 20 and the bracket
will be unveiled on March 13.
The Pac-12 is boosted because
by the nation’s most difficult
strength of schedule. Based on RPI,
Oregon State has the country’s
sixth-toughest season.
The Beavers, who won a share
of the Pac-12’s regular-season title
last year before winning the confer-
ence tournament, get four of their
last six games at home. They’ll
host Stanford the final weekend of
Pac-12 Standings
Team
Conf.
1) Oregon State 11-1
2) Washington 10-2
3) Stanford
10-2
4) UCLA
9-3
5) Arizona State 6-6
6) California
5-7
7) Oregon
5-7
8) Wash. State 5-7
9) Utah
3-9
10) Colorado
3-9
11) USC
3-9
12) Arizona
2-10
Ovr.
22-2
22-3
20-4
18-5
15-8
17-7
15-9
10-13
14-9
13-10
12-11
11-12
the regular season.
Because of the unbalanced
schedule, the Beavers faced
Washington only once this season,
a 73-70 victory at Gill on Jan. 1.
The Huskies’ only other loss in
conference came against Stanford,
72-68 on Jan. 29.
Washington plays in Sunday’s
other matchup between ranked
teams when it hosts Arizona State.
UCLA has the toughest schedule
down the stretch, in Oregon
this weekend before hosting the
Washington schools and closing at
Arizona. But they’re boosted by the
win against Stanford on the road.
“A win like this pays dividends for
us,” Close said. “It’s a big hurdle.”
The conference tournament is
March 2-5 at KeyArena in Seattle.
The winner gets an automatic berth
to the NCAA Tournament.
NASCAR
NASCAR announces rules updates, damaged cars not allowed back on track
By JENNA FRYER
Associated Press
CONCORD, N.C. —
NASCAR will not permit
damaged race cars to return
to the track this season unless
the repairs can be made on pit
road within a tight window.
The ban on wrecked race
cars continuing to compete
was announced Wednesday in
a series of a rule updates for
the 2017 season.
Beginning later this month
at Daytona, if a car receives
enough damage during an
on-track incident that it must
go to the garage for repairs,
the team will not be allowed
to repair it in an effort to get
back on track. Damaged
vehicles can be repaired on
pit road during a five-minute
cumulative time limit.
Under the new process:
— Body repairs are
limited to the removal or
reattachment of original parts
with fasteners and tape.
— Rods and supports may
be used to reinforce original
panels.
— New or previously
unused body panels are
prohibited.
NASCAR said the new rule
prevents severely damaged
race cars from returning to
the track and creating a safety
hazard for other teams. Under
NASCAR’s new format of
running races in stages, it
also means a car that wrecks
in an early stage won’t be
eligible to return for the final
race-winning stage.
Not allowing teams to
repair cars in the garage
should be a significant saving
on costs for teams.
It also could have cost
Jimmie Johnson the 2009
title. He was involved in
an early accident at Texas
Motor Speedway, and his
crew worked feverishly in
the garage to make enough
repairs to get Johnson back
on the track. That effort by the
Hendrick Motorsports crew
is widely considered to have
saved his title chances.
NASCAR also announced
that it will have a traveling
safety crew starting this season,
creating a consistent medical
staff that drivers have been
pushing for the last several years.
The safety crew will come
from American Medical
Response and ensure that a
physician and paramedics
are in the safety vehicle at all
Monster Energy Cup events.
AMR will also provide a
small group that will travel
to each race, and a physician
who will serve as NASCAR’s
primary doctor.
NASCAR had long relied
on local emergency crews
to treat drivers while rival
series have dedicated teams.
IndyCar’s team is lauded as
the best in the business, and
is credited with saving James
Hinchcliffe’s life when he
crashed during a 2015 prac-
tice for the Indianapolis 500.
That accident raised another
round of calls from NASCAR
drivers for a consistent and
regular crew.
“This partnership further
strengthens
NASCAR’s
medical response capability,
making our well-established,
medical response system even
better,” said Steve O’Donnell,
NASCAR executive vice
president and chief racing
development officer. “AMR
is a leader in the emergency
services sector, and its doctors
and paramedics add another
layer of expertise to the
immediate response team.”
AMR will position doctors
and paramedics in a chase
vehicle along with two
NASCAR Track Services
team members for on-track
incidents.
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