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NCAA Women’s Basketball
Oregon upsets Duke to make fi rst Sweet 16
By JOEDY MCCREARY
Associated Press
DURHAM, N.C. —
When it comes to NCAA
Tournament experience, all
of the Oregon Ducks are like
freshmen — because they’d
never been here until now.
Fortunately for the Ducks,
their actual freshmen are
playing far beyond their ages.
Freshman Ruthy Hebard
had 20 points and 15
rebounds, and Oregon earned
its fi rst Sweet 16 berth by
upsetting Duke 74-65 on
Monday night in the second
round of the tournament.
“It’s funny, we never really
( 2 2 - 1 3 )
put a goal on
Second Round
become the
how far we
fi rst No. 10
can go, just
seed in a
because
we
decade
to
didn’t know
Oregon
Duke
reach
the
what we had,”
round of 16.
Oregon coach
The Ducks,
Kelly Graves
said. “We’ve kind of attacked in their fi rst tournament since
the entire season as a work 2005, had never advanced past
in progress. ... With a young the second round in their 12
team, you kind of have to do previous appearances. Now
they’re on to Bridgeport,
that.
“House money, that’s a Connecticut, to take on third-
good way to put it,” he added. seeded Maryland (32-2) in a
“We’re playing with house regional semifi nal.
money.”
“I think what we’re all
Maite Cazorla added 17 going to take is just, we’ve got
points and Lexi Bando fi nished to play our hardest,” Hebard
with 14 points to help Oregon said. “No one’s guaranteed
74
65
a spot. Seeds don’t mean
anything ... and hopefully,
we’ll keep winning.”
Lexie Brown scored 25
points for the second-seeded
Blue Devils (28-6), who have
been upset at home in the
tournament’s second round
twice since 2014. They played
without guard Kyra Lambert,
who tore her left anterior
cruciate ligament in the fi rst
round against Hampton.
Oregon was in control all
night — never trailing after
the fi rst 3 minutes, method-
ically stretching its lead to
15 on back-to-back 3s by
Bando and Cazorla early in
the fourth quarter.
AP Photo/Gerry Broome
Oregon’s Lexi Bando, center, jumps into the arms of
Mallory McGwire as Sierra Campisano and Justine Hall
(3) celebrate beating Duke on Monday in Durham, N.C.
PENDLETON
Prep Roundup
Rockets slip past Cougars Bucks get
bats going
Weinke’s sixth-
inning hit lifts
Pilot Rock
PHS softball improves to
3-0; Baseball gets fi rst win
in road split
East Oregonian
ECHO — It wasn’t the
prettiest season-opener for the
Pilot Rock softball team, but
in the end it got the result it
wanted.
Pilot Rock fought through
some unkind weather and a
stingy Echo Cougars team to
head home with a 8-7 victory
on Saturday afternoon. A
two-out triple off the bat of
Sara Weinke in the top of the
sixth scored two and put the
Rockets (1-0) on top 8-7 for
good.
“We had runners on second
and third and I was just hoping
for a good single,” Pilot Rock
coach Darin Fitzpatrick said.
“But she (Weinke) crushed one
to straightaway center over the
center fi elders head.”
Weinke along with Bekah
Roe and Rhyanne Oates each
had two hits apiece in the
game for Pilot Rock, and Jacey
Wilson added one hit, two runs
and two RBIs. Tehya Ostrom
pitched all seven innings for
the Rockets, and allowed three
hits, seven runs and six walks
to go with eight strikeouts.
Echo’s (0-2) big, six-run
inning in the third came with
mother nature’s help, as Fitz-
patrick said the skies opened
up and a downpour of rain
began, making it tough for
Ostrom to control the ball well.
Monique Montoya led
the Cougars offense with a
2-for-4 day at the plate with
a run scored, and Samantha
McQuown tallied Echo’s only
other hit. Alyssa Ray got the
start in the circle, and allowed
eight runs, seven hits and four
walks over seven innings with
eight strikeouts.
UP NEXT
Echo next hosts Elgin on
Tuesday for a doubleheader
starting at 1 p.m., while Pilot
Rock will play Scio (11 a.m.)
and Gaston (5 p.m.) on Friday
in the Pilot Rock Tournament.
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R H E
PR
003 302
0 — 8 7 3
EHS
006 100
0 — 7 3 1
(PR) T. Ostrom and R. Oates. (EHS) A. Ray.
W — T. Ostrom, L — A. Ray.
East Oregonian
St. Helen’s Taylor Dow led off the game with
a home run, but Pendleton pitcher Alexi Brehaut
didn’t let that rattle her in her fi rst start on the
rubber this season.
Brehaut fi red back with nine strikeouts and
no walks, and allowed just four
Softball
hits as the Buckaroos got their
bats going for a 12-2 win in
fi ve innings on Saturday in a
non-league softball game.
St. Helens
“She settled right in and did
a really good job throwing to
her spots the rest of the game,”
said Pendleton coach Tim Cary
of his junior hurler.
The Bucks (3-0) quickly got
Pendleton
the run back in the bottom of
the fi rst, then added four in the
second and seven in the third to
take over.
Brehaut went 3-for-3 with two RBIs at the
plate, and Rylee Gentner and Kila Solomon each
had two doubles while going 2-for-3. Peyton
Hergert added three RBIs on a 2-for-4 game
and Lauren Richards and Kirah McGlothan also
drove in two.
Cary said he wasn’t happy with the team’s
three errors in the fi eld, though.
“Our bats fi nally came alive, so that’s nice to
see, but our defense took a step back,” he said.
“We’ll take the victory that’s for sure, and this
gives us some good coaching points early in the
season.”
Pendleton’s next game is Tuesday when it
hosts La Grande at 4:30 p.m.
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12
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Cougar runner Alyssa Ray (4) and Pilot Rock catcher Rhyanne Oates (6) converge at the
plate Saturday in Echo. Ray was ruled out.
Pilot Rock’s
Marissa
Sutherland
lets one go
by during
Saturday’s
game
against
Echo.
Staff photo by
Kathy Aney
3B — S. Weinke (PR).
BASEBALL
STANFIELD
13,
DESALES (WA) 1 — At
Walla Walla, the Stanfi eld
Tigers picked up win No. 1 on
the season with a 13-1 victory
over DeSales in fi ve innings on
Saturday morning.
Stanfi eld (1-1) piled up 15
hits on the day and six of the
nine Tigers had at least two
hits on the day. Where Stan-
fi eld really excelled was on
the mound, where the Tigers
allowed just one unearned run,
three hits and four walks to go
with 11 strikeouts.
It was the fi rst appearances
on the mound from Stanfi eld’s
regulars, with Brody Woods
getting the start while Dylan
Grogan and Tony Flores
followed. Woods gave up just
one hit in two innings, Grogan
gave up one unearned run and
one hit and Flores struck out all
fi ve batters he faced to end the
game.
“The last game we hit
well, but pitching is where we
struggled,” Stanfi eld coach
Brad Rogers said. “Our goal
is to throw 60 percent strikes
and today we threw 57 percent
strikes and let our defense play
more.”
Individual leaders at the
plate included Grogan (2-for-4,
2 runs, 2 RBI), Ryan Bailey
(1-for-4, 2 runs, 2 RBI), Hunter
Barnes (2-for-3, 2 runs, RBI),
and Woods (2-for-4, one run, 2
RBI).
Stanfi eld returns home on
Thursday to host Pilot Rock at
4:30 p.m.
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R H E
SHS
402 34 — 13 15 2
DHS
001 00 —
1 2 3
(SHS) B. Woods, D. Grogan (3), T. Flores (4)
and T. Monkus. (DHS) McCaw, Towes (4).
2B — D. Curiel, R. Bailey, T. Monkus (SHS).
R H E
SHHS
100 10 —
2 4 2
PHS
147 0X — 12 13 3
B. Scheer and M. Massey. A. Brehaut and K. Solomon. W — Brehaut.
L — Scheer.
2B — M. Parker, R. Gentner 2, K. Solomon 2 (PHS). HR — T. Dow
(SHHS).
BASEBALL
PENDLETON 12, OAK HARBOR
1 — At Hanford, Wash., Tyler Chichester and
Hayden Villers combined on the mound and
Daniel Naughton went 3-for-3 with four RBIs at
the plate to lead the Buckaroos to their fi rst win
of the season on Saturday.
Naughton hit a double and a triple, and scored
twice as Pendleton led from the second inning
on. Austin Zaugg (2-for-4) and Villers (0-for-2)
each added two RBIs and Wyatt Morris and
Jared Beveridge were each 2-for-4.
See BUCKS/2B
Sports shorts
Lillard named Player of the Week
Seattle signs offensive lineman
PORTLAND — Portland Trail Blazers guard
Damian Lillard has been named NBA Western
Conference Player of the Week for the week
ending March 19, the league announced today.
Lillard led the NBA in scoring with 35.3
points (55.1% FG, 59.4% 3-PT)
to go with 3.3 rebounds, 4.0
assists and 1.00 steal last week.
He was a perfect 36-for-36 from
the free throw line, and his 49
points March 19 at Miami marked
a season high, while his nine
3-pointers tied a franchise best. In
Lillard
a win at San Antonio during the
second night of a back-to-back on March 15,
Lillard paced all scorers with 36 points.
His 49-point game at Miami are the most
scored in the NBA on 21 fi eld goal attempts or
fewer since Amar’e Stoudemire in 2008. In the
same game, Lillard became the fi rst Trail Blazer
to make 1,000 career 3-pointers.
RENTON, Wash. (AP) — The Seattle
Seahawks added depth on the offensive
line by signing former
Houston guard Oday
Aboushi.
Seattle announced the
deal with Aboushi on
Monday. Aboushi spent his fi rst two seasons
with the New York Jets and the past two
years with Houston. Aboushi made eight
starts and appeared in 11 games during his
time with the Texans. He started 10 games
in his two seasons with the Jets.
Aboushi joins former Jacksonville
offensive lineman Luke Joeckel as Seattle’s
two signings this offseason looking to
bolster a line that was among the worst in
the league last season. Aboushi’s strength
has been in pass protection, and he’s had
only four accepted penalties against him the
past two seasons.
“Hopefully when I get
the jerseys back I can
make something very
positive come from this
experience.“
— Tom Brady
New England Patriots quarterback
after learning his missing game
jerseys worn in Super Bowls LI and
XLIX were recovered after being
found in the possession of a mem-
ber of the international media.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1893 — The fi rst women’s
college basketball game is
played at Smith College in
Northampton, Mass. Each
basket is worth one point and
the freshman class beats the
sophomore class 5-4. The
game takes place behind
locked doors and men are
prohibited from watching.
1964 — UCLA caps a 30-0
season with a 98-83 victory over
Duke in the NCAA basketball
championship. UCLA is the
third team to go undefeated and
win the title. The victory gives
coach John Wooden the fi rst
of his ten NCAA Tournament
championships.
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