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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 2017
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NBA
Prep Roundup
Bucks fend off Trail Blazers
Knights
topple
Rockets
Portland falls one
game back of fi nal
playoff spot in West
Rice’s big day
leads Irrigon
past Pilot Rock
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
PORTLAND — Khris Middleton
scored 26 points, and the Milwaukee
Bucks held off the Portland Trail
Blazers for a 93-90 victory on
Tuesday night.
Giannis Antetokounmpo added
22 points for the
Bucks (35-35), who
have won nine of
11 as they jostle for Milwaukee
playoff positon in
the Eastern Confer-
ence. They are a
half-game
ahead
of Miami for the
seventh spot.
Portland
Portland (32-38)
had won three in a
row and eight of 10.
It dropped to a full
game back of idle Denver for the
fi nal postseason berth in the West.
Damian Lillard led Portland with
31 points, and CJ McCollum added
21. Jusuf Nurkic had 11 points and
14 rebounds.
Portland trailed by as many as 15
points in the third quarter, but closed
to 70-68 early in the fourth on a pair
of free throws from Allen Crabbe.
McCollum’s consecutive layups
gave the Blazers an 88-85 lead with
3:46 left.
The Bucks retook the lead on
Middleton’s hook shot, and John
Henson’s putback made it 93-90 with
1:39 to go.
As the clock wound down, Lillard
missed a 3-pointer and McCollum
missed a layup. Middleton also
missed on the other end.
Portland got the ball with 6.4
seconds left, but Lillard’s 3-pointer
at the buzzer bounced off the back-
board.
Portland was coming off a
115-104 victory at Miami on Sunday.
Lillard had a season-best 49 points
with nine 3-pointers, which matched
a franchise high. The win capped a
4-1 road trip.
Milwaukee was coming off a
117-92 loss at Golden State on
Saturday.
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East Oregonian
93
90
IRRIGON — For the second
time this season, the Irrigon
Knights and Pilot Rock Rockets
met on the baseball fi eld on
Tuesday,
for the
Baseball and
second time
the
Knights
came
away
victorious.
Pilot Rock
Irrigon
got the bats
going
late
and kept Pilot
Rock’s quiet
as the Knights
Irrigon
defended their
home
fi eld
with an 8-3
victory. Austin
Rice had a solid day for the
Knights (2-0) as he started the
game on the mound and allowed
just one unearned run and one
hit with seven strikeouts over
3 innings, and then added a
1-for-3 day at the plate with one
run and two RBI.
Pilot Rock (1-2) scored
the fi rst run of the game in the
second inning, as Braydon
Postma fi rst reached base on an
error and then scored from third
on an error by the Irrigon catcher
to put the Rockets up 1-0.
Then Rice tied the game
for Irrigon in the bottom of
the third with a two-out RBI
single into left to bring home
Lino Covarrubia (2-for-3, run,
2 RBI) to knot it at 1-1. Pilot
Rock then again took a lead at
2-1 in the fourth as a balk by
pitcher Johnny Philips brought
in Logan Weinke.
In the bottom of the fourth
Irrigon took the lead for good
as it struck for three runs in the
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AP Photo/Craig Mitchelldyer
Portland Trail Blazers forward Noah Vonleh, right, shoots over Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis
Antetokounmpo during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Portland on Tuesday.
Women’s College Basketball
Warriors come up short in fi rst-ever national title game
NAIA DI
Hermiston’s Edmiston
caps freshman season
Okla. City
LCSC Athletics
BILLINGS, Mont. — Okla-
homa City Stars did something no
team has done all season against the
Lewis-Clark State women’s basket-
ball team — shoot over 50 percent
from the fi eld.
The Stars defeated the Warriors
73-66 in the NAIA National Cham-
pionship game shooting 52 percent
from the fl oor.
The previous high this season
the Warriors allowed was when
Montana Western shot 48 percent
back in early January.
Caelyn Orlandi ended the season
with a career-high 13 assists to
go along with 15 points. Lauren
Johnson scored 13 points for the
73
Edmiston
6 points, 6 reb.,
11 minutes
Lewis-Clark
66
only two Warriors in double fi gures.
All eight players who entered the
game scored at least two points.
Jansen Edmiston, a freshman
from Hermiston, played 11 minutes
and scored six points on 2-of-2
shooting from three-point range.
She also had six rebounds (four on
offense) and one steal.
LCSC ended the season with a
school-record 35 wins and just two
losses. The Stars win their ninth
title and improved to 34-2.
Johnson started the scoring of
the night with three of her 13 points
20 seconds into the contest. The
Stars would take the lead shortly
after and extend it to 14-7. Orlandi
made a jumper to kick-start an 8-0
run as the Warriors reclaimed the
lead. Oklahoma City would answer
in the next possession to retake the
lead for good the rest of the way.
The Stars ended the fi rst quarter up
20-15 over the Warriors.
The Stars opened the second
with a bang, a triple by Daniela
Galindo for an 8-point Oklahoma
City lead. Consecutive treys from
Johnson and Orlandi brought the
defi cit back down to two points.
But again after the Warriors closed
in, the Stars would fi nd separation
heading to the locker room with a
38-29 halftime lead.
After Oklahoma City would
increase their lead to double-digits,
Lewis-Clark
State’s Lau-
ren Johnson
(21) looks to
pass against
an Oklahoma
City University
defender in the
NAIA Division I
Women’s Bas-
ketball National
Championship
on Wednesday in
Billings, Mont.
Photo courtesy of Lew-
is-Clark State Athletics
the Warriors would respond right
after. Trailing by 10 with 4:28 left in
the third, LCSC went on a 9-3 run to
close the score within four. Risinger
scored fi ve of the nine points. She
ended with those fi ve points on the
night with six rebounds.
Trailing 59-53, Hailey Turner
scored the fi rst points of the fourth
for the Warriors to trim the defi cit to
four. The Stars again grew their lead
by as much as eight points. With
their backs to the wall, the Warriors
made one last effort to overtake the
Stars, but it wasn’t enough.
Orlandi was named to the
All-Championship First-Team with
her performance throughout the
tournament. The Warriors graduate
four seniors, including Orlandi,
Risinger, Litalien and Natahnee
Spencer.
Sports shorts
Former Bulls GM Krause dies
CHICAGO (AP) — Respected and reviled in
his hometown, this much can’t be argued when
it comes to Jerry Krause: He helped take the
Chicago Bulls to heights few teams have reached.
Krause, the general manager of the Bulls during a
1990s dynasty that included six NBA championships
with Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen
leading the way, has died. He was 77.
The Bulls confi rmed his death on
Tuesday.
A Chicago native, Krause spent
18 seasons leading the Bulls’ front
offi ce and was a two-time NBA
Krause
executive of the year. He helped
put together a run that ranks among
the most successful in NBA history and made the
franchise a worldwide brand.
“Jerry was one of the hardest working guys I have
ever been around, and he was one of the best talent
evaluators ever,” chairman Jerry Reinsdorf said. “He
truly was the architect of all our great teams in the ‘90s.”
“I wouldn’t be opposed
to it, even at the expense
to my own salary, but it’s
something that everyone
would have to agree to.“
— Steve Kerr
Golden State Warriors head
coach on shortening the NBA
season. The league is looking
for ways to avoid situations like
last week’s Warriors-Spurs game
where Kerr sat his stars to give
them some rest during a grueling
portion of the schedule.
Brazil club signs goalkeeper
convicted in girlfriend’s death
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian
soccer club on Tuesday presented its newest
member, a goalie convicted in the killing of
an ex-girlfriend, prompting
outrage from many nationwide
and promises by sponsors to
drop out.
Boa Esporte’s contract for
Bruno Fernandes de Souza
ignored mounting criticism in recent days
after the team expressed plans to sign the
former star player.
Souza was recently released from prison
while he appeals a 22-year sentence in the
2010 killing of a former girlfriend, Eliza
Samudio. A Supreme Court justice ordered
his release on the grounds that his appeal to a
higher court was languishing.
At least fi ve sponsors have said they’ll
drop the team in protest.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1932 — The blue lines are
eliminated with the center red
line used to determine offsides
in an experiment by the NHL.
With both teams out of playoff
contention, the league tries it
in the New York Americans’
8-6 victory over Boston.
1969 — West Chester
State beats Western Caro-
lina 65-39 to win the fi rst-
ever women’s collegiate
national championship. The
game is played using the six
player format.
1994 — The NFL
announces the addition of
the 2-point conversion, the
league’s fi rst scoring change
in 75 seasons.
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