SPORTS
TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 2017
Prep Roundup
1B
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NBA
Lady
Durant shines for Warriors in Game 1
State holds off
Bucks Golden
hot-shooting Portland
fourth in series opener
in Bend
By JANIE MCCAULEY
Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — Kevin
Durant patted his chest after two big
baskets in the fourth quarter and let
everybody know “I got this!” Stephen
Curry knocked down a timely
baseline 3-pointer, reached his hand
high and gestured to further ignite a
raucous sellout crowd.
On a day Damian Lillard and CJ
McCollum put on a dazzling display
of shot-making for Portland, the
NBA’s top-seeded team of superstars
Greb shoots 77 to
place second
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — The Pend-
leton girls golf team fi nished
fourth after a challenging round at
Bend Country Club on Monday,
and was feeling enthused despite
not shooting its best on a chilly
afternoon in central Oregon.
The Buckaroos were 39 shots
off the lead of team winners
Bend, and senior Haley Greb said
that gap is small enough for the
Bucks to make a serious run at
the Lava Bears on a different day.
“Overall I think the team is in
good spirits because we know we
didn’t shoot our best and we’re
not far from Summit (which
placed second with 364) and
these bigger schools,” she said.
Greb was second medalist
with a 77 to end her streak of
consecutive tournament wins
this season at fi ve, but had three
birdies on a her scorecard and
was pretty happy with her play
from the tees and fairways.
The greens seemed to give
everybody trouble, though, and
Pendleton coach Terry Prouse
said a fresh cut and roll by the
grounds crew made for fi rm
surfaces that proved diffi cult for
placing chip shots and putting.
Greb said she had too many
three-putts, and didn’t end the
round like she wanted, but wasn’t
too worried about it.
“I hit my irons well, just
couldn’t get a fi nish on the
green,” she said. “But you can’t
do it every day. You’re going to
face adversity on the golf course.”
Summit’s Olivia Loberg was
medalist with a one-over par 73.
Also for Pendleton on Monday
were: Megan George, 98; Rylee
Harris, 110; McKenzie McLeod,
107; Lauren Galloway 121.
RODEO
HERMISTON — Pendleton
roper Trent Sorey was the only
local to claim an average title at
the weekend’s doubleheader high
school rodeos at Farm-City Arena.
Sorey won the tie-down title
with an aggregate time of 20.71
seconds on two head, and vaulted
himself to the top of the standings
with a 9.12 that won Sunday’s
round of competition. He was third
in the fi rst round with an 11.59.
Jacee Currin, of Heppner, won
the fi rst round of goat tying on
Saturday morning in 8.12 as the
only other Intermountain team
member to win an event in a round.
Arlington’s Joely Patnode tied
for the fi rst round win in breakaway
roping with 2.98.
Jake Raley (steer wrestling,
team roping) won the boys’
all-around title and Kimberly
Williams (breakaway, goat tying,
pole bending) was the girls’ champ.
Lindsay Doran won the
Janice Davis Memorial Award
with her 17.671-second barrel
race on Saturday that was the
fastest of the weekend.
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found its touch down the stretch and
defended with purpose.
Durant had 32 points and 10
rebounds in his Golden State playoff
debut, Curry scored 29 points, and the
Warriors withstood that sensational
day by the Trail Blazers’ dynamic
backcourt duo to win Game 1 of the
fi rst-round series 121-109 on Sunday.
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First Round
Portland Golden State
Trail Blazers
Warriors
(41-41)
(67-15)
• Game 3 (TNT)
• Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.
• at Oracle Arena
• GS leads series 1-0
PENDLETON
Buckaroos start league right
Pendle-
ton’s Shaw
Jerome
gets
caught in
a rundown
between
Dawson
Hoffman
(8) and Ty-
ler Westin,
of The
Dalles, Sat-
urday at
Bob White
Field.
Staff photo by
Kathy Aney
After rough preseason slate, Pendleton sweeps The Dalles in CRC debut
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
The non-conference season
wasn’t too kind to the Pendleton
baseball team, as the Bucks
managed just four wins out of the
13 games.
Pendleton got a bit of a fresh
start on Saturday afternoon when it
hosted The Dalles for its Columbia
River Conference opener. The
Buckaroos took advantage of
the new season by sweeping the
doubleheader against the River-
hawks 7-6 and 13-7 on a sunny day
at Bob White Field.
“It’s a great start and a huge
confi dence boost for our team,”
Pendleton junior Nick Bower said.
“To come out and get the sweep
was great and we played well too,
so it’s huge for us.”
“Good baseball all the way
Pendleton grinds out two
Bucks softball sweeps
doubleheader with The Dalles
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
The Pendleton softball offense for the
2017 season could be best described as
inconsistent.
Some games the Buckaroos look like one
of the more complete teams in the state with
contributions from every spot in the lineup.
And then other games they struggle to string
together productive at-bats.
Through the fi rst 14 games of the season,
Pendleton was averaging 6.2 runs per game
and had crossed double-digit runs just three
times, a far cry from the 10.1 runs averaged
and eight double-digit games to start the
season in 2016.
In Saturday’s league-opening double-
header against The Dalles, the Buckaroos’
offense showed both the good and the bad
sides all in one day, though they did what
they have done all season which was grind
out victories at Steve Cary Field. The bats
were relatively quiet in Game 1 when Pend-
leton won 7-2, but then busted out for 11 hits
and 12 runs in a 12-0 victory in fi ve innings
in Game 2.
around with good weather,” Pend-
leton coach T.J. Haguewood added.
“But starting off league 2-0, that’s
our goal. We want to go undefeated
in league and compete every game.
I’m happy for the boys and hope-
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Pendle-
ton’s Tatum
Fell fi elds
a long hit
Saturday
against The
Dalles at
Steve Cary
Field.
Staff photo by
Kathy Aney
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Sports shorts
Puzey brothers compete at Boston
BOSTON — Two men with Hermiston roots
were among those crossing the fi nish line in the
121st Boston Marathon on Monday.
Former Hermiston High runner and coach
Jacob Puzey, currently of Calgary, Alberta,
fi nished 37th in the men’s race
in a time of 2 hours, 26 minutes,
52 seconds, which was about 18
minutes off the pace of champion
Geoffrey Kirui of Kenya who won
over Oregon’s Galen Rupp in a
time of 2:08:37.
Jacob Puzey
Puzey’s younger brother
Thomas of Flagstaff, Arizona, was 16th in a
time of 2:18:20.
Americans had six of the top 10 fi nishers in
the men’s race and two of the top four women.
Kenyan policewoman Edna Kiplagat won
the women’s race in 2:21:52, needing only one
try in Boston to add it to wins in London, New
York and Los Angeles.
“Everyone in that
business knows that
when you come to North
Carolina, you had better
follow the law. And if
you don’t, we can and
we will enforce the law.“
— Elaine F. Marshall
North Carolina Secretary of State
in a prepared statement following
a guilty plea by former NFL agent
Terry Watson, 43, to violating
North Carolina’s sports agent law
by providing thousands of dollars
in improper benefi ts to three for-
mer Tar Heels football players.
Cano, Cruz power Mariners
SEATTLE (AP) Robinson Cano and
Nelson Cruz hit consecutive fi rst-inning
homers, Ariel Miranda pitched seven scoreless
innings and the Seattle Mariners beat the
Miami Marlins 6-1 Monday night
in Ichiro Suzuki’s fi rst visit to
Safeco Field as a member of the
3,000-hit club.
Miranda (1-1) allowed four
singles and only one runner to
reach second base while striking
out fi ve. Nick Vincent pitched a perfect eighth
before Evan Scribner allowed Christian
Yelich’s third home run in the ninth.
The Mariners won their fourth straight after
a 2-8 start.
Cano crushed a 2-1 pitch from Tom Koehler
(0-1) 441 feet to right-center for his second
home run, a two-run shot that scored Jarrod
Dyson. Cruz followed with his second homer,
lining a 1-1 pitch to center to make it 3-0.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1962 — Boston’s Bill
Russell scores 30 points and
grabs 40 rebounds to lead the
Celtics to a 110-107 overtime
win over the Los Angeles
Lakers and their fourth
consecutive NBA title.
1999 — Wayne Gretzky
ends his NHL career at
Madison Square Garden
with an assist, setting up
a second-period goal and
the New York Rangers
fall to Pittsburgh 2-1 in
overtime. Before the game,
NHL Commissioner Gary
Bettman announces the
league is retiring No. 99 in
honor of “The Great One.”
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