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SPORTS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2017 College Football 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS MLB PLAYOFFS Beavers Yankees come to life at home show heart, unity in defeat By TOM EGGERS The News-Review CORVALLIS (AP) — You really couldn’t have asked any more from the Beavers on Saturday afternoon. No, they didn’t fi nish the game the way they wanted to against Colorado and lost a hard-fought battle. The Buffaloes survived an inspired effort from Oregon State in its fi rst game under interim head coach Cory Hall, scoring the deciding touchdown with 1:34 left in the contest to take a 36-33 Pac-12 victory before an announced crowd of 33,785 at Reser Stadium. Beaver Nation was wondering how its beleaguered football team would respond without Gary Andersen on the sidelines. Andersen caught everyone by surprise by resigning as head coach last Monday after 2 1/2 seasons and the Beavers found out Saturday they don’t need him around. Oregon State (1-6, 0-4 Pac-12 North) turned in unquestionably its best offensive performance of the season, outgaining Colorado 569-385. There was creative play-calling and the Beavers were balanced, passing for 289 yards and rushing for 280. The Beavers, who had 46 running attempts and 37 passes, compiled 30 fi rst downs and held a 35:40-24:20 advantage in possession time. The OSU defense didn’t make enough plays down the stretch against a good Buffaloes offense. Colorado (4-3, 1-3 South) marched 82 yards in nine plays for the winning score, with Bryce Bobo catching a 13-yard pass from Steven Montez. The Beavers showed their fans — and themselves — they aren’t going to throw in the towel this season. They may not win any of their remaining fi ve games, but they’re going to go down fi ghting. Hall, who was the cornerbacks coach before taking over the head post, was enthusiastic on the side- lines during the game and upbeat during his post-game meeting with the media. “You look at the strides that See BEAVERS/3B AP Photo/Kathy Willens New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge hits a three-run home run during the fourth inning of Game 3 of baseball’s American League Championship Series against the Houston Astros Monday in New York. Frazier, Judge hit home runs as New York wins Game 3 By RONALD BLUM Associated Press AP Photo/David J. Phillip New York Yankees’ Todd Frazier reacts after hitting a home run during the second inning of Game 3 of baseball’s American League Cham- pionship Series against the Houston Astros on Monday in New York. NEW YORK — Back in the Bronx, the big guys delivered. Greeted by an array of “All Rise” signs in a ballpark that fi ts their style, Aaron Judge hit a three-run homer and made a pair of sparkling catches, leading CC Sabathia and the New York Yankees over the Houston Astros 8-1 Monday night and cutting their defi cit to 2-1 in the AL Championship Series. Todd Frazier hit a go-ahead, three-run homer into the short porch in right fi eld in the second against Charlie Morton. The 6-foot-7 Judge entered in a 4-for-31 (.129) postseason slump that included one home run, four RBIs and 19 strikeouts. The slugger capped a fi ve-run fourth with a laser of a drive to left fi eld off Will Harris and robbed Yuri Gurriel and Cameron Maybin of extra- ALCS - Game 3 Houston New York 1 8 base hits. Sabathia, almost as big at 6-foot-6, allowed three hits over six scoreless innings for his fi rst postseason win in fi ve years. The Yankees stopped a seven-game ALCS losing streak dating to Sabathia’s victory over Texas in 2010 — when Judge had just started his freshman year at Fresno State. After a pair of 2-1 losses in Houston, the Yankees led 8-0 after four innings. The Yankees are 4-0 at home this postseason. “Just the energy, the fans,” Sabathia said. “They’ve been bringing it every night in the playoffs and you can feed off of that.” See ALCS/3B PENDLETON Pendleton gets back in its groove to sweep the Buckaroo Classic Pend- leton’s Maureen Davies connects with the ball during the Buckaroo Classic at Warberg Court during a game with Mil- waukie. Staff photo by Kathy Aney Hermiston splits its two matches By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ East Oregonian There was a lot of action inside Pendleton High School’s gymnasium Saturday morning. The Buckaroo classic brought four schools together — Pendleton, Hermiston, Putnam and Milwaukie — for four matches beginning at 9 a.m. The two Columbia River Conference schools each played the Putnam Kingsman and the Milwaukie Mustangs from the Northwest Oregon Conference. The Buckaroos swept their competition, and won the fi rst match against the Kingsman, 3-1 (25-20, 14-25, 25-19, 25-17), and then got it done against the Mustangs in three straight sets — 25-8, 25-8, 25-21. “It was nice to see the girls come out and just work with a lot of effort and their chem- istry really came together,” head coach Amanda Lapp said. “I thought it was good to see them work hard and have a lot of heart all day today. It was great.” Putnam put up a fi ght during its fi rst set against Pendleton. The Bucks and Kingsman traded points back and forth, and eventually Putnam knotted the score at 15-15. Pendleton went on a 4-0 run to earn back the lead at 20-15. Despite Putnam’s best efforts, the Bucks took the fi rst set 25-20. The Kingsman weren’t going to let the second set get away from them. They came out with an early 4-1 lead before the Bucks went on a quick run to claw their way back and tie the score at 7-7. From that point, Putnam dominated and put three unanswered points on the board which was enough to put space between itself and Pendleton. The Kingsman pushed the match to 1-1 after their 25-14 victory. The next two sets weren’t See VOLLEYBALL/2B Sports shorts Packers QB likely out for season GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy says QB Aaron Rodgers will have surgery on his broken right collarbone, and that his season could be over. McCarthy said Monday that the two-time NFL MVP would have surgery in the near future. He says that there is no timeline for his potential return. “He’ll be out a minimum, a signifi cant amount of time poten- tially the season could be over,” McCarthy said. Rodgers “So, he’ll have surgery here in the near future and after we see how that goes, we’ll focus on getting Aaron healthy. That’s all that really matters right now.” Brett Hundley, in his third year in the league, is now the starting quarterback. The Packers also promoted Joe Callahan from the practice squad to become the backup. “Everybody’s good. Everybody’s good. KD [Kevin Durant] last year in Oklahoma City, Paul George going to go back to Indiana, you know, D-Wade’s going to go to Chicago, Kyrie’s coming back to Cleveland. No [it will not compare].“ — LeBron James Cleveland Cavaliers forward on if there will be any hard feelings to- wards former Cav Kyrie Irving as Irving comes back to Cleveland as a Boston Celtic on Tuesday night to start the 2017 NBA season. Mariota, Henry help Titans rally past Colts 36-22 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Marcus Mariota threw a 53-yard touchdown pass to Taywan Taylor with 5:29 left , and the Tennessee Titans beat the Indianap- olis Colts 36-22 on Monday night to snap an 11-game skid tied for the NFL’s longest active losing streak against one team. Mariota threw for a season-high 306 yards. He completed each of his three passes on the drive that ended with Taylor’s tiebreaking score. The Titans (3-3) also snapped a two-game skid with the win over Indianapolis (2-4). Derrick Henry then clinched the win for Tennessee with a 72-yard TD run with 47 seconds left. Henry, the 2015 Heisman Trophy winner, fi nished with a career-high 131 yards on 19 carries. DeMarco Murray also scored. THIS DATE IN SPORTS 1960 — The National League formally awards fran- chises to the New York Metro- politan Baseball Club Inc. headed by Joan Payson and a Houston, Texas, group headed by Judge Roy Hofheinz, Craig Cullinan and R.E. Smith. 1995 — The Cleveland Indians beat the Seattle Mariners 4-0 in Game 6 of the American League cham- pionship series to claim their fi rst AL pennant since 1954. 2010 — Detroit ties its own NFL record with its 24th straight loss on the road, falling to the Giants 28-20. The Lions’ last road win was Oct. 28, 2007. Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com
