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WEEKEND, NOVEMBER 18-19, 2017
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Blazers fall to Kings in clunker Bulldogs,
Wildcats
set for
semifi nals
Portland tallies 17
turnovers, shoots
just 37 percent
By MICHAEL WAGAMAN
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
Willie Cauley-Stein scored 13
of his 22 points in the fourth
quarter and the Sacramento
Kings bounced
back from an
NBA
embarrassing
loss earlier in the
week to beat the
Portland
Portland Trail
Blazers 86-82
on Friday night.
George Hill
and
Garrett
Temple added
Sacramento 14 points apiece,
and
Kosta
Koufos had 10
points and seven
rebounds to help the Kings to
their third straight home win over
a team with legitimate playoff
hopes.
Neither team managed more
than 23 points in any of the fi rst
three quarters, and the Kings
didn’t secure the victory until
Cauley-Stein made one of two
free throws with 3.4 seconds
remaining.
Damian Lillard had 29 points
on 9-of-25 shooting and four
assists but missed a 3-pointer in
the fi nal moments for Portland.
C.J. McCollum added 19 points.
Two days after losing by 46
points in Atlanta, the Kings held
off the Blazers with one of their
best defensive efforts of the
season. Portland committed 18
turnovers and set a season low in
scoring.
Cauley-Stein had started every
game for Sacramento this season
before coach Dave Joerger shuf-
fl ed his lineup and put veteran
Zach Randolph in at center.
Coming off the bench didn’t
seem to bother Cauley-Stein,
who came on strong at the end.
He scored 10 of the Kings’ fi rst
12 points in the fourth, including
a pair of alley-oop dunks.
Portland stayed close and
pulled to 82-80 on a pair of free
throws from McCollum, but
De’Aaron Fox’s 3-pointer helped
By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
East Oregonian
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86
AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli
Sacramento Kings guard Garrett Temple, center, goes to the basket between Portland Trail Blazers’
Jusuf Nurkic, left, and Maurice Harkless during the fi rst quarter of Friday’s game in Sacramento, Calif.
Sacramento hold on.
The Kings led by eight early in
the second before Lillard brought
the Blazers back within 42-41 at
halftime.
TIP-INS
Trail Blazers: McCollum made
at least three 3-pointers in each
of his previous six games — the
longest streak of his career — but
went 0 for 4 from beyond the arc
against Sacramento. . Portland
shot 34.6 percent (8 of 20) in the
fi rst quarter.
UP NEXT
The teams head back to
Portland to host Sacramento on
Saturday.
HERMISTON — As the Herm-
iston football team prepares for the
5A semifi nals, they will be pitted
against an equally, if not more,
successful opponent.
On paper, Wilsonville has the
better record as the Wildcats are
10-1 after 11 long weeks of football.
They entered the
5A Semifi nal post season seeded
No. 2, and have
been annihilating
their competition
#3 Hermiston since their lone
Bulldogs
loss in Week 1.
(9-2)
Hermiston
has also bounced
back from its only
league loss — a
#2 Wilsonville 28-7 defeat of No.
Wildcats
1 seeded Mountain
(10-1)
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• Sat., 5:30 p.m. 3 — and have been
• at Hillsboro
winning ever since.
Stadium
The
Bulldogs
(9-2 overall) have
also trounced on their adversaries,
winning all but two games by 20 or
more points.
The matchup Saturday at Hills-
boro Stadium will, in all likelyhood,
be decided by less. The two teams
will faceoff at 5:30 p.m. with only
one moving on to face the winner
of the Mountain View-Churchill
game, which will take place just
two miles away.
One key for a Hermiston victory
is simple, in theory. Executing it
however, may be a bit more diffi -
cult.
START FAST:
Fans were on their feet early in
the quarterfi nal game the Bulldogs
hosted. En route to the 40-22
victory, Hermiston opened with a
60-plus yard kick return from senior
Dayshawn Neal, which set up
the team’s fi rst scoring drive. The
touchdown less than two minutes
into play set the tone for the rest of
the game.
But the Bulldogs haven’t also
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Men’s College Basketball
Oregon gives Altman 600th career win
NCAA
Wooten earns double-
double to pace Ducks
Associated Press
EUGENE — Kenny Wooten
had 19 points and 13 rebounds,
and Victor Bailey scored 18 points
to lead Oregon to a 114-56 victory
over Alabama State on Friday
night.
The two freshmen led six
Ducks (3-0) in double fi gures as
Dana Altman became the 10th
active men’s coach to win his
600th game. In his eighth season at
Oregon, Altman is now 600-313 in
29 years as a Division I coach.
Elijah Brown added 15 points,
and Payton Pritchard, Troy Brown
and Abu Kigab had 13 each.
Wooten led Oregon to a 46-20
Alabama St.
Oregon
56
114
edge in rebounds. Eight Ducks
made at least one 3-pointer as they
fi nished 15 of 24 behind the arc.
Reginald Gee led the Hornets
(0-4) with 15 points.
Oregon won its 45th consec-
utive game at Matthew Knight
Arena, the longest home winning
streak in the nation.
The Ducks fi nished with 60
points from their bench, shot 62.5
percent for the game (40 of 64)
and had 29 assists.
BIG PICTURE
Oregon: Coming off their Final
Four fi nish to last season, the
Ducks will face their fi rst oppo-
nent with a win this season in Ball
State (1-2) on Sunday. Oregon’s
fi rst three opponents have started a
combined 0-11.
Alabama State: The Hornets
will have traveled 6,517 miles
when they reach Chattanooga,
Tennessee, after their fi rst four
games of the season. Their fi rst
home game is Dec. 12 against
Tennessee State.
UP NEXT
Alabama State: Continues its
eight-game road trip to open the
season Monday night at Chat-
tanooga as part of the Cayman
Island Classic.
Oregon: Now 54-2 against
nonconference teams over eight
seasons in Matthew Knight Arena,
the Ducks fi nish a four-game
opening homestand Sunday night
against Ball State.
Brian Davies/The Register-Guard via AP
Oregon’s Victor Bailey Jr. drives against Alabama State’s Tobi Ewuo-
sho during Oregon’s 114-56 victory on Friday in Eugene.
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Danica Patrick to end racing career
HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — Danica Patrick
broke down in tears Friday as she announced she
will retire from full-time racing next year after
running the Daytona 500 and then the Indianap-
olis 500, closing her career at the storied track
that made her famous.
Patrick told The Associated
Press it took her many months to
come to the realization her career
is all but over. Once she accepted
it, the idea of ending her career
at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
popped into her head.
Patrick
Patrick is the only woman to
have led laps in both the Daytona 500 and the
Indianapolis 500. Patrick ran the Indy 500 from
2005 through 2011. Her highest fi nish was third
in 2009, and she was the fi rst woman to lead
laps in the race when she paced the fi eld for 19
trips around the Brickyard as a rookie.
“The doctor was like,
‘Man, any harder, we
probably [would have]
had to wire your mouth
shut,’ so that was a
good thing that didn’t
happen.“
— Russell Wilson
The Seattle Seahawks QB had to
have his jaw reset but avoided
a bone fracture after taking a
vicious high hit by Arizona LB
Karlos Dansby in Seattle’s win
over Arizona on Nov. 9.
Spurs overcome 23-point defi cit
to beat Thunder 104-101
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — LaMarcus
Aldridge had 26 points and the San Antonio
Spurs overcame a 23-point
defi cit to beat the Oklahoma City
Thunder 104-101 on Friday night.
Danny Green added 17 points,
and Pau Gasol had 14 points to
help San Antonio end Oklahoma
City’s three-game winning streak.
Aldridge put back of Green’s
missed 3-pointer gave the Spurs a 102-99 lead
with 24.2 seconds remaining.
The Thunder missed two 3-pointers on the
ensuing possession, but Carmelo Anthony
tracked down a second offensive rebound and
made a 25-footer with his foot on the 3-point
line to cut the lead to 102-101.
Gasol made two free throws, and Russell
Westbrook stumbled to the court and threw up
an airball on a 3-point attempt.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
2000 — Indiana’s Antwaan
Randle El becomes the second
player in NCAA FBS history
to rush for 200 points and pass
for 200 points in a career in a
41-13 loss to Purdue.
2003 — American soccer
phenom Freddy Adu, 14, signs
a six-year deal with MLS.
2012 — Brad Keselowski
gives Roger Penske his fi rst
Sprint Cup championship 40
years after the owner’s fi rst
stock car race. Keselowski
beats fi ve-time champion
Jimmie Johnson of mighty
Hendrick Motorsports to fi ll
the glaring hole on Penske’s
otherwise sterling racing
resume.
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