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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2017
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Riverside’s
Quincy Cas-
tillo and Luis
Olivera cele-
brate during
Saturday’s
3A/2A/1A
state cham-
pionship
game
against
Catlin Gabel
at Liberty
High School
in HIllsboro.
Castillo was
recently
named state
Player of the
Year.
Prep Soccer
Castillo voted the state’s best
Riverside senior named
3A/2A/1A all-state
Player of the Year
East Oregonian
Quincy Castillo’s senior
season resume continues to grow.
The
Riverside
Pirates’
midfi elder was the leader of
the Pirates team that obliterated
the opposition on their way to
a perfect 17-0-1 season and a
3A/2A/1A state championship.
Photo courtesy of
Todd Veenhuis/The
Oregonian
Prep Roundup
He also was named district Player
of the Year and earned fi rst team
honors. Now, Castillo can add
fi rst team all-state and state Player
of the Year honors to his resume
as well.
Castillo is one of fi ve Pirates to
make the all-state team, which was
voted on by the league’s coaches,
with three players making the fi rst
team and two on second team. He
is joined by fellow seniors Kevin
Madrigal and Jose Peralta on the
11-man fi rst team, while Miseal
Madrigal and Luis Olvera were
voted to second team.
And Riverside’s sixth-year
head coach Francisco Velasco
took home Coach of the Year
honors, while Catlin Gabel’s Fritz
Frerichs was voted Goalkeeper of
the Year.
Only one Pirate made the
3A/2A/1A girls all-state list,
which was senior Skylar
Wightman on fi rst team. She
piled up 11 goals and 14 assists
for the Pirates, who fi nished 8-3-2
overall and won the district before
getting knocked out in the fi rst
round of the state playoffs.
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College Football
Bulldogs
fall to
to top-
ranked
Cavs
East Oregonian
HERMISTON — Before the
Hermiston-Clackamas matchup
Tuesday evening, head coach
Juan Rodriguez knew it would
be a tough one.
The Cavaliers came into town
ranked No. 1 in Class 6A with
a high-pow-
ered offense Girls Basketball
that features
Divison-1
talent, and
it
showed Clackamas
as the clock
was winding
down in the
fi nal quarter.
But for the
Hermiston
fi rst 24 or
so minutes,
Hermiston
put up a fi ght
before ultimately falling 60-42.
“I was very happy with
their execution, especially
defensively,” head coach Juan
Rodriguez said. “That team is
very good in many aspects and I
think for three quarters we kind
of — not necessary neutralized
them — but we made them hit
tough shots.”
The Bulldogs (1-6) held
their own against the Cavs (4-0)
before getting handed the 60-42.
When the teams took the
court, Clackamas immediately
found its rhythm. After an 8-1
run, the Bulldogs began chip-
ping away at the early defi cit
they found themselves in.
Hermiston was within fi ve
points after the fi rst quarter,
trailing 16-11. And thanks to a
3-pointer off the hands of soph-
omore Jazlyn Romero as time
expired, the Bulldogs entered
the half down by only three
points, 26-23.
The Bulldogs began to catch
up with the Cavs after a couple
of Clackamas mistakes and
a great defensive effort from
freshman Paige Palzinski off the
bench. But as the game went on,
Hermiston tired and Clackamas
was just getting started.
“In the fourth quarter, their
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60
42
AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File
Empty seats are seen in the second half of the New Orleans Bowl game between Troy and North Texas in New Orleans on Saturday.
Group of Five teams will mostly play in third-tier bowl games in front of sparse crowds, earning payouts that mostly cover travel ex-
penses. The Power Five teams get the glamor bowls with the multimillion-dollar payouts.
Getting by with less
Gap grows between FBS Power Five, Group of Five schools
By RALPH D. RUSSO
Associated Press
Pete Lembo has seen both sides
of major college football as the head
coach at Ball State and now as an
assistant at Maryland.
At Ball State in the Mid-Amer-
ican Conference, a simple decision
like buying black helmets for the
team came with concessions. There
was give and take on every decision.
“And I would share that openly
with our team,” Lembo said. “I
would say, ‘Look guys, this is life.
You’re going to have to make these
same kind of decisions when you’re
a husband and when you’re a father
and you’re going to have to work
with your wife on these kind of
things.’”
At Maryland in the Big Ten, life is
easier, relatively speaking. Boosted
by a share of the Big Ten’s billion-
dollar television deals, Maryland
brought in $94 million in athletic
revenue in 2015-16, according to the
fi gures compiled by USA Today —
$70 million more than Ball State.
Media rights deals and the
College Football Playoff have
increased revenue at all levels of the
Football Bowl Subdivision, but the
gap has grown between the Group
of Five leagues and the Power Five
conferences — the SEC, ACC, Big
Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12. Over the
next month, Group of Five teams
will mostly play in third-tier bowl
games in front of sparse crowds,
earning payouts that mostly cover
travel expenses. The Power Five
teams get the glamor bowls with the
multimillion-dollar payouts.
It is not quite haves and have-
nots, but the differences show in the
most practical ways.
Bigger staffs allow coaches more
time to actually coach. Players not
only have access to better facilities
for training, but their health and
performance is more thoroughly
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AP Photo/Alabama Media Group, Vasha Hunt, File
In this Feb. 27, 2013, fi le photo, the main room of Alabama’s
strength and conditioning facility is shown at the Mal Moore
Athletic Facility at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Twenty-eight Power Five schools reported athletic revenue of
more than $100 million, with Texas A&M leading the way at
nearly $195 million. Each of the Power Five conferences made
payouts to their members ranging between from $42 million in
the Southeastern Conference to about $29 million in the Pac-12.
Sports shorts
UConn beats Oklahoma 88-64 for
Auriemma’s 1,000th career win
UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — Geno
Auriemma won his 1000th game as top-ranked
UConn beat Oklahoma 88-64 on Tuesday night in
the Hall of Fame women’s Holiday Showcase.
Auriemma became the fourth
women’s coach to reach the 1,000-
win mark, joining Pat Summitt, Tara
VanDerveer and Sylvia Hatchell,
who earned her milestone victory
earlier Tuesday. Mike Krzyzewski
is the only men’s coach to have won
1,000 games.
Auriemma
He is the fastest to achieve the
mark, doing so in his 1,135th game.
The Hall of Fame coach has gone 500-36 since
winning his 500th game in 2003. That includes
winning 100 of his last 101 contests.
This was the second time that the Sooners were
facing a coach going for win No. 1,000, when they
beat Tennessee in Pat Summitt’s fi rst attempt.
“I just wanted to open
people’s eyes. This is why
I came here, to be able to
play my game. I’m really
not doing anything different
than what I did in high
school -- it’s just on a bigger
stage ... I know it’s not going
to be asy to keep putting up
these numbers, but it’s OK,
as long as we win.“
— Trae Young
Oklahoma men’s basketball guard tied
an NCAA Division-I record with 22
assists to go with 20 points in the a win
over Northwestern State. Young cur-
rently leads the nation averaging 28.5
points and 10.2 assists per game.
With Packers out of playoff
hunt, Rodgers put on IR
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Aaron Rodgers
is done for the season.
The Green Bay Packers put their star
quarterback on injured reserve Tuesday, a day
after they were eliminated from
playoff contention.
Rodgers missed seven games
after breaking his right collarbone
Oct. 15 against Minnesota. He
returned on Sunday, but the
Packers lost 31-24 at Carolina.
Rodgers
Atlanta’s win against Tampa Bay
on Monday night ended Green
Bay’s eight-year run of consecutive postseason
berths.
Brett Hundley will get the start for Green
Bay in Saturday’s home game against the
Vikings. Joe Callahan was signed as his
backup.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1966 — The NBA grants a
franchise to Seattle, expanding
the league to 11 teams for the
1967-68 season.
1998 — Green Bay’s
Brett Favre becomes the
fi rst NFL player to throw for
more than 30 touchdowns in
fi ve different seasons. Favre
connects three times with
Antonio Freeman in the fi rst
half of a 30-22 win over
Tennessee to break a tie with
Dan Marino.
2006 — Bode Miller
wins the super-giant slalom
in Hinterstoder, Austria,
90 minutes after Lindsey
Kildow and Julia Mancuso
fi nish 1-2 in a downhill at Val
d’Isere, France.
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