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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2018
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PENDLETON
Prep Roundup
Lady
Bucks
win
seventh
straight
Pendle-
ton’s Da-
kota Sams
drives the
ball guard-
ed by La
Grande’s
Cade Reed
in the
Bucks’
63-46 win
against
the Tigers
in Tuesday
in Pendle-
ton. Sams
fi nished
the game
with 14
points.
East Oregonian
Staff photo by
E.J. Harris
Rested Bucks beat Tigers
Boys Basketball
Newsom, Sams, Scott
combine for 51 points
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — In 2016, the
early part of January brought a lot
La Grande
Pendleton
46
63
of time off for the Pendleton Buck-
aroos. A harsh winter meant the
Bucks played just one game in the
span of 17 days — like most teams
in Eastern Oregon — which meant a
lot of practice time in the gym.
This year, the month of January
has brought the Buckaroos plenty
of downtime again, only now it’s
welcomed by the team.
The way the schedule was
constructed, Pendleton plays just
three non-league games in the span
of the fi rst 17 days of the month,
which has given the Bucks a lot of
needed practice time in the gym
and time to rest up and heal as they
preparefor league play.
And the downtime seems to
be paying off. After fi nishing off
December with three straight losses,
the Buckaroos have started January
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LA GRANDE
—
Double-double machine
Kalan McGlothan piled
up 14 points and 10
rebounds to help power her
Pendleton Buckaroos to
their seventh straight win
with a hard-fought 41-33
victory over La Grande on
Tuesday evening.
“I would describe it as
an ugly win, but it’s still
a win,” Pendleton coach
Kevin Porter said. “It was
a very, very physical game.
I liked the grit out of this
team, they played through
a lot of adversity tonight
and my hat off to them to
be able to play through it
and hang on.”
Maureen
Davies
followed
McGlothan
with eight points and six
rebounds for the Bucka-
roos (8-5), while Jaiden
Lemberger had six points.
The injury bug bit Pend-
leton again in the game as
Lemberger,
Pendleton’s
best outside shooting threat
and shutdown defender,
twisted her ankle in the
second quarter and did not
return. Pendleton coach
Kevin Porter said her
status moving forward is
unknown at this time until
she gets the ankle evalu-
ated this week.
Camryn Collman led
the Tigers (6-7) with 19
points.
Pendleton now has one
week off until it travels to
Baker on Jan. 16.
————
PHS
12 12
6 11 — 41
LAG
5 6 14
8 — 33
PENDLETON — K. McGlothan 14, M.
Davies 8, J. Lemberger 6, H. Porter 4,
R. Gentner 3, K. Bradt 2, U. Guerrero 2,
J. Wilson 1.
LA GRANDE — C. Collman 19, E.
Dunlap 8, K. Williams 3, J. Howton 2, D.
Lester 1.
3-pointers — PHS 1, LAG 3. Free
throws — PHS 6-9, LAG 10-17. Fouls —
PHS 17, LAG 13.
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Pro Basketball
McCollum leads Blazers in road win
Portland wins fi rst
game of extended
road trip
Portland
Oklahoma
City
By MURRAY EVANS
Associated Press
117
106
OKLAHOMA CITY
— C.J. McCollum had 27
points and seven assists,
and the Portland Trail
Blazers beat the Oklahoma
City Thunder 117-106
on Tuesday night in the
opener of a four-game trip.
Shabazz Napier added
21 points and Jusuf Nurkic
NBA
had 20 points and eight
rebounds for Portland,
which moved past Okla-
homa City into second in
the Northwest Division
standings with its seventh
win in its last nine games
against the Thunder.
Portland has won four of
fi ve overall despite playing
most of that stretch without
star guard Damien Lillard,
who sat out for the seventh
time in the last nine games
with a left calf strain.
Russell
Westbrook
had 22 points, 12 assists
and nine rebounds for
Oklahoma City, which has
dropped off after playing
well for most of December.
The Thunder have dropped
four of six, with three of
those losses coming at
home.
Oklahoma City shot
44 percent from the fi eld
while Portland made 53.1
percent of its shots. Paul
George scored 22 points for
the Thunder, and Carmelo
Anthony had 19.
The Thunder closed to
83-76 with 1:39 remaining
in the third quarter on a
basket by Anthony, but
Portland answered with a
13-1 run and led 96-77 after
a 3-pointer by Al-Farouq
Aminu with 10:25 left.
UP NEXT
Trail Blazers: Visit
Houston on Wednesday.
Thunder: Finish a
back-to-back
with
a
trip to Northwest Divi-
sion-leading Minnesota on
Wednesday.
AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki
Portland Trail Blazers forward Al-Farouq Aminu (8) shoots
in front of Oklahoma City Thunder forward Carmelo Antho-
ny (7) during Tuesday’s game in Oklahoma City.
Sports shorts
US skier Shiffrin makes history
with fi fth consecutive victory
FLACHAU, Austria (AP) — Olympic
slalom champion Mikaela Shiffrin used a
frenetic fi nal run to stretch her winning streak
in 2018 to fi ve races at a women’s World Cup
night race on Tuesday.
Shiffrin became the fi rst female
skier to start a calendar year with
fi ve straight wins, eclipsing the
previous best mark by Swiss
standout Vreni Schneider in 1989.
Shiffrin trailed fi rst-run leader
Shiffrin
Bernadette Schild of Austria by
0.37 seconds but posted the fastest
second-run time to beat the Austrian by 0.94.
It was the American’s 41st career win,
matching the record for most World Cup wins
by a 22-year-old skier, set by Austrian great
Annemarie Moser-Proell in the 1970s.
Shiffrin will skip the next World Cup races to
have more time for Olympic training.
“For my career to end that
night in New England,
it still ticks me off. I’m so
thrilled to be back here. I
hope people understand
the emotion inside. I feel
there’s unfi nished business.
I feel a lot of loyalty and
responsibility to get the
Raiders going again .“
— Jon Gruden
The new Oakland Raiders head
coach was introduced on Tuesday,
beginning his second stint in Oak-
land. His fi nal game with Oakland
was the infamous “tuck rule” game
against New England in the 2001
AFC Championship game.
Yahoo to stream remaining
NFL games on its sports app
NEW YORK (AP) — Yahoo Sports will
livestream all four divisional playoff games this
weekend and the conference championships as
an appetizer for next season when
every game from the preseason
to the Super Bowl will be lives-
treamed on its sports app.
Watching NFL games on your
phone used to be mainly limited
to Verizon customers but that changed now that
Verizon owns Yahoo. So, now anyone is able
to watch football games on the go for free on
Yahoo’s app regardless of mobile network.
Fans have to download the Yahoo Sports
app on iOS or Google Play and enable location
services on their phone.
Beginning next season, users will be able
to stream in-market and national NFL games,
including, regular season, playoff games and
the Super Bowl on the Yahoo Sports app.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1972 — The longest
winning streak in major
pro sports ends when the
Milwaukee Bucks beat the
Los Angeles Lakers 120-104,
ending the Lakers’ streak of
33 straight.
1998 — Michelle Kwan
receives eight perfect 6.0s
out of nine marks for artistry
in the free skate to win her
second U.S. Figure Skating
Championship in three years.
2016 — Blair Walsh’s
27-yard fi eld goal try
Minnesota hooks left with
22 seconds left, handing the
Seattle Seahawks a 10-9
victory over Minnesota in
their NFC wild-card game.
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