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Prep Roundup
Bucks stomp Tigers, win 73-50
A short
break from
league proved
successful, no
injuries and big
win
By ALEXIS
MANSANAREZ
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — On
Friday’s Columbia River
Conference opener, the
Pendleton girls basketball
team’s stellar defensive
was on display.
In
Tuesday’s
non-league matchup —
when the La Grande Tigers
came to town — the Buck-
aroos were still impressive
on defense. But their
offense, more specifi cally
senior Maureen Davies,
stole the show.
Behind
Davies’
team-leading 18 points,
the Bucks have reached
double digits wins after a
73-50 rout over the Tigers.
“She played with unbe-
lievable effort tonight,”
head coach said of Davies’
performance. “And I can
tell you right now when
you can get that kind of
effort out of her and you
have Kalan (McGlothan)
to go with it and Jaiden
(Lemberger)
knocking
down shots — we’re not
one dimensional.”
“That’s the goal, that’s
been the goal all year long
to not be one dimensional,
and Maureen Davies
was an absolutely animal
tonight and I couldn’t be
happier.”
It only took 11 seconds
of play and a 3-pointer
from Lemberger to light
Pendleton’s spark. The
Buckaroos (10-6 overall,
1-0 CRC) got out to an
early 22-12 lead after the
fi rst quarter.
By halftime, Davies
already racked up 10
points. She would go on to
fi nish the game with seven
rebounds, three blocked
shots, two steals and one
assist. Lemberger hit three
of her four total 3-pointers
in the fi rst half as well.
McGlothan was making
her presence known in the
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
paint, getting four of her Pendleton’s Jaiden Lemberger shoots the ball over La Grande’s Alexyss Chamberlain in the Bucks’
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73-50 win against/loss to the Tigers on Tuesday in Pendleton.
Pendleton
falls in
non-league
road game
Irrigon boys complete
season sweep of Riverside,
Nyssa girls with win over
Vale
East Oregonian
LA GRANDE — Pendleton road into
La Grande on Tuesday with a four-game
win streak. The non-league game versus
the Tigers came just
days after the Buck-
Boys
Basketball aroos’ fi rst CRC road
win in Hood River.
However, this road
trip would not have
the same outcome as
Pendleton
Pendleton fell 57-50.
Junior Tyler Newsom
led the efforts with a
game-high 27 points.
La Grande has been
solid, winning eight of
La Grande
its last 10 games before
hosting the Bucks (9-7
overall, 1-0 Columbia
River
Conference).
The Tigers got out to an early lead and
maintained it throughout the rest of
the game. Junior Nick Tsiatsos was La
Grande’s top shooter with 20 points.
The game would favor the home team
as the Tigers improved to 12-7 overall
after the victory and sit atop their Class
4A Greater Oregon League.
Pendleton will play its fi rst CRC game
at Warberg Court on Friday, hosting The
Dalles at 7 p.m.
50
57
———
PHS
12 13
9 16 — 50
LGHS
17 12 12 16 — 57
PENDLETON — T. Newsom 27, K. Sams 9, R. Scott 6, R.
Russell 5, S. Jerome 2, D. Jackson 1.
LA GRANDE — N. Tsiatos 20, K. Chandler 15, C. Reed 6, N.
Chamberlain 4, I. Chamberlain 4, B. Bell 4, G. Blackman 2, H.
Youngblood 2.
3-pointers — PHS 7, LGHS 4. Free throws — PHS 11-15,
LGHS 17-24. Fouls — PHS 18, LGHS 15.
IRRIGON 45, RIVERSIDE 31 —
The visiting Irrigon Knights earned a
season sweep of Riverside on Tuesday.
On Jan. 10, just one game into Eastern
Oregon League play, Irrigon handed
Riverside a 56-50 loss on its home court.
The Pirates were hoping to get revenge
when they hosted the Knights, but fell
short. The 45-31 loss is Riverside’s third
in its last four games.
Meanwhile, Irrigon is now riding a
three-game win streak with the victory.
The Knights (16-2 overall, 5-1 EOL)
will have a quick turnaround and return
home to welcome Umatilla for a Thursday
matchup. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
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MLB
Martinez rockets up Hall of Fame ballot as DHs gain respect
projected to be around the 75
percent needed for election
when this year’s voting is
NEW YORK — Edgar announced Wednesday. He
could become only the
Martinez is rocketing
second Hall of Famer
up the Hall of Fame
who was primarily a
ballot, boosted 13
designated hitter.
years after his fi nal
“I think it’s kind
swing by new-age
of like relief pitchers:
statistical analyses and
Once the fi rst couple
campaigning.
started to get in, people
His
percentage Rodriguez
had to accept the fact
of the vote more
that they’re part of the
than doubled from
2015 to last year, and he is game now,” said MLB.com’s
By RONALD BLUM
Associated Press
Tracy Ringolsby, who voted
for Martinez for the fi rst
time this year. “You can’t
get around them. You can’t
ignore it. And so, you have to
give them consideration.”
Martinez received 25.2
percent in 2014, when Frank
Thomas became the fi rst
player elected after spending
the majority of his career as
DH, a position instituted in
1973. Martinez rose to 27
percent the following year,
43.4 percent in 2016 and
58.6 percent last year. He is
on 77.1 percent of the 231
ballots obtained by Ryan
Thibodaux and posted on his
Hall of Fame vote-tracker.
Chipper Jones, Jim Thome
and Vladimir Guerrero are
likely to be overwhelming
picks, and Trevor Hoffman
could get in, too, after a near-
miss last year.
Roger Clemens and Barry
Bonds are both tracking at
63.6 percent in the sixth
ballot appearance for each.
That is up about 3-4 percent
from their vote-tracker
percentage last year, when
Clemens fi nished at 54.1
percent and Bonds at 53.8.
Martinez’s Hall chances
have been aided Ryan M.
Spaeder, a 28-year-old fan
from Virginia who sent
statistical analyses to about
250 voters. Martinez is
making the ninth of the 10
appearances he is allowed on
the Baseball Writers’ Associ-
ation of America ballot.
“We now have tools to
evaluate players that we
didn’t have even 10 years
ago, and it’s easy now to
compare Edgar, not just to
other DHs but to other hitters,
both of his era and all eras,”
former ESPN reporter Jayson
Stark said. “He measures up
against all of them.”
A seven-time All-Star,
Martinez was a designated
hitter in 1,412 of 2,055
career regular-season games.
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Sports shorts
Lillard chosen as All-Star reserve
NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Curry will be
able to stock his All-Star roster with plenty of
Golden State teammates.
Klay Thompson and Draymond Green
were chosen as reserves Tuesday, giving the
defending NBA champions a
record-tying four All-Stars.
The Minnesota Timberwolves
and Washington Wizards also had
two reserves selected, and they
will go into the pool of players that
Curry and fellow captain LeBron
James can draft to comprise the
Lillard
teams for the Feb. 18 game. Their
rosters will be unveiled Thursday,
though the selection process won’t be televised.
Minnesota’s Jimmy Butler and Karl-An-
thony Towns were chosen from the Western
Conference, along with Oklahoma City’s
Russell Westbrook, San Antonio’s LaMarcus
Aldridge and Portland’s Damian Lillard.
“I’m looking forward
to the moment when I
can be done with the
game and I can sit
back with my family
and my friends and we
can drink some wine
and talk about all the
accomplishments that I
had and feats I was able
to accomplish.”
— LeBron James
The Cleveland Cavalier said
after becoming the youngest
player ever to join the NBA’s
30,000-point club.
NFL establishes owner-player
committee on social justice
NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL has
established a player-owner committee focusing
on social and racial justice
initiatives.
The league also said Tuesday
it is beginning a “Let’s Listen
Together” campaign that
includes digital content and
commercials highlighting
player-led work on equality
issues. That platform will include social media
support and letters from players and owners.
Owners on the committee are Arizona’s
Michael Bidwill, Atlanta’s Arthur Blank,
Jacksonville’s Shahid Khan, Cleveland’s
Jimmy Haslam and Miami’s Stephen Ross.
Current players Josh McCown, Josh Norman,
and Kelvin Beachum, Pro Football Hall of
Famer Aeneas Williams and former player
Anquan Boldin are on the committee.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
2010 — Peyton Manning
throws three touchdown passes
and the Indianapolis Colts rally
from an 11-point, fi rst-half
defi cit to beat the New York
Jets 30-17 in the AFC champi-
onship game.
2014
—
Carmelo
Anthony scores a career-
high and franchise-record 62
points, most at the current
Madison Square Garden,
and the New York Knicks
beat Charlotte 125-96.
Anthony, with 56 after three
quarters, stays in for the fi rst
few minutes of the fourth to
break Bernard King’s Knicks
record of 60 points and Kobe
Bryant’s arena record of 61,
set fi ve years ago.
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