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WEEKEND, FEBRUARY 10-11 2018
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Prep Basketball
Prep Basketball
Bucks bust out big win
Dawgs snap
rivalry skid
Pendleton comes back
from slow third quarter
to defeat Hermiston
Ortiz helps Hermiston stay
in league title hunt
By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — In the
final 90 seconds of play on
Friday, Pendleton head coach
Kevin Porter was jumping up
and down on the sidelines as
the Buckaroos settled into their
defense.
His team held a narrow
53-47 lead, that was once an
advantage of over 10 points, but
the Bulldogs
Girls
willed their
way
back Basketball
into the game
and cut their
deficit to only
Hermiston
three points
with just over
a minute to
play.
Herm -
iston senior
Pendleton
H a n n a h
Thompson
converted the
and-1 into a
three point play to push the score
to 53-50 in favor of the Bucks.
Thompson had been heating up
in the second half, which made
Porter and company nervous.
“Their outside shooters got
hot, Hannah Thompson, she
got hot and I was getting a little
nervous there,” Porter said after
the game. “But we just kept
saying, ‘Next play, next play.’
If they get one there, so what,
we’ve got another play coming.”
Make that another five plays
for the Bucks, as they pulled
away with the 61-52 victory over
the Bulldogs at Warberg Court,
keeping Pendleton undefeated in
conference play.
After the team’s came out
of a timeout with 1:04 left on
the game clock, Hermiston
junior Sydney Stefani tried
for a 3-pointer to tie the game.
The missed shot fell into the
hands of Pendleton senior Kalan
McGlothan — who was fouled
and banked both free throw
attempts to put the Bucks up by
two possessions.
The Bulldogs, however,
weren’t giving up. Junior Jordan
Thomas forced her way inside
for a lay-up to cut the deficit to
55-52.
This is when Pendleton
needed another big play.
The Bucks (15-6 overall, 6-0
Columbia River Conference)
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — As a first-year varsity
player last season, Hermiston’s Cesar Ortiz
carved out a role as a streaky, but lethal,
3-point shooter off the bench.
As a junior this year, Ortiz has really
worked to develop more
Boys
aspects of his game and
get away from being a Basketball
one-dimensional player.
He flashed the growth of
his game during Friday’s
Hermiston
matchup with Pendleton,
working for rebounds in
the post, driving to the
hoop to create offense,
and showing quicker feet
on defense to help slow
Pendleton
down a talented Pendleton
offense.
However, Ortiz’s lethal
shooting touch from
behind the arch is still there, too, which he
used to knock down four key 3-pointers and
score a team-high 18 points to help his Bull-
dogs knock off the Buckaroos 66-55 in front
of a packed house at Pendleton’s Warberg
Court. The victory snapped a five-game skid
in the rivalry series for Hermiston dating
back to 2016, and keeps the Bulldogs in the
hunt for a conference title.
“This feels really good,” Ortiz said of the
66
42
55
61
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Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Pendleton’s Kalan McGlothan lays the ball in over Hermiston’s Sydney Stefani and Jayden
Ray in the Bucks’ 61-42 win against the Bulldogs on Friday in Pendleton.
got it from senior Maureen
Davies. Davies was fouled hard
at half court, and at the charity
stripe made her two free throws.
On the ensuing play, Davies
towered over the Bulldogs for
a big-time blocked shot on
Thomas that fellow senior Rylee
Gentner secured.
To seal the game-winning
score, another senior — one
of five on the roster — Hallie
Porter, knocked down a jumper
in front of Pendleton’s bench
that sent the crowd into a frenzy.
“It’s always great to hear all
the competitiveness from all the
student crowds, chanting against
each other, all of the support
that’s behind you is incredible,”
Davies said. “It just makes you
want to do better and show
everyone what our team can do
as a whole.”
With the win, the Bucks have
all but secured their place atop
the league standings. Only three
games remain on the regular
season schedule, ending with
one final matchup against the
Bulldogs (8-13, 4-2) in Herm-
iston.
Pendleton now has the 2-0
edge over their cross-county
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Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Pendleton’s Dante Jackson (20) goes up
for a shot under pressure from Adrian
Mendez, of Hermiston, during Friday’s
game at Warberg Court.
Prep Roundup
Pendleton third, Hermiston fourth after Day 1 at district tournament
East Oregonian
REDMOND — Pendleton
wrestling coach Fred Phillips
felt good about the draws his
Buckaroo wrestlers received
for the district tournament,
but emphasized that it was up
to his kids to follow through
and earn the points.
After the first day of the
Class 5A Special District
4 tournament on Friday in
Redmond, the Buckaroos
followed through pretty well.
Pendleton’s 19 wrestlers
scored 93.5 points to sit in
third place, just ahead of
Hermiston in fourth with 85.0
points. Seven Buckaroos
moved on to the quarterfinal
round, sitting just one win
away from securing a trip to
the state tournament.
“For the most part,
we’re pretty pleased with
how today went, honestly,”
Phillips said. “But tomorrow
(Day 2) is where we make
our money. We put ourselves
in a position to have a great
tournament, and now we
have to keep going.”
At 126-pounds, both No.
2 Alex Rendon and No. 4
Chris Chambers advanced to
the quarterfinals, as Rendon
won twice by fall and Cham-
bers had a bye and a win by
major decision. Rendon now
faces Hood River Valley’s
Chad Muenzer and Cham-
bers draws No. 1 seed Beau
Ohlson from Mountain View,
who carries a 39-0 record on
the season.
Brendon Bedolla (138)
won twice and faces No. 2
seed Steven Preston from The
Dalles and Aiden Patterson
(160) earned two wins by
fall and faces No. 1 Clayton
Elrod from Redmond, and
Kirk Liscom (170) won by
fall and by a decision and will
face No. 1 Frankie Lesowske
in the quarters.
Pendleton and Hermiston
will meet up at 145 and
195 in the quarters, as the
Buckaroos Blake Davis will
face Bulldogs’ A.J. Tuia at
145 and Hermiston’s Joey
Gutierrez gets Pendleton’s
Aiden Henderson at 220.
Gutierrez’s only match on
Friday featured a win by fall
in just 17 seconds.
The Bulldogs have six
other wrestlers in the quar-
terfinals: Alice Todryk (113)
will face Redmond’s Diego
Suganuma, Ruben Madrigal
(106) gets Mountain View’s
Nick Valenti, Gage Shipley
(120)
faces
Mountain
View’s Carsen Johnson,
Zach Kirkpatrick (160)
faces Redmond’s Austin
Carter, Sean Stewart (220)
faces Ridgeview’s Logan
Shenk, and Beau Blake (285)
gets Hood River’s Adrian
Ramirez.
Mountain View (167) and
Redmond (118.5) hold the
top two spots in the team
standings.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
VALE 48, IRRIGON
38 — In its final home game
of the regular season, Irrigon
couldn’t shake off its recent
woes and dropped its third
consecutive game 48-38 to
Vale.
“We dug ourselves in a
hole in the first quarter and
had to fight from behind the
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Sports shorts
Johnson shares lead at Pebble Beach
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Dustin
Johnson apparently has an issue with the Shore
Course at Monterey Peninsula only when the
weather is ugly. Under a gorgeous sky Friday,
the world’s No. 1 player shot a 7-under 64 and
shared the 36-hole lead with Beau
Hossler in the AT&T Pebble Beach
National Pro-Am.
Johnson opened with three
straight birdies, including a 9-iron
on the par-3 11th. The weather was
so foul last year that he hit 4-iron.
He heads over to Pebble Beach for
Johnson
the final two rounds as he tries to
win his second straight PGA Tour event.
Hossler played bogey-free at Spyglass Hill
for a 67. They were at 12-under par.
Rory McIlroy drove to the front of the par-4
fifth green and then took five putts from there.
He shot 74.
“This is where I wanted to
be, honestly. I wanted to
get this deal done as fast
as possible. It’s only going
to help our team going
forward and going into free
agency. It is 75 degrees out
here, it’s not a snow storm
like in Chicago. It’s a lot
better here ... I was excited
to be here and I’m happy it
got done as fast we did.”
— Jimmy Garoppolo
The San Francisco 49ers QB at
his press conference Friday
afternoon announcing his five-
year, $137.5 million contract
extension with the team.
Oregon State needs overtime
to defeat Washington St, 63-61
PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — Katie
McWilliams made a pair of free throws with
1.1 seconds left in overtime and No. 16 Oregon
State escaped with a 63-61 victory over
Washington State on Friday.
WSU’s Maria Kostourkova
made 1 of 2 free throws with
1.9 seconds remaining to tie the
game. McWilliams took a long inbounds pass
and was fouled by Kostourkova while shooting.
Washington State (10-15, 3-10 Pac-12)
led by two after a 3-point play by Borislava
Hristova with 16 seconds left in regulation but
McWilliams scored underneath off an inbounds
pass to tie at 50 with a second to go.
Goodman hit five 3-pointers and scored a
career-high 17 points. Marie Gulich scored 15
points to pass 1,000 in her career and grabbed
16 rebounds, and Pivec added 12 points for the
Beavers (18-6, 9-4).
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1992 — Bonnie Blair
becomes the first woman
to successfully defend an
Olympic gold medal in
500-meter speed skating and
the first American woman in
any sport to win gold medals
in consecutive Olympics.
1998 — Picabo Street,
Alpine skiing’s comeback kid,
overcomes a mistake about
midway through her run and
charges to an Olympic gold by
one-hundredth of a second in
the women’s super-G.
2007 — Jaromir Jagr has
three assists in the Rangers’ win
over Washington, becoming
the 12th player in NHL history
to score 1,500 points.
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