SPORTS
WEEKEND, FEBRUARY 17-18, 2018
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UMATILLA
OSAA State Wrestling
Only 18
locals
remain
after
first day
East Oregonian
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
The Irrigon Knights celebrate on after defeating Umatilla in a 53-48 double overtime win against the Vikings on Friday in Umatilla.
NEW DISTRICT CHAMPS
Irrigon defeats
Umatilla in
double OT
Boys Basketball
By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
East Oregonian
UMATILLA — It takes
unrelenting endurance to outlast
your toughest competition, which
is something the Irrigon boys
basketball team focuses on every
practice.
“It’s 90 percent of what we do,”
junior Keith Flemming said. “We
don’t even touch the basketball
during practice, we run.”
The Knights have outran,
outplayed and more often than not
dominated their opponents. But
when it came to league play, they
were going to have to give a little
more especially when it was time
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Irrigon’s Patrick Bevington and Keith Fleming go for a rebound
against Umatilla’s Kaden Webb in the Knights’ 53-48 double
overtime win against Viking on Friday in Umatilla.
to face Umatilla.
The Vikings and Knights played
twice during the regular season,
and would meet again Friday for
the Eastern Oregon League district
championship.
On the defending champs
home court, Irrigon had to use the
Irrigon
Umatilla
53
48
endurance it has built up all season
long to come away with a 53-48
double-overtime victory.
Soon after tipoff in the second
overtime period, the Knights (20-4
overall, 7-3 EOL) found them-
selves down after Umatilla just
banked one of its nine 3-pointers.
Junior Uriel Garcia had
attempted a three from the left
corner earlier in the game with
no luck, but this time it put the
Vikings (20-6, 8-2) up but a single
point, 48-47.
The
back-and-forth
lead
changes continued. Irrigon’s
Johnny Phillips made both of his
free throws in the bonus to give
See IRRIGON/3B
PORTLAND — Forty-three
wrestlers spread across seven local
teams made the trip to the OSAA
State Championships that began
on Friday, and after Day 1 only 18
remain in contention for spot on the
podium.
In Class 5A, the Hermiston
Bulldogs sit in 10th place with 44.0
points after Day 1 and Pendleton is
in 14th with 25.0 points, way off the
pace of first place Dallas (106.0).
The Bulldogs have only four of their
10 wrestlers still in the tournament,
three of which still have a chance at
the state championship.
Joey Gutierrez, the No. 2 seed
at 195 pounds, picked up a win by
forfeit and a win by fall in just 57
seconds to move on to the semifi-
nals where he faces No. 3 Avery
Jaramillo of Thurston tomorrow.
A.J. Tuia (145) picked up a win by
fall and a 2-0 decision to move on
to the semis, where he gets No. 1
Matthew Lee of Milwaukie. And
Beau Blake (285) won by fall and
by a 5-2 decision to advance to
the semis and faces No. 1 Iosefa
Polamalu from Sandy.
Ruben Madrigal (106) dropped
his quarterfinal match and moved
into the consolation bracket,
where he handed teammate Adrian
Delgado his second loss with a fall
at 3:58, keeping Madrigal alive.
The Bulldogs were also at the
wrong end of a big upset as No. 4
Sean Stewart (220) lost to unseeded
Crayton Gillespie of Crater by fall
at 5:31 in the first round, and then
was eliminated with a loss by fall in
consolation as well.
Pendleton’s lone wrestler left is
Alex Rendon, the No. 7 seed at 126
pounds. Rendon won his first round
See WRESTLING/4B
PENDLETON
Bucks thump Riverhawks in home finale
Win sets up league title
game Tuesday night at
Hermiston
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — As a junior,
Richard Scott and his 6-foot-5
frame was stuck on Pendleton’s
junior varsity roster, blocked at
the forward position on varsity by
talented players such as Johnny
Stuvland.
He played some garbage time
minutes on the varsity roster last
season, but for the most part Scott
quietly worked to develop his game
and wait until his number was
called. Scott’s time to shine finally
came this season as a senior and
he has not disappointed, as
Scott is one of six
Boys
he’s become a force in the Basketball Buckaroo seniors that were
paint for the Buckaroos this
honored prior to their final
season.
home game on Friday night,
On Friday night, Scott
joining Shaw Jerome, Ryan
played a key role for the The Dalles Russell, Dante Jackson,
Buckaroos again. He scored
Martin Gallegos and Greg
10 points, grabbed seven
Lee. As a whole, the senior
rebounds — three offensive
class isn’t a flashy one with
— and blocked two shots
a lot of skill, but a cohesive
as Pendleton defeated The Pendleton one full of guys that waited
Dalles 69-53 in the Bucka-
for their moment and have
roos’ regular-season finale at
helped the Buckaroos in
Warberg Court.
many ways in their four
“This seasons’ been
years.
a blast,” Scott said with a smile
“Richard, Dante, Martin, those
after the game. “Even last season guys have really put in their time,”
watching those guys work and Pendleton coach Kyle Tedder said,
working under them and having “and when you have guys like Shaw
them help develop my skill was and (Russell) who have started for
big. But this year’s been a really two years, too, it’s awesome to see
fun time getting a lot of minutes and
See PENDLETON/3B
helping my team.”
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Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Pendleton’s Greg Lee battles two Riverhawks for a rebound Fri-
day at Warberg Court.
Sports shorts
Woods misses cut at Genesis Open
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tiger Woods waited 12
years to get back to Riviera and lasted only two days.
Woods had three straight bogeys early on the back
nine Friday and didn’t play well enough to make up
for his misses. He had a 5-over 76 and missed the cut
in the Genesis Open for the first time in
nine appearances as a pro.
He was at 6-over 148, one shot
worse than his PGA Tour debut as a
16-year-old at Riviera.
“I missed every tee shot left and I
did not putt well, didn’t feel very good
on the greens,” Woods said. “And
Woods
consequently, never made a run. I
knew I had to make a run on that back
nine, and I went the other way.”
Patrick Cantlay ran off three straight birdies
toward the end of his morning round, starting with
a tap-in on the par-3 sixth when he missed a hole-
in-one by a fraction of an inch, and shot a 69. He was
tied with Graeme McDowell (66) at 7-under 135.
“If you look at the starting grid
from the Daytona 500 five
years ago and you look at it
today, it’s just amazing how
much the image of NASCAR
has changed ... I’d say four or
five years ago, there was so
many older veteran drivers that
it was just very calm for a long
period of the race, and I think
that this year with the big youth
movement, it has a potential to
be more on edge for a longer
period of time.”
— Denny Hamlin
NASCAR driver of the No. 11
car for Joe Gibbs Racing on the
youth movement in NASCAR.
No. 15 Oregon State outlasts
No. 7 UCLA in overtime 67-64
CORVALLIS (AP) — Marie Gulich had 24
points, 12 rebounds and three blocks to lead No.
15 Oregon State to a 67-64 OT
win over No. 7 UCLA on Friday.
Katie McWilliams had 16
points and five rebounds, and Kat
Tudor added 14 point and seven
rebounds for the Beavers (20-6, 11-4).
Jordin Canada had 21 points and five assists,
and Monique Billings added 14 points and 12
rebounds for the Bruins (21-5, 12-3).
Gulich made a lay-up at the 1:47 mark of
the extra period to put the Beavers ahead 63-62.
Billings was fouled on the next possession and
sank both free throws for UCLA.
UCLA’s Japreece Dean had her 3-pointer
blocked by Taya Corosdale with 4 seconds
remaining, and the Beavers called timeout with
1.3 seconds left. Tudor’s 3-pointer rimmed out
before the buzzer.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1998 — The U.S. women’s
hockey team wins the sport’s
first-ever Olympic gold medal
after a 3-1 victory over Canada.
2001 — Arnold Palmer,
71, becomes the first player to
shoot his age in a PGA Tour
event since Sam Snead 22
years ago. Palmer finishes the
fourth round of the Bob Hope
Classic with a 1-under 71.
2010
—
Americans
Lindsey Vonn and Julia
Mancuso captures gold and
silver, respectively, in the
women’s Olympic downhill
in Vancouver. It’s the first
time since 1984 that the US
captures the top two steps in a
women’s alpine skiing event.
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