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SPORTS
East Oregonian
Saturday, April 21, 2018
NBA Playoffs
NHL Playoffs
Bucks overwhelm Celtics
for 116-92 victory in Game 3
Jets advance to
second round with
5-0 win over Wild
Associated Press
MILWAUKEE — Length
and
athleticism
make
the Milwaukee Bucks a
dangerous team with the ball.
When they defend the
way they did on Friday night
against the Boston Celtics,
they're nearly unstoppable.
Khris Middleton scored
23 points, Giannis Antetok-
ounmpo added 19 and the
Bucks used a dominating
first half to overwhelm the
Celtics 116-92, narrowing
their deficit in the first-round
playoff series to 2-1.
Eric Bledsoe and Jabari
Parker each added 17 for the
energized Bucks, who held
the Celtics without a field
goal for nearly an 11-minute
stretch of the first half.
Milwaukee found its
defense after a disheartening
14-point loss in Game 2,
getting contributions from up
and down the roster.
"We
realized
how
important this game was ...
Everybody that played came
in ready to go," Antetok-
ounmpo said.
Backup center Thon
Maker scored 14 points and
had five of the Bucks' 12
blocks. Pesky guard Matthew
Dellavedova, a veteran of a
championship run with the
Cleveland Cavaliers, helped
hold young Celtics point
guard Terry Rozier to nine
points on 2-of-7 shooting.
The Bucks were the
aggressors all night long.
"The activity, if you take
the stat sheet out of it, the
activity and the energy that
we brought ... as you go
through the game, that's what
you need, is the energy first,"
coach Joe Prunty said.
Al Horford scored 16 for
the Celtics, who fell behind
by 23 at halftime and got no
closer than 76-62 with 3:06
left in the third quarter on
Jayson Tatum's 3-pointer.
The game was so well in
hand that the Bucks closed
out the victory with Ante-
tokounmpo on the bench for
much of the fourth quarter
with five fouls. Middleton
had eight points in the fourth.
Game 4 is Sunday in
Milwaukee. The Celtics will
need to get off to a much
better start if they want to
avoid going home with a 2-2
series tie.
"We got into a hole. This is
new for our group," Horford
said. "They had it going ...
and we really didn't have an
answer for them tonight."
Milwaukee hustled for
loose balls and stayed active
around the paint, using its
AP Photo/Morry Gash
Milwaukee Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo tries to
drive past Boston Celtics’ Al Horford during the first
half of Game 3 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff
series Friday in Milwaukee.
Pacers back from a 17-point
halftime deficit for a 92-90
victory over the Cleveland
Cavaliers on Friday night for
a 2-1 lead in their first-round
series.
Cleveland was 39-0
during the regular season
when leading after three
quarters and kept that perfect
mark intact with a Game 2
win.
The incredible second-
half charge came exactly
one year after Indiana blew
a 26-point halftime lead in
a historic playoff collapse
against the Cavs.
This time, the Pacers deliv-
ered a devastating blow to the
three-time defending Eastern
Conference champs — on a
night LeBron Jones joined
Michael Jordan as the only
players in playoff history to
record 100 double-doubles.
James finished with 28 points
and 12 rebounds, but it wasn't
enough to prevent Cleveland
from losing its first game
this season after leading
following the third quarter.
UP NEXT
Game 4 is Sunday at
Indianapolis.
AP Photo/Darron Cummings
Indiana Pacers’ Bojan Bogdanovic shoots over Cleve-
land Cavaliers’ Kyle Korver during the first half of
Game 3 of a first-round NBA basketball playoff series
Friday in Indianapolis.
length to get deflections and
disrupt Boston in the lane.
The 7-foot-1 Maker, in
particular, provided a huge
boost to help Milwaukee
counter what had been a deci-
sive edge off the bench for the
Celtics. Maker got extended
minutes only because starting
center John Henson missed
the game with a sore back.
Nearly everything else
went Milwaukee's way, too.
Parker,
who
voiced
displeasure this week after
playing just 24 minutes over
the first two games, was
7 of 12 from the field and
played 30 minutes. Bledsoe,
outplayed by Rozier in the
first two games, shot 8 of 13.
"Obviously, it was all in
the first half," Celtics coach
Brad Stevens said about his
team's downfall. "They were
in such a rhythm offensively."
UP NEXT
Game 4 is Sunday after-
noon at the Bradley Center.
INDIANA 92,
CLEVELAND 90
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)
— Bojan Bogdanovic scored
30 points, leading the Indiana
WASHINGTON 122,
TORONTO 103
WASHINGTON
(AP)
— Bradley Beal heeded
his coach's plea to "do his
job" by scoring 21 of his 28
points in the first half, his
All-Star backcourt running
mate John Wall delivered
28 points and 14 assists,
and the Washington Wizards
beat the Toronto Raptors
122-103 Friday night in an
occasionally heated game to
cut their Eastern Conference
first-round playoff series
deficit to 2-1.
After letting the Raptors
grab the first 2-0 series lead
in franchise history, the
Wizards came home and
checked off every box coach
Scott Brooks presented. They
got Beal more involved after
he made only three shots
in Game 2; they actually
led after the first quarter,
30-29; they played with
enough defensive focus to
get produce 19 turnovers by
Toronto, leading to 28 points
for Washington.
Add it all up, and it was a
rare recent victory for Wash-
ington, which had lost seven
of eight games dating to the
regular season.
DeMar DeRozan led
Toronto with 23 points on
10-for-22 shooting one game
after scoring 37, and Kyle
Lowry had 19 points and
eight assists.
SCOREBOARD
Local slate
PREP BASEBALL
Saturday
Grant Union at Pilot Rock (DH), 11 a.m.
Weston-McEwen at Elgin (DH), 11 a.m.
Arlington at Heppner (DH), 11 a.m.
The Dalles at Hermiston (DH), 12 p.m.
Pendleton at Hood River Valley (DH), 12
p.m.
Mac-Hi at La Grande (DH), 12 p.m.
PREP SOFTBALL
Saturday
The Dalles at Hermiston (DH), 12 p.m.
Pendleton at Hood River Valley (DH), 12
p.m.
Mac-Hi at La Grande (DH), 12 p.m.
Burns at Echo (DH), 1 p.m.
Pilot Rock at Union (DH), 11 a.m.
PREP TRACK & FIELD
Saturday
Mac-Hi at Blue Devil Legends Invite
(Walla Walla), 10 a.m.
Heppner at 54th Centennial Invitational
(Centennial HS), 11 a.m.
Helix, Pilot Rock, Stanfield, Weston-McE-
wen at Pepsi Invitational (Union), 11 a.m.
Riverside at Portland Christian Invitational,
11 a.m.
PREP GOLF
Friday
Hermiston (girls) at Wandemere Golf
Course (WA), 9 a.m.
Heppner at Grant Union Invite (John Day
Golf Club), 10 a.m.
PREP TENNIS
Saturday
Helix, Umatilla, Stanfield at Stanfield,
10 a.m.
PREP LACROSSE
Saturday
West Valley at Hermiston, 2 p.m.
COLLEGE BASEBALL
Saturday
Wenatchee Valley at BMCC (DH), 1 p.m.
COLLEGE SOFTBALL
Saturday
EOU at Corban (DH), 11 a.m.
Basketball
NBA PLAYOFFS
FIRST ROUND
(Best-of-7)
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Toronto 2, Washington 1
Game 1: Toronto 114, Washington 106
Game 2: Toronto 130, Washington 119
Friday: Washington 122, Toronto 103
Sunday: Toronto at Washington, 5 p.m.
Boston 2, Milwaukee 1
Game 1: Boston 113, Milwaukee 107, OT
Game 2: Boston 120, Milwaukie 106
Friday: Milwaukee 116, Boston 92
Sunday: Boston at Milwaukee, 10 a.m.
Philadelphia 2, Miami 1
Game 1: Philadelphia 130, Miami 103
Game 2: Miami 113, Philadelphia 103
Thursday: Philadelphia 128, Miami 108
Saturday: Philadelphia at Miami, 11:30
a.m.
April 24: Miami at Philadelphia, TBA
Indiana 2, Cleveland 1
Game 1: Indiana 98, Cleveland 80
Wednesday: Cleveland 100, Indiana 97
Friday: Indiana 92, Cleveland 90
Sunday: Cleveland at Indiana, 5:30 p.m.
April 25: Indiana at Cleveland, TBA
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Houston 2, Minnesota 0
Game 1: Houston 104, Minnesota 101
Wednesday: Houston 102, Minnesota 82
Saturday: Houston at Minnesota, 4:30
p.m.
April 23: Houston at Minnesota, 5 p.m.
Golden State 3, San Antonio 0
Game 1: Golden State 113, San Antonio
92
Game 2: Golden State 116, San Antonio
101
Thursday: Golden State 110, San Antonio
97
Sunday: Golden State at San Antonio,
12:30 p.m.
New Orleans 3, Portland 0
Game 1: New Orleans 97, Portland 95
Game 2: New Orleans 111, Portland 102
Thursday: New Orleands 119, Portland
102
Saturday: Portland at New Orleans, 2 p.m.
Oklahoma City 1, Utah 1
Game 1: Oklahoma City 116, Utah 108
Wednesday: Utah 102, Oklahoma City 95
Saturday: Oklahoma City at Utah, 7 p.m.
April 23: Oklahoma City at Utah, 7:30
p.m.
April 25: Utah at Oklahoma City, TBA
Hockey
NHL PLAYOFF GLANCE
FIRST ROUND
(Best-of-7; x-if necessary)
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Tampa Bay 3, New Jersey 1
Game 1: Tampa Bay 5, New Jersey 2
Game 2: Tampa Bay 5, New Jersey 3
Game 3: New Jersey 5, Tampa Bay 2
Wednesday: Tampa Bay 3, New Jersey 1
Saturday: New Jersey at Tampa Bay, 12
p.m.
Boston 3, Toronto 1
Game 1: Boston 5, Toronto 1
Game 2: Boston 7, Toronto 3
Game 3: Toronto 4, Boston 2
Thursday: Boston 3, Toronto 1
Saturday: Toronto at Boston, 5 p.m.
Columbus 2, Washington 2
Game 1: Columbus 4, Washington 3, OT
Game 2: Columbus 5, Washington 4, OT
Game 3: Washington 3, Columbus 2, OT
Thursday: Washington 4, Columbus 1
Saturday: Columbus at Washington, 12
p.m.
Pittsburgh 3, Philadelphia 2
Game 1: Pittsburgh 7, Philadelphia 0
Game 2: Philadelphia 5, Pittsburgh 1
Game 3: Pittsburgh 5, Philadelphia 1
Wednesday: Pittsburgh 5, Philadelphia 0
Friday: Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 2
Sunday: Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 12
p.m.
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Nashville 3, Colorado 2
Game 1: Nashville 5, Colorado 2
Game 2: Nashville 5, Colorado 4
Game 3: Colorado 5, Nashville 3
Wednesday: Nashville 3, Colorado 2
Friday: Colorado 2 Nashville 1
Sunday: Nashville at Colorado, 4 p.m.
Winnipeg 3, Minnesota 1
Game 1: Winnipeg 3, Minnesota 2
Game 2: Winnipeg 4, Minnesota 1
Game 3: Minnesota 6, Winnipeg 2
Tuesday: Winnipeg 2, Minnesota 0
Friday: Minnesota at Winnipeg, 7:30 p.m.
Vegas 4, Los Angeles 0
Game 1: Vegas 1, Los Angeles 0
Game 2: Vegas 2, Los Angeles 1, 2OT
Game 3: Vegas 3, Los Angeles 2
Tuesday: Vegas 1, Los Angeles 0
San Jose 4, Anaheim 0
Game 1: San Jose 3, Anaheim 0
Game 2: San Jose 3, Anaheim 2
Game 3: San Jose 8, Anaheim 1
Wednesday: San Jose 2, Anaheim 1
Baseball
MLB
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Friday’s Games
Detroit 3, Kansas City 2, 1st game, 10
innings
Baltimore 3, Cleveland 1
Toronto 8, N.Y. Yankees 5
Kansas City 3, Detroit 2, 2nd game
Tampa Bay 8, Minnesota 7, 10 innings
Seattle 6, Texas 2
Houston 10, Chicago White Sox 0
Boston 7, Oakland 3
San Francisco 8, L.A. Angels 1
Saturday’s Games
Toronto (Stroman 0-1) at N.Y. Yankees
(Montgomery 1-0), 10:05 a.m.
Kansas City (Duffy 0-2) at Detroit (Fiers
1-1), 10:10 a.m.
Cleveland (Clevinger 1-0) at Baltimore
(Tillman 0-3), 1:05 p.m.
Minnesota (Gibson 1-0) at Tampa Bay
(Snell 2-1), 3:10 p.m.
Houston (Keuchel 0-3) at Chicago White
Sox (Giolito 0-2), 4:10 p.m.
Seattle (Paxton 1-1) at Texas (Colon 0-0),
5:05 p.m.
Boston (Sale 1-0) at Oakland (Manaea
2-2), 6:05 p.m.
San Francisco (Holland 0-2) at L.A. Angels
(Richards 2-0), 6:07 p.m.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Friday’s Games
Philadelphia 2, Pittsburgh 1
N.Y. Mets 5, Atlanta 3, 12 innings
Milwaukee 8, Miami 0
St. Louis 4, Cincinnati 2
Chicago Cubs 16, Colorado 5
San Diego 4, Arizona 1
San Francisco 8, L.A. Angels 1
Washington 5, L.A. Dodgers 2
Saturday’s Games
Cincinnati (Bailey 0-3) at St. Louis (Marti-
nez 2-1), 11:15 a.m.
Pittsburgh (Brault 2-1) at Philadelphia
(Nola 1-1), 1:05 p.m.
Miami (Urena 0-3) at Milwaukee (Suter
1-2), 4:10 p.m.
N.Y. Mets (deGrom 2-0) at Atlanta (Tehe-
ran 1-1), 4:10 p.m.
Chicago Cubs (Darvish 0-1) at Colorado
(Anderson 0-0), 5:10 p.m.
San Diego (Richard 1-1) at Arizona (Godley
2-1), 5:10 p.m.
San Francisco (Holland 0-2) at L.A. Angels
(Richards 2-0), 6:07 p.m.
Washington (Strasburg 2-1) at L.A. Dodg-
ers (Ryu 2-0), 6:10 p.m.
Soccer
MLS
Friday
Sporting K.C. 6, Vancouver 0
Saturday
Los Angeles FC at Montreal, 10 a.m.
Toronto FC at Houston, 12 p.m.
Chicago at New York, 12:30 p.m.
New England at Columbus, 4:30 p.m.
San Jose at Orlando City, 4:30 p.m.
Philadelphia at FC Dallas, 5 p.m.
Colorado at Real Salt Lake, 6 p.m.
Atlanta United FC at LA Galaxy, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday
Minnesota United at Seattle, 1 p.m.
New York City FC at Portland, 3 p.m.
Golf
PGA TOUR
VALERO TEXAS OPEN
Friday
At TPC San Antonio (Oaks Course)
San Antonio
Purse: $6.2 million
Yardage: 7,435; Par 72
Second Round
Zach Johnson 70-65—135
-9
Ryan Moore
68-67—135
-9
Andrew Landry 69-67—136
-8
Grayson Murray 67-69—136
-8
Ben Crane
72-66—138
-6
Martin Laird
73-65—138
-6
David Hearn
70-68—138
-6
Chris Kirk
73-66—139
-5
Billy Horschel 68-71—139
-5
Keegan Bradley 68-71—139
-5
Auto Racing
NASCAR Cup Series
Upcoming Schedule
Sunday — Toyota Owners 400 at Rich-
mond Raceway, 3:30 p.m. (TV: FOX)
April 29 — Geico 500 at Talladega
Superspeedway, 11 a.m. (TV: FOX)
Associated Press
WINNIPEG,
Mani-
toba — Minnesota Wild
forward Eric Staal got
right to the point.
"It couldn't have gone
any worse at the start for
us, and it couldn't have
gone any better for them,"
Staal said. "They got the
momentum and ran with
it, especially early."
Jacob Trouba, Bryan
Little, Brandon Tanev
and Joel Armia scored in
the first 11:59 to chase
Minnesota goalie Devan
Dubynk and the Winnipeg
Jets beat the Wild 5-0
on Friday night to win a
playoff series for the first
time in franchise history.
Winnipeg will face
the winner of the Nash-
ville-Colorado series in
the second round. Colo-
rado beat Nashville 2-1
later Friday night to force
Game 6.
Connor
Hellebuyck
made 30 saves for his
second shutout of the
series, and Mark Scheifele
added a goal in the third to
help the Jets finish off the
Wild in five games.
"I guess I did my job,
right?" Hellebucyk said
with a chuckle. "I didn't
let any in. ... I thought the
team was great in front of
me. The guys' details are
fantastic. Any time you
can get that many (goals)
in the first period, that
kind of sinks the other
team, especially deep in a
series like this. They defi-
nitely got this one early."
The 30-year-old Little
joined the Jets franchise
in 2007-08 when it was
based in Atlanta.
"Playing in Atlanta,
I wasn't sure I'd ever get
to experience playing
on a team like this and
playing in a city like this,
where hockey is loved this
much," said Little, who
tipped in a goal. "I just
feel lucky to be a part of
it."
The white-clad crowd
of 15,321 at Bell MTS
Place stood and began
cheering and waving
white towels with just over
two minutes remaining. A
similar-size crowd was
outside watching on giant
screens at a "whiteout"
street party.
"It's a tough building.
They're a dangerous team.
They get a quick one, and
the building gets into it,"
Dubnyk said. "A couple
deflections, and you can
see that's how a game can
kind of run away from
you."
Winnipeg's previous
post-season appearance
was a sweep by Anaheim
in 2015. The franchise
moved from Atlanta in
2011. The Thrashers
started in 1999-2000, with
their only playoff series
ending in four straight
losses to the New York
Rangers in 2007. The
series came 31 years after
the original Jets last won
a series before the team
moved to Arizona.
The Jets attacked the
Wild quickly, scoring
four goals on their first 10
shots.
Trouba scored 31
seconds in, and Little,
Tanev and Armia followed
quickly.
"Ultimately, the game
was lost in the first
period," Wild coach Bruce
Boudreau said. "You have
two periods of hockey left
and stranger things have
happened. For us it was
more about trying to right
the ship and get to our
game. I think for stretches
there we did a bit. We just
couldn't get the one to go
in to get things sparked."
Alex Stalock stopped
15 of the 16 shots in relief
of Dubynk.
Scheifele scored his
fourth goal of the series
32 seconds into the third
with a one-timer on the
power play.
PHILADELPHIA 4,
PITTSBURGH 2
PITTSBURGH (AP)
— Sean Couturier's long
shot from the point got
past Matt Murray with
1:17 left and the Phila-
delphia Flyers beat the
Pittsburgh Penguins 4-2
on Friday night to force
sixth game in the first-
round series.
The Flyers cut the
Penguins' series lead to
3-2 going into Game 6 on
Sunday in Philadelphia.
After missing Game 4
with a lower-body injury,
Couturier extended his
team's season at least two
more days by picking up
his second goal of the
series. Claude Giroux,
Valtteri Filppula and
Matt Read also scored
for the Flyers. Michal
Neuvirth stopped 30
shots, including a diving
stop on the doorstep to
deny Penguins star Sidney
Crosby shortly after
Couturier's knuckler put
Philadelphia in front.
Jake Guentzel and
Bryan Rust scored for the
Penguins. Matt Murray
made 21 saves but had
no chance on Couturier's
winner as the puck found
its way through a sea of
players and into the net.
A series that figured to
be taut instead started with
four straight blowouts,
most of them ending with
the Flyers skating off the
ice wondering what they
needed to do to keep pace
with cross-state rivals.
Philadelphia
coach
Dave Hakstol, perhaps
fighting for his job, made
his first significant change
in an effort to keep his
team's season alive, giving
Neuvirth his first playoff
start in nearly two years
and his first start of any
variety in more than two
months after Brian Elliott
couldn't shake out of a
funk that saw him pulled
in Game 1 and again in
Game 4.
The
Flyers
also
Couturier back to center
the third line just three
days removed from a
scary practice collision
with teammate Radko
Judas that left Couturier
with a lower-body injury
that forced him to watch
Pittsburgh's clinical 5-0
Game 4 romp from the
press box.
COLORADO 2,
NASHVILLE 1
NASHVILLE, Tenn.
(AP) — Sven Andrighetto
scored with 1:28 left
to give the Colorado
Avalanche a 2-1 victory
over Nashville Predators
2-1 on Friday night,
sending the first-round
series back to Denver for
Game 6.
This is the third time
the Avalanche had trailed
3-1 in a series since the
franchise relocated to
Colorado. They lost the
first two, but will have a
chance Sunday to push
this series to a seventh
game after rallying with
two goals in the final 4:11.
Gabriel
Landeskog
started the rally with his
goal into an empty net
with Nashville goalie
Pekka
Rinne
caught
outside the crease with
his own teammate Ryan
Ellis in his lap. Then
Andrighetto gave the Avs
the lead off a rebound of
a shot by J.T. Compher
that stunned a sold-out
Nashville crowd that had
expected to celebrate
advancing to the second
round.
Andrew
Hammond
made a career-high 44
saves for his first post-
season victory in his first
playoff start since April
17, 2015, with Ottawa and
just the third of his career.