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SPORTS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2018 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS College volleyball BMCC stays alive in NWAC tourney By BRETT KANE East Oregonian AP Photo/Stephen Brashear Seattle Seahawks tight end Nick Vannett (81) gets horizontal above Green Bay Packers cornerback Tramon Williams, lower-center, as Vannett carries the ball just short of the goal line against the Packers during the first half of an NFL football game on Thursday in Seattle. Seattle rallies past Packers By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer S EATTLE — After a shaky beginning, Rus- sell Wilson got hot in the fourth quarter and kept the Seattle Seahawks in the middle of the NFC playoff race. Wilson threw for 225 yards and his 15-yard touch- down pass to Ed Dickson with 5:08 left was the differ- ence in the Seahawks’ 27-24 victory over the Green Bay Packers on Thursday night. In a key matchup in the battle for the two NFC wild- card spots, Seattle (5-5) snapped a two-game los- ing streak by overcoming an early 14-3 deficit. Wil- son was shaky at times early game, but was outstanding in the fourth quarter, cap- ping the winning drive by recognizing a blitz and hit- ting Dickson quickly for his second TD pass of the overcoming the mistake of night. Seattle still has not fumbling on the first play lost three straight games of the game and setting up since the middle of the 2011 Green Bay’s opening score. season. Tyler Lockett had two key Aaron Rodgers had a receptions late in the fourth huge first half for Green quarter and Doug Baldwin Bay (4-5-1) and threw for had his first TD catch of the 332 yards. But the Packers season for Seattle. had just one Rodgers scoring drive SEAHAWK FOOTBALL was 21-of- in the second 30 passing half, helped with 10 of by a 57-yard those going strike from to Adams for Rodgers 166 yards to Davante receiving. Seahawks Packers Adams. Rod- Backup tight gers threw a end Robert 27 24 pair of touch- Tonyan had down passes in the first half, the first catch of his career but never got the ball back go for a 54-yard touch- after Green Bay punted with down to give Green Bay an early 14-3 lead. The Packers 4:20 left in the game. Seattle ran out the clock led 21-17 at halftime after thanks to a pair of runs from Jones caught a 24-yard TD pass from Rodgers in the Mike Davis. Chris Carson rushed for final minute of the half, but 83 yards and a touchdown, Green Bay’s offense was stymied in the second half. The Packers gained just 114 yards in the sec- ond half, half coming on the one throw from Rodg- ers to Adams. That pass set up Mason Crosby’s 36-yard field goal with 8:23 left, but Wilson had one more answer. Wilson hit Lockett on consecutive plays for 18 yards — to convert a third- down — and 34 yards to the Green Bay 16. Two plays later, facing another third- and-long, Wilson recog- nized the blitz and hit Dick- son quickly over the middle to put Seattle in front. That proved to be enough. On Green Bay’s next drive, Rodgers short-hopped a pass on third-and-2. Rather than going for it on fourth- down, Mike McCarthy opted to punt despite hav- ing just one time out. Seat- tle never gave the ball back. Blue Mountain Community College opened their Northwest Athletic Conference run with a five-set loss to Chemeketa and a three-set win over Skagit Valley at Tacoma on Thursday. The No. 3 Timberwolves dropped the first set 25-23 to the No. 2 Chemeketa Bolts. A kill from Blue Mountain middle blocker Faith McQueen and an attack error from Bolts outside hitter Cassidy Dill put the Timberwolves ahead to start. But the Bolts quickly caught up and the two teams traded points until they were tied up 23-23. Dill and right side hitter Elea- nor Belton put in two back-to- back kills to take the set. The Timberwolves managed to build nine-point lead in the second set at 18-9, and eventu- ally put the set away 25-16. Middle blocker Syndey Neu- man scored five kills in set three and setter Avrey Sunder- berg committed an attack error to give Blue Mountain the set, 25-22. Neuman recorded 21 kills for the match. “She was the only reason we were in it all five sets,” said coach Jessica Humphreys. “Unfortunately, you gotta have more than one person hit the ball to win.” Chemeketa stepped it up and maintained a steady 6- to 7-point lead in set four before middle blocker Delaney Smith closed it out with two consecu- tive kills for a 25-15 win. Set five was close. Blue Mountain was hot on the Bolts’ tail down 14-13, but Sunder- berg found some redemp- See BMCC/2B MLB Boston’s Betts, Milwaukee’s Yelich win MVP Awards By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK — Boston’s Mookie Betts and Milwaukee’s Christian Yelich were run- away winners of the Most Valuable Player awards after the 26-year-old outfielders each led their teams to first-place finishes with dominant seasons that included batting titles. Betts received 28 first-place votes and 410 points from the Baseball Writers’ Asso- ciation of America in balloting announced Thursday. Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout, a two-time MVP, followed with one first-place vote and 265 points. Trout tied the record of four second-place finishes shared by Stan Musial, Ted Williams and Albert Pujols. Trout won in 2014 and 2016; finished second in ’12, ’13 and ’15; and was fourth in 2017. Cleveland third baseman Jose Ramirez was third with 208 points, and Red Sox des- ignated hitter J.D. Martinez was next with one first and 198 points. Betts hit a major league-leading .346 with 32 homers, 80 RBIs and 30 stolen bases as the leadoff hitter for the Red Sox, who won a team-record 108 games and their fourth World Series title in 15 seasons. Votes were submitted before the postseason. Both batting champions won MVP awards for the first time since San Francisco’s Buster Posey and Detroit’s Miguel Cabrera in 2012. Yelich got 29 first-place votes and 415 points, and the other first-place vote went to New York Mets pitcher Jacob deGrom, the NL Cy Young Award winner, who finished fifth. Chicago Cubs infielder Javier Baez was second with 250 points, followed by Colo- rado third baseman Nolan Arenado with 203. Acquired from the payroll-paring Miami Marlins about a month before spring train- ing, the 26-year-old Yelich won the first bat- AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File AP Photo/Aaron Gash, File Boston Red Sox’s Mookie Betts. Milwaukee Brewers’ Christian Yelich. ting title in Brewers history with a .326 aver- age. He set career highs with 36 homers and 110 RBIs and had a 1.000 OPS. Yelich nearly became the NL’s first Triple Crown winner since Joe Medwick in 1937, finishing two homers shy of Arenado and one RBI back of Baez. Yelich was especially impressive in the second half, hitting .367 with 25 homers and 67 RBIs — including 11 homers in August and 10 in September. Milwaukee reached the playoffs for the first time in seven years, swept Colorado in the Division Series then lost to the Los Ange- les Dodgers in a seven-game League Cham- pionship Series, falling one win short of its first World Series appearance since 2002. Sports shorts THIS DATE IN SPORTS Baseball owners extend Manfred’s contract, TV deal with Fox ATLANTA (AP) — Baseball owners have extended the contract of Commissioner Rob Manfred and signed off a new televi- sion deal with Fox after two days of meet- ings in Atlanta. The owners put off any decision Thurs- day on changes that might speed up games. Manfred says they prefer to reach a consen- sus with the players’ union. Manfred took over as commissioner from Bud Selig in 2015. His new deal runs through the end of the 2024 regular season. Major League Baseball’s partnership with Fox, which began in 1996, will stretch an additional seven years through the 2028 season and continue to include the World Series and All-Star Game, as well as exten- sive playoff coverage on both the network and its all-sports cable channel, FS1. MLB also agreed to a three-year contract with DAZN, a subscription video streaming service. AP Photo/Paul Newberry Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred 1957 — Bill Russell of the Bos- ton Celtics sets an NBA Record with 49 rebounds in a 111-89 win over the Philadelphia Warriors. 1962 — Wilt Chamberlain scores 73 points, including 45 in the first half, to lead the San Fran- cisco Warriors to a 127-111 victory over the New York Knicks. 1976 — Rick Barry of the San Francisco Warriors ends the then-longest NBA free throw streak of 60 in a 110-102 win over the Seattle SuperSonics. Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com
