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East Oregonian
Friday, February 15, 2019
Logano and Harvick lead Ford
sweeps in Daytona qualifying
By JENNA FRYER
AP Auto Racing Writer
Austin American-Statesman via AP/Ricardo B. Brazziell, File
In this Jan. 15, 2019, file photo, Major League Soccer Com-
missioner Don Garber announces that Austin will be an
expansion franchise for the 2021 season in Austin, Texas.
MLS extends
commissioner
Garber’s contract
through 2023
NEW YORK (AP)
— Major League Soccer
Commissioner Don Gar-
ber’s contract has been
extended by league owners
for five years through 2023.
Garber’s previous con-
tract expired at the end of
2018.
He was hired in
August 1999 to succeed
Doug Logan, MLS’s first
commissioner.
Garber, 61, spent 15
years with the NFL. He
was senior vice president
of its international division
when he was recruited for
MLS by Robert Kraft and
Lamar Hunt, owners of
teams in both leagues. Gar-
ber was inducted into the
U.S. National Soccer Hall
of Fame last year.
Under his leadership,
MLS has more than dou-
bled in size from 12 to 27
teams and helped develop
a boom in soccer stadium
construction in the U.S.
and Canada. MLS teams
have 20 soccer specific sta-
diums, up from just the one
in Columbus, Ohio, when
Garber joined MLS, and
Minnesota’s Allianz Field
opens this year.
Additional
stadiums
are planned for Austin,
Texas; Cincinnati; Colum-
bus; Miami; and Nashville,
Tennessee.
Garber’s new deal was
announced on Thursday.
DAYTONA
BEACH,
Fla. — Kevin Harvick and
Joey Logano won the Day-
tona 500 qualifying races in
a pair of Ford sweeps that
have the new Mustang posi-
tioned for a strong show-
ing in “The Great American
Race.”
Harvick won the first
of the 150-mile qualifying
races Thursday night that
set the field for NASCAR’s
showcase event. Logano
used a last-lap pass for the
lead in the second one.
Both
Harvick
and
Logano led podium sweeps
for Ford, which this year
is racing the Mustang in
NASCAR’s top series. The
qualifying races set the
starting lineup for Sun-
day’s season-opening Day-
tona 500, and Ford driv-
ers locked down the second
through fourth rows.
William Byron and Alex
Bowman, in Chevrolets
for Hendrick Motorsports,
swept the top two spots in
time trials last week and
represent the youngest start-
ing row in Daytona 500 his-
tory. Byron is 21 and Bow-
man is 25.
Harvick’s victory was
uneventful beyond Jim-
mie Johnson’s involve-
ment in his second wreck of
Speedweeks.
Logano, meanwhile, was
fourth on the final lap when
he pulled out of line to try
for the win. The reigning
AP Photo/John Raoux
Kevin Harvick crosses the finish line to win the first of two
qualifying auto races for the NASCAR Daytona 500 at Daytona
International Speedway on Thursday in Daytona Beach, Fla.
NASCAR champion got a
solid push from Team Pen-
ske teammate Ryan Blaney
to move to the front and
earn his spot alongside Har-
vick in Sunday’s race.
“Cool to see a couple of
Mustangs in victory lane
already,” Logano said. “The
big one’s still Sunday. It’s
a confidence builder for
everyone.”
Logano was followed
by Clint Bowyer and Aric
Almirola as Mustang driv-
ers went 1-2-3 in both races.
Harvick led Ricky Sten-
house Jr. and Paul Menard
in the first race for the ini-
tial Ford sweep.
The tally represents four
different teams, with Stew-
art-Haas Racing flexing its
power to put Harvick, Bow-
yer and Almirola up front in
the Daytona 500. Stenhouse
represents Roush Fenway
Racing, Logano drives for
Roger Penske and Menard
for the Wood Brothers.
All have been ordered
by Ford leaders to work
together and win the Day-
tona 500.
“Everybody at Ford Per-
formance always makes
it well known that they
expect us to work together,
do everything we can to get
a blue oval in victory lane,
especially the Mustang now
that we’re running it,” Sten-
house said. “We’re getting,
I would say, pretty good at
it. This is a race that they’re
all circling every year for us
to win.”
Toyota has so far been
shut out of Speedweeks as
Johnson won last weekend’s
exhibition race in a Hen-
drick Chevrolet.
The highest-starting Toy-
ota drivers will be Denny
Hamlin and Matt DiBened-
etto in the fifth row.
Parker Kligerman earned
the transfer spot into the
500 during the first quali-
fying race, while Brendan
Gaughan earned the final
slot in the 40-car field.
Joey Gase and Ryan
Truex both missed qualify-
ing for their first Daytona
500.
Harvick,
meanwhile,
wrecked in the first practice
of the season at Daytona
International Speedway. He
was collected the next day
in a 16-car crash triggered
by Jimmie Johnson in the
first race of Speedweeks.
It took his third time out
for Harvick to finally get it
right.
“We tore up so many of
these superspeedway cars,
it’s just good to finally bring
one to victory lane,” Har-
vick said.
Johnson,
meanwhile,
ended the event facing crit-
icism for another on-track
incident.
The seven-time cham-
pion went three-wide 25
laps into the race, caus-
ing Kyle Busch to spin
and bringing out a caution.
Johnson sent an apology
through his team, but Busch
was unforgiving.
“Tell him I don’t want
to hear it. Tell him to use
his eyeballs. That’s twice
in two races he’s done the
same thing,” Busch said,
using expletives to note
that Johnson also caused a
16-car accident Sunday.
Dawgs: ‘They are Huth: ‘I want this meet to be my best’
anxious to play’
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“If we can’t play tomor-
row, things will get wild,”
Hermiston coach Casey
Arstein said. “I’ve heard
from Larry (Usher, ath-
letic director) about the six
scenarios. We just have to
be ready to play when we
can.”
Weather issues can-
celed the first game last
Friday, then again Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday.
The Bulldogs have
had regular practices, but
Arstein said they are ready
to play after being idle for
two weeks.
“They have kept a good
attitude,” he said of his
players, “but they are anx-
ious to play.”
It will be the third
meeting between the Bull-
dogs and Lions (11-10) this
season.
Hermiston (14-6) won
the first meeting 72-64,
and the second 64-63.
The Bulldogs have had
school a couple of days the
Lions have not, and have
been able to practice. Ken-
newick has not had a for-
mal practice since last
Thursday.
“We had a shoot-around
last Friday, but that was the
last time we were together,”
Lions coach Bradyn Leyde
said. “We are a well-rested
group. We have a segment
of kids who are in the gym
anyway, whether it be at
the Southridge Complex
or they have a gym mem-
bership. I think they have
been getting together, but
it makes a difference when
you can’t be with them. It’s
a little disheartening.”
Kennewick beat North
Central in the first round
Feb. 5 to advance to
play Hermiston in the
semifinals.
“It kinda kills the
momentum,” Leyde said
of the delays.
If Friday’s game is
played, the winner will
advance to the champion-
ship game against the win-
ner of the Shadle Park-Mt.
Spokane game at 4:30 p.m.
Saturday at Spokane
Arena.
The loser will play
Kamiakin in a loser-out
game Saturday at a time
and location yet to be
determined.
Admission prices for
Friday, set by the WIAA,
are $7 for adults and $5 for
students.
Hermiston
Athletics
will cover the admission
cost for students who want
to attend the game.
Natural born swimmer
Before Huth took to
swimming, she tried every-
thing — basketball, soccer,
baseball — you name it. But
nothing seemed to click.
“I tried all the basic
sports,” she said. “I was just
checking them off the list,
until I got to swimming.”
Huth joined the Pendle-
ton Swim Association when
she was 9 years old, and felt
right at home. She’s been a
member ever since.
“I feel like I connect with
the water,” she said. “I’m
naturally drawn towards it.”
Her family history could
have something to do with
that — her uncle Tracy Huth
remains the No. 10 swim-
mer at Oakland University
in Michigan for the 1650
freestyle with a 15:53.44
time that he recorded in
1983. He was also a three-
time NCAA Division II
Swimmer of the Year, and
won the 200- and 400-meter
individual medleys all four
Hermiston, which lost
a 51-48 game in over-
time to North Central on
Feb. 5, still awaits its next
opponent.
The Bulldogs will play
the loser of Friday’s Ken-
newick-Mt. Spokane game
Saturday at a time and loca-
tion yet to be determined.
In Friday’s other semi-
final, Kamiakin is hosting
North Central.
court again.
“When you go six or
seven practices without a
game, it grinds on them,”
coach Zach Dong said of
his team. “They’re ready to
get out there and compete.”
The Pendleton girls
(8-11, 4-1 IMC) and boys
(14-5, 4-1) are both still
scheduled to face Red-
mond on Friday night. The
boys will stay at home, and
the girls will hit the road.
Both games are scheduled
to tip off at 6:30 p.m.
ing hard at the PSA — and
her career in the pool won’t
end there.
A bigger splash
This fall, Huth will
attend Lewis-Clark State
College in Lewiston, Idaho,
seeking a degree in nurs-
ing with minors in Spanish
SCOREBOARD
LOCAL SLATE
FRIDAY, FEB. 15
Boys Basketball
Nixyaawii at Old Oregon League Dis-
tricts (at Baker), 2:30 p.m.
Umatilla at Nyssa, 5 p.m.
Mac-Hi at La Grande, 5:30 p.m.
Stanfield vs. Enterprise (at Pendleton
Convention Center), 6 p.m.
Pendleton at Redmond, 6:30 p.m.
Echo at Big Sky League Districts (at
Madras)
Girls Basketball
Heppner vs. Enterprise (at Pendleton
Convention Center), 2:45 p.m.
Echo vs. Ione (at Madras), 6 p.m.
Kennewick at Hermiston, 6 p.m.
Redmond at Pendleton, 6:30 p.m.
Stanfield vs. Union (at Pendleton Con-
vention Center), 7:45 p.m.
Boys Wrestling
Hermiston at Mat Classic XXXI (at
Tacoma), 8:30 a.m.
Heppner at Districts (at Halfway), 2 p.m.
Swimming
Pendleton at State Championships (at
Beaverton), 1:45 p.m.
SATURDAY, FEB. 16
postponed, unlike their
Hood River Valley games.
“Still, I think there’s a
high likelihood that (Fri-
day’s) game could be can-
celed,” Porter said. “And
if we get to Monday, we’ll
have five games to get in
by the end of the week,
somehow.”
The boys have missed
out on just one prac-
tice over the past week,
but are ready to hit the
years of his college career.
He also coached the wom-
en’s team from 1987-1997,
and was Oakland’s athletic
director for seven years
until he left the position in
January 2014.
And Huth carries on that
family legacy year-round.
When she’s not competing
with the Bucks, she’s work-
3A Girls
Bucks: ‘They’re ready to
get out there and compete’
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Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Pendleton swimmer Landry Huth will compete at the state
championships this weekend in the 200-yard freestyle, 100-
yard breaststroke and two relays.
and kinesiology.
Because the school
doesn’t have a swim team,
Huth plans to join Lew-
iston’s city club team: the
Lewis Clark Neptunes,
which she hopes to partici-
pate in all four years of her
time in college.
And after that, Huth
wants to start a career as
either a pediatric nurse or
an athletic trainer for a high
school or college.
“Either way, you’re going
to be working with kids, and
I do that really, really well,”
Huth said. “From the begin-
ning, you need to make sure
kids are happy and healthy.
I want to be able to help
them.”
But before all of that,
Huth will hit the water as
a Buck for one last time in
Beaverton on Friday, with
finals to follow at 1 p.m. on
Saturday.
“This is the biggest meet
of my career,” she said. “I’m
hoping I can drop some
time. I want this meet to be
my best.”
Boys Basketball
Nixyaawii at Old Oregon League Dis-
tricts (at Baker), 3 p.m.
Heppner at Blue Mountain Conference
Districts (at Pendleton Convention Cen-
ter), 6 p.m.
Echo at Big Sky Districts (at Madras)
Girls Basketball
Ione at Big Sky Districts (at Madras),
noon
Echo at Big Sky Districts (at Madras)
Boys Wrestling
Hermiston at Mat Classic XXXI (at
Tacoma), 9:45 a.m.
Irrigon at Burns, 9 a.m.
Heppner at Districts (at Halfway), 10 a.m.
Swimming
Pendleton at State Championships (at
Beaverton), 1 p.m.
Monday, Feb. 18
Boys Basketball
Hood River Valley at Pendleton, 4:30
p.m.
Girls Basketball
Pendleton at Hood River Valley, 3 p.m.
NBA
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic
Toronto
Boston
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
New York
Southeast
Charlotte
Miami
Orlando
Washington
Atlanta
Central
Milwaukee
Indiana
Detroit
Chicago
Cleveland
W
43
37
37
30
11
W
27
26
27
24
19
W
43
38
26
14
12
L
16
21
21
29
47
L
30
30
32
34
39
L
14
20
30
44
46
Pct
.729
.638
.638
.508
.190
Pct
.474
.464
.458
.414
.328
Pct
.754
.655
.464
.241
.207
GB
—
5½
5½
13
31½
GB
—
½
1
3½
8½
GB
—
5½
16½
29½
31½
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest
W
L
Pct GB
Houston
33 24 .579
—
San Antonio
33 26 .559
1
Dallas
26 31 .456
7
New Orleans
26 33 .441
8
Memphis
23 36 .390
11
Northwest
W
L
Pct GB
Denver
39 18 .684
—
Oklahoma City 37 20 .649
2
Portland
34 23 .596
5
Utah
32 25 .561
7
Minnesota
27 30 .474
12
Pacific
W
L
Pct GB
Golden State
41 16 .719
—
L.A. Clippers
32 27 .542
10
Sacramento
30 27 .526
11
L.A. Lakers
28 29 .491
13
Phoenix
11 48 .186
31
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Thursday’s Games
Orlando 127, Charlotte 89
New York 106, Atlanta 91
New Orleans 131, Oklahoma City 122
Friday’s Games
Team World vs. Team USA at Charlotte,
N.C., 6 p.m.
Saturday’s Games
No games scheduled.
Sunday’s Games
2019 NBA All-Star Game
Team LeBron West vs. Team Giannis East
at Charlotte, N.C., 5 p.m.
Monday’s Games
No games scheduled.
Tuesday’s Games
No games scheduled.
Wednesday, Feb. 20
No games scheduled.
Thursday, Feb. 21
Miami at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.
Phoenix at Cleveland, 4 p.m.
Portland at Brooklyn, 4:30 p.m.
Boston at Milwaukee, 5 p.m.
Houston at L.A. Lakers, 7:30 p.m.
Sacramento at Golden State, 7:30 p.m.
NHL
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Tampa Bay
58 43 11 4 90 229 159
Toronto
56 35 18 3 73 200 159
Boston
57 32 17 8 72 168 148
Montreal
57 31 19 7 69 173 165
Buffalo
56 28 21 7 63 165 171
Florida
56 24 24 8 56 171 194
Detroit
58 23 28 7 53 162 190
Ottawa
57 21 31 5 47 175 208
Metropolitan GP W L OT Pts GF GA
N.Y. Islanders 57 34 17 6 74 164 136
Washington 57 31 19 7 69 192 183
Columbus
56 32 21 3 67 180 170
Pittsburgh
57 30 20 7 67 196 174
Carolina
57 29 22 6 64 167 164
Philadelphia 57 26 24 7 59 167 190
N.Y. Rangers 56 24 24 8 56 159 186
New Jersey
57 21 28 8 50 164 199
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Winnipeg
58 36 19 3 75 199 167
Nashville
60 34 21 5 73 185 155
St. Louis
56 29 22 5 63 167 162
Dallas
57 29 23 5 63 145 146
Minnesota 57 27 25 5 59 160 167
Colorado
57 23 23 11 57 186 189
Chicago
58 24 25 9 57 190 211
Pacific
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
San Jose
57 34 16 7 75 210 177
Calgary
57 34 16 7 75 207 170
Vegas
58 31 23 4 66 172 162
Vancouver 58 25 26 7 57 164 182
Arizona
57 25 27 5 55 150 167
Edmonton 56 24 27 5 53 160 187
Anaheim
57 22 26 9 53 128 182
Los Angeles 56 23 28 5 51 136 171
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for
overtime loss. Top three teams in each
division and two wild cards per confer-
ence advance to playoffs.
Wednesday’s Games
Pittsburgh 3, Edmonton 1
Anaheim 1, Vancouver 0
Thursday’s Games
N.Y. Islanders 3, Columbus 0
Florida 3, Calgary 2, SO
Detroit 3, Ottawa 2
Tampa Bay 6, Dallas 0
Colorado 4, Winnipeg 1
Nashville 3, Montreal 1
Chicago 5, New Jersey 2
St. Louis 4, Arizona 0
Toronto at Vegas, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m.
Washington at San Jose, 7:30 p.m.
Friday’s Games
N.Y. Rangers at Buffalo, 4 p.m.
Edmonton at Carolina, 4:30 p.m.
New Jersey at Minnesota, 5:30 p.m.
Boston at Anaheim, 7 p.m.
Saturday’s Games
Calgary at Pittsburgh, 10 a.m.
Detroit at Philadelphia, 10 a.m.
St. Louis at Colorado, 12 p.m.
Toronto at Arizona, 4 p.m.
Ottawa at Winnipeg, 4 p.m.
Edmonton at N.Y. Islanders, 4 p.m.
Montreal at Tampa Bay, 4 p.m.
Dallas at Carolina, 5 p.m.
Columbus at Chicago, 5:30 p.m.
Vancouver at San Jose, 7 p.m.
Nashville at Vegas, 7 p.m.
Boston at Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday’s Games
N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, 9:30 a.m.
St. Louis at Minnesota, 12 p.m.
Buffalo at New Jersey, 3 p.m.
Philadelphia at Detroit, 3 p.m.
Montreal at Florida, 4 p.m.
Washington at Anaheim, 6 p.m.