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5A STATE PLAYOFFS
Wilsonville derails
Bucks in quarterfi nals
Stifl ing defense shuts
down Bucks attack
Weather
forces
changes
to sports
schedules
MCC soccer
teams will play a
jamboree Saturday
at Kennison Field
By BILLY GATES
For the East Oregonian
CORVALLIS — The No. 10
Pendleton Buckaroos met a jug-
gernaut in the OSAA Class 5A
boys basketball quarterfi nals
Wednesday and fell 70-40 to No.
2 Wilsonville at Gill Coliseum.
Wilsonville, the Northwest
Oregon Conference champion
and Class 5A’s most prolifi c
offensive team, did work on both
ends of the fl oor to take a 23-4
lead after the fi rst quarter, and
after that it was pretty much over.
“Credit to Wilsonville, they
are probably the best coached
team in 5A, or even the state
of Oregon,” Bucks coach Zach
Dong said. “It’s hard to simulate
their defense in practice and be
ready for that, but there’s nothing
like it when you get out there.”
Pendleton’s
high-scoring
senior guard Tyler Newsom fi n-
ished with a game-high 21 points,
but none of them came easy.
Wilsonville sent defender after
defender at him on the perime-
ter and in the paint and held him
in check for the better part of the
game.
“As Ty goes, we go. He’s our
engine,” Dong said. “Wilsonville
did a good job on him.”
Newsom shot 6-for-14 from
the fi eld and 7-for-9 from the foul
line, and was the only Buck in
double fi gures. Kason Broncheau
fi nished with six points, and Tan-
ner Sweek pulled down seven
rebounds.
Pendleton outscored Wilson-
ville 18-15 in the fourth quar-
ter, but by then the damage had
been done. Wilsonville’s swarm-
ing man-to-man defense held the
Bucks to 3-of-19 shooting in the
fi rst half and 13-for-41 for the
game. Wilsonville shot 47 per-
cent from the fi eld and outre-
bounded Pendleton 38-19, 23-12
on the defensive glass.
Wilsonville had four play-
ers score in double fi gures, led
by forward Keegan Shivers’
14. Dakota Reber had 10 points
Photo by GM Artman for the East Oregonian
Play ball! Just not this
week.
The Mid-Columbia Con-
ference athletic directors
put their heads together on
Wednesday and reworked
the baseball, softball and
boys soccer schedules
because no one in the con-
ference has any playable
fi elds.
“We are going to be
able to get in all the confer-
ence games, but there will
be more doubleheaders,”
Hermiston AD Larry Usher
said of the baseball and soft-
ball teams.
Hermiston
baseball
coach Kevin Moore said he
has 18 inches of snow on his
fi eld. The same goes for the
ball parks in the Tri-Cities.
“It’s really hard to
describe,” Moore said. “The
kids are ready to play. But
to be honest, we can still
work on some fundamen-
tals and get in the bullpen
and get our pitchers’ arms in
shape. Today, we have freez-
ing rain. We can go out and
work on our slides.”
The Bulldogs were
scheduled to host Pasco in
an MCC baseball double-
header Friday, but that has
been moved.
Hermiston will play its
fi rst baseball games March
16 — weather permitting
— hosting Ferris in a non-
league doubleheader.
Usher said the MCC
website
should
refl ect
the changes for all of the
spring sports by Thursday
afternoon.
The Hermiston soc-
cer team will host its MCC
opponents in a jamboree
See Bucks, Page B2
Senior guard Tyler Newsom, of Pendleton, goes up for a shot Wednesday against Wilsonville in the quarterfi nals of
the Class 5A state tournament at Gill Coliseum in Corvallis. Wilsonville won 70-40.
See Weather, Page B2
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
Washington gets 15th win, holds off Oregon State 81-76 in OT
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Noah
Dickerson scored seven of
his 22 points in overtime,
David Crisp added a key
3-pointer with 48 seconds
left in the extra session, and
Washington held off Oregon
State 81-76 on Wednesday
night for its 15th conference
victory.
The Huskies (24-6,
15-2 Pac-12) have already
wrapped up the regu-
lar season conference title
and No. 1 seed at the con-
ference tournament next
week in Las Vegas. But it
was another uncomfortable
night for the league champs,
being forced to overtime for
the fi rst time this season by
the Beavers.
Oregon State (17-12, 9-8)
struggled to slow Dickerson
most of the night and he car-
ried Washington in the extra
session, twice scoring over a
defender and adding a dunk
off a nice feed from Crisp.
His basket with 1:42 left gave
Washington a 74-69 lead,
but Tres Tinkle answered
with a 3-pointer to pull the
Beavers within 74-72. Crisp
hit fourth 3-pointer of the
game from the wing to push
the lead to fi ve and the Hus-
kies escaped.
Crisp fi nished with 22
points and Jaylen Nowell
added 16. Dickerson also
grabbed 17 rebounds.
Tinkle led the Beavers
with 31 points, one off his
career-high, and scored 19
of the fi nal 22 points for
Oregon State in regulation
and overtime.
Oregon State forward Tres
Tinkle, right, looks to pass
around the defense of
Washington guard Matisse
Thybulle (4) and forward
Hameir Wright (13) during
the fi rst half of an NCAA
college basketball game on
Wednesday in Seattle.
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
SPORTS SHORTS
Olympic slalom champion Hansdotter to retire
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Olym-
pic slalom champion Frida Hans-
dotter will retire from Alpine ski-
ing’s World Cup next week, ending
a years-long rivalry with Mikaela
Shiff rin.
“It’s time for me to say good-
bye to the world cup circuit and
start a new chapter in life,” she said
Wednesday on Instagram .
AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta, File
Hansdotter, 33, has been one
of Shiff rin’s biggest rivals since the
American star started dominating
slalom in the 2012-13 season.
She fi nished on the podium
behind Shiff rin in three world
championship races, then took the
2018 Pyeongchang Olympic title
when defending champion Shiff rin
was fourth.
Hansdotter won the sea-
son-long World Cup slalom title
and crystal trophy in 2016, when
Shiff rin missed some races through
injury. Though she has won just
four World Cup races, she also
counts 35 podium fi nishes.
Her last race is March 16 in the
World Cup fi nals meeting at Sol-
deu, Andorra.