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E AST O REGONIAN Wednesday, January 15, 2020 FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS | FACEBOOK.COM/EOSPORTS A8 Lions shut down Dawgs in second half for big win Hernandez leads Hermiston with 13 points By ANNIE FOWLER East Oregonian KenneWICK, Wash. — Hermiston has played some good basketball as of late, and Tuesday night it looked as if the Bulldogs might be in the hunt for another upset. The Bulldogs trailed 30-25 early in the third quarter, but Kennewick clamped down on defense and pulled way for a 68-40 Mid-Co- lumbia Conference victory at the Lions den. “We lost our will to compete, I think,” Hermiston coach Maloree Moss said. “We couldn’t find the bucket after we cut it to five. We kind of rolled over when things didn’t go our way.” The Lions (11-1, 8-1 MCC) are at the top of the MCC stand- ings with Chiawana, and handed the Riverhawks their first loss last week. “I can’t complain,” Lions coach daron santo said. “They are really coming together as a team, espe- cially defensively.” after a slow start that saw the Lions take an 11-3 lead, the Bull- dogs (7-6, 4-5 MCC) got a three- point play from Bailey young, and 3-pointers from Jazlyn romero and Katelyn Heideman to pull within 15-12 at the end of the quarter. Hermiston kept the pressure on in the second, getting 3s from Heideman, romero and Mia Her- nandez to trail 30-23 at the half. “I’m super proud of the way we played in the first half,” Moss said. young hit a basket to open the third quarter and pull the Bulldogs within 30-25, but they would not score again for 4 minutes. In the that span, the Lions went on a 9-0 run. In the final 27 seconds of the quarter, Madeline Gebers and Maya Thornton drained 3s to give Kennewick a commanding 46-30 lead. “We switched it up defensively and went more man,” santo said. “Tjey struggled with that. That third quarter was huge, we got our momentum back.” The onslaught continued in the fourth quarter as the Lions went on a 22-10 run. Jayden ray and Hernandez each had four points in the fourth for the Bulldogs. “They are no. 9 in the state for a reason,” Moss said of the Lions. “Their coach is good, and their players trust it.” Hernandez led the Bulldogs with 13 points, while Heideman added 10. Gerbers scored 10 of her game- high 19 points in the fourth quar- ter. Meilani McBee, who has com- mitted to Hawaii, chipped in 17 See Dawgs, Page A9 BOBCATS SHRED TIGERSCOTS Weston-McEwen stays winless in BMC play after Tuesday’s loss Staff photo by Ben Lonergan Weston-McEwen’s Aiden Wolf (4) drives toward the basket during Tuesday night’s game against the Union Bobcats in Athena. PREP ROUNDUP TigerScots drop close game to Union By BRETT KANE East Oregonian A THena — The Tigerscots may have been the first to score, but were no match for Bobcats duo Kylie Marriott and Callie Glenn. The union pair took off on an early streak, posting 12 points in a 14-point run early in the first quarter to keep their Weston-Mcewen hosts down for the count as the Tigerscots girls basketball team suffered a 49-22 home loss in Blue Mountain Conference action on Tuesday night. “They’re fast and they’re confident,” Weston-Mcewen head coach Jeff Griggs said of union. “Our team came out and were a little overwhelmed at the start. as far as effort goes, we elevated it as the game went on. We weren’t afraid to get down on the floor.” Tigerscots senior guard ellie scheib- ner opened play with a basket to give Weston-McEwen its first and only lead seven seconds into the contest, and the Bobcats took it from there. Marriott, a junior post, knotted the score at 2-2, and Glenn, a sophomore guard, posted a trey, a basket, and a point at the line to break away from the Tigerscots for good. at 15-2 and 1:50 left in the quarter, Weston-Mcewen sophomore point guard Charli King and senior wing auralia Heay combined for four points to chip the deficit to just nine. scheibner notched a basket two min- utes into the second quarter, but the Tigerscots proceeded to suffer a nearly three-minute scoring drought as union took the first of three 14-point advan- tages for the quarter at 22-8 with 3:27 left in the half. King and junior wing Bailey Munck broke the Tigerscots into double digits before the buzzer, but Mariott and Staff photo by Ben Lonergan See TigerScots, Page A9 Weston-McEwen’s Cloe Davis (30) attempts a shot in the first half against the Bobcats. The Union Bobcats defeated the Weston-McEwen TigerScots 49-22 in Athena Tuesday night. East Oregonian aTHena — The Tigerscots dropped a close Blue Mountain Conference boys basketball game to union, falling 40-32 on Tuesday night at home. “We were tight,” Weston-Mce- wen head coach Brian Picard said. “We had some opportunities for sure. We had three possessions in a row, and some chances to take the lead — we just need to execute bet- ter down the stretch.” Blair rudolph led the Tigerscots (3-11, 0-3 BMC) with 13 points, and Theo White chipped in 11. “We’re young and inexperi- enced,” Picard said. “We just need to figure out how to win one of these things. union is a pretty good team. I think most people expected them to be at or near the top of the league.” Weston-Mcewen will travel to Grant union, which is undefeated in BMC action, on saturday for a 5:30 p.m. tip-off. Cancellations and postponements rolovich to be named football coach at Wsu By TIM BOOTH Associated Press The president of Washington state university tweeted Tuesday that Hawaii’s nick rolovich will take over as the Cougars’ head foot- ball coach, replacing Mike Leach. school President Kirk schulz tweeted that Wsu had picked “a dynamic new head coach @nick rolovich’’ to succeed Leach, who left for Mississippi state. The school scheduled a Thurs- day event to introduce rolovich in Pullman, Washington. rolovich, meanwhile, has changed his Twitter profile to iden- tify himself as the head football coach at Washington state. Hawaii athletic director david Matlin tweeted Monday night that rolovich had informed him he had accepted the job at Washington state. The athletic first reported that Rolovich rolovich was expected to take over the Washington state pro- gram. The deal is expected to be for five years at $3 million per season, two people with knowledge of the situation told The associated Press on Monday. The people spoke to the aP on condition of anonym- ity because the hiring had not been announced by the school. rolovich has been at Hawaii for four seasons and led the rainbow Warriors to the Mountain West Conference West division title this season. Hawaii went 10-5 overall, losing to Boise state in the MWC title game but rebounding to beat Byu in the Hawaii Bowl. Rolovich has overseen a signifi- cant turnaround with the Warriors. When he took over at Hawaii in 2016, he inherited a program that had won 11 total games in its first four seasons in the Mountain West. He’s won at least seven games in three of his four seasons. The 10 wins this season were the most for the Warriors since 2010, when they won 10 games and were co-champs of the WaC with nevada and Boise state. The 40-year-old rolovich is 28-27 in four seasons with the Warriors, including three bowl appearances. He signed a two-year contract extension with Hawaii last January and made more than $600,000 last season with the Warriors. rolovich spent four seasons as an assistant at Hawaii before becoming the offensive coordina- tor at nevada in 2012. He returned to his alma mater to take over the head job with the Warriors in 2016. rolovich makes sense for Wash- ington state because of the style of offense he’s run during his time at Hawaii. His high-scoring, pass- happy system will play well in Pullman after Leach’s time install- ing the “air raid” offense on the Palouse. Hawaii ranked fifth in the coun- try in passing this season and was ninth last season when rolovich See Rolovich, Page A9 Inclement weather and poor road conditions Tuesday forced the can- cellation or rescheduling of a few high school basketball games. The Ione/arlington boys and girls games at Pilot rock have been canceled. since they are nonleague games, rockets athletic director TJ Presley said the games will not be rescheduled. riverside’s nonleague games at Lyle, Washington, also were can- celed and will not be made up. riv- erside did not have school Tuesday. “If we can’t have school, we can’t play games,” Pirates boys and girls coach Clair Costello said. The Pirates will be back in action Thursday at Irrigon. Girls will play at 6 p.m., while the boys are at 7:30 p.m. With Irrigon and umatilla schools both closed Tuesday, their eastern Oregon League games have been moved to Wednesday. The girls game is at 6 p.m., while the boys are at 7:30 p.m. In the Old Oregon League, the elgin at Helix games were post- poned and moved to Jan. 21. The girls will play at 4 p.m., with the boys game to follow.
