WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2019
BAKER CITY HERALD — 5A
OREGON MEN’S BASKETBALL
Kings beat slumping Trail Blazers
By Michael Wagaman
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After a
slow and sluggish start in their fi rst
game without leading scorer De’Aaron
Fox, Sacramento eventually found a
nice rhythm with Bogdan Bogdanovic
running the offense.
Luke Walton was even more im-
pressed with his team’s defense, some-
thing that’s been an ongoing issue for
the Kings.
Bogdanovic had 25 points and 10 as-
sists, Nemanja Bjelica added 19 points
and 12 rebounds and the Kings won
in their fi rst game since losing leading
scorer Fox to an ankle injury, beating
the slumping Portland Trail Blazers
107-99 on Tuesday night.
Sacramento forced 17 turnovers and
prevented Portland’s potent backcourt
tandem of Damian Lillard and CJ Mc-
Collum from taking over.
“It’s what we’ve been preaching about
every day since Day 1 of training camp,”
Walton said. “I’ll be the fi rst to admit
it needs to get a lot better. We started
the game, we couldn’t make anything.
That’s why defense is important.”
The Kings overcame a sloppy fi rst
half when they shot 36.7 percent, made
a big run in the third quarter, then
pulled away in the fourth to end a two-
game losing streak to the Blazers.
Lillard had 27 points and McCollum
added 24 for the Blazers (4-7), who
have lost fi ve of six. Nearly half of Lil-
lard’s points (13) came at the free throw
line.
OREGON STATE MEN’S BASKETBALL
Beavers’ rally falls short against Sooners
By Anne M. Peterson
AP Sports Writer
PORTLAND — It looked
like Oklahoma had its game
against Oregon State well in
hand, but the Beavers were
surprisingly resilient.
Kristian Doolittle had
19 points and 16 rebounds,
and the Sooners stretched
their season-opening win-
ning streak to three games
with a 77-69 victory over the
Beavers in the inaugural
Phil Knight Invitational on
Tuesday night.
Down by as many as 20
points in the second half, the
Beavers closed to within six
points in the fi nal minute.
“Both teams competed
really hard,” Oklahoma coach
Lon Kruger said. “In the sec-
ond half, we got a little bit of
a margin and then of course
Oregon State did a great job
of fi ghting back and fi nishing
the game out.”
Tres Tinkle overcame a
slow start to fi nish with 18
points and 10 rebounds for
the Beavers (2-1).
After a close fi rst half,
Doolittle’s 3-pointer gave the
Sooners a 66-46 lead with
7:12 left. The Beavers showed
some spark with a 7-0 run
that closed the gap to 66-53.
Austin Reaves sank a
3-pointer that gave Oklaho-
ma a 71-57 lead with 3:49 left
and it looked like the Beavers
were out of it, but Ethan
Thompson’s 3-pointer pulled
them within 73-67 with 35.8
seconds to go. Ultimately Or-
egon State couldn’t overcome
the defi cit.
“Great effort to try to fi ght
back at the end there,” said
Oregon State coach Wayne
Tinkle, who said he gathered
the team together with about
eight minutes left to try and
inspire a comeback.
Reaves fi nished with 17
points for Oklahoma, while
Thompson had 17 for the
Beavers.
The Beavers were coming
off an 80-74 victory at home
Saturday over Iowa State.
Tres Tinkle led the way with
27 points and 11 rebounds.
The Sooners effectively
shut him down, at least at
the start, and he had just four
points in the fi rst half.
Ducks hold off
No. 13 Memphis
By Anne M. Peterson
AP Sports Writer
PORTLAND — Oregon weathered some early-sea-
son mistakes in a competitive November matchup with
Memphis.
Shakur Juiston had 17 points and 10 rebounds,
and No. 14 Oregon overcame the lapses to hold off the
13th-ranked Tigers 82-74 in the inaugural Phil Knight
Invitational on Tuesday night.
“As a team we knew that we were just making a lot
of mistakes, with the ball and defense,” Ducks guard
Will Richardson said. “We never really hung our heads,
we always kept our heads and kept fi ghting because we
knew it was all things we could fi x, and if we fi xed those
things, we’d be right back in the game.”
Payton Pritchard added 14 points and six assists as
the Ducks collected their third straight win to open the
season.
James Wiseman had 14 points and 12 rebounds as
controversy continued to swirl around the Tigers’ 7-foot-
1 freshman phenom. Memphis (2-1) was led by Lester
Quinones with 16 points.
Oregon’s Chris Duarte had to be helped off the court
with 5:12 left in the opening half. He started the second
half but quickly went back to the bench. Coach Dana
Altman said after the game that Duarte had a bruised
knee.
The Ducks led by as many as 12 points in the second
half, but Memphis closed within 65-61 after Quinones’
fast-break layup capped an 8-0 run.
Pritchard’s 3-pointer put Oregon up 70-63 with 4:53
left. Wiseman’s jumper got the Tigers within four points
at 71-67, but Richardson’s 3 extended the lead again for
the Ducks.
Pritchard sunk another 3-pointer with 1:32 left that
made it 77-69 and Memphis could not catch up.
“A lot of good things, but a lot of things to work on.
And that’s what you expect,” Altman said, pointing to
Oregon’s 18 turnovers.
Wild finish in the Bay Area: Seahawks nip 49ers in OT
had knocked the Niners from the
ranks of the unbeaten and made sure
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Russell
the NFC West would remain tight
Wilson high-stepped his way down
down the stretch.
the sideline before hugging coach Pete
Myers kicked a 42-yard fi eld goal
Carroll after Jason Myers’ kick split
after Chase McLaughlin missed
the uprights.
a kick earlier in overtime, and the
After a wild overtime that featured Seahawks handed the San Francisco
a rare Wilson interception, a missed
49ers their fi rst loss with a 27-24 vic-
fi eld goal by San Francisco and a
tory on Monday night.
questionable decision from 49ers
“That was the craziest game I’ve
coach Kyle Shanahan, the Seahawks ever been a part of,” Wilson said.
By Josh Dubow
AP Pro Football Writer
Myers gave Seattle (8-2) its second
straight overtime win after Wilson
got the Seahawks into position with
an 18-yard scramble on third-and-3.
After being iced by a timeout, Myers
delivered one week after missing two
fi eld goals and an extra point, moving
Seattle on the heels of San Francisco
(8-1) in the NFC West.
The Seahawks blew an opportunity
to win the game on the opening pos-
session of overtime when Wilson was
intercepted at the 4 by Dre Greenlaw.
Greenlaw returned it 47 yards to
the Seattle 49 and the Niners moved
the ball 20 yards before McLaughlin
missed badly to the left on a 47-yard
attempt. McLaughlin had made
his fi rst three fi eld goals after being
signed earlier in the week when Rob-
bie Gould went down with a quadri-
ceps injury.
“Just rushed it a little bit, hit it a
little high and unfortunately missed
it,” McLaughlin said.
The teams then traded punts, the
Seahawks took over at their 36 with
1:25 remaining after Jimmy Garop-
polo threw three straight incomple-
tions as San Francisco burned only 14
seconds off the clock with Seattle out
of timeouts.
“Defi nitely wish we had taken
more time off the clock, but was count-
ing on us catching one of those balls,”
Shanahan said.