MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 2020
BAKER CITY HERALD — 3A
Seahawks’ season ends with loss to Packers
By Dave Campbell
AP Pro Football Writer
GREEN BAY, Wis. —
Aaron Rodgers and the Green
Bay Packers have relied more
on character and resilience
than offense or defense this
season, lagging well behind
past editions in aesthetics.
This divisional round win
over Seattle, though, was a
vintage Rodgers performance.
He helped the Packers pull
within a game of the Super
Bowl with an array of clutch
completions at the most criti-
cal of moments.
Rodgers connected with
Davante Adams eight
times for 160 yards and two
touchdowns, Green Bay’s
spruced-up defense fended
off a spirited Seahawks rally,
and the Packers held on for a
28-23 victory Sunday night to
reach the NFC championship
game for the third time in six
years.
“It’s one of those feelings
that starts to creep up in
warmups, when you really
feel like you’re locked in,”
Rodgers said, “and I was glad
it translated to the fi eld.”
Aaron Jones rushed for
62 yards and two fi rst-half
scores for the Packers (14-3),
who will travel next weekend
to take on top-seeded San
in overtime. The Seahawks
lost their next game to New
England when Wilson was
infamously intercepted late at
the goal line and haven’t been
back to the conference title
game since then.
Rodgers is running out
of time faster than Wilson,
though, nine years after his
only championship. Though
many of Green Bay’s perfor-
mances haven’t been pretty,
with so many hold-on-at-the-
end wins, Rodgers and Matt
LaFleur have sure meshed
well in the coach’s rookie
Mike Siegel / Seattle Times -TNS season.
Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch (24) is stopped by the Green Bay
“Let’s be honest, I don’t
defense in the fi rst quarter on Sunday.
know that even our fans felt
supremely confi dent in us,”
Francisco. Rodgers, who went but the Packers forced a punt third-and-8 with 2:19 left and Rodgers said.
16 for 27 for 243 yards in his shortly before the two-minute then for 9 yards to Jimmy
The Seahawks had just a
17th career postseason start, warning on the second sack of Graham on third-and-9 right plus-seven scoring margin
Rodgers has 38 touchdown
the game by Preston Smith.
after the two-minute warn-
during the regular season,
passes in the playoffs. That’s
That was Green Bay’s fi fth of ing to take down a Seahawks making quite the habit of
good for fi fth in league history. the game.
team that was 8-1 on the road second-half rallies. Wilson
“He’s defi nitely hungry
“Five minutes left, we’re get- this season entering the game. did some of the fi nest work of
for another Super Bowl. He
ting the ball back, the thing’s
“I’m just going to enjoy a
his eight-year career in 2019,
deserves it, so we’re doing
going to be over. We’re going
nice glass of scotch tonight,”
helping the Seahawks stay on
everything in our power to
to win it,” Wilson said. “I think Rodgers said, “and get on to
track despite a steady stream
put him in that position,” said everybody in the stadium, and the fi lm of San Fran and get
of injuries, including the late
Adams, who set Green Bay’s
I think everybody watching
ready for a tough opponent.”
setbacks in the backfi eld that
postseason record for receiving felt like that, too.”
Rodgers exacted some
prompted the emergency call
yards.
The Seahawks never got
payback for fi ve years ago,
for Marshawn Lynch.
Russell Wilson carried
the ball again.
when the Packers blew a
Racking up 64 yards rush-
the Seahawks (12-6) on yet
Rodgers sealed the win
16-0 halftime lead in the
ing on seven scrambles and
another comeback, this time
with two third-down throws:
NFC championship game at
completing 21 of 31 passes
from a 21-3 halftime defi cit,
a 32-yard strike to Adams on Seattle and were beaten 28-22 for 277 yards, Wilson directed
touchdown drives of 69, 84,
79 right out of the gate after
halftime. Lynch fi nished two
of them with scores, and Wil-
son threw on the run to Tyler
Lockett, who had 136 yards on
nine receptions, for the other
one.
“Every time I looked up, he
was making somebody miss
in the pocket, creating and
extending plays,” LaFleur
said. “That’s what he’s done
his whole career.”
Lynch’s second touchdown
with 9:33 left cut the lead to
28-23, but Jaire Alexander
blew up the 2-point conver-
sion attempt with a sack
on an unblocked blitz. The
Packers gave the ball back to
the Seahawks with a second
consecutive punt, this time
with 4:54 left at the Seattle 22,
but Wilson ran out of tricks in
his seemingly bottomless bag
of them.
“He tested our cardio and
heart and endurance today,”
Smith said.
Lynch, who has 12 rushing
touchdowns in 13 career post-
season games to tie for fourth
in NFL history, had only 26
yards on 12 carries.
“We made it exciting,”
Wilson said. “We just wish we
would have left here with a
win.”
OREGON WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
BHS student arrested for phone threat
A Baker High School
student is in the custody of
juvenile authorities today
on a charge of fi rst-degree
disorderly conduct after he al-
legedly made threats to shoot
people at the school and to
take his own life.
The 16-year-old boy was
arrested at 1:39 a.m. today,
Baker City Police Chief Ray
Duman stated in a press
release.
(The Baker City Herald
doesn’t report the names of
juveniles accused of misde-
meanor crimes.)
The investigation began
at 11:39 p.m. Sunday when
the Baker County Dispatch
Center received a call from a
national suicide hotline stat-
ing that the boy had called the
hotline and detailed his plans.
Police began the investiga-
tion after determining the call
had been made from Baker
City, Duman said. The suicide
hotline provided offi cers with
the cellphone number used
to make the call. The num-
ber was traced to the boy’s
home and then to a different
location where the phone was
found and the boy was taken
into custody.
“The offi cers did a good job
of recognizing the situation
and dealing with it according-
ly,” Duman said this morning.
A Juvenile Court counselor
transported the boy to the
Northern Oregon Regional
Corrections juvenile detention
center at The Dalles. They
arrived there at about 7 a.m.
today, said Staci Erickson,
Juvenile Department director.
A court hearing on the
disorderly conduct charge, a
Class A misdemeanor, will
be scheduled either today or
by 3 p.m. Tuesday, Erickson
said. She will ask the Court to
retain the boy at the deten-
tion center. He is serving a
probation term for an earlier
crime of unauthorized use of a
motor vehicle, she said.
Duman said school offi cials
were notifi ed of the threat and
the investigation is continu-
ing.
Superintendent Mark
Witty expressed his appre-
ciation for the work of law
enforcement offi cers and the
systems in place to help keep
students safe.
“I’m grateful that law en-
forcement got after it and took
care of the situation ... even
before school started today,”
he said.
Witty added that he appre-
ciates that there are different
ways for people to report prob-
lems, including self-reporting
as happened in this case.
He noted that the school
district works closely with
New Directions Northwest to
help address mental health
needs of students.
“There are reasons we have
systems in place to iden-
tify students who are having
problems,” he said.
Library patrons will need their card
during software upgrade Wednesday
Baker County Library users
will need to bring their library
card to check out items on
Wednesday while the catalog
system is down for a software
upgrade.
Normally, borrowers can
present a photo ID or “Forgot
Your Card” form and check out
items even if they don’t have
their card.
Other changes in effect
Wednesday only:
• A checkout limit of 5 mov-
ies per card rather than the
customary 10 items.
• No searching of the library
inventory or user account
information
• New accounts cannot be
created.
• Cannot process payment
of overdue fees or lost charges
• Library2Go accounts will
be unavailable.
• Returned items will not be
checked in until the system is
back online
“This update should set the
groundwork for offering a mo-
bile device app and payment of
fees online through the catalog
system, enhancements to come
later this year,” Library Direc-
tor Perry Stokes said in a press
release. “Thanks to everyone
for your patience and please
stay tuned.”
More information is avail-
able by calling 541-523-6419.
SUSPECT
where fi nal charges will be
decided, Baxter said.
The investigation began
on Dec. 12 when the Sheriff’s
Offi ce received a report of
child sexual abuse. Investi-
gators applied for a search
warrant and conducted a
search of Gonyer’s property
at 35001 Stices Gulch Road
on Dec. 24.
After learning that Gonyer
was in Boise, they worked
with Idaho police to arrange
for his arrest.
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a grand jury on Thursday
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No. 2 Ducks
rebound from
loss, top Arizona
By John Marshall
AP Basketball Writer
TUCSON, Ariz. — Oregon had a rare loss of compo-
sure late in a loss to Arizona State.
Faced with a similar challenge against Arizona two
days later, the Ducks survived with a simple plan: Get
the ball into Sabrina Ionescu’s hands.
Ionescu had 17 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists for
her NCAA record-extending 22nd triple-double, helping
the second-ranked Ducks bounce back from their second
loss of the season with a 71-64 win over No. 18 Arizona
on Sunday.
“When it counted late in the game, she was the one
who made the plays at both ends of the fl oor,” Oregon
coach Kelly Graves said. “When you’re an All-American,
player of the year candidate, in these kind of games
you’ve got to step up.”
The Ducks (14-2, 3-1 Pac-12) looked like the inexpe-
rienced team Friday night, allowing the Sun Devils to
charge back from a 12-point defi cit in the fourth quarter
and win 72-66.
Against Arizona, Oregon built a 13-point lead midway
through the third quarter before the Wildcats made a
run.
Mostly a distributor early, Ionescu took over late. She
had a three-point play after Arizona pulled within three,
scored another late basket and hit two free throws with
20.7 seconds left. Ionescu has more triple-doubles than
any player in NCAA history, man or woman.
Ruthy Hebard had 19 points and 14 rebounds, Satou
Sabally added 18 points and Oregon had a 36-18 advan-
tage in the paint.
“It’s nice to know we can win a grind-it-out game,”
Graves said. “We haven’t yet this year on the road.”
Arizona (12-3, 2-3) overcame a long scoring drought to
end the second quarter, pulling within 65-52 on Aari Mc-
Donald’s 3-pointer with 1:23 left. The Wildcats couldn’t
fi nish it off, losing their third straight to top-10 oppo-
nents after opening the season with 14 straight wins.