6A — BAKER CITY HERALD
FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2020
OREGON MEN’S BASKETBALL
Ducks need two
overtimes to
slip past Trojans
BAKER WRESTLING
By Anne M. Peterson
AP Sports Writer
Kathy Orr/Baker City Herald
Baker’s Ian Feldmeier, rear, defeated Grant Union’s Justin Hodge Thursday.
EUGENE — Paying close attention paid off for
Oregon’s Chris Duarte.
The junior guard had 30 points, 11 rebounds and
eight steals, and the No. 12 Ducks outlasted Southern
California 79-70 in double overtime Thursday night.
“I was watching the point guard’s eyes. I was watch-
ing everybody’s eyes. So I knew where they were
going to pass the ball,” Duarte said. “So I took that as
an advantage.”
Oregon teammate Payton Pritchard added 24
points and seven assists, becoming the fi rst Pac-12
player to reach 1,500 career points, 600 assists and
500 rebounds. When the achievement was noted on
the video scoreboard at Matthew Knight Arena in the
second half, the crowd gave the senior guard a stand-
ing ovation.
Pritchard is the sixth player in Pac-12 history with
1,500 points and 600 assists, joining Oregon State’s
Gary Payton, Arizona’s Damon Stoudamire and Jason
Gardner, USC’s Jordan McLaughlin and UCLA’s Tyus
Edney.
Oregon (16-4, 5-2) led by 11 in the second half but
USC rallied with a 17-2 run to take a 62-58 lead,
capped by Jonah Mathews’ 3-pointer with 1:24 left.
C.J. Walker and Pritchard hit consecutive layups to
tie it at 62 and send the game to overtime.
Pritchard’s 3-pointer in the fi rst extra period gave
the Ducks a 65-64 lead, but Ethan Anderson’s layup
and free throw put the Trojans up by two. Duarte
made free throws for the Ducks to tie it again, and
Mathews and Pritchard both missed shots down the
stretch.
Duarte and Pritchard each hit a pair of free throws
that gave Oregon a four-point advantage to open the
second overtime. Duarte’s 3-pointer put the Ducks up
74-68, and USC couldn’t catch up.
Duarte’s eight steals were one shy of the school
record.
“He was the difference in the game,” Oregon coach
Dana Altman said. “No doubt about it.”
OREGON STATE MEN’S BASKETBALL
UCLA edges
Beavers, 62-58
By Gary Horowitz
Associated Press
Kathy Orr/Baker City Herald
Baker’s Bailey Cole, top, defeated Grant Union’s Abby Lusco 9-7 on Thursday on the Baker mats.
Baker pins Grant Union, Mac-Hi
nament.
Baker winners Thursday
The Baker wrestling team included Kaci Anderson, who
rebounded from a tough
pinned Grant Union’s Kyllie
loss to Nyssa on Wednesday
Holden, and Bailey Cole, who
to down Grant Union and
defeated Abby Lusco, 9-7.
Mac-Hi in a three-way meet
Cole also beat Fallen Boll-
Thursday on the Baker mats. man of Grant Union in an
The Bulldogs topped Grant exhibition match.
Union 48-27, and Mac-Hi
Baker winners in the
56-18.
Grant Union dual:
“We wrestled pretty well,”
• Jordan Cooper, 120
Baker coach Brandon Young pounds, defeated Dylan
said. “We got a little wake up Clark, 4-1
call (at Nyssa). We probably
• Gavin Stone, 126 pounds,
should have won that. Those pinned Eli Sheedy
are the hard ones.”
• Johnny Niehaus, 132
Nyssa won the Wednesday pounds, pinned Ben Henry
dual 40-33.
• Jake Eskew, 145 pounds,
Thursday also marked the pinned Jack Strong.
new Baker girls team’s fi rst
• Ian Feldmeier, 152
home dual, against Grant
pounds, defeated Justin
Union. The Prospectors won Hodge, 6-2
42-15.
• Gauge Bloomer, 170
Young said the Baker girls pounds, pinned Quinten
are “doing really well.”
Hallgarth
He believes around half
• MaHonri Rushton, 182
of the wrestlers on the girls
pounds, pinned Russell
team have a good chance of
Hodge
qualifying for the state tour-
• Colt Cobb, 195 pounds,
By Jayson Jacoby
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
pinned Tucker Carpenter
Baker winners against
Mac-Hi:
• Stone, 126 pounds, tech-
nical fall over Layne Ensey
• Niehaus, 132 pounds,
pinned Brandon Wood
• Casey Vaughn, 138
pounds, defeated Roy Hum-
bert, 6-2
• Eskew, 145 pounds,
pinned Adrian Pineda.
• Feldmeier, 152 pounds,
pinned Isiah Casillas-Breed-
ing
• Hunter Lind, 160 pounds,
pinned Mason Smith
Baker winners against
Nyssa:
• Caleb Shaw, 120 pounds,
defeated Ethan Houston, 8-2.
• Hunter Lind, 160 pounds,
pinned Santiago Miranda
Baker won four matches by
forfeit.
Young said he believes
Baker is one of the top three
or four teams in the Class 4A
ranks, with the potential to
have six or seven individual
Lillard’s 47 not enough
as Mavericks top Blazers
performance that overcame Lillard’s hot
shooting.
PORTLAND — Damian Lillard had
After picking up a technical foul in the fi nal
another big performance, scoring a game-high seconds, Lillard voiced his frustrations with
47 points. But a tough loss and issues with
the offi ciating.
the offi ciating had the Portland Trail Blazers
“We’re down by 13 with four minutes left,
star in a foul mood.
I was driving for a reverse layup and I got
Luka Doncic scored 27 points to go with
smacked on the head,” Lillard said. “I asked
nine assists and six rebounds, and the Dallas (the referee) why he didn’t call it and he said,
Mavericks made 22 3-pointers in a 133-125
all three of us agreed you leaned into him.
victory Thursday night with a complete team
“That’s an insult, man.”
By Erik Garcia Gundersen
Associated Press
champions at the district
meet in February.
Baker fi nished fourth in
the state tournament last
year, the best result ever for
the Bulldogs.
“I think we’re probably a
better tournament team than
a dual team,” Young said.
He believes Baker’s varsity
schedule is one of the tough-
est in Class 4A, and will
prepare the Bulldogs for the
rigors of the district and state
meets.
The Bulldogs traveled to
Grant Union today for the
Grant Union Invite.
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CORVALLIS — With the game in the balance,
UCLA’s Chris Smith wasn’t about to settle for perim-
eter jumpers.
The 6-foot-9 guard scored nine of his 15 points
down the stretch, leading UCLA to a 62-58 victory
over Oregon State on Thursday night.
Smith’s three-point play with 4:23 remaining put
the Bruins (10-9, 3-3 Pac-12) in front to stay.
“At that point in the game coach (Mick) Cronin told
me, ‘somebody’s gotta be able to drive to the cup,’” said
Smith, the Bruins’ leading scorer this season. “I was
attacking, so the right play was to get fouled.”
Smith, who was limited to just 17 minutes of play-
ing time due to foul trouble, was 4 of 6 from the fi eld
and 7 of 9 at the foul line. UCLA made its last nine
free throws in the fi nal 1:50 to stay in front.
Zach Reichle made two free throws with 11.6
seconds left that brought Oregon State (12-7, 2-5) to
within one point at 56-55.
Jalen Hill then made two free throws for UCLA, his
fi rst points of the game.
Tyger Campbell fouled Oregon State’s Ethan
Thompson with 6.6 seconds left, preventing him from
getting off a 3-pointer that could have tied the game.
Thompson made both free throws cutting the lead
to one.
Hill went back to the line at the 5.4-second mark
and came through again with two free throws.
Thompson made one of two free throws with 3.1
seconds remaining, and UCLA’s Jules Bernard con-
verted two free throws for UCLA to seal the win.