TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2020
BAKER CITY HERALD — 5A
OREGON VS. OREGON STATE
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL RIVALRY
No. 8 Ducks
Seahawks dominate Jets, 40-3 overwhelm
■ A week after an upset loss to the Giants, Seattle routs the other New York team
No. 15 Beavers
By Tim Booth
By Gary Horowitz
AP Sports Writer
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Early in the
third quarter, Pete Carroll
approached Geno Smith. The
backup quarterback who
had never seen the fi eld in a
regular season game for the
Seahawks — except for the
coin toss — was going to get
his chance to play.
Seattle enjoyed a blowout
victory and an opportunity to
“Let Russ Rest,” on Sunday.
“That’s rare,” Carroll said.
“Think about how few times
we’ve ever done that.”
Russell Wilson threw four
more touchdown passes to
give him a career-high 36
for the season before fi nally
sitting in the fourth quarter,
leading the Seahawks to a
40-3 rout of the New York
Jets.
Seattle (9-4) rebounded
exactly as it hoped after last
week’s surprisingly poor
offensive performance in its
loss to the New York Giants,
and stayed even with the Los
Angeles Rams on top of the
NFC West.
Wilson threw touchdown
passes to Freddie Swain and
DK Metcalf in the fi rst half,
and added TD tosses to Will
Dissly and David Moore in
the third quarter. It was his
fi fth game this season with at
least four TD passes. Metcalf
commandeered a TV broad-
cast camera as part of his TD
celebration after catching a
5-yard TD in the second quar-
ter, his 10th of the season.
Wilson fi nished 21 of 27 for
206 yards and checked out
late in the third quarter, giv-
ing way to Smith, the former
Jets QB, for his fi rst action
since joining Seattle last
season. Wilson’s only mistake
was a forced throw in the
fi rst half on which Marcus
Maye made a terrifi c juggling
interception.
Wilson had played every
CORVALLIS — Te-Hina Paopao scored 22 points,
Taylor Mikesell had 21 and No. 8 Oregon beat No. 15
Oregon State 79-59 on Sunday for its 24th consecutive
victory.
Mikesell and Paopao combined to make eight of the
Ducks’ nine 3-pointers in the fi rst half and scored 15
points apiece to help Oregon (5-0, 3-0 Pac-12) take a
45-24 lead. The Beavers (3-2, 1-2) never got closer than
18 points in the second half.
Oregon has won fi ve of the past six matchups against
Oregon State. It was
“It was just a good victory.
the largest margin
of victory for Oregon
The Beavers don’t lose like
in the series since an
this very often at home.”
82-58 win during the
— Oregon coach Kelly Graves
2004-05 season.
“It was just a good
victory,” Oregon coach Kelly Graves said. “The Beavers
don’t lose like this very often here at home.”
Taylor Jones led the Beavers with 14 points. Scoring
leader Aleah Goodman was held to seven points.
A 13-2 Oregon run to end the second quarter was the
decisive stretch in the game.
“You want to go into halftime with some momentum,”
Goodman said. “So to be on the opposite end of that was
diffi cult.”
Oregon made 12 of 24 3-pointers to 3 of 19 for the
Beavers.
Mikesell, a junior guard transfer from Maryland, was
5 of 8 on 3-pointers. Paopao connected on 4 of 5 from
behind the arc.
“My teammates were fi nding me, and they were go-
ing in so I was going to keep shooting,” Mikesell said.
The long-range shooting prowess continues to be a
strength for Oregon.
“I kept saying it’s one of the best shooting, if not the
best shooting team I’ve ever had,” Graves said. “We
showed it I think tonight.”
Mike Siegel/The Seattle Times-TNS
Seattle Seahawks running back Chris Carson (32) jumps high over New York Jets
inside linebacker Neville Hewitt (46) to score a second quarter touchdown on Sunday,
Dec. 13, at Lumen Field in Seattle, Washington.
snap of the previous 49
games for Seattle. The last
time he wasn’t under center
was Week 15 of 2017 when
Seattle lost 42-7 to the Rams
at home. His previous career
high in TD passes came in
2018.
It was also a rare blowout
for Seattle. The Seahawks
had just one win by more
than 14 points in the past two
seasons. It was Seattle’s larg-
est victory since a 58-0 win
over Arizona in 2012.
“We took on the challenge,
kept our heads down to just
stay focused on what we need
to do and our execution,”
Wilson said. “It was a great
day today.”
Even with another great
performance by Wilson, he
wasn’t awarded a game ball
afterward. That went to
Jamal Adams, who set an
NFL record for most sacks in
a single-season by a defen-
sive back, setting the mark
against his former team.
Adams spent a signifi cant
amount of time postgame in
a receiving line of hugs and
handshakes with his former
Jets teammates and coaches,
including coach Adam Gase.
“Seeing so many guys, it
just brings back a lot of mem-
ories because I do miss those
guys,” Adams said. “This is
bigger than football. It goes
back to just relationships.”
For the Jets, it was another
miserable day in their forget-
table season.
Days after fi ring defensive
coordinator Gregg Williams
after the collapse at the end of
last week’s loss to Las Vegas,
the Jets (0-13) showed little
resistance on defense and
little excitement on offense
as they lost their franchise-
record 13th straight.
“This one got away from us
very quickly and when you
have chances against a team
like this, you’ve got to take
advantage of them or this is
what the outcome’s going to
be,” Gase said.
And even when the Jets
had chances to score, Sergio
Castillo struggled. After kick-
ing a 45-yarder on New York’s
opening drive, Castillo missed
attempts of 37, 41 and 43
yards in the fi rst half.
New York did extend its
streak of scoring on its open-
ing drive to seven straight
games, the longest active
streak in the NFL and lon-
gest in franchise history. That
was about the only bright
spot.
The Jets became the
ninth team since the merger
to start a season with 13
straight losses. Three of those
went on to have winless
seasons.
Sam Darnold was 14 of 26
for 132 yards.
FIRST WOMAN TO SCORE A POINT IN POWER 5 CONFERENCE GAME
Imagine The Difference You Can Make
Vanderbilt’s Sarah Fuller kicks 2 extra points
She made history Nov. 28 as the fi rst
woman to play in a Power Five game,
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Sarah Fuller
but was on the fi eld only once, driving a
has a football keepsake from her history- low kickoff to open the second half as the
making moment. The ball from her
Commodores got shut out at Missouri.
second extra point likely is headed to the
Vanderbilt interim coach Todd Fitch
College Football Hall of Fame.
said special teams coordinator Devin
Being treated like just another athlete? Fitzsimmons had been charting kicks,
That’s the best part of becoming the fi rst especially close where the Commodores
woman to score in a power Five confer-
had struggled this season with few op-
ence game, fi nally getting the chance to
portunities in games.
do more than squib a kickoff for Vander-
“So it was really, truly off statistics
bilt during a 42-17 loss to Tennessee.
of the week’s preparation,” Fitch said.
“This whole time has been if I can do
“It wasn’t about, you know, trying to
it, if I’m good enough to do it,” Fuller said. do something special. It was truly who
“It wasn’t if I was a girl or not. So that’s
made the most of those kicks.”
something I’ve really appreciated. At the
With Vanderbilt (0-9) getting the
end of the day, they treated me like an
chance to play after postponing last
athlete and that’s the best I could ask for.” week’s game at Georgia, the Commo-
By Teresa M. Walker
AP Sports Writer
BIG PICTURE
• Oregon: The Ducks continue to forge a new identity
in the post-Sabrina Ionescu era. So far so good. Oregon
has the size, speed and versatility to repeat as Pac-12
champions. Erin Boley is the only starter back on a
team that produced three top-10 picks in the 2020
WNBA draft, including the fi rst and second overall
picks in Ionescu (New York Liberty) and Satou Sabally
(Dallas Wings).
• Oregon State: The Beavers are one of eight teams
in the nation to reach the Sweet 16 in the last four
NCAA tournaments, but this team has a long way to go
to continue that streak. The Beavers miss the ballhan-
dling skills of senior point guard Destiny Slocum, a two-
time all-Pac-12 selection who transferred to Arkansas
after the 2019-20 season. Sophomore post Kennedy
Brown is still recovering from a torn ACL that caused
her to miss the fi nal nine games last season.
dores played with just 49 scholarship
players and fi nally gave the goal-
keeper for the Southeastern Conference
women’s soccer tournament champs an
opportunity to put up points.
Fuller, listed second out of three avail-
able kickers on the depth chart, came out
for the extra point that tied the game at
7 with 1:50 left in the fi rst quarter.
The 6-foot-2 senior put the ball
through the uprights and celebrated
by pulling her fi st in before slapping
high-fi ves with teammates. Center judge
Chris Garner handed her the ball on the
sideline.
Fuller’s second chance came with 7:22
left in the fourth quarter at the other
end of the fi eld, and she kicked the ball
through.
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Oregon to play USC for Pac-12 championship
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
Washington has pulled out of
the Pac-12 football champi-
onship game due to CO-
VID-19 issues in the Huskies
program, and Oregon will
now play No. 13 USC for the
conference title on Friday, Dec
18 instead.
The game will start at 5
p.m. and will be televised on
Fox.
Washington (3-1) an-
nounced Monday it is with-
drawing from the champion-
ship game after determining
the Huskies did not have at
least 53 scholarship players
available and did not meet
the minimum number of
scholarship athletes at spe-
cifi c positions.
Washington had to cancel
its game last weekend
against Oregon (3-2) that
would have determined the
Pac-12 North champion due
to COVID-19 cases in the
program that caused the
Huskies to pause practice in
the middle of the week.
Washington team physi-
cian Dr. Kim Harmon said
the program has continued
to see positive cases over the
past several days.
“This increase in cases,
combined with issues with
a key position group, doesn’t
allow for a path forward for
us this week,” Harmon said in
a statement.
Washington was named
Pac-12 North champ by
virtue of having a better win-
ning percentage than Oregon.
The Pac-12 left the sched-
ule for the fi nal weekend
of the season open to have
fl exibility in a year when the
coronavirus pandemic has led
to cancellations and postpone-
ments across the country.
USC earned a spot in the
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rallied past No. 21 Colorado
38-21. The Trojans later beat
rival UCLA 43-38 on Satur-
day, Dec. 12.
Other league games set for
Dec. 19 include Washington
State at Utah, Stanford at
UCLA, and Arizona State at
Oregon State.
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