BAKER CITY HERALD — 5A
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Westbrook has triple-double as
Wizards end Blazers’ win streak
“We didn’t make a lot of 3s,”
Brooks said. “We made them
when they counted.”
By Erik García Gunderson
Associated Press
PORTLAND — Russell
Westbrook had 27 points,
13 assists and 11 rebounds,
and the Washington Wizards
snapped Portland’s six-game
win streak with a 118-111
victory over Damian Lillard
and the Trail Blazers on
Saturday night, Feb. 20.
Bradley Beal scored 37
points, helping Washington
to its fourth straight win. Rui
Hachimura added 17 points,
and reserve Robin Lopez had
10 points and 11 rebounds.
Wizards coach Scott Brooks
said he thinks Westbrook is
fi nding a rhythm.
“He’s going to have more
games like this,” Brooks said.
“The guy is a championship
player. How he prepares, how
he talks to our guys, he gets
them to be ready. His voice
was loud in that fi rst quarter.
That’s what you want your
leaders to do.”
Lillard had 35 points and
12 assists, but he was 10
for 30 from the fi eld. Enes
Kanter had 19 points and 13
rebounds for Portland, and
Robert Covington fi nished
with 11 points and 11 boards.
“We were on a winning
streak too but they were feel-
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TIP-INS
• Wizards: Beal was 16 for
27 from the fi eld. He also had
seven rebounds and three
assists. ... Brooks said defense
has been a key part of the
team’s win streak. “The de-
fense has been much better,”
he said.
•Trail Blazers: It has been
Tribune Media Services over a month since starting
Portland Trail Blazer Carmelo Anthony.
center Jusuf Nurkic had
surgery on his right wrist.
Although the Blazers have
ing confi dent,” Kanter said.
“We made some mistakes
not yet updated his status
“They beat three good teams in the third quarter, but I
and aren’t expected to do so
before us and they were play- thought we did a good job
ing confi dent, making shots. on him,” Brooks said. “He’s a for another two weeks, they
are encouraged by the fact
We cannot let our offense
great player and we helped,
affect our defense.”
but he did have some missed that he has been able to stay
Lillard was held in check
shots that he normally would in relatively good shape since
he can still work out his lower
in the fi rst half, going 2 for 13 make.”
from the fi eld. But he scored
The Trail Blazers had a 96- body. “He’s doing well,” coach
Terry Stotts said. “The good
23 points in the third quarter 93 lead with 8:39 left when
on 7-for-8 shooting. He was
the Wizards grabbed control thing is since it’s a hand in-
jury, he can do aerobic things
hit in the neck by an elbow
with a 10-2 spurt. Lopez
from Washington’s Raul Neto, sparked the run with a layup, to stay in basketball shape.”
Nurkic admitted to reporters
but he remained in the game Davis Bertans hit a key 3
after he was examined by the and Hachimura fi nished the prior to his injury that the
early turnaround, as well as
Blazers training staff.
decisive stretch with a foul
attending to family matters
Lillard’s buzzer-beating
shot, making it 103-98 with
in Bosnia, caused him to be
3-pointer from just in front of 5:40 to go.
the midcourt logo lifted Port-
Bertans made another big in worse condition than he
land to a 92-89 lead heading 3 with 2:18 left, lifting Wash- would have liked to start the
season.
into the fourth.
ington to a 110-101 lead.
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Duarte, Figueroa lead Ducks past Utes
EUGENE (AP) — Chris Duarte and
LJ Figueroa scored 15 points apiece and
Oregon beat Utah 67-64 on Saturday
night for the Ducks’ fi fth straight win.
Eugene Omoruyi added 13 points for
Oregon (14-4, 9-3 Pac-12) before fouling
out with 3:29 to play.
Duarte, who had 11 points in the
second half, and Figueroa hit 3-point-
ers 21 seconds apart to give the Ducks
a 64-61 lead with 1:55 to play. Alfonso
Plummer answered with a 3-pointer
before Duarte made 1 of 2 free throws to
give Oregon the lead for good with 1:20
remaining. Utah went 0 for 2 from the
fi eld with two turnovers from there, and
Duarte made two free throws with three
seconds left to cap the scoring.
Plummer hit four 3s and fi nished with
17 points, and Timmy Allen scored 15 for
Utah (9-10, 6-9). Branden Carlson and
Pelle Larsson added 13 points apiece.
Carlson had nine rebounds, and Larsson
had seven boards and fi ve assists.
Neither team led by more than fi ve
points, and there were nine ties and 19
lead changes.
Oregon, which made just four of its
fi rst 14 second-half shots and went
without a fi eld goal for more than three
minutes midway through the period,
made 8 of 15 — including four 3-pointers
— to close it out.
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Wright, Colorado hold off Beavers, 61-57
CORVALLIS (AP) — McKinley Wright
IV scored 21 points and moved to No. 7
on Colorado’s career scoring list as the
Buffaloes beat Oregon State 61-57 on
Saturday night.
Colorado won its fi fth conference road
game of the season, its most since the
1961-62 season.
Wright passed Josh Scott (1,709 points,
2012-16) and Stevie Wise (1,717, 1987-
91), fi nishing the night at 1,718 career
points. He scored the Buffaloes’ fi rst 11
points of the second half and fi nished
with 15 after halftime.
Evan Battey added 10 points for the
Buffaloes (17-7, 11-6 Pac-12), who never
trailed in the second half.
The Beavers (11-11, 7-9) tied it at 35
early in the second half and closed the
defi cit back to 44-43 before Colorado
pulled away with an 11-2 run to lead by
10 with 4:19 left. Oregon State got no
closer than the fi nal score.
Ethan Thompson had 18 points and
seven assists for the Beavers, moving
past Deaundra Tanner (457 assists, 1998-
01) and Darryl Flowers (457, 1983-86) to
No. 3 on Oregon State’s career assists list
at 462. Warith Alatishe added 12 points
and 10 rebounds for the Beavers.
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Aleah Goodman scored 20 points on Sunday, Feb.
21, to lead Oregon State to an upset win over UCLA.
Beavers upset
8th-ranked UCLA
By Joe Reedy
AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES — Oregon State coach Scott Rueck
has known he has a good team, but that it needed
time and experience to develop. After having two long
stretches of their season paused due to COVID-19, it
appears as if the Beavers are starting to hit their stride
at the right time.
Aleah Goodman scored 20 points and Taylor Jones
posted her fi fth double-double of the season in a 71-64
upset of eighth-ranked UCLA on Sunday. Most had
Oregon State as one of the fi rst four teams out of the
NCAA Tournament, but this win provides a huge boost
to their resume.
“Everybody in this program is used to going to the
tournament. That’s the expectation, but the way this
season has played out it has been in doubt,” Rueck said.
“The confi dence and belief with this team is growing.
We can be a good team and this weekend was all that
we hoped.”
Oregon State led for most of the fi nal three quarters.
The game was tied at 57 with 5:57 remaining but the
Beavers (8-6, 6-6 Pac-12) outscored the Bruins 14-7
the rest of the way. Talia von Oelhoffen’s jumper from
beyond the arc put Oregon State on top for good.
UCLA (13-4, 11-4) was within two late in the fourth
quarter, but Goodman hit a 3-pointer with 1:32 remain-
ing to extend Oregon State’s lead to 66-61.
“We executed down the stretch and played defense.
To see everything come together I was extremely proud
of them,” Goodman said.
Jones had 16 points and 11 rebounds as the Beavers
controlled the inside with a 38-24 advantage in points
in the paint and 45-39 edge in rebounding.
Michaela Onyenwere led UCLA with 21 points
and Lauryn Miller added 13. The Bruins, who posted
a 27-point win over No. 13 Oregon on Friday, shot a
season-low 27.6% from the fi eld (21 of 76) but made all
17 of their free-throw attempts
“There was a lack of focus and we have to learn from
this game,” Onyenwere said.
UCLA trailed 49-42 late in the third quarter before
going on a 10-2 run over the fi nal 2:32 to take a 52-51
lead going into the fi nal 10 minutes. Onyenwere and
Natalie Chou each had four points during the rally and
Charisma Osbourne hit a jumper in the lane with a
second remaining to put the Bruins on top for the fi rst
time since early in the second quarter.
Djokovic breezes to 9th Australian Open title, 18th major
MELBOURNE, Australia
(AP) — Maybe, just maybe, the
thinking went, Novak Djokovic
would be just a tad more
susceptible to trouble this time
around at the Australian Open.
After all, he tore an ab-
dominal muscle in the third
round and wasn’t sure he could
continue to compete. Entering
Sunday, Djokovic ceded fi ve
sets in the tournament, the
most he ever dropped en route
to a major fi nal. And to top it
all off, he was facing Daniil
Medvedev, owner of a 20-match
winning streak.
Yeah, right. We’re talking
about Djokovic at Melbourne
Park, where his dominance is
most certainly intact — nine
fi nals, nine championships.
Plus, he’s still gaining on Roger
Medvedev 7-5, 6-2, 6-2 for a
third consecutive Australian
Open trophy.
“Defi nitely, emotionally,
the most challenging Grand
Slam that I ever had, with
everything that was happen-
ing — injury, off-the-court stuff,
quarantines,” Djokovic said. “A
roller-coaster ride.”
When the match ended after
less than two hours, Djokovic
went to the sideline, lifted his
white shirt and peeled pieces
Mackenzie Sweetnam/Getty Images-TNS of beige athletic tape from his
Novak Djokovic holds the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup stomach.
as he celebrates winning the Australian Open.
“I was quite worried,”
Djokovic said about the injury.
Federer and Rafael Nadal in
Djokovic used improved
“I did not (think) realistically
the Grand Slam standings,
serving, along with his usual
that I could actually play. I
now up to 18 overall, two shy
relentless returning and base- didn’t know until two hours be-
of the men’s record those rivals line excellence to grab 11 of 13 fore the fourth-round match.”
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“bearable” pain, Djokovic
improved to a combined 18-0
in semifi nals and fi nals on
Melbourne’s hard courts.
“Probably, it’s not your last
one,” Medvedev said. “I have no
words to say.”
Djokovic, a 33-year-old from
Serbia, has won six of the last
10 majors and will stay at
No. 1 in the rankings at least
through March 8. That will
give him 311 weeks there,
breaking another mark held by
Federer.
His goals now are squarely
on Grand Slams, even more
than before.
Put Djokovic’s nine triumphs
in Australia alongside fi ve at
Wimbledon, three at the U.S.
Open and one at the French
Open. The math looks good
for him: He is about a year
younger than Nadal and 6 1/2
younger than Federer.
“I do enjoy the success
every single time even more,”
Djokovic said, “because I know
that the longer the time passes,
the more diffi cult it’s going to
become.”
The No. 4-seeded Medvedev
was appearing in his second
Slam fi nal; he was the runner-
up to Nadal at the 2019 U.S.
Open.
The 25-year-old from Russia
had won 12 in a row against
Top 10 opponents, but trying to
solve Djokovic in Australia is a
unique challenge.
“He’s really good (at) reading
an opponent’s game,” Medve-
dev said, “knowing what you
will do next, how to beat you.”
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