A6 BAKER CITY HERALD • THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2022
SPORTS
District basketball tournament
starts Thursday at Baker High
Baker City Herald
The Old Oregon League
district girls and boys bas-
ketball tournaments start
Thursday afternoon, Feb.
18, at Baker High School.
The top three girls and
boys teams will advance to
the Class 1A state playoffs,
which begin Feb. 22.
The state tournament,
with eight boys and eight
girls teams, will start
March 2 at Baker High
School with the boys quar-
terfinals. The girls quarter-
finals are set for March 3.
For this week’s district
tournament, both the
Powder Valley and Nixy-
aawii girls and boys teams
earned byes and auto-
matically advance to the
semifinal round on Friday,
Feb. 19.
On the girls side, Nixy-
aawii was 11-0 in Old Ore-
gon League regular season,
and 21-4 overall. Powder
Valley finished second at
9-3 (13-10 overall).
For the boys, Powder
Valley was 9-0 in league
play and is 20-1 overall.
Nixyaawii finished second
at 9-2 (20-6 overall).
The Pine Eagle boys
advanced to the district
tournament by routing
Wallowa 66-28 in a playoff
game on Tuesday, Feb. 15.
Caleb Brown had a game-
high 29 points to lead the
WINTER OLYMPICS
Slovakia stuns U.S.
men’s hockey team
Spartans to the win. Pine
Eagle had 10 3-pointers in
the game.
BY STEPHEN WHYNO
AP Hockey Writer
BEIJING — Minutes after
failing to score in the shootout
as the Americans’ last chance
to stay alive at the Olympics,
captain Andy Miele took off
his gloves to wipe the tears
coming out of his eyes.
“I’m just sad it’s over,” he said.
With one bad bounce in
the final minute of regulation
that became the tying goal and
an unsuccessful shootout, the
United States is out of the men’s
hockey tournament at the Bei-
jing Games after a shocking
3-2 loss to Slovakia in the quar-
terfinals Wednesday, Feb. 16.
The previously unbeaten U.S.
that earned the top seed in the
knockout round and looked
poised for a deep run instead
was dealt the same result as the
2018 group in the last Olympics
without NHL players.
“This one’s going to sting for
a little bit,” veteran defenseman
Steven Kampfer said. “I thought
we were the better team for a
majority of the game. You come
up a little bit short.”
Eight years after T.J. Oshie
earned the “T.J. Sochi” nick-
name for his shootout heroics
against Russia, there was no
such magic this time around.
Brendan Brisson, Sean Farrell,
Matt Knies, Nathan Smith
and Miele all came up empty
in the shootout.
The U.S. also went 0 for 5 in
the shootout loss to the Czech
Republic in Pyeongchang four
years ago.
“It’s a tough situation with
the game riding on you,”
Miele said. “I wanted to score,
I didn’t and it stinks. I don’t
know what else to say.”
Strauss Mann allowed only
one goal on five shots by Slova-
kia, with Peter Cehlarik beating
him with a move he practiced
in warmup and expected to
catch the goaltender by sur-
prise. On the bench during the
shootout, 17-year-old Slovakia
forward Juraj Slafkovsky told
THURSDAY, FEB. 18
Girls
• Imbler vs. Joseph,
2 p.m.
• Wallowa vs. Elgin,
6 p.m.
Boys
• Joseph vs. Imbler,
3:30 p.m.
• Cove vs. Pine Eagle,
7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY, FEB. 19
Girls
• Wallowa/Elgin winner
vs. Powder Valley, 2 p.m.
• Imbler/Joseph winner
vs. Nixyaawii, 6 p.m.
Boys
• Cove/Pine Eagle
winner vs. Nixyaawii,
3:30 p.m.
• Joseph/Imbler win-
ner vs. Powder Valley,
7:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, FEB. 20
Girls
• 3rd/4th place (losers of
Friday’s games), 9 a.m.
• Championship game
(winners of Friday’s
games), 1 p.m.
Boys
• 3rd/4th place (losers of
Friday’s games), 10:30 a.m.
• Championship game
(winners of Friday’s
games), 2:30 p.m.
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
Powder Valley senior Kaden Krieger led all scorers with 30 points in the
Badgers’ 69-68 win over Baker on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022, in the Baker
gym. Powder Valley is the top seed in the district tournament, which starts
Thursday, Feb. 18, in the Baker gym.
OREGON STATE MEN’S BASKETBALL
Buffaloes romp past Beavers
CORVALLIS (AP) — Ja-
bari Walker tied a career-high
24 points and grabbed a ca-
reer-high 15 rebounds and
Colorado won its third straight,
beating Oregon State 90-64 on
Tuesday night, Feb. 15.
The Buffaloes (16-9, 8-7
Pac-12) started their three-
game streak with an 86-63
win against the Beavers in
Boulder, Colorado on Feb.
5. Meanwhile, the sopho-
more Walker now has a dou-
ble-double streak that has
reached four-straight games
and has 13 on the year. It’s
the third time in his career
he’s reached 24 points.
Colorado went to inter-
mission on a 14-2 run in the
final 3:31, led 44-32 and were
largely in control the rest of
the way.
Dashawn Davis’ three-
point play with 15:54 re-
maining brought the Beavers
within 48-44, but Colorado
pushed the lead back to dou-
ble digits for good when
sophomore reserve Luke
O’Brien sank a 3-pointer
more than four minutes later.
Nique Clifford’s 3-pointer
with 5:59 left gave Colorado
its first 20-point margin at
79-59.
O’Brien scored a ca-
reer-high 14 points on
5-for-6 shooting including
3 for 4 from 3-point range.
Tristan da Silva added 15
points and Clifford 14 for
Colorado, which distributed
a season-high 20 assists on
31-made shots.
Davis led Oregon State (3-
20, 1-12) with 22 points.
Cehlarik he believed he would
score when it was his turn.
“Don’t worry,” Cehlarik told
him in Slovak. “Backhand,
forehand and I will score.”
After goalie Patrik Rybar de-
nied Miele for his final save of
the 38 he made in regulation,
overtime and the shootout, as-
sistant Jan Pardavy embraced
Slovakia coach Craig Ramsay
and Slovakia celebrated its first
trip to the Olympic semifinals
since 2010 in Vancouver.
“It’s a thrill,” said Ramsay,
who played 14 NHL seasons
and spent more than two de-
cades in the league as an as-
sistant. “Even when it went
in, when Cehlarik scored and
Pardo almost broke me in
half, I still said: ‘Did we win?
Have we won this thing?’ Be-
cause you lose track at five
shootouts. It was so exciting. I
know what they’re feeling and
I’m feeling it.”
The Americans felt a mix of
sadness, regret and acceptance
at the random bounces that
can decide a hockey game.
They were the only team
to win all three group stage
games in regulation, trailed
for just 11 minutes the entire
tournament and still saw their
medal dreams dashed.
“We were actually joking we
still haven’t lost a game, really
— we lost a shootout,” coach
David Quinn said. “That’s the
frustrating part.”
International rules call
for 10 minutes of 3-on-3
OT followed by a five-player
shootout, even in the knockout
round. While lamenting the
cruelty of getting eliminated
in a 1-on-1 skills competition,
Quinn and his players pointed
out that the game never should
have gotten to that point.
After Nick Abruzzese tied the
score in the final minute of the
first period and Sam Hentges
put the U.S. up midway through
the second, there were plenty of
chances to build on the lead and
get some extra breathing room.
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