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BAKER CITY HERALD • SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2022 A5 SPORTS POWDER VALLEY GIRLS BASKETBALL Badgers’ rally falls short lead. Powder Valley junior Dallee Bingham kept the Bad- NORTH POWDER — gers within reach, scoring six In front of a packed gym of her team-high 13 points in Wednesday, Feb. 23, the Pow- the first half. For Trout Lake, der Valley girls basketball senior Wynsome Painter team came up just short of ex- scored five points in the first tending its season. quarter en route to a game- The Badgers lost to Trout high 16 points. Lake (Washington) 45-34 in The Badgers continued to round one of the Class 1A struggle offensively in the state playoffs. The Badgers second quarter as Trout Lake rallied in the second half af- kept up its fast-paced game ter a slow start, but ultimately plan and took a 30-14 lead missed out on a trip to the into halftime. second round of the playoffs. “That’s a good basketball “We just didn’t come out team, they shot the ball ex- aggressive enough in the first tremely well in the first half,” half and got too deep into a Allen Bingham said. hole,” Powder Valley head With the season on the line coach Allen Bingham said. and the home crowd never “We played really good in the giving up on its team, the second half, but just couldn’t Badgers flipped the script in get it done.” the second half. Powder Val- It was a fast start for ley came out aggressive on Trout Lake, who hit two defense and limited Trout three-pointers and jumped Lake to just 15 points in the out to a 20-8 first-quarter second half. BY DAVIS CARBAUGH The (La Grande) Observer Maddy Leggett stepped up for the Badgers when the team needed offense in the second half, scoring all 11 of her points in the final two quarters. After slightly cutting the advantage to 39-25 at the end of the third quarter, Powder Valley went full speed in the fourth quarter to attempt a late rally. The Badgers managed to cut the lead to single dig- its with just over 2 minutes remaining, but late baskets would not fall in time to come back into contention. “I think we just played more aggressively,” Allen Bingham said. “It’s one of those things that has to be ex- perienced to learn.” The Badgers’ season comes to an end after compiling a 14-12 record overall and 9-3 in league play. After Powder Valley started off the season OREGON MEN’S BASKETBALL 0-6, the team won its last five contests to close out the regu- lar season. Allen Bingham noted that the Powder Valley roster, which is almost entirely un- derclassmen, will take value in the playoff matchup as a learning experience moving forward. “You can’t duplicate that kind of experience for players coming back,” he said. “That’s how we learn. Next year we have to realize that we have to play that way for four quar- ters instead of two.” The Badgers are set to graduate one senior and re- turn the remaining 11 play- ers on the varsity roster next season. “We need to build on this and this experience will be in our minds when we come back,” Allen Bingham said. “We just need to get better from it.” Davis Carbaugh/The (La Grande) Observer Powder Valley’s Dallee Bingham patrols the high post in search of an open teammate during the Old Oregon League girls championship game against Nixyaawii at Baker High School on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. Powder Valley’s season ended with a loss to Trout Lake (Wash- ington) on Wednesday, Feb. 23. BAKER GIRLS WRESTLING Ducks upset UCLA, keep Plummer, Karolski compete at state NCAA tourney hopes alive Baker City Herald “It is hard to win when you go 4 for 24 on 3’s against EUGENE — De’Vion Har- a team that is fighting for its mon scored 17 points, lead- tournament life,” Cronin said. ing Oregon to a 68-63 win Oregon completed a season over No. 12 UCLA 68-63 on sweep of the Bruins as it looks Thursday night, Feb. 24. to improve its chance of earn- ing a berth in the NCAA Tour- Jacob Young added 14 nament. points and Will Richardson “I keep talking to them and Eric Williams Jr. each about one game, we have to get scored 11 for the Ducks (18- ready,” Altman said. “When we 10, 11-6). Franck Kepnang play USC on Saturday, it will had eight points, nine re- be the same thing. They know bounds and three blocked where we are at; we are not in shots. “I thought our guys played great shape. Our only hope is to keep winning games, noth- hard and this time of year, that’s all we can ask,” Oregon ing else. We’ve got some bad coach Dana Altman said. “We losses to try and overcome.” Oregon took a five-point didn’t execute some things and had some bad turnovers, lead at halftime before stretch- ing the margin to 40-31 on a but the crowd was great and 3-pointer by Harmon. After that helped us, no doubt.” Tyger Campbell and Cody Jules Bernard scored to cut the lead to 42-35, Oregon scored Riley each scored 12 points six straight to take a 48-35 lead to lead UCLA (20-6, 12-5). on a basket by Richardson. Jaime Jaquez Jr. added 10 Oregon went ahead 53-44 points before fouling out. UC- on a free throw by Young be- LA’s leading scorer, Johnny Juzang, scored seven points in fore UCLA scored 10 straight 11 minutes before leaving the points to take the lead on a re- bound basket by Jaquez with game in the first half with a 5:23 left to play. right ankle injury. Richardson followed with UCLA coach Mick Cronin did not have an injury update two free throws and Oregon on Juzang, who ranks second never trailed again. “We got a one-point lead in the conference averaging and immediately put them 17.5 points. back on the line,” Cronin The Bruins shot 36.8% from the field, including 4 for said. “Up one, late clock, we let Will Richardson beat us 24 on 3-pointers. BY STEVE MIMS Associated Press left and put them back on the line. They were reeling at that point and we needed to make them shoot a jump shot at that point. We are a veteran team, we have to be smarter than that.” Young added a jumper to push Oregon ahead 57-54 be- fore Harmon added two free throws. Riley converted a 3-point play to get the Bruins within 59-57 with 2:55 left to play. Harmon followed with a 3-pointer and N’Faly Dante dunked for the Ducks. After Harmon scored to give Oregon a 7-6 lead, the Ducks never trailed the rest of the first half before taking a 35-30 lead at the break. Richardson scored four straight points to give Ore- gon its largest lead of the half at 20-12 before UCLA scored four straight points. Juzang scored five straight points to get UCLA within 23-21 be- fore Quincy Guerrier made four straight free throws for Oregon. UCLA followed with six straight points to tie the game before Kepnang dunked and Harmon scored four straight to push the Ducks ahead 32- 27. Richardson hit a 3-pointer for the Ducks before Riley capped the half with a bucket for the Bruins. Warriors roll past Trail Blazers Anfernee Simons had 24 points for Portland, which had PORTLAND — Stephen won four straight going into Curry had 18 points and 14 the break. assists and the Golden State Portland announced a day Warriors returned from the earlier that center Jusuf Nur- All-Star break to rout the Port- kic would be out for at least land Trail Blazers 132-95 on the next four weeks because of Thursday night, Feb. 24. plantar fasciitis. The injury was Klay Thompson also had 18 the latest blow to the Blazers, who are short-handed without points for the Warriors, who had lost four of their last five. star Damian Lillard following an abdominal procedure. “It was a good way to kind Portland coach Chauncey of come back from the break Billups started Drew Eubanks and establish ourselves on both ends of the floor,” Curry — who played at Oregon State — at center. Eubanks, in his said. fourth NBA season, went to The Warriors led by 37 points in the second half and Toronto as part of the Goran Dragic trade with San Anto- rested their starters in the nio at the deadline and was fourth quarter. Eight players later waived. He signed a 10- finished in double figures — the last time Golden State had day contract with Portland on Tuesday. as many was in 2009. “I enjoyed not playing the Portland jumped out to a 29- fourth quarter, and seeing our 19 lead in the opening quarter young guys get some burn but it didn’t last. The Warriors and play very well,” Thomp- capped a 15-3 run with Jor- son said. dan Poole’s 3-pointer to go up BY ANNE M. PETERSON Associated Press 50-38. Golden State pushed the lead to 20 points and went into the break ahead 70-57. Curry had 18 points and 13 assists for his sixth career double-double before halftime, and first since December 2017. “Steph was brilliant tonight,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. “I loved his patience and the way he ran the team tonight. He played a beautiful game.” Added Thompson: “(Curry) has always been able to pass like this. Just his scoring is so good it can get overlooked sometimes,” Thompson said. The Blazers’ struggles con- tinued in the third quarter with just 16 points. “I thought they played hard and they played well, they just came up against a juggernaut,” Billups said. “They kind of took off on us there, they had 39 points in the second quar- ter, that really hurt us and we could never really recover.” OREGON STATE MEN’S BASKETBALL USC holds off Beavers in double OT BY GARY HOROWITZ Associated Press CORVALLIS — Drew Pe- terson had 24 points and 10 rebounds as No. 16 South- ern California extended its winning streak to five games, beating Oregon State 94-91 in double-overtime on Thursday night, Feb. 24. Isaiah Mobley had 19 points and 10 rebounds for the Tro- jans (24-4, 13-4 Pac-12). “They’ve had a few tough breaks this year, but they’re a very good basketball team, es- pecially when they play like they did tonight,” USC coach Andy Enfield said of Oregon State. “They showed a lot of heart. We were fortunate to grind out a double overtime victory on the road.” Dashawn Davis scored 27 of his career-high 31 points in the second half and over- time for Oregon State (3-23, 1-15), which lost its 13th straight game. Jarod Lucas added 18 points. “I was just playing my game, having fun,” said Davis, who missed a 3-pointer from the right corner with three seconds left in the second overtime. He scored the Beavers’ final 19 points in regulation, con- verted a jumper in the lane, ty- ing the game at 83-all with 19 seconds left in the first over- time. Dexter Akanno blocked Peterson’s potential game-win- ning jumper, extending the game to a second OT. CULVER — Baker wres- tlers Sarah Plummer and Sheylin Karolski competed in the state tournament on Thursday, Feb. 24, at Culver High School. Both Baker wrestlers lost their two matches. Plummer, a senior, wrestled top-seeded Averie Stockwell of Thurston in her first match at 145 pounds, losing by fall. In a consolation bracket match, Plummer lost by fall to Icela Sanchez Rodriguez of North Salem. Plummer ended the season with a 16-9 match record. Karolski, a freshman seeded fourth at 170 pounds, lost by fall to Jas- mine Lopez of Woodburn in her first match. In a consolation match, Karolski lost by fall to Kami Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald, File Hart of Sweet Home. Baker’s Sarah Plummer, bottom, shown here earlier this season, Karolski finished the sea- competed in the state tournament on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022, with son with an 8-17 record. teammate Sheylin Karolski. Rich, poor, old, young. Compassion doesn’t discriminate. Our calling is you.
