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THE BULLETIN • SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2021
COLLEGE
TRACK & FIELD
Oregon men win
the indoor title
The Oregon Ducks had
eight chances to score
points in the men’s com-
petition Saturday at the
NCAA Indoor Track & Field
Championships in Fayette-
ville, Arkansas.
They made the most of
their opportunities.
Oregon stacked up
the victories, winning five
events and adding 66
points to its team total to
bring home the national
championship with 79
points. LSU finished sec-
ond with 56 points.
Emmanuel Ihemeje
leaped 56 feet, 7½ inches
in the triple jump to win
the event and post the
sixth-best collegiate mark
in history.
Cole Hocker set a meet
record of 3 minutes, 53.71
seconds to win the mile by
more than two seconds.
Teammate Reed Brown
took fifth with a time of
3:57.62.
Freshman Micah Wil-
liams sprinted to victory in
the 60 meters, matching
his personal best of 6.49
seconds. Oregon’s Gaston
Bouchereau crossed in
6.65 to take fifth.
Charlie Hunter just
edged Miami of Ohio’s Fin-
ley McLear to win the 800
meters in 1:45.90, with
McLear crossing at 1:45.91.
And the Ducks went
1-2 in the 3,000 meters,
with Hocker winning in
7:46.15 and Cooper Teare
just behind in 7:46.23.
In winning their fifth
indoor title, the Ducks
became the first team in
meet history to sweep
the 800, mile and 3,000.
The Ducks also won the
distance-medley relay on
Friday.
— The Oregonian
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PREP FOOTBALL
Summit ends drought against Bend
Storm upends Lava Bears in
17-0 shutout at Bend High
to give coach Corben Hyatt
his 1st victory against Bend
BY BRIAN RATHBONE
The Bulletin
S
ummit’s 17-0 shutout win
over Bend High on Friday
night marked a milestone.
Not only was it the Storm’s
first win over the Lave Bears
since 2016, it was also the
first victory against Bend or
Mountain View for coach
Corben Hyatt.
“That’s a really big win for
Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin
those guys,” Hyatt said.
Summit’s Hogan Carmichael (3) hands the ball to Ryan Powell (23) during the first half against Bend on Friday night at Bend High.
“They came out and showed what
we know that they are capable of.”
Both teams entered the second
week of the football season, post-
poned since September, wanting to
avenge blowout losses from the prior
week, when neither team could punch
the ball into the end zone.
For most of the game, it looked as
though the game’s final horn would
sound without a team finding pay-
dirt.
When the Storm had the ball in the
first quarter, they failed to advance.
Meanwhile, the Lava Bears opening
“Our defense is holding us together right now, and I’ll take it. But I know
our offense is going to get going, we just have too much talent on the
offensive side of the ball.”
— Corben Hyatt, Summit High School football coach
drive seemed destined for a touch-
down before fumbling inside the 10-
yard line. Bend would then fumble
again on its next possession.
Moving the ball was a struggle for
the two teams that did not find the
end zone in the matchups last week.
Summit and Bend ran a combined
90 plays for a total of 323 yards (3.5
yards per play). The teams kicked a
combined 15 punts after each only
converted four of their 23 third-down
attempts.
Hyatt hypothesized the slow start
for both offenses was due to a combi-
nation of injuries at key positions —
Bend was without Idaho commit Colt
Musgrave while Summit was without
all-conference wideout Blake DiTul-
lio — and not having enough practice
leading up to the start of the season.
“You are seeing it around the state,
defenses are ahead of the offenses,”
Hyatt said. “Offenses are going to take
some time to come back. Our defense
is holding us together right now, and
I’ll take it. But I know our offense is
going to get going, we just have too
much talent on the offensive side of
the ball.”
See Prep football / B2
BOXING
Marvelous Marvin
Hagler dies at 66
Marvin Hagler, the
middleweight boxing
great whose title reign
and career ended with
a split-decision loss to
“Sugar” Ray Leonard in
1987, died Saturday. He
was 66.
Wife Kay G. Hagler
confirmed the death on
Facebook on the verified
Marvelous Marvin Hagler
Fan Club page.
“I am sorry to make a
very sad announcement,”
she wrote. “Today unfor-
tunately my beloved hus-
band Marvelous Marvin
passed away unexpect-
edly at his home here
in New Hampshire. Our
family requests that you
respect our privacy during
this difficult time.”
Hagler was 62-3-2 with
52 knockouts from 1973
to 1987. He was the un-
disputed middleweight
champion from 1980 to
his loss to Leonard at Cae-
sars Palace in Las Vegas on
April 6, 1987.
The fierce left-hander
had two of his biggest
victories at Caesars Palace,
unanimously outpointing
Roberto Duran in 1983
and knocking out Thomas
Hearns in the third round
in 1985.
“Marvelous Marvin
Hagler was among the
greatest athletes that Top
Rank ever promoted,” Top
Rank Chairman Bob Arum
said. “He was a man of
honor and a man of his
word, and he performed
in the ring with unparal-
leled determination. He
was a true athlete and a
true man. I will miss him
greatly.”
Hagler was inducted
into the International
Boxing Hall of Fame and
World Boxing Hall of
Fame in 1983.
— Associated Press
COLLEGE FOOTBALL | OREGON STATE
An early look at the QB competition
BY NICK DASCHEL
The Oregonian
Leon Neuschwander/For The Oregonian/TNS file
Oregon State quarterback Tristan Gebbia led the Beavers to a 2-2 start
to the 2020 season before he was sidelined with a hamstring injury.
Oregon State heads into the
start of spring practice on April
6 with a three-man race for the
starting quarterback job.
But is it a legitimate three-
man race between Tristan Geb-
bia, Chance Nolan and Ben
Gulbranson, where each quar-
terback has a 33.33% chance of
winning the starting berth?
It’s never that simple. At the
outset, don’t expect much, if
anything from Gebbia this
spring. He’s recovering from
hamstring surgery. Even
OUTDOORS
though spring practice was
pushed back a month and ends
May 8, OSU offensive coordi-
nator Brian Lindgren said he
doesn’t expect Gebbia to be se-
riously involved in practice un-
til preseason camp in August.
Gebbia was injured while
trying to score a touchdown
against Oregon on Nov. 27.
Gebbia started the first four
games, but didn’t play the final
three.
It’s because of this that Lind-
gren calls the battle for the
2021 starting job unique. Lind-
gren speculates that had Geb-
bia finished out the season,
and perhaps led OSU to a cou-
ple more wins, it’s possible the
starting quarterback job might
not be up for grabs.
“I thought that he was on
an upward trend when he got
hurt,” Lindgren said. “Oregon
was his best game of his career.
I think guys believed in him
that he could be the guy.”
But that’s not how it played
out. Nolan started the final
three games, and gave the Bea-
vers a sense of what he could
accomplish.
See Oregon State / B3
MLB
Call of the wild: Great outdoors Workload worries: Teams
is a great escape amid pandemic ponder how to protect pitchers
BY PAT GRAHAM
AND TALES AZZONI
AP Sports Writers
For those venturing off the
beaten path, be advised — it’s
a little crowded out there.
By nature’s standards, any-
way, as the great outdoors has
become the great escape.
Hiking trails, parks and
other open spaces were
packed in 2020 with a
cooped-up population search-
ing for fresh air during the
coronavirus pandemic.
Locked down, shut in or just
fearful of crowds, people took
up hiking, biking, cross-coun-
try skiing, snowshoeing,
camping, tennis and golf — to
name several — in significant
numbers.
See Outdoors / B3
BY DAVID BRANDT
Associated Press
Jacqueline Dormer/Republican-Herald via AP, file
From left, Keilan Barber, Christian Martella and Ben Savitz hang out
on the rocks at the South Lookout after hiking at Hawk Mountain in
Kempton, Pennsylvania, in January.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — If
the Arizona Diamondbacks
want to win a lot of games this
season they probably need
right-hander Zac Gallen to
throw a lot of quality innings.
If the franchise wants to be
good for the next several years,
it’s also imperative that the
25-year-old — who finished
ninth in the NL Cy Young vot-
ing last season — stays healthy.
The challenge of balancing
the present and the future is
nothing new for Major League
Baseball teams, who are partic-
ularly careful with star young
pitchers.
But the calculus might be
even tougher in 2021 because
pitchers are coming off a much
smaller workload during the
pandemic-shortened 2020 sea-
son.
Gallen, who finished with a
3-2 record and a 2.75 ERA last
season in 72 innings, is ada-
mant he’s ready to ramp back
up to nearly 200 innings if
needed, even if it appears un-
likely the D-backs would push
him that hard.
“I’m going to pitch until they
tell me to stop pitching,” Gallen
said. “And then I’ll probably
still say, ‘No, let me go back out
there.’”
There’s little doubt teams
will be very careful extending
their pitchers to the usual 180
to 200 innings that a typical
starter logs in a 162-game sea-
son.
See Pitchers / B3