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THE BULLETIN • TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 2021
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MEN’S NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP
No. 1 Baylor 86, No. 1 Gonzaga 70
BAYLOR BEATDOWN
Gonzaga’s march to perfection stomped out
NCAA Championship Blowouts
BY EDDIE PELLS • AP National Writer
NDIANAPOLIS — Heck, everyone’s entitled to an off night.
But that beatdown Baylor put on undefeated Gonzaga with
the national title on the line — nobody saw that coming.
The fresh-as-can-be Bears obliterated wobbly-legged Gon-
zaga’s march to perfection Monday night in an 86-70 runaway that
brought this once-downtrodden program’s first national title back
home to Waco, Texas.
Jared Butler scored 22 points and MaCio Teague had 19 for the
Bears (28-2), who were ranked second or third in the AP poll all
year long — but never first, all because of one team.
Pounding the offensive glass and scrapping for — and winning
— the lion’s share of the 50-50 balls, Baylor never let this one come
down to a Jalen Suggs miracle. The Gonzaga freshman’s buzz-
er-beater from near the half-court logo got the Zags to the final in
a game that stood as their first true test of the season.
They passed against UCLA. Against Baylor? Not even close.
After running to a 19-point lead early, the Bears never let Gon-
zaga get any closer than nine.
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Michael Conroy/AP
Baylor forward Flo Thamba fights for a rebound with Gonzaga forward Drew
Timme in the first half of the men’s NCAA championship on Monday at Lucas
Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Baylor never trailed and won, 86-70.
30 — UNLV 103, Duke 73, 1990
23 — UCLA 78, North Carolina 55, 1968
21 — UCLA 87, Memphis State 66, 1973
20 — Duke 71, Michigan 51, 1992
20 — UCLA 92, Purdue 72, 1969
20 — Ohio State 75, California 55, 1960
18 — Indiana 86, Michigan 68, 1976
18 — Indiana 60, Kansas 42, 1940
17 — Villanova 79, Michigan 62, 2018
17 — North Carolina 89, Michigan State 72, 2009
17 — Kansas 80, St. John’s 63, 1952
16 — Baylor 86, Gonzaga 70, 2021
16 — Florida 73, UCLA 57, 2006
16 — La Salle 92, Bradley 76, 1954
16 — Kentucky 58, Baylor 42, 1948
15 — UCLA 98, Duke 83, 1964
15 — Stanford 53, Dartmouth 38, 1942
—Associated Press
RUNNING
Outdoors
King wins Horse
Butte 10-miler
Bend’s Max King, 41,
won the Horse Butte
10-Miler trail run Satur-
day in 53 minutes, 16 sec-
onds, maintaining a 5:20-
mile pace in the event
east of Bend.
Brian Whitfield, also of
Bend, finished second in
57:07, and Bend’s Thomas
Morgan was third in
59:32.
Kristina Randrup, of
Seattle, won the wom-
en’s division in 1:09:38
and finished 15th overall.
Bend’s Erin Rudzinski was
second (1:13:35) and Amy
Jaggard, also of Bend, fin-
ished third (1:16:38).
The Horse Butte
10-Miler was staged on
dirt singletrack south-
east of Bend. The course
was mostly uphill for the
first five miles, and the
remainder of the course
was fairly flat.
Due to the COVID-19
pandemic, runners
started at 10-second in-
tervals to maintain so-
cial distance. Face masks
were required at the
starting line, and runners
were required to pull up
their masks when social
distancing was not pos-
sible.
The Horse Butte
10-Miler was not staged
last year due to COVID,
but was held as a virtual
race.
—Bulletin staff report
SKIING &
SNOWBOARDING
Hoodoo offering
free lift tickets
Hoodoo Ski Area near
Sisters will offer free lift
tickets for Thursday from
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. for guests
who donate a minimum
of four non-perishable
food items, according to a
news release.
All food donations will
go to La Pine Community
Kitchen, which provides
free food and clothing to
those in need. In 2020,
La Pine Community
Kitchen served more than
300,000 pounds of food
and 26,000 hot lunches,
according to the release.
Hoodoo is also cur-
rently offering discounted
2021-22 season passes
for purchase at skihoo-
doo.com. An adult season
pass, good for the rest of
this season and all of next
season, is $479. The sale
ends Sunday, April 18.
For more information,
call the Hoodoo Snow
Phone at 541-822-3337
or visit skihoodoo.com.
—Bulletin staff report
TROLL UP YOUR
FIRST TROUT ON A FLY
F
ishing license sales are up, way up
over the last year. People are getting
into fly-fishing at a rapid clip —
across all age classes.
“One-hundred percent,” Chris Peichel
said. “From young kids to people in their
60s and 70s.
One of the
things COVID
GARY
has done is
LEWIS
made people
sick of playing
video games
and watching TV. They want something
they can do outdoors. Fly-fishing is some-
thing that has intrigued them.”
Peichel has been fly-fishing since he was
14 (which was 35 years ago). Now, working
at Fin & Fire in Redmond, he is seeing a lot
of newcomers to the sport, picking up their
first fly rods, buying their first trout flies,
learning how to tie the knots and make the
simple casts.
“We certainly saw a huge increase last
year. As the weather gets warmer and
warmer, we are going to see a lot more. They
are coming in to get information on fly-fish-
ing gear. They are people who have done
very little fishing if any, people who have
never really gotten into it.”
And now they’re getting into it.
A lot of people picture themselves tak-
ing their fly rods to the river, and here, that
means the Crooked River, the Deschutes,
Fall River and the Metolius. All of the fly
shops in our area can point anglers in the
right direction. But there is another way —
still-water fishing.
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Don Lewis, of Redmond, caught this big brood stock rainbow
at Pine Hollow Reservoir. Gary Lewis/For The Bulletin
Seven-year-old Ava angles for a fly-rod brook trout
in a small lake in the Cascades. Gary Lewis/For The Bulletin