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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2015
SPORTS
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At Mission, the Echo girls basketball team slipped
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Cougars fouling out.
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lotte Barkley scored 22 points and hit four 3s, al-
though she got into foul trouble. Cougar leading scor-
er Elizabeth McCarty, who finished with 16 points,
also spent some time on the bench. Half of McCarty’s
came from the free-throw line.
“It was definitely one of those games where the
depth of our bench is what allowed us to carry it,”
Echo head coach JD Brazil said.
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second quarter but went into halftime down just two.
Kelsey Ranger hit two 3-pointers late to help “ice
things,” before she fouled out, Brazil said. Ranger
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Beth Millbroot and Hattie Reese had significant
and productive minutes with McCarty and her sister,
Hannah, on the bench in foul trouble.
The win put Echo is sole possession of first place
in the Old Oregon League with an overall record of
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The Umatilla boys basketball team started off league
2-1.
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Saturday in Nyssa.
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1-0 in Eastern Oregon League play. Umatilla is tied
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sits two and a half games ahead in terms of their overall
records.
NIXYAAWII 62, ECHO 33
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its brief two-game winning streak, dropping a league affair p.m., and the boys square off at 7 p.m.
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burst a day earlier against Joseph.
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two offensive rebounds in
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Naillon picked off a lazy
pass and laid it up at the
other end to give Hermis-
ton a lead, and, early on, the
Bulldogs were trying to put
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his team a 12-10 edge in
a quarter that saw a com-
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free throws made.
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lead, but a Keegan Crafton
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Sunnyside again built a
four-point lead, but a Knutz
3 and a Zimmerly basket
sandwiched around a Herm-
iston timeout gave the Bull-
dogs a 21-20 lead with just
less than two minutes left.
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shots of the half — while
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“Anything that’s being
called now, should have
been called all along,” Sim-
mons said.
She said the goal is for
the game in Hermiston,
Ashland and Astoria to
be called the same way.
Therefore, when teams
from all over the state,
or, more broadly, from
across the country, play
each other, nobody has
a greater advantage than
anybody else.
She said, if one team
plays in a league or re-
gion or state where the
hand-check rule is ap-
plied forcefully, they have
an advantage over teams
where close attention isn’t
given to that rule.
For the officials, she
said, it’s good practice to
know what must be whis-
tled, so when they get to a
similar situation, they’re
not guessing. They know
what they are seeing and
know what they have to
eliminate.
“Hopefully coaches
will get tired of the calls
and they’ll be eliminat-
ed, not because officials
stop calling it, but be-
cause the kids are play-
ing it right.”
Teams in the area have
made the adjustment
without too much trou-
ble. Fouls are down, and
game times are neat and
tidy again. Teams are no
Hermiston’s Cole Smith (32) looks for a teammate to pass
to as Sunnyside’s Angel Galarza (center) and Miguel Prieto
(32) defend during the second half of Sunnyside’s 47-45 win
Tuesday night in Hermiston.
Hermiston’s Cole Smith (32)
lays one up as Sunnyside’s
Arturo Pala (3) looks on
during the Àrst half of Sun-
nyside’s 47-45 win Tuesday
night in Hermiston.
at the end of the tunnel get-
ting bigger, and they’re gon-
na play harder,” McElligott
said. “That’s what they did.”
The two teams traded
baskets in the third quarter,
and neither team was able
to gain control of the game.
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its biggest lead of the game,
Sanchez hit his only 3 of
the game to give Sunnyside
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rera followed with a layup
with 1:22 left to put Sunny-
side back up three.
Sunnyside never trailed
in the fourth, but Hermiston
tried to make it interesting.
last week and a tough
nine-point loss to a good
Summit team on the road.
“We didn’t play well
enough to win tonight,”
McElligott said. “They
gave us opportunities at the
end, missing one-and-ones.
... We had a lot of empty
possessions. We didn’t play
real well defensively. We
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the balls, (while) we were
left standing around while
they were getting loose
balls. We fought our way
back, but didn’t play well
enough to win.”
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longer being whistled for
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lot to do with both coach-
es and adjustments made
by officials.
Hermiston girls basket-
ball coach Steve Hoffert
said he did not make any
real adjustments to the
way he coaches his team.
He said his program has
always focused on foot-
work and the age-old ad-
age of “defend with your
feet, not with your hands.”
Hermiston boys coach
Jake McElligott said
the hand-check rule is a
good idea in theory, but it
hasn’t been applied even-
ly throughout the state.
“It seems to be hit or
miss where we go,” he
said. “When we went two
tournaments in Portland,
they didn’t really call
(the hand-check) at all. In
Summit, they didn’t re-
ally call it at all. It’ll be
interesting to see when
we go into league. I think
it’s different with each
association, each league.
I think they call it a little
tighter here than they do
on the other side.”
Hoffert said he is most
concerned that hand-
check fouls are being
called consistently.
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a problem,” he said. “It’s
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good kids and good teams
adjust. It’s part of the game.
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not many adjustments need
to be made.”
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my internal struggle to support
the Ducks, but I’ve been coming
around. I still get to hate them on
a given Saturday in the fall, but,
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and Crafton had baskets to
cut the lead down to one in
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kept fouling with Sunny-
side in the bonus to force
free throws, and Sunnyside
kept obliging the come-
back attempt by missing.
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to give Hermiston a shot,
but the Bulldogs turned it
over twice, letting the win
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ly disappointing after a
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In this photo, Weston-McEwen’s Matison Aby’s defense is
considered legal under the new National Federation of High
School Associaton’s hand-check rule because her hands
are up and she is using her entire body to shield StanÀeld’s
Cynthia Curiel, not her hands.
NFHS hand-check
rule adopted in Oregon
“The following acts constitute a foul when committed against a ball
handler/dribbler:
a. Placing two hands on the player.
b. Placing an extended arm bar on the player.
c. Placing and keeping a hand on the player.
d. Contacting the player more than once with the same hand or
alternating hands.
Rationale: Rather than continuing to make hand-checking a point of
emphasis year after year, simply add a brand new rule that requires a
personal foul be called any time this type of contact occurs on a player
holding or dribbling the ball outside of the lane area. The NFHS game
needs this type of illegal contact on the perimeter ball handlers and
dribblers eliminated.”
other than that, they are another
team in the Pac-12. Indeed, they are
a rival, and, indeed, their success
hurts, but there’s more to life than
hating a school and its football team.
At a certain level, we are all the
same: football fans from an under-
appreciated league and region.
We should support each other
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course, on those given Saturdays. Then,
it’s on.
—Sam Barbee is the sports reporter
for the Hermiston Herald and can be
reached at (541) 564-4542 or sbarbee@
hermistonherald.com
SAM BARBEE PHOTO
Each table at Nookies Restaurant and Brewery in Hermis-
ton had Oregon Ducks and Rose Bowl logos on them.
CHEERING:
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their school, openly cheered
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egon was represented — not
Around Hermiston, the the University of Oregon.
support for the University
And that, to many peo-
of Oregon was everywhere ple, was what mattered.
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similar phrases were com- over, it’s all Oregon,” Hap-
mon on business reader S\ 9DOOH\ 2UHJRQ UHVLGHQW
boards in town. Hermiston Lynden Jones said from his
wasn’t the only small town table at Nookies. “It’s Pac-
in the United States rallying 12 all the way.”
around their college team of
Oregon State fan and
Corvallis resident Brad
choice.
Oregon, Ohio, a town Bennett said he was an hon-
about the size of Hermiston orary Duck fan for the night.
“They’re not playing
in northwest Ohio, changed
its name for a day. Two each other,” he said of OSU
men, who admitted not to and the Ducks. “So, when
be Ohio State fans but who they don’t play, I’m all
wanted to create a bit of green and yellow. Not many
Ohio pride, successfully pe- orange sweatshirts will say
titioned to change the name that.”
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of the town for a day, and,
Monday, the town went by ver, Washington, resident,
“Buckeyes by the bay, City said he wasn’t even an Or-
egon fan but was happy to
of Duckhunters.
In the Northwest, Herm- see the Ducks in the cham-
iston might have been quiet, pionship game.
When it came to the im-
but local bars were writhing
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with energy.
Nookies Restaurant and has on the State of Oregon,
Brewery in Hermiston was many patrons were in agree-
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Baron said just appear-
and yellow ribbons hung
from the basketball hoop ing in the national cham-
over the front door. Each pionship game will help
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with the University of Or- and give the college more
egon’s logo and the Rose H[SRVXUH
“It’s pretty huge,”
Bowl logo. Staff wore Ore-
gon gear, and the game was Hermiston resident Roger
on each and every television Bounds agreed. “We are
in the building. The place in a very small state. It’ll
was absolutely packed un- be good for the University
til halftime, when the game of Oregon system because
appeared to be getting away it’ll attract more and better
students. Just the success
from the Ducks.
The crowd was com- of the football program has
prised mostly Oregon fans, affected enrollment.”
Bounds’
statement
with a few Oregon State
fans and a lone Ohio State about enrollment increas-
IDQWKURZQLQ:LWKH[FHS- es are accurate. Since the
tion of the Buckeyes fan, IDOO RI WKH IDOO HQ-
most of the spectators’ al- rollment at the University
legiance was to the state of of Oregon has increased
Oregon as a whole. Oregon by more than 3,000 stu-
State fans, even while wear- dents.