SPORTS FRIDAY APRIL 24, 2015 FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS 1B Sports shorts HERMISTON Cavs beat Celtics, take 3-0 series lead Wadekamper stepping BOSTON (AP) — LeB- ron James scored 31 points and the Cleveland Cavaliers moved one win away from aside as volleyball coach DVZHHSLQWKHLU¿UVWSOD\RII VHULHVLQ¿YH By SAM BARBEE She cited a heavy workload that starts in years with a EO Media Group January of each year and ends in Novem- 103-95 vic- ber with the volleyball season, and she also tory over When Becky Wadekamper was a hoop- cited a desire to watch her daughter, Bree- the Boston ster at Northwest Nazarene University, na, actually play volleyball, something she Celtics on she was asked to move positions. It was a hasn’t had many opportunities to do. Thursday night. small decision, but one that was hard for “When I initially took the job as head The scrappy Celtics kept the senior shooting guard. She was asked FRDFK , HQYLVLRQHG , ZRXOG ¿QLVK P\ it close, just as they did in to move to point guard, a position she had daughter’s career out and would be done, the previous two games, never played, which put her decidedly out both of us,” Wadekamper said Thursday as and trailed 95-92 after Evan of her comfort zone. She agreed, though she and her husband, Scott, drove to Boi- Turner hit a 3-pointer with with some resistance, because it was best se, Idaho, to watch Breena and son Tyler 2:45 left. But Kevin Love hit for the team. play in a tennis tournament. “It just kind two 3-pointers for a 101-93 <HDUV ODWHU :DGHNDPSHU ¿QGV KHUVHOI of wears on you over the years. In junior lead with 26 seconds to go. in a situation similar to that she faced in high, I was probably able to watch two of Cleveland can complete college. She must choose one thing or an- her matches, and even though she was in the sweep of the best-of- other: comfort or discomfort. Her team is our program last year, I still had respon- EO Media fi le photo VHYHQ¿UVWURXQGVHULHV her family, and she chose discomfort. sibilities at the gym, so I just wasn’t able After four years, Becky Wadekamper (facing) an- Sunday in Boston. No NBA Wadekamper is retiring after four years nounced earlier this week that she is retiring as head team has won a series after as the Hermiston head volleyball coach. See WADEKAMPER/2B vollyeball coach at Hermiston High School. trailing 3-0. Turner had 19 points and Avery Bradley added 18 while Isaiah Thomas PDQDJHGMXVW¿YHSRLQWV PENDLETON DIWHUVFRULQJLQWKH¿UVW two games. Getting with the program Rose allowed to participate in All- Star Game Pendleton lineman NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Man- won’t be deterred fred says Pete Rose will play some role during this summer’s All-Star Game in from realizing dream Cincinnati. FACES Speaking By MATT ENTRUP Thursday with East Oregonian the Associated Press Sports For most of his life, P.J. Schubert thought coaches Editors, Man- were just out to get him. fred said he has Naturally blessed with a rare blend of size and ath- not determined leticism, Schubert had no problem dominating oppo- a timetable nents in sports like football and wrestling. But no mat- Rose to decide on ter how much better he was than his peers, he couldn’t Rose’s appli- seem to get out of his coaches’ crosshairs. cation to end his lifetime “I had a big problem where I always felt like I was ban from baseball. The ban getting picked on by the coaches, like the standard was started in 1989 following an being held higher for me than the other kids,” said the investigation Rose bet on the 2014 Pendleton High grad. Reds to win while he was Turns out he wasn’t imagining it. managing the team. “We saw how much he could be so we wanted more Manfred plans to speak out of him,” said Fred Phillips, who was Schubert’s with Cincinnati Reds owner head wrestling coach and defensive coordinator at Bob Castellini on what role Pendleton. the club would like to have “But I was just a typical stubborn teenager, if you for Rose at the July 14 game. told me to do one thing of course I want to do the op- Manfred says “you can rest posite,” Schubert said. assured he will be allowed to Schubert did have a vision, though, and the means participate.” to achieve it if he would fully commit. MLB allowed Rose to “I always wanted to play football at Oregon State, take part in the All-Centu- that was always my dream,” he said. ry team announcement at This spring Schubert realized that dream by taking Atlanta’s Turner Field during KLV¿UVWSUDFWLFHVQDSVDVDSUHIHUUHGZDONRQDWRIIHQ the 1999 World Series and sive guard. a Reds’ ceremony in 2013 ³7KH¿UVWGD\RISUDFWLFHLW¶VMXVWOLNHµ7KHVHDUH honoring their 1975 and ‘76 the guys I’ve looked up to my whole life and now I’m championship teams. here,’” he said. But Schubert’s Beaver tale didn’t really start there, and took several twists before delivering him to the SUDFWLFH¿HOGLQ&RUYDOOLV “I usually tell jokes 'HVSLWHPDNLQJDOOOHDJXH¿UVWWHDPDVERWKDQRI at these events, fensive and defensive lineman his junior year at Pend- leton, Schubert was still a soft 6-foot-3, 290 pounds but with the and hadn’t reached the radar of any major college pro- grams. Patriots in town, That’s when he started looking at his coaches a little I was worried 11 differently. “After awhile I started to catch on,” he said. “These of 12 would fall Karl Maasdam photo courtesy of OSU Athletics guys have lived a little longer than I have, maybe they fl at.” P.J. Schubert, of Pendleton, takes a breather during the Oregon State spring football know something I don’t.” game on Saturday, April 18 in Corvallis. Schubert is a preferred walk-on at offensive The change in attitude was noticeable, but Schubert — Barack Obama line for the Beavers and wears No. 69 to honor former coach and Beavers lineman See SCHUBERT/2B President of the United Josh Linehan. States makes light of the NFL’s “Defl ategate” scandal which centered around the New En- gland franchise. The HERMISTON Patriots were in Wash- ington D.C. as part of the annual White House Carson Morter selected for Les Schwab Bowl visit made by the Super and 5A into two 40-man rosters. Bowl winning team. Hermiston star’s Morter, who will play on the South Obama also called the team, will be the only Hermiston Patriots “as good an prep football player participating in the game. organization as there is 0RUWHUZDVD¿UVWWHDPDOOVWDWH in professional sports.” career not yet done selection at wide receiver and cor- East Oregonian nerback, but is tabbed to play wide receiver this summer. THIS DATE IN SPORTS Morter caught 56 passes for 1963 — Bob Cousy ends The last pass Carson Morter 1075 yards and 15 touchdowns his 13-year career by scoring caught at Hillsboro Stadium went during his senior year. His produc- 18 points as the Boston Celt- \DUGV DQG FRXQWHG DV WKH ¿QDO tivity did anything but shrink in the LFVZLQWKHLU¿IWKFRQVHFXWLYH touchdown towards Hermiston’s %XOOGRJVVHPL¿QDODQGVWDWHFKDP NBA championship, beating 34-12 Class 5A state championship pionship victories. He led the team the Los Angeles Lakers 112- victory over Silverton. LQ UHFHLYLQJ LQ ERWK JDPHV ¿QLVK 109 in Game 6. That grab came way back on ing with 155 yards and a score ver- 1993 — George Branham Nov. 29 and seemingly capped sus Marist and 89 yards and another ,,, EHFRPHV WKH ¿UVW EODFN off the greatest individual receiv- score against the Foxes. bowler to win a PBA Triple ing season in Bulldog history. But, He was a three-position repre- Morter, a 5-foot-9 senior who at- EO fi le photo sentative on the all-Columbia Riv- Crown event when he beats Hermiston’s Carson Morter dives to make a catch in front of Marist’s Parker Bohn III 227-214 in tends Hermiston Christian School, Trevor Konrady in the Bulldogs’ 30-13 semifi nal win against the er Conference team. He also made the Tournament of Champi- will have one last chance to torch Spartans on November 22 in Hillsboro. eight interceptions, returning one ons. defenses at Hillsboro Stadium on for a touchdown. 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