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Sports shorts ECHO Snow forces NBA to postpone Nets- Dufur rallies to keep Blazers game NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA has streak against Echo alive postponed home games Girls Hoops for both the Cougars without New York Knicks and win over Rangers Brooklyn Dufur Echo Nets because of a snowstorm for last 15 years expected to batter the area. 53 46 The Knicks were to By SAM BARBEE EO Media Group have hosted the Sacramento two decades, but could only manage 19 Kings on Monday night at SRLQWVLQWKH¿QDOKDOIFRPLQJXSVKRUW the same time the Nets were Before Monday’s girls tilt between Echo and Dufur, Cougar head 46 Monday night in Echo. scheduled to face the Port- “It seems like we were playing against land Trail Blazers. coach JD Brazil wrote the scores of the last 15 meeting on the whiteboard in the Echo the name on the shirt just as much as what Sam Barbee photo Sacramento will instead (Dufur head coach Hollie) Darden is do- return to Madison Square locker room. They were all losses. Elizabeth McCarty (23) of Echo drives past Dufur’s Syn- ing,” Brazil said after the game. “For us, dey Reed during the second half of the Rangers’ 53-46 Garden on Tuesday, March Through a half, Echo was in position to win over the Cougars on Monday night in Echo. McCa- 3, adding an extra game to HHNRXWLWV¿UVWZLQRYHU'XIXULQQHDUO\ See ECHO/2B rty fi nished with 22 points. what was to have been a seven-game trip. The Trail Blazers-Nets game was rescheduled for Monday, April 6. Prep Wrestling

Bryant to have surgery, likely out for season EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — Kobe Bryant will have surgery Wednesday on his torn right rotator cuff, likely ending his 19th season with the . The team FACES announced Bryant’s sur- gery Monday. He injured his shoulder last week in New Orleans. Bryant The Lakers say they’ll an- nounce a timetable for Bry- ant’s recovery after surgery, but coach Byron Scott says Kobe “is probably not going to play” again this season. Bryant’s torn rotator cuff is likely his third straight season-ending injury. He Photo by Warner Strausbaugh for the East Oregonian missed the 2013 playoffs Hermiston’s Sam Colbray (in white) tries to free himself from Crook County’s Gunnar Robirts on Saturday in the championship 195-pound with a torn Achilles tendon, championship at the Reser’s Tournament of Champions at Liberty High School. Robirts won 10-5 in an upset. and he played just six games last season before breaking a bone near his left knee. 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Williams said Crook County stud- Williams did not think the sick- “I’m just trying to for The East Oregonian Saturday’s crowd at Liberty ied Colbray’s previous loss in Far- ness affected the result. High School was in an uproar at that go, N.D., at nationals. “We can all make up excuses, get my 2K rating HILLSBORO — During intro- point, especially those in the Crook “They basically followed that but at the end of the day, the other GXFWLRQVIRU6DWXUGD\¶V¿QDOVRIWKH &RXQW\ VHFWLRQ7KH SRXQG ¿ same strategy,” Williams said. kid was the better kid on the day,” up.” Reser’s Tournament of Champions, nal was, by far, the loudest and most Colbray said it was a combina- Williams said. “Anytime you step Sam Colbray walked to stage excited the crowd was all weekend. tion of matchup management and on the mat, you’re ready to go to DFRQ¿GHQW\RXQJPDQ Colbray’s legendary status in sickness that got the best of him. battle. There are no excuses.” — Hassan Whiteside The junior 195-pounder mo- the wrestling world was enough to +HKDVEHHQGHDOLQJZLWKDÀX Colbray tested negative for strep seyed onto the mat. Everyone else pique their interest; the chance to like illness for a week, and said his throat during the week, but has been center sprinted. see him lose was unheard of. leg was in pain during the match. on antibiotics and has lost weight. told ESPN on motivat- “Two-time state champion, six- $IWHU WKH LQLWLDO IRXUSRLQW GH¿ “I know that I’m the best out ed him in Sunday’s time All-American, national cham- cit, Colbray got sloppy, later admit- there on the mat when I’m not See RESER’S/2B record-breaking per- formance in Miami’s win over the . The reference to the popular NBA 2K15 STANFIELD basketball video game followed his Heat fran- chise-record breaking /DQGHURV,UULJRQVDLOSDVW6WDQ¿HOG Beaver stars 12 shot blocks that Boys Hoops accomponied his fi rst Guard battles sweep Pac-12 career triple-double. The through back video game took notice, weekly honors upping his overall rating spasms to lift #2 Irrigon #3 Stanfi eld from 59 to 77 following 68 55 Associated Press the performance. Knights to win these guys, but Anthony es- CORVALLIS — Oregon State THIS DATE IN SPORTS By ERIK SKOPIL Beaver basketball received a rare coup East Oregonian pecially. He’s battling back 1973 — UCLA, led by Bill spasms right now.” on Monday. Men’s basketball player Walton, sets an NCAA record II and women’s basket- STANFIELD — Antho- Even with the nagging for consecutive victories with injury, Landeros’ “all” ball player Jamie Weisner were each its 61st win, an 82-63 victo- ny Landeros left it all on selected as Pac-12’s top players of the WKH ÀRRU GXULQJ 6DWXUGD\¶V proved enough to lead the ry over Notre Dame. UCLA second-ranked Knights past week, the league announced. breaks the record of 60 set by Columbia Basin Conference Payton averaged 19.5 points, 8.5 San Francisco in 1956. Walton slugfest between Irrigon and the third-ranked Tigers 68- 55 Saturday night at Stan- rebounds and 3.5 steals to lead the ¿QLVKHVZLWKSRLQWVUH 6WDQ¿HOG Beavers to a home sweep of the L.A. bounds and 10 blocks. In the end, that included ¿HOG+LJK6FKRRO An individual 9-0 run schools. He had 18 points, seven re- 1991 — The New York Gi- himself. ERXQGV VL[ DVVLVWV DQG ¿YH VWHDOV ants survive the closest Super The Knights senior guard galvanized the Knights (16- Bowl when Scott Norwood’s 1, 5-0 CBC) in the second against UCLA and followed that with lay on his back in agony fol- a double-double against USC with 21 \DUG ¿HOG JRDO DWWHPSW ORZLQJ WKH FRQWHVW¶V ¿QDO half after the Tigers (13-3, with 8 seconds left in the 4-1 CBC) cut the 10-point points and 10 rebounds. He also had a whistle, requiring a helping game-clinching and in game goes wide. The Giants hand to his feet and a few halftime edge to just three win their second Super Bowl with 5:15 remaining in the WKH¿QDOVHFRQGVDJDLQVWWKH7URMDQV LQ ¿YH \HDUV  RYHU WKH teammate’s shoulders to ³,W¶V WKH ¿UVW RQH LQ P\ FDUHHU , lean on on his way to the third period. Despite the Buffalo Bills. inability to sit comfortably don’t try to get it every week, just try 2003 — Hermann Maier visiting locker room. to help the team,” Payton said at prac- “He’s so competitive. in a defensive stance, Land- wins a World Cup super giant eros swiped Tiger ballhan- Sam Barbee photo tice Monday. “Do what I can for the slalom in Kitzbuehel, Austria, There’s no way that An- Irrigon’s Anthony Landero (11) tries team. It’s nice but we’ve got to stay thony Landeros is going to dlers on successive posses- 18 months after he almost sion leading to uncontested to make a tough layup as Stanfi eld’s focused on the battle.” loses his leg in a motorcycle leave this gym without giv- Hunter Braithwaite (21) and Tony His father, the legendary Gary Pay- crash. ing it his all,” Irrigon coach layins during the surge. The Knights outscored Flores defend during the second ton, was named the conference player Contact us at 541-966-0838 or Mitch Thompson said. half of Irrigon’s 65-55 win over third- [email protected] “That’s the same with all of See IRRIGON/2B ranked Stanfi eld on Saturday. See BEAVERS/2B