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SPORTS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2015 FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS 1B Sports shorts College Basketball High school rodeo in the chutes 'XFNVULVHDERYH%XIIV EUGENE — The The Ducks were out- Oregon High School Rodeo Oregon moves into sole rebounded 45-37 by the Association Buffaloes, 20-12 on the (OHSRA) possession of 3rd place offensive glass, but took Oregon begins Associated Press advantage of 16 turnovers 73 its spring to hold off Colorado. season with a Oregon led 49-32 in doubleheader EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Joseph Young the second half when rodeo in Eugene starting on scored 23 points and Oregon held off several Booker, who had 14 Friday and running through Colorado rallies in the second half for a 73-60 points after the break, fu- Colorado Sunday. victory on Wednesday night. eled an 8-0 run that start- 60 Thirty members of Dillon Brooks added 14 points for the ed the comeback for the the Intermountain team, Ducks (19-8, 9-5), who took over sole pos- Buffaloes. which comprises of session of third place in the Pac-12 Confer- Xavier Johnson’s 3-pointer with 4:10 to schools in Umatilla and ence with UCLA’s loss to Arizona State. play pulled Colorado as close as it would get Morrow Counties, will be Elgin Cook had 13 points and Dwayne Ben- at 63-58, but Brooks answered with his own in attendance as they look jamin added 11 points and 13 rebounds. DVWKH'XFNV¿QLVKHGWKHJDPHRQD to earn points toward the The Buffaloes (12-13, 5-8), who whittled run. VHDVRQ¿QDOV DSRLQWGH¿FLWGRZQWR¿YHODWHLQWKHVHF &RORUDGRWRRNFRQWUROHDUO\E\KLWWLQJ¿YH Five doubleheader rodeos AP Photo/Chris Pietsch ond half, were led by Askia Booker with 20 RILWV¿UVWQLQHVKRWVIRUDQOHDG,WTXLFN make up the spring season, Oregon’s Joseph Young goes for a shot during fi rst points. Wesley Gordon added 14 and Josh ly evaporated after seven straight points from and the Intermountain team half in Eugene Wednesday during Oregon’s 73-60 win. Scott 10 for Colorado. Young, who sparked a 24-4 run. will take its turn as host on April 24-26 at Farm-City Arena in Hermiston. 7KHVWDWH¿QDOVZLOO be held June 10-13 in Prineville, where contestants STANFIELD can earn berths at the National High School Finals Rodeo to be held July 12-18 in Rock Springs, Wyoming. 6WDQ¿HOGFODLPVGLVWULFWELG Watson’s free throw )RUPHU7UDLO Blazers dies at 52 ensure Tigers will PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) play Friday — Jerome Kersey, the small forward who played his By SAM BARBEE ¿UVW1%$VHDVRQVZLWK EO Media Group the Portland Trail Blazers and helped the San Antonio )RUWKH¿UVWWLPHLQVL[\HDUVWKH6WDQ¿HOG Spurs win the 1999 title, has girls basketball team won a postseason game. died. He was 52. The Tigers took a ten-point lead into half- The Trail time, but had to hold on for dear life as the FACES Blazers Culver Bulldogs late run made things inter- FRQ¿UPHG esting, before holding on for 26-22 squeaker Wednesday Tuesday at Armand Larive Middle School. night that 6WDQ¿HOGFOLQFKHVWKHIRXUVHHGKHDGHGLQWRWR Kersey had Friday’s district tournament. died, but 1RSOD\HUUHFRUGHGGRXEOH¿JXUHVFRULQJ didn’t provide Culver’s Hannah Lewis led all scorers with details. nine points, and Bailey Kersey A team GIRLS HOOPS Watson and Cynthia Cu- ambassador, ULHOOHG6WDQ¿HOGZLWK¿YH Kersey appeared Tuesday points apiece. with fellow former Blaz- “We’re all hyped,” ers Terry Porter and Brian Stanfi eld sophomore guard Wat- Grant at a Portland school son said, whose free in celebration of African 26 WKURZ JDYH 6WDQ¿HOG D American History Month. PXFKQHHGHG ¿YHSRLQW Kersey averaged 10.3 lead down the stretch, . points and 5.5 rebounds in “At the beginning of the 17 seasons in the NBA with Culver season, we didn’t expect Portland, Golden State, the this. It’s crazy. It hasn’t Los Angeles Lakers, Seattle, 22 happen for six years, since San Antonio and Milwau- 2009. We’re pretty excited. kee. He helped the Blazers This hasn’t happened for a reach the NBA Finals in long time.” 1990 and 1992. The win was a culmination of a series of hurdles, as head coach Daniel Sharp put it, for a team and a program that has been a doormat in the 2A Columbia Basin Conference — and “Instead of being before that the Blue Mountain Conference — IRU\HDUV7KDWWHDPZDVWKH¿YHVHHGLQ sad about it, I the district tournament, so the 2014-15 Tigers think about all the have already made headway. “We’ve talked about overcoming hurdles,” awesome times 6KDUS VDLG ³<RXZLQ WKDW ¿UVW JDPH RI WKH season, okay. (We) win the second game, we we had and good got two. Now we need a league game. We got things we did and that hurdle. Now we’re in the heat of a battle and make it to kinda districts and we play on stuff that I think Monday night. It was always little hurdles the he’d be proud of whole time. They haven’t dominated at all, but they’ve just overcome those little hurdles today.“ and all those little things help build a program and help kids get excited about basketball.” Sam Barbee photo — Dale Earnhardt Jr. The game itself was a tale of two halves. Stanfi eld’s lone senior Ashlee O’Neill (12) drives as Culver’s Jessica Johnson closely de- See TIGERS/2B fends during the second half of Stanfi eld’s 26-22 sqeaker over the Bulldogs on Wednesday NASCAR driver ac- night in Hermiston. knowlinging the 14th an- niversary of the passing of his racing-legend fa- ther, which was Wednes- day. Earnhardt Jr. is the Prep Boys Basketball defending champion at the Daytona 500, which kicks off the NASCAR Rockets lift off, soar past TigerScots season on Sunday. pair of earlier lopsid- BOYS HOOPS showing, Willing- The Rockets (7-13) didn’t launch Pilot Rock upsets ed defeats. ham lofted a jumper right away, and Weston-McEwen “We just had to from just inside the (10-14) pushed an early lead to nine Weston-McEwen believe that we were free-throw line that points in the second quarter before THIS DATE IN SPORTS the better team,” said Pilot Rock Weston-McEwen bounced around the WKH 5RFNHWV ¿QLVKHG WKH ODVW WKUHH 1928 — Canada wins to grab CBC berth Rockets senior Dillon circumference of the minutes of the half on a 6-2 run to the gold medal in hockey at Fritz, who along with 59 58 rim before dropping pull within 26-21 at intermission. the Winter Olympics in St. By MATT ENTRUP senior Justin Willing- with :15 left. Pilot Rock continued its mo- Moritz, Switzerland. Cana- East Oregonian ham paced the team In a hectic series mentum in the third quarter, and da, represented by the 1926 with 17 points apiece. “It was all of events, each team turned the ball went on a 16-2 run that featured Toronto University team HERMISTON — In two pre- about believing.” over in the next 11 seconds, leaving two three-pointers by Bryson Pierce UHFHLYHV D E\H WR WKH ¿QDO vious meetings this season, no “We were just pumped,” said the TigerScots inbounding the ball and another from Chris Weinke, and URXQG,QWKH¿QDOURXQGWKH fewer than 20 points separated the Willingham, who also was a big near their own baseline with :04 was capped by a three-point play Canadians beat Sweden 11- Weston-McEwen TigerScots and part of Pilot Rock’s 45-23 rebound- on the clock. The pass came in to from Fritz at the 4:12 mark. 0, Britain 14-0 and Switzer- Pilot Rock Rockets boys basketball ing advantage. “Our underclassmen Mikesell, who drove to the rim but Pilot Rock led 38-28 at that land 13-0. teams at game’s end. really wanted to win it for our se- FRXOGQ¶W¿QLVKZLWK:LOOLQJKDPDQG SRLQW EXW WKH 7LJHU6FRWV ¿QLVKHG 1984 — Phil and Steve In their Columbia Basin Confer- niors and we just played great as a the rest of the Rocket defense clos- the frame on a 9-2 run of their own Mahre of the United States ence district tournament game on team.” ing in. to make it a one-basket game head- EHFRPH WKH ¿UVW EURWKHUV Wednesday night, no more than 10 Weston-McEwen had beaten Pi- “Let’s face it, the Achilles heel ed into the fourth at 40-37. WR ¿QLVK LQ DQ 2O\PSLF points came between the two at any lot Rock 77-40 and 49-29 already for our team (this season) is when 7KH 5RFNHWV VWUXFN ¿UVW LQ WKH event, the men’s slalom, at point. this season, and with 44 seconds to another team goes on a run we fourth, but the TigerScots were able the Winter Games in Saraje- And when the dust settled on a play, Shyler Mikesell appeared to bowed down,” said Pilot Rock chip away and knot the score at 44- vo, Yugoslavia. wild back-and-forth fourth quarter, right the balance for the TigerScots coach Cory Anderson. “Tonight we all with 6:48 to play. Contact us at 541-966-0838 or it was the Rockets celebrating a 59- (10-14). His three-pointer put them answered their runs, and I couldn’t [email protected] 58 win that more than made up for a ahead 58-57, but with 18 seconds be more proud.” See ROCKETS/2B.