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HILLSBORO — The Class 5A volleyball state championship will be an all-Intermountain Conference — and all-Bend — affair when top-seeded Summit and No. 3 Bend High face each other Saturday night at Liberty High School.For the first time since 2009, when Crook County defeated Summit in the 5A championship, the state final will feature two IMC teams.On Friday, Summit beat No. 8 Hood River Valley in… → Read More
The Oregon Ducks received a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament’s Midwest Region and will face Iona in a first-round game.The Ducks (29-5), who tied for the Pac-12 regular-season title and lost to Arizona on Saturday in the Pac-12 Tournament championship game, will open in Sacramento, California. The Oregon-Iona winner will face either No. 11 Rhode Island (24-9) or No. 6 Creighton (25-9) in the… → Read More
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Summit controlled the first half, then kept Ridgeview at bay the rest of the way Tuesday night en route to a 62-48 Intermountain Conference boys basketball win. The host Storm (2-0 IMC, 8-2 overall) got 18 points from Nick Mason and 12 from Jack Hurley to lead nine scorers for the winners. Garret Albrecht scored a game-high 22 for the Ravens (1-1, 8-4), including four 3-pointers for the… → Read More
CORVALLIS — Oregon State men’s basketball coach Wayne Tinkle said a 13-day stretch without a game during winter break paid off thanks to hard work during practice. Tres Tinkle, the coach’s son, scored 19 points to lead Oregon State to a 70-57 victory over Oregon in a Pac-12 opener Sunday night. Olaf Schaftenaar had 13 points and a career-high eight rebounds, and Gary Payton II added 12 points… → Read More
LOS ANGELES — Ruth Hamblin helped No. 10 Oregon State hide the fact it was short-handed. Hamblin had 16 points and 14 rebounds as the Beavers held off Southern California 57-49 on Saturday night, with starting point guard Sydney Weise out for the third straight game with an injury. Jamie Weisner added 14 points for Oregon State (10-2 overall, 1-0 Pac-12). The Beavers used a smothering defense to… → Read More
PORTLAND — While Damian Lillard rehabs a left foot injury, C.J. McCollum and Allen Crabbe are providing a lift for the Portland Trail Blazers. McCollum scored 29 points, Crabbe had 20 and Portland beat the Denver Nuggets 110-103 on Wednesday night for their third consecutive victory. “It’s cliche, but everybody has kind of picked up their game a little bit,” Portland coach Terry Stotts said. At… → Read More
BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. — Johnny Utah will do almost anything to catch a criminal. Aficionados of the campy 1990s surfboard cult classic “Point Break” already know that. But the ends to which America’s most extreme FBI agent takes his daredeviling nearly 25 years after Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze partnered in the original is what makes this generation’s version of “Point Break” something more… → Read More
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Orlando Magic got 25 points apiece from Tobias Harris and Nik Vucevic and late offensive help from Elfrid Payton and Victor Oladipo in a 102-94 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Friday night. It was the third straight win for the Magic, who have won nine of 12. Harris and Vucevic carried a stagnant Magic offense for the first three quarters before finally getting… → Read More
LAS VEGAS — And to think, five months ago Steven Peebles was in a Montana hospital wondering when, if ever, he would be able to resume his career as a pro rodeo cowboy. If his return to bareback riding just weeks after a life-threatening injury in July was a minor miracle, what happened Saturday night was nearly as incredible: The 26-year-old from Redmond won the world bareback championship —… → Read More
LAS VEGAS — Steven Peebles has needed just 24 seconds — three outstanding eight-second rides — to climb 12 spots in the world bareback rankings. The Redmond cowboy won again Saturday night, giving him first-place money in two consecutive rounds at the National Finals Rodeo. His score of 86.5 points on Cool Water was best of the third round and earned him another $26,231. Ranked No. 14 in the… → Read More
LAS VEGAS — Things could hardly have gone better for Central Oregon bareback riders Friday night. Redmond’s Steven Peebles led a 1-3-4 finish for contestants from Oregon’s High Desert in the second round of the National Finals Rodeo. Terrebonne’s Austin Foss took third place, and Culver’s Bobby Mote was fourth, giving Central Oregon half of the money winners (top six) for the round. Peebles won… → Read More
FRISCO, Texas — Defender Nat Borchers stepped up for the Portland Timbers with an MLS Cup spot in the line. The Timbers had seen a three-goal lead in their Western Conference finals dwindle to a lone goal, and FC Dallas’ Blas Perez had a shot to tie the series in stoppage time— until Borchers got in the way with a diving tackle to clear the ball. “It was just a reaction for sure,” Borchers said. → Read More
EUGENE — This Civil War was not the game everyone expected. Oregon State came into the contest riding an eight-game losing streak and were 35-point underdogs to rival Oregon. But Friday at Autzen Stadium, the Beavers did not play that way. Oregon State lost the 119th meeting between the two schools, 52-42, but after a first half that went the way of the past three weeks and ended with the… → Read More