Olympic snowboarders love to train at Mt. Hood, so why doesn’t Oregon produce more Olympians of its own? – By Rachel Bachman, The Oregonian
MV over Bend boys
Bears fall to Cougs
Friday’s 67-51 win keeps Mountain View on top of the Intermountain Conference – By Beau Eastes/The Bulletin
IMC boys basketball midway point
Mountain View (6-1) – A home loss to TDW is the only blemish on a 16-1 record for the Cougars. Don’t be shocked if that’s their only loss going into the state tournament.
Pendleton (5-2) - Losses @ home against MV and @ Madras serve as bookends on a 5-game winning IMC streak.
Summit (5-2) - Riding a three-game winning streak, which includes the buzzer-beating overtime win against Bend.
The Dalles-Wahtonka (5-2) – Losses @ Summit and @ Hermiston. TDW does have the big win over MV, which could be a tie-breaking factor.
Bend (3-4) – 2 overtime losses to Pendleton and Summit and a 1 point loss to TDW. The Lava Bears could be 6-1 right now. Look for Bend to win some of those close ones in the second half of the season.
Madras (2-5) – The White Buffaloes are dangerous, their win @ Pendleton makes that clear. In their two wins they’ve held their opponents to 55 and 50. In their five losses they’ve given up: 61, 72, 78, 67 and 74.
Hermiston (2-5) – The streaky Bulldogs have won 4 in a row early in the year and followed that with a 5-game losing skid. If Friday’s win over TDW is going to start another win streak, the next one has to come @ MV!
Crook County (0-7) – The bad news for the winless Cowboys is that 6 of their final 7 games are on the road.
Terrence Jones
PORTLAND – I got the chance to see Oregon’s best high school basketball player tonight and he didn’t disappoint. Jefferson high school’s Terrence Jones put it all on display Friday night: dunks, threes, no-look assists, blocked shots and his Nike Pro underwear! The 6-foot-9 Jones wasn’t bashful about changing his shorts on the court when he got some blood on his uniform.
It was a packed house @ Jefferson High School as Jefferson played host to Grant on Friday night and Jones took all of 10 seconds to throw down his first dunk of the game. It was the first of several dunks for Jones, who you get the feeling could probably throw down about 20 dunks a game if he decided that was all he was going to do. Watching Jones warmup he looked like an NBA player on a high school team. Don’t get me wrong, Jones isn’t the only big, talented player on the Democrats roster. Stephen Madison, a 6-6 senior wing and Noah Kone-Nelson, a 6-7 senior post are studs! But Jones literally looks like an NBA player. If he walked in the room, you’d guess he was already in the league.
Oregon has had some elite prepsters in recent years like Kevin Love (now of the Minnesota Timberwolves) and Kyle Singler (a Duke Blue Devil) but Jones has the most NBA ready body I’ve ever seen on an Oregon high schooler. The big left-hander is currently ranked as the the No. 13 recruit in the entire nation.
Jones hasn’t decided on a college yet and according to Kentucky, its because he’d like to share the attention with his teammates and keep coaches watching.
The Class 6A Grant Generals are a scrappy, athletic team, who were clearly undersized against the No. 1 5A team in the state. Grant never gave up and kept it competitive the whole night, led by fantastic guard play by Anthony Penney and Kenneth Acker. The Generals managed to stay aggressive despite having numerous shots blocked. Jones blocked layup attempts, jumpers and three-point shots time and time again.
Jefferson won the game 84-61 to 13-3 on the season.
If you get a chance, watch him play this season. It’s always fun to look back and say, “I saw him when…”
On a side note: Jones was just named ESPN Rise Player of the Week!
Blazer links
Lunchtime Blazers links: A trade insult – By Sean Meagher, OregonLive.com
The “Huck huck” and other famous sports moments
OK, I’m calling Justin Huckin’s (AKA Huck) last second buzzer beater “The Huck huck!” Pretty catchy eh!? So you’ve got your famous moments in sports like “The Catch.” Right now I can only think of two all-time moments for Central Oregon sports.
• The Huck huck
• The Frank Bank – when Ed Frank hit a bank shot at the buzzer to life Bend High over Mountain View in the mid 90s.
Anyone got any other moments?
C.O. football coaches and their school ties
Jerry Hackenbruck is making his second stint as Summit head football coach.
Here is a look @ some Central Oregon football coaches and where they have been head coaches:
Steve Turner – Crook County/Mountain View
Clyde Powell – Mountain View/Madras
Jerry Hackenbruck – Redmond/Mountain View/Summit/Summit
Summit top 5A school this fall, Bend 4th
Summit is ranked No. 1 amongst all Class 5A schools after and amazing fall. Bend high is fourth.
5A BOYS & GIRLS
Summit 47
Ashland 41
Sherwood 37
Bend 35
Crater 33