Peninsula Daily News for Sunday, December 19, 2010
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Zags break through with upset of unbeaten Baylor The Associated Press
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Washington quarterback Jake Locker has had a couple of weeks to heal a broken rib that kept him out of one game this season.
Locker looking better for bowl
DALLAS — Remember those giant killers from Gonzaga? They finally have Also . . . another big victory ■ Dawgs after several missed cruise past chances already this USF for season. 80-52 The Bulldogs, victory/B4 who earned a reputation for themselves with big upsets, got a go-ahead 3-pointer from Kelly Olynyk with 1:46 remaining Saturday and handed ninth-ranked Baylor its first
loss of the season, 68-64 in a game played only about 100 miles from the Bears’ campus. “When I saw that I was like ’Woohoo!’ That was a great feeling. It took the weight off our shoulders and you knew the game was ours,” said Robert Sacre, who led Gonzaga with 17 points. “We’ve been here so many times, we just haven’t been able to pull it out. We knew what we needed to do was keep grinding and keep sawing wood to get the win.” Turn
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Baylor’s Anthony Jones (41) walks toward the team bench as Gonzaga’s Robert Sacre (00) and Kelly Olynyk (13) celebrate their 68-64 upset of Baylor on Saturday in Dallas.
Milloy ready for ex-team The Associated Press
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SEATTLE — The Huskies are back. And so is Jake Locker — back to full health. “Feeling great. Feeling awesome,” Washington’s senior quarterback said of his previously broken rib, after Next game he smoothly led the offense Dec. 30 through practice vs. Nebraska Thursday night. at Holiday Bowl It was the Time: 7 p.m. team’s first work On TV: ESPN on the field for Dec. 30’s Holiday Bowl since a three-day break for final exams. And it was the most extensive work for Locker and his fellow starters since the Apple Cup victory at Washington State on Dec. 4. “I feel normal,” Locker said. “Yeah, like I always had before.” That would be before his rib was broken Oct. 30 against Stanford. Doctors have estimated broken ribs generally take at least six weeks to heal. And though Also . . . Locker started three ■ EWU of the four games for advances to the Huskies (6-6) title game since the fracture, after topping the injury now hapNova/B4 pened six week ago. And he still has two more weeks before the Huskies’ rematch with Nebraska (10-3). “He looks as quick and as explosive as I have seen him look in quite some time,” Washington coach Steve Sarkisian said. “His suddenness in the pocket and out of the pocket, his ability to play on the move, is as good as we’ve seen in months.” Locker’s apparent return to full health wasn’t the only pre-Holiday Bowl cheer for the Huskies on Thursday.
Healing Dawgs Starting defensive end Talia Crichton was back practicing two months to the day since he last played, before arthroscopic knee surgery. Left tackle Senio Kelemete was also back, seemingly fully recovered from the sprained ankle he got at Cal on Nov. 27. That freak injury came when center Drew Schaefer tripped over Kelemete’s ankle and sprained it in while rushing to join the celebration of Chris Polk’s winning touchdown run on the final play. Kelemete played in the Apple Cup the following week despite hardly practicing, then helped open the holes through which Polk ran for 284 yards — the second-best rushing day in UW history and best in 60 years. So having him ready for the rematch of September’s blowout loss to the Cornhuskers is a good thing for the Huskies. “I thought we looked fresh, looked like we had fresh legs running around. And that was the most important thing,” Sarkisian said. The helmets-and-shorts practice resembled a normal Monday during the regular season. Sarkisian planned to begin the “meat and potatoes” of game-plan preparation for Nebraska on Friday. The Huskies also practiced Saturday and will meet again Sunday and Monday before taking Tuesday and Wednesday off. They fly to San Diego on Dec. 23. Turn
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Port Angeles’ Ian Ward leaps up for the shot in front of the Klahowya defense in the second quarter of Friday night’s Olympic League game at Port Angeles High School.
Riders run wild PA boys put up 84 in dominant home win Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles boys basketball team had it all going Friday night. Putting up perhaps the most complete performance of the Wes Armstrong era thus far, the Roughriders dropped visiting Klahowya 84-49 for their fifth straight victory.
Port Angeles dished out 21 assists on the night and shot 26 of 33 from the free throw line on the way to their highest point total in more than five years. Twelve of 13 Riders in uniform scored — led by Colin Wheeler’s game-high 18 — as they topped 80 points for the first time since January 2007.
Prep Basketball “Guys are now starting to believe, and they understand the guys behind them are just as good as them,” said Armstrong, now in his second year as Rider head coach. “So they are always fighting for playing time. “The difference in the game [Friday night] was our bench. Our depth wore them down. “Those guys came in and we didn’t even skip a beat.” Turn
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Wolves win Cardinal Classic Hinton wins 171-pound division to lead Sequim to wrestling tournament crown Peninsula Daily News
TACOMA — The Sequim wrestling team edged out Steilacoom to claim the Cardinal Classic at Franklin Pierce High School on Saturday.
A total of 12 Sequim wrestlers placed at the nine-team event, with the Wolves amassing 177 points to finish just ahead of the Sentinels (175). “It was a great team effort,” Sequim coach Len
Prep Wrestling Borchers said. “Everyone contributed and placed.” Dakota Hinton was the lone champion for Sequim, with five other Wolves wrestlers reaching the finals in their division. Turn
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RENTON — Lawyer Milloy isn’t bitter about his time in Atlanta coming to an end. The Falcons had a new coach, a rookie quarterback and were looking to get Next Game younger, and Milloy was 35 Today and coming vs. Falcons off a subpar at Qwest Field year with an Time: 1:05 p.m. expiring con- On TV: Ch. 13 tract. Yet the four-time Pro Bowler gave everything he had in 2008, even playing with a broken back in the playoffs. “Transverse fracture I found out afterward,” Milloy said of the injury. “Before the season I knew they wanted to try to get younger. Period, point blank, I gave that city my all. “There’s nothing that nobody can say about that.” M i l l o y helped turn around a team that finished 4-12 in 2007, Milloy while dealing with Michael Vick’s dogfighting allegations and Bobby Petrino’s resignation as head coach. The FalAlso . . . cons went a ■ Editor surprising Brad LaBrie 11-5 the folranks NFL’s lowing year best and and made the worst/B4 playoffs, and Milloy was a part of it. “He was one of those mentors in our first year and really was a big contributor in terms of spreading the message,” Falcons coach Mike Smith said. “I believe that you’ve got to have players that can be the messengers for your coaching staff. “You can’t always be hearing it from the coaches. He did a great job with that.” Milloy’s contract was up and the Falcons didn’t bring him back, and the safety was left without a job until the first week of the 2009 season, when he was signed by the hometown Seahawks. He played in a reserve role for most of last season, and when Pete Carroll — Milloy’s former coach in New England — signed on to lead the Seahawks, a re-energized Milloy signed on for another season and earned a starting job. “He has a tremendous mindset and mentality about competing and battling and fighting and work ethic and all of the things that go along,” Carroll said of the former Lincoln High School (Tacoma) and UW standout. “He needs everything — he’s such a rare guy — he needs all of those things to come together to play this long. “He wants to practice. He wants to play. He doesn’t want to come out,” Carroll added. “He contributed on special teams when we called on him to. He’s an amazing, amazing guy.” Turn
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