IN THE BACK BUSINESS Ee MARIKT NEWS W Scoreboard, C2 Pre p s, C3 Sports in brief, C2 N H L, C3 College basketball, C2 NBA, C4 MLB, C3 THE BULLETIN • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2014
PREP BASKETBALL
Local hoopsters named all-state Four Central Oregon players were recognized Tuesday whenthe Class 5A and 4Aall-state basketball teams were announced. Despite suffering a season-ending injury in the quarterfinals of the girls state tournament, Bend High senior guard Delaney Crookwas named to the 5Aallstate first team. Crook helped the LavaBears rack up16 straight wins to reach the final site for the fourth time in five seasons. Summit freshman SarahReeves received honorable mention as aguard. Mountain View senior wing Grant Lannin was named to the 5Aboys all-state second team after leading the Cougars to an Intermountain Conference championship. BendHighsenior wing Connor Scott was also a second-team wing player, whose Lava Bears advanced to the state tourney for the first time since 2011. Although Madras finished just fourth in its conference andmissed out on the postseason, the White Buffaloes' Jered Pichette, a junior guard, was namedto the 4A boys all-state first team. All-state teams were voted on by coaches throughout the state and compiled by TheOregonian newspaper. For complete all-state teams for Class 4Aand5A, see Scoreboard, C2.
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MEN'SCOLLEGE BASKETBALL:NCAA TOURNAMENT
FINAL FOUR
e enseruesin is ina our • Teams thatwere ableto adjust this seasonto changes that helped offensesare dancing all the wayto Texas By John Marshall
Four of teams held together by a common
thread: shutdown defenses. "In general, it's like most sports: Defense wins championships," said Bill Frieder, a longtime coach and TV/radio
hands-free rules. But as the seasonprogressed,thetop
The Associated Press
Way back at the start of the college basketball season, amid all the whistles
and fouls, the defensive-minded teams appeared to be in trouble, a seemingly dyingbreed hamstrung by the NCAA's new
analyst. eYou still need to score, but ba-
coaches and teams adjusted to the changes
and found ways around the impediments. Now, after all the increases in scoring and shooting percentages and offensive flow, the season has come down to a Final
sically when it gets right down to it, you have to make stops. The teams that can make a stop or two back to back are the teams that advance."
See Final Four/C4
At ATSTStadium Arlington, Texas NATIONALSEMIFINALS Saturday's Games UConn (30-8) vs. Florida (36-2), 3:09 p.m. Kentucky (28-10) vs. Wisconsin (30-7), 5:49 p.m. NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Monday's Game Semifinal winners, 6:10 p.m.
WINTER SPORTS
— Bulletin staff report
TRIATHLON
Bend athlete wins Los Cabos Bend's Linsey Corbin won the women's Ironman LosCaboson Saturday in LosCabos, Mexico, posting a time of 9 hours, 16 minutes, 43 seconds, her seventh podium finish at a full Ironman event. In second placeafter the bike, Corbin turned in a 3 hour, 12minute, 3 second marathon time on the run to secure the victory. Runner-up Lisa Ribe, also of the U.S, finished the 2.4-mile
swim, 112-mile bike ride, and 26.2-mile race in 9:20:40 andAustralian Carrie Lester placed third in 9:26:35.
Corbin, a1999 graduate of Mountain View High School who recently moved back to Bend, is scheduled to next compete in the Ironman 70.3 U.S. Championships in St. George, Utah, on May4.
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Joey Bruce, 27, of Bend, powers through a toe-side turn on his snowboard while riding deep powder on the cinder cone at Mt. Bachelor Tuesday afternoon.The skiarea has a snowpack of126 inches and is scheduled to stay open up to Memorial Day weekend.
• While some resorts are closing, Bachelor is planning to remainopenthrough May 25 By Mark Morical
it's looking pretty good at this
com. Hoodoo, which struggled to open earlier this season for lack of
inches.
By the looks of the snowy weather in Central Oregon on Tuesday, winter is hesitant to release its frigid grip on the region. Still, a couple of local ski areas are wrapping up their operations
snow but as of Tuesday reported
enjoying a healthy snowpack
a snowpack of 75 inches, will host its Ski-Bike Festival this Saturday and its Spring Fling celebration on April 12. Willamette Pass ski area,
of 126 inches, about 10/2 feet, and is scheduled to remain open
for the season.
southwest of Bend off state High-
Hoodoo Ski Area, northwest of Sisters, will be open this Saturday and Sunday, and again April 12-13, before closing for the season, according to hoodoo.
way 58, has already concluded its
The Bulletin
winter operations, according its website, willamettepass.com. The
snow level reported at Willamette Pass on Tuesday was only 24
But Mt. Bachelor ski area is
point."
Nearly 50 inches of snow has fallen at Bachelor within the past week, according to mtbachelor.
throughMay 25,according to Andy Goggins, director of mar-
com. Bachelor's relatively high elevation — 6,300 feet at its base
keting and communications at Bachelor.
and 9,065 at its summit — gives
"It's always conditions permitting," Goggins said Tuesday of the closure date, "but we're confident with our snowpack now, and with the short-term weather forecast
the mountain a distinct advantage over other ski resorts, especially during a season such as this one that started with such a dearth of snow. See Riding /C4
— Bulletin staff report
GOLF COMMENTARY
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aybe we were just focused on the wrong body part. Ever since Tiger
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at the end of his driveway in Florida nearly six years ago, the
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ball farther andpassed so many career signposts so breathtaking-
questions have been about his head. And all the while, it is
ly fast, and with such ease, that
the rest ofhis body — the left
control already. But Woods is 38 now, and de-
his future seemed to be on cruise
A chain-reaction series of injuries hobbled the New York Yankee slugger through the final few seasons of a career that should have been evenbetter — not to mention longer. Mantle's bad
breaking down before our eyes. Maybe, like Icarus, it
spite sparking the fitness craze
luck, as one writer memorably put it, was to be "a million-dollar
that revolutionized professional
talent propped up on dime-store
turns out Woods just was not
golf, he is falling apart like aused car.
knees." At this point it is worth noting that Mantle had a drinking problem. And that he contributed to his own demise by staying out late too many nights.
side, mostly — that has been
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estbreakdown, it might be more apt to look atbaseball's Mickey Mantle.
Woods' SUV veered off course
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Jack Nicklaus, in light of this lat-
built to go the distance. He broke into big-time golf at the age of 20, thin as a 2-iron and swinging with all the abandon of a kid. He putted without nerves, hit the
Woods announced Tuesday that he would skip the Masters
for the first time in his career to begin yet another rehab from the latest of at least half a dozen sur-
See Woods/C4