February 22, 2012

NB Boosters
The North Bend Booster Club meets at noon today at the high school's Hall of Champions.  Lunch costs $6.

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North Bend's boys will host the No. 4 team from the Skyline Conference, Klamath Union (12-15), on Friday, Feb. 24, 7 p.m., in an OSAA 4A Play-In basketball game, according to the school's Athletic Director Mike Forrester.  

Ashland
Eagle Point defeated Ashland 60-51 in a 5A boy's basketball game Tuesday night in Southern Oregon.  The loss dropped the Grizzlies out of the No. 9 slot in the Southern Region OSAA Power Rankings to No. 10 and allowed Dallas to move up to No. 9 putting the Dragons into a playoff game Saturday at Marshfield in Coos Bay.  

SWOCC
Southwestern Oregon hosts Linn-Benton CC, from Albany tonight in a final men's and women's NWAACC home basketball doubleheader at Prosper Hall in Coos Bay.  Women at 5:30 p.m. and the men follow at 7:30 p.m.

Blazers
Back home in the friendly confines of the Rose Garden, the Portland Trailblazers blasted visiting San Antonio 137 to 97 Tuesday night in an NBA game.  

Marable
A college football defensive back is cited for going over 100 mph on Interstate 5 near Albany and gets suspended by his coach.  Sound familiar?  It's what happened to Oregon's Cliff Harris last year, but this time its Malcom Marable a cornerback on the Oregon State football team.  The Pasadena, CA sophomore  was stopped Sunday, Feb. 19 at 1 a.m. for going 104 mph.  Beaver coach Mike Riley suspended him indefinitely.

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The Women of Oregon remained No. 1 in the latest USTFCCCA poll. It is the sixth straight week at the top of the polls for the Ducks, who have been at No. 1 the entire season. The men moved up another spot to No. 19.  Following the women were Louisiana State, Clemson, Arkansas and Texas A&M.  The Ducks will see No. 16 Arizona, No. 18 Stanford, No. 19 California and No. 23 Washington at this weekend's MPSF Championships.  For the second week in a row, the men moved up a spot to No. 19.  Arkansas remained No. 1, followed by Florida, Texas A&M, LSU and Texas. MPSF teams ranked in the men's poll included No. 6 Arizona, No. 7 Arizona State and No. 12 Stanford, in addition to the Ducks.

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The Oregon State women’s swim team is heading to Federal Way, Wash. to compete in the 2012 Pac-12 Championship meet. The meet is set to start at 11:00 a.m. on February 22 and will run through February 25.  This is the second year in a row that the Pac-12 Championships have been held in Federal Way. The meet will take place at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center.  The Beavers have not competed in a meet since January 28 when they tied the Idaho Vandals. With almost a month of preparation and of recovery time, Oregon State is excited to get back in the pool for Pac-12 competition.  The Pac-12 conference is one of the most competitive swimming conferences in the country and it currently holds five teams in the top-25. California is ranked no. 1 with USC, Stanford and Arizona all in the top-10, with Arizona State rounding out the top-25.

Pac-12 & London Olympics
The Olympic Games are the biggest sporting event in the world and no collegiate conference in the country comes close to matching the Olympic success of the Pac-12. With more medals than all but three countries and just a few months away from the start of London Games, the Pac-12 is celebrating its rich heritage of Olympic excellence with the “Follow The Pac-12 To London” campaign and microsite.  “The Pac-12 has an incredible pedigree in Olympic sports and we are extremely proud of the overwhelming success and leadership role our student-athletes have had in the Olympics,” Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said. “With the London Games fast approaching, we want to share our Olympic story with everyone and celebrate some of the most amazing accomplishments and people in the history of sports.”  In the modern Olympic era, Pac-12 athletes have amassed 1,092 medals, by far the most by any conference in the country. Put another way, if the Pac-12 was a sovereign nation it would rank fourth in the history of Olympic achievement, trailing only the United States (2,549), the former Soviet Union (1,204) and Germany (1,099) in total medals.  In 2008, 256 Pac-12 athletes representing 48 countries participated in the Olympic Games and produced 89 medals, including 29 gold, 47 silver and 13 bronze. If the Pac-12 was a country it would have finished third in the medal count behind the United States (110) and China (100) in Beijing. Over the last three Olympic Games combined, Pac-12 athletes have collected 254 medals, which would rank tied for second with Russia in total medals during that time, trailing only the United States (310).