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LOOK TO END EUGENE DROUGHT: The Washington State men’s basketball team (9-14,
1-10) looks for its first win at Oregon since 2009 as it heads to Eugene to
take on Oregon (16-8, 6-5), Sunday, Feb. 11 at 5 p.m. at Matthew Knight Arena.
• Sunday’s
game can be seen on ESPNU as Roxy Bernstein (play-by-play) and Corey Williams
(Analyst) have the call.
• All
season long, Cougar basketball can be heard on the Cougar IMG Sports Radio
Network as the voice of the Cougars, Matt Chazanow will have the call.
• Please
see page one of today’s notes for the list of affiliates.
• Live
stats are also available at www.wsucougars.com.
COUGARS
VERSUS DUCKS:
• Sunday
marks the 292nd all-time meeting between Washington State and Oregon, as the
Ducks hold a 167-124 advantage in the series.
• Each of
the last two seasons, Washington State and Oregon met just once, as 2015-16 was
the first time since 1922 that the Cougars and Ducks didn’t meet at least twice
in the regular season.
• Oregon
has won 11 of the last 12 meetings in the series, but WSU won the last matchup
in Pullman as it put up its most points in the series with 108 in an overtime
win, Jan. 15, 2015.
• WSU
hasn’t won at Eugene since a 74-62 victory, Jan. 17, 2009 when Ernie Kent was
head coach at Oregon...the Cougars have lost seven-straight at Oregon.
• The
Ducks hold a 96-43 advantage at Oregon.
• Ernie
Kent coached at Oregon for 13 seasons, but he holds a 1-5 record against the
Ducks from his time as head coach at Saint Mary’s and WSU.
• In the
series between WSU and Oregon, Kent holds a 23-8 record, as he defeated the
Cougars 22 times in his time as head coach for the Ducks and defeated the Ducks
once as head coach of the Cougars.
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Cougs
Robbed as No. 16 Oregon State Escapes Pullman in Overtime
2/9/2018 |
Women's Basketball from WSU Sports Info
PULLMAN,
Wash. - With the game on the line and down one with :17 seconds to play,
Borislava Hristova got the step on her defender, crashing to the rim for what
looked like the game-winning layup and the foul against the No. 16/16 ranked
Oregon State Beavers at Beasley Coliseum Friday night. However, the magic
ending for Washington State (10-15, 3-10 Pac-12) was not to be as the Beavers
(18-6, 9-4 Pac-12) Katie McWilliams saved the night for OSU with a tip-in of a
Marie Gulich pass with :02 to play in regulation, sending the contest into
overtime. McWilliams would play the hero in the extra period when she hit a
pair of free throws with :01.1 to play after a controversial call set the
Beaver junior to the line. The Cougs had stormed back from six points down with
just one minute to play in the overtime period, tying the game with a free
throw with :02 to play by Maria Kostourkova. WSU was able to get back into the
game late in overtime thanks to a pair of clutch three-pointers by Hristova and
Pinelopi Pavlopoulou, the last of which came with just :12 seconds to play.
Hristova would end the game with 21 points scoring 12 in the fourth quarter and
overtime after the Beavers had taken control of the game.
The Cougs
committed just six turnovers in the contest while assisting on 14 of 24 made
field goals.
The Cougs
moved to 1-1 in overtime games on the season.
Borislava
Hristova scored 21 points, her 10th 20+ point game of the season and 20th of
her career. It also marked her 21st double-digit scoring game.
Chanelle
Molina added 10 points as the only other Coug in double-figures while
Pavlopoulou ended with nine and Alexys Swedlund chipped in eight.
The Cougs
held the Beavers to just 13 points in the first half, an all-time low for WSU
in the NCAA era dating back to 1981.
Three
Beavers hit double figures led by Aleah Goodman's 17. Marie Gullich added 15
and Mikayla Pivec added 12. Gullich reached her 1,000 career point for OSU and
ended the night at 1,003.
WSU
continues its homestand against #9/10 Oregon Sunday at Beasley Coliseum. The
game is scheduled for 1:00 pm on the Pac-12 Network.
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OSU
women's basketball: Beavers rally to top Cougars
Corvallis
G-T Feb 9, 2018
PULLMAN,
Wash. — Katie McWilliams hit two free throws with 1.1 seconds left in overtime
and the No. 16 Oregon State women’s basketball team somehow pulled out a 63-61
Pac-12 win in overtime over an undermanned Washington State team on Friday
night.
Washington
State, which had three starters out due to disciplinary reasons, tied the game
with 1.9 seconds left on a free throw by Marie Kostourkova.
But
McWilliams was able to get a good look and was fouled. The officials reviewed
the play to see if the foul occurred before the final buzzer and awarded
McWilliams two free throws.
She hit
both and the Beavers avoided the upset.
“I mean
obviously it was kind of a weird play because it was bouncing and I knew that
if I grabbed it the clock was going to start so I had to wait to the very last
second and she definitely hit my hand,” McWilliams said in a radio interview.
It was
McWilliams who sent the game to overtime with a bucket with 1.2 seconds left.
Aleah Goodman delivered the inbounds pass to get McWilliams the open look.
McWilliams
said the Cougars took away what the Beavers wanted to do but she was able to
adjust and get open.
“I just
popped out to the right side and they didn’t seem to see me and Aleah made a
perfect pass,” McWilliams said.
After
getting to overtime, senior Marie Gulich scored six of her 15 points, going
over 1,000 points for her career.
Oregon
State led 60-54 in overtime but the Cougars hit two big 3s to stay close.
The
Beavers trailed 50-48 after surrendering a 7-0 run down the stretch of
regulation. Gulich attempted a 3 but the shot was well shot. Washington State
had the rebound but the Cougars player fell out of bounds, giving the Beavers
one last chance to tie or win in regulation.
McWilliams
took the inbounds pass and converted the short shot to tie it with 1.2 seconds
left.
Goodman
tied her career high with 17 points while Gulich added 15 points and 16
rebounds. Mikayla Pivec added 12 points and McWilliams nine.
Borislava
Hristova led the Cougars with 21 points and Chanelle Molina chipped in 10.
Oregon
State (18-6, 9-4) heads to Washington for Sunday’s 3 p.m. game. Washington
State (10-15, 3-10) hosts Oregon on Sunday.
Goodman
ignited a third-quarter comeback but hitting three 3s in the period.
After
trailing 24-13 at the half, the Beavers got to within 28-26 on a 3 by Goodman
with 5 minutes to play.
Goodman’s
second 3 made it 33-29 before Pivec had a bucket and two free throws for a
36-33 deficit with 1:34 left in the period.
Goodman’s
third 3 of the period tied it with 31 seconds left. The Beavers outscored the
Cougars 23-12 in the third as they hit 8 of 12 shots and had just two
turnovers.
The
Cougars continued to struggle from the floor, hitting just 4 of 17 attempts.
Goodman’s
fourth 3 gave the Beavers their first lead of the game at 41-40 with 7:44 to
play.
“(She)
kept us in the game,” McWilliams said. “We obviously were down pretty big at
halftime and that’s when she made her run and got us into a lead. … Just a
really big performance by Aleah.”
The
Beavers had an awful first half.
Oregon
State was just 5 for 28 from the field, including a 1-for-11 performance from
3, in falling behind 24-13.
Washington
State started fast and took a 17-7 lead after the first quarter. The Cougars
were 7 for 15 from the field (3 for 4 from 3) and never trailed.
The
sledding wasn’t as easy in the second quarter but WSU was able to increase the
lead by one going to the half despite shooting 3 for 14 from the floor.
Oregon
State dominated the glass, holding 27-15 edge at the half. But the Beavers
turned the ball over 11 times in the first half, leading to 13 points.
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Woman
plans suicide awareness event in Pullman
Local
restaurants, bars, coffee shops invited to donate
By Taylor
Nadauld, Moscow Pullman Daily News
Feb 10,
2018
Like many
Pullman residents, Shelley Calissendorff got word of Tyler Hilinski's suicide
the same day it happened in January.
Calissendorff,
50, never knew the Washington State University quarterback who wore No. 3 for
the Cougars, much less what was going through his mind when he shot himself in
the head that Tuesday afternoon in his apartment.
What she
does know is how hard it can be for a person to reach out for help in a moment
of darkness. Calissendorff has been there before.
The morning
after Hilinski's death, she woke up with a goal: to get Pullman talking openly
about suicide in a community-wide event.
"I
felt as though I was in a position to try to do something in this community to
make it better - to try to help. I want to bring some good from this horrible,
tragic event," Calissendorff said.
At the age
of 18, Calissendorff was diagnosed with major clinical depression. She said she
received an anxiety diagnosis in her 30s and was most recently diagnosed with
post-traumatic stress disorder.
She has
treated the conditions with medications ever since. Right before her 40th
birthday, Calissendorff said she survived a suicide attempt.
"I
know how hard it is, as a woman, to reach out for help with mental health
issues. And I believe that it's even more challenging for guys, for men,
because there's so many social reasons, right? And stigma is a big part of it,
feeling like you're going to be judged," Calissendorff said.
She has
since formed the #3 Memorial Fund and a corresponding committee, which
Calissendorff said has been visited by law enforcement officials as well as a
mental health professional during the committee's last three meetings.
Calissendorff
said money raised will go toward organizing a large-scale mental health event before
the semester's end, where she hopes to recruit outside speakers, hold a showing
of a documentary on suicide and host a panel of experts to engage in an open
dialogue about suicide.
Calissendorff
has sent out more than 70 letters to local restaurants, coffee shops and bars
asking them to donate a percentage of their proceeds Feb. 20 to the #3 Memorial
Fund.
Rhonda
Witt-Miller, owner of Cougar Country Drive-In in Pullman and a member of the #3
Memorial Fund committee, organized a deal for customers earlier this month,
donating 25 percent of a day's proceeds to the fund. Witt-Miller told the Daily
News the restaurant raised just short of $400. Cougar Country will donate
another 5 percent of its proceeds Feb. 20.
"I
had an employee commit suicide four years ago," Witt-Miller said. "I
just think there's too much stigma surrounding suicide."
The
memorial fund is advertised this weekend in the Daily News and The Lewiston Tribune
in an insert featuring a large, red "3" and the purple and turquoise
suicide awareness ribbon, along with the fund's Facebook page and sponsors,
Cougar Country Drive-In , Redding, Calif.-based Mach 1 Machinery, Inc. and
Steve Manning Construction.
Calissendorff
wants to start seeing the inserts posted in windows of residences as a symbol
of ending a stigma surrounding mental health. Inserts can also be found at
Cougar Country, Rico's Pub in Pullman and The Market at WSU.
"We
wanted everybody to look at it and remember Tyler, but we also wanted people to
look at it and realize that this is more than just Tyler," Calissendorff
said. "This is about everybody who's ever struggled with suicidal thoughts
or who's ever attempted to take their own lives and for all of us who are
friends and family of people who have died."
Information
about the #3 Memorial Fund can be found on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/NumberThreeMemorialFund/.
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Women’s
Basketball
Cougs
can't quite pull off upset of Beavers
Oregon
State gets winning foul shots with 1.1 seconds left in OT to beat WSU
By Stephan
Wiebe for Lewiston Trib
PULLMAN -
The tears on Borislava Hristova's face during postgame interviews reflected the
heartbreaking fashion in which the Washington State women's basketball team
fell to No. 16 Oregon State on Friday night at Beasley Coliseum.
After
holding the Pac-12's third-highest scoring team to a record-low 13 points in
the first half, and fighting back with clutch 3-pointers and free throws late
in regulation and overtime after falling behind, the Cougars lost the game at
the free-throw line on a controversial foul call.
WSU's
Maria Kostourkova was called for a foul on Oregon State's Katie McWilliams in
the corner with just one second remaining in the extra period.
McWilliams
made both ensuing free throws, Washington State couldn't get a shot off in the
final second and the Beavers topped the Cougars 63-61 in overtime.
"We
just played our hearts out," said Hristova, who scored 17 of her game-high
21 points in the fourth quarter and overtime. "That is so far the best
effort we've given as a team.
"I
think that just shows the future this team has."
Both teams
used several clutch plays near the end of regulation and overtime to bring the
game down to the final second.
The
Cougars (10-15 overall, 3-10 Pac-12) trailed by six points with less than 20
seconds remaining in overtime when Hristova nailed a long 3-pointer to cut the
Beavers' lead to 60-57.
Following
a McWilliams free throw for Oregon State (18-6, 9-4), Pinelopi Pavlopoulou sank
another Cougar trey to make it a one-point game at 61-60.
Oregon
State's Aleah Goodman missed two free throws and Kostourkova connected on 1 of
2 to tie the game at 61-61 with 1.7 seconds left, and it appeared as if the
game would go to a second overtime.
But the
Beavers had other plans. McWilliams received a full-court inbounds pass and
drew contact from Kostourkova to get to the line and win the game for Oregon
State. The referees took several minutes reviewing the foul before awarding
McWilliams two free throws with 1.1 seconds left.
The
Cougars tried to get the ball to Hristova after McWilliams' foul shots, but the
sophomore from Varna, Bulgaria, couldn't corral the ball in the middle of a
crowd of Beavers as time expired.
"I
thought that was a heartbreaking way to end a game of that caliber,"
Washington State associate head coach Mike Daugherty said. "There were
several things that happened down the end that had they just gone a little bit
different, we would've won."
One of
those things occurred at the end of the fourth quarter.
Washington
State took the lead on a Hristova traditional three-point play that gave the
Cougars a 50-48 lead with 16.2 seconds to go.
On the
other end, Oregon State ended up with the ball out of bounds with 2.2 seconds
on the clock. At the last second, McWilliams - Oregon State's constant hero on
Friday - found an open spot under the net, received the pass and made an easy
layup to send the game to overtime.
All of
that happened after Washington State held Oregon State - the leading 3-point
shooting team in NCAA Division I at 41.5 percent - to just 1-for-11 shooting
from beyond the arc in the first half. The Cougars led 24-13 at halftime,
allowing the fewest points in a half in program history.
"If
somebody had told me we were going to hold them to 13 points in the first half,
I'd of thought they were crazy," Daugherty said.
In the
second half, Oregon State started to hit its 3-pointers and use its size
advantage in the post with 6-foot-5 center Marie Gulich, who recorded 15 points
and 16 rebounds.
Oregon
State won the rebounding battle 52-32 and Goodman scored all of her team-high
17 points in the second half.
Washington
State stayed in the game with hot shooting off the screen, especially by Hristova,
who shot 9-for-23 from the field. Chanelle Molina added 10 points on 4 of 7
shooting for the Cougars.
Stinging
losses have become a theme for a Washington State team that has lost five games
by five or fewer points.
"I
thought it was one of our best efforts of the year," Daugherty said.
"It really gets hard after you lose so many games in the last minute last
second, to keep coming back and giving forth that effort, so I'm proud of the
team of doing that."
JUNE
RECOVERING - Washington State coach June Daugherty, who is on a medical leave,
missed her eighth straight game on Friday.
Mike
Daugherty, her husband, said she's doing well and will return when she feels
healthy enough to do so.
"The
most important thing is your health," he said. "When she feels like
she's ready, she'll come back. Until then, I certainly don't want her to
hurry."
PLAYERS
SUSPENDED - The Cougars played Friday's game without two starters, Caila Hailey
and Louise Brown, and key contributor Nike McClure, who have all been suspended
indefinitely for a violation of team rules.
OREGON ST.
(18-6)
Corosdale
3-7 1-1 8, Gulich 6-14 3-6 15, McWilliams 2-7 5-6 9, Pivec 5-9 2-2 12, Tudor
0-7 0-0 0, Grymek 0-1 0-0 0, Goodman 6-10 0-2 17, Kalmer 0-3 0-0 0, Washington
1-3 0-0 2, Totals 23-61 11-17 63.
WASHINGTON
ST. (10-15)
Hristova
9-23 1-1 21, Washington 1-5 0-0 2, Kostourkova 2-7 1-2 5, Molina 4-7 0-0 10,
Swedlund 2-12 2-3 8, Subasic 2-8 0-0 6, Muzet 0-1 0-0 0, Pavlopoulou 4-5 0-0 9,
Totals 24-68 4-6 61.
Oregon St.
7 6 23 14 13-63
Washington
St. 17 7 12 14 11-61
3-Point
Goals-Oregon St. 6-22 (Corosdale 1-2, Gulich 0-1, McWilliams 0-2, Pivec 0-2,
Tudor 0-7, Goodman 5-7, Kalmer 0-1), Washington St. 9-19 (Hristova 2-2, Molina
2-3, Swedlund 2-6, Subasic 2-7, Pavlopoulou 1-1). Assists-Oregon St. 7 (Pivec
4), Washington St. 14 (Kostourkova 5). Fouled Out-Washington St. Kostourkova.
Rebounds-Oregon St. 52 (Gulich 16), Washington St. 32 (Washington 7). Total
Fouls-Oregon St. 8, Washington St. 18. Technical Fouls-None.A-906.
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From WSU
Sports Info
TRACK
& FIELD COUGS: Korir Breaks WSU's 5k School Record in Seattle
SEATTLE --
At the Husky Classic at the Dempsey Indoor Facility in Seattle, Vallery Korir
(senior, Iten, Kenya) won the top collegiate heat of the women's 5000m with a
school record time of 16 minutes 7.72 seconds. Korir's time erased current
teammate Devon Bortfeld's indoor record time of 16:16.42 run on the same Dempsey
Facility track in 2017, and replaced Ruby Robert's 2014 outdoor time of
16:09.02 run at Stanford.
Both the
WSU women's and men's squads won the Distance Medley Relay races. The women's
team comprised of Zorana Grujic (freshman, Novi Sad, Serbia), Jelena Grujic
(freshman, Novi Sad, Serbia), Marlow Schulz (senior, Whitefish, Mont.) and
Kaili Keefe (sophomore, Yakima, Wash.) ran a time of 11 minutes 29.22 seconds,
the third-best time in school history. The Cougars men's team of Paul Ryan
(redshirt sophomore, Moscow, Idaho), Corey Allen (sophomore, Allyn, Wash.),
Justin Janke (sophomore, Spokane) and Chandler Teigen (junior, Anatone, Wash.)
won in a time of 9:49.26.
Brock
Eager (redshirt junior, Renton, Wash.) was the runner-up in the men's 35-pound
weight throw with a heave of 66-feet 2 1/4 inches (20.17m) while teammate Amani
Brown (redshirt junior, Des Moines, Wash.) finished fourth with a PR and the
eighth-best throw in WSU all-time of 62-7 3/4 (19.09m).
ALBUQUERQUE
-- At the University of New Mexico Don Kirby Invitational at the Albuquerque
Convention Center, Friday night's events for Cougars included the 200m and 400m
dashes with a smattering of multi-events competitors in field events.
Of the WSU
men, only Ethan Gardner ran a season-best in the 200m of 21.93 while all others
ran close to their PRs but did not exceed them. Regyn Gaffney ran the 200m dash
for women for the first time this season and clocked in at 24.99 while Jordyn
Tucker ran a season-best time of 25.02.
THEY SAID:
Vallery
Korir after breaking the school record in the 5000m said, "The race was
really good. (I was) being calm and listening to coach Wayne yell splits helped
a lot. Having the support from everyone on the infield made it better so thanks
to all the Cougars, I wouldn’t have done it without my teammates!"
NOTEWORTHY:
· Vallery Korir finished 17th overall in
the women's 5000m and was the ninth collegiate to finish.
· Katelyn Frost won the women's pole vault
at the Husky Classic with height of 12-1 1/4 (3.69m), just under her PR of 12-1
1/2 (3.70m).
· Cougars PRs Friday night at the Husky
Classic: Melissa Hruska, women's 5000m (17:35.10); Troy Gringerich, men's pole
vault (4.72m/15-5 3/4); Michael Williams, men's 5000m (14:08.80); Jake Finney,
men's 5000m (14:42.89); Jacob Nicholson, men's 5000m (14:58.00).
· The competition continues Saturday,
Feb. 10 at both the Husky Classic in Seattle and the Don Kirby Invitational in
Albuquerque.
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