Cougar Women’s Basketball: Coach Kamie Ethridge
and Coug players Borislava Hristova and Chanelle Molina were in San Francisco
for the annual Pac-12 Women’s Basketball media day on Oct. 10, 2018.
According
to WSU Sports Info, the coach and players spent the day in the
Pac-12
Conference office, talking with Pac-12 Network and women's basketball media.
The event
got the ball rolling on the 2018-19 WSU Women’s Basketball season which
officially tips off Nov 6 at Beasley Coliseum against Utah State.
Go to this
URL link to see more photos and read all WSU Women’s Hoops at Pac-12 Media Day
in San Francisco:
https://wsucougars.com/news/2018/10/11/womens-basketball-a-look-back-at-pac-12-wbb-media-day.aspx
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Coug Volleyball knocks off #20UCLA, remains perfect
in Bohler Gym
From WSU Sports Info Oct 21, 2018, 3:40 PM
Jocelyn
Urias hits .700 with 14 kills to lead the Cougars in the 3-0 sweep
PULLMAN,
Wash. --
The No. 23 ranked Washington State Cougars (15-5, 6-4 Pac-12) swept
through the Bruins of UCLA (11-6, 6-4 Pac-12) inside of Bohler Gym Sunday
afternoon to remain perfect on the year, when playing at home.
Set scores
for the match were: 25-22, 25-20, and 25-21 in favor of the Cougars.
The
opening set of this contest featured the Bruins of UCLA out in front early
after building off multiple small runs to hold a 16-11 lead over WSU. The
Cougars bounced right back with a 7-1 run of their own to take the lead over
UCLA at 20-18 as both Jocelyn Urias, and Ella Lajos helped fuel the offensive
attack. Washington State sealed off the set one win with another run of 4-1,
capped off with a block from Claire Martin.
WSU continued
to feed off the earlier momentum of this match-up and jumped out to an early
9-3 lead over UCLA. Despite a few small runs from the Bruins, the Cougars
continued to keep the pressure on in the second set as Urias, Penny Tusa, and
McKenna Woodford provided some dominate offense. Jocelyn, and McKenna each
would see this set victory through until the end as Urias added another ace in
the contest, and Woodford tallied her fourth kill for the 25-20 victory.
Set number
three of this match once again saw UCLA out in front early after the 5-0 run by
the Bruins, which set the score at 12-10 overall. These two squads kept the
battle close with four total ties midway through the set, until the Bruins
generated another 4-0 run to lead WSU at 18-15. The Cougars built a 6-1 run of
their own behind kills from Woodford, and Martin to claim a 21-19 advantage
late in the set. The crowd of Bohler Gym continued to show booming support of the
Cougs, as Washington State recorded three straight points to knock off the No.
20 ranked Bruins and win the match at 3-0 overall.
STAT OF
THE MATCH: Jocelyn Urias finished the three-set win with a hitting percentage
of .700 today, a career-high for the junior who added 14 kills, and two service
aces to her stat-line against UCLA.
NOTES: WSU
has not swept a weekend series over USC, and UCLA since 1997, defeating the
then No. 7 Trojans 3-2, and beating the No. 18 Bruins 3-1.
The last
time the Cougars had swept UCLA 3-0, was in 1996 on the road in Los Angeles,
and was the first time sweeping the Bruins inside of Bohler Gym. Washington
State improves to 7-0 overall inside Bohler Gym on the season. McKenna Woodford added 10 kills to the
offensive attack today, along with two blocks. Ashley Brown posted a
double-double, leading the Cougars in both assists with 30, and in total digs
at 21 overall.
NEXT: The
Cougars return to action, Wednesday, October 24 on the road against Utah inside
of the Jon M. Huntsman Center with first serve scheduled for 6 p.m. PT
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Soccer Cougars Fall to Arizona Sunday in Tucson
Sun, Oct 21, 2:17 PM from WSU Sports Info
TUCSON,
Ariz. - Hobbled coming into their Sunday matchup, the No. 22 ranked Washington
State soccer team (10-5-0, 3-5-0) battled for 90 minutes but fell short,
dropping a 2-1 decision to Arizona (10-4-2, 3-3-2) in its final road contest of
the regular season.
After an
even first half, the game was decided in just a 11 minute span in the second
half when the two teams traded punches with the Wildcats getting the best of
the Cougars. Arizona broke the scoreless tie in the 61' with the first goal of
the stretch, countering a Cougar counter to set up an odd number rush in the
middle of the box that Brynn Moga converted off a deflection.
Down one,
WSU would equalize in the 69', taking a broken play off a throw-in and turning
it into her fifth goal of the season with a low driving shot to the near post
after dribbling free at the top edge of the box. The excitement would be
short-lived for the Cougars when Arizona's Amanda Porter sent a laser into the
upper corner from deep in the 72' to once again break the tie and put the
Wildcats up for good. Prior to the three goals, the Cougars had the best chance
of the opening 45 minutes when Mykiaa Minniss' header off a centering corner
found the far post only to be saved and cleared away by a Wildcat defender.
Stat of
the Match: The Cougars had a 5-2 advantage on corners in the match but were
unable to convert any into goals in the 90 minutes of action.
Info: The
Cougs' fell for the fifth-straight contest and fourth-straight time on the
road. Arizona moved its streak to five-consecutive wins over the Cougars, three
of the five coming by one goal. It is just the third time on the year the
Cougars did not record an assist in the game. Maegan O'Neill scored her fifth
goal of the season, second on the team to Morgan Weaver's seven. The Cougars
were without four starters due to injury. Attendance: 755
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MONDAY
MORNING QUARTERBACK: This time, the 'outside noise' was all good
MONDAY
MORNING QUARTERBACK: COUGARS
By DALE
GRUMMERT of the Lewiston Trib
Oct 22, 2018
PULLMAN -
On GameDay eve, during a news conference in an academic building near a
blocked-off Stadium Way, ESPN commentator David Pollack was asked for his
initial impressions of his visit to Pullman.
To
appreciate his answer, one should realize that Pollack is a former All-American
linebacker who grew up in the Deep South.
"It's
frickin' awesome," he said. "Y'all say that word here?"
There were
a lot of wonderful remarks in that unusual presser at Washington State, but
that was my favorite.
Yes, we
say "awesome" in Pullman. By now, they probably say
"awesome" in Bangladesh. If I were king of the world, I'd put a
three-year moratorium on "awesome," so that we can all move forward
and start abusing some other innocent word.
But, yes,
everyone says "awesome" and Pollack knows that. His extemporaneous
remark, as he stood there at the front of a small lecture hall in T-shirt and
faded blue jeans, was his way of declaring himself a foreigner in this place, a
man who expects to see something he's never seen before.
"I've
been on the (GameDay) show for, I don't know, eight years I guess - something
like that," he said. "And you can always feel when it's different.
Getting on a flight and going across the country is not always the funnest
thing to do. But when you know it's going to be special, you know it's going to
be unique - it's awesome."
He was
right, as it turns out. Saturday in Pullman was different. It was unique. It
was "awesome" in the old-fashioned sense, as in "causing or
inducing awe" as opposed to "slightly better than average if your
standards are low. What's for lunch?"
And this
distinctiveness was surely a major reason why the Cougars defeated Oregon 34-20
at packed-to-the-gills Martin Stadium on Saturday night - at least in the
fashion they did.
Clearly,
GameDay producers sensed their first-ever visit to Washington State, whose fans
have long pined for it, would set new standards for mania.
"Y'all
psychos ship a flag every week to GameDay for the last 15 years," Pollack
marveled, referring of course to the network of WSU fans who routinely
insinuate Ol' Crimson into the GameDay camera shot, regardless of the location
of the host school.
Now, don't
get your knickers in a twist, genteel Northwesterners. Pollack played football
in the Southeastern Conference, where describing fans as "psycho" is
high praise.
"There's
no questioning the fandom of Washington State," he said, before alluding
again to what must have a been a grueling flight. "... To get on a plane
and know you're coming across the country to one of the best scenes probably in
GameDay history, it makes your week pretty dad-gum cool."
Since ESPN
hasn't stooped to selling tickets to its three-hour GameDay broadcasts, it was
difficult to gauge exactly how many Wazzu psychos massed between the program's
elaborate stage and Martin Stadium early Saturday morning, for the express
purpose of cheering, mugging and hoisting signs bearing messages of varying
degrees of wit (I liked "Oregon can't even pump gas"). For what it's
worth, an ESPN official estimated the psycho count at 20,000.
Anticipating
these hordes, the network had lugged to Pullman a 300-yard "FlyCam"
that would do Martin Scorsese as proud as it did Martin Stadium, there to sweep
majestically over the merry multitudes in a way that probably impressed local
viewers even more others. We know how sedate and un-multitudinous this place
normally is.
"The
FlyCam goes all the way to the stadium, for God's sake," Pollack said.
"I didn't know somebody was zip-lining or something. I was like,
seriously? Let's get weird for real."
"Dad-gum
cool." "Let's get weird for real." Pollack was refreshing in a
way that evoked Gardner Minshew, another hilarious Southerner who, as a
graduate transfer for the Cougars, foreshadowed the ESPN visit by waltzing into
Pullman in May, seizing the starting quarterback's job and shaking people out
their various funks.
Gardner
Minshew, David Pollack, Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, Ol'
Crimson, the atypical Pullman multitudes, reaching decibel levels perhaps unprecedented
at Martin Stadum - it was all too much for Oregon, a good football team that,
until the mania subsided in the second half, didn't stand a chance. There was
something primal about the Cougars' domination until then, something frenzied
about the combination of deadly football execution and deafening sound.
Maybe
that's why WSU coach Mike Leach, who tells his players to ignore "the
outside noise" with monotonous regularity, didn't seem to be worrying last
week about the potential distractions of GameDay to the degree that he worries
about, for example, rivalry games and Senior Day festivities. With the media at
least, he even gave his "Play the next play" mantra a bit of a rest.
Rivalry
games and Senior Days are traditions - they can be as lulling as they are
bracing. What happened Saturday was the polar opposite. It was unprecedented,
for everyone involved.
NOTES -
The Cougars leapt 10 spots to No. 15 in the Associated Press poll Sunday.
They're also 15th in the coaches' poll
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Couches,
mattresses set on fire after Cougar win
Victory
party moved from Martin Stadium to bars, Greek houses, residences Saturday on
College Hill
By Garrett
Cabeza, Moscow Pullman Daily News
Oct 22, 2018
Fresh off
a critical 34-20 win over the 12th-ranked University of Oregon Ducks,
Washington State University fans took the Saturday night celebration from
Martin Stadium to the surrounding College Hill streets, where no couch - or any
piece of furniture, for that matter - was safe.
The
Pullman Police Department responded to six fires between about 8:30 p.m.
Saturday and 12:45 a.m. Sunday, and Pullman firefighters were called into
assist with five of them, according to the PPD daily activity log.
Another
blaze, a cardboard fire on the 600 block of Northeast Ruby Street, was also
extinguished before Pullman firefighters were required for assistance.
Pullman
Fire Chief Mike Heston said the furniture fires involved a couch or a mattress,
and one involved some kind of wooden piece of furniture. Almost all of them
occurred in the street.
Pullman
Police Officer Teayana Dillon, who allowed the Daily News to join her on her
patrols for about four hours late Saturday night into early Sunday morning,
said police tried to locate and remove unburned furniture sitting in the road
before it was set on fire.
She said a
couple pieces of unburned furniture were found on College Hill and removed
Saturday night.
Heston
said his staff scoured College Hill and planned to take photos of any couches
sitting on porches during the week so if the couches were burned Saturday, fire
investigators would be able to identify responsible parties.
He said
his staff didn't find any couches, so they must have been inside residences.
Dillon
spent most of the night patrolling College Hill. She said on nights like
Saturday, in which a Cougar football game has been played, she and other
officers primarily circle Greek Row.
"It
seems like every time I get far enough away from it, a fight breaks out or
something happens," she said.
When not
on College Hill, downtown is another area of focus, Dillon said.
Countless
groups of people wandered College Hill late Saturday night and early Sunday
morning, stopping inside bars, Greek houses and house parties.
Dillon and
a few other officers responded to an intoxicated man shortly after 12:15 a.m.
outside Domino's Pizza on Northeast Monroe Street.
The man
was reportedly touching people repeatedly, and when police made contact with
the man outside the restaurant, he appeared to be highly intoxicated and
struggled to stand.
The man
appeared to be confused on his whereabouts as well, claiming to be in a few
Washington cities other than Pullman throughout his conversation with police.
During the
conversation, bouncers at Stubblefields could be seen bringing a man to the
ground outside the bar.
Some
officers who were speaking with the man outside Domino's quickly shifted their
attention to the other man who was removed from Stubblefields.
He was
arrested for suspicion of trespassing, while the man police first confronted at
Domino's was taken home by friends.
As
expected, noise complaints were a popular call officers responded to over the
weekend. Eight were reported between 11:30 a.m. Saturday and 2:45 a.m. Sunday.
Dillon and
other officers responded to a noise complaint shortly after 1 a.m. at a house
party on the 1300 block of Northeast Harvey Road, where at least 100 people
were reportedly present. Police warned those responsible.
Dillon
said noise complaints are usually the most common call she responds to after a
Saturday night WSU football game.
Dillion
said minors in possession, assaults, traffic offenses and possible DUI calls
are also very common on those nights.
From early
Saturday morning to 6 a.m. Sunday, Pullman police responded to seven disorderly
conduct calls, three reports of unconscious persons and two reports of
intoxicated persons.
One DUI
arrest was made and one rape was also reported Saturday night.
About 30
minutes after Dillon responded to the noise complaint, she was called to the
northwest side of town, where a driver was reportedly driving fast with a loud
exhaust and at least one blown-out tire. One man said the vehicle woke him up
and he saw sparks coming off the vehicle's rim.
Dillon
followed scrape marks on multiple streets on Military Hill before she and other
officers identified the vehicle parked on a sidewalk. The front left tire was
popped and the left rear tire was completely gone.
The driver
was not found as of early Sunday morning. Besides scrape marks on the street
and damage to the car, it appeared the only other damage caused was to juniper
bushes.
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Local
business owners discuss GameDay crowds
Some
locations maxed out, away from campus patronage less affected
By ANGELICA
RELENTE, Evergreen
October
22, 2018
While many
students were out late in celebration of ESPN’s College GameDay coming to
campus over the weekend, downtown business owners braced themselves for one of
Pullman’s biggest football weekends yet.
Kristy
Mosman, Zoe Coffee and Kitchen manager, said it was hard to gauge the capacity
of GameDay and the number of people in town. The restaurant started getting
busy after the game and customers had to wait 45 minutes to an hour at one
point.
“We opened
the doors at 7,” Mosman said. “By 7:15 the entire restaurant was full.”
Mike
Wagoner, Zoe Coffee and Kitchen owner, said they also had to cater to members
of the marching band and ESPN. Mosman said they prepared items such as salads
and salad dressing the night before.
“I got two
hours of sleep that night,” Wagoner said.
Shelby
Molinar, Thomas Hammer Coffee Roasters manager, said Saturday was an average
business day for them although they had expected it to be busier than usual.
“Once 2
o’clock hit, we died completely down,” Molinar said.
The lull
during that time gave the staff a chance to regroup and clean up, she said.
They did food preparations ahead of time and made sure there were enough staff
members for the weekend.
“When
College GameDay [was] announced,” Molinar said, “I was kind of freaking out.”
She said
the coffee shop opened at 5 a.m. Saturday even though it normally opens at 7
a.m. They did not get as many customers as expected, but they still wanted to
make sure people had an option to get coffee.
Molinar
said two of the most frequent orders they received were breakfast burritos and
drip coffee.
“I had a
guy get eight shots [of espresso],” she said, “and I was like, ‘Eight, right?
I’m hearing this correctly, right?’ ”
Tommy
Krahn, Porch Light Pizza manager, said they were able to keep up with their
orders because the restaurant was not as busy as they expected.
“[On
Saturday], our sales total was less than an average Saturday usually would be,”
Krahn said.
Residents
and visitors in Pullman were in “GameDay mode,” which might have affected the
atmosphere of the restaurant, he said.
“I was out
and about [Saturday] and we were expecting a little bit of a pop after the
game,” Krahn said. “When I walked by the stadium, every single bar up there had
lines out the door and around the corner.”
Kevin
Carosella, Sella’s Calzone & Pizza owner, said the amount of customers they
had was as big as a typical football game.
“I don’t
think the GameDay had a whole lot of effect on us,” Carosella said.
The Coug,
one of the calzones they serve, was one of the popular items that night. They
also sold a lot more salads than they normally do.
“A lot of
people … want to show their pride, so they order the Coug just because,”
Carosella said.
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WSU
football
Analysis:
From crowded streets to crowd surfing, No. 25 Washington State has plenty to
smile about in victory over No. 12 Oregon
UPDATED:
Sat., Oct. 20, 2018, 11:34 p.m.
By Theo Lawson
of Spokane’s S-R
PAC-12
FOOTBALL: At Martin Stadium, Pullman, Washington = COUGARS 34 DUCKS 20 on Oct
20, 2018
➤Saturday, Oct. 27:
Washington State Cougars at Stanford Cardinal, 4 p.m. PDT TV: Pac-12 Networks
PULLMAN –
It’s an interesting way to play the game – risky for sure – but again, the
Washington State Cougars discovered a way to beat a quality Pac-12 opponent in
a game in which most will say they were vastly outplayed in the second half.
But they
sure do know how to start – and finish – and again the 25th-ranked Cougars went
to that formula to secure another win at Martin Stadium, their 11th in a row at
home, beating 12th-ranked Oregon 34-20 in front of a sellout crowd that
numbered 32,152.
In the
vein of starts and finishes, for thousands of WSU fans and students, Saturday
both began and ended in a sea of crimson shirts. They woke up before the sun
did, anywhere between 4-6 a.m., to experience ESPN College GameDay’s first show
in Pullman. Some 15 hours later, many of them emptied onto the field at Martin
Stadium to celebrate a fourth consecutive win over Oregon and one that places
the Cougars squarely in the hunt for a Pac-12 North title.
Gardner
Minshew came to Pullman to play quarterback, not surf, but the senior got the
crowd-surf of a lifetime after leading the Cougars to a win that makes them
bowl eligible for the fourth time in four years, a program first.
“It was
incredible, man,” Minshew said postgame – the nation’s leading passer coming
off another superb outing in which he completed 39 of 51 passes for four
touchdowns and two interceptions. “There was so much energy in town this week
and we knew we just had to bottle that up and use it. And I feel like we did in
the first half, really came out strong and played some of our best ball all
year. That got me really fired up.”
It didn’t
come without some tense moments, though.
WSU’s 27-0
halftime lead began to wilt in the second half, when the Cougars began to get
wobbly on offense, started to splinter on defense and were finally introduced
to the Justin Herbert they’d heard about and read about.
In the
first half, Oregon’s junior quarterback completed 4 of 11 passes for 36 yards
and looked more like some of the backup signal-callers the Cougars have faced
the last three years in this Northwest rivalry.
But Super
Herbert came alive in the second half, completing 21 passes for 234 yards and
one touchdown. He treated the field like a dartboard, keeping WSU’s defensive
backs on their heels with throws that were quick and accurate. Behind Herbert’s
right arm, the Ducks scored 20 unanswered points between the start of the third
quarter and through more than nine minutes of the fourth.
“I thought
we just came out flat as a team,” WSU nickel Hunter Dale said. “And I think we
got it back together. As long as you finish, get the win, a win is a win.”
Seated
next to Dale in the postgame interview room, Minshew, wearing his signature
aviator shades and backward cap, muttered under his breath: “That’s right.”
The East
Carolina graduate transfer had to be a late-game hero again, two weeks after he
stuck a fork in Utah with an 89-yard touchdown pass to Easop Winston Jr. late
with less than 5 minutes left in the fourth quarter.
Similar to
that Sept. 29 win over the Utes, the Cougars couldn’t manufacture offense in
the second half. Not until times got desperate, at least.
With
Herbert and the Ducks closing in, the Cougars needed at least a field goal to
stay two scores clear of their foe, leading 27-20 with 6:38 to play. On second
down, Minshew flung a pass downfield, toward Travell Harris but not necessarily
to the WSU receiver with two Ducks in his immediate vicinity. Oregon safety
Jevon Holland was the first player to grasp the ball, but Harris – later
declaring he “wanted it more” – stripped the ball out of the DB’s hands before
both fell to the ground, turning a costly interception into a key 37-yard
pickup.
“Our
receivers, they made some pretty big-boy plays today,” running back James Williams
said.
A few
plays later, the drive continued because Harris shook his defender and reeled
in a pass from Minshew on fourth-and-6. Two plays after that, Minshew zeroed in
on Dezmon Patmon and spiraled a 22-yard touchdown pass to the big receiver,
giving WSU a 34-20 lead and Oregon almost no time to make up the 14-point
deficit.
“Our guys
really have rallied well the fourth quarter, not just on offense, defense too,”
WSU head coach Mike Leach said. “Just as a team. We kind of converted them to
doing it in the first and second quarter. We’ve got some nonbelievers in the
third quarter. We’ve got to baptize a few people, I guess.”
The
Cougars went to their running backs more than usual, on the ground and in the
air. Williams scored a touchdown for the sixth time in seven games, eluding
about eight Oregon defenders for a 24-yard score on the swinging gates play
Leach call “Big Gulp Left” – in which receiver Kyle Sweet snaps the ball to
Minshew, who either hands off to a running back or pitches to a wideout.
Freshman
running back Max Borghi scored his seventh touchdown of the year, catching a
check down from Minshew in the second quarter and side-stepping Oregon
linebacker Troy Dye for a 15-yard score.
Williams
and Borghi led the Cougars with seven receptions apiece and combined for 186
all-purpose yards. They recorded 24 carries and rushed for 77 yards.
Both
admitted they were motivated to play against the assistant coach who recruited
them, Jim Mastro, who’s in his first season as UO’s running backs coach and run
game coordinator.
“This was
a personal game for me,” Williams said, “because I needed to show him who’s the
better backs. That was my whole thing tonight.”
Borghi
echoed those sentiments: “Completely,” the freshman said. “He recruited me, he
was my recruiter and then as soon as I got here he went to Oregon. So it was
personal for all of us running backs.”
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Washington
State climbs 11 spots to No. 14 in Associated Press Top 25
UPDATED:
Sun., Oct. 21, 2018, 6:33 p.m.
By Theo
Lawson Spokane Spokesman-Revioew
PULLMAN –
A big win meant a significant jump for Washington State in the Associated Press
Top 25 rankings.
One day
after beating No. 12 Oregon 34-20 at Martin Stadium, the Cougars hopped up 11
spots in the weekly poll to No. 14 in the country. It means WSU is the
highest-ranked team in the Pac-12 Conference and one spot higher than
cross-state nemesis Washington, which stayed put at No. 15 after beating
Colorado.
WSU entered
the season unranked and first reached the Top 25 rankings last week, checking
in at No. 25. But the Cougars have won three consecutive games since losing at
USC and became bowl eligible after holding off Justin Herbert and the Ducks
Saturday.
Aside from
WSU and UW, three other Pac-12 teams appeared in Sunday’s Week 9 edition of the
AP Top 25. The loss to the Cougars dropped the Ducks seven places to No. 19,
while Utah and Stanford both moved into the poll after being unranked last
week, respectively checking in at No. 23 and 24.
The first
loss of the season for second-ranked Ohio State changed up the top five in the
AP poll. Alabama stayed put at No. 1, but Clemson moved up to No. 2, Notre Dame
to No. 3, LSU to No. 4 and Michigan to No. 5.
The
Crimson Tide are a unanimous No. 1, with all 61 first-place votes, for the
first time this season.
Ohio State
dropped to No. 11 after being upset by Purdue.
No. 25
Appalachian State is ranked in the AP poll for the first time in school
history. The Mountaineers (5-1) have not lost since opening the season with an
overtime defeat at Penn State.
The
Cougars were also one of the biggest risers in the Amway Coaches’ Poll and
moved up eight spots to No. 15 when the poll was released Sunday. The Huskies
checked in at No. 13 while Oregon was No. 21, Stanford was No. 23 and Utah was
No. 24.
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