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Salem-News.com Sports (May 07, 2008 05:29)Salem Native Katie Fleer Wins Two GNAC Awards Salem-News.com SPORTSFleer set a WOU school record this year with 18 wins (18-5) and led the GNAC with a 1.47 ERA and 165 strikeouts. (MONMOUTH, Ore. ) -  Western Oregon softball coach Pam Knox was named Coach of the Year and WOU's Katie Fleer was named the Co-Pitcher of the Year and Newcomer of the Year in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference.
The Wolves, who open play at the NCAA Division II west region championships on Wednesday (9 a.m.) against Cal State Monterey Bay, also had three players named to the first team. Western Oregon shared the conference title this year with Seattle University.
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Salem-News.com Sports (May 07, 2008 05:20)Western Oregon Hopes to Win Baseball Crown at Home Salem-News.com SPORTSThe Wolves are 17-5 at home this year. (MONMOUTH, Ore. ) -  Western Oregon will try and secure a seventh consecutive Great Northwest Athletic Conference championship and eighth straight league title overall when they host Montana State Billings this Friday and Saturday at the WOU Baseball Field.
The Wolves hold a two-game lead over second place Central Washington and both the Wolves and Wildcats have four games remaining. For the third consecutive week, the Wolves came very close to winning all four games of a series.
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Salem-News.com Sports (May 07, 2008 05:14)Defense Helps Boston Edge Cavs in Game One Salem-News.com SPORTSPaul Pierce and Ray Allen combined for just four points on 2-of-18 shooting. (BOSTON) -  In NBA MVP voting announced Tuesday, Kevin Garnett finished ahead of LeBron James.
Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals had a similar outcome. Garnett scored 28 points, including the go-ahead basket with 21 seconds left as the Boston Celtics edged the Cleveland Cavaliers, 76-72, to improve to 5-0 at home in the postseason. Read Full Article
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Salem-News.com Sports (May 06, 2008 16:50)Kobe Bryant Wins First NBA MVP Salem-News.com SPORTSRounding out the top five were: New Orleans’ Chris Paul, Boston’s Kevin Garnett, Cleveland’s LeBron James and Orlando’s Dwight Howard.
(LOS ANGELES) -  Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers is the winner of the Maurice Podoloff Trophy as the 2007-08 NBA Most Valuable Player presented by Kia Motors, the NBA announced today.
Bryant finished the season ranked second in the league in scoring at 28.3 ppg, having shot .459 from the field, .840 from the free-throw line and .361 from three-point range.
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Salem-News.com Sports (May 06, 2008 05:49)Linfield Headed to Texas to Begin Title Defense Salem-News.com SPORTSFresh from winning its fifth consecutive NWC title, Linfield earned the No. 4 seed in the West Regional. (McMINNVILLE, Ore. ) -  The Linfield Wildcats are headed to Tyler, Texas, to defend their NCAA Division III national championship starting Thursday.
Linfield, 36-4 this season, departs Tuesday for Texas to compete in the seven-team NCAA Division III West Regional, hosted by the the University of Texas at Tyler.
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Salem-News.com Sports (May 06, 2008 05:39)Brooke Smith Breaks Willamette Heptathlon Record Salem-News.com SPORTSSmith also recorded a provisional qualifying distance in the javelin, but it was three inches shorter than her previous season best. (SALEM, Ore. ) -  Brooke Smith (Jr., Idleyld Park, OR/Glide HS) recorded a score of 4,462 points in the heptathlon to improve her NCAA provisional qualifying mark by 247 points while taking second place at the Willamette Multi-Event, which concluded on Monday at the Charles Bowles Track.
Smith, who previously registered a career-best score of 4,215 at the Northwest Conference Multi-Event Championships, added to her chances of making the field at the 2008 NCAA Division III Championships later this month.
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Salem-News.com Sports (May 06, 2008 05:34)Corban Trio Lands on All Conference Softball Team Salem-News.com SPORTSCorban ended its season with its best record since 2005, as the Warriors amassed a win-loss record of 15-22 that included an 11-13 record in conference play. (SALEM, Ore. ) -  Senior Lindsay Batey (Aloha, Ore.), junior Erin Sailors (Anchorage, Alaska), and freshman Jessie Jones (Gladstone, Ore.) were named to the 2008 All-Cascade Collegiate Conference team to go along with a Warrior duo that was named to the Gold Glove Team.
Sailors is the program's all-time leader in strikeouts with 360, while ranking second all-time in innings pitched (309.2), wins (15), appearances (51), and complete games (32).
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Salem-News.com Sports (May 06, 2008 05:24)Oregon to Host Kevin Costner's Band for Baseball Fundraiser Salem-News.com SPORTSCostner will play two events at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts in Eugene, May 30 and May 31 at 7 p.m. in a show that features clips from many of his films. (EUGENE, Ore. ) -  Kevin Costner, the star of some of the most highly acclaimed baseball movies of all time, is coming to Eugene with his band “Modern West” in an unprecedented fundraiser to help fund construction of the University of Oregon’s new baseball park for the Ducks' reinstated baseball program.
Oregon will play its first baseball game in 27 years next February, and is currently in the midst of a $20 million fundraising drive to pay for the new park and the operation of the program.
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Salem-News.com Sports (May 06, 2008 05:04)Hornets Second Half Rally Puts Spurs Down 0-2 Salem-News.com SPORTSChauncey Billups scored a game-high 28 points as the Pistons held on for a Game 2 victory in Detroit on Monday night, 100-93. (NEW ORLEANS) -  The San Antonio Spurs looked like two different teams in Monday's Game 2 at New Orleans Arena.
In the first half, they bounced back from their Game 1 defeat in typical Spurs fashion, with Tim Duncan and Tony Parker leading the charge. But the second-half Spurs returned to Game 1 form, stunned by the New Orleans Hornets on both ends of the court as they fell 102-84 and dug themselves a 0-2 hole for the series.
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