East Oregonian
Next stop on the Bulldog Express: Eugene.
The Hermiston girls’ basketball team rolled past Liberty 63-33 in the first round of the OSSA Class 5A state basketball playoffs on Friday. With the win, the Bulldogs punched their ticket to the quarterfinals and the final bracket of the state tournament held in the University of Oregon’s Matthew Knight Arena. The Dawgs (21-5) will play an afternoon game on Wednesday, March 7 against No. 5 Bend (19-5) —winners of 13 straight.
For Hermiston, the Columbia River Conference champions, a season’s worth of events would mean nothing if the Bulldogs couldn’t control a 32-minute game on Friday, senior guard Maloree Moss said.