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Oregon State Women’s Basketball: Beavers Pick Up First WCC Win With 71-67 Victory Over Gonzaga
After a trip to Hawaii and a break for the holidays, the Oregon State women were back in action Saturday afternoon. It took a fourth quarter comeback to push the game into overtime, but the Beavers picked up their first West Coast Conference win with a 71-67 win over Gonzaga. The win puts the Beavers at 5-8 overall, and 1-1 in conference play.
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The first half was closely fought, with Kelsey Rees leading the way for the Beavers and Yvonne Ejim doing the same for the Bulldogs. A layup from Rees gave the Beavers a three point, 31-28 lead at the end of the half, but in the second half things started to go Gonzaga’s way.
Not right away though. Claire O’Connor and Kennedie Shuler traded threes at the start of the quarter to keep the Beaver lead at three. Jumpers from Yvonne Ejim and Esther Little gave the Bulldogs the lead back, but then a Tiara Bolden three put the Beavers back in front.
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That was the story for most of the period, but with three minutes left in the quarter Gonzaga got themselves on a run. Ejim, Allie Turner and Ines Bettencourt scored 7 straight in the closing minutes to put the Bulldogs up 7, 51-44. The Beavers would start the fourth quarter in a bit of hole.
Things looked grim, as Oregon State struggled to chip away at Gonzaga’s lead. With 3 minutes left the Bulldogs were up twelve, but then shots finally started to drop for the Beavers. A Kennedie Shuler jump shot got the deficit down to ten, and then six straight points from Kelsey Rees got the Beavers within four. Tiara Bolden hit a pair of free throws with a minute to go to cut the Gonzaga lead to two, and a costly miss from McKynnlie Dalan, and a timely rebound by Bolden, insured the Beavers would have one more chance to tie things up.
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OSU put the ball in Kennedie Shuler’s hands, and Ines Bettencourt fouled her forcing Shuler to the line. She hit both her free throws, and after Yvonne Ejim missed a game winning jumper, we were headed to overtime.
Kelsey Rees put up the first OT points for the Beavers, with a layup and a free throw. Allie Turner tied the game for Gonzaga with a three, before Catarina Ferreira free throws gave OSU the lead back. Ally Turner hit a three to give the Bulldogs their last lead of the night, as Ally Schimel responded with a three of her own to put the Beavers in front for good. Kennedie Shuler capped things off with a pair of free throws, and the Beavers took home a 71-67 win.
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Rees led the Beavers in scoring, with 21 points and 9 rebounds. Kennedie Shuler also delivered in the clutch, with 16y points, 8 assists and 4 rebounds. Tiara Bolden also broke double digits in scoring, with 10 points, 4 rebounds and an assist.
The Beavers won’t get much time to rest. Monday they’ll be back on the road, traveling to Portland to take on the WCC’s top team, the undefeated Portland Pilots. Tip off is set 6 PM PT.
FALLS CITY, Ore. — A 63-year-old was sentenced to life in prison for shooting and killing a man with a shotgun during a fight at a Falls City, Oregon property back in 2024.
A jury convicted Terry Lawrence Allwen of second-degree murder back on March 20, the Polk County District Attorney’s Office said.
He was sentenced Friday to serve life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years.
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Allwen was also convicted of other charges like manslaughter, assault, and felon in possession of a firearm, but the sentences for those crimes will be served concurrently with the life sentence.
Court records show that Allwen was staying in an RV parked on a property owned by the victim, 79-year-old Bo Johnson.
At about 9 a.m. on May 31, 2024, Allwen and Johnson got into a verbal fight over some personal property. During that fight, Allwen got a shotgun from his trunk and shot Johnson once, killing him.
“Mr. Johnson had many more years to spend with his family. His senseless murder destroyed the dreams and plans of so many that loved him. I hope that the fact Mr. Allwen today received the maximum possible sentence will bring the family of Mr. Johnson some relief and sense of justice.”
If Allwen is granted parole, the judge also ordered that he have a lifetime of post-prison supervision.
The Oregon Supreme Court has overturned the conviction of a Lane County man who once photographed child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey and was convicted in 2021 on several child pornography charges.
Randall DeWitt Simons, 73, of Oakridge, was charged in 2019 with 15 counts of first-degree encouraging child sex abuse. He was later convicted on every count and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Simons was first arrested after authorities began investigating a report from a restaurant in Oakridge that someone had been using the restaurant’s Wi-Fi to download inappropriate and concerning images.
Law enforcement officers directed the business to track, log, and report all of the user’s internet activity to the investigating officer for more than a year, without a warrant.
Police tracked the computer’s IP address from the restaurant’s Wi-Fi system, which led officers to a man who lived near the restaurant and had given Simons a computer, according to a probable cause affidavit filed in Lane County Circuit Court. Investigators obtained a warrant to search the laptop in Simon’s home, relying on information they had collected over time. He was subsequently arrested.
On March 26, the court ruled warrantless internet surveillance on public Wi-Fi violates privacy.
In an opinion written by Justice Bronson D. James, the court held that the Oregon Constitution recognizes people have a right to privacy in their internet browsing activities and the right is not extinguished when they use a publicly accessible wireless network. It’s even true in cases where that access is conditioned on a person accepting a terms-of-service agreement that says a provider may monitor activity and cooperate with law enforcement, James wrote.
During criminal proceedings in the Lane County Circuit Court, Simons moved to controvert the warrant and suppress the evidence obtained by police, arguing the business was a “state actor for purposes of Article I, section 9, and that its year-long warrantless surveillance was an unconstitutional, warrantless search attributable to the state,” the Supreme Court opinion said.
The Circuit Court denied Simon’s motion. The Oregon Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court’s decision in part and stated Simons had no cognizable privacy interest in his internet activities performed on a third-party network.
The Oregon Supreme Court rejected the state’s argument.
“The mere fact that a person accesses the internet through a public network does not eliminate their Article I, section 9, right to privacy in their online activities,” according to James. “Even when access is expressly conditioned on a user’s acceptance of terms-of-service provisions purporting to alert the user that the provider may monitor activity and cooperate with law enforcement.”
Justice K. Bushong suggested in a partial dissent the Court should reconsider its approach in a future case to what constitutes a “search” under the Oregon Constitution. The court’s decision reverses the Court of Appeals and sends the case back to the Lane County Circuit Court for further proceedings.
Simons has maintained his innocence since he was arrested in 2019.
Simons had been a photographer for 6-year-old Colorado beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey a few months before her still-unsolved 1996 murder, the Associated Press reported in 1998.
In October 1998, Simons was arrested on a charge of indecent exposure in Lincoln County, Colorado. According to the book “Perfect Murder, Perfect Town” by Lawrence Schiller, Simons was arrested in 1998 for allegedly walking nude down a residential street in the small town of Genoa, Colorado. Simons allegedly offered to the arresting deputy unprovoked, “I didn’t kill JonBenét.”
Haleigh Kochanski is a breaking news and public safety reporter for The Register-Guard. You may reach her at HKochanski@gannett.com.
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