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Exactly how she does it.

University’s girls basketball team went into the season considered the favorite to win the Pacific Coast League and Thursday night, the Trojans showed why.

University rallied from a 23-15 halftime deficit to defeat Woodbridge 52-41 on Pack the Gym Night at University.

University (16-5, 4-0) turned it around in the third quarter, outscoring Woodbridge 14-1 to take a 29-14 lead before extending the margin to 10 points in the fourth quarter.

Woodbridge (12-8, 3-1) came into the game tied for first place with the Trojans.

“We came on in the third quarter,” said University Coach Nicole Bradshaw. “We finally started to play our basketball. For some reason in the first half, we just weren’t playing our basketball.

“We decided at halftime that enough was enough so we came out strong with our defense and really put it to them. They didn’t know what to do. One point is great.”

University (4-0) defeated Woodbridge 52-41 (3-1) in a big PCL girls basketball game tonight at Uni. Malia Goldsmith led the Trojans with 18 points. Here’s a highlight: a 3 by Goldsmith then a defensive stop by the Trojans. Tiffany Nguyen had 15 points and 5 ‘3 for Woodbridge. pic.twitter.com/i17LzeV686

— Tim Burt (@TimBurtIrvine) January 19, 2018

Malia Goldsmith scored 18 points and Ashley Chandler 14 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Trojans. Karissa Shin had 8 points and 11 rebounds and Claire Kawata 6 points for University.

“It’s a huge win, it’s a big win in general for us,” Bradshaw said.

Woodbridge welcomed back Anjali Ghadi, who transferred to Fairmont Prep then back to Woodbridge following knee surgery after last season. Ghadi came off the bench to score 8 points.

Tiffany Nguyen scored 15 points and made 5 3-pointers to lead the Warriors. Erika Maggard added 9 points for Woodbridge.

“I was real happy in the first half; we played well and stuck to the game plan,” said Woodbridge Coach Keith Clarkson. “Our game plan coming in was to take the transition points and we did a great job and shot the ball real well.

“This was Anjali’s first real game back. She got a couple minutes on Tuesday. We talked last week about putting together a full game, four quarters in a row. We realize with a team like Uni, we can’t take a quarter off.

“I’m happy that we played to the end and played hard. We have to take care of business the rest of the league and we have them at our place last game of league. We’re excited about that.”

Clarkson’s message to his players was simple:

“Put it in your memory banks, forget about it. We got to win five more first and when time comes, remember this game and remember what they did to us at their place. We have to stick to the game plan one game at a time.”

IRVINE — UC Irvine might still be a young, work-in-progress team in 2018, but it yields to no one when it comes to rebounding.

The Anteaters pulled down 42 rebounds in an 80-71 victory over Cal Poly on Thursday night at the Bren Center, padding their nation-leading stats to 865 for the season. They came into the game ranked 13th in the nation in rebounds per game at 41.2.

UCI’s big men overwhelmed a Mustangs team that isn’t exactly small. Sophomore Tommy Rutherford had a career-high 20 points and eight rebounds, Jonathan Galloway added 10 rebounds and two blocked shots, and Elston Jones and Brad Greene combined for 14 points and eight rebounds. The quartet shot 16 for 23 from the field and smothered Cal Poly’s offense for most of the game, usually limiting the Mustangs (just six assists) to one shot per possession.

Eyassu Worku (14), Evan Leonard (12) and Max Hazzard (12) also scored in double-digits as the Anteaters (8-13, 3-2 Big West) shot 51 percent from the field. Cal Poly (6-12, 1-3) got a 24-points, 12-rebound effort from Josh Martin and Donovan Fields scored 18. The Anteaters led by 20 early in the first half before the game got a little sloppy.

“I didn’t even know about our rebounding stats, but we are playing well now,” Rutherford said. “We’ve been emphasizing being aggressive inside. We’re doing a nice job protecting the rim. I feel like any combination (of big men) we put out there can always rebound.”

“They’re all working together to establish a presence inside,” Coach Russ Turner said. “Tommy gets more attention tonight, but they’re all good in their role. Tommy doesn’t need to score 20 points, but I’m not surprised by what we saw.”

Rutherford has played an increasing number of minutes in conference play, but says playing alongside Galloway has had a lot to do with his play.

“He’s a great asset. There are so many things I could say about it. He’s like a big brother the way he’s helped me,” he said.

Galloway, who has more than 500 career rebounds and 100 career blocked shots, was the Big West Defensive Player of the Year in 2016-17, and Turner won’t be surprised if he wins the award again.

“He’s a dominant defensive player,” the coach said. “He does a lot to make us better on offense without being a scorer. There aren’t many guys his size who can defend a guard shooting a three as well as he does inside. It takes a special character to fill that kind of role.”

UCI has won three of its last four and is one of five teams within a game of each other atop the Big West standings. Cal Poly has dropped eight of its last 10.

The first half was played in spurts. Cal Poly led 8-7 when the Anteaters went on an 11-0 run in a span of 1:52, 3-pointers by Hazzard bookending two buckets by Worku, a 3-pointer and lay-in in transition.

The Mustangs came back with their own 11-0 run, Minnesota junior transfer Martin hitting two baskets and Fields posting a 3-point play to retake the lead at 19-18. But the Anteaters outscored the Mustangs 21-8 the final eight minutes of the half for a 39-27 halftime lead. Rutherford had five of UCI’s nine points to close the half on a 9-1 run.

Cal Poly missed 11 of its first 13 shots in the second half and UCI had a 20-point lead six minutes into the half. The Mustangs didn’t get within single digits until the last three minutes of the game.

The Anteaters next play Saturday at 9 p.m. at UC Santa Barbara (13-5, 2-2), which is unbeaten at home.

CORVALLIS, Ore. — A pair of back-to-back 3-pointers with under three minutes left boosted Oregon State and resulted in another late letdown for UCLA.

Tres Tinkle had 16 points and the Beavers snapped a two-game losing streak with a 69-63 victory over the Bruins on Thursday night at Gill Coliseum.

Stephen Thompson Jr. and Drew Eubanks each added 12 points for Oregon State (11-7, 3-3 Pac-12), which finished with all five starters in double figures.

Aaron Holiday led UCLA (13-6, 4-3) with 22 points, and Thomas Welsh added 10 points and 13 rebounds but was 4 for 13 from the field. The Bruins have now lost as many games in league play as they did all of last season when a Lonzo Ball-led squad went 15-3 in the Pac-12.

UCLA erased an eight-point deficit to tie the score at 48-48 after a layup from Alex Olesinski with 9:37 left. Thompson answered with a layup for the Beavers to keep the Bruins from pulling ahead.

The Bruins took a 54-53 lead on Chris Smith’s layup with 6:40 to go and both teams wrestled for the advantage down the stretch. Kris Wilkes’ layup put the Bruins up 58-57, but Seth Berger’s basket put the Beavers back in front with 3:42 to go.

Tinkle’s 3-pointer gave the Beavers a 62-60 lead before Thompson added his own 3-pointer with 2:16 left.

“I think that maybe burst a bubble a little bit (for UCLA),” Oregon State coach Wayne Tinkle said. “But we didn’t lose our composure defensively. They were attacking. They’re such a talented team with so many weapons, that until that final five or six seconds, we knew we didn’t have it in the bag. ”

After Eubanks’ dunk for Oregon State, Wilkes hit a 3-pointer for UCLA to close the gap to 67-63 with 27 seconds left, but the Beavers closed it out with a pair of free throws.

UCLA coach Steve Alford agreed those two 3-pointers were crucial as the Beavers outscored the Bruins 10-5 over the last 3:42.

“I thought we did a good job on them all night long, but they made two clutch shots in the final three minutes,” Alford said.

The pace was slow throughout the first half, with the score knotted at 13 with 7:48 to go after a layup from UCLA’s Chris Smith. Kendal Manuel put Oregon State ahead with a 3-pointer.

Thompson and Eubanks hit back-to-back layups to put Oregon State up 31-26 at the break, and Berger’s basket to open the second half pushed the Beavers’ margin to seven points.

The pace favored Oregon State, which went into the game holding opponents to 65.2 points to lead the Pac-12. On the other side, UCLA was averaging 84 points per game, second in the Pac-12.

Holiday, who scored just four points in the first half, had seven in the first five minutes of the second. But UCLA struggled to close the gap until Holiday’s 3-pointer got the Bruins within 41-38.

Berger’s 3-pointer and a pair of free throws from Thompson stretched Oregon State’s lead to 48-40.

Olesinski fouled out with 5:12 left in the game.

“We know in this conference we’ve got to win games at home, so we’ve got to do whatever it takes,” Tres Tinkle said afterward. “We have a great crowd that’s behind us, but that said, moving forward with games here and on the road we have to know what it takes, know what to do to close games out, and get a win.”

UCLA followed arguably its worst offensive outing of the season – a 68-59 home loss to Colorado last Saturday – with another frustrating effort. The Bruins made only 37.1 percent of their shots overall and were 7 for 23 from 3-point range. They were also outplayed inside, giving up 18 offensive rebounds and getting outscored 33-22 in the paint, and most importantly, they came up empty late.

“Loved our energy. Loved how we competed. We just didn’t finish either half,” Alford said.

The consecutive losses have come on the heels of a 19-point victory over Utah that Alford said was one of UCLA’s best of the season.

UCLA’s season has been inconsistent following the season-long suspension of Cody Riley and Jalen Hill, and the departure of LiAngelo Ball following a team trip to China where the three were arrested for shoplifting.

The Beavers lost 62-53 to then-No. 17 Arizona before a second loss to then-No. 11 Arizona State last Saturday.

BIG PICTURE

The Bruins were without Ike Okwarabizie because of a concussion. … Oregon State’s Tres Tinkle has scored in double figures in all the Beavers’ games this season. … Tinkle lso had six rebounds, while Eubanks finished with seven.

UP NEXT

The Bruins head south on Saturday to face Oregon, which lost to USC 75-70 earlier on Thursday.

The Beavers will host the Trojans on Saturday.

LOS ANGELES — When a hockey team is on a losing streak, the last thing it needs is to give up goals early in a period.

That’s what happened to the Kings on Thursday. They gave up very early goals in the first and third periods, and were defeated 3-1 by the two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins before a sellout crowd of 18,230 at Staples Center.

It wasn’t long ago that the Kings were sitting pretty in the standings, leading the Pacific Division and the Western Conference in points. But things began to change in mid-December and now the Kings (24-16-5, 53 points) have lost five in a row and are tied for the eighth and final playoff spot in the West.

Patric Hornqvist scored his 14th and 15th goals for the Penguins (25-20-3, 53 points). His first of the night came just 46 seconds into the game on a long shot goalie Jonathan Quick should stop every time.

The Kings tied the score 1-1 on Adrian Kempe’s 14th goal of the season at 14:10 of the second period. But Evgeni Malkin scored his 21st just 26 seconds into the third for a 2-1 Penguins lead.

“Well, the first one was tough,” Kings coach John Stevens said. “I mean, those type of goals don’t go in very often. I thought we got off to a really good start, so started chasing the game against a really good hockey team. It’s the funny thing about hockey, when you’re playing catch-up, it takes a lot of energy.”

The Kings lost one of their best offensive players less than seven minutes into the third period when Dustin Brown was called for boarding Justin Schultz, who went down to the ice in a heap. The penalty was five minutes and Brown was also given a game misconduct.

The Kings killed all but 1:20 of the power play, but Hornqvist scored his second of the night and 15th of the season at 10:21 for a 3-1 Penguins lead.

Brown didn’t think he deserved the severity of the penalty.

“I’m going to close on him, he stumbles, toe picks and I don’t drive him through the wall or anything,” Brown said. “But I also close in on the play. At most, it’s probably a two-(minute penalty), I think.”

Brown acknowledged frustration is beginning to rear its head.

“I mean, it’s definitely there,” he said. “If you’re not frustrated, there’s something wrong with you. But just trying to channel that frustration into positive energy you can use to win games.”

Like Brown, defenseman Drew Doughty conceded this team is becoming increasingly bummed out about what’s been happening of late.

“We’re obviously pretty down on ourselves right now,” he said. “We want to turn it around as soon as we possibly can and that’ll start tomorrow night.”

The Kings play the Ducks on Friday night at Honda Center.

Casey DeSmith made 28 saves for Pittsburgh in his first game since Dec. 9. He is backing up Tristan Jarry while Matt Murray is on personal leave following the death of his father.

“I thought Case was terrific,” Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said. “He made some big saves for us, especially in that first period to give us an opportunity to get our legs underneath us.”

The Kings out-shot Pittsburgh 11-3 in the first period; the Penguins out-shot the Kings 31-29 for the game.
Pittsburgh has won five of six, but was coming off a 5-3 loss to the Ducks on Wednesday.

Quick made 28 saves.

Beijing-born Sean Suen — who studied graphic design and fine arts before veering off into fashion — presented a cinematic collection that tapped into the doomed fate of one of its most famous inhabitants, China’s last emperor Puyi. During a preview, the designer mentioned that he had recently seen the 1987 Bertolucci film and that the generational perception of the man seemed to evolve from a semi-villainous focal point, to a remote historical figure.
In keeping with the Chinese designer’s previous efforts, the lineup focused on tailored shapes, silhouettes retained a monastic “East-meets-West” sensibility by borrowing indiscriminately from martial outfits, classic tailoring and workwear.
Suen’s painterly sensibilities come to express themselves through his sartorial work, and lend themselves to this kind of implicit storytelling. But even without knowing the igniting thought, the slow descent from the imperial throne to a form of layman anonymity was clear, say, in the gradual softening of the shoulders — from the stricture of a shoulder cape to the roundness of the natural articulation — as it was in textures. Suen went from the richness of a wool embossed with an astrakhan pattern on a voluminous fur-collared blouson, to the bareness of a black suit. One mottled

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The force of the Yohji Yamamoto collection lay in the masterful mix of tailoring and flou, spinning the fluidity of a skirt or dress on looks whilst keeping a masculine feel.
The storyline moved between samurai-inspired and monastic silhouettes, at times à la “Matrix.”
Yamamoto even put himself into the collection with an image of his face embroidered with a glittery tear surfacing on an asymmetric blazer-topcoat hybrid, set against a collage design with graphic lettering that added a touch of romance.
The sleeve constructions were striking, as on jackets with the contrast shiny leather with ruched accents at the shoulder as if they’d been transplanted onto the garment. A look revisited in a rock, blood-red snakeskin version with matching shoes.
The designer’s love of construction and deconstruction took flight in a run of white elongated coats patched with black shapes that gave a graphic punch.
With John Lennon’s “Imagine” as the soundtrack, the show demonstrated once more Yamamoto’s ability to create new emotion while celebrating his heritage.

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