Baseball

Oregon rolls to win over Portland — Mitchell Tolman was 4-for-5 at the plate with a home run and a double to lead Oregon to an 11-3 nonconference road victory over Portland on Tuesday. The Ducks (19-15) racked up 15 hits to just three for the Pilots (7-27). Josh Graham also had a home run for Oregon with three RBIs, while Brandon Cuddy and Phil Craig-St. Louis each had a double. Former Madras product Turner Gill had a three-run homer for the Pilots.

Softball

Ducks’ doubleheader rained out — Oregon’s Tuesday doubleheader against Portland State in Hillsboro was rained out. The Ducks and Vikings will now play a doubleheader next Tuesday, April 14, starting at 4 p.m. at the Gordon Faber Rec Complex in Hillsboro.

Basketball

Illinois State staffers among 7 dead in plane crash — Illinois State University says its associate head basketball coach and a deputy athletic director are among seven people who died in a plane crash in central Illinois. University President Larry Dietz confirmed Tuesday that assistant coach Torrey Ward and Aaron Leetch, the athletic department’s deputy director for external relations, were killed in the early-morning crash. Ward and Leetch were on a small plane that crashed near Bloomington, Illinois, on the way back from the NCAA basketball tournament in Indianapolis.

Arizona’s Hollis-Jefferson headed to the NBA — Arizona forward Rondae Hollis-Jefferson will forgo his final two years of eligibility and declare for the NBA draft. An athletic 6-foot-7 sophomore, Hollis-Jefferson was the catalyst for Arizona’s defense the past two seasons, sometimes guarding every position on the floor. Hollis-Jefferson averaged 11.2 points and 6.8 rebounds last season, helping Arizona reach the NCAA tournament’s Elite Eight for the second straight season.

2 ex-Toledo players sentenced in sports probe — Two former University of Toledo basketball players have been given probation for their roles in a sports bribery scandal at the Ohio school. Kashif Payne and Keith Triplett were sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Detroit. In addition to serving probation, they must pay fines and perform community service. Two other former basketball players and three ex-football players have been sentenced to probation. All pleaded guilty to conspiracy, admitting they accepted cash and other benefits from a Detroit-area gambler from 2004 through 2006. The players supplied information to the gambler or altered their performance to affect the final score.

12-year-old ties for 1st in ESPN bracket challenge — A sixth-grade boy from suburban Chicago completed a near-perfect bracket predicting the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, finishing in a tie for first in ESPN’s massive annual contest. Sam Holtz said ESPN officials told him that he is ineligible to claim the top prize — a $20,000 gift card and a trip to the Maui Invitational basketball tournament — because he’s 12 years old. ESPN requires participants to be at least 18. “I’m irritated,” Holtz told the Daily Herald. “Yes, I’m still proud of my accomplishment, but I’m not happy with the decision.” Finishing with the best bracket does not equal an automatic claim to the prize. ESPN awards the prize through a random draw of the brackets that were among the top 1 percent in the contest — about 115,700 this year. Kevin Ota, a spokesman for ESPN Digital Media, said the network is putting together some kind of prize for Holtz.

— From staff and wire reports