2B ❚ WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2019 ❚ APPEAL TRIBUNE
SPORTS BRIEFS
United States head coach Jill Ellis listens to a question during a Team USA news conference Sunday in Lyon, France. MICHAEL CHOW/USA TODAY SPORTS
Ellis says scoping out World Cup
final hotel isn’t arrogance
Mick Schumacher to drive father’s
F1 car at Hockenheim Ring
LYON, France – Preparing for the
Women’s World Cup semifinal against
the United States, coach Phil Neville
was irritated to discover the Americans
scoping out England’s hotel.
The Americans could move into the
hotel if they win the next game.
U.S. coach Jill Ellis insisted it was a
sign of good preparation rather than ar
rogance, but Neville suggested it could
be a disciplinary matter for the staff dis
patched to the hotel and bad etiquette
As the designated home team, Eng
land had first choice of hotels and so will
the winner of Tuesday’s semifinal as
they prepare for the final, which is also
being played in Lyon.
A pair of U.S. staffers visited the
Fourvière Hotel, which is close to the old
town, while England was out at a prac
tice session Sunday.
“I think that’s important to do your
job,” Ellis said. “So in terms of arrogance
I think that’s got nothing to do with us.
That’s planning and preparation for our
staff. So I think that’s pretty normal.”
Not so, according to Neville. He
thinks Ellis should have been far tough
er.
“We were training, I hope they en
joyed the hotel but it’s not something we
would do – sending someone round to
another team’s hotel,” Neville said. “But
it’s their problem. I am sure that Jill
probably wouldn’t have been happy
with that arrangement. I wouldn’t have
been if that was my team ops person go
ing round.
“I am sure they will be dealing with
their own infrastructure within their
own discipline problem.”
SPIELBERG, Austria – The car Mi
chael Schumacher drove to win his rec
ord seventh Formula One championship
in 2004 will make a return to the Hock
enheim Ring next month and his son
will be driving it.
F1 organizers said Sunday that Mick
Schumacher will use his father’s Ferrari
F2004 for demonstration runs during
the German Grand Prix weekend on July
2728.
Mick Schumacher, who is competing
in Formula 2 for Prema Racing and is
part of Ferrari’s driver academy, will
drive the car prior to Saturday’s qualify
ing and again before the drivers’ parade
ahead of Sunday’s race.
“I think it is mega driving this car in
Hockenheim,” Mick Schumacher said. “I
will be able to drive one of the strongest
cars in Formula 1 history there. A big grin
creeps into my face.”
Four of Michael Schumacher’s 91 F1
race wins came at Hockenheim, while
his son won the FIA Formula 3 European
Championship on the track in the Rhine
valley last year.
“It will be an emotional moment see
ing Mick at the wheel of a car linked to
so many great memories,” F1’s manag
ing director for motorsport Ross Brawn
said. “The F2004 was a fantastic car,
which took 15 wins and both champion
ship titles in a season that can be seen
as the culmination of a golden period.”
Hurricanes acquire Reimer in swap
of goalies with Panthers
The Carolina Hurricanes have
swapped goalies by acquiring James
Reimer in a trade with the Florida Pan
thers.
Florida acquired goalie Scott Darling
and immediately placed him on waivers
with the intention to buy out the re
maining two years of his contract. The
Panthers also acquired a sixthround
pick in the 2020 draft in the trade made
Sunday, a day before the start of the
NHL’s freeagent signing period.
Reimer helps address the Hurricanes’
immediate need at goalie with costart
ers Petr Mrzaek and Curtis McElhinney
eligible to become unrestricted free
agents.
The 31yearold Reimer had a 13125
record and a .900 save percentage in 36
games with the Panthers last season.
Overall, Reimer has a 14412019 record
in 338 games, including stops in Toronto
and San Jose.
For Florida, the trade amounted to
the team freeing up space under the sal
ary cap in dealing Reimer and buying
out Darling’s contract.
University of New Mexico says
goodbye to 4 sports programs
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – An era is
ending at the University of New Mexico
as the school officially stops four sports
programs, including men’s soccer.
Head soccer coach Jeremy Fishbein
says unsuccessful efforts over the past
year to save the program have left those
associated with it physically and men
tally exhausted.
Men’s soccer has been one of the uni
versity’s most successful teams, win
ning its share of conference titles and
making regular appearances in the na
tional collegiate tournament.
All four programs are set to end Mon
day after the UNM Board of Regents vot
ed last year to cut soccer along with
beach volleyball and the men’s and
women’s ski teams to shore up a budget
deficit within the athletic department.
Officials also said they needed to ad
dress compliance issues with federal
mandates regarding equal opportunity
for female athletes.
Fishbein said it has been an honor to
coach at the university over the past 18
years.
In a parting statement, he described
soccer as a progressive and diverse
sport that will be part of the state’s fu
ture.
“The game we all love is too powerful
and too important to the youth of New
Mexico and the youth of our country,” he
said. “It will be up to all of you to con
tinue the fight to reinstate Lobo men’s
soccer.”
Verstappen wins Austrian GP to
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SPIELBERG, Austria – Max Verstap
pen won the Austrian Grand Prix for a
second straight year on Sunday as Red
Bull ended Mercedes’ unbeaten streak
this season.
The Dutchman recovered from a poor
start to work his way up to the front of
the pack from eighth place, and over
took leader Charles Leclerc in a Ferrari
with just two laps to go.
However, stewards were investigat
ing Verstappen’s move to pass Leclerc
as both cars touched.
Starting from pole position for the
second time in his career, Leclerc led the
race almost throughout but just missed
his first career win.
Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas com
pleted the podium, ahead of Ferrari’s
Sebastian Vettel and championship
leader Lewis Hamilton, who started
fourth after a grid penalty and lost time
to replace the front wing of his Mer
cedes after 33 laps and finished fifth.
Illinois city seeks to help finance
women’s baseball museum
ROCKFORD, Ill. – Officials in the Illi
nois city home to the women’s baseball
team that inspired the 1992 film “A
League of Their Own” want to help fund
a $7 million museum honoring the role
of women in the sport’s history.
The city of Rockford’s planning com
mittee agreed this week to provide
$20,000 to help kick off construction of
the International Women’s Baseball
Center. The City Council will likely vote
on the plan next week, the Rockford
Register Star reported.
The museum, hall of fame and train
ing facility will be located near the stadi
um where the Rockford Peaches played
in the 1940s and 1950s as part of the All
American Girls Professional Baseball
League. The first phase of the project
will build an outdoor pavilion with mon
uments that resemble baseball cards
and honor women involved in the sport.
The first exhibit will be dedicated to
Penny Marshall, who directed the film
starring Tom Hanks and Geena Davis.
It’s expected to be unveiled in Septem
ber.
The center will announce and unveil
eight more exhibits.
“Here in Rockford, women who par
ticipated in all aspects of the sport will
be honored, but perhaps more impor
tantly their stories will be used to in
spire current and future generations of
girls,” said Kat Williams, the center’s
president.
Williams said women should be rec
ognized “as players, coaches, umpires,
owners and groundskeepers.”
Alderman Tim Durkee spoke of the
city’s contribution as the type of project
that local government should get in
volved in. Durkee said the museum will
promote women’s participation in
sports and preserve part of Rockford’s
history.
Switzerland forward Ismaili
missing after swimming accident
GENEVA – Switzerland forward Flor
ijana Ismaili is missing after getting into
difficulties while swimming in Italy.
Swiss side Young Boys Bern says it
has been informed that Ismaili, who
plays for its women’s team, has been
missing since she had a swimming acci
dent at Lake Como in Lombardy on Sat
urday afternoon.
The club says: “The police searches
are still underway. We are very upset
and have not given up hope that all will
end well.”
The club adds, “We are in close con
tact with family members and ask for
understanding that we cannot make
any further comment at this time. We
will inform again as soon as we know
more.”
Italian news agency Ansa reported
that Ismaili rented a boat with a friend.
She apparently dived into the lake from
the boat but did not resurface.
The 24yearold Ismaili has been
playing for Bern since 2011.
– Wire services
