SPORTS
THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2016
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Timbers chop
Tomi takes bow at Westminster
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NCU goalkeeper Kendal
Littel racked up three saves in
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Soccer Club was in action last trailed 3-0 at halftime.
Paisley Baker played
weekend, with the NCU girls
falling 8-0 to a very skilled keeper in the second half, and
Westside Timbers team.
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for the NC United girls’ team.
solid minutes offensively and
Westside was 12-0 in fall defensively, along with strong
league play, allowing just one defensive play by Kenzie Ram-
goal.
sey and Elle Espelien.
NCU held strong for the
The NC United girls play
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keep pace with Westside’s renton Soccer Complex against
relentless attack.
Clackamas United SC.
The Daily Astorian
By BEN WALKER
AP Sports Writer
NEW YORK — When
Julia Haight leads her prize
entry into the Westminster
Kennel Club dog show ring
Monday, we’ll see a shiba inu
who’s athletic, alert and pert.
Oh, and this: Tomi helped
save her life.
Haight can’t be certain
what would’ve happened that
day last October. How could
she? Five people were in the
house on Long Island, sound
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What she knows for sure is
that Tomi (pronounced TAH-
mee) smelled the smoke
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bedroom. He jumped hard
onto the bed, pounced on
Haight from head to toe
and then kept slamming his
25-pound body into her face.
“He’s normally catlike,
very graceful. But he was
violently shaking. It wasn’t
like him at all,” Haight said.
Awakened by this real-
life alarm, everyone escaped.
The home, not so lucky.
“It could’ve been so, so
different,” she said.
Williams earns
scholar/athlete award
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Courtesy of Julia Haight
Tomi, a shiba inu, who turns 4 later this month, will be in the Westminster Kennel Club
dog show on Monday. Last October, he alerted owner Julia Haight to a fire inside her
house in Hicksville, New York, and all family members safely escaped.
ing, toy, working and ter-
rier groups, plus the overall
champ.
Fire dog
Special dogs
Tomi is among the 14 shi-
More than 2,700 dogs will bas entered. Spirited and on
be coming to America’s most the smallish side, they’re
prestigious pooch event, and the pride of Japan, come in
shades of red, white, sesame,
all of them are special.
Charlie the Skye terrier black and tan, and are highly
was second to retired Miss focused on keeping their
P the beagle for best in show coats clean.
last year. Rumor the German
Back for his third West-
shepherd is now ranked as minster, Tomi’s greatest feat
the nation’s No. 1 show dog. came at dawn on Oct. 19 in
There’s a berger Picard Hicksville, New York. That’s
who detects when the own- where Haight was asleep,
er’s son has low blood-sugar along with her husband, her
levels. There’s a pharaoh brother, his girlfriend and a
hound who needed medi- family friend.
That is, until Tomi jumped
cal and emotional aid after
on her.
neglect.
“He was telling me some-
“These are real dogs and
real people,” longtime West- thing was wrong. Somehow,
minster television host David he knew,” Haight said.
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Frei said. “They’re not dogs
that just sit around all day on smelled the heating system
doggie cushions eating dog- coming on. She quickly real-
gie bonbons.”
ized it was much worse.
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Judging at the 140th
annual show starts Mon- ken out, and the smoke was
day morning in the exhibi- starting to pour through the
tion space on two piers that hallways.
Haight and everyone else
jut into the Hudson River.
Tuesday on the green car- scrambled outside to safety.
pet at Madison Square Gar- Three other dogs in the
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top dog.
and an ambulance rolled up.
The blaze was extinguished,
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the total to 199 breeds and interior of the house was
varieties. That includes 51 uninhabitable.
Over the past four months,
Labrador retrievers, one Nea-
politan mastiff but not a sin- the Haights have lived in
a pet-friendly hotel and a
gle Norwegian lundehund.
All 50 states are repre- rental home. She’s continued
sented, along with entries to work in retail management
from Thailand, Brazil and for PetSmart, a company for
Slovenia. There’s also an pet supplies and services.
Tomi, for all he did,
agility competition Saturday
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“Nothing but people food
event Monday.
Dog fanciers watching for a week,” she said.
Later this month, the
Monday on CNBC and Tues-
day on USA Network can whole family is set to move
play at home, too. Purina back into their rebuilt home.
“I know he misses his
Pro Plan is offering a $1 mil-
lion prize for correctly pick- yard,” Haight said. “And
ing the winners of the hound, thanks to him, we all get to
nonsporting, herding, sport- go back and enjoy it.”
FAMILY OWNED & OPERATED
Courtesy of Julia Haight
Julia Haight and her dog, Tomi. Tomi, a shiba inu, alerted
the family about a fire last October inside their house in
Hicksville, New York. Haight will handle Tomi in the up-
coming Westminster Kennel Club show.
Astoria Youth Baseball will
be hosting their annual base-
ball tryouts for the upcom-
ing season Saturday at Astoria
Middle School.
Eligible players must be 8
years old as of May 1, or 12
years old as of April 30.
Athletes who have played
on a Majors team in the past
must still tryout.
Astoria High School coach
Dave Gasser, his coaching
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Frank Franklin II/AP Photo
A handler carries Charlie, a Skye terrier, to the judging ta-
ble at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show in New York.
Charlie was second to retired Miss P the beagle for best
in show last year and will be one of the more than 2,700
dogs coming to America’s most prestigious pooch event,
and all of them are special.
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SATURDAY
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