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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JULY 15, 2016
It’s Pence: Trump announces
his VP choice on Twitter
By JULIE PACE and
JILL COLVIN
Associated Press
Submitted Photo
Members of Astoria football’s ‘Linemen Challenge’ team.
Fishermen footballers
win 7-on-7 tourney
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WARRENTON — Sixty
members of this year’s Asto-
ria varsity football team
helped the Fishermen win a
number of awards earlier this
week, in the annual Camp
Rilea Football Camp, which
took place Saturday through
Tuesday on the grounds of
Camp Rilea.
The Fishermen, who have
been attending the camp since
the summer of 2008 (Asto-
ria’s irst state title team), won
the camp championship in the
7-on-7 passing tournament
(Class 4A division), and took
second in the overall tourna-
ment, behind 6A Tualatin.
Astoria’s linemen earned
second place among 4A
schools in the “Linemen
Challenge,” which tests the
skills of offensive and defen-
sive linemen in agility, quick-
ness and strength, with the
sled push, tire-lips and tug-
of-war competition.
A total of 16 varsity pro-
grams attended the camp, with
teams from Oregon, Washing-
ton and Canada.
“We were pleased to have
such a great turnout of partici-
pants,” Astoria coach Howard
Rub said. “Thirteen incoming
freshmen and 18 sophomores
attended the camp, joining 29
varsity team members, which
made for a great program
effort.”
Last year, 55 players
helped Astoria take irst place
in both the 7-on-7 and the
Linemen Challenge.
“There was great competi-
tion at camp this summer, and
our guys showed a tremen-
dous competitive spirit,” Rub
said. “Importantly, we learned
a lot about each other and a
lot about what we need to do
in order to become the team
we hope to be for the 2016
season.”
Van Dusen Beverages,
Astoria Ford, Nygaard Log-
ging and Columbia Memorial
Hospital all contributed time,
volunteers or money to stage
the camp.
Seaside High strength and
conditioning coach Dan Leary
also contributed his services.
“This was truly a commu-
nity and countywide effort
to help host a great camp,”
Rub said. “I was extremely
pleased with the leader-
ship displayed by our seniors
during the camp. We showed
great poise in very competi-
tive situations.”
Astoria Ford pounds the Prospectors
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SEASIDE — Astoria Ford
pitchers were pounding the
strike zone Thursday afternoon
at Broadway Field … and the
Fishermen eventually pounded
Grant Union on the scoreboard
in a irst round game of a three-
day tournament.
Close
through
ive
innings, Astoria Ford scored
six runs in the sixth inning
and tacked on ive in the sev-
enth, for a 13-1 win over the
Prospectors.
Astoria’s offense had its
moments, but it was pitcher
Tyler Lyngstad who set the
tone, striking out 12 bat-
ters in six innings of work,
with no walks and four hits
allowed.
“‘Linky’ has followed up a
good spring with a great sum-
mer,” Astoria coach Dave
Gasser said of Lyngstad, who
will be a senior. “He’s turned
into a really good pitcher, and
I’m looking forward to his
next spring. He’s going to be
a good one.”
Trey Hageman pitched
the seventh and struck out
all three batters he faced, as
the two pitchers combined to
strike out 15, with no walks.
Runs and hits were hard to
come by for both teams early
on. Of the irst 20 batters, 13
went down on strikes, includ-
ing eight straight at one point.
The Fishermen jumped
on the board in the top of the
fourth, when Ole Englund
singled to center, then stole
second and third, with an
errant throw to third allowing
Englund to score.
Samboy Tuimato drew a
leadoff walk in the ifth, stole
second, then scored on an
error, as Grant Union ielded
a bunt by Calvin Kaul, but
a throw to irst ended up in
right ield, allowing Kaul to
reach third.
And the loodgates opened
in the sixth, as a one-out dou-
ble by Lyngstad sparked a
six-run rally.
Jasyn Gohl, Jared Lucore
and Tuimato all reached on
consecutive base hits, Josiah
Hirsch drove in Tuimato with
the ifth hit of the inning,
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Tristan Wallace had a dou-
ble for the sixth hit, and Ebin
Hillard and Wallace both
raced home on the same wild
pitch.
Mackenzie Pierce and
Wallace had run-scoring hits
in the seventh.
Astoria Ford returns to
tournament action at 12:30
p.m. today against Seaside.
The Gulls had a forfeit win
over no-show Brookings
Thursday.
WASHINGTON — Don-
ald Trump has chosen Indi-
ana Gov. Mike Pence as his
running mate, adding politi-
cal experience and conserva-
tive bona ides to his Republi-
can presidential ticket. Trump
announced his decision on
Twitter Friday morning, cap-
ping a frenzied 24 hours of
speculation about his choice.
A news conference was
set for Saturday in New York
for the two men who will take
on Hillary Clinton and her
Democratic running mate in
November.
Trump offered the vice
presidential spot to Pence
Thursday, and the governor
boarded a plane for New York
in anticipation of a Friday
announcement, according to
a Republican with knowledge
of the process. But shortly
after Pence arrived, Trump
abruptly said he was postpon-
ing an announcement because
of the deadly attack in Nice,
France, that left more than 80
people dead.
The delay sparked spec-
ulation that the notoriously
unpredictable Trump might
make a last minute change.
But the businessman put
those questions to rest Friday
when he tweeted that he was
“pleased” to announce Pence
as his No. 2.
Pence said on Twitter that
he was honored to accept the
running mate slot and “work
to make America great again.”
Staunch conservative
Pence, a staunchly conser-
vative 57-year-old, served six
terms in Congress before being
elected governor and could
help Trump navigate Capitol
Hill. He is well-regarded by
evangelical Christians, partic-
ularly after signing a law that
critics said would allow busi-
nesses to deny service to gay
people for religious reasons.
Clinton’s campaign moved
quickly to paint Pence as
the “most extreme pick in a
generation.”
AP Photo/Michael Conroy, David Zalubowski
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, left, and Republican presiden-
tial candidate Donald Trump.
“By picking Mike Pence
as his running mate, Donald
Trump has doubled down on
some of his most disturbing
beliefs by choosing an incredi-
bly divisive and unpopular run-
ning mate,” said John Podesta,
Clinton’s campaign chairman.
Pence rose to the top of
Trump’s list in recent days
as the two men spent more
time together. Pence was
the favored choice of many
Republican leaders, as well as
some top advisers in Trump’s
campaign, relecting a desire
to see the real estate mogul
add a more traditional politi-
cian to the ticket.
“It was a pick that clearly
shows he is pivoting to the
general election,” said Repub-
lican National Committee
Chairman Reince Priebus,
who was in the midst of an
interview with The Associated
Press when Trump announced
his decision. “He is choosing
a person who has the experi-
ence inside and outside Wash-
ington, Christian conservative,
very different style that I think
shows a lot of maturity.”
Down to the wire
Pence’s re-election pros-
pects in Indiana added to the
drama surrounding Trump’s
decision.
State law prohibits candi-
dates from being on ballots in
two contests, and Pence faced
a noon Friday deadline for
withdrawing from the gover-
nor’s race. Trump’s announce-
ment came about an hour
before that deadline.
Minutes after Trump
tweeted, one of the governor’s
aides iled the paperwork
with the Indiana Secretary of
State’s ofice.
Since taking ofice in 2013,
Pence has presided over Indi-
ana’s improving economy and
falling unemployment rate,
which Republicans credit to
the state’s low taxes, limited
regulation and pro-business
climate. Yet his popularity at
home has tumbled and re-elec-
tion was not guaranteed.
During his years in Con-
gress, Pence was known for a
calm demeanor and conserva-
tive record. He deepened his
ties to evangelical Christians
and other conservatives last
year when he signed the law
affecting gays.
But his support for the
measure led to a revolt from
the business community,
which joined gay rights advo-
cates in successfully push-
ing for changes to the law. It
also turned off some mod-
erate Republicans, helping
derail Pence’s own presiden-
tial ambitions.
Trump’s hectic deci-
sion-making process was made
more complicated by the fact
that the businessman was in
California Thursday for a series
of fundraisers, isolated from
nearly all of his closest advis-
ers, including his three adult
children and his campaign
chairman, Paul Manafort.