SPORTS
THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JULY 18, 2016
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Churchill edges Astoria Ford in tourney
wouldn’t have been playing,”
he said. “We had eighth-grad-
ers laying down key bunts and
making plays for us. You want
to invest in these kids early and
give them opportunities when
they present themselves.”
And “It’s no big deal if we
lose to a 5A team — there’s a
risk vs. reward factor, and it was
a great experience for some of
our young players, guys who are
going to help build our future.
The cupboard’s not going to be
bare after these (Class of 2017)
seniors leave.”
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — Astoria Ford
held leads of 1-0 and 2-1, but
Churchill rallied with two runs
in the third inning and held on
for a 4-2 win over the Fisher-
men, in Saturdays’ champion-
ship game of the Seaside Wood
Bat Tournament at Broadway
Field
Churchill pitcher Cole
Wilkinson scattered four hits
with seven strikeouts and four
walks in the complete-game
win, as the Lancers — a Class
5A semiinalist last spring —
battled against three different
Astoria pitchers.
Starter Tristin Wallace
pitched three innings, came out
for one batter in the fourth, then
re-entered for the rest of the
inning before Dylan Rush took
over in the ifth.
Ole Englund came on in
relief in the sixth to inish the
game.
The Fishermen opened the
scoring in the top of the irst,
when Trey Hageman drew a
one-out walk and eventually
scored on a single to right by
Samboy Tuimato.
Tied 1-1 entering the third,
Astoria’s Mackenzie Pierce
drew a leadoff walk and
advanced to third on a wild pitch
and a passed ball, then scored on
a ground ball by Cade O’Brien.
But that was all the scoring
for the Fishermen, as Wilkinson
allowed just three hits over the
inal ive innings, while Asto-
ria stranded base runners in the
ifth, sixth and seventh.
The Lancers had three hits
the third inning, including an
RBI double by Michael Moore.
Churchill tacked on a run in
the sixth, on C.J. Townsend’s
squeeze bunt that scored Jack
Weiskind.
Astoria Ford returns to action
Tuesday, hosting a 5 p.m. dou-
bleheader vs. Seaside.
The game will be a tuneup
for the state tournament at West-
ern Oregon in Monmouth,
where Astoria Ford is scheduled
to open play Thursday against
Lebanon.
And “we may or may not
Astoria 4, Seaside 0
Photos by Gary Henley/The Daily Astorian
Astoria Ford’s Samboy Tuimato delivers a single to right field in the top of the first inning Saturday, scoring Trey Hage-
man for a 1-0 lead against Churchill.
Jasyn Gohl of Astoria Ford slides in with a stolen base in
front of Seaside’s Payton Westerholm, in Friday semifinal
game at Broadway Field.
SCOREBOARD
SPORTS SCHEDULE
TUESDAY
Junior State Baseball — Seaside at Astoria Ford (2), 5 p.m.
have Fritz (Fremstad) and Kyle
(Strange) for that one,” Gas-
ser said of his two seniors, who
Astoria Ford third baseman Trey Hageman fires to first
base for an out, in Friday’s win over Seaside.
have been playing for a team in
Washington this summer.
The Fishermen will also get
Jackson Arnsdorf later in the
tournament, “if we’re still alive
Saturday,” Gasser said.
“As it turned out, we’ve
been able to get some younger
kids some time who normally
Mariners sloppy with four errors in 8-1 loss
By JIM HOEHN
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Mariners man-
ager Scott Servais was blunt in his
assessment of his team’s perfor-
mance in a lopsided series-ending
loss to Houston, the team directly
ahead of them in the A.L. West.
Seattle committed four errors,
walked four, and left 10 runners on,
including leaving the bases-loaded
in the irst and third inning, en
route to an 8-1 loss to the Astros on
Sunday.
“That’s the worst game we’ve
played all year,” Servais said.
“Messed up six or seven plays in
the ield today. We played a terrible
ball game. There’s no way you can
sugarcoat that.”
Jose Altuve homered among his
four hits and drove in three runs
and Collin McHugh escaped a pair
of bases-loaded jams to pitch six
scoreless innings to drop the third-
place Mariners four games behind
Houston.
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
Seattle Mariners’ Dae-Ho Lee reacts after being hit by a pitch thrown
by Houston Astros reliever Chris Devenski in the eighth inning of a
baseball game, Sunday, in Seattle.
Altuve had a two-run homer and
three singles in ive at-bats to raise
his American League-leading aver-
age to .346. McHugh (6-6) allowed
four hits and walked four, striking
out 10 to win for the irst time in
eight starts since his last victory on
May 30.
Carlos Gomez added his second
career grand slam in the seventh
inning off Nathan Karns to put the
Astros up 8-0.
Kyle Seager singled home Seat-
tle’s only run in the eighth off Chris
Devenski.
Mike Montgomery (3-4), mak-
ing his second start this sea-
son after 30 relief appearances,
allowed four runs and seven hits
in ive innings, walking two and
striking out seven.
Altuve had the green light on a
3-0 pitch in the third and delivered
his 15th homer to follow Marwin
Gonzalez’s leadoff double, putting
Houston up 3-0.
“Altuve’s a good hitter, and
he had some good swings on me
today,” Montgomery said. “I didn’t
do a good job. He’s 3-0, he’s going
to swing. I gave him a pitch to hit.
In that situation, it’s okay to put him
on base there, and I kind of made a
mistake there and it cost me.”
The Astros made it 4-0 in the
ifth when Gonzalez again doubled
to open the inning, took third on
a throwing error by center ielder
Leonys Martin, and scored on
Altuve’s single to left.
Stenson, Mickelson forever linked after epic Open duel
By PAUL NEWBERRY
AP National Writer
TROON, Scotland — They
walked off the 18th green
together, arms wrapped around
each other, forever linked by
one of golf’s greatest duels.
Henrik Stenson and Phil
Mickelson.
No losers here, but only one
winner.
Stenson claimed the claret
jug, a major champion for the
irst time at age 40. All it took
was 10 birdies and a magnii-
cent 8-under 63 in the closing
round of the British Open.
Right on his heels, almost
to the very end, was Mickel-
son. Lefty shot a bogey-free
65, good enough to win on
just about any Sunday but this
one, another runner-up in-
ish in a major providing little
consolation.
“I’m happy for Henrik,”
said Mickelson, who in-
ished three shots behind Sten-
son’s record score for a major
championship. “I knew that he
would ultimately come through
and win. I’m disappointed that
it was at my expense.”
This was a shot-for-shot
showdown that mirrored Tom
Watson and Jack Nicklaus at
Turnberry in 1977, the famed
“Duel in the Sun.”
Maybe it was a sign when
the sun popped out from behind
the clouds for the irst time
in three days at Royal Troon
just as Stenson and Mickelson
walked to the irst tee.
“I knew he wasn’t going to
back down at any point,” said
Stenson, whose 20-under 264
beat the scoring mark of 265
that David Toms set at the 2001
PGA Championship and was
three shots better than anyone
had ever shot in the Open. “I
knew I had to keep on pushing,
keep on giving myself birdie
chances.”
For Mickelson, there
was no second-guessing the
way he played. This wasn’t
another Winged Foot, where
his silly decision to attack on
the 72nd hole cost him the
U.S. Open in 2006. But it was
still a runner-up finish in a
major, the 11th of his career,
his extensive list of close
calls surpassed only by Nick-
laus’ 19.
Mickelson knew there
wasn’t much more he could do.
Still, this one hurt just as
much as the rest of them.
In a way, maybe even a lit-
tle more.
“It’s probably the best I’ve
played and not won,” Mickel-
son said. “I don’t have a point
where I can look back and say,
‘I should have done that’ or
‘Had I only done this.’ I played
a bogey-free round of 65 on
the inal round of a major. Usu-
ally that’s good enough to do it.
And I got beat.”
AP Photo/Ben Curtis
Henrik Stenson of Sweden, left and Phil
Mickelson of the United States embrace as
they walk off the 18th green after Stenson
won the British Open Golf Championships
at the Royal Troon Golf Club in Troon, Scot-
land, Sunday.
SEASIDE — The Fisher-
men secured their spot in the
Saturday’s championship game
with a 4-0 win over Seaside Fri-
day afternoon.
Astoria pitcher Calvin Kaul
tossed ive solid innings, allow-
ing just one hit to keep the
Gulls scoreless. Trey Hageman
pitched the inal two innings.
The Astoria pitchers had
help, with several big defensive
plays by the Fishermen.
Astoria Ford turned double
plays in the second and sixth
innings, and Tyler Lyngstad
made a juggling catch of a foul
ball near irst base in the second.
The biggest play may have
been in the fourth, when Seaside
loaded the bases following two
walks and a hit batter.
Ashton Boyd delivered a
Kaul pitch to right ield, where
Astoria outielder Danny John-
son ielded the ball on a hop and
ired to Kaul covering irst to get
Boyd, preventing two runs from
scoring and ending the inning.
The Fishermen scored sin-
gle runs in the second and ifth
innings, both unearned, then
tacked on two runs in the sixth.
Jasyn Gohl scored on a
squeeze bunt by Dylan Rush,
and Tristan Wallace sprinted
home on a Seaside error on a
grounder by Josiah Hirsch.
Ole Englund led Astoria
Ford’s seven-hit attack, with
three singles. Boyd had a single
in the third for Seaside’s lone hit.
Scott Pamplin went the distance
on the mound for the Gulls, who
inished the tournament Sunday
with a loss to Madison.
Russian inquiry
inds cheating
went beyond
Sochi Olympics
By EDDIE PELLS
AP National Writer
An investigator looking into Russian
doping found the country’s state-di-
rected cheating program resulted in
at least 312 falsiied results and lasted
from 2011 through at least last year’s
world swimming championships.
The investigator, Richard McLaren,
dubbed Russia’s program the “disap-
pearing positive methodology.” But he
did not make any recommendations for
the future of the Russian team, saying it
was up to others, including the Interna-
tional Olympic Committee, to “absorb
and act upon” the 97-page report.
McLaren said allegations made by
Moscow’s former anti-doping lab direc-
tor about sample switching at the Sochi
Olympics went much as described in
a New York Times story in May. That
program involved dark-of-night switch-
ing of dirty samples with clean ones; it
prevented Russian athletes from testing
positive.
But McLaren, whose report went
public Monday, said Russia’s cheat-
ing also included the 2013 track world
championships in Moscow and was in
place during the 2015 swimming world
championships in Kazan.
Russia’s deputy minister of sports
would direct lab workers which positive
samples to send through and which to
hold back.
He said the 312 results that were held
back represented only a “small slice”
of the data that could have been exam-
ined. McLaren had only 57 days for his
investigation, which was commissioned
by the World Anti-Doping Agency after
the Times story came out.
Time was of the essence because the
Olympics begin Aug. 5, and decisions
about Russia’s participation in Rio must
be made.
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency is
one of several sports organizations that
said it would call for a full ban of the
Russian team if the report showed evi-
dence of a widespread, state-sponsored
doping conspiracy. McClaren said it did
and he was “unwaveringly conident in
my report.”