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Summit defeats Astoria Ford, 3-1 The 106th annual
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MONMOUTH — The Sum-
mit Storm had only two hits and
scored in just one inning, but it
was enough for a 3-1 victory
over Astoria Ford Saturday, in a
consolation game of the Junior
Baseball state tournament at
Western Oregon University in
Monmouth.
Astoria stranded eight base
runners in the season-ending
loss, while the Storm had both
hits and scored all three of its
runs in the second inning, then
let pitcher Hayden Love close it
out.
Love went the distance on
the mound, allowing ive hits
with three strikeouts and three
walks, while Astoria’s Jackson
Arnsdorf (one hit allowed, four
strikeouts, four walks) took the
loss in four innings of work.
Tyler Lyngstad pitched the inal
two innings, giving up one hit.
The Fishermen posted their
lone run in the fourth inning,
a double by Jaysn Gohl that
scored Samboy Tuimato, who
SCOREBOARD
BASEBALL
Summit 3, Astoria Ford 1
Astoria
000 100 0—1 5 0
Summit
030 000 x—3 2 1
Arnsdorf, Lyngstad (5) and Gohl;
Love and Howdy, Graziani (3).
W: Love. L: Arnsdorf. RBI: Sum,
Steelhammer, Scarburough. 2B:
Ast, Lucore. HBP: Ast, Englund;
Sum, Peterson. LOB: Astoria Ford
8, Summit 6.
had two of Astoria’s ive hits.
Summit scored three runs in
the second inning on a ielder’s
choice and a groundout by Drew
Steelhammer.
The state tournament ield of
16 teams included seven schools
from the 6A level and eight 5A
schools. Astoria was the only 4A
school competing.
Thurston 5, Astoria 4
MONMOUTH — Before
Saturday’s loss to Summit,
Astoria Ford lost a 5-4 nail-biter
to Thurston Friday afternoon,
in a quarterinal game of the
Thurston 5, Astoria Ford 4
Astoria
002 020 0—4 2 2
Thurston 000 101 3—5 7 3
Englund, Hageman (7) and
Gohl; Howard and Thoreson,
Neer (4). W: Howard. L: Englund.
RBI: Thu, Bulom 2, Steelmen 2,
Francis. 2B: Ast, O’Brien. 3B: Thu,
Bulom. HBP: Ast, Tuimato; Thu,
Sargeant 2. LOB: Astoria Ford 8,
Thurston 7.
tournament.
Thurston — Junior Baseball
state champions in 2008 and
2010 — overcame a 4-2 deicit
after six innings with three runs
in the bottom of the seventh to
score the victory.
Astoria Ford, which had
won Junior Baseball state titles
in 2006, 2007 and 2009, had just
two hits in the loss, both by lead-
off batter Cade O’Brien. The
rest of the Fishermen lineup was
0-for-20.
Instead, Astoria took advan-
tage of three Thurston errors,
plus eight walks and a hit bat-
ter by Thurston pitcher Alec
Howard, who went the distance
despite struggling. Ole Englund
took the loss for the Fishermen,
as he pitched six-and-a-third
innings, with two strikeouts, two
walks and six hits allowed. Trey
Hageman came on in relief, and
gave up one hit.
Astoria scored the irst run in
the third inning, when O’Brien
singled and eventually scored on
a passed ball. Englund walked
and also scored on a passed ball
later in the inning.
The Fishermen tacked on
two in the ifth, as O’Brien and
Samboy Tuimato both scored on
an error for a 4-1 lead.
Trailing 4-2 to start the bot-
tom of the seventh, Thurston’s
Connor Morton reached on
an error with one out and took
second on a single by Carson
Werder. Kobe Bulom followed
with a two-run triple to center
ield to tie the game.
After a pitching change,
Thurston’s Decker Stedman sin-
gled to center, scoring Bulom
with the game-winner.
Coast Invitational
begins play today
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WARRENTON
—
Match play begins today in
the 106th annual Oregon
Coast Invitational, follow-
ing a weekend of qualifying
at the Astoria Golf & Coun-
try Club.
Riley Elmes of the
Oregon Golf Club won
medalist
honors
Sat-
urday in the Grand
Champions Division.
Elmes — who lost a tie-
breaker to Anthony Arvid-
son for medalist in last
year’s qualifying round —
shot a 67 to edge Harri-
son Moir of Waverley, who
carded a 68. Jay Ross in-
ished with a 69.
Returning
champi-
ons include Michael Healy
(Seniors) and David Vistica
(Super Seniors), while nine-
time Women’s champion
Lara Mack Tennant is not
competing this year because
of a shoulder injury.
Other medalists from
a weekend of qualifying
included James Folk, who
shot an even-par 72 for his
second straight medalist
title in the Junior/Seniors
Division; and 67-year-old
Jeff Leinassar shot a 67 to
earn medalist honors for the
Super Seniors.
Qualifying scores for
Women’s and Seniors divi-
sions were not available.
Match play starts today
in the Grand Champions
and Junior/Seniors divi-
sions, and action continues
every day through Saturday
at the Astoria Golf & Coun-
try Club.
Grifey Jr., Piazza inducted into Hall of Fame
By JOHN KEKIS
AP Sports Writer
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y.
— Two players who began
their careers at opposite ends
of the spectrum nearly three
decades ago ended up in the
same place on Sunday —
with their names etched on
plaques at the Baseball Hall
of Fame.
For Ken Griffey Jr. and
Mike Piazza, the culmination
of their long journeys was
tinged with tears all around.
“I stand up here humbled
and overwhelmed,” Griffey
said, staring out at his fam-
ily and tens of thousands of
fans. “I can’t describe how it
feels.”
The two became a piece of
history on their special day.
Griffey, the irst pick of the
1987 amateur draft, became
the highest pick ever inducted.
Piazza, a 62nd-round pick the
next year —No. 1,390 — is
the lowest pick to enter the
Hall of Fame.
Griffey played 22 big-
league seasons with the Mar-
iners, Reds and White Sox
and was selected on a record
99.32 percent of ballots cast,
an afirmation of sorts for
his clean performance during
baseball’s so-called Steroids
Era.
A 13-time All-Star and
10-time Gold Glove Award
winner in center ield, Griffey
hit 630 home runs, sixth all-
time, and drove in 1,836 runs.
He also was the American
League MVP in 1997, drove
in at least 100 runs in eight
seasons, and won seven Silver
Slugger Awards.
Starting with
Mariners
Griffey, who fell just three
votes shy of being the irst
unanimous selection, hit 417
of his 630 homers and won
all 10 of his Gold Gloves
with the Seattle Mariners. He
played the irst 11 seasons of
his career with the Mariners
and led them to the playoffs
for the irst two times in fran-
chise history.
“Thirteen years with the
Seattle Mariners, from the day
I got drafted, Seattle, Wash-
AP Photo/John Froschauer
AP Photo/Heather Ainsworth
Seattle Mariners’ Ken Griffey Jr. hits a solo home run on
a pitch from Texas Rangers’ Tommy Hunter during the
fourth inning of a baseball game in Seattle on Oct. 3.
National Baseball Hall of Fame electees Ken Griffey Jr., left, and Mike Piazza smile during
an awards ceremony at Doubleday Field on Saturday, in Cooperstown, N.Y. The two were
inducted into the Hall of Fame on Sunday.
‘I stand up here humbled and overwhelmed.
I can’t describe how it feels.’
Ken Griffey Jr.
Baseball Hall of Fame inductee
ington, has been a big part of
my life,” Griffey said, punc-
tuating the end of his speech
by putting a baseball cap on
backward as he did through-
out his career.
“I’m going to leave you
with one thing. In 22 years
I learned that one team
will treat you the best, and
that’s your irst team. I’m
damn proud to be a Seattle
Mariner.”
Dubbed “The Natural” for
his effortless excellence at
the plate and in center ield,
Griffey avoided the Hall of
Fame until his special week-
end because he wanted his
irst walk through the front
doors of the stately build-
ing on Main Street to be with
his kids, whom he singled out
one by one in his 20-minute
speech.
“There are two mis-
conceptions about me — I
didn’t work hard and every-
thing I did I made look easy,”
Griffey said. “Just because
I made it look easy doesn’t
mean that it was. You don’t
become a Hall of Famer by
not working, but working day
in and day out.”
Griffey’s mom, Birdie,
and his father, former Cincin-
nati Reds star Ken Sr., both
cancer survivors and integral
to his rise to stardom, were
front and center in the irst
row.
“To my dad, who taught
me how to play this game
and to my mom, the stron-
gest woman I know,” Junior
said. “To have to be mom and
dad, she was our biggest fan
and our biggest critic. She’s
the only woman I know that
lives in one house and runs
ive others.”
Tough start
Selected in the draft by the
Dodgers after Hall of Fame
manager Tommy Lasorda, a
close friend of Piazza’a father,
Vince, put in a good word,
Piazza struggled.
He briely quit the game
while in the minor leagues,
returned and persevered
despite a heavy workload as
he switched from irst base to
catcher and teammates criti-
cized his erratic play.
Mom and dad were fore-
most on his mind, too.
“Dad always dreamed of
playing in the major leagues,”
said Piazza, just the second
Hall of Famer depicted on his
plaque wearing a Mets cap,
after Tom Seaver in 1992.
“He could not follow that
dream because of the realities
of life. My father’s faith in me,
often greater than my own, is
the single most important fac-
tor of me being inducted into
this Hall of Fame. Thank you
dad. We made it, dad. The
race is over. Now it’s time to
smell the roses.”
Piazza played 16 years
with the Dodgers, Marlins,
Mets, Padres and Athlet-
ics and hit 427 home runs,
including a major league
record 396 as a catcher. A
12-time All-Star, Piazza won
10 Silver Slugger Awards and
inished in the top ive of his
league’s MVP voting four
times.
Perhaps even more impres-
sive, Piazza, a .308 career hit-
ter, posted six seasons with at
least 30 home runs, 100 RBIs
and a .300 batting average (all
other catchers in baseball his-
tory combined have posted
nine such seasons).
Though the Dodgers gave
AP Photo/Mike Groll
Fans of inductee Ken Griffey Jr. stand at the start of the
National Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony at
Clark Sports Center on Sunday, in Cooperstown, N.Y.
him his start, Piazza found a
home in New York when he
was traded to the Mets in May
1998.
Three years later, he
became a hero to the home-
town fans with perhaps the
most notable home run of his
career. His two-run shot in the
eighth inning at Shea Stadium
lifted the Mets to a 3-2 victory
over the Atlanta Braves in the
irst sporting event played in
New York after the 9/11 terror
attacks.
Piazza paid tribute to that
moment.
“To witness the darkest
evil of the human heart ... will
be forever burned in my soul,”
Piazza said. “But from trag-
edy and sorrow came bravery,
love, compassion, character
and eventual healing.
“Many of you give me
praise for the two-run home
run in the irst game back on
Sept. 21st, but the true praise
belongs to police, ireight-
ers, irst responders that knew
that they were going to die,
but went forward anyway. I
pray that we never forget their
sacriice.”
Attendance was estimated
at around 50,000 by the Hall
of Fame, tying 1999 for sec-
ond-most all time.
International Olympic Committee leaders stop short of complete ban on Russians from Rio
By GRAHAM DUNBAR
and STEPHEN WILSON
AP Sports Writer
AP Photo/Matthias Schrader
Doping whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova, who ran under
a neutral flag during the European Athletics Champion-
ships in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where all athletes
competed with a anti-doping slogan “I run clean” on their
bibs. The IOC said Sunday, 800-meter Yulia Stepanova,
who along with her husband provided evidence of wide-
spread doping in Russian track and field, could not race
in Rio because she once served a doping ban.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland
— Rejecting calls by anti-dop-
ing oficials for a complete
ban on Russia, Olympic lead-
ers on Sunday gave individ-
ual sports federations the task
of deciding which athletes
should be cleared to compete
in next month’s Rio de Janeiro
Games.
Citing the need to protect
the rights of individual ath-
letes, the International Olympic
Committee decided against tak-
ing the unprecedented step of
excluding Russia’s entire team
over allegations of state-spon-
sored doping. Instead, the IOC
left it to 27 international sports
federations to make the call on
a case-by-case basis.
“Every human being is enti-
tled to individual justice,” IOC
President Thomas Bach said
after the ruling of his 15-mem-
ber executive board.
Bach said the IOC had
decided instead on a set of “very
tough criteria” that could dent
Russia’s overall contingent and
medal hopes in Rio, where the
Olympics will open on Aug. 5.
Under the measures, no Rus-
sian athletes who have ever
had a doping violation will be
allowed into the games, whether
or not they have served a sanc-
tion, a rule that has not applied
to athletes in other countries.
In addition, the international
sports federations were ordered
to check each Russian athlete’s
drug-testing record, with only
doping controls conducted out-
side Russia counting toward eli-
gibility, before authorizing them
to compete. Final entry is con-
tingent on approval from an
independent sports arbitrator.
The IOC decision was
sharply criticized by anti-dop-
ing bodies as a sellout that
undermines clean athletes and
destroys the idea of a level play-
ing ield.
World Anti-Doping Agency
President Craig Reedie said
the organization is “disap-
pointed that the IOC did not
heed WADA’s executive com-
mittee recommendations” after
investigators “exposed, beyond
a reasonable doubt, a state-run
doping program in Russia that
seriously undermines the princi-
ples of clean sport.”
Joseph de Pencier, chief
executive of the 59-member
Institute of National Anti-Dop-
ing Organisations, said the
IOC “failed to confront force-
fully the indings of evidence of
state-sponsored doping in Rus-
sia corrupting the Russian sport
system,” describing it as “a sad
day for clean sport.”
U.S. Anti-Doping Agency
CEO Travis Tygart said the
“IOC has refused to take deci-
sive leadership” in a most
important moment for the integ-
rity of the Olympic Games and
clean athletes.
“The decision regarding
Russian participation and the
confusing mess left in its wake
is a signiicant blow to the rights
of clean athletes,” Tygart said.