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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2016
East tops the West, 15-12, in
Shrine All-Star football game
The Daily Astorian
BAKER CITY — In a game
that featured just one offensive
touchdown for the winning team,
the East squad outlasted the West
in the East-West Shrine All-Star
football game Saturday, 15-12.
The 64th annual game was
played at Memorial Stadium in
Baker City.
The East scored their only
offensive touchdown with
2:48 left in regulation, a 1-yard
plunge by Cascade’s Gar-
rett Coffey that gave the East a
three-point lead.
Astoria’s Clay Englund and
Seaside’s Austin Eagon both
suited up for the West squad.
The East intercepted three
passes on the night, returning
one 90 yards for a touchdown
by Mazama’s Curtis Anderson.
The East also recovered a fum-
ble and scored a safety in the
defense-inspired win.
The West scored on a touch-
down run with 5:07 left in the
fi rst quarter, but trailed 7-6 at
halftime, following Anderson’s
interception return in the second
period.
A pair of Scappoose players
hooked up to put the West back
in front in the third quarter, as
quarterback Rob Lohman tossed
a 63-yard touchdown to Bren-
nen McNabb for a 12-7 lead.
The East pulled to within
12-9 after tackling a West player
in the end zone for a safety with
10:25 left in the fourth quarter,
then later forced a fumble that
led to Coffey’s game-winning
touchdown.
A replay of the game will be
televised on ROOT Sports Net-
work today at 2 p.m., and again
Thursday (7 p.m.) and Aug. 19
(3:30 a.m.).
Photos by Ashaki Boelter/For the Daily Astorian
A few Seaside police officers provided some tough competition for some local kids,
last week in Seaside’s ‘National Night Out’ event.
Muhammad fi rst US athlete Seaside cops ’n’ kids hoop it up
to wear hijab at an Olympics
The Daily Astorian
By ARNIE STAPLETON
AP Sports Writer
RIO DE JANEIRO — The
third day of Olympic compe-
tition featured a couple of
notable fi rsts: Rafaela Silva
captured host Brazil’s initial
gold medal of the Rio Games
and fencer Ibtihaj Muham-
mad became the only Amer-
ican ever to compete in the
Olympics wearing a hijab.
American Lilly King won
a trash-talking duel with Rus-
sian Yulia Efi mova for the gold
medal in the 100-meter breast-
stroke on Monday night, the
U.S. men’s basketball team
surged after a slow start, beat-
ing Venezuela 113-69, and
Serena Williams struggled
before beating France’s Alize
Cornet 7-6 (5), 6-2 in her bid
for a second consecutive sin-
gles gold medal.
Silva, who grew up on
one of Rio’s hillside shanty
towns, won judo’s 57-kilo-
gram division, then, over-
whelmed with emotion, per-
formed the Brazilian version
of the Green Bay Packers’
“Lambeau Leap” to cele-
brate with her compatriots
Monday.
It was, at the least, a
momentary reprieve for the
host country bracing for what
once seemed unthinkable: an
early exit by its men’s soccer
team from the Olympic tour-
nament. Brazil fi nds itself
needing a victory against
Denmark to advance and
avoid another huge embar-
rassment two years after a
demoralizing 7-1 loss to Ger-
many in the semifi nals of the
World Cup.
Brazilian fans aren’t just
booing their men’s soc-
cer team. After months of
dire predictions from abroad
about the mosquito-borne
Zika virus, some locals are
doing some stinging of their
own: They’re jeering U.S.
athletes and taunting them
over the fears that kept some
competitors away from South
America’s fi rst Olympics.
In the women’s sabre tour-
nament, Muhammad, sport-
ing a plain black Muslim
head scarf under a red, white
and blue mask, was a winner
in her opening bout before
bowing out. A New Jersey
native who started fencing
in part because the uniform
allowed her to adhere to the
tenets of her faith, Muham-
mad also competes in the
team event later this week.
Australia won the fi rst
gold medal for rugby sev-
ens at the Olympics, beating
archrival New Zealand 24-17
in the women’s fi nal Monday
night.
A day after adding a
record 19th gold medal to his
collection, Michael Phelps
is swimming the 200 meter
butterfl y semifi nal Mon-
day night and fellow Ameri-
can Katie Ledecky is swim-
ming the women’s 200 meter
freestyle.
Other highlights from Day
3 of the Rio Games:
WALKING
THE
WALK: King took exception
to Efi mova, who has served
a ban for doping and had her
ban for the Rio Olympics
overturned, raising her fi nger
in the No. 1 sign after win-
ning her heat in the semifi -
nals. King beat Efi mova in
the fi nal and crowed after-
ward about a clean victory.
AP Photo/Andrew Medichini
Ibtihaj Muhammad of the United States salutes the referee
prior to competing with Olena Kravatska of Ukraine in the
women’s individual saber fencing event at the 2016 Sum-
mer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday.
Grace Smith, fi tness and
special events coordinator at
Sunset Empire Parks and Recre-
ation, said there was some inter-
esting match-ups on the basket-
ball courts over the weekend.
It was “ areally awesome
event we had here in Seaside
called ‘National Night Out,’
where police offi cers and fi re-
men invite the community out
to the parks for a BBQ and to
play games.
“These youth were having a
basketball practice and the offi -
cers joined them for a game,”
Smith said.
“National Night Out was
actually a very fun and learn-
ing experience for me,” said
Ashaki Boelter (a.k.a., “Coach
B”), Sunset Empire Parks and
Recreation youth recreation
leader.
“With all of the tension
and issues surrounding citi-
zens and/or racial relationships
with police offi cers across the
nation, I found myself with a
growing desire to have open
conversation with police offi -
cers and to help mend the over-
bearing feelings of confusion.
“What this event shows
is that, it’s not the cops … it’s
particular individuals that mis-
treat citizens and it’s particular
citizens that disrespect cops,”
he said.
“Not all offi cers are crimi-
nal and vice versa. The cops at
this event were more than open
to conversation and serving
food to those they protect and
serve.”
The offi cers “also agreed to
play a little basketball against
a few young men at Sunset
Parks and Recreation District,”
Boelter said. “The cops pulled
up and left a lot of players in
fear.
“As a coach who offered the
opportunity to bridge the cops
with young men in the commu-
nity, I advised everyone on the
court that it was … game time!”
At the time, Boelter was
coaching a scrimmage for a
future summer tournament.
Three Seaside police offi cers
took on three players at a time.
“Both cops and players
had a lot of fun,” he said. “For
the boys to recognize cops as
human beings and police to
recognize the boys as a grow-
ing success of our community,
it was something that parents,
the citizens of Seaside, and the
SEPRD surrounding the game
were well-approved of.”
Afterward , the boys were
invited to come over to the
park to fi nish off the barbe-
cue, “and boy did they ever,”
Boelter said.
The young Seaside ball
players included eighth-grad-
ers Conner Davis, Ben Morris
Jr., Elijah Ferguson and Zan-
der Marincovich, and Seaside
High freshmen-to-be Danny
Gonzales, Levi Card and Riley
Ashton.
AP Photo/Markus Schreiber
Brazil’s Rafaela Silva celebrates after winning the gold
medal of the women’s 57-kg judo competition at the 2016
Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday.
As of Tuesday morning, Aug. 9
TOP 10 MEDAL
WINNERS
G
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1.
United States
5 7
7
2.
China
5 3
5
3.
Japan
3 0
7
4.
Russia
2 5
3
5.
Italy
3 4
2
6.
Australia
4 0
4
7.
South Korea
2 2
1
8.
Thailand
2 1
9.
10.
1
United Kingdom 1 1 2
Canada
0 1 3
AP
“There is a way to become
the best and do it the right
way,” she said.
GOLF DEBUT: The fi rst
Olympic golf shot in 112
years will be hit by the lone
Brazilian in the men’s fi eld.
The International Golf Fed-
eration tapped into what
few Olympic roots it has by
selecting Adilson da Silva to
be the fi rst to tee off Thurs-
day. Also in the opening
threesome: Graham DeLaet
of Canada, a country IGF
President Peter Dawson
called the defending champ
— George Lyon of Canada
won the gold medal at the St.
Louis Games in 1904.
BRAZIL BLEAK: It has
come to this for the Brazilian
men’s soccer team: The fans
are so disappointed with the
team that they heckled Ney-
mar and chanted the name
of the women team’s star
during a lackluster, score-
less tie against Iraq over the
weekend. Brazil is now fac-
ing elimination — a prospect
that once seemed unthinkable
in the soccer-obsessed Olym-
pic host country.
BILES BROUHAHA:
NBC announcer Al Traut-
wig says he regrets tweeting
that the adoptive mother and
father of U.S. gymnastics star
Simone Biles were not her
parents. Trautwig angered
adoption advocates by refus-
ing to refer to Ron and Nel-
lie Biles as the 19-year-
old’s parents. Ron Biles, her
maternal grandfather, and his
wife Nellie adopted Simone
16 years ago. Trautwig said,
“to set the record straight,
Ron and Nellie are Simone’s
parents.”
SPECTACULAR SEAS:
Sailing, not the dirty water,
was fi nally the focus on trou-
bled Guanabara Bay during a
spectacular start to the Olym-
pic regatta on Monday. Wind-
surfers sped across the waves
toward Flamengo Beach in
a fresh breeze, against the
imposing backdrop of Sug-
arloaf Mountain. Robert
Scheidt won the second race
in the Laser class. He’s trying
to become the fi rst Olympic
sailor and fi rst Brazilian to
win six Olympic medals.
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