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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2016
Two Loggers make
all-state softball team
The Daily Astorian
The 2016 Class 2A all-
state softball team — always
a little late in being announced
— was fi nally released this
week, and the list includes
two Knappa Lady Loggers.
Sophomore catcher Kait-
lyn Truax was named fi rst-
team all-state, while sopho-
more Paris Vanderburg was
selected as a utility player on
the second team.
Northwest League Player
of the Year Kassidy Fetch of
Vernonia was named second
team all-state.
US women gymnasts,
Phelps, Ledecky all
earn gold medals again
By GENARO C.
ARMAS
AP Sports Writer
RIO DE JANEIRO —
Good old Michael Phelps,
golden again.
For teenagers Katie
Ledecky and Simone Biles,
their star turns in the Sum-
mer Olympics might be just
beginning.
From the pool to the
gymnastics fl oor, Team USA
had nice day at the Rio de
Janeiro Games.
Not all the American
stars were winners Tues-
day, though. Serena Wil-
liams lost on the tennis court
and the U.S. women’s soc-
cer team gave up a late goal
and ended up in a draw with
Colombia.
But a new generation
of U.S. athletes is ready to
take up the banner of Olym-
pic standard-bearer from
Phelps, a grizzled veteran
at 31.
Phelps earned his 20th
career gold medal after tak-
ing the 200-meter butterfl y.
He erased the bad memories
from his loss in the same
race in London to South
African Chad le Clos.
Phelps got off to a rous-
ing start at the Rio Games
by leading his 4x100 free-
style team to the gold medal
on Sunday.
On Tuesday, Phelps’ face
bared a familiar scowl as he
walked out on to the deck.
He held off Japan’s Masato
Sakai by four-hundredths of
a second, with Hungary’s
Tamas Kenderesi taking the
bronze.
His 21st gold came later
Tuesday night after swim-
ming the anchor leg on the
4x200-meter relay.
Ledecky strode atop the
medal podium again with
a bright smile after taking
gold for winning the 200-
meter freestyle. Sarah Sjos-
trom of Sweden claimed the
silver and Emma McKeon
of Australia took the bronze.
Ledecky, just 19, won her
second gold. At this pace,
she could challenge Phelps’
medal haul someday.
At the other end of Olym-
pic Park, the U.S. women’s
gymnastics team captured a
second straight gold with a
high-fl ying and dominating
performance.
The triumph was never in
doubt, their score of 184.897
at the Rio Games was more
than eight points clear of the
fi eld. The day was capped
by the 19-year-old Biles, a
As of Wednesday morning, Aug. 10
TOP 10 MEDAL
WINNERS
S
B
1.
United States
10 8
9
2.
China
8
3
6
3.
Japan
3
1 10
4.
Russia
3
7
3
5.
Australia
6.
Italy
4
3
0
4
5
2
7.
South Korea
4
2
1
8.
United Kingdom 1
3
3
9.
Hungary
4
1
1
France
2
3
10.
G
1
AP
fan favorite, whose bound-
ary-pushing fl oor exercise
showed just how far ahead
they are of everyone else.
Biles, Lauren Hernandez,
Gabby Douglas, Madison
Kocian and Aly Raisman
also gave retiring national
team coordinator Martha
Karolyi a fi tting send off
with powerful performances
on all the apparatuses.
The golden girls dubbed
themselves “The Final Five”
in honor of Karolyi’s retire-
ment at the end of the Olym-
pics and the fact that the for-
mat is changing for Tokyo in
2020 so that only four team
members will take part in
the team competition.
The normally stern Kar-
olyi broke down in tears
when she was told of the
nickname the team adopted.
“I think at this moment
we can say that that the
United States dominates the
world of gymnastics,” Kar-
olyi said.
Russia took the silver
medal and China earned
bronze.
7A
With no clear favorite, Pac-12
promises memorable fall race
By GREG BEACHAM
AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES — Stan-
ford coach David Shaw only
needed a few words to epito-
mize why his Cardinal are the
Pac-12 football favorites this
fall — and also why that dis-
tinction doesn’t mean much.
“I think we have a chance
to be a good team, but we’re a
team in fl ux,” Shaw said after
learning his Cardinal had won
the preseason media poll.
The West Coast’s top
league is wide open head-
ing into the fall, with a half-
dozen legitimate title con-
tenders and no overwhelming
favorite. Every team has major
questions at key positions,
but nobody seems better pre-
pared to answer them than the
ever-resourceful Cardinal.
Stanford is the defending
champion of the conference
and the Rose Bowl, and run-
ning back Christian McCaf-
frey might be the nation’s top
player. It’s still not enough to
make them prohibitive favor-
ites to repeat in a conference
that could end up without a
playoff representative again
despite several quality teams.
Parity is the enemy of
excellence, and the Pac-12 is
full of teams with big posi-
tives and big question marks.
Two-thirds of the league began
training camps with uncer-
tainty at quarterback, and the
league doesn’t appear to pos-
sess any dominant defenses.
It could be a recipe for tight
division races, memorable Sat-
urday fi nishes and a cracker-
jack conference title game.
AP Photo/Reed Saxon
Stanford running back
Christian McCaffrey speaks
at the Pac-12 NCAA college
football media day in July,
in Los Angeles.
a serious contender, the divi-
sion race could come down to
the annual crosstown show-
down between UCLA and
USC at the Rose Bowl on Nov.
19. The Bruins had too many
injuries on defense to con-
tend last season, but quarter-
back Josh Rosen is ready to
blossom into a national star.
They could be ready to knock
off the talented Trojans, who
must play Alabama, Stanford
and Utah away from home in
September.
most spectacular individual
seasons in conference history,
the do-everything Heisman
Trophy fi nalist is back to doing
everything again.
UCLA QB Jake Rosen. A
new offensive scheme should
mean bigger plays and more
chances for Chosen Rosen to
shine.
USC
WR
JuJu
Smith-Schuster. The Trojans’
annual turmoil has obscured
the career of the next brilliant
pass-catcher in USC’s long lin-
eage, but he has a chance to get
everybody’s attention this fall.
Oregon RB Royce Free-
man. After setting the Ducks’
single-season rushing record
last year, he will shoulder a
heavy load during a possible
transition season.
Utah DL Lowell Lotulelei.
The consummate space-eat-
ing lineman from a powerful
football family is back to clog
lanes on one of the nation’s top
defensive fronts.
Washington QB Jake
Browning. The Huskies’ pre-
season popularity hinges partly
on the gifted sophomore, who
appears poised to break out
with an improved offense.
Washington State QB Luke
Falk. The big-armed passer
might be the man who can lead
coach Mike Leach’s offense
into title contention.
TOP PLAYERS
NEW FACES
Stanford RB Christian
McCaffrey. After one of the
Oregon QB Dakota Pru-
kop. The Montana State trans-
fer is the favorite to follow
Marcus Mariota and Vernon
Adams, but he has two capable
competitors for the job at the
controls of the Ducks’ remark-
able offense.
Arizona defensive coor-
dinator Marcel Yates. Rich
Rodriguez is rebuilding his
defense with the former Boise
State coordinator, but he could
need more than one season to
fi x everything.
USC coach Clay Helton.
He’s far from new, but the vet-
eran assistant is in his fi rst full
season in charge of the Tro-
jans, with a roster in fl ux and a
sadistic schedule.
ON THE HOT SEAT
Sonny Dykes, California.
No coach in the Pac-12 is in
imminent trouble as the sea-
son begins, but Dykes cer-
tainly could use a strong year
after Jared Goff’s departure
to solidify his rebuilding pro-
gram with the Golden Bears.
Mike MacIntyre, Colo-
rado. Likewise, the Buffa-
loes coach’s rebuilding project
probably would benefi t greatly
from a .500 season — or heck,
even three Pac-12 victories in
the same season for the fi rst
time since 2007.
PICKS
North: Stanford. South:
UCLA. League champion:
Stanford.
THE FAVORITES
NORTH: Stanford has
McCaffrey, but less than
10 other returning starters,
including no tested quarter-
backs. The Cardinal also must
fi ght through a brutal schedule
while fending off challenges
from Oregon and Washing-
ton, who both could contend
with just a few breaks. The
Huskies are the popular pick
to surge in their third season
under Chris Petersen, while
the Ducks always have enough
talent despite no clear starting
quarterback.
SOUTH: Although Utah is
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