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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 2017
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Locals will play in Baker City Shrine All-Star game
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Keldon Littell, No. 69, may be blocking one more time for his quarter-
back, Fridtjof Fremstad, No. 14, as the two players will compete for the
West team in the August Shrine Game.
SPORTS
IN BRIEF
while Knappa coach Aaron Barendse
is one of four coaches on the West
team’s coaching staff, along with
Jim Lockwood, Jeremy McLoud and
Andy Mott.
Listed as alternates for
the West team: Astoria’s Olaf
Englund, Warrenton’s Devon
Bowser and Knappa’s Mitch
Geisler.
The game will be aired on
Root Sports Network, time to
be announced.
The rosters and coaching staffs
are set for the 65th annual East-West
Shrine All-Star Football game, sched-
uled for Aug. 5 in Baker City.
Clatsop County will have
a few representatives on the
playing field and a coach on
the sidelines, when the All-
Stars meet for the annual
contest, which benefits Port-
land Shriners Hospital for
Aaron
Children.
East-West Shrine Game
Barendse
The late summer game
West Roster
will showcase the top senior
Milo Applebee, Banks
players (1A to 4A) in the state from
Chase Carpenter, Dayton
Quinn Carl, Gladstone
the 2016 season.
Daniel Ferenczi, North Bend
Astoria seniors Fridtjof Fremstad
Jacob Forsyth, St. Paul
and Keldon Littell will join Knap-
Fridtjof Fremstad, Astoria
pa’s Andrew Goozee as the player
Andrew Goozee, Knappa
representatives from Clatsop County,
Cody Gray, South Umpqua
Eric Gustin, Regis
Daniel Hardy, Valley Catholic
Andre Holmes, Central Linn
Hunter Jansen, Hosanna Chr.
Job Karber, Rainier
Doug Kirchhofer, Estacada
Randall Klagge, Santiam
Jeremy Kliewer, Kennedy
Kenny Lane, Lowell
Keldon Littell, Astoria
Brody Lucero, North Bend
Nick Minton, Marshfield
Jaymon Moser, Triangle Lake
Zane Rideout, Taft
Oscar Rosas, Dayton
Drew Spear, Blanchet Catholic
Jackson Stallard, Powers
Parker Stutzman, Santiam Chr.
Brett Traeger, Kennedy
Skyler Williams, Salem Academy
Walker Woolley, North Douglas
Ayden Zimmerman, Scio
West Coaches
Aaron Barendse, Knappa
Jim Lockwood
Jeremy McLoud, Dayton
Andy Mott, Gladstone
NBA FINALS
Oregon State to
meet Fullerton
in College World
Series opener
Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. — No. 1
national seed Oregon State will
play Cal State Fullerton in the
College World Series opener on
Saturday.
The NCAA on Monday night
announced the weekend schedule
at TD Ameritrade Park. Oregon
State (54-4)
will bring
a 21-game
win streak
into
the
Bracket 1
afternoon game against Fullerton
(39-22). The night game pits No. 4
seed LSU (48-17), a winner of 16 in
a row, against Florida State (45-21).
Bracket 2 games Sunday have
No. 7 seed Louisville (52-10)
playing Texas A&M (41-21) in
the afternoon and No. 6 seed TCU
(47-16) facing No. 3 seed Florida
(47-18) at night.
Five of the eight national seeds
reached the CWS: No. 1 Oregon
State, No. 3 Florida, No. 4 LSU,
No. 6 TCU and No. 7 Louis-
ville. The previous time so many
national seeds made it to Omaha
was 2011, when six advanced.
The Southeastern Conference
has three teams in the CWS for the
second time in three years.
Cruz drives in 4;
Mariners cruise
past Twins, 14-3
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — Hav-
ing Mitch Haniger batting high
in the lineup again ought to be a
lift for the Seattle Mariners in this
up-and-down season.
The names hardly mattered
with the way they were hitting at
Minnesota on Monday.
Nelson Cruz drove in four runs,
Haniger had four hits, and the
Mariners started a series against
the Twins with a football score for
the second time in a week, a 14-3
victory fueled by 19 hits.
“I don’t even know what the
final score was, but we ran it up
pretty good,” said Ben Gamel,
who went 2 for 4 with two walks.
Danny Valencia and Mike
Zunino hit back-to-back home
runs in the eighth inning, the fifth
such feat for the Mariners this
season. Yovani Gallardo (3-6)
sailed through six innings with
the excess support, allowing three
runs and seven hits.
“Definitely took a little bit
of pressure off,” said Gallardo,
whose ERA has been over 6.00 for
the past three weeks. “But you’ve
still got to go out there and pitch.”
SCOREBOARD
SPORTS SCHEDULE
TODAY
Junior State Baseball — Seaside at
Warrenton, 5 p.m.
THURSDAY
Junior State Baseball — Warrenton
at Neah-Kah-Nie, 5:30 p.m.
AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez
Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant gestures as he holds the Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award after
Game 5 of basketball’s NBA Finals between the Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers in Oakland, Calif., Monday. The Warriors won
129-120 to win the NBA championship. It’s the second title in three years for the Golden State Warriors.
Durant, Curry lead
Warriors to NBA title
By JANIE MCCAULEY
Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — As a fresh NBA
champions cap sat a tad off-kilter on his head,
Kevin Durant embraced mother Wanda. Then
he moved across the podium and hugged Ste-
phen Curry before accepting his shiny MVP
trophy, holding out his arms and hoisting it for
everyone to see.
From the Bay all the way to OKC.
Durant capped his spectacular first season
with the Warriors by bringing home that cov-
eted NBA championship he joined Golden
State last July so determined to get, scoring
39 points in a fast-and-furious, Finals-clinch-
ing 129-120 victory over LeBron James and
the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 5 on Mon-
day night.
“You can talk about whatever you want
to talk about, but nobody comes in and cares
about the game or loves the game as much as
I do or works as hard as do I at the basket-
ball game. You can talk about whatever hap-
pens on the outside, but inside those lines, I
come to bring it every day,” Durant said. “I
work hard, I believe in myself, I believe in
the game, I respect the game, I love the game,
and I knew at some point in my life that it will
come around for me.”
Stephen Curry added 34 points, 10 assists
and six rebounds as Golden State closed out
its second title in three years after squandering
a 3-1 lead a year ago. That stung ever since,
and even Durant understood, because he gave
up the same lead to the Warriors a round ear-
lier with Oklahoma City.
James, who in 2012 with Miami beat the
Thunder in Durant’s only other Finals, wound
up with 41 points, 13 rebounds and eight
assists.
“I left everything on the floor every game,”
James said after averaging a triple-double in
his eighth Finals.
AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez
Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green, left, and guard Stephen Curry (30)
celebrate during the second half of Game 5 of basketball’s NBA Finals against the
Cleveland Cavaliers in Oakland, Calif., Monday. The Warriors won 129-120.
Kyrie Irving followed up his 40-point gem
in Game 4 with 26 points but shot 9 for 22.
This time, King James gave way to KD,
who was the NBA Finals MVP 10 years after
being picked second in the NBA draft behind
Greg Oden.
Durant drove left, right and down the mid-
dle, knocked down 3-pointers, dished and
dunked. He hit a 17-foot fadeaway over James
early in the fourth quarter, then assisted on a
3-pointer by Andre Iguodala the next time
down as the Warriors pulled away.
Iguodala, the 2015 Finals MVP, came up
big again with his 2017 postseason-best 20
points off the bench in a testy, tightly called
finale to this trilogy Finals that everyone had
stamped on the calendar from the moment
Durant departed Oklahoma City to join Curry
and Co. last July.
The Warriors won in 2015 before the Cavs
made their historic comeback last year. Then
it was Golden State’s time again, with Durant
as the prized addition.
Sure, the Warriors missed becoming the
first undefeated champion, but 16-1 still gave
Golden State the best winning percentage of
any title team at .941.
Durant shot 14 for 20 and Curry — the
two-time reigning MVP who took a backseat
as the new big star got acclimated — finished
off a brilliant postseason. Not to mention a
healthy one after his 2016 injuries.