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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JUNE 19, 2017 CONTACT US FOLLOW US facebook.com/ DailyAstorianSports Gary Henley | Sports Reporter ghenley@dailyastorian.com Seager drives in 3 as M’s beat Rangers COLLEGE WORLD SERIES By DAVE JACKSON Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas — After consecutive six-run losses against Texas, the Seattle Mariners got to the Rangers’ ace Sunday and earned a long-awaited victory in Arlington. Kyle Seager drove in three runs with three doubles, Christian Bergman pitched effectively into the sixth inning and the Mariners beat Yu Darvish and the Rangers 7-3. Danny Valen- cia’s two-run homer capped a four-run first against Darvish (6-5), and the Mariners beat the right-hander for the first time in eight tries on the road. Seager had RBI doubles in the first, third and eighth innings for Seattle, which won at Texas for the first time in its last nine tries. “Fortunately they didn’t catch them today,” Seager said. “I thought I had swung all right the previous two days. Today, fortu- nately I hit it where they weren’t.” With Seager pacing the offense, Bergman (4-4) permit- ted four hits and two runs in 5 2/3 innings after giving up nine runs in 2 2/3 innings in his last start in Minnesota. “We needed someone to go out and give us innings, keep us in the ballgame,” Seattle manager Scott Servais said. “He did a really good job mixing his pitches, threw more curveballs and some off-speed stuff to help him out, and it was huge.” The Rangers pulled within 5-3 against the bullpen in the sev- enth — an inning that featured a hit batter, three walks, a balk and a wild pitch — but Nick Vincent got Nomar Mazara to fly out with the bases loaded to end the threat. “Somebody needed to step up and he did,” Servais said of Vincent. The Mariners tacked on two runs in the eighth against Dario Alvarez. Rangers manager Jeff Banister was ejected in the second inning by crew chief Joe West after Seat- tle’s Tyler Smith was awarded first base on a hit-by-pitch on a play that was originally ruled a foul ball. Riverside Camp next week The Daily Astorian Astoria’s Riverside Basket- ball Camp is scheduled for next week, June 26 to June 30, at Asto- ria Middle School. The annual camp is open to boys entering second grade to high school. For second through sixth grad- ers, the camp takes place each day from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; seventh grade to high school age will be from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Cost is $25, payable to Astoria High School. Registration takes place at the event. For more information, call Astoria coach Kevin Goin at 503 325-3911 (work), or 503 949- 2810 (cell); or email at: kgoin@ astoria.k12.or.us. AP Photo/Nati Harnik Oregon State designated hitter Trevor Larnach (11) scores the go-ahead run on a one-run single by Adley Rutschman against Cal State Fullerton in the eighth inning of an NCAA men’s College World Series baseball game in Omaha, Neb., Saturday. Oregon State rallies to beat Fullerton, 6-5 By ERIC OLSON Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. — Unbeaten national wins leader Jake Thompson was scuffling, his teammates were struggling against Con- nor Seabold, and Oregon State was facing a four-run deficit that was its biggest in almost two months. This Beavers team can never be counted out, though. They have, after all, lost only four times. After reliever Jake Mulholland settled things down for the Beavers and Fuller- ton coach Rick Vanderhook made a pitching change he ended up regretting, Oregon State came back to beat the Titans 6-5 on Saturday in the College World Series opener. “I think just with how this whole season’s gone for us, we know that we’re in just about any game,” the Beavers’ Jack Anderson said. “Doesn’t matter. We’re down one, down four, we’re just believing in ourselves regardless of the score.” Adley Rutschman hit the tie-breaking sin- gle in the eighth inning after having flied out four times and stranded eight runners in his previous at-bats, Mulholland pitched 4 1/3 innings of no-hit relief and No. 1 seed Ore- gon State (55-4) extended its winning streak to 22 games. Thompson, who came into the game with 14 wins, lasted 3 2/3 innings in his shortest outing of the season. Mulholland (7-1), who throws in the mid-80s compared with the low 90s for Thompson, retired 12 of 13 batters. The hard-throwing Drew Rasmussen pitched the ninth for his second save. UP NEXT: BEAVERS • Oregon State Beavers vs. Louisiana State Tigers • Today, 4:05 p.m. TV: ESPN “Mully was really good,” Beavers coach Pat Casey said. “He just carved — goes in, out, soft, firm. And then he’s a contrast to the velocity of Jake Thompson, and I imagine that Drew looked like he was throwing 200 when he got in the game after Mully’s stuff.” The Beavers tied it with four runs in the sixth inning, and Rutschman put them ahead with his single up the middle off Blake Work- man (6-3). Timmy Richards’ three-run homer in the first and Chris Hudgins’ two-run single in the fourth gave the Titans (39-23) a 5-1 lead, the largest deficit the Beavers have faced since losing 7-1 to UCLA on April 22. Seabold worked a strong five innings, but his pitch count ballooned to 97 and he was relieved by Colton Eastman to start the bot- tom of the sixth. Eastman, who was spectacu- lar in a seven-inning start in the super region- al-clinching win over Long Beach State last Sunday, couldn’t find the strike zone. “They’re really good,” Vanderhook said of the Beavers, “and I’m stupid. I out-thought myself. Eastman was on a normal rest. We had a healthy lead. At that point, I figured let’s turn it over to the best guy. I let them get back in the game, and you don’t do that to good teams. “When you have them down, you keep them down, and we didn’t do that. We gave them momentum, and they took advantage of TITAN STRUGGLE The Titans lost their eighth straight CWS game over five appearances. They went 0-2 in 2007, 2009 and 2015. “We’ve lost a lot of first games (this sea- son) and won a lot of second games,” Vander- hook said. “I wish we were playing tomorrow. I wish we didn’t have a day off. They’d like to get right back on the horse, but we don’t get to do that.” ROBBED AT WALL Hurst, the Fullerton center fielder, made the defensive play of the game in the top of the eighth when he went to the wall to catch Harrison’s fly and rob him of extra bases. Lar- nach, the next batter, singled to start the Bea- vers’ winning rally. Koepka caps a record week with US Open title A hardscrabble journey to major By DOUG FERGUSON Associated Press SCOREBOARD SPORTS SCHEDULE TODAY Junior Baseball — Seaside at War- renton (2), 4 p.m. THURSDAY Junior Baseball — (At Scappoose) Tillamook vs. Astoria Ford, 11:30 a.m.; Astoria Ford vs. Scappoose, 4 p.m. FRIDAY Junior Baseball — Kennedy at War- renton, 4 p.m. it. That’s why they’ve only lost four games.” Eastman got only two batters out, walked four and threw 40 pitches, including 13 to KJ Harrison during an at-bat that ended with a bases-loaded walk. Workman came on and Trevor Larnach singled up the middle for two runs, and Jack Anderson followed with another base hit to center to tie it 5-all. Thompson struggled from the start, issu- ing a leadoff walk and hitting a batter before Richards drilled a fastball into the left-center seats. Thompson left after Hudgins’ two-run single in the fourth. “I never should have said before the game what my biggest concern was, that he would be too amped up and won’t throw the ball where he wants,” Casey said. “He was a lit- tle over-excited.” AP Photo/Chris Carlson Brooks Koepka kisses the winning trophy after the U.S. Open golf tournament Sunday at Erin Hills in Erin, Wis. ERIN, Wis. — Brooks Koepka received a short piece of advice from a valuable source on the eve of the final round at the U.S. Open. Defending champion Dustin John- son was doing most of the talking. “It was a long phone call for us — it was like two minutes,” Koepka said. “But he just said a few things, and just stay patient. And I’ll win if I stay patient and just keep doing what I’m doing.” What he did looked awfully famil- iar Sunday at Erin Hills, minus any mess involving the rules. With athleticism and power, and four straight putts over the back nine that allowed him to pull away, Koepka capped off his hardscrabble journey around the world and found stardom at home as the U.S. Open champion. He closed with a 5-under 67, only realizing after his par on the final hole that a birdie would have set yet another U.S. Open record in a week filled with them. Koepka finished at 16-under 272, matching the lowest score to par first set by Rory McIlroy six years ago at Congressional. Tied for the lead with six holes to play, Koepka holed an 8-foot par putt on the 13th hole that gave him confi- dence with his stroke and momentum to pour in birdies on the next three holes to turn the final hour into a celebration of another young star in golf.
