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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.