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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 2017 CONTACT US FOLLOW US facebook.com/ DailyAstorianSports Gary Henley | Sports Reporter ghenley@dailyastorian.com Tourney winners, baseball and softball The Daily Astorian Submitted Photo The Lower Columbia 11U All-Stars pose with their first-place trophy, fol- lowing their tournament victory in Longview, Wash. There are more recent first- place tournament finishes for local teams. In Cal Ripken Baseball action, the Lower Colum- bia 11U All-Stars won a tour- nament in Longview, Wash- ington, the weekend of June 16-18. Lower Columbia lost its first game, then bounced back to win four straight to take first. In softball, Seaside’s 12U tournament team took first place in the Silver Division at the Alaskan United Fastpitch Organization tournament in Newberg, June 24-25. SPORTS IN BRIEF Submitted Photo Seaside’s 12U fastpitch softball team poses with their first-place tro- phy, following their tournament win in Newberg. COLLEGE WORLD SERIES Former Oregon tight end sentenced to 30 days for escape Associated Press HILLSBORO — Former Ore- gon tight end Colt Lyerla has been sentenced to an additional 30 days in jail after escaping from custody last month and nearly dying from a drug overdose. The Oregonian reports a Wash- ington County judge told Lyerla on Tuesday to get clean and sober. The judge said he wants Lyerla to meet with him for progress updates, establish goals and move beyond his persona as a former college star. Lyerla said he accepts the challenge. Lyerla was sentenced in April to six months in jail after pleading guilty to forgery. He was lodged at a minimum-security work release center. Police found Lyerla a day after the escape, overdosing on heroin at a Hills- boro home. Once considered an NFL prospect, Lyerla left the Ducks in 2013 after he was suspended for violating team rules. He has had several run-ins with the law since then. Franco, Altherr homer as Phillies beat Mariners Associated Press SEATTLE — Maikel Franco put the Philadelphia Phillies ahead to stay with his bat. His defense earned him a hug. Franco and Arron Altherr hom- ered, Aaron Nola pitched seven effective innings and the Phillies overcame an early deficit for an 8-2 victory over the Seattle Mar- iners on Tuesday night. Franco opened the seventh with his 10th homer, sending a 1-0 pitch from James Paxton over the wall in left-center to put the Phil- lies up 3-2. In the bottom half, he helped preserve the lead with a diving stab on Jean Segura’s hard- hit grounder to third with two run- ners on. “As soon as I slid and made that play, I just got up and threw,” said Franco, who got a hug from Nola after the inning. “And it was not a perfect throw, but that was my play. Nola did a really good job. That’s the little things to win the ballgame. In that situation, bottom of the seventh, two outs, two guys on first and second, that was a big play.” SCOREBOARD SPORTS SCHEDULE TODAY Junior Baseball — Neah-Kah-Nie at Astoria Ford (2), 5 p.m. THURSDAY Junior Baseball — Warrenton at Sea- side (2), 4 p.m. SATURDAY Baseball — Warrenton Alumni Day at Huddleston Field, Noon Junior Baseball — Scappoose at As- toria Ford, 1 p.m. Brendan Sullivan/Omaha World-Herald Florida celebrates after defeated LSU in Game 2 of the NCAA baseball College World Series finals, Tuesday, in Omaha, Neb. Florida beats LSU for 1st national title By ERIC OLSON Associated Press MAHA, Neb. — Maybe this wasn’t Florida coach Kevin O’Sullivan’s best team. It is, however, his first national championship team. A year after the Gators went two games and out at the College World Series with a team seeded No. 1 and loaded with high draft picks, they won five of six in Omaha and completed a sweep of Southeastern Conference rival LSU in the finals with a 6-1 victory Tuesday night. The Gators scored four runs in the eighth inning to pull away and now, for the first time in the program’s 103-year history, the cham- O pionship trophy will be with the team when it travels back to Gainesville. “Just a gritty group, that’s all I can say,” said O’Sullivan, the 10th-year coach who had brought the Gators to Omaha six of the last eight years. “There are other teams that may be bigger and stronger, our starting pitching has carried us the whole year, but we got some timely hits.” Florida (52-19) posted the eighth sweep in the 15 years of the best-of-three finals format, and first since 2013. LSU (52-20) lost for the first time in seven appearances in a champion- ship game. Florida was in the CWS for the 11th time and previously had made it to the finals in 2005 and 2011, getting swept each time. “They’re a very deserving national cham- pion,” LSU coach Paul Mainieri said. “I’m happy for Kevin. He works hard, and he has had several teams that maybe were even better than this team and sat up here as disappointed as I am right now. Finally got his championship.” O’Sullivan got creative for the final game, sending freshman Tyler Dyson to the mound for only his second start and calling on Jackson Kowar, who would have been the starter if a Game 3 had been necessary, to finish the game. “Something that made this team so spe- cial was each and every game, someone new stepped up,” second baseman Deacon Liput said. “You never really knew who that person was going to be.” UK charges six in 1989 stadium tragedy that killed 96 By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON — British prosecutors charged a former senior police offi- cer with manslaughter today as they announced the first criminal cases in the 1989 Hillsborough stadium disas- ter that left 96 people dead — many of them crushed against metal fences — and changed English soccer forever. The families of the victims have waged a decades-long quest to seek justice for their loved ones, who they believed were unfairly blamed in the April 15, 1989, tragedy. The initial deaths were ruled accidental — a rul- ing overturned in 2012 after a new, wide-ranging inquiry. Last year new inquests found that the 96 fans had been unlawfully killed. Files were sent to prosecutors to consider criminal charges and they announced their highly anticipated decision today. Barry Devonside, whose son Chris- topher, 18, was among the 96, pumped his fist after a meeting with lawyers and other relatives. “Everybody applauded when it was announced that the most senior police AP Photo Police, stewards and supporters tend and care for wounded support- ers on the pitch at Hillsborough Stadium, in Sheffield, England, on April 15, 1989. British prosecutors today announced charges in the deaths of 96 people in the Hillsborough stadium crush — one of Brit- ain’s worst-ever sporting disasters. officer on that particular day will have charges presented to him,” he said. Those charged include the police commander on the day, David Duck- enfield, who is accused of gross neg- ligence manslaughter in the deaths of 95 men, women and children. Prose- cutors declined to issue a manslaugh- ter charge relating to the 96th casualty because he died four years after the fateful match. The former chief of South York- shire Police, Norman Bettison, is charged with misconduct in public office for lying about the disaster and its aftermath. Graham Henry Mackrell, the secre- tary and safety officer for the Sheffield Wednesday Football Club at the time, was charged with failing to carry out health and safety duties. Peter Metcalf, the attorney for the South Yorkshire Police, was charged with acting “with intent to pervert the course of public justice” in regards to changes in witness statements during an inquiry into the tragedy. Former Chief Superintendent Donald Denton and former Detective Chief Inspec- tor Alan Foster were charged for their involvement in the same matter. “Criminal proceedings have now commenced and the defendants have a right to a fair trial,” said Sue Hem- ming, the head prosecutor for spe- cial crime and counterterror. “It is extremely important that there should be no reporting, commentary or shar- ing of information online which could in any way prejudice these proceedings.”
