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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 2017
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Timbers set to return to the North Coast
The Daily Astorian
The North Coast is back on the
“Rose City Road Trip” list, the Port-
land Timbers’ annual tour of commu-
nity events and youth soccer clinics
throughout the Pacific Northwest.
This year’s trip includes stops in
Seaside, Warrenton and Astoria, as
the Timbers return to the area as part
of the sixth-annual event, presented
by Providence Health & Services.
Beginning Aug. 15, Timbers’ mid-
fielder Darlington Nagbe, midfielder/
defender Lawrence Olum, defender
Roy Miller and team mascot Tim-
ber Joey will begin the day with a
visit to Providence Seaside Hospital
from 9-10 a.m., spending time with
patients before heading to Warren-
ton Grade School from 10:30 a.m. to
noon to help install “buddy benches,”
a project invented by 10-year-old
Christian Bucks, that gives children a
safe, nonjudgmental place to retreat.
The day continues with a youth
soccer clinic led by the Timbers
youth development staff (which
includes Seaside High graduate Kai
Davidson) for children ages 5-13.
The clinic is scheduled for 1:30-
3:30 p.m. at Warrenton Soccer
Complex on Ridge Road in Ham-
mond. Free and open to the public,
the clinic will feature a training ses-
sion, along with autograph and Q&A
sessions. Participants must prereg-
ister online at www.timbers.com/
rosecityroadtrip.
“We are excited to welcome the
Timbers’ Rose City Road Trip to
the North Coast to help us promote
healthy activities for kids in our com-
munities,” said Kendall Sawa, RN,
chief executive, at Providence Sea-
side Hospital.
“We have been partnering with
Way to Wellville Clatsop and other
organizations to fight childhood
obesity in our county. Getting kids
involved in sports and other physical
activities is key to promoting healthy
habits for a lifetime,” said Domi-
nique Greco, a physician who prac-
tices family medicine at Providence
Medical Group-Seaside and a volun-
teer soccer coach.
Closing out the visit, players and
Timber Joey will join fans at Asto-
ria’s Fort George Brewery, 1483
Duane St., for a Q&A, raffle, auto-
graphs and pictures from 4:30-6:30
p.m., before returning to Portland.
The Daily Astorian/File Photo
Portland Timbers’ mascot Timber Joey talks to fans at Astoria High
School in the Timbers’ last visit to the North Coast in January 2013.
SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Lower Columbia
Youth Soccer
Jamboree kicks
off rec season
The Daily Astorian
The Lower Columbia Youth
Soccer Jamboree is scheduled for
Saturday at the Warrenton Soccer
Complex.
The jamboree (9:30 a.m. to
noon) is the kick-off of the recre-
ational season at the complex on
Ridge Road in Hammond.
Players are divided up by age,
and play short, small-sided games.
For more information, visit
lcysasoccer.com, or contact Tyler
Gagnon at tgagnon18@asto-
riak12.org, or call 503-325-7246.
No fireworks
in LA, as city
appears likely
Olympic winner
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — There was
no parade. No reports of deliri-
ous fans honking horns or danc-
ing in the streets. No spontaneous
flag-waving.
Los Angeles was all but guar-
anteed to be awarded a future
Olympic Games on Tuesday, most
likely in 2028, but the public reac-
tion in the sports-crazed city was,
well, subdued.
The privately run commit-
tee behind LA’s Olympic bid has
organized dozens of flashy, celeb-
rity-studded events to showcase
public support for making Los
Angeles a three-time Olympic
city, after hosting the 1932 and
1984 Games.
But there were no fireworks
Tuesday after the International
Olympic Committee, meeting in
Switzerland, voted unanimously
to seek a deal to award the 2024
and 2028 Games, one to each city.
Paris is widely seen as the favor-
ite for 2024, with Los Angeles get-
ting the runner-up prize, 2028.
“Big step forward but more
work to do,” Jeff Millman, a
spokesman for the group, said in
an email after being asked about
the absence of a public event to
mark the occasion.
AP Photo/Lynne Sladky
American League’s Seattle Mariners Robinson Cano (22), rounds the bases chewing gum after hitting a home run in the 10th inning,
during the MLB baseball All-Star Game on Tuesday in Miami. The American League beat the National League 2-1.
Cano 10th-inning homer gives AL 2-1 All-Star win
By RONALD BLUM
Associated Press
MIAMI — Robinson Cano hugged Fran-
cisco Lindor after the final out, exchanged
high-fives with his American League team-
mates and put an arm around the shoulder of
designated hitter/photographer Nelson Cruz.
Winning the All-Star Game still seemed
to matter, even if it didn’t mean World Series
home field.
Cano homered off Cubs closer Wade Davis
leading off the 10th inning and the AL beat the
National League 2-1 Tuesday night for its fifth
straight victory in a game dominated by this
era’s flame-throwers, rather than its standout
sluggers.
At 34, the Seattle second baseman was
among the oldest players in an event built
around so many of the sport’s new, young
stars, and he was added to the roster only Fri-
day as an injury replacement. At that time, he
didn’t realize baseball players and owners had
scrapped the rule giving home-field advantage
in the Fall Classic to the league that wins the
Midsummer Classic.
“When I found out, I said, I might get an
at-bat,” Cano recalled.
Cano earned the MVP honor with his one
clutch swing. He sent a hanging curve off the
back wall of the right-field bullpen, then blew
AP Photo/Lynne Sladky
American League’s Seattle Mariners
Robinson Cano (22), lifts the MLB All-
Star MVP trophy on Tuesday in Miami.
Cano hit the game winning home run in
the tenth inning. The American League
defeated the National League 2-1.
a bubble with his gum when rounding the
bases.
He remembered telling his dad: “I’m not
picked — like the last one. If I play, it’s great,”
he said.
Cano hip-bumped Cruz on the way back
the dugout, then was joined by jumping, hop-
ping and high-fiving teammates on the bench.
For good measure, they doused Cano with
sunflower seeds and fanned him with towels.
Craig Kimbrel wiggled out of a jam in the
ninth and right fielder Justin Upton made a
lunging catch in the 10th to help the AL. And
for the first time since 1964, the rivalry is back
to all even — 43 wins apiece with two ties, and
each side has scored exactly 361 runs.
Cleveland closer Andrew Miller finished
off the win. Manager Brad Mills, taking over
the AL squad because Indians skipper Terry
Francona was recovering from a heart proce-
dure last week, was thrilled.
“The last thing we wanted to do was get
pitchers in that shouldn’t probably be in the
game, and risk an injury or something,” Mills
said.
Cano’s homer came exactly 50 years after
the previous All-Star extra-inning homer,
when Tony Perez hit a tiebreaking 15th-inning
shot off Catfish Hunter in the NL’s 2-1 win at
Anaheim, California. Perez, now a Marlins
executive, was among eight Latin-born Hall of
Famers who threw out ceremonial first pitches.
Miguel Sano put the AL ahead in the fifth
with a bloop RBI single down the right-field
line against Alex Wood. Yadier Molina tied it
in the sixth with a home run off Ervin Santana
and two days before his 35th birthday became
the oldest catcher with an All-Star long ball.
Saudis to allow girls to play sports in public schools
By AYA BATRAWY
Associated Press
AP Photo/Hasan Jamali
A girl shoots baskets during team practice at a private
sports club in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, in 2014.
DUBAI, United Arab Emir-
ates — Saudi Arabia said Tues-
day that it will grant girls in
public schools access to phys-
ical education, a decision that
comes after years of calls by
women across the kingdom
demanding greater rights and
access to sports.
The Education Ministry
said it will introduce the phys-
ical education classes “gradu-
ally” and “in accordance with
(Islamic) Shariah regulations.”
At least one Saudi activ-
ist took to Twitter question-
ing whether this implied that
girls will be required to seek
the permission of their male
guardians, such as a father,
before they can play sports. It
was also unclear if the classes
would be extracurricular or
mandatory.
The decision to allow girls
to play sports in public schools
is significant in Saudi Arabia
because women taking part in
exercise is still seen as a taboo.
Some of the kingdom’s ultra-
conservatives shun the con-
cept of women’s exercise as
“immodest” and say it blurs
gender lines.
It was only four years ago
that the kingdom formally
approved sports for girls in
private schools. Women first
participated in Saudi Arabia’s
Olympic team during the 2012
London games.
Despite incremental open-
ings for Saudi women, tight
restrictions remain in place.
Women are banned from driv-
ing and must seek the per-
mission of a male guardian to
travel abroad or obtain a pass-
port. Restrictive male guard-
ianship rules give men, usually
the father or husband, huge
sway over a woman’s life in
Saudi Arabia.
The move to grant girls
access to sports comes after
years of campaigning by wom-
en’s rights activists, who have
led calls to end male guardian-
ship rules and lift the ban on
women driving.
Outside of a few upscale
gated compounds where for-
eigners live and select neigh-
borhoods, women do not jog or
exercise in public spaces, and
they are banned from attending
sporting matches in the coun-
try’s male-only stadiums.
Women in Saudi Arabia
must wear loose flowing robes
known as “abayas” in public,
and most also cover their hair
and face with black veils.