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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JULY 14, 2017
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Paxson VanNortwich prepares for the pick off throw attempt at first base for Seaside during Thursday’s game against Baker City during the Wood Bat Tournament.
Gulls stage late rally to tie, then win in the 10th
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — The Seaside Junior
Baseball team has spent most of the sum-
mer playing exciting games with dramatic
finishes.
They’ve won a few and lost a few,
but Thursday scored their biggest win
of ’em all, with a 7-6, 10-inning victory
over Barley Brown’s of Baker City in a
first round game of the annual Wood Bat
Tournament.
Seaside rallied from a 6-2 deficit with
four runs in the bottom of the seventh,
then pushed across a run in the 10th on a
bases-loaded hit by Alex Teubner with no
outs for the win.
The Gulls will face Central in a semifi-
nal game tonight (5:30 p.m. at Broadway
Field), on Day 2 of the three-day, eight-
team tournament.
In other action Thursday, Scappoose
defeated Warrenton 4-1, while Chur-
chill topped St. Helens 11-0, and Central
defeated Madison.
In Thursday’s final game between
Baker City and Seaside, Baker dominated
the first five innings, building a 6-2 lead
and outhitting the Gulls 10-3.
The last five frames, however,
belonged to Seaside.
Baker City’s Sam McCauley was
pitching a masterpiece through the first
five innings, but walked two in the sixth,
then gave up four hits and also hit a bat-
ter in the seventh, before being relieved in
the eighth.
The Gulls’ rally in the seventh featured
a leadoff single by Gage McFadden, and
teammate Payton Westerholm was hit by
a pitch to put two runners on.
They both advanced on a ground-out
by Teubner.
SCOREBOARD
SPORTS SCHEDULE
TODAY
Junior Baseball — Seaside Wood Bat
Tournament (at Broadway Field): Warren-
ton vs. St. Helens, 10 a.m.; Scappoose vs.
Churchill, 12:30 p.m.; Madison vs. Baker
City, 3 p.m.; Central vs. Seaside, 5:30 p.m.
Duncan Thompson keeps his eyes on home plate as he delivers a pitch for
Seaside during a game against Baker City at Thursday’s Wood Bat Tournament.
McFadden raced home on an infield
single by Duncan Thompson, and Brayden
Johnson followed with a double down the
left field line that scored two runs.
Moments later, an errant throw by
Baker City allowed Johnson to score the
game-tying run.
After a scoreless eighth and ninth,
Seaside opened the bottom of the 10th
with consecutive singles by Paxson Van-
Nortwich and McFadden, and a walk
to Westerholm. Teubner’s hit over a
drawn-in outfield allowed VanNortwich
to easily score the game-winner.
Seaside pitchers Thompson and
McFadden allowed 15 hits with six strike-
outs and a walk, while two Baker City
pitchers gave up 10 hits, with six strike-
outs, six walks and four hit batters. Sea-
side stranded 14 base runners.
Indians 4, Warriors 1
Warrenton led 1-0 through four inning
and had the tying run at the plate in the
bottom of the seventh, but Scappoose
escaped with a 4-1 win over the War-
riors in the Wood Bat Tournament opener
Thursday morning.
Warrenton’s Devin Jackson pitched a
complete game, allowing just three hits
with six strikeouts and six walks. Four
Scappoose pitchers also gave up three
hits, with a combined seven strikeouts and
seven walks.
It all came down to one big hit in a fifth
inning rally by the Indians.
With two runners on base, a fly-out
to center had the Warriors one out away
Alex Teubner takes a big swing at the
plate for Seaside in a game against
Baker City during Thursday’s Wood
Bat Tournament.
from escaping the jam, but the Indians
drew a pair of walks to load the bases, and
the next batter followed with a three-run
triple to right field.
Warrenton’s Dalton Knight had a one-
out single in the seventh and teammate
Austin Little drew a base on balls, but
after a pitching change, Scappoose retired
the next two batters in order to end the
game.
Little and Duane Falls also had hits
for the Warriors, who stranded nine base
runners.
Defensively, Warrenton turned a pair
of double plays.
Trump visit a security challenge at golf tournament
President’s
club hosting
Women’s Open
By DAVID PORTER
Associated Press
BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Some of
the best golfers in the world are com-
peting in New Jersey this weekend,
and they could be partly upstaged by
a guy whose best finish was to win an
age-group club title.
Then again, he is the president —
and it’s his club.
President Donald Trump’s golf
course is hosting this weekend’s
U.S. Women’s Open. Trump was in
France this week to celebrate Bastille
Day and meet with French President
Emmanuel Macron, and he tweeted
this morning that he had left Paris
and would be heading to New Jersey
for the tournament.
The event was expected to draw
protesters who have criticized the
U.S. Golf Association, which oper-
ates the tournament, for not moving
AP Photo/Seth Wenig
Players putt on the practice green at the U.S. Women’s Open Golf tour-
nament Friday in Bedminster, N.J.
it to a different venue after audio sur-
faced last year in which Trump made
derogatory comments about women.
Trump has spent several week-
ends at the club since his election in
November, but none during an event
of this magnitude: 156 golfers and
their entourages, and thousands of
fans.
“If the president does choose to
come to the championship, we are
ready,” said Matt Sawicki, USGA’s
director of championships.
While the connection between
American presidents and major
sporting events is well-established
— the tradition of throwing out the
first pitch on baseball’s opening day
dates back to the early 20th century,
for example — this weekend poses a
unique security challenge.
Trump’s residence is on the golf
course, which sits on more than 600
acres of rolling hills in central New
Jersey farmland, where a steady
stream of players and fans will be
walking throughout the four days.
Maintaining boundaries between
the president and the public is cru-
cial, as is being able to adjust on
the fly, according to Thom Bolsch,
a retired Secret Service agent who
served under Presidents George
H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George
W. Bush.
“Any movement that a protectee
makes, the script is probably about
95 percent solid, where we know
what he’s doing and we’ve briefed
the staff and the staff has briefed
him,” Bolsch told The Associated
Press. “But they’re human and a lot
of times they see people they know,
or they see a crowd. They’re politi-
cians and they need to go and kiss
babies, and they’re going to go do it.”
At a visit last month, for instance,
Trump surprised a couple celebrating
their wedding at the club and posed
for pictures with them. It’s unknown
whether he plans to mingle outside.
“If he’s actually going to go to one
of the tee boxes or greens, we would
have actually swept the area and
everyone that’s around there would
have been prescreened,” Bolsch said.
“Now if we screened the fourth hole
and he wanted to walk to the fifth
hole, we’re probably going to do it.
“We’re probably going to advise
against it just by the sheer number of
people. But if we didn’t even know
he was going to do it, then anyone
wanting to do him harm also didn’t
know he was going to do it,” Bolsch
said.
“Our choice is to know in advance,
to make sure we have assets in place
from counter surveillance units to
snipers, and everything we need is in
place because we know where he’s
going,” he said, adding that person-
nel can be shifted from other areas of
a location if events dictate.