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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JULY 17, 2017 CONTACT US FOLLOW US facebook.com/ DailyAstorianSports Gary Henley | Sports Reporter ghenley@dailyastorian.com Park, 23, wins US Women’s Open By TOM CANAVAN Associated Press BEDMINSTER, N.J. — After weeks of uncertainty, the U.S. Women’s Open stopped being about President Donald Trump, his course and his views toward women and it turned out to be what the USGA wanted: a good tournament on a good course. Not surprisingly, the best player this week won, making up for a bad weekend in this event a year ago. Sung Hyun Park shot her sec- ond straight 5-under 67 on Sun- day and won a final-round battle with front-running Shanshan Feng and teenage amateur sensation Hye-Jin Choi at Trump National Golf Club for her first LPGA Tour victory. The 23-year-old Park birdied the 15th to move into a tie for the lead and the 17th to open a two- shot edge after Choi made a dou- ble bogey to squander her chance of becoming the second amateur to win the event. Park finished with an 11-under total of 277, two shots better than Choi, who shot a final-round 71. It was a far cry from a year ago when Park hit into the water on the 18th hole at CordeValle in Cali- fornia and missed a playoff with eventual winner Britanny Lang and Anna Nordqvist by two shots. “The experience was definitely worth it, because based on that good experience that I had last year, I think I was able to garner the championship this year,” Park said through an interpreter. AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh Seattle Mariners’ Nelson Cruz celebrates after hitting a solo home run during the 10th inning of a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox on Sunday in Chicago. Gary Henley/The Daily Astorian Seaside pitcher Brayden Johnson flips the ball to first baseman Ashton Boyd to retire a Scappoose batter, during the Gulls’ win Saturday at Broadway Field. The Seagulls beat Cowapa League rival Scappoose 7-0 in the final game of the summer season. Seagulls win big in summer finale The Daily Astorian SEASIDE — Seaside finished off a suc- cessful Junior Baseball summer season Sat- urday at Broadway Field, where the Gulls scored a “double victory” on the final day of the Wood Bat Tournament. Not only did the Gulls win their conso- lation final, they did it by beating Cowapa League rival Scappoose, 7-0. The Gulls are hoping it’s a sign of things to come in 2018, when Seaside baseball will be looking to climb back into the top half of the Cowapa. Seaside won Saturday’s consolation final in impressive fashion, as pitcher Brayden Johnson tossed a complete-game one-hitter, with four strikeouts and four walks. It took Johnson just 78 pitches to finish off the Indians, whose lone hit was a double in the second inning. Meanwhile, the Gulls collected six hits (from six different players) off two Scap- poose pitchers. Gage McFadden and Duncan Thompson each had a double, while Ashton Boyd was the big run-producer, driving in three runs, including a two-run single in the third inning. The Gulls led 1-0 after two innings, then broke it open with five runs in the third. With one out, McFadden was hit by a pitch, stole second, took third on a base hit by Payton Westerholm, and sprinted home on an error on the same play. Alex Teubner reached on an infield sin- gle, and Westerholm scored moments later Gary Henley/The Daily Astorian Seaside’s Ledger Pugh opened the bot- tom of the fourth inning with a single. on a double from Thompson. An infield single by Chase Januik scored another run, and Boyd’s line drive to center with two outs plated Thompson and Januik for a 6-0 lead. On the mound, Johnson retired nine in a row from the third to the sixth inning, and retired the side in order in the seventh. Seaside finishes the summer season with a 10-7 record, which included a win over Asto- ria Ford and two victories over Scappoose. tion games over the weekend. After an opening round loss to 4A (soon to be 5A) Scappoose Thursday, the Warriors dropped consecutive games to 5A St. Helens (3-1) Friday and 4A Baker (4-2) Saturday at Broadway Field. Churchill — the state champion at the 5A level last spring — won Seaside’s annual eight-team tournament with an 8-7 victory over Central in the championship game. Despite the Warrenton losses, the 2017 summer season showed the Warriors that they’ve got reason to be optimistic for the 2018 spring season. “If everyone returns that we expect to be back, and everybody stays healthy, it’s going to be a good season,” said Warrenton coach Lennie Wolfe, whose team was competitive all summer against a schedule of 4A schools. The main difference will be on the mound, where the Warriors will have Dalton Knight — who missed the entire spring sea- son — along with an improved Duane Falls and Austin Little. Falls finished on the mound in the loss to St. Helens, allowing just four hits with eight strikeouts in 5 1/3 innings. Knight took the loss Saturday, but pitched a solid six innings before giving way to Little. Because of a few injuries, Warrenton played most of the summer season short of players. The Warriors had just eight for Sat- urday’s season finale, adding the younger brother of a current player as a last minute replacement. Warriors show promise Cruz homers in 10th, sends M’s over Federer gets record-breaking Wimbledon title White Sox SEASIDE — The smallest school in the Seaside Wood Bat Tournament put up a big fight, but came up short in a pair of consola- By HOWARD FENDRICH Associated Press By MATT SCHOCH Associated Press CHICAGO — After mak- ing headlines with his cellphone at home plate during the All-Star Game, Nelson Cruz is letting his bat take over. Cruz hit a go-ahead home run for the second straight day, a lead- off drive off Chris Beck in the 10th inning Sunday that led the Seattle Mariners over the Chicago White Sox 7-6 Sunday. Cruz connected on a 3-0 pitch. “It’s location, something you can drive,” Cruz said after his 19th home run. “It’s not every time you’re going to get it.” On Saturday night, he hit a go-ahead homer in the sixth inning, capping the week in which he handed his phone to Yad- ier Molina at the plate in Miami and asked the catcher to snap photos of Cruz with umpire Joe West. Seattle has won four in a row while the White Sox lost their fourth straight, despite two Avisail Garcia home runs helping Chi- cago to an early 5-0 lead. Edwin Diaz closed all three games of the sweep as the Mariners improved to 46-47 as they try to stay in the AL wild-card race. LONDON — After Roger Federer closed out a Wimbledon final that was more of a coronation than a contest with an ace, he sat in his changeover chair and wiped away tears. That is when it hit him: His wait for record-breaking No. 8 was over. Until then, Federer wasn’t focused on the notion of winning the grass-court tour- nament more often than any other man in the history of an event first held in 1877. All he’d been concerned with, consumed with, was being healthy enough to compete at a high level and, he hoped, to win a title, regardless of what the total count would be. Capping a marvelous fortnight in which he never dropped a set, Federer won his eighth Wimbledon trophy and 19th Grand Slam championship over- all by overwhelming Marin Cilic 6-3, 6-1, 6-4 in merely 1 hour, 41 minutes Sunday. “Wimbledon was always my favorite tournament. Will always be my favorite tournament. My heroes walked the grounds here and walked the courts here. Because of them, I think I became a better player, too,” said Federer, who will turn 36 next month and is the oldest male champion at the All England Club in the Open era, which began in 1968. “To mark history here at Wim- bledon really means a lot to me just because of all of that, really,” he said. Daniel Leal-Olivas/Pool Photo Switzerland’s Roger Federer celebrates after beating Croatia’s Marin Cilic in the Men’s Singles final match on Day 13 at Wimbledon Sunday. “It’s that simple.” His first major title came at Wim- bledon in 2003, and was followed by others in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. He won again in 2009 and 2012. But then he lost finals in 2014 and 2015 to Novak Djokovic. He couldn’t be sure another final, let alone title, was possible a year ago, when he lost in the semifinals, then took the rest of 2016 off to let his sur- gically repaired left knee heal. “It’s been a long road,” he said. Sunday’s outcome was only in doubt for about 20 minutes, the amount of time it took Federer to grab his first lead. Cilic said afterward he developed a painful blister on his left foot during his semifinal Friday, and that affected his ability to move properly or sum- mon the intimidating serves that car- ried him to his lone Grand Slam title at the 2014 U.S. Open, where he surpris- ingly beat Federer in the semifinals. This one was all Federer, who had been tied at seven championships with Pete Sampras and William Renshaw in what’s still officially called Gentle- men’s Singles. Sampras won all but one of his in the 1990s; Renshaw won each of his in the 1880s, when the pre- vious year’s winner advanced auto- matically to the final. With clouds overhead and a bit of chill in the air Sunday, Federer’s early play was symptomatic of jitters. For everything he’s accomplished, for all of the bright lights and big settings to which he’s become accustomed, the guy many have labeled the “GOAT” — Greatest of All Time — admits to feeling heavy legs and jumbled thoughts to this day. It was Federer, not Cilic, who dou- ble-faulted in his first two service games. And it was Federer, not Cilic, who faced the initial break point, in the fourth game. But Cilic netted a return, beginning a run of 17 points in a row won by Federer on his serve. He would never be confronted with another break point. “I gave it my best,” Cilic said. “That’s all I could do.” In the next game, Federer broke to lead 3-2. He broke again to take that set when Cilic double-faulted, walked to the changeover and slammed his racket. Cilic sat and covered his head with a white towel. With Federer up 3-0 in the second set, Cilic cried while he was visited by a doctor and trainer. He said that was not so much a result of his foot’s pain as the idea that he could not play well enough to present a challenge. “Very tough emotionally,” said Cilic, whose foot was re-taped by a trainer after the second set. “I knew that I cannot give my best on the court.”
