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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JULY 17, 2017
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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
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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.”