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SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Timbers beat
Whitecaps 2-1
to snap 6-game
winless streak
Associated Press
VANCOUVER,
British
Columbia — Caleb Porter spent
the last few days trying to patch
together a lineup with injuries,
suspensions and international
duty ravaging his roster.
At the final whistle Sunday, the
Portland Timbers coach pumped
a jubilant and relieved fist in cel-
ebration before hugging his assis-
tants — a reaction not usually
seen after a July match in Major
League Soccer.
Sebastian Blanco scored early
in the second half and the Timbers
beat the Vancouver Whitecaps 2-1
to snap a six-game winless streak.
Portland dressed just 16 play-
ers instead of the usual 18, with
Porter having to call up two mem-
bers of the club’s USL affiliate to
fill out his bench.
Phelps loses to
fake shark in
‘Shark Week’
Associated Press
Michael Phelps has finally met
his match in the water: a “great
white shark.”
The Olympic champion swim-
mer was bested Sunday night in the
Discovery Channel’s Shark Week
special “Phelps vs. Shark: Great
Gold vs. Great White.”
But Phelps didn’t swim with
a real shark. He competed in the
ocean against a computer-sim-
ulated fish based on data on the
swimming speed of sharks.
Phelps was outfitted with a
wetsuit and a monofin to mimic a
shark’s powerful tail. He finished
the 100-meter race in 38 seconds,
2seconds slower than the simulated
shark.
Phelps tweeted Sunday that he’d
like a rematch, but in warmer water.
SCOREBOARD
GOLF
Oregon Coast Invitational
Qualifying Results
Grand Champions
(Top 10)
1. Sam Hinton, 66
2. Anthony Arvidson, 69
Bill Winter, 69
4. Adam Harrington, 70
Harrison Moir, 70
Jay Ross, 70
7. John DeLong, 72
Rex Puterbaugh, 72
Mike Fritz, 72
Peter Jennings, 72
Randy Tucker, 72
Daniel Terrell, 72
Women’s
1. Gretchen Johnson, 74
2. Lara Tennant, 77
3. Cappy Mack, 78
4. Marcia Walsh, 80
5. Gini Miller, 82
6. Kat Magner, 83
7. Katie Sturgell, 84
Dotty Johnson, 84
9. Renee Case, 85
10. Charisse Spada, 87
Mary Jacobs, 87
Ali Battaglia, 87
Junior/Seniors
1Dennis Sturgell, 74
Matt Elmes, 74
John Holtman, 74
4. Steve Fordney, 76
5. Henry Emmerson, 77
Steve Roos, 77
7. Steve Johnson, 78
Jim Parks, 78
9. Brian Hefele, 79
Doug Edwards, 79
Kurt Payne, 79
Mike Ralston, 79
Rob Turk, 79
All LaPlante, 79
Seniors
1. Michael Healy, 75
2. John Shepherd, 77
3. Mike Maltman, 78
Michael Terrell, 78
Tom Mulflur, 78
6. Bret Stevens, 79
Patrick Terrell, 79
Brooke Benz, 79
9. Walter Yeaw, 80
10. Robert Tennant, 81
Super Seniors
1. Gaylord Davis, 75
Marshall Gleason, 75
3. Larry Allen, 76
4. Ray Grubbs, 79
John Lewis, 79
Larry Wobbrock, 79
Rob Swingle, 79
Bill Weed, 79
Mike Graham, 79
10. Jeff Leinassar, 80
Rick Abrahamson, 80
Peter Roscoe, 80
The Daily Astorian/File Photo
Seaside’s Samuel Hinton shot a 6-under-par 66 to win qualifying for the Grand Champions division Saturday at the Astoria Golf &
Country Club, site of the 107th annual Oregon Coast Invitational this week. Play gets underway today.
107th Oregon Coast
Invitational starts today
The Daily Astorian
WARRENTON — Match play begins
today in the 107th annual Oregon Coast Invi-
tational, following a weekend of qualifying at
the Astoria Golf & Country Club.
Samuel Hinton, a Seaside High graduate
and a junior on the Willamette University golf
team, won medalist honors Saturday in the
Grand Champions Division.
Hinton shot a 6-under-par 66 to finish
ahead of Anthony Arvidson and Bill Winter,
who tied with a 69.
Portland Golf Club’s Gretchen Johnson
had a1-over 74 to win the women’s medalist
award in Sunday’s qualifying round.
Coast Invitational returning champions
include four-time winner Amanda Jacobs,
who has won three of the last four omen’s
titles; James Folk (Junior/Seniors); Jamie
Ihander (Seniors) and David Vistica, going for
a three-peat in the Super Seniors.
Other medalists from a weekend of quali-
fying included Dennis Sturgell, who shot a2-
over 74 along with Matt Elmes and John Holt-
man, then won a tie-breaker for top honors in
the Junior/Seniors Division; Michael Healy
carded a3-over 75 to win Seniors’ qualifying;
and Gaylord Davis won a tie-breaker with
Marshall Gleason at 75 for the Super Seniors.
Match play starts today in the Grand
Champions and Junior/Seniors divisions, and
action continues daily through Saturday at the
Astoria Golf & Country Club.
Yankees win first series in
6 weeks, beat Mariners 6-4
Associated Press
SEATTLE — The Yankees bullpen
put together a needed shutdown effort,
and New York looked more like the
team that showed so much early-sea-
son promise.
New York won a series for the first
time in six weeks when Aroldis Chap-
man struck out Ben Gamel with a run-
ner on to preserve a 6-4 victory over
Seattle on Sunday, their third win in
four games against the Mariners this
weekend.
The Yankees had been 0-8-2 in
series since sweeping Baltimore on
June 9-11. New York had lost 13
straight games with a chance to win a
series.
Despite those struggles, New York
is 2 1/2 games behind the Boston Red
Sox for the AL East lead.
“We really had a hard time,” man-
ager Joe Girardi said. “We had built to
where we got pretty far over .500, but
we fell and we were struggling and
we were having a hard time winning
games. To only be 2 1/2 out, we have
still got a ton of games in our division,
you feel pretty fortunate.”
The bullpen entered Sunday lead-
ing the majors with 18 blown saves,
but Chad Green, Dellin Betances and
Daniel Robertson combined for 4 1/3
perfect innings before Chapman fin-
ished in shaky fashion for his 11th
save.
A converted starter pitching on
consecutive days for the first time in
the majors, Green (1-0) struck out
three in 2 1/3 innings. He dropped his
ERA to 1.56 in 22 appearances this
season.
“Honestly, this is a dangerous bull-
pen, top to bottom,” All-Star Betances
said. “Chad Green has been our best
guy. (Adam) Warren as well. They’ve
been pitching their butts off. They’ve
been pitching in situations they’re not
Spieth takes
road less to
traveled to
British Open
By DOUG FERGUSON
Associated Press
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
New York Yankees’ Didi Gregorius, left, hits a solo home run as Seattle Mari-
ners catcher Carlos Ruiz, right, and home plate umpire Tom Woodring, cen-
ter, look on in the fourth inning of a baseball game on Sunday in Seattle.
accustomed to because of how deep
this (bullpen) is.”
Nelson Cruz led off the ninth
with a single that smashed off Chap-
man and deflected toward shortstop
for an infield hit. After Chapman
was checked by Girardi, the closer
picked off pinch runner Taylor Motter
between first and second. Kyle Seager
followed with a double off a 101 mph
fastball, but Mitch Haniger popped out
and Gamel went down swinging.
Seattle overcame a 3-0 deficit with
a four-run fourth inning against Caleb
Smith, but Brett Gardner hit a tying,
bases-loaded single in the sixth and
Clint Frazier followed with a two-
run double off former Yankee James
Pazos (2-3).
Didi Gregorius had his first career
multihomer game with solo shots in
the second and fourth innings for New
York, both on 0-1 pitches from Yovani
Gallardo. Gregorius has 14 home runs.
Gardner opened the game with his
17th home run.
Gallardo allowed three runs in five
innings.
“Obviously, Gregorius had (Gal-
lardo’s) number today with the two
home runs,” Mariners manager Scott
Servais said. “But give him credit. He
did hang in there. We needed to get
five innings out of him and we did.”
Smith made his first big league
start and second appearance. He failed
to finish the fourth inning, getting
chased by Guillermo Heredia’s two-
run double off the wall in center. Smith
allowed four runs in 3 2/3 innings.
The Mariners are 2-13 in their last
15 games against New York at Safeco
Field, losing seven straight series.
Aaron Judge, Gary Sanchez and
Matt Holliday combined to go 0 for
12 as New York’s 3-4-5 hitters, while
Gregorius, Chase Headley, Todd Fra-
zier, Tyler Wade and Ronald Torreyes
went 7 for 14 in the final four spots in
the order.
SOUTHPORT, England —
The start was not what anyone
expected out of Jordan Spieth. All
that mattered to him was how he
finished the British Open.
And that might have been the
biggest surprise of all.
The record will show that Spi-
eth took a three-shot lead into the
final round at Royal Birkdale,
closed with a 1-under 69 and won
by three shots over Matt Kuchar,
giving him the third leg of the
career Grand Slam.
“Seventeen pars and a birdie
would have been fine, too,” Spi-
eth said, the silver claret jug at his
side. “But there’s a lot of roads to
get there.”
The road less traveled? This
was more like blazing a new trail.
Seve Ballesteros won the 1979
British Open at Royal Lytham &
St. Annes by making birdie from
the parking lot. Spieth was spared
at Royal Birkdale by making a
bogey from the driving range
when he was expecting no better
than a double bogey.
Henrik Stenson finished with
four birdies over the last five holes
at Royal Troon last year to pull
away from Phil Mickelson in one
of golf’s greatest duels. Trailing
for the first time all weekend, Spi-
eth went birdie-eagle-birdie-birdie
to overcome his own doubts and
win his third major just four days
before he turns 24.
“He’s a fighter. He’s shown
that the whole way through his
short career,” Rory McIlroy said.
“He can dig himself out of these
holes. He’s an absolute star.”