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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 2017
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SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Blazers send
Crabbe to Nets
for Nicholson
Associated Press
PORTLAND — The Portland
Trail Blazers have traded Allen
Crabbe to the Brooklyn Nets in
exchange for forward Andrew
Nicholson.
The deal, first reported by
ESPN, comes a year after the Nets
offered Crabbe a four-year, $75
million deal as a restricted free
agent. The Trail Blazers matched
that offer.
A 6-foot-6 wing, Crabbe aver-
aged 10.7 points, 2.9 rebounds
and 1.2 assists last season in Port-
land. He hit 44.4 percent of his
3-pointers.
“Allen has been a model team-
mate on the court and ambassador
for the organization off the court,”
Blazers President of Basketball
Operations Neil Olshey said in a
statement. “He will be missed by
all of us who shared the last four
seasons with him.”
Nicholson, who was traded
from Washington to the Nets at the
deadline in February, averaged 2.6
points and 1.6 rebounds last sea-
son. Portland is expected to waive
the 6-foot-9 power forward.
Gary Henley/The Daily Astorian
Nine-time Oregon Coast Invitational champion Lara Tennant was on the links Tuesday at the Astoria Golf & Country Club.
Quarterfinals set in
Women’s Division
of the Coast Invite
SCOREBOARD
GOLF
Oregon Coast Invitational
Tuesday’s Results
Women’s
Championship Flight
Gretchen Johnson def. Molly Jacobs;
Katie Sturgell def. Dotty Johnson; Cap-
py Mack def. Ali Battaglia; Marcia Walsh
def. Mary Jacobs; Amanda Jacobs def.
Beth Clark; Kat Magner def. Renee
Case; Lara Tennant def. Molly Edmunds;
Charisse Spada def. Gini Miller.
Second Flight
Barb Sloan def. Zeta Rennie; Jan Whit-
ty def. Barbara Mayer; Peggy Wobbrock
def. Karen Hoffman; Hillary McNeill def.
Robin Endres; Mary Swingle def. Kath-
leen Casey; Theresa Floten def. Pam
Kearney; Kristin Finnegan def. Kathy
Hubbard; Beth Jackman def. Lori Pe-
tersen.
Fourth Flight
Helene Mayer def. Sara Kuiper; Robin
Wood def. Luanne Fordney; Pat Fuller
def. Tasca Gulick; LaVona Goforth def.
Susan Shepherd; Leslie Bickmore def.
Mary Wohler; Sherry McNamara def.
Andrea Shepard; Sue Ann Bearden def.
Dawn McIntosh; Cindy Mulflur def. Jerry
Bridwell.
Seniors
Championship Flight
Michael Healy def. Paul Driscoll; Bret
Stevens def. Brooke Benz; Mike Malt-
man def. John Holmes; Paul Gulick def.
Michael Terrell; James Ihander def. Jim
Whittemore; Patrick Terrell def. Walter
Yeaw; Doug Wiese def. John Shepherd;
Tom Mulflur def. Robert Tennant.
Second Flight
Chris Hayward def. Royal Latham;
Paul Robben def. Bryn Torkelson; An-
thony Rennie def. Rick Darnell; Harold
Buell def. Dan Whealdon; Bart Bar-
tholomew def. Lynn Brigham; John May-
er def. Larry Perkins; Roger Stalick def.
Bill Bristol; Jeff Kauttu def. Scott Langley.
Fourth Flight
Scott Peterson, bye; John Lansing
def. Joe Uzelac; Stanley Gott def. Kevin
Merz; Steve Hart def. Daniel Lindquist;
Rick Fordney def. Ed Kropp; Rick Nel-
son def. Skip Nau; Bob Jordan def.
Bruce Conner; Craig Honeyman def.
Mike Capri.
Super Seniors
Championship Flight
Gaylord Davis def. Stan Rotenberg;
Mike Graham def. Bill Weed; Peter Ros-
coe def. Ray Grubbs; John Lewis def.
Rick Abrahamson; Marshall Gleason
def. Jon Palmberg; Jeff Leinassar def.
Rob Swingle; Ed Rippet def. Larry Allen;
Larry Wobbrock def. Russ Taggard.
Second Flight
Al Onkka def. Larry Veltman; John
Dunkin def. James Puterbaugh; Joe Pat-
rick def. Mike Kuratli; Michael Whitty, Sr.,
def. Tom Stearns; Randy Miller def. Dale
Lumpkin; Jon Woodson def. Lang Bates;
George Mack, Sr., def. Ron Nakata;
Thomas Carter def. William Drevescraft.
Fourth Flight
Tim Doherty def. Tony Pasion; Fred
Hamel def. Ron Marenda; Lou Libby
def. George Vance; Gordon Harris def.
Jarrett Jones; Kevin Kelly def. John Holt;
John Young def. Michael Clark; John
Turman def. Tom Isenhour; Mike Furrer
def. Jack Nantz.
Sixth Flight
Michael Millette def. Stephen Moore;
Chuck Carnese def. Ken Kadera; David
Gilbert def. Robert Mesher; Peter Go-
forth def. Miles Sweeney; Wayne Spen-
cer def. Jim Hauck; Randy Zmrhal def.
Bill Knox; John Holmes def. Ron Leland;
Thomas McDowell def. Jeff Wohler.
Eighth Flight
Marty Sells, bye; Larry Grant def. Al-
bert Carder; Tom Hageman def. Herb
Sundby; Russ Dragon def. Rick Wil-
liams; Roger Schultz def. Chris Robin-
son; Gary Clunas def. David Aase; Ron
Martell def. John McLoughlin; Jerry
Briggs def. David Lum.
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The only local player in the final eight
of the Women’s Division championship
flight, Astoria’s Katie Sturgell had the
winning form in Tuesday’s match.
WARRENTON — There were champions
and ex-champions all over the course Tues-
day afternoon, on the first day of match play
in the Women’s Division of the Oregon Coast
Invitational.
How many champs? The first-round
bracket of the Women’s championship flight
had a combined 21 Coast Invitational champi-
onships, going all the way back to 1987.
The familiar names always rise to the top
of the top flight, and most of those names
advanced with victories Tuesday at the Asto-
ria Golf & Country Club.
Defending Coast champion Amanda
Jacobs secured her spot in Thursday’s quarter-
finals, with a win Tuesday.
The Women’s champion in three of the
last four Oregon Coast Invitationals, Jacobs
was7-up at the turn.
Elsewhere, nine-time champion Lara Ten-
nant, who won her first OCI in 1990 as Lara
Mack, scored a victory along with sister
Cappy Mack, as the Mack sisters (Lara, Cappy
and Renee) seek a 14th Coast title.
It won’t be easy. Thursday’s quarterfinal
round in the Championship Flight is loaded
with talent, not to mention five ex-champions.
Tennant will face Charisse Spada (OCI
champion in 1987, 1991 and 2005), while
Gretchen Johnson — the medalist in week-
end qualifying — is matched against Astoria’s
Katie Sturgell, the lone local player in the final
eight.
Jacobs will face two-time OCI champion
Kat (Gerrish) Magner.
Action continues today in the 107th annual
Coast Invitational, with competition in the
Grand Champions, Junior/Seniors and Super
Seniors.
Semifinals in all divisions take place Friday.
Segura’s single in 13th rallies M’s past Red Sox
By JIM HOEHN
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Guillermo Heredia
provided the early punch with a home
run, then turned an extra 90 feet into
the winning run for the Seattle Mari-
ners some four hours later.
Heredia went from first to third on
a wild pitch and then came home when
Jean Segura rolled an RBI single up
the middle with two outs in the 13th
inning to cap a two-run rally and give
the Mariners a 6-5 victory over the
Boston Red Sox in a game that ended
early Wednesday morning.
“In my opinion, the biggest play
in the game was him going from first
to third on the wild pitch, keeping his
up head up there and taking the extra
base, which allowed him to score the
winning run,” Mariners manager Scott
Servais said. “A lot of crazy plays in
that game, but it says a lot about the
effort of our ballclub.”
Mitch Haniger walked with one out
in the 13th off Doug Fister (0-5), pitch-
ing his third inning, and was forced
at second on Ben Gamel’s fielder’s
choice. Heredia, who had a three-run
homer in the second, singled Gamel
to third. Gamel scored on a wild pitch
to tie it, with Heredia advancing all
the way to third. Mike Zunino then
walked. Shortstop Xander Bogaerts
fielded Segura’s roller behind second,
but his off-balance throw was way late.
“Obviously, I didn’t know right
away. I was aggressive on the play,”
Heredia said through a translator.
“Once I looked back at the catcher, he
was a little careless on it, I took off for
third.”
The Red Sox, who stranded two
runners in the eighth, ninth and 11th
innings, had taken a 5-4 lead in the top
half when Sandy Leon singled home
Hanley Ramirez with two outs off
Tony Zych (5-2).
“Our bullpen did a great job of
NCAA rule
ends 2-a-days
forcing teams
to switch plans
By STEVE MEGARGEE
Associated Press
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
Seattle Mariners’ Guillermo Heredia (5) is greeted at the plate as Boston
Red Sox catcher Christian Vazquez watches after Heredia hit a three-run
home run during the second inning of a baseball game Tuesday in Seattle.
extending it, we had opportunities
throughout, we fight back from 3-0,
unfortunately the ending is what it is,”
Red Sox manager John Farrell said.
“It’s a tough loss, particularly the way
we’ve scuffled offensively for a period
of time now.”
Zunino opened the seventh inning
with his 15th home run to bring Seat-
tle even at 4-4.
The Red Sox capitalized on a sud-
den loss of command by starter Felix
Hernandez for three runs in the sixth
to erase a 3-1 deficit.
Highly touted prospect Rafael
Devers, making his debut, walked to
open the inning and Andrew Benin-
tendi drew a one-out walk. Both run-
ners advanced on a wild pitch and
Dustin Pedroia followed with a two-
run double. Pedroia advanced on
Ramirez’s flyout and came home on
Bradley Jr.’s single.
Heredia’s three-run homer off
starter Drew Pomeranz staked the
Mariners to a 3-0 lead in the second.
Ramirez cut it to 3-1 in the fourth
with 17th home run, a two-out shot to
left.
“We knew it was going to be a
tight game. It got a little longer than
we expected, but we’ll take it,” Ser-
vais said.
The 20-year-old Devers, who
began the season at Double-A and then
was called up Monday after just nine
games at Triple-A Pawtucket, flied out
to center in his first at-bat, walked, hit
into a double play in the seventh, and
walked again in the ninth. He struck
out in the 11th to end the inning with
the go-ahead run at third and flied out
to center to end the 13th. He finished 0
for 4 with two walks.
“In the first inning I was very ner-
vous, but thank God I was able to
get my feet under me,” Devers said
through a translator. “For me, it’s just
going out there and playing my brand
of baseball and having fun out there,
that’s what I was trying to do and I
think I did that. I’m not happy that we
lost, but I’m happy for my first big-
league game.
The two-a-day football prac-
tices that coaches once used to
toughen up their teams and cram
for the start of the season are
going the way of tear-away jer-
seys and the wishbone formation.
As part of its efforts to increase
safety, the NCAA approved a plan
this year that prevents teams from
holding multiple practices with
contact in a single day.
The move has forced plenty
of schools to alter their practice
calendar, with many teams open-
ing their preseason as early as this
week. Officials don’t mind if it
causes a few logistical headaches
as long as it reduces the head inju-
ries that had become all too com-
mon this time of year.
According to the NCAA’s
Sport Science Institute, 58 percent
of the football practice concus-
sions that occur over the course of
a year happen during the presea-
son. Brian Hainline, the NCAA’s
chief medical officer, says August
also is a peak month for cata-
strophic injuries resulting from
conditioning rather than contact,
such as heatstroke and cardiac
arrest.
“There was just something
about that month really stood out,”
Hainline said. “We couldn’t say
with statistical certainty if this was
because of the two-a-days, but
there was enough consensus in the
room and enough preliminary data
that it looked like it was because
of the two-a-days.”