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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 2017 CONTACT US FOLLOW US facebook.com/ DailyAstorianSports Gary Henley | Sports Reporter ghenley@dailyastorian.com Texas skid ends with 5-1 win over M’s By STEPHEN HAWKINS Associated Press Submitted Photo From left to right, Andrew Goozee and Aaron Barendse from Knappa, and Astoria’s Fridtjof Fremstad and Kel- don Littel, will be taking part in Saturday’s East-West Shrine Football Game in Baker City. notforsale Shrine All-Star game Saturday in Baker City The Daily Astorian The 65th annual East-West Shrine All-Star Football game takes place Saturday in Baker City, with three players and a coach from Clat- sop County taking part. The late summer game show- cases the top senior players (1A to 4A) in the state from the 2016 sea- son. Two Astoria graduates, one from Knappa, and Logger coach Aaron Barendse will be part of this year’s contest, which benefits Port- land Shriners Hospital for Children. Astoria seniors Fridtjof Frem- stad and Keldon Littell will join Knappa’s Andrew Goozee as the player representatives from Clat- sop County, while Barendse is one of four coaches on the West team’s coaching staff, along with Jim Lock- wood, Jeremy McLoud and Andy Mott. The game will be aired on Root Sports Network, 7 p.m. Monday. CULTURE SHIFT? Tournament of Nations has 3 women coaches By ANNE M. PETERSON Associated Press An ongoing shift in wom- en’s soccer has been apparent at the Tournament of Nations — not on the field but on the sidelines. Three of the four teams participating in the inter- national event have female coaches, a rare majority in soccer. A year ago, the two teams playing for the gold medal at the Rio Olympics were both led by women, Sweden’s Pia Sundhage and Germany’s Sil- via Neid. And Jill Ellis led the U.S. national team to the Women’s World Cup title in Canada the year before. Ellis and others in the sport believe that recent events show women are mak- ing important and necessary gains in soccer — but there’s more work to be done. “I think it’s forward-think- ing federations that are about hiring competent coaches but also willing to provide oppor- tunities,” Ellis said. “I know we’ve recently hired techni- cal advisers for our acade- mies and they’re all female and I think that’s great. We’ve got to have more coaches out there and more role models for young coaches. I think it’s great.” The inaugural Tournament of Nations concludes tonight in Carson, California. The U.S. women rallied from a 3-1 deficit to beat Brazil 4-3 on Sunday in San Diego and will face Japan in the tourna- ment’s final match. U.S. Soccer hopes to host the tournament each summer that there isn’t a World Cup or Olympic competition. In addition to Ellis, Emily Lima is the new coach for Brazil and Asako Takakura manages Japan. The only male coach in the event is Australia’s Alen Stajcic. Lima and Takakura are former players who are rel- atively new to their teams: Lima took over Brazil last fall following the Olympics and Takakura was appointed after Japan failed to make the field for Rio. Both are the first female coaches for their teams. Another sign of a possible culture shift in the sport: Five of the top 10 teams in FIFA’s world rankings are coached by women. The trend has not been lost on Moya Dodd, a former Aus- tralian national team stand- out and vice president of the Asian Football Confederation who has been a vocal advo- cate for women’s soccer. “When given the opportu- nity, women coaches are phe- nomenally successful. All but one of the World Cups, Olym- pic golds and Euros in wom- en’s football since 2000 have been won by female-coached teams,” Dodd said, adding that’s 11 of 12 tournaments at the sport’s highest level. However, Dodd said any shift is far less apparent below the senior national team level and at the club level, where female coaches are scarcer. ARLINGTON, Texas — Joey Gallo keeps hitting impressively long home runs for the Texas Rangers. Balls are landing in spots at their home ballpark where few, if any, have ever gone in the past. “I’ve never seen nobody hit the ball that far here. Never,” said Seattle right fielder Leonys Martin, who made his big league debut for Texas in 2011 and got traded away after the 2015 season. “It’s crazy.” Gallo’s homer in the fifth inning of the Rangers’ 5-1 victory on Wednesday night measured at about 460 feet. The ball went above the hill in center field on a platform with tables for fans to sit and watch the game. One of his two homers Tuesday night landed on the roof of the club in that same vicinity. “I don’t feel like I’m in a groove or anything,” Gallo insisted. “I just feel like I’m getting a pitch to hit and not missing it. ... That’s it, just things going my way, that’s all.” Delino DeShields and Elvis Andrus also homered for the Rangers, who ended a four-game losing streak to wrap up a 3-6 homestand during which Adrian Beltre joined the 3,000-hit club and ace pitcher Yu Darvish was traded away. Andrew Cashner (7-8) worked six innings for his third straight victory, match- ing a career best. He struck out four and walked none, but hit two batters. Mariners lefty Ariel Miranda (7-5) struck out five without a walk in 5 2/3 innings. But he allowed all three homers as Seattle’s four-game winning streak ended. “Miranda’s stuff was actu- ally OK,” manager Scott Ser- vais said. “He made a couple mistakes, but they weren’t base hits or doubles, they just UP NEXT: MARINERS • Seattle Mariners (55-54) at Kansas City Royals (55-51) • Today, 5:15 p.m. TV: RTNW went over the fence.” Gallo has homered six times in his last nine games. His 28 homers account for nearly half of his 60 hits this season — he has 18 singles, 12 doubles and two triples. “To hit it to center, that’s something I wasn’t doing early in the year, so it’s a good sign for me, person- ally,” Gallo said. “The swings have been really good, very aggres- sive,” manager Jeff Banis- ter said. “He’s staying on the ball.” The only thing that seemed to bother Gallo was the bug that flew into his eye while in the field the inning after his homer. The 6-foot-5 Gallo went to a knee as a trainer worked to clean his eye, while his fellow infield- ers stood around the third baseman with smiles on their faces. The Mariners led 1-0 in the first after Jean Segura was hit by a pitch, stole second base and scored on Robinson Cano’s single . DeShields tied the game with his second career leadoff homer , both this season. The Rangers went ahead in the fourth when Beltre, who later had a single for his 3,002nd career hit, had a sacrifice fly that turned into a double play. Shin-Soo Choo scored on Beltre’s flyball, but Andrus was thrown out on an impres- sive peg by right fielder Leo- nys Martin when trying to advance from second to third base. Andrus went deep in the sixth, a two-run shot that made it 5-1 only a couple of batters before a 40-minute rain delay. Miranda, who has allowed 27 homers this sea- son, didn’t return when the game resumed. AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Ariel Miranda throws to a Texas Rangers batter during the fourth inning of a baseball game Wednesday in Arlington, Texas. Former heavyweight champion Klitschko retires By GEIR MOULSON and JAMES ELLINGWORTH Associated Press AP Photo/Frank Augstein IBF, WBA, WBO and IBO champion Wladimir Klitschko from Ukraine celebrates after winning the IBF heavy- weight world championships title bout against Bulgarian boxer Kubrat Pulev in Hamburg, Germany, in 2014. BERLIN — Former heavy- weight world champion Wlad- imir Klitschko announced his immediate retirement from boxing on Thursday. The decision ends an era when the Klitschko name alone could guarantee one of the big- gest fights of the year. At their peak, Klitschko and his brother Vitali held all of the major heavyweight titles between them. Klitschko, who retired with a 64-5 record, lost his titles to Tyson Fury in 2015 and failed to regain the WBA and IBF belts in April, when Anthony Joshua beat him by an 11th-round tech- nical knockout. Klitschko had been lined up for a rematch against Joshua, who will now likely face man- datory challenger Kubrat Pulev. “As an amateur and a pro- fessional boxer, I have achieved everything I dreamed of, and now I want to start my second career after sports,” Klitschko said in a statement released by his management. He said that he had delib- erately taken a few weeks to reach a decision “to make sure I had enough distance from the (first Joshua) fight at Wembley Stadium.” An amateur boxing star in his youth, Klitschko turned pro in 1996 after he won the Olym- pic gold in Atlanta. His early professional career passed in a blur, with 16 victo- ries in 13 months. He won his first world title in 2000, beat- ing Chris Byrd on points for the WBO belt six months after Byrd had taken the title from Klitschko’s brother Vitali. Defeats to Corrie Sand- ers in 2003 and Lamon Brew- ster in 2004 raised doubts whether Klitschko had the resil- ience to box at the top level. He answered the doubters with an 11-year unbeaten run from that defeat to Brewster, beating con- tenders such as Ruslan Chagaev and David Haye along the way with a methodical, tactical style. He never fought his brother Vitali, saying that would break a promise to their mother. The brothers’ hard-hitting style inside the ring and relaxed, multilingual approach outside it made them famous beyond boxing. Wladimir Klitschko even made a cameo appearance in a 2007 romantic comedy movie in the brothers’ adopted home of Germany. Showing the international approach that helped make him such a marketable athlete, Klitschko released his farewell video Thursday in three lan- guages — English, German and Russian. He helped out when his older brother went into poli- tics, addressing crowds along- side Wladimir Klitschko’s fian- cee, the U.S. actress Hayden Panettiere, during anti-gov- ernment protests in Ukraine in 2013. Vitali Klitschko has since become mayor of the Ukrainian capital Kiev. Wladimir Klitschko’s depar- ture opens up the heavyweight scene, with Joshua now likely to face Bulgarian Pulev in the coming months. Pulev’s only loss in 26 fights was against Klitschko in 2014.
