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Texas skid
ends with 5-1
win over M’s
By STEPHEN
HAWKINS
Associated Press
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Shrine All-Star game
Saturday in Baker City
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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
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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.