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Coast winner
qualifi es for
U.S. Senior
Amateur
The Daily Astorian
PORTLAND — Eleven golf-
ers advanced to the 2017 U.S.
Senior Women’s Amateur Cham-
pionship — including the recent
winner of the Oregon Coast Invi-
tational — after qualifying was
held last week at Waverley Coun-
try Club in Portland, the site of
this year’s Championship.
Waverley, located in s outheast
Portland on the banks of the Wil-
lamette River, will host its fi rst
U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur
Championship Sept. 9 to Sept. 14.
In total, this year’s championship
will be the seventh USGA Cham-
pionship that the c ountry c lub has
hosted.
The list of 11 includes Lara
Tennant, who just recently won
her 10th Oregon Coast Invita-
tional Women’s title.
Marcia Fisher of Molalla
earned medalist honors in the
Senior Amateur qualifying, fi r-
ing a 6-over par 78. Her back nine
included seven pars and just two
bogeys, solidifying her position as
the top qualifi er by one shot.
In addition to Fisher and Ten-
nant, nine others qualifi ed, includ-
ing fi ve more OGA members —
Anita Wicks (Roseburg), Loree
McKay (Portland), Lisa Poritz
(Portland) and Debbie Friede
(Washougal, Washington ). Leilani
Norman (Eugene) is fi rst alternate
after a playoff for the fi nal quali-
fying spot.
Wicks, Tennant, and McKay
all tied for second place after
Fisher, with all three shooting 79
on Monday.
Sports study:
HIGH SCHOOL
ATHLETES NOT
BEING FULLY
PROTECTED
Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Hole-in-one
Ken Littwin of Astoria scored a
hole-in-one Tuesday at the High-
lands Golf Club in Gearhart. Litt-
win aced the 199-yard, par 3 ninth
hole using a 5-wood.
Hernandez out
3-4 weeks for
playoff hopeful
Mariners
Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — In the
midst of the AL wild card chase,
the Seattle Mariners will be with-
out starter Felix Hernandez for
three to four weeks because of
bursitis in his right shoulder.
General manager Jerry Dipoto
gave the update on Hernandez on
Tuesday.
Hernandez was scratched from
his scheduled start last Saturday
in Kansas City and placed on the
disabled list due to discomfort in
his pitching arm. He returned to
Seattle and was examined by team
physician Dr. Edward Khalfayan.
Marco Gonzales, acquired in
a trade with St. Louis last month,
took Hernandez’s spot in the rota-
tion. Hernandez is 5-4 with a 4.28
ERA in 13 starts this season. Her-
nandez missed nearly two months
earlier this season because of
shoulder infl ammation.
“Obviously disappointed to
lose Felix,” Mariners manager
Scott Servais said. “It’s probably
three to four weeks, but hopefully
we can get that shoulder calmed
down.
“We certainly need him in our
rotation. We’re going to be play-
ing a lot of big ball games here in
September and we’d love to get
him back at that time, but he’s
going to have to work his tail off,
get the arm strength back. Hope-
fully it won’t be that long, but
three to four weeks is a little bit of
a blow there.”
Seattle also placed right-handed
reliever David Phelps on the 10-day
disabled list with an impingement
in his right elbow. He’s expected to
miss two to three weeks.
“I think it’s positive on David
Phelps,” Servais said. “We’ll get
him back relatively soon, 10 days
to two weeks. He did the right
thing the other day kind of alerting
us he didn’t feel right so we got
him out of the game before some-
thing else was worse.”
Astoria’s Fridtjof Fremstad makes a run while Fort Vancouver’s Bobby Shephard prepares to tackle as the Astoria Fishermen faced
off against the Fort Vancouver Trappers last September. A new study suggests high school athletes are not being fully protected.
Oregon ranked 15th in the study
By BARRY WILNER
Associated Press
N
EW YORK — A high school
sports study conducted by the
Korey Stringer Institute shows
that many individual states are not
fully implementing key safety guidelines to
protect athletes from potentially life-threat-
ening conditions, including heat stroke.
More than 7.8 million high school stu-
dents participate in sanctioned sports annu-
ally. KSI announced the results Tuesday at a
news conference at NFL headquarters. The
league partially sponsors the institute.
The state-by-state survey of all sports
played in high school showed North Car-
olina with the most comprehensive health
and safety policies at 79 percent, followed
by Kentucky at 71 percent. At the bottom
were Colorado (23 percent) and California
(26 percent). Oregon (53.5 percent) ranked
15th among states. Those scores were based
on a state meeting best practice guidelines
addressing the four major causes of sudden
death for that age group: cardiac arrest, trau-
matic head injuries, exertional heat stroke
and exertional sickling occurring in athletes
with sickle cell trait.
“The bottom line is that many simple
policy changes can have a massive impact
when a life is saved,” says Dr. Douglas Casa
of KSI. “That is the goal of KSI in releasing
these rankings, to prevent needless deaths
in high school sports. We have had count-
less conversations with loved ones who
have lost a child/sibling/grandchild/athlete.
If these rankings can get more kids home
for dinner instead of to a hospital or morgue,
then we have succeeded.”
The institute is a sports safety research
and advocacy organization located at the
University of Connecticut and named after
the former Vikings star who died from exer-
tional heat stroke in 2001.
Sudden cardiac arrest is the leading
cause of death for the age range.
Casa notes that progress is slow because
most states only make a change after a trag-
edy. But he stresses that the policies KSI
promotes are not diffi cult to adopt.
“At least one state has adopted each indi-
vidual item, and for many items, more than
half of the states have the policy in place,”
he explains. “So this tells us it is feasible (to
maximize protection). Now we need to col-
lectively get states to learn from their col-
leagues and adapt these (programs) in their
own state. Our top state is at about 80 per-
cent, showing that, with effort, these poli-
cies can be implemented.”
Bob Gfeller lost his son, Matthew, at age
15 in 2008, after a traumatic brain injury
while playing in his fi rst high school foot-
ball game. Gfeller is an executive vice
president at Wake Forest Baptist Medi-
cal Center and the executive director of the
Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma.
He found the wide range of results by state
“enlightening.”
Asked what can be done to get states to
adopt more of the guidelines to protect high
school athletes, Gfeller says: “Sharing of
best practices amongst the state high school
professionals. For each state to study where
they are gapping and what other states who
are scoring high are doing, so then to be able
to determine how to close their gap.”
In his fi eld of expertise, exertional heat
stroke, Casa notes that states that have
adapted signifi cant changes to heat acclima-
tization policies have not had such a death
when the policies have been followed.
“Keep in mind these policies are for the
phasing in of initial practices in August,”
Casa says. “Some of these states have still
had exertional heat stroke deaths during
summer conditioning in June/July or other
times of the year, because they lack policies
that govern these other circumstances.”
To prevent death from EHS, it comes
down to three things:
— Prevention — heat acclimatization,
modifying work/rest ratios based on envi-
ronmental conditions, hydration, body cool-
ing, etc.;
— Recognition — being aware, acting
quickly, rectal temperature;
— Treatment — cold water immersion,
cool fi rst/transport second.
Casa adds that the monetary cost of
reaching the desired preventive measures is
not high.
“To be honest, you could get to 90 per-
cent implementation with very little cost
and effort,” he says. “Spending probably
less than $5,000 per school could get you
close to 90 points. You also would probably
need a two-day meeting with the key state
association offi cials to refi ne the details of
the changes.
“It is matter of convincing people that
these issues are important and that they
need attention.”
Disney to launch streaming services
Associated Press
NEW YORK — With new stream-
ing services in the works, Disney is
trying to set itself up for a future that’s
largely been framed by Netfl ix: Pro-
viding the stuff you want to watch,
when you want to watch it.
The Magic Kingdom is launch-
ing its own streaming service for its
central Disney and Pixar brands and
another for live sports. That would
allow it to bypass the cable compa-
nies it relies on — and Netfl ix — to
charge consumers directly for access
to its popular movies and sporting
events.
“They’re bringing the future for-
ward. What they talked about were
things that looked inevitable, at some
point,” said Pivotal Research Group
analyst Brian Weiser. What’s less
clear is if Disney will be able to make
big bucks from it, he said.
This is important as the decline
in cable households and the shift to
smaller, cheaper bundles pressures
the profi tability of Disney’s cable net-
works. Fewer subscribers and fewer
viewers mean less money. In the nine
months through July 1, cable net-
works’ operating income fell 13 per-
cent from the year before, to $4.12
billion.
Sports
Disney had already said it would
be launching a streaming ESPN ser-
vice. It’s not meant to compete with
the company’s TV channels.
The sports service is coming in
early 2018, a little later than previ-
ously announced, and will air base-
ball, hockey and soccer games, ten-
nis matches and college sports
through ESPN’s popular mobile app.
Notably, ESPN will not be streaming
pro football or basketball, at least
initially.
Customers will also be able
to buy fuller streaming packages
from the baseball, hockey and soc-
cer leagues, and watch them on the
ESPN app.
“Ultimately, we envision this will
become a dynamic sports market-
place that will grow and be increas-
ingly customizable, allowing sports
fans to pick and choose content that
refl ects their personal interests,”
Iger said on a conference call with
analysts.
Disney will have to be care-
ful that it doesn’t transfer too much
sports programming from its TV
channels to the app. Getting the bal-
ance wrong could upset cable com-
panies and weigh on the price they
pay Disney for ESPN, Weiser said.