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IN BRIEF
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Seaside Jiu-Jitsu competitors
Cam’ron Graham, left, and
Xanh Quang came home with
gold medals from an Oct. 21
event in Portland.
Jiu-Jitsu fighters
earn medals
in Portland
The Daily Astorian
PORTLAND — Four ath-
letes from the Seaside Jiu-Jitsu
Academy competed Oct. 21 at
the Grappling Industries tourna-
ment in Portland, where two local
youth and two adults won a com-
bined seven medals, including
five gold and two silver.
“All of our athletes performed
extremely well,” said Seaside
Jiu-Jitsu coach Zachary Adam-
son. “We’ve been making adjust-
ments in our training and it really
showed.”
Local
competitor
Evan
Yokoyama competed in one of
the toughest divisions. He faced
a top California prospect (Lance
Phillip Chong) who represents
one of the top teams in the nation.
Yokoyama was ready, however,
and was able to “overwhelm
his opponent early on, and sub-
mit him in devastating fashion,”
according to Adamson.
The team competes again next
month in Seattle.
Astoria Parks
& Recreation
seeking sponsors
The Daily Astorian
The Astoria Parks and Recre-
ation department seeks sponsors
for the upcoming youth basketball
season.
In order to assure a success-
ful program for the youth of the
community, Astoria Parks & Rec-
reation relies on local businesses
that serve the community to pro-
vide sponsorship and help with the
cost of the program.
The fee is $150 to sponsor a
team this season. For more infor-
mation, contact Dana King at:
dking@astoria.or.us, or 503-325-
7275; or the Astoria Parks &
Recreation Coordinator, LeRoy
Woodrich.
Georgia,
Alabama, Notre
Dame top 1st
CFP rankings
Associated Press
NEW YORK — A couple of
games played during week two of
the season had a major effect on
the first College Football Playoff
rankings.
Georgia, Alabama, Notre
Dame and Clemson were the top
four teams in the selection com-
mittee’s initial top 25 released
Tuesday night.
Oklahoma, Ohio State and
Penn State were next as the com-
mittee members let head-to-head
results and strength of schedule
be their guide. The final rank-
ings that will determine the par-
ticipants in the College Football
Playoff semifinals come out Dec.
3.
Georgia and Alabama, South-
eastern Conference rivals, are
both 8-0 and have been dom-
inating their competition. The
Bulldogs’ one close game was
at Notre Dame in September, a
20-19 victory.
AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
Los Angeles Dodgers’ Joc Pederson hits a home run against the Houston Astros during the seventh inning of Game 6 of baseball’s
World Series Tuesday in Los Angeles.
Dodgers and Astros push their
wonderful World Series to Game 7
By GREG BEACHAM
Associated Press
WORLD SERIES: GAME 7
LOS ANGELES — Kenley Jansen blew a
94 mph pitch past Carlos Beltran to wrap up
a six-out save Tuesday night, and Dodger Sta-
dium roared with equal elements excitement
and anticipation.
This World Series is just too good to go
anything less than seven games.
The Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston
Astros will play for a championship in Chavez
Ravine on Wednesday night, wrapping up two
outstanding seasons in Game 7 — the biggest
stage in North American team sports. Two
100-win teams will play a winner-take-all
finale to the baseball season for the first time
since 1931.
“This is a great series,” said Houston’s
George Springer, who hit his fourth homer of
the Series on Tuesday. “I know we lost (Game
6), but this is awesome.”
• Houston Astros at Los Angeles
Dodgers (series is tied up 3-3)
• Today, 5:20 p.m. TV: FOX
For the fourth time in seven years, the Fall
Classic is going to Game 7. It’s the 39th time
since baseball went to a best-of-seven World
Series format, and the first time it has hap-
pened in back-to-back seasons since 2001-02.
“I think you dream about that as a kid,”
said Dodgers outfielder Joc Pederson, whose
third homer in four games powered Los Ange-
les past Houston in Game 6. “I think it’s going
to be big for ... all of us to just remember it’s
still a baseball game. You’ve got to slow it
down. Still play the same way that we’ve been
playing all year that got us to here.”
Game 5 was a fascinating spectacle in
Houston, a 13-12 win in 10 innings that put
the Astros on the brink of their first champi-
onship. Game 6 merely was superbly played,
with Los Angeles calmly snatching a crisp 3-1
victory from the edge of defeat.
The Dodgers and Astros have played one
of the most memorable postseason series in
recent history — and now they even get the
chance to top the finale of last year’s World
Series.
Just a year ago, the Chicago Cubs ended
their 108-year championship drought with
a 10-inning thriller in Game 7. Chicago got
extra-inning RBIs from MVP Ben Zobrist and
Miguel Montero in a landmark victory over
the Cleveland Indians, whose own drought
reached 68 years last fall.
Another significant drought will end at
Dodger Stadium, which has never hosted a
World Series Game 7 in its storied history.
The Astros haven’t won a title in 56 sea-
sons of existence, while the Dodgers haven’t
raised the trophy in 29 years.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL PREVIEWS
With 4 starters gone, Oregon Oregon State Beavers look
to (hopefully) healthy season
Ducks team is in transition
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
Oregon guard Payton Pritchard
is just a sophomore but for now he’s
charged with leading the Ducks fol-
lowing the departure of four starters.
Oregon is in transition with few
returnees from last season’s Final
Four team, joined by a handful of
freshmen and two graduate transfers.
“We are expecting more from him
in the ways of leadership, especially
through November and December,
until we get a lot of guys on the page
with what we’re doing,” coach Dana
Altman said about Pritchard . “I think
he’s going to have a big
role, a tremendous role of
trying to get everybody on
the same page.”
The Ducks set a school
record for wins last sea-
son, finishing 33-6 and
making just the second
national semifinal appear-
ance in school history. It was the
team’s fifth straight trip to the NCAA
Tournament.
Oregon beat Iona, Rhode Island
and No. 23 Michigan to reach the
Elite Eight — where the team pulled
off a thrilling 74-60 victory over the
Jayhawks.
That sent the Ducks through to
their first Final Four since 1939,
when the Tall Firs won the first-ever
NCAA Tournament with a final vic-
tory over Ohio State. The team was
bumped from their bid for a spot in
the national championship game by
eventual champion North Carolina.
Oregon also won a share of the
Pac-12 regular-season title and went
undefeated at home for the second
straight season.
Pritchard averaged 7.4 points
per game last season, along with 3.4
rebounds and 3.6 assists.
“I think eventually they’ll blend
together and be a pretty good team,”
Altman said. “But they’re going to
have to work awfully hard and give
up some of the things they think are
important, to do some of the things
that are important for the team.”
KEY DEPARTURES: Dillon
Brooks, who averaged just over 16
points last season for the Ducks, was
a second-round pick by the Memphis
Grizzlies. Jordan Bell also
went in the second round
and was traded to the
Golden State Warriors.
Tyler Dorsey went to the
Atlanta Hawks in the sec-
ond round. Chris Boucher
went undrafted but signed
a two-way contract with
Golden State.
“None of them were projected out
of high school to develop like that.
But they all worked awfully hard.
Because of that, I think they should all
feel really good about where they’re
at right now. Because it’s taken us to
90 wins in three years like they did,
an Elite Eight and a Final Four. It was
a great group of guys,” Altman said.
ADDITIONS: The Ducks added
graduate transfers in Elijah Brown, a
guard who averaged 18.9 points last
season at New Mexico, and forward
MiKyle McIntosh, who averaged
12.5 points and 5.6 rebounds last year
at Illinois State.
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
Oregon State is hoping to finally
realize the promise of its 2015
recruiting class that featured Tres
Tinkle, Stephen Thompson Jr., and
Drew Eubanks.
All three are healthy going into
this season.
Tinkle, a 6-foot-8 forward, was
sidelined for much of last season
with a wrist injury, one of a series of
unfortunate events to befall the Bea-
vers. Oregon State finished 5-27 and
at the bottom of the Pac-12 with just
one conference win.
“It was hard to get into a groove,”
coach Wayne Tinkle said.
“Even though we lost
four guys early, about
the same time, the end
of November, it’s just we
were dealing with differ-
ent things from week to
week. We were so young, so short
on depth. We just had no margin for
error.”
Tres Tinkle, the coach’s son,
broke his right wrist in the sixth game
of the season. He was averaging 20.2
points, 8.3 rebounds and 2.3 assists.
He was granted a medical hardship
and will play this season as a redshirt
sophomore.
Oregon State’s lone conference
win came at home against Utah,
68-67, on Feb. 19. The Beavers were
the 12th seed going into the Pac-12
tournament and fell in the opening
game to California.
Eubanks , a 6-foot-10 forward,
started in all 32 games last season,
averaging 14.5 points, 8.3 rebounds,
1.2 assists and 2.2 blocks per game.
Thompson averaged 16.3 points, 4.3
rebounds and three assists, while
making 57 3-pointers.
“I was proud of the guys hang-
ing in there, because there were only
a couple of games where we were
blown out from the jump. We were in
it for 32 minutes even against the best
teams in the league,” the elder Tinkle
said. “We just ran out of gas.”
The Beavers return 10 players,
including the starters for most of
last season: Thompson, Eubanks,
JaQuori McLaughlin, Kendal Man-
uel and Gligorije Rakocevic.
Oregon State added six newcom-
ers, including forward
Seth Berger, a graduate
transfer from UMass, and
Ethan Thompson, Ste-
phen’s little brother.
FAMILY AFFAIR:
The Thompson brothers
are the sons of Oregon State assis-
tant Stephen Thompson, who was the
head coach at CSU Los Angeles for
nine years before coming to Corval-
lis with Wayne Tinkle’s staff in 2014.
INCOMING
THOMPSON:
Ethan Thompson is a four-star shoot-
ing guard out of Bishop Montgom-
ery in Torrance, California, where he
averaged 22.8 points, 7.7 rebounds,
and 5.4 assists as a senior. Wayne
Tinkle said the youngest Thompson
emerged in advance of the team’s
exhibition trip abroad this summer.
“Ethan Thompson is a kid that
has been a leader his whole life. He’s
not afraid to get vocal,” Wayne Tin-
kle said.