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SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Warriors reach
4th straight NBA
Finals with win
over Houston
HOUSTON — Stephen Curry
and Golden State turned all those
Houston bricks into a road back to
the NBA Finals.
Needing not only all their fire-
power but also 27 straight misses
by the Rockets during an epic cold
streak from 3-point range, the
Warriors rallied to keep alive their
hopes for a repeat.
Kevin Durant scored 34 points,
Curry sparked another third-quar-
ter turnaround, and the Warriors
earned a fourth straight trip to the
NBA Finals by beating the Rock-
ets 101-92 in Game 7 of the West-
ern Conference finals on Monday
night.
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From May 19-20, 2012, Knappa’s Nygaard Logging team. From left to right, Austin Dragoo, Reuben Cruz, Quentin Pinkstaff, Logan
Flues, coach Nathan Pinkstaff, Dale Takalo, Mason Hoover, Cody Stuhr, Jacob Ford, Braedon Eltagonde, Colton Weirup, Reece Hunt,
Timber Engblom and coach Brett Hunt.
Knappa seniors to play final home game
The Daily Astorian
ine seniors will officially play their
final home baseball game Tuesday
afternoon at Teevin Field, where the
Knappa Loggers host the Kennedy Trojans
in a Class 2A/1A semifinal, with a trip to the
state championship on the line.
For those seniors who played as fresh-
UP NEXT: 2A/1A SEMIFINAL
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• Kennedy Trojans at Knappa Loggers
• Today, 4:30 p.m.
men, Knappa’s four-year record stands at
93 wins, five losses. Going back to last sea-
son, the Loggers’ current win streak is 36 in
a row.
But Knappa’s seniors were winning long
before they got to the high school level.
In a Cal Ripken Majors tournament,
May 19-20, 2012, Knappa’s Nygaard Log-
ging team — which included eight of the
current nine seniors — posed for a team
photo
following
their
tournament
championship.
‘Distance Night’ at the pre-Prefontaine Classic in Eugene
By NEIL BRANSON
For The Daily Astorian
EUGENE — Last Friday night,
the pre-Prefontaine Classic was free
admission “distance night” at His-
toric Hayward Field in Eugene.
There was a foursome of races,
but it was a different kind of distance
that lit up the crowd. A trio of Ger-
mans with javelins in hand treated
the Pre Classic record like a noxious
weed.
In his first throw, Andreas
Hofmann sent the spear flying 282
feet, 2 inches, adding 2’ 7” to the pre-
vious record set in 2001.
Through the second round, no big
throws. The third effort by Johannes
Vetter had the crowd oohing and
awing as they watched it sail.
Eyes on the reader board, then an
extra roar from the fans as it showed
293-1. Now the crowd’s attention
had turned to the pole vault, where
Sam Kendricks of the USA was on
the runway working to wrest first
place from Armand Duplantis, a
Swedish citizen just graduated from
high school in Louisiana, who, hav-
ing cleared 18-8¾ with no misses,
was the leader in the competition.
As the crowd urged him on with
rhythmic clapping, Hendricks sped
toward and over the crossbar at
19-0¾ for the win.
Back at the javelin, the athletes
were now into the penultimate of
six rounds when Thomas Rohler let
Golden Knights
outlast Caps 6-4
in Final opener
LAS VEGAS — The Vegas
Golden Knights’ incredible inau-
gural season isn’t slowing down
in the Stanley Cup Final.
Tomas Nosek scored the tie-
breaking goal midway through
the third period, and the expan-
sion Golden Knights opened an
improbable Final with a thrilling
6-4 victory over the Washington
Capitals on Monday night.
Marc-Andre Fleury made 24
saves in an occasionally shaky
performance, but the three-time
Stanley Cup winner’s new team-
mates carried the goalie who
has so often carried them with a
relentless outburst of offense.
The Eastern Conference cham-
pion Capitals hadn’t given up this
many goals in 29 games since
March 18, but they hadn’t seen
anything like this charmed run by
the upstart Knights.
Mariners again
prevail in 1-run
game, beating
Rangers 2-1
Photos by Andy Nelson/The Register-Guard
Thomas Rohler won the javelin competition with a throw of 294 feet, 10 inches.
loose with a throw of 294-10 to be
the third man to reset the field and
Pre Classic record. The announcer
put it mildly when he said “you
won’t see that kind of javelin com-
pletion at many meets.” How about
“any meets?”
On the track, two women with
regional ties delighted the crowd.
Alexa Efraimson, a graduate of
Camas High School, placed sec-
ond in the 1,500 with a fine 4:08.70,
one second behind winner Dani
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4:07.74. University of Oregon grad-
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Jamaican Natoya Goule in 2:00.84.
Neil Branson is the former long-
time track and cross country coach
at Seaside High School.
SEATTLE — Marco Gonzales
is answering all those preseason
questions about his place in Seat-
tle’s rotation.
Hard to argue with his results
of late.
Gonzales pitched into the sev-
enth inning and did not allow an
earned run for a third consecutive
start, helping the Mariners top the
Texas Rangers 2-1 on Monday.
Seattle won for the ninth time
in 10 games and reached 13 games
above .500 for the first time since
late in the 2014 season.
— Associated Press
SCOREBOARD
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
Sam Kendricks heads up on the
way to clearing 19 feet, 3/4 inch-
es to win the pole vault.
TODAY
Baseball — 2A/1A semifinal: Kenne-
dy at Knappa, 4:30 p.m.
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