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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 2018
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SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Solo says don’t vote
for US World Cup bid
Warriors
take 3-0 lead
in NBA Finals
Associated Press
LONDON — A World
Cup winner and Olympic
champion with the United
States, Hope Solo now wants
her country to lose one of its
biggest soccer contests: FIFA’s
vote on the 2026 World Cup
host.
“I can’t say it should be
awarded to Morocco,” Solo
told The Associated Press.
“But I don’t think it should go
to the United States, and that’s
hard to say.”
By choosing to actively
campaign against the U.S.-led
North America bid, Solo risks
alienating herself further from
the soccer community in her
homeland.
The bid leadership was
exasperated when informed
Solo was undermining their
efforts heading into Wednes-
day’s vote, dismissing her crit-
icism of the governance of
soccer but declining to go on
the record in detail.
This is not an isolated erup-
tion against U.S. Soccer. Solo
has reason to be disgruntled.
After 202 international appear-
ances — a record for an Amer-
ican goalkeeper — Solo was
fired over an outburst at the
2016 Olympics against the
opposition and a series of off-
CLEVELAND
—
Kevin Durant stood calmly
near midcourt — and a very
familiar spot — as team-
mates Stephen Curry and
Draymond Green screamed
at him in celebration.
Another
momentous
shot for Durant.
And soon, probably
another NBA championship.
Durant scored a career
playoff-high 43 points,
draining a long 3-pointer in
the final minute to cap his
magnificent performance,
and the Warriors beat LeB-
ron James and the Cleve-
land Cavaliers 110-102 in
Game 3 of the NBA Finals
on Wednesday night to
move within a victory of a
sweep, their second straight
title and third championship
in four years.
The Warriors are on
dynasty’s doorstep.
Afterward, the defend-
ing champs could be heard
loudly celebrating inside
their locker room, perhaps
a warmup for a bigger party
to come.
the-field controversies.
In an attempt to take con-
trol of the organization that
ostracized her, Solo ran for
the U.S. Soccer Federation
(USSF) presidency in Febru-
ary. There was a resounding
verdict: Solo garnered only 1.4
percent of the vote to finish last
out of five candidates.
Solo still wants to be heard
to try to secure equal pay and
equal treatment for the U.S.
women’s team, and force
Major League Soccer to open
up the closed competition.
Her gripes provide a counter-
point to the loyal championing
of the American World Cup
bid by David Beckham in a
video released by MLS, where
the former England captain is
launching a team in Miami.
That is only possible because
Beckham secured a cut-price
deal for an expansion fran-
chise as part of his contract
to play for the Los Angeles
Galaxy.
“That is not helping the
sport in America,” Solo said.
“I want to see promotion-rel-
egation in the NASL and the
MLS. Right now it’s true, you
have rich ownership groups
owning MLS teams and
they’re only getting richer and
they’re alienating everybody
else.
Oregon State’s Heimlich
goes undrafted again
Corey Rich/Reel Rock/Novus Select
Alex Honnold, top, and Tommy Caldwell climb The Nose of El Capitan.
Red Schoendienst
Schoendienst
dies at 95, was
oldest living
Hall of Famer
ST. LOUIS — If there
was ever anyone who lived
his life The Cardinal Way, it
was Red Schoendienst.
Right down to his ruby
name. The team color, of
course.
Schoendienst, the Hall
of Fame second baseman
who managed St. Louis to
two pennants and a World
Series championship in the
1960s, died Wednesday. He
was 95.
The
Cardinals
announced
Schoend-
ienst’s death before the
third inning of their game
against the Miami Marlins.
A photo was shown on the
video board with “1923-
2018” written below. Fans
gave a standing ovation,
while players stood and
applauded.
Climbing stars cope with falls
on way to El Capitan record
By BRIAN MELLEY
Associated Press
L
OS ANGELES — Two
of the world’s best rock
climbers coped with
frightening falls and the deaths
of two fellow climbers on the
same rock in a monthlong quest
to shatter a mythical record in
Yosemite National Park.
Tenacity paid off Wednes-
day as Alex Honnold and
Tommy Caldwell reached the
top of El Capitan, the most
celebrated slab of granite on
Earth, in less than two hours,
breaking a barrier compared to
the four-minute mile.
The blistering time of 1
hour, 58 minutes and seven
seconds capped weeks of prac-
tice and a few stumbles on the
so-called Nose route that runs
up the middle of the 3,000-foot
(915 meters) sheer monolith.
Honnold didn’t think they
were on a record pace until he
glanced at his phone timer as
he ran for the tree that marks
the finish line, he told The
Associated Press by phone
as he hiked down from the
summit.
“Oh my god, we’re doing
it,” he thought as he secured
the rope to the tree and hoped
Caldwell would hurry. “It was
slightly emotional when we
finished it. I had a wave of, ‘Oh
wow.’ I’m pretty proud we saw
it through.”
The duo broke the record
three times in the past week,
carving more than 20 min-
utes off a 2017 mark. Honnold
said it would have been easy
to stop after breaking records
Monday and May 30, but they
pressed toward the two-hour
goal he considered the “human
potential.”
Hans Florine, who has held
the record on and off between
1990 and 2012 — the last time
with Honnold — said the mark
is equivalent to the ongoing
quest to break the two-hour
marathon or Roger Bannister’s
1954 achievement in the mile.
“We were pushing the five-
hour barrier before and then the
Happy
Father’s
Day
four-hour barrier and then the
three-hour barrier. So which
one of those is the four-minute
mile?” Florine said before the
mark was broken. “I think it is
getting close.”
Climbing times on El Cap
have fallen precipitously since
Warren Harding and two others
made the first ascent 60 years
ago. That took 12 days in a
final push following 48 days of
advance work over 18 months
as Harding pounded bolts into
the rock to aid his climb.
“As I hammered in the
last bolt and staggered over
the rim, it was not at all clear
to me who was the conqueror
and who was the conquered,”
Harding said afterward.
Teams pass on
troubled past
By DENNIS
WASZAK Jr.
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Oregon
State pitcher Luke Heimlich,
who as a teenager pleaded
guilty to molesting a 6-year-
old relative, was not selected
in the Major League Baseball
draft for the second straight
year.
Heimlich is a two-time
Pac-12 pitcher of the year and
is regarded as one of college
baseball’s top players, but his
troubled past has given big
league teams pause.
The 22-year-old left-hander
was expected to be drafted in
the early rounds last year until
The Oregonian reported last
June that Heimlich admitted to
the crime when he was 15. He
did not play for Oregon State
last year in the second round
of the NCAA Tournament or
the College World Series.
Heimlich recently insisted
in stories by Sports Illustrated
and The New York Times he
was actually innocent and said
he pleaded guilty because of
poor legal advice — to avoid
the possibility of jail time and
prevent further stress for the
girl.
“Nothing ever happened,”
he told the Times, “so there is
no incident to look back on.”
In an interview with the
Times, the girl’s mother said
“there is no way he didn’t do
it.”
The three-day draft con-
cluded Wednesday night, with
1,214 players selected — but
not Heimlich.
The Oregon State star is
15-1 with a 2.42 ERA and
142 strikeouts against just 25
walks in 111 2/3 innings this
season. The Beavers are host-
ing Minnesota in the super
regionals starting Friday, with
the winner of the best-of-three
series advancing to the Col-
lege World Series in Omaha,
Nebraska. Heimlich, who is
26-2 over the last two seasons,
is expected to pitch against the
Golden Gophers.
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