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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2018
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Poyer football camp set for July 14
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Autographed photos are always a part of
the Jordan Poyer football camp.
After a one-year absence, the
Jordan Poyer Football Camp is
returning to Astoria for a one-day
event, July 14 at CMH Field.
Poyer will be running his camp
for the first time since joining the
Buffalo Bills, after three seasons
as a member of the Cleveland
Browns.
Pre-registration has been
extended to June 22, in order that
Griffin trying to fill
Sherman’s shoes
with Seahawks
By CURTIS CRABTREE
Associated Press
RENTON, Wash. — For
the past six seasons, the Seattle
Seahawks never had to worry
about the player lining up on
the left side of their secondary.
Richard Sherman locked
down the left cornerback spot
in Seattle’s defensive back-
field from the moment he took
over as a starter in the middle of
the 2011 season until he went
down with a torn Achilles last
November.
He made the Pro Bowl four
times and was a first-team All-
Pro on three occasions over
his last six seasons with the
Seahawks.
But with Sherman now in
San Francisco, the Seahawks
are asking Shaquill Griffin to
move across to the left side as
the team’s top cornerback. It’s
a lot of responsibility for a sec-
ond-year player.
“It’s a little different step
for me, but nothing that I can’t
focus on,” Griffin said. “But
I’m loving the left side and I’m
honored to be on that side now.
I’m here to help my team any
way I can.”
When Sherman was injured
last season, Griffin remained
on the right side of the defense
with Jeremy Lane and Byron
Maxwell taking over for Sher-
man on the left side.
With an offseason to adjust,
the Seahawks decided to move
Griffin to the left side and allow
Maxwell to return to the right
side where he started 17 games
for Seattle over two seasons in
2013 and 2014.
“We think Maxie has done a
really nice job on the other side,
and we thought if we’re going
to balance it out and open it up
(for competition), let’s open
it up on the right side and see
what happens,” coach Pete Car-
roll said.
Griffin was a third-round
pick of the Seahawks last sea-
son and managed to work his
way into the starting lineup
after the first month of the sea-
son. He started 11 games and
had 59 tackles with an inter-
ception and a sack in his rookie
season.
The team has since added
Shaquill’s brother, Shaquem, to
the linebacking group, select-
ing him in the fifth round of this
year’s draft.
SPORTS IN BRIEF
Johnson shares lead in US Open
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — The U.S. Open lived up to its rep-
utation in the return to Shinnecock Hills.
So did Dustin Johnson.
Fresh off a six-shot victory last week, Johnson managed all
aspects of his game Thursday on a classic U.S. Open course that
required nothing less. He wasn’t perfect, but he was under par —
barely — and shared the lead at 1-under 69 in an opening round
of strong wind, high anxiety and scores that made this feel like a
U.S. Open again.
“You had to focus on every single shot you hit — putts, every-
thing. It was just difficult all day,” Johnson said. “Every day out
here is going to be difficult.”
Former NFL player Winslow
arrested on rape charges
ENCINITAS, Calif. — Former NFL tight end Kellen Winslow
Jr. has been arrested on charges of rape and other sex crimes on
the day he was to appear in court on an unrelated burglary charge.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports sheriff’s deputies
arrested Winslow on Thursday at his home in the San Diego sub-
urb of Encinitas.
The 34-year-old Winslow was charged with two counts of
rape, two counts of kidnapping with intent to commit rape and
single counts of forcible sodomy, oral copulation and indecent
exposure. He’s free after posting $50,000 bail.
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Licensed in Oregon and Washington
participants receive a properly
sized T-shirt.
Poyer, a Class of 2009 Asto-
ria High graduate and former
All-American at Oregon State,
will conduct the camp along with
current coaches and players of the
Astoria High football team.
The camp (9 a.m. to noon) is
for any child entering kindergarten
through the eighth grade in the fall
of 2018.
Cost is $35. Instruction will
include — but not be limited to —
individual techniques of all offen-
sive, defensive and special team
positions, recommended nutrition,
off-season and in-season training,
and the importance of goal-setting
and team building.
Pre-registration is preferred.
Authorization forms can be
found on the Astoria High School
website.
If pre-registration is not pos-
sible, campers may register the
day of the camp from 8–8:45 a.m.
Campers should wear cloth shorts
and a T-shirt, and preferably a rub-
ber-molded pair of shoes (metal
cleats are not allowed).
For more information, con-
tact Astoria coach Howard Rub at
503-325-3911, ext. 317 (work) or
hrub@astoria.k12.or.us.
All participants will receive a
T-shirt, a meal courtesy of Asto-
ria Youth Athletics, and an auto-
graphed photo of Poyer.
COLLEGE WORLD SERIES
Beavers’ Heimlich: ‘Fans can
cheer me. They can boo’
By ERIC OLSON
Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. — Ore-
gon State pitcher Luke
Heimlich is the probable
starter in the opening game
of the College World Series
on Saturday and he said he is
ready for any kind of recep-
tion he receives from the
fans on the sport’s biggest
stage.
Heimlich, 22, is in
Omaha a year after it was
disclosed he had pleaded
guilty to sexually abusing a
young relative when he was
15. He has denied wrong-
doing in recent interviews
with Sports Illustrated and
The New York Times, say-
ing he entered the guilty plea
to spare his family the ordeal
of a trial.
Heimlich received a
standing ovation when the
left-handed ace walked off
the mound at his home ball-
park for the last time last
week. But he will be on col-
lege baseball’s biggest stage
— 1,700 miles from Cor-
vallis, Oregon — when the
Beavers face North Carolina
at TD Ameritrade Park.
“I’m not worried about
the fans. I play baseball on
the field,” Heimlich said in
the Oregon State clubhouse
Friday. “The fans can cheer
me on. They can boo. They
can do what they want. I’m
here to play baseball.”
Heimlich has played a
major role in the Beavers
making it to the CWS for
the second year in a row. He
leads the nation in wins with
a school-record 16-1 record
and 151 strikeouts in 120 1/3
innings. He was named Pac-
12 pitcher of the year for the
second straight season.
Last year, after The Ore-
gonian newspaper first
reported Heimlich’s juve-
nile record, Heimlich opted
to sit out the super regional
and did not make the trip to
Omaha.
“It wasn’t fun,” Heimlich
AP Photo/Nati Harnik
Oregon State pitcher Luke Heimlich sits in the dugout before practice at TD Ameritrade
Park in Omaha, Neb.
UP NEXT: BEAVERS
• Oregon State Beavers
vs North Carolina Tar Heels
• Saturday, noon TV: ESPN
said. “I watched some of it from
home. One of the games I went
on a hike, the other I was on a
beach somewhere. I definitely
was following (it).”
Brenda Tracy, a rape survi-
vor and activist who speaks to
college sports teams around the
country, said Heimlich should
not have been allowed to rejoin
the team this season. The Heim-
lich story hits close to home
for her. Tracy alleged she was
gang raped by four men, includ-
ing three Oregon State football
players, when she was a student
at OSU in 1998.
“It’s long past time for uni-
versities and athletic depart-
ments to ban violent athletes,”
she said. “There are conse-
quences for your behavior, and
playing sports is a privilege.”
Tracy said the NCAA should
adopt the rule passed this month
by the Big Sky Conference that
prevents individuals with a his-
tory of convicted violence to
receive athletic-related finan-
cial aid or participate in practice
or competition. The misconduct
includes any act of sexual vio-
lence, domestic violence, dating
violence, stalking and assault
with a deadly weapon.
Heimlich, a senior from
Puyallup, Washington, initially
was charged with two counts
of molestation. He ultimately
pleaded guilty to one count of
molestation between February
2011 and December 2011, a
period during which he was 15.
Prosecutors dismissed the other
charge.
He entered a diversion pro-
gram, received two years of
probation and was ordered to
attend sex offender treatment
for two years, according to
court records. He was ordered
to serve 40 weeks of detention
at a juvenile facility, but that
sentence was suspended and he
served no time because he suc-
cessfully completed probation.
Heimlich deflected ques-
tions touching on his his-
tory with a stock answer: “I’m
focused on continuing to help
my team win games.”
His future after the CWS is
to be determined. Widely con-
sidered a first-round talent, he
went undrafted two straight
years. He still could sign with
a major league club as an
undrafted free agent, play in an
independent league or overseas.
“I had no expectations going
into the draft,” he said. “I have a
great group of guys around me
and we’re excited to continue
playing baseball.”
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