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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2018
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SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Astoria Ford,
Warrenton
split twinbill
WARRENTON — The
Astoria Ford and Warren-
ton summer baseball teams
split a junior state double-
header Thursday at Hud-
dleston Field.
The Fishermen won the
Game 1 league counter,
6-1, before the Warriors
bounced back with a 3-0
victory in Game 2.
Astoria Ford’s Dylan
Rush tossed a five-hit shut-
out in the opener, in which
the Fishermen scored five
runs on four hits in the first
inning.
Warrenton’s
Devin
Jackson answered with a
complete-game, two-hit
shutout in the nightcap,
striking out 13.
The Warriors host
another
doubleheader
Tuesday against Tilla-
mook, beginning at 4 p.m.
Warrenton plays one game
Thursday at Clatskanie (5
p.m.), then will host Ken-
nedy for single games Fri-
day, Saturday and Sunday.
— The Daily Astorian
Red Sox hit
three homers
to rout M’s 9-3
SEATTLE — Rafael
Devers, Jackie Bradley
Jr., and Xander Bogaerts
all homered and the Bos-
ton Red Sox routed the
Seattle Mariners 9-3 on
Sunday.
Devers’ 11th homer of
the season capped a five-
run, two-out rally in the
third against Seattle starter
Mike Leake (7-4).
Andrew
Benintendi
and Bogaerts began Bos-
ton’s rally with a pair of
singles. J.D. Martinez
drew a nine pitch walk
to load the bases before
Mitch Moreland drove in
two with a single to cen-
terfield, and Devers fol-
lowed with a blast off the
Hit It Here Cafe in right
field to give Boston a 5-0
lead.
The Red Sox pulled
away in the seventh
against
right-handed
reliever Chasen Bradford,
who gave up three runs
and two homers while get-
ting two outs.
Top teams
have trouble
winning at
World Cup
MOSCOW — Parity
has come to the World Cup.
Five of the top six
nations in the FIFA rank-
ings have played, and
none has won. Only two of
the top dozen teams have
victories.
Top-ranked Germany
lost to No. 15 Mexico, sec-
ond-ranked Brazil tied No.
6 Switzerland, No. 4 Por-
tugal drew 10th-ranked
Spain, and No. 5 Argentina
tied 22nd-ranked Iceland.
Among other teams
in the top 12, only No. 7
France (over No. 36 Aus-
tralia) and co-No. 12 Den-
mark (against No. 11 Peru)
have victories.
No. 3 Belgium, No. 7
France, No. 8 Poland and
co-No. 12 England haven’t
played, and No. 9 Chile
failed to qualify.
— Associated Press
SCOREBOARD
LOCAL SPORTS SCHEDULE
TUESDAY
Junior baseball — Tillamook
at Warrenton (2), 4 p.m.
Tar Heels knock out Heimlich
early, beat Beavers 8-6 in CWS
By ERIC OLSON
Associated Press
Bulldogs
earn walk-
off win over
Huskies
O
MAHA, Neb. — It
took nearly 4 1/2 hours
in 95-degree heat to
play the opening game of the
College World Series.
Time flew for North Caro-
lina coach Mike Fox. He was
having fun.
The Tar Heels knocked out
Oregon State ace Luke Heim-
lich during a five-run third
inning and went on to beat the
Beavers 8-6 on Saturday.
“I liked being in the third-
base coaching box in the top of
the third. Felt I was out there
for a while,” Fox said. “For
me, the more you’re out there,
the better. I get it. It was a long
game. But they’re not long
for me, and they’re not long
for the coaches and players.
Sometimes it’s agonizing for
the people watching. We’re not
trying to drag it out by design.”
The Tar Heels (44-18)
used six pitchers in a 4-hour,
24-minute slog that was the
longest nine-inning game in
CWS history. They turned back
threats in the sixth and seventh
innings and prevailed against
an opponent they hadn’t faced
since losing to the Beavers in
the 2006 and ‘07 CWS finals.
The Tar Heels built leads of
6-1 and 8-4, but Oregon State
(49-11-1) was poised to go
ahead in the seventh after load-
ing the bases with two outs
against Josh Hiatt and Steven
Kwan coming to bat. Kwan
had reached base on his first
four trips to the plate and had
struck out only 15 times in 247
Associated Press
AP Photo/Nati Harnik
Oregon State pitcher Luke Heimlich throws against North Carolina in Saturday’s NCAA
College World Series baseball game in Omaha, Neb.
at-bats, making him one of the
toughest players in the nation
to strike out. Cooper Criswell
came on and struck him out on
three pitches.
“My goal is to go out and
get ahead in the count. I was
able to do that,” Criswell
said. “I think he was a little
froze on the second fastball
I threw him. I think he might
have been expecting some-
thing else. And on the slider
for strike three, (Brandon Mar-
torano) did a great job framing
that pitch and getting that one
for me.”
The Beavers were unchar-
acteristically sloppy while los-
ing their third straight game
over two years in Omaha. Car-
olina scored on a passed ball,
and the Beavers committed
three errors after making one
in their first five NCAA Tour-
nament games.
Then there was Heimlich
(16-2), the two-time Pac-12
pitcher of the year who lasted
just 2 1/3 innings — his short-
est start in two years.
Last year, Heimlich left
the team for super region-
als and the CWS after it was
revealed he had pleaded guilty
to molesting a young relative
when he was 15. The univer-
sity allowed him to return to
the team this year. He served
two years’ probation and went
through a treatment program
but denied wrongdoing in
recent interviews with Sports
Illustrated and The New York
Times.
There was no discernible
negative crowd reaction during
pregame introductions; Ore-
gon State fans behind the third-
base dugout loudly cheered
Heimlich.
OMAHA, Neb. —
Mississippi State’s flair
for the dramatic contin-
ued in its College World
Series opener.
Luke
Alexander’s
drive to right field got past
Christian Jones in the bot-
tom of the ninth inning,
allowing Hunter Stovall
to score from second base
to give Mississippi State a
1-0 victory over Washing-
ton on Saturday night.
Of the Bulldogs’ seven
wins in the NCAA Tour-
nament, three have come
in walk-off fashion and a
fourth on their final at-bat.
Stovall and Elijah
MacNamee singled lead-
ing off the ninth against
Andy Hardy (5-3). After
Justin Foscue fouled out
on a bunt try, Alexander
hit an 0-2 slider deep to
right. Jones was playing
shallow and gave chase,
but he couldn’t catch up
to the ball as it bounced
to the wall. Alexander
easily scored, prompting
players to pour out of the
Mississippi State dugout
and celebrate on the grass
behind third base.
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Brooks Koepka kisses the Golf Champion Trophy after
winning the U.S. Open Golf Championship Sunday in
Southampton, N.Y.
Tough course or easy, Koepka
repeats as US Open champion
By DOUG FERGUSON
Associated Press
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y.
— One was about power. The
other was about patience.
Brooks Koepka has a game
for the U.S. Open no matter
the course, no matter the test,
no matter the circumstances.
He never lost hope when
he began his title defense with
a 75 and was 7-over par mid-
way through the second round.
He didn’t lose his mind in the
most punishing third round
of a U.S. Open in nearly two
decades.
And with a cool head and a
hot putter, he didn’t give any-
one a chance down the stretch
Sunday at Shinnecock Hills.
Koepka pulled away from a
four-way tie for the lead with
three birdies in five holes, held
off Tommy Fleetwood and his
record-tying 63 and closed
with a 2-under 68 for a one-
shot victory to become the first
repeat U.S. Open champion in
29 years.
“I don’t want to say I didn’t
think I could do it,” Koepka
said. “But I knew that it was
going to be that much more
difficult. And to finally do
it, it’s much more gratifying
the second time. I can really
appreciate how hard it is to
win a major.”
Koepka won with bird-
ies on spacious Erin Hills last
year. The signature moment
from this U.S. Open was a trio
of putts to escape trouble on
the back nine — two for par,
one for bogey.
“I enjoy being pushed
to the limit,” Koepka said.
“Sometimes you feel like you
are about to break mentally,
but that’s what I enjoy. I enjoy
hard golf courses. I enjoy play-
ing about the toughest in golf
you are ever going to play.”
Shinnecock Hills was
every bit of that, particularly
on Saturday when conditions
were so severe that the last
45 players to tee off shot over
par. The USGA conceded the
course was over the top and
pledged to add water to slow
it down. Fleetwood raced into
U.S. Open history with a 63,
without making birdie on the
two par 5s and missing an
8-foot birdie putt on the final
hole.
That cost him more than the
record. It cost him a chance in
a playoff.
Koepka took a two-shot
lead with a wedge to 3½ feet
for birdie on the par-5 16th,
allowing him a safe bogey on
the final hole to finish at 1-over
281. It was the first time since
2013 at Merion that no one
broke par, and it was 13 shots
more than his winning score at
Erin Hills.
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