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Valley Catholic’s Willy Weber was tagged out on this play
at third base, but the ball was knocked from the glove of
Warrenton’s Alec Herrera, and Weber was ruled safe.
Valiants topple
Warrenton
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SEASIDE — In the first
game of the Seaside Wood Bat
Tournament, pitcher Mikey
Weber of Valley Catholic
tossed a four-hit shutout, strik-
ing out nine with one walk in a
10-0 win over a short-handed
Warrenton team.
The first five batters of
the game for Valley Catholic
reached base safely. The Val-
iants loaded the bases with
no outs, and Weber followed
with a two-run double to cen-
ter field for a quick 2-0 lead.
Moments later, a triple by
Will Schultheis to deep left
field brought in two more
runs, and the Valiants led 5-0
after one inning.
Warrenton had hits from
Maverick Pedraza, Jacob
Morrow, Gabe Breitmeyer
and Devin Jackson, but all
four were left on base.
Missing leadoff batter and
No. 1 pitcher Dalton Knight
for the weekend, and Kale’o
Kapua for the first game, War-
renton returns to action today
in the consolation bracket vs.
Madison.
In Thursday’s second
game, Churchill defeated
Madison 17-0, a game in
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Payton Westerholm prepares to throw to first base after getting the out at home plate for Seaside.
Seaside hammers The Dalles, 11-6
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SEASIDE — Valley Cath-
olic, Churchill, Baker and
Seaside were the big winners
Thursday at Broadway Field,
on the first day of action in
Seaside’s annual Wood Bat
Tournament.
The eight-team tourney
continues today and Saturday
at Broadway Field, with the
championship game scheduled
Pujols hits
630th HR;
Angels rout
Mariners
for Saturday at 5:30 p.m.
In Thursday’s final contest,
Seaside broke open a close
game and finished strong in an
11-6 victory over The Dalles.
The Gulls advance to the
semifinals, where they will
face Baker at 5:30 p.m. today.
“Great day of baseball,”
said Seaside coach Dan
McFadden. “And it was a real
good win for us. They’re a
team (The Dalles) that’s really
good at putting the ball in play,
and we played some great
defense.”
The Gulls put the ball in
play quite a bit themselves,
while pitcher Payton Wester-
holm — who has spent the
summer playing for the Lower
Columbia AAA Legion team
in Longview, Washington —
made his first start of the sum-
mer for Seaside.
Westerholm threw a strong
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SEASIDE
WOOD BAT
TOURNEY
Today’s games
Warrenton vs. Madison,
10 a.m.
Valley Catholic vs.
Churchill, 12:30 p.m.
Hood River vs. The Dalles,
3 p.m.
Baker vs. Seaside,
5:30 p.m.
which two Madison players
collided chasing after a fly
ball. Neither player lost con-
sciousness, but medics were
called and both were taken to
the hospital as a precaution.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. —
On a night when Albert
Pujols moved up the career
home run ladder, rookie
teammate David Fletcher
grabbed onto the bottom
rung.
Pujols hit two home
runs to tie Ken Griffey Jr.
for sixth place with 630,
and Fletcher connected
for his first in the majors
as the Los Angeles Angels
romped to an 11-2 victory
over the Seattle Mariners
on Thursday.
Pujols rarely talks about
personal achievements. But
matching Griffey, a former
Mariners star, had him feel-
ing an extra sense of pride.
“Griffey was every-
body’s hero growing up
and that’s how I look at
it,” Pujols said. “I know
I am a right-handed hit-
ter, but everybody wanted
to have that sweet swing.
For me, I got a chance to
become pretty good friends
with him. ... It’s just really
special to tie a legend and
against a team that he came
up with in the big leagues.”
Justin Upton also hom-
ered for the Angels, who
took two of three in the
series. Tyler Skaggs pitched
six strong innings in his
return from the disabled
list.
Mariners starter James
Paxton left in the first
inning with lower back
stiffness.
Pujols hit a two-run shot
in the first and a solo drive
in the sixth. He also had
three hits to pass ex-Angel
Rod Carew and move into
a tie for 25th all-time with
Rickey Henderson at 3,055.
It was the 50th multiho-
mer game for Pujols, who
has 16 home runs this sea-
son. He went back-to-back
with Upton in the sixth.
five-plus innings before being
relieved by Brayden Johnson
in the sixth.
Offensively, Johnson led
the Gulls with three hits,
including a three-run, inside-
the-park home run.
Travis Fenton, Dylan
Meyer and Westerholm added
two hits apiece for the Gulls,
who are tuning up for next
weekend’s junior state baseball
state tournament in Corvallis.
In Thursday’s second
game of the Seaside tour-
nament, two players from
Madison collided going
after a fly ball.
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By HOWARD FENDRICH
Associated Press
LONDON — Serena Wil-
liams has been saying it over
and over and over: Wimbledon
is only her fourth tournament
since returning to the tour after
having a baby.
“Every time I go out there,
I want to, I guess, take a giant
step forward,” she said. “Keep
taking giant steps, but keep
improving.”
Williams played a total of
seven matches in 2018 before
arriving at the All England
Club, and she’ll be playing
her seventh match in the last
two weeks when she meets
11th-seeded Angelique Kerber
of Germany in the Wimbledon
final on Saturday.
Certainly didn’t take long
for the 36-year-old American
to get her game in gear and
close in on what would be an
eighth Wimbledon title, one
short of Martina Navratilova’s
record, and 24th Grand Slam
trophy in all, equaling Marga-
ret Court’s all-time mark.
It was only 10 1/2 months
ago that Williams had far more
serious concerns.
After giving birth to her
daughter, Olympia, on Sept.
1, Williams dealt with health
complications that included
blood clots and led to what she
said were multiple operations.
“Almost didn’t make it,
to be honest,” Williams said
shortly after completing her
6-2, 6-4 semifinal victory over
13th-seeded Julia Goerges on
Thursday.
She’s been wearing com-
pression leggings during her
matches as a precaution and
says she remains nervous.
“I mean, even this week,
I had a pain in my leg, and I
went to the worst-case sce-
nario: ‘Oh, my God, I have a
(pulmonary embolism) in my
leg,’” Williams said. “I didn’t
know I would have such, kind
of, traumatic thoughts. Espe-
cially now that I have a daugh-
ter, I want to be around as
long as I can to support her.
It’s interesting how that men-
tal recovery is actually tak-
ing much longer than I ever
expected.”
The tennis? That’s come
quite naturally, not surprisingly.
She was off the tour for
more than a year after her Aus-
tralian Open title in January
2017 — won while she was
pregnant, she later revealed.
Williams first came back by
playing doubles with her older
sister, Venus, for the U.S. Fed
Cup team in February. Then
came her singles return, at
Indiana Wells in March, when
she won her first two matches
before losing to her sibling.
Next was a first-round loss
at Miami.
“I honestly felt I would
have done better in some of the
earlier tournaments. That was
the hardest part — accepting
that I didn’t,” Williams said.
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