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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2018
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SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Healy hit in
12th pushes
Mariners past
Rangers 4-3
ARLINGTON, Texas —
Ryon Healy let out a sigh of
relief, and the Seattle Mar-
iners regained the lead in
extra innings when his hard
grounder got through the left
side of the Rangers infield.
Healy singled past div-
ing Gold Glove third baseman
Adrian Beltre and beyond the
reach of also-diving shortstop
Elvis Andrus to drive in the
go-ahead run with two outs in
the 12th inning, and the Mar-
iners won 4-3 at Texas after
blowing an early three-run
lead Monday night.
“Never feel comfortable
when I hit a ball that way,
and Elvis Andrus is no slouch
either. That man (Beltre) is an
unbelievable defender,” Healy
said. “It took me a while to
finally see the ball get to the
outfield.”
Sports physicals, impact tests offered
The Daily Astorian
Columbia Memorial Hospital’s Pri-
mary Care will be offering sports phys-
icals to all area athletes from 9 a.m. to
noon, and 1-4 p.m. Thursday at Astoria
High School.
Physicals will be offered to students
from all Clatsop County schools.
Cost is $25. No appointment is nec-
essary. Physicals will be conducted on
a “walk-in” basis. The money collected
will be donated back to the Astoria High
School athletics program.
Any student participating in Asto-
ria Youth Football, Astoria Middle
School athletics, or any OSAA high
school sport must have a physical
completed every two years.
In addition, all middle school and
high school student-athletes, and/or
any middle school or high school age
student-athlete diagnosed with a con-
cussion during the 2017-18 school
year can undergo impact testing.
Impact tests are computer-gener-
ated tests to help give student-athletes
a baseline test score to help evaluate
a possible concussion, should a head
injury occur during the sports season.
Impact tests will also be offered
between 9 a.m. and noon, and 1-4 p.m.
Thursday.
All students must have a parent
present in order to receive a physi-
cal. For questions or more informa-
tion about sports physicals or impact
testing, contact Astoria athletic direc-
tor Howard Rub at: hrub@astoria.k12.
or.us.
US overpowers
South Africa at
softball worlds
ICHIHARA, Japan —
Kristi Merritt and Sahvanna
Jaquish homered as the United
States beat South Africa 7-0 in
five innings to remain unde-
feated at the women’s soft-
ball world championship on
Tuesday.
Merritt hit a three-run
homer in the second inning to
give the defending champions
a 4-0 lead, and Jaquish added a
two-run shot in the fourth.
Rachel Garcia, Keilani
Ricketts, and Kelly Barnhill
combined to pitch a no-hitter,
with a total of 14 strikeouts as
the United States improved to
6-0 and secured one of the two
top spots in Group A.
Shaq’s son,
Shareef, to
play at UCLA
LOS ANGELES — UCLA
has landed forward Shareef
O’Neal.
The son of retired NBA
great Shaquille O’Neal signed
a grant-in-aid to attend UCLA
this fall. He will enroll in sum-
mer school this month.
The 6-foot-10, 220-pounder
from Los Angeles played the
last two seasons at Crossroads
High in nearby Santa Monica.
As a senior last season, O’Neal
helped the school win the CIF
Division II state title for the
first time since 1997. He had
29 points, 17 rebounds and
five blocks in the title game.
O’Neal averaged 27 points as
a senior while Crossroads fin-
ished with a 25-9 record.
UCLA coach Steve Alford
says O’Neal brings a “terrific
combination of size, skill and
athleticism.”
Stewart, Howard
help Storm beat
Liberty 96-80
NEW YORK — Breanna
Stewart and the Seattle Storm
weren’t concerned when the
New York Liberty made a
run to take a lead early in the
fourth quarter.
They knew it was only a
matter of time before they
went on their own burst to
put the game away.
The Storm scored 15
straight points to turn a two-
point deficit into a 13-point
lead and never looked back
in a 96-80 victory over the
Liberty on Monday at a camp
day game at Madison Square
Garden.
“It was a grind-out game
for us until that point,” said
Stewart, who scored 32
points. “We felt like that
run was coming, it wasn’t
if it was coming, it was
when.”
— Associated Press
AP Photos/Ted S. Warren
Seattle Seahawks offensive guard Germain Ifedi (65) stands on the field next to offensive guard Rees Odhiambo (70) during training camp Monday
in Renton, Wash.
Ifedi must cut down on mistakes
to stay in the Seahawks lineup
By TERRY BLOUNT
Associated Press
RENTON, Wash. — Germain Ifedi was back
with the first unit in training camp Monday, two days
after Seattle coach Pete Carroll yanked the starting
right tackle from the lineup during the Seahawks’
scrimmage.
The embattled offensive lineman is hoping to
keep his starting spot, but didn’t help his cause in
Saturday’s scrimmage when he was flagged for a
false start and a holding penalty. Carroll had seen
enough.
“Yeah, I was real disappointed in that,” Carroll
said. “Real disappointed.”
Penalties plagued Ifedi last season when he was
flagged 20 times, the most penalties for any player in
the NFL. New offensive line coach Mike Solari had
a long conversation with Ifedi on the sidelines after
he was pulled from the scrimmage.
“We want Germain to be disciplined,” Solari
said Monday. “It was unacceptable. Just unaccept-
able and he knows it. We want to give him immedi-
Germain Ifedi squares off against offensive
tackle George Fant, left.
ate feedback. It’s just concentration.”
Ifedi was a first-round draft choice out of Texas
A&M in 2016, but has yet to live up to the lofty
expectations. The offensive line overall struggled
most of the 2017 season, but Ifedi received most of
the ire from the fans for his inconsistent play.
Ifedi knows his must eliminate the same mistakes
that resurfaced Saturday.
Cano starts rehab
stint for Mariners
ond base during this rehab
assignment.
SEATTLE — Robin-
At times Monday, Cano
son Cano knows he wasn’t looked fidgety at first base.
fluid or dazzling Monday
“It is really different,”
night in his return to
Cano said. “You
baseball.
have to bend and
Especially
stretch your legs. It
returning to a com-
is hard on me. Right
pletely new posi-
now, everything is
tion at first base.
sore.”
The
eight-time
But he held his
All-Star began his
own at a new posi-
tion. In the third
rehab assignment
Robinson
inning, he applied
with the Seattle
Cano
a tag on Colorado
Mariners’ Triple-A
Springs’
Dylan
affiliate as he pre-
pares for his return from an Moore during a stolen-base
80-game suspension for vio- rundown. In the fifth, he
lating baseball’s joint drug scooped up a short-hop
agreement.
throw from third baseman
He played eight innings Seth Mejias-Brean. And in
at first base for the Tacoma the seventh, he stretched to
Rainiers, making three nice snare Mejias-Brean’s high
defensive plays. And in four throw at the bag.
plate appearances, he had a
Later in the seventh,
hit and walk before depart- Domingo Santana hit a sharp
ing for a pinch runner in the grounder at Cano, which
eighth inning.
deflected off the infielder’s
“I am just happy to be glove. It was ruled a single.
back on the field,” Cano said.
Cano said he put in a lot
“The past few months, I have of work back in the Domini-
just been waiting for this day. can Republic, and even con-
I am happy that everything sulted with Albert Pujols,
of the Los Angeles Angels,
went good today.”
Primarily a second base- and Edwin Encarnacion,
man his entire career, Cano of the Cleveland Indians
is expected to play first base, about some of the nuances
third base and some sec- of playing first base.
“It was a learning experience,” Ifedi said. “We
know that pre-snap penalties are unacceptable. It’s a
lesson. You take the good things you did and move
on.”
Ifedi said Solari told him he has to stay calm in
every situation and that composure will be key.
“Coach saw something on the field and he thought
it was a good time to take me out and let me cool off.
I was fine with it,” Ifedi said.
Ifedi was replaced by Isaiah Battle in the scrim-
mage. Battle is a fourth-year player from Clem-
son who was acquired in a trade with Kansas City
last season. The Seahawks could also opt to move
George Fant to right tackle. Fant missed all last sea-
son after suffering a major knee injury in the presea-
son and is backing up Duane Brown at left tackle.
Solari said last week that the best five play-
ers will start on the offensive line. He told Ifedi
what he expects of him if Ifedi hopes to remain
the starter.
“Germain’s a good football. He’s working on his
technique. For a coach, it’s never quick enough, but
we are demanding that he do it right,” Solari said.
Going to the Dogs!
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Grab your collars and your cameras, National Dog Day is Aug. 26 and we are
on the prowl for the bestest, cutest, snuggliest pups on the coast.
In 2016, we fetched 103 photos; last year we romped home with 207 shots of
more than 230 critters.
According to www.nationaldogday.com, the day celebrates all dogs, mixed
breed and purebred, and works to promote the many dogs that need to be
rescued.
Submit your photo(s) before midnight Sunday, Aug. 12. Then, come back
and visit the pooches all that next week and vote on your favorite before mid-
night Saturday, Aug. 18. Vote once a day.
The top vote-getters will be featured on the front page of the annual Going to
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