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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 2018 CONTACT US FOLLOW US facebook.com/ DailyAstorianSports Gary Henley | Sports Reporter ghenley@dailyastorian.com Gulls ready for combat with help from Marines and Coast Guard By GARY HENLEY The Daily Astorian Sean Meagher/The Oregonian Portland Timbers’ Fanendo Adi, second from right, cel- ebrates with teammates July 28 after scoring a goal against the Houston Dynamo in Portland. Timbers on 15-game unbeaten streak with rivalry looming By ANNE M. PETERSON Associated Press PORTLAND — What slow start? The Portland Timbers have recovered and then some. A 15-match unbeaten streak has moved the Tim- bers into second place in the Western Conference behind FC Dallas. The streak started with a 3-2 victory at home over Minnesota on April 8. The latest win was a 3-0 victory over the Philadelphia Union last weekend that gave the Timbers their longest MLS undefeated streak since they also went 15 games without a loss in 2013. Port- land is the only team with two streaks that long. The longest unbeaten streak is 19 games, set in 2010 by Dallas. Portland’s streak is also the longest in the league this season. “Everyone is buying into what we’re preaching,” goalkeeper Jeff Attinella said. “Everyone is fighting each game and we’re tak- ing each game just as seri- ously as the last one. We’re just going to try and keep it rolling.” It has been a dramatic shift from the start of the season when the Timbers started with five games on the road — because of con- struction at Providence Park — and were unable to come home with a win. And home has been key to Portland’s success. The Timbers (10-3-7) have yet to drop a game at home this season. Gallo, Gallardo stay hot, Rangers beat Mariners Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas — Yovani Gallardo and Joey Gallo both remain on a roll for the Texas Rangers. Gallo homered twice and drove in four runs, Gallardo won his fourth straight start and the Rangers held off the Seattle Mariners 11-7 on Wednesday. Gallardo (7-1) leads the majors with seven wins since June 23. He allowed three hits, two runs and three walks while striking out two in six innings. Through being released by Cincinnati in April, and then pitching at Triple-A Round Rock for more than two months, Gallardo said, “I’m the same guy, same person I’ve been through- out my career.” Rangers manager Jeff Banister agreed with Gal- lardo’s comments. “That’s who he is. He’s very similar to what we saw when he was here pre- viously. He knows how to pitch in winning situations.” In 2015, Gallardo’s only other season with Texas, he was 13-11. Gallo also has been on a roll, with 10 of his 31 hom- ers in his past 19 games. He went 3 for 5 to raise his batting average above .200 for the first time since June 16. Gallo’s homers against Seattle starter Marco Gon- zales gave him 12 against left-handers this sea- son, the most by a Texas left-handed batter since Rafael Palmeiro hit 15 in 2003. “I’ve always hit left- handers pretty good. I don’t really mind the lefties. My dad was lefty throwing to me when I was younger, so maybe that helped me.” Banister saw something else. “I think he’s calmer in the batter’s box.” Gonzales (12-7) gave up career highs of 12 hits and seven runs in five innings. He has lost two games in a row after a career-best five- game winning streak. Seaside football play- ers will run the Marine Corps combat fitness test before Thursday’s youth football camp at Broadway Field. After that, the Coast Guard will pres- ent Seaside athletes with some brand-new exercise equipment. So, unofficially, tonight will be “military night” at Broad- way Field, where a few Marines and Coast Guardsmen will help Seaside athletes prepare for the fall sports season. It’s all part of making Sea- side athletes the best they can be, and helping Seaside High School keep its “School of Champions” title. After all, Seaside sports have won five state champion- ships since 2014, and the Gulls will almost certainly add to that total this school year. Conditioning is part of every high school’s athletic program, but Seaside is unmatched when it comes to preparing its ath- letes for competition. This summer, Seaside ath- letes “have been working out with us, spending four days a week in the weight room, and just getting after it,” said Dan Leary, the Gulls’ strength and conditioning coach, and founder of the ‘Seaside Bar- bell’ program. “We’re really excited to see how that plays out this fall. We do it for two reasons: to increase athletic performance, and more impor- tantly, to reduce the potential for injury.” In 2010, Leary was sta- tioned in Clatsop County, working at the Coast Guard rescue swimmer training facility. He called Seaside High School and volunteered to do strength and conditioning training with the football team. “Coach Stubby Lions opened his arms to both me and my wife Marjorie,” he said. Leary became a certi- fied trainer in 2013 and cre- ated Seaside Barbell. He says he followed the rescue swim- Gary Henley/The Daily Astorian The Seaside Gulls are ready to toe the line for the 2018 football season. mer training methodologies in setting up the Seaside Barbell program. He has seen a 25 per- cent reduction in injuries for the football team. Coaches in other disci- plines saw the value of the program, and now the Learys screen participants in all boys and girls athletics at Seaside. “We’re not a big school,” Leary said, “and most of our (football) kids play both ways, so we’ve really got to make them ironmen to play 90-plus plays a game.” And that, he said, “is why the summer is so important to build that good foundation. We’ve been blessed, because every sport donates two hours a week in the weight room.” Speaking of donations, Seaside will be on the receiv- ing end Thursday night at Broadway Field. At 5:30 p.m., before Sea- side’s youth football camp starts, members of the Marine Corps will run a combat fitness test with the Gulls. “I started out in the Marine Corps, and they’ve been phe- nomenal for us,” Leary said, speaking for Seaside athlet- ics. “They have supported the football team, helped run the clock, they’ve helped the track team and the wrestling team. “I was talking with one of the recruiters recently, and he said, ‘would you (the Seaside football team) like to run the Marine Corps combat fitness test for conditioning?’” The Gulls accepted. “It’s something different, and the kids will get excited about it,” Leary said. The combat fitness test will be run before Thursday’s youth football camp. After the camp, about 7:30 p.m., the Seaside athletic department will receive some exercise equipment, donated by the Coast Guard. “The Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer’s association is coming over, and they’re donating about $1,500 worth of gear to our weight room,” said Leary, a lieutenant com- mander in the Coast Guard. “I saw where they give out dona- tions, so I went to them, and said ‘would you be interested in donating that to the high school?’ They said they’d love to. What do you need?’” The Coast Guard “stepped up,” Leary said, “and they bought us two new AirDyne exercise bikes, which we need. There’s different ways to condition kids, and these bikes and rowers and stuff like that are key to keeping the kids in the best shape we can.” So to call it a military night, “it almost is,” Leary said. “We get the most bang for the buck, and the most public viewing on a youth football night.” Seaside football, mean- while, will be one of the main challengers for a state cham- pionship at the 4A level this season, following last year’s performance. “We had a tremendous outpouring of kids this sum- mer, especially with the foot- ball team,” Leary said. “Four workouts a week for the sum- mer, both mornings and after- noons, and then in-season we work out twice a week. We’re ready. There’s a lot of promise for the football team.” Sounders acquire defender Smith on loan from Bournemouth Associated Press SEATTLE — The Seat- tle Sounders bolstered their defense heading into the final months of the MLS season by acquiring defender Brad Smith on loan from Premier League club Bournemouth on Wednesday ahead of the secondary transfer window closing. Seattle used targeted allo- cation money to land the 24-year-old Australian. The loan is through June 2019 but he could be recalled by Bournemouth in January. “There were other options in England but I decided to go out and test myself. Open myself to a new challenge,” Smith said. Smith spent the past two seasons at Bournemouth after starting his career in the youth system at Liver- pool. He debuted for Liver- pool during the 2013-14 sea- son and, after being loaned to Swindon Town for a sea- son, returned to Liverpool and made 10 appearances during the 2015-16 season before moving on to Bour- nemouth. Smith also has 18 caps for the Australian national team. “Once I heard the interest and spoke to the manager it was a no-brainer,” Smith said. Going to the Dogs! T HE D AILY A STORIAN ’ S Welcome to Bubbles National Dog Day Photo Contest! 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. If there were a vaccine against cancer, wouldn’t you get it for your kids? 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. HPV vaccine is cancer prevention. Talk to the doctor about vaccinating your 11-12 year old sons and daughters against HPV. The top vote-getters will be featured on the front page of the annual Going to the Dogs section on Friday, Aug. 24. www.cdc.gov/vaccines/teens Share with your friends and family: #Going2TheDogsNW Now, who’s a good boy? Who’s a good girl? Clatsop County Dept. of Public Health 503-325-8500 For more information, call The Daily Astorian at (800) 781-3211 or send a message through Facebook.