SPORTS
TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2015
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Duck women join
men as champions
EUGENE (AP) — Jenna
Prandini won the 100 meters
and ¿ nished second to
Kentucky’s Dezerea Bryant
in an exceedingly fast 200
on Saturday, leading the
Oregon women to their
¿ rst NCAA track and ¿ eld
championship in 30 years.
It is the
¿ rst time
the Ducks
men and
women
have won
the championship the same
year. They did it on their
home track, in the second
of an eight-year contract to
host the championships at
Hayward Field.
Freshman Raevyn Rogers
gave Oregon an unexpected
boost when she pulled away
to win the 800, shaving
nearly two seconds off her
personal best with a run of
1:59.71.
The Ducks ¿ nished with
59 points, 26 of them from
Prandini, who was second in
the long jump on Thursday.
Kentucky was a strong
second with 50, and Texas
A&M third with 47.
FIFA’s Blazer went
undercover for US
prosecutors
Former FIFA executive
committee member Chuck
Blazer agreed to act under-
cover for U.S. prosecutors
and has been cooperating
since at least 2011 in the
government’s investigation
of soccer
FACES corruption.
Blazer’s
19-page plea
agreement
from Nov.
25, 2013,
was unsealed
Monday after
Blazer
a federal judge
agreed to a
request by media organiza-
tions. As part of the deal,
Blazer agreed he would sign
over title of his FIFA pension
to satisfy payments owed to
the U.S. government.
In exchange for Blazer’s
cooperation and guilty pleas
to 10 counts, the government
agreed not to recommend
a speci¿ c sentence for his
crimes and also accepted that
a reduction of up to three
levels be warranted under
sentencing guidelines.
After the corruption
investigation became public,
FIFA President Sepp Blatter
said he would resign.
“I wouldn’t be
surprised if he
returns. I’m
surprised he
left. I was very
surprised. If he
doesn’t come
back, I would
think football’s
over for him.”
— Jim Popp
Montreal Alouette gen-
eral manager on Mi-
chael Sam’s decision to
leave the football team
last week. Sam made
headlines last year as
the NFL’s fi rst openly gay
player. He was released
by the Dallas Cowboys
before ending up in
the Canadian Football
League with the
Alouettes.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1996 — Roy Jones
Jr. completes a unique
doubleheader, successfully
defending his IBF super
middleweight title after
playing in a pro basketball
game. Jones stops Eric Lucas
in the 11th round after scoring
¿ ve points in a United States
Basketball League game in
the afternoon.
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Stanley Cup
Blackhawks champs, again
Members of the
Chicago Black-
hawks celebrate
after defeating the
Tampa Bay Light-
ning in Game 6 of
the NHL hockey
Stanley Cup Final
series on Monday,
June 15, 2015, in
Chicago. The Black-
hawks defeated
the Lightning 2-0
to win the series
4-2.
AP Photo/Charles Rex
Arbogast
Chicago wins third Stanley Cup title in six years
By JAY COHEN
Associated Press
CHICAGO — Showing off their
grit and determination, the Chicago
Blackhawks ¿ nally put away the
Tampa Bay Lightning in the Stanley
Cup Final.
The city of broad shoulders,
strong enough to carry the silver
trophy once again. A Windy City
party 77 years in the making.
Duncan Keith scored in the
second period and directed a domi-
nant defense that shut down Tampa
Bay’s high-scoring attack, and the
Blackhawks beat the Lightning 2-0
in Game 6 on Monday night for
their third NHL
title in the past
six seasons.
Chicago
“It
doesn’t
feel real right
now. It’s unbe-
lievable,” captain
Jonathan Toews said. “Feels like a
dream. Every time we do it, it gets
better and better. It’s an amazing
feeling.”
Patrick Kane had a goal and
an assist, helping the Blackhawks
clinch the Cup on home ice for
the ¿ rst time since 1938. Corey
Crawford, who was pulled from
Chicago’s ¿ rst-round series against
Nashville, had 25 saves in his ¿ fth
2
career playoff
shutout.
Keith
was
Tampa Bay
a
unanimous
selection for the
Conn Smythe
Trophy
for
playoff MVP after he ¿ nished with
21 points while playing over 700
minutes in a grueling postseason.
“We just seem to get better and
better every year,” defenseman
Brent Seabrook said. “We’ve been
lucky enough to win three. Every
time we’ve won it, it seems to get
better.”
It was an appropriate conclusion
to a series full of near misses and
0
MLB
close calls that had fans in Chicago
and Tampa Bay on the edge of their
seats for almost two weeks. It was
only the second ¿ nal to begin with
¿ ve one-goal games, and no team
enjoyed a two-goal advantage until
an open Kane buried a perfect pass
from Brad Richards at 14:46 of the
third.
It was Kane’s ¿ rst goal of the
¿ nal, and it touched off a wild
celebration by the frenzied crowd of
22,424, who broke out more chants
of “We want the Cup! We want the
Cup!”
“I’d say you have a dynasty,”
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman
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Summer Baseball
Cockburn
lifts Pepsi
to victory
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AP Photo/Ben Margot
Seattle Mariners pitcher Taijuan Walker follows through on a delivery to the San Francis-
co Giants during the fi rst inning of a baseball game Monday in San Francisco.
Walker dominant in M’s win
Morrison puts
Seattle ahead in
fifth inning
By JANIE MCCAULEY
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO —
Kyle Seager hit his 11th home
run with a solo shot in the
eighth, Taijuan Walker struck
out six in seven innings and
the Seattle Mariners beat the
San Francisco Giants 5-1 on
Monday night.
Logan Morrison hit a
go-ahead single in the ¿ fth
to support Walker (4-6), who
outpitched Tim Hudson to
win consecutive starts for
the ¿ rst time all season. The
right-hander earned his ¿ rst
interleague victory after going
0-3 in his ¿ rst three.
The Mariners bounced back
after they were blanked 13-0 a
day earlier at Houston, sending
San Francisco to its ninth
straight home defeat. That’s
the longest in San Francisco
history and worst since the
Seattle
5
San Francisco
1
club’s 11-game skid at New
York’s Polo Grounds from
Sept. 11-19, 1940.
World Series champion San
Francisco lost its ¿ fth straight
overall for its third losing
streak of ¿ ve or more this
season.
The Mariners added on in
the ¿ fth on a ¿ elding blunder
when second baseman Joe
Panik scurried backward and
tried to catch Austin Jackson’s
popup in shallow center but
missed the ball. It didn’t
appear center ¿ elder Angel
Pagan called him off, while
right ¿ elder Jarrett Parker also
hustled to the play.
Jackson singled home an
insurance run in the ninth.
The teams played once
previously at AT&T Park,
during the ballpark’s opening
season in 2000 when Seattle
took two of three from June
9-11 that year. It was 58
degrees for ¿ rst pitch this time
in mid-June, pretty typical for a
San Francisco summer.
Seattle’s leadoff hitter
reached on a single in four of
the ¿ rst six innings against
Hudson (4-6), who allowed
eight hits and three runs in ¿ ve
innings.
Nori Aoki hit an in¿ eld
single in the second for the
Giants’ lone run after Seattle
went ahead in the ¿ rst on
Nelson Cruz’s grounder.
The Giants have been
outscored 45-17 during their
home skid. They lost against
the American League at home
for only the third time in 14
regular-season games since the
beginning of 2014.
San Francisco’s Angel
Pagan snapped an 0-for-19
hitless stretch with his ¿ rst-in-
ning single.
CRAWFORD’S GLOVE
Giants shortstop Brandon
Crawford made a trio of snazzy
plays in a 1-2-3 seventh. He
made a diving stop on Morri-
son’s grounder, then another
nice throw on a groundball
by Jackson before catching
Robinson Cano’s hard liner.
KENNEWICK, Wash. — Quinn
Cockburn pitched the Pepsi DiamondJaxx
out of a two-game skid with a complete-
game three-hitter Sunday over the Spokane
Northstars.
The rising senior struck out eight batters
and walked just one batter in the team’s
4-0 victory. The Northstars moved just one
runner past second base as the Diamond-
Jaxx (3-5) ace regained his dominance.
Pepsi scored two runs in both the second
and sixth innings. Jack Peterson hit a
one-run single in the second and a Cock-
burn À yout resulted in one of ¿ ve Spokane
errors and another run scored. Ryan Russell
and Hayden Villers each scored runs on
wild pitches in the sixth to expand the lead.
Pepsi faced the Twin City Titans for the
second time in three days in the Diamond-
Jaxx second game on Sunday at Lapierre
Stadium in Kennewick. The result was the
same for the Pendleton-based American
Legion club — a defeat.
Once again, the DiamondJaxx managed
just one run in a 4-1 loss. They took a 10-1
defeat in Friday’s meeting.
Cockburn managed the lone hit and lone
run in the fourth inning. Cockburn hit a
single and cmae around to score on a Gage
Correa sac À y two batters later.
The Titans scored two runs in the ¿ rst
and two more in the ¿ fth inning.
———
DIAMONDJAXX 4, NORTHSTARS 0
R H E
DJX
020 002
0 — 4 4 0
SPO
000 000
0 — 0 3 5
Q. Cockburn and R. Russell. K. Szep, # 7 (6), D. Munoz (7) and
J. Slawter. W — Q. Cockburn. L — K. Szep
TITANS 4, DIAMONDJAXX 1
R H E
DJX
000 100
0 — 1 1 2
TWT
200 020
x — 4 5 3
J. Peterson, J. Bradt (6) and R. Russell. C. Jenkins and B.
Seavis. W — C. Jenkins. L — J. Peterson
HR — Jones (TWT).
STANFIELD 11-10, TRI CITIES
BADGERS 0-11 — At Stan¿ eld, the Tigers
AAU baseball team split a pair of games
against the Badgers over the weekend.
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