SPORTS
Wimbledon
Tour de France
Serena
Williams
cele-
brates
winning
a point
against
Victoria
Azarenka
of Belar-
us during
their
singles
match at
the All
England
Lawn
Tennis
Champi-
onships
in Wim-
bledon,
London,
Tuesday.
AP Photo/Pavel
Golovkin
Williams gets
past Azarenka;
Sharapova next
By HOWARD FENDRICH
Associated Press
LONDON — Even as
Serena Williams piled up aces
and groundstroke winners
from all angles, even as she
stormed through seven games
in a row and 10 of the last 13
in yet another comeback,
her Wimbledon Tuarter¿nal
against Victoria Azarenka
never felt like a runaway.
That’s because Azarenka,
a two-time major champion
and former No. 1 in her own
right, was playing spectac-
ular tennis, too, nearly the
equal of Williams in every
facet.
Nearly.
)or when Williams ¿nds
her best game, she becomes
unbeatable. And for her past
26 Grand Slam matches
she is, indeed, unbeaten.
Erasing an early de¿cit at
Centre Court, Williams got
past Azarenka 3-6, 6-2, 6-3
Tuesday with the help of 17
aces and a remarkable ratio
of 46 winners to 12 unforced
errors.
“It’s been up and down, up
and down, but somehow I’m
still alive. I don’t know how,”
said Williams, who twice
was two points from losing
to Britain’s Heather Watson
in the third round and is now
14-0 in three-setters and 37-1
overall in 2015. “So we’ll see
what happens, but I’m just
happy to still be here.”
She is closing in on a
fourth consecutive major
title for a self-styled Serena
Slam, which she already
accomplished in 2002-03.
Pull that off, and Williams
also will have the third leg of
a calendar-year Grand Slam
and go to the U.S. Open with
a chance to become the ¿rst
player since Stef¿ Graf in
1988 to win all four major
trophies in one season.
“I haven’t seen her play
like this, honestly,” said
Azarenka, who has lost 17 of
20 matches against Williams
and all 10 meetings at majors,
including after leading by a
set and a break at the French
Open in May.
In Thursday’s semi¿nals,
No. 1 Williams faces No. 4
Maria Sharapova, who beat
unseeded American CoCo
Vandeweghe 6-3, 6-7 (3),
6-2.
Williams is 17-2 against
Sharapova, including 16
straight victories. But one
of Sharapova’s wins came
at Wimbledon, in the 2004
¿nal, when at age 17 she
stunned Williams for the ¿rst
of her ¿ve Grand Slam titles.
“De¿nitely no secrets
between each other’s games,”
Sharapova said.
Williams, whose major
trophy count is at 20, said of
the matchup: “I look forward
to it.”
Here was the scouting
report from Williams’ coach,
Patrick Mouratoglou: “If she
plays like today, I don’t think
anyone can compete.”
Pick an adjective for
Williams-Azarenka. Intense.
Riveting.
Entertaining.
Sublime. For 2 hours, 4
minutes on a windy, cloudy
day, that’s what this was.
Both hit the ball hard. Both
covered the court from
corner to corner.
“We put on a great show,”
Azarenka said.
The other semi¿nal is No.
13 Agnieszka Radwanska
of Poland against No. 20
Garbine Muguruza of Spain.
The men’s quarter¿nals
are Wednesday: Novak
Djokovic vs. Marin Cilic,
Roger Federer vs. Gilles
Simon, Andy Murray vs.
Vasek Pospisil, and Stan
Wawrinka
vs.
Richard
Gasquet. Djokovic ¿nished
his 6-7 (6), 6-7 (6), 6-1, 6-4,
7-5 fourth-round victory over
Kevin Anderson on Tuesday;
it was suspended because
of darkness after four sets
Monday.
Martin overtakes cautious Froome
By JEROME PUGMIRE
Associated Press
CAMBRAI, France —
Having stayed safe on the
treacherous cobblestones,
Chris Froome cared little
about conceding the race
leader’s yellow jersey to
Tony Martin on Tuesday’s
fourth stage of an action-
packed Tour de France.
After crashing out of last
year’s race early, following
three crashes in two days,
Froome had good reason
to be nervous given that
this stage featured seven
sections of cobbles.
But
the
nightmare
scenario never materialized,
and the British rider repelled
the attacks of defending Tour
champion Vincenzo Nibali
as the valiant Italian failed to
claw back time on him.
“I wasn’t trying to show
how strong I was on the
cobbles today; it was about
staying out of trouble,”
said Froome, the 2013 Tour
champion. “Congratulations
to Tony for his late attack.”
Relieved after cruising
through the ¿nal paved
section, Froome did not chase
as the German rider peeled
away some 3 kilometers (2
inning. Angel Barren got the ¿rst of his
three hits with bases loaded, but Pend-
leton responded with two runs to take
the lead in the bottom of the frame.
Brogan Biggerstaff reached base on
an error, then went from ¿rst to third on
a groundout to shortstop. He then beat
the throw home on a grounder to third,
and Kyle Field gave Pendleton the lead
when he later scored on an in¿eld error.
Hermiston wouldn’t trail for long,
though, and took the lead in the top of
the second when Tolan doubled to drive
in Spencer Juul and Chase Elliott, who
had reached base on a walk and single,
respectively.
Hermiston stretched its lead to 8-2
before Pendleton’s Jimmy Jones hit a
solo home run in the bottom of the fourth
inning, but Hermiston took advantage of
a pitching change in the top of the ¿fth
and went yard twice to give the game its
¿nal tally.
Keefer Breshears (2 for 4) were the only
Pendleton players with multiple hits,
and Breshears tied Chas Corbett for a
team high with three runs scored. Gavin
Clark, Colson Primus and Cooley all
scored twice.
Hermiston may not have gotten any
hits, but Brian Davison picked up an
RBI on a groundout that scored Kaiden
Dammeyer in the fourth. Rodriguez
race, and Tuesday’s cobbles
have presented riders with
a dangerous cocktail of
hazards.
Froome’s come through
them unscathed and with a
healthy lead over his rivals.
He leads two-time Tour
champion Alberto Contador
by 36 seconds; Nibali by
1:38 and Colombian rider
Nairo Quintana, the 2013
runner-up, by 1:56.
“We can all let off a big
sigh of relief after today,”
Froome said. “It was a
Tulsa snaps losing streak; Schimmel sits for Atlanta
Associated Press
ATLANTA — Plenette
Pierson scored 24 points,
going 10 of 14 from the ¿eld,
to help the Tulsa Shock beat
the Atlanta Dream 85-75
on Tuesday night to snap a
three-game losing streak.
Tulsa only made one ¿eld
goal, a Pierson 3-pointer for
a 10-point lead, in the ¿rst
nine minutes of the fourth
quarter. Atlanta’s Angel
McCoughtry
hit
two
free throws
Tulsa
with
1:15
remaining to
cut its de¿cit
to
73-72.
But Tulsa’s Brianna Kiesel
answered with a layup
and the Shock made 10 of
10 free throws down the
stretch.
Riquna Williams added
23 points, going 18 for 20 at
85
the free throw
line, for Tulsa
(9-4). Kiesel
Atlanta
¿nished with
16 points and
Courtney
Paris grabbed
10 rebounds. Tulsa won
its ¿rst game since losing
Skylar Diggins to a torn
anterior cruciate ligament
on June 28. She was the
WNBA’s most improved
player last season and was
75
on the league’s ¿rst team.
McCoughtry scored 25
points, but missed 20 of her
28 shots for Atlanta (5-7).
Sancho Lyttle recorded her
third double-double in four
games with 14 points and 13
rebounds.
Shoni Schimmel did not
play for Atlanta. The second-
year player is averaging 4.4
points, 2.5 rebounds and
2.4 assists in 10 games this
season.
Rodeo
DeMoss, Cooper enjoy merriest Cowboy Christmas
PRCA Media
C O L O R A D O
SPRINGS, Colo. — Many
cowboys took in large hauls
during the week of Cowboy
Christmas,
but
none
prospered more than Cody
DeMoss and Tuf Cooper.
With $3,568,182 up
for grabs at 32 Christmas
rodeos, there was a lot of
cash to be won.
DeMoss entered the
June 29 through July 5
week already leading the
saddle bronc riding in the
Windham Weaponry High
Performance PRCA World
Standings with $68,171.
Thanks to a large amount
of success in Canada, he
earned $22,791 – the most
of any PRCA competitor
during Cowboy Christmas.
DeMoss
won
both
the Ponoka Stampede
and Airdrie ProRodeo in
Alberta, which made up
Edmiston hit a two-run homer and
then Randolph hit a three-run homer
three at-bats later before Pendleton could
get its ¿rst out. Edmiston’s other home
run was a solo shot to lead off the fourth.
Tolan retired Pendleton on three
straight groundouts in the bottom of the
¿fth.
Edmiston, Randolph and Barren all
drove in three runs for Hermiston.
Jones went 2 for 2 to lead Pendleton,
and Field added an RBI.
Schwirse faced 33 batters in his start
and struck out three while walking two
and allowing three runs, one earned, on
¿ve hits.
Parker Persinger got the start for
Pendleton and lasted four complete
while striking out seven, walking two
and surrendering eight runs, six earned,
on nine hits.
Hermiston’s opponent in today’s
championship had not been reported by
press time.
PENDLETON: State to be held in Hermiston
Continued from 1B
miles) from the line to clinch
a ¿fth Tour stage win and
take the yellow after narrowly
missing it on stage 1.
“While Tony’s a great
time trialist, he’s not going
to be there in the moun-
tains,” Froome said. “I’m
happy to see the jersey go
to him rather than any of the
big overall rivals. This is the
perfect situation for us.”
Ferocious
side-winds
in stage 3, a huge crash on
stage 4 that took down 20
riders and put ¿ve out of the
WNBA
HERMISTON: Jones homers for Pendleton
Continued from 1B
AP Photo/Christophe Ena
Stage winner Germany’s Tony Martin, right, and the
pack ride over a cobblestone sector during the fourth
stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 223.5 ki-
lometers (138.9 miles) with start in Seraing, Belgium,
and finish in Cambrai, France, Tuesday, July 7, 2015.
stressful stage and sketchy
on the cobbles, and I know
we’ll all be sleeping a lot
better tonight.”
The 30-year-old Martin,
a three-time world time
trial champion who ¿nished
second to Rohan Dennis in
stage 1’s time trial, fell into
the arms of his teammates
after the stage. Countryman
John Degenkolb ¿nished
second and Slovak Peter
Sagan was third.
“All the pressure of the
last days has come off,”
said Martin, who was one
second behind Froome
overnight. “I was really on
the limit. I got round the last
corner and I was surprised I
could make it.”
After the ¿nal cobble-
stone section, he got a Àat
tire and swapped bikes with
teammate Matteo Trentin.
“Changing the bike,
with the wrong position, I
was just thinking to ¿nish,”
Martin said. “Suddenly, ¿ve
kilometers (from) the ¿nish,
I just decided to give it a
chance.”
He leads Froome by
12 seconds and American
rider Tejay Van Garderen —
shaping up as a dangerous
outsider — by 25 seconds.
scored Hermiston’s other run on an error.
Austin Garberg started on the mound
for Hermiston but didn’t get much
support and gave up 13 runs, three
earned, on ¿ve hits, ¿ve walks and on
hit batsman.
Pendleton will play in the champion-
ship game today at 3 p.m. Their opponent
had not been reported by press time. The
winner will advance to the state tourna-
ment starting July 25 in Hermiston.
the bulk of his big week.
The $17,720 he earned in
Ponoka was punctuated
with an 88.25-point ride on
Outlaw Bucker’s Lunatic
Party to win the showdown
round July 1.
He added another $3,772
in Airdrie, and picked up
$1,299 at the Cody (Wyo.)
Stampede. In total, his lead
in the world standings grew
to $19,512 over Taos Muncy,
who earned $16,376 during
the Fourth of July run.
Cooper wasn’t far behind
his roughstock counterpart,
earning $22,640. However,
he needed to hit more rodeos
to be the top timed-event
cowboy of Christmas in July.
The three-time world
champion tie-down roper
cashed big checks in several
places, led by $5,847 at
the St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo,
$5,405 at the Greeley (Colo.)
Stampede and $4,939 at the
World’s Oldest Rodeo in
Prescott, Ariz.
“It’s great to have a big
week any week during the
year, but to do it during
Cowboy Christmas, our
biggest week of the year, is
really great,” Cooper said.
“The most important thing
is having a positive attitude,
and I went to all the big
rodeos and I drew well, and
things worked out.”
The only rodeo title Cooper
captured was at the Molalla
(Ore.) Buckeroo Rodeo,
where he earned $2,559 for
tying Hunter Herrin for the
title after both men made runs
of 7.6 seconds.
The defending world
champion also made $2,360
in Ponoka and $1,530 at the
Home of Champions Rodeo
in Red Lodge, Mont. He
moved from sixth to fourth
in the July 6 world stand-
ings. It’s the second-straight
season that Cooper has been
the top PRCA timed-event
performer during Cowboy
Christmas.
Other cowboys who
had fruitful Christmas runs
were team roper, tie-down
roper and steer roper Trevor
Brazile ($21,668), team
ropers Aaron Tsinigine and
Ryan Motes ($20,010 each)
and tie-down roper Caleb
Smidt ($18,994). Evan
Jayne was the best bareback
rider with $18,285 and
Tanner Milan was the top
steer wrestler with $18,063.
Shane Proctor was the only
bull rider in the top 20 of
PRCA earners with $15,952.
Jayne, a Marseille,
France, native, vaulted to the
top of the bareback riding
world standings, and holds
a $1,298 lead over four-time
World Champion Bobby
Mote. Jayne is seeking to
become the ¿rst Europe-
an-born bareback rider to
qualify for the Wrangler
National Finals Rodeo.
SCOREBOARD
Baseball
MLB
American League
East Division
New York
Baltimore
Toronto
Tampa Bay
Boston
Central Division
Kansas City
Minnesota
Detroit
Cleveland
Chicago
West Division
W
44
43
44
43
40
L
39
41
42
43
45
Pct
.530
.512
.512
.500
.471
GB
—
1½
1½
2½
5
W
48
45
42
39
37
L
33
39
41
44
44
Pct GB
.593 —
.536 4½
.506
7
.470 10
.457 11
W
L Pct GB
Houston
49 37 .570 —
Los Angeles
45 38 .542 2½
Texas
41 43 .488
7
Seattle
39 45 .464
9
Oakland
39 47 .453 10
———
Monday’s Late Game
Detroit 12, Seattle 5
Tuesday’s Games
Kansas City 9, Tampa Bay 5, 1st game
Oakland 4, N.Y. Yankees 3, 10 innings
Cleveland 2, Houston 0
Boston 4, Miami 3
Arizona 4, Texas 2
Minnesota 8, Baltimore 3
Kansas City 7, Tampa Bay 1, 2nd game
Toronto 2, Chicago White Sox 1
L.A. Angels 10, Colorado 2
Seattle 7, Detroit 6, 11 innings
Today’s Games
Baltimore (U.Jimenez 7-4) at Minnesota
(Milone 4-1), 10:10 a.m.
Detroit (An.Sanchez 7-7) at Seattle (Happ 4-5),
12:40 p.m.
Oakland (Kazmir 5-5) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabath-
ia 3-8), 4:05 p.m.
Houston (Straily 0-0) at Cleveland (Bauer 7-5),
4:10 p.m.
Miami (Koehler 7-4) at Boston (Porcello 4-9),
4:10 p.m.
Arizona (Hellickson 6-5) at Texas (M.Harrison
0-0), 5:05 p.m.
Tampa Bay (Archer 9-5) at Kansas City (Guth-
rie 6-5), 5:10 p.m.
Toronto (Hutchison 8-2) at Chicago White Sox
(Danks 4-8), 5:10 p.m.
L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 4-7) at Colorado
(Rusin 3-3), 5:40 p.m.
National League
East Division
Washington
New York
Atlanta
Miami
W
46
43
42
35
L
38
42
42
49
Pct GB
.548 —
.506 3½
.500
4
.417 11
Philadelphia
29 57 .337 18
Central Division
W
L Pct GB
St. Louis
54 30 .643 —
Pittsburgh
49 34 .590 4½
Chicago
46 37 .554 7½
Cincinnati
38 44 .463 15
Milwaukee
36 50 .419 19
West Division
W
L Pct GB
Los Angeles
47 38 .553 —
San Francisco
43 42 .506
4
Arizona
41 42 .494
5
San Diego
39 47 .453 8½
Colorado
35 48 .422 11
———
Monday’s Late Game
L.A. Dodgers 10, Philadelphia 7
Tuesday’s Games
Chicago Cubs 7, St. Louis 4, 1st game
Cincinnati 5, Washington 0
Pittsburgh 3, San Diego 2
Boston 4, Miami 3
Arizona 4, Texas 2
Chicago Cubs 5, St. Louis 3, 2nd game
Atlanta 4, Milwaukee 3
L.A. Angels 10, Colorado 2
Philadelphia 7, L.A. Dodgers 2
San Francisco 3, N.Y. Mets 0
Today’s Games
Atlanta (Teheran 6-4) at Milwaukee (Fiers
4-7), 11:10 a.m.
N.Y. Mets (deGrom 8-6) at San Francisco
(Peavy 0-3), 12:45 p.m.
Cincinnati (Lorenzen 3-3) at Washington
(G.Gonzalez 6-4), 4:05 p.m.
San Diego (Cashner 3-9) at Pittsburgh (Mor-
ton 6-2), 4:05 p.m.
Miami (Koehler 7-4) at Boston (Porcello 4-9),
4:10 p.m.
Arizona (Hellickson 6-5) at Texas (M.Harrison
0-0), 5:05 p.m.
St. Louis (Wacha 10-3) at Chicago Cubs (Ham-
mel 5-4), 5:05 p.m.
L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 4-7) at Colorado
(Rusin 3-3), 5:40 p.m.
Philadelphia (Morgan 1-1) at L.A. Dodgers
(Kershaw 5-6), 7:10 p.m.
Tennis
Wimbledon
Tuesday’s Results
At The All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club
London
Purse: $42.1 million (Grand Slam)
Surface: Grass-Outdoor
Singles
Men Fourth Round
Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Kevin
Anderson (14), South Africa, 6-7 (6), 6-7 (6),
6-1, 6-4, 7-5.
Women Quarterfinals
Garbine Muguruza (20), Spain, def. Timea
Bacsinszky (15), Switzerland, 7-5, 6-3.
Maria Sharapova (4), Russia, def. CoCo Van-
deweghe, United States, 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-2.
Agnieszka Radwanska (13), Poland, def. Madi-
son Keys (21), United States, 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-3.
Serena Williams (1), United States, def. Victo-
ria Azarenka (23), Belarus, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3.
Doubles
Men Quarterfinals
Jamie Murray, Britain and John Peers (13),
Australia, def. Alexander Peya, Austria, and
Bruno Soares (8), Brazil, 6-4, 7-6 (3), 6-3.
Jean-Julien Rojer, Netherlands, and Horia Tecau
(4), Romania, def. Marcin Matkowski, Poland,
and Nenad Zimonjic (7), Serbia, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6
Basketball
WNBA
Tuesday’s Game
Tulsa 85, Atlanta 75
Today’s Games
Seattle at Indiana, 9 a.m.
Los Angeles at San Antonio, 5 p.m.
Soccer
CONCACAF
Gold Cup
FIRST ROUND
Top two in each group and two best third-
place teams advance to quarterfinals
GROUP A
GP W D
L GF GA Pts
United States 1 1
0
0 2 1 3
Haiti
1 0
1
0 1 1 1
Panama
1 0
1
0 1 1 1
Honduras
1 0
0
1 1 2 0
Tuesday
At Frisco, Texas
Panama 1, Haiti 1
United States 2, Honduras 1
Friday
At Foxborough, Mass.
Honduras vs. Panama, 3 p.m.
United States vs. Haiti, 5:30 p.m.
GROUP B
GP W D
L GF GA Pts
Canada
0 0
0
0 0 0 0
Costa Rica
0 0
0
0 0 0 0
Jamaica
0 0
0
0 0 0 0
El Salvador 0 0
0
0 0 0 0
Today
At Carson, Calif.
Costa Rica vs. Jamaica, 5 p.m.
El Salvador vs. Canada, 7:30 p.m.
GROUP C
GP W D
L GF GA Pts
Cuba
0 0
0
0 0 0 0
Guatemala 0 0
0
0 0 0 0
Mexico
0 0
0
0 0 0 0
Trinidad
0 0
0
0 0 0 0
Thursday
At Chicago
Trinidad and Tobago vs. Guatemala, 4 p.m.
Mexico vs. Cuba, 6:30 p.m.