SPORTS
THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2016
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Mariners add two
veteran pitchers
DETROIT (AP) — The
Seattle Mariners are trying
to bolster their pitching
by signing
former
right-handed
reliever Tom
Wilhelmsen
and
acquiring
left-hander Wade LeBlanc in
a trade with Toronto.
Wilhelmsen was signed
to a one-year deal after
he declined an outright
assignment by Texas earlier
this month and was granted
free agency. Wilhelmsen
was a solid reliever with
Seattle from 2011-15 before
being traded to the Rangers
last offseason. Wilhelmsen
struggled in Texas with a 2-3
record and 10.55 ERA in 21
appearances.
To clear a roster spot
for Wilhelmsen, Seattle
transferred left-hander
Charlie Furbush to the
60-day disabled list and
optioned Jonathan Aro to
Triple-A Tacoma.
LeBlanc was acquired
in exchange for cash or a
player to be named later and
likely will be Seattle’s starter
on Friday. LeBlanc was 7-2
with a 1.71 ERA in 14 starts
with Triple-A Buffalo.
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Brazile won’t defend Round-Up title
Five-time champion
among many stars
that left the PRCA
East Oregonian
On Sept. 19, 2015, Trevor
Brazile solidifi ed his name in the
Pendleton Round-Up record books
by earning his fourth consecutive
All-Around championship and
fi fth overall.
In doing so, Brazile
became the winningest
all-around cowboy in
Round-Up history in his
19th trip to Pendleton.
However, it appears as
that day could be the last
time that Brazile steps
foot on the Round-Up
grounds as a competitor.
Brazile became one Brazile
of numerous cowboys
and cowgirls that departed the
Professional Rodeo Cowboys
Association for the newly-formed
Elite Rodeo Association
that kicked off its inau-
gural season this March.
Several competitors grew
tired of the long season
and constant travel of the
PRCA schedule, which
led to the formation of
the new association.
“The regular season
of rodeo is terrible,” said
Team Roper Clay Tryan
to KTVQ-TV in Billings, Montana
in Feb. 2015. “It costs so much
money to make money. All your
heavy money is made at NFR, and
I know it’s been that way forever,
but to me it just doesn’t make
sense.”
There have already been 211
rodeos associated with the PRCA
this year, while the ERA tour has
only nine events spread out from
March through October before
the World Championships, which
will take place on Nov. 9-13 at
the American Airlines Center in
Dallas, Texas.
The PRCA followed up the
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MILTON-FREEWATER
Pendleton rallies into fi nals
Pend-
leton’s
Macken-
zie Burke
pitches
during
a Little
League
softball
game
against
La
Grande at
the 11/12
year-old
District
3 Cham-
pion-
ships on
Wednes-
day in
Mil-
ton-Free-
water.
Pendleton
won 14-4
in fi ve
innings
to reach
the tour-
nament
fi nals.
McIlroy opts out
of Olympics over
Zika concerns
DUBLIN (AP) — Golfer
Rory McIlroy became one of
the most high-profi le sports
stars to opt out of the Rio de
Janeiro Olympics because
of concerns about the Zika
virus, saying
FACES Wednesday it
is “a risk I am
unwilling to
take.”
“After
speaking with
those closest
to me, I’ve
McIlroy
come to realize
that my health and my
family’s health comes before
anything else,” the four-time
major winner said in a
statement released by his
management company.
The fourth-ranked
McIlroy was scheduled
to play for Ireland as golf
makes its return to the
Olympics for the fi rst time
since 1904.
The Olympic Committee
of Ireland (OCI) said it was
“extremely disappointed”
not to have McIlroy on its
team.
“I can tell you I
am not worried
about the NFL,
and they’re not
worried about
me. I’m not even
starting here.“
— Vernon Adams
Former Oregon Duck
and now current QB for
the Montreal Alouettes of
the Canadian
Football League speak-
ing to ESPN.com about
possible NFL aspirations.
Adams had two NFL
tryouts with Seattle and
Washington, but neither
ended with a contract
offer. He is currently one
of four quarterbacks on
the Alouettes roster.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1972 — President Nixon
signs the Higher Education
Act of 1972. Title IX of
this congressional act bars
sex bias in athletics and
other activities at colleges
receiving federal assistance.
2012 — Ashton Eaton
breaks the world record in
the decathlon, fi nishing with
9,039 points at the U.S.
Olympic trials in Eugene,
Ore., to beat the Roman
Sebrle’s 11-year-old mark by
13 points.
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Staff photo by
Matt Entrup
Milton-Freewater stays alive in consolation bracket with win
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
Pendleton came from behind for
a run-rule win after scoring 10 runs
in the fi nal two innings against La
Grande on Wednesday in their 11/12
year-old District 3 softball game.
Mackenzie Burke pitched two
innings of scoreless relief and Daisy
Jenness pushed Pendleton over the top
when she slid into home in the bottom
of the fi fth inning to make it 14-4.
The win advanced Pendleton to
the championship round, where it will
wait for an opponent to rise from the
consolation bracket.
La Grande took the early lead
when Kaylin Nowak scored in the
fi rst inning on a fi elder’s choice off
the bat of Kaylie Lantis, but Pendleton
answered in the bottom of the frame
when Jenness drove in Josie Wilson
for the fi rst of her four RBI.
La Grande added two in the second
— McKaylee Orton scored on a
passed ball and then Nowak scored on
Sierra Meuser’s double — and then
went up 4-1 in the third when Orton
singled to drive in Jayde Wiggins.
A change in the circle shut them
down from there, though, and Pend-
leton relief pitcher MacKenzie Burke
allowed just one hit while striking
out one and walking none over the
next two innings. Starter Sauren
Garton allowed eight hits and three
earned runs while striking out two and
walking one.
Pendleton’s comeback started with
a three-run rally in the bottom of the
third. Delaney Duchek it going with
a double that plated Maria Lilienthal
from second, and later scored from
third on a groundout by Garton.
Jenness, who had reached on a
single, then knotted the score at 4-4
when she scored on an infi eld error on
a ball hit by Burke.
Pendleton added fi ve runs in each
of the next two at-bats, and Lilienthal
scored the eventual game-winner on a
single by Duchek with one out in the
bottom of the fourth.
Lilienthal, Wilson, Duchek and
Jenness all scored three times for
Pendleton. Jaden Samp was 3 for 4
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Pendle-
ton’s Daisy
Jenness
slides
into home
plate as
La Grande
catcher
Jayde
Wiggins
receives
the throw
during the
fi fth inning
of a Little
League
softball
game at
the 11/12
year-old
District 3
Champion-
ships on
Wednes-
day in Mil-
ton-Free-
water.
Staff photo by
Matt Entrup
MLB
Mariners slide continues with sixth straight loss
Seattle falls to .500 on
season, slides into third
place in AL West
By NOAH TRISTER
AP Baseball Writer
DETROIT — Steven Moya
is fi nally showing off a bit of his
power at the major league level.
Moya homered twice, and the
Detroit Tigers withstood a shaky
fi fth inning from right-hander
Michael Fulmer to beat the Seattle
Mariners 5-1 on Wednesday night.
After slugging his way through
the minors, the 6-foot-6 Moya was
AP Photo/Paul Sancya
Seattle Mariners pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma reacts to allowing a solo without a home run in his fi rst 31
home run by Detroit Tigers’ Miguel Cabrera during the fi rst inning games for the Tigers — but he hit
of a baseball game in Detroit, Wednesday, June 22, 2016.
one Sunday and then added a couple
Seattle
Detroit
1
5
more Wednesday.
“You have that fi rst one and you
know like, ‘OK man, I can hit home
runs here,”’ Moya said. “It feels
good, and you just try to repeat it
over and over.”
Miguel Cabrera also went deep
for Detroit, and reliever Kyle
Ryan (2-2) helped the Tigers stay
comfortably ahead after Fulmer
went through some control prob-
lems in the fi fth. Ryan came on
with one out in that inning and the
bases loaded, with Detroit up 4-1.
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