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Walker roughed up, leaves with discomfort
Astros hit three home runs to beat M’s
Seattle
Mariners
starting
pitcher Tai-
juan Walker,
right, looks
away as
Houston
Astros’ A.J.
Reed, left,
rounds the
bases after
hitting a
two-run
home run
in the
fourth
inning of
a baseball
game, Tues-
day, July
5, 2016, in
Houston.
By KRISTIE RIEKEN
Associated Press
HOUSTON — Luis Valbuena hit
a solo homer and Colby Rasmus and
rookie A.J. Reed added two-run shots
in the fourth inning to
back up a solid start
by Dallas Keuchel
and give the Houston
Seattle
Astros a 5-2 victory
over the Seattle Mari-
ners on Tuesday night.
Keuchel (6-9), last
year’s AL Cy Young
Award winner who has
Houston
struggled this season,
allowed fi ve hits and
two runs in six innings
for his season-high third straight win.
Will Harris, who was named to his fi rst
All-Star team on Tuesday, pitched a
scoreless ninth for his ninth save.
The Astros trailed by one in the
fourth inning when Rasmus launched
his homer off Taijuan Walker (4-7) to
the bullpen in right-center fi eld to make
it 3-2. Valbuena drew a walk before,
with two outs and two strikes, Reed hit
his second career homer to left-center to
extend it to 5-2.
Walker yielded fi ve hits and fi ve runs
before leaving after four innings with
discomfort in his right foot. It’s his third
start that has been shortened because of
this problem. He left early on June 14
and June 19 because of his foot.
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AP Photo/Eric
Christian Smith
AP Photo/Eric Christian Smith
Houston Astros’ Jose Altuve, bot-
tom, steals second past Seattle
Mariners shortstop Ketel Marte
in the fourth inning of a baseball
game, Tuesday in Houston.
Nelson Cruz homered for the Mari-
ners, who dropped their second straight
to Houston.
The three home runs Walker allowed
tied a career-high and all were by left-
handers. He’s been plagued by homers by
lefties this season and 13 of the 18 homers
he has allowed have been to them.
Dae-Ho Lee singled with one out
in the second before a double by Kyle
Seager. The Mariners took a 1-0 lead on
an RBI groundout by Chris Iannetta.
Valbuena’s homer, which landed in
the second deck in right fi eld, came with
two outs in the bottom of the inning to
tie it at 1-all.
Cruz’s 22nd home run gave Seattle a
2-1 lead in the fourth inning.
PENDLETON
Rodeo
Hanchey sets holiday record Bucks honor their roots
Temple family in 2016
Hall of Fame class
Louisiana roper
earns top dollar
during Cowboy
Christmas
East Oregonian
PRCA Media
COLORADO SPRINGS,
Colo. — The Cowboy
Christmas run, which went
from June 28 through July 4,
included 28 rodeos with a total
purse of $3,402,557 up for
grabs.
As cowboys drove many
miles and got little sleep, they
were all hoping for a big piece
of the fi nancial pie.
Tie-down roper Shane
Hanchey won the most of any
competitor, collecting a total
of $32,293. That amount was
a new single-event timed-event
EO fi le photo by E.J. Harris
In this Aug. 15, 2015 fi le photo, Shane Hanchey of Sulphur,
La., competes in tie-down roping at the Farm-City Pro Ro-
deo in Hermiston.
Cowboy Christmas record,
surpassing the $30,105 by
fellow tie-down roper Blair
Burk in 2000.
The 2013 PRCA world
champion moved from 36th to
fi fth in the world standings.
“This is by far the best
I’ve felt since I won my
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PENDLETON
Diamondjaxx continue hot streak
Sandford’s 3 hits
lift team to victory
East Oregonian
The Pepsi Diamondjaxx
won for the fourth time in the
past fi ve games with a 10-6
victory over Perth Heat on
Tuesday afternoon.
Blake Been toed the rubber
to start the game for the
Diamondjaxx and pitched well
enough to earn the victory with
four solid innings allowing four
hits and four runs — though just
two of those runs were earned.
The Diamondjaxx scored
the fi rst run of the game in the
bottom of the fi rst inning when
Been scored on a steal of home
for the 1-0 lead. After Perth
Heat scored a pair of runs in the
second inning, the Diamond-
jaxx did not wait long to answer
the scoring run.
Blake Davis singled to start
off the second inning and two
batters later he would score on
an RBI single by Shawn Yeager
to tie the game at 2-2. Then
after back-to-back outs, the
Diamondjaxx played add-on
with a two-RBI double to center
by Cameron Standford to go up
4-2. Sandford also scored later
in the inning on a balk by the
opposing pitcher to give the
Diamondjaxx the 5-2 lead after
two full innings.
The Diamondjaxx would
score fi ve more times between
the fi fth and sixth innings, and
withstood an attempted late-in-
ning rally by Perth Heat to hang
on for the victory.
Sandford was the Diamond-
jaxx’s top hitter in the game
going 3-4 with two runs scored
and two RBIs, while Gabe
Umbarger and Chris Large each
scored two runs apiece.
PENDLETON — Since its inaugural
fi ve-man class in the 2004, the Buck-
aroo Football Hall of Fame has inducted
77 individuals. One name appears on
the list more than any other — Temple.
With fi ve members already
enshrined, the Temple clan’s impact on
Buckaroo football
is plain to see.
Tim
Temple
was the fi rst to
enter the Hall
of Fame with
the second class
in 2005. Mark
Temple followed
in 2008, then Kelly
Temple
(2010), Holman
Mike
Temple
(2011) and Mark
Temple (2014).
On Friday, the
Hall will widen its
doors to welcome
all
Temples,
inducting
the
entire
bloodline
along with six
more individuals
and the 1965-66 Christensen
team at the Hall
of Fame Recep-
tion at Pendleton
Convention Center.
Mike
Holman,
Jay Brunner, Jim
Christensen, Kelly
Dietz, Toby Moore
and Ron Schuening
complete the 2016
class.
Moore
The Temples are
the second family
to earn induction — the Thorne family
was enshrined in 2013. The Temples
were there at the very beginning, and
Earnest Temple suited up for Pendle-
ton’s fi rst team in 1899. He started a run
of decorated linemen that included Lee
Temple (1918-20) and David Temple
(1922-24) before Mark (1927-30)
became the young program’s all-time
rusher.
Mack Temple (1951-53) ushered in
the next generation, along with linemen
Joe Temple (1952-54) and Bob Temple
(1954-55). The ’60s brought all-staters
Tim Temple (1961-62) and Mike Temple
(1962-64), and the ’70s produced Greg
Temple (1971-73)
and all-stater Kelly
Temple (1973-75).
Mark Temple and
Patrick
Temple
came through in
the ’80s as the most
recent to play.
The
1965-66
team is the 11th
squad to gain
Brunner
enshrinement and
the fourth from
its decade. The
Buckaroos fi nished
the season 10-1
with a 20-0 loss
to Reynolds in the
state
semifi nals
in front of 5,000
fans at Round-Up
Stadium. The team
produced
one
Dietz
fi rst-team all-state
selection (Danny
Svetich) and two
Shriner’s All-Stars
(Svetich,
Jerry
Whitaker).
Holman played
for
some
of
Pendleton’s best
teams in 1972-74
and ranks in the
Schuening
program’s all-time
top 10 with 1,691
yards rushing and 170 points.
Brunner was a three-year letterman
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Sports shorts
Kittel wins sprint to Lomiges
LIMOGES, France (AP) Hit by a virus,
denied a place on the Tour de France and then
parting company with his team, not much went
right last season for German sprinter Marcel
Kittel.
FACES Now he’s back with a
vengeance.
Kittel claimed his ninth stage
win at cycling’s biggest race in
a mass sprint on Tuesday, as the
fourth leg of the Tour took the
peloton from the medieval town
of Saumur to Limoges in central
Kittel
France.
“For me the victory means a lot, because I
know how hard my way back to this moment
was,” said Kittel, who was fi ghting back the
tears at the podium ceremony.
Kittel, who wore the race leader’s yellow
jersey in 2013 and 2014, joined the Etixx Quick
Step team from Giant-Alpecin for this season.
“There’s only so much
that’s in your control.
You’ve got a city with a
mountain in the middle,
and you’ve got to go
around it.“
— Aretha Thurmond
Director of international teams for
USA Track & Field speaking Tuesday
about the logistical diffi culties track
and fi eld athletes expect to face at
the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Unlike
at past games where athletes are
housed near where they practice
and compete, It’s expected to be
a 45-to-60-minute drive from the
athletes’ village to both the stadium
and the training center.
Five Chicago Cubs elected to
start in All-Star Game
NEW YORK (AP) — The Chicago
Cubs became the fi rst team since the 1976
Cincinnati Reds’ Big Red Machine to
have fi ve players voted as
All-Star Game starters when
their entire infi eld earned the
honor Tuesday along with
centerfi elder Dexter Fowler.
First baseman Anthony
Rizzo, second baseman Ben Zobrist, shortstop
Addison Russell and third baseman Kris
Bryant also were elected. The only other team
to start four infi elders was the 1963 St. Louis
Cardinals.
The July 12 game at San Diego’s Petco
Park will feature 11 fi rst-time starters, the
most since 2005. In a sign of the sport’s
generational change, 12 of the 17 elected
starters are 26 or younger.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1933 — The fi rst major
league All-Star game is played
at Comiskey Park, Chicago.
The American League tops the
National League 4-2 on Babe
Ruth’s two-run homer.
1997 — Pete Sampras
wins the fourth Wimbledon
title and 10th Grand Slam title
of his career, easily defeating
Frenchmen Cedric Pioline 6-4,
6-2, 6-4.
2013 — Jimmie Johnson
becomes the fi rst driver in
31 years to sweep Daytona
International Speedway. The
Daytona 500 winner is the fi rst
driver since Bobby Allison in
1982, and the fi fth overall, to
win both Daytona races.
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