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THURSDAY, JULY 7, 2016
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STANFIELD
Rogers ready to roll as new Tigers skipper
Longtime assistant
tapped as next
Stanfield baseball
head coach
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
As the Stanfi eld Tigers baseball
program prepares for life after
Bryan Johnson, it will have a
familiar face leading the way.
Assistant coach Brad Rogers has
STANFIELD
been elevated to varsity head coach
after serving as the lead varsity
assistant for the past nine seasons.
It is Rogers’ fi rst go at a varsity
head coaching spot, with his only
head coach experience coming at
the middle school football level in
Stanfi eld.
“It’s a little scary, I’ll admit, with
the high expectations set by Bryan
(Johnson) here,” Rogers said, “but
I’m excited for the opportunity and
I learned a lot over the last nine
years. We have a great group of
kids coming back and we’re ready
to go.”
“I’m excited for the opportunity
and I learned a lot over the last
nine years. We have a great
group of kids coming back and
we’re ready to go.”
Rogers
— Brad Rogers
New Stanfi eld head baseball coach
Rogers said he believed he was
the best fi t for the job from the
start, citing continuity within the
program as a key to continue this
recent string of success.
“It just seemed like the best thing
for the kids,” he said. “Having
some continuity with all of the
returners we do was paramount …
they were relieved when I got the
job, and were glad it was someone
they knew.”
Before leaving town last week,
Johnson said he was ecstatic to see
Rogers stay on as head coach.
“Brad’s great with kids, he cares
about kids and has a big heart and a
lot of pride for Stanfi eld,” Johnson
said. “It’s never been a one-man
show here with me, he’s been a
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MLB
Swept Mariners leave bases loaded
Grogan
promoted
The Seattle
Mariners
Dae-Ho
Lee (10)
reacts after
striking
out to end
the game
as Hous-
ton Astros
catcher
Evan Gattis
(11) walks
away in
the Astros
9-8 victory
in a base-
ball game
Wednesday,
July 6,
2016, in
Houston.
Stanfield product
called up to Rookie
Advanced League
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
Quin Grogan’s professional
baseball career is now off and
running.
After the Stanfi eld product signed
his fi rst contract
mid-June, Grogan
started his journey
in Fort Myers,
Florida with the
Minnesota’s Gulf
Coast League team,
which is in the
lowest rung on the Grogan
minor league ladder.
But after just one start there, Grogan
has now stepped up one rung as he
was promoted to the Elizabethton
Twins in Elizabethton, Tennessee.
It is the Rookie Advanced League
affl iate for Minnesota.
“I’m very grateful for this
opportunity,” Grogan said via text
message on Wednesday. “Traveling
the states, meeting new people, and
pursuing the dream just doesn’t get
much better than this!”
His fi rst appearance in Eliza-
bethton was on July 4, when he
allowed four hits and four runs over
two innings with four strikeouts. In
his two total minor league appear-
ances, Grogan is 0-2 with a 7.50
ERA with eight strikeouts in six
innings.
Grogan said he has not been told
whether will be a starter or reliever
going forward, but for now will be
working out of the bullpen.
AP Photo/
George Bridges
Gregerson strikes out Lee to end game, Seattle loses third in a row
By KRISTIE RIEKEN
Associated Press
HOUSTON — Carlos Gomez
had three RBIs and fi nished a
home run shy of the cycle and Luis
Valbuena hit a tiebreaking two-run
homer in the eighth inning to help
the Houston Astros sweep the
Seattle Mariners with a 9-8 victory
Wednesday night.
The game was tied at 7 with
one on and one
out when Valbuena
launched
a
Seattle
towering shot off
Edwin Diaz (0-2)
to the second deck
in right fi eld for
his second straight game with a
homer.
Ken Giles (1-3) struck out two
in a scoreless eighth for the win.
Luke Gregerson allowed an RBI
8
double to Robinson
Cano with one
out in the ninth
Houston
before striking out
Dae-Ho Lee with
the bases loaded
for his 14th save.
Houston led by fi ve runs early
before Cano, Kyle Seager and Lee
all homered in the fourth inning
to cut the lead 5-4. The Astros
stretched the lead to 7-4 with a
9
two-run sixth before a three-run
homer by Seth Smith tied it in the
seventh.
Evan Gattis added a solo homer
for Houston and Carlos Correa
had two hits and an RBI.
Seattle had runners on fi rst
and second with one out in the
seventh when Smith connected off
Michael Feliz to tie it at 7-7.
Two errors helped the Astros
extend the lead in the sixth.
US Track & Field Trials
Nothing new: Youth served at Olympic trials
Second half of
meet starts today
By EDDIE PELLS
Associated Press
EUGENE — The head-
lines say youth is being
served on the U.S. Olympic
track and fi eld team.
The numbers say that’s
nothing new.
With the second half of
Olympic track trials set to
start Thursday, 35 of the 50
athletes (75 percent) who
have already guaranteed
themselves trips to Rio de
Janeiro will be going to their
fi rst Olympics. That sort
of turnover is pretty much
the norm. Data supplied by
USA Track and Field shows
an average of 53 percent
turnover from year to year on
the most recent world cham-
pionship and Olympic teams,
which essentially award
the same number of spots
through the same qualifying
process. When the gap is two
years, the turnover rate is 60
percent.
This
year’s
group
of newcomers includes
18-year-old high jumper
Vashti Cunningham, the
world indoor champion,
who will be the youngest
U.S. track and fi eld athlete
to qualify for the Olympics
since Carol Lewis in 1980.
The team also includes high
jumper Chaunte Lowe and
sprinter Allyson Felix, both
of whom are in their 30s and
going for the fourth time.
“You look at the system
we have and the depth of
talent we have, and one thing
that’s fairly consistent is
that we’ll have an amazing
team and amazing athletes,”
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AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File
In this July 4, 2016, fi le photo, Sam Kendricks competes
during the men’s pole vault event at the U.S. Olympic
Track and Field Trials in Eugene Ore.
Sports shorts
Seahawks’ Browner under
investigation for alleged assault
POMONA, Calif. (AP) — Seattle Seahawks
cornerback Brandon Browner is under inves-
tigation, accused of punching his
FACES girlfriend’s father.
Pomona police Lt. Ron
McDonald says offi cers were sent
around 8 p.m. Tuesday to a home
where the girlfriend was living.
McDonald says the woman’s
59-year-old father told police that
Browner and his daughter argued
Browner
by telephone and the father walked
over to Browner’s house, about a block away.
The man said Browner met him in the
driveway, they argued and the two-time Super
Bowl champion punched him. He reportedly fell
down but declined medical treatment.
McDonald says Browner drove away and
police haven’t talked to him.
“I have never forgotten
where I came from and
I am thankful to have an
opportunity to play for
the team that fi rst fueled
my love of the game.“
— Dwyane Wade
Former Miami Heat guard and
Chicago native after agreeing
with the Chicago Bulls in free
agency. Wade played 13 seasons
in Miami where he won three
NBA championships and made
12 all-star teams. He will sign a
two-year, $47 million deal
with Chicago.
Trail Blazers, CSN Northwest
extend partnership
PORTLAND — The Portland Trail Blazers
announced on Wednesday afternoon that
they have agreed to a multi-year extension
with CSN Northwest for local
broadcast rights.
“After thorough negotiations
with several other potential
partners, it became apparent that
by building on our existing rela-
tionship with CSN Northwest, we
have the best opportunity to increase distribution
for Trail Blazers games and other programming
in our marketplace,” said Trail Blazers president
& CEO Chris McGowan in a press release.
In addition to game broadcasts, the Trail
Blazers-CSNNW partnership will continue
producing Trail Blazers Courtside. There
are also plans to refresh studio sets, on-air
graphics and other production elements.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1993 — Tom Burgess
tosses three touchdown
passes, and Wayne Walker
scores twice as Ottawa spoils
the debut of the CFL’s fi rst
American-based team by
beating Sacramento 32-23.
2013 — Andy Murray
becomes the fi rst British man in
77 years to win the Wimbledon
title, beating Novak Djokovic
6-4, 7-5, 6-4 in the fi nal. The
last British man to win the
Wimbledon title before was
Fred Perry in 1936. Murray,
who lost to Roger Federer
in last year’s fi nal, wins his
second major title after last
year’s U.S. Open.
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