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WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2016
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MLB
Soccer
Mariners lose home run fest
Soccer
royalty
set to
meet in
Eugene
Seattle
Mar-
iners
Rob-
inson
Cano
hits a
solo
home
run
against
the
Chicago
White
Sox
in the
fourth
inning
of a
baseball
game,
Tues-
day,
July 19,
2016, in
Seattle.
AP Photo/
Ted S.
Warren
Top-level
European
clubs to face
off on Sunday
By RYAN THORBURN
The Register-Guard
Seattle, Chicago combine for four home runs as White Sox win
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Melky Cabrera
hit a tie-breaking homer leading
off the seventh inning, Todd
Frazier added a two-run shot in the
ninth and the Chicago White Sox
snapped a fi ve-game losing streak
with a 6-1 victory over the Seattle
Mariners on Tuesday night.
Cabrera lined his ninth home
run of the season — and second
batting right-handed — just over
the wall in left fi eld off Seattle
starter Wade Miley (6-7) to snap
a 1-1 tie. J.B. Shuck added an
RBI single later in the inning and
Frazier capped the White Sox’s
fi rst win since July 9 with his 27th
home run in the ninth.
Brett Lawrie also hit a solo
home run, his 12th.
Chicago starter Jose Quintana
(8-8) threw six innings and his
only major mistake was Robinson
Cano’s 22nd home run in the fourth
inning. And Quintana made key
Chicago
Seattle
6
1
pitches when Seattle had runners
in scoring position in both the fi fth
and sixth innings.
Quintana struck out Cano to
end the fi fth with runners on the
corners. In the sixth, Quintana
gave up a leadoff single to Nelson
Cruz and loaded the bases after a
walk to Chris Iannetta and hitting
Leonys Martin on the elbow with
two outs. Quintana fell behind
to Daniel Robertson, but got the
young outfi elder to fl y out to center
to end the threat.
Quintana allowed six hits in six
innings and struck out seven. He’s
won his last three starts after going
0-7 over a span of nine starts from
the middle of May until the end of
June. Zach Duke, Nate Jones and
Carson Fullmer rolled through the
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Wade Miley throws against the
Chicago White Sox in Tuesday’s game in Seattle.
fi nal three innings, retiring the last
nine batters in order.
Miley lost his fi fth straight start,
his last win coming on June 7. It
was a better performance than his
last start before the All-Star break
where Miley allowed 10 hits and
four runs against Kansas City, but
he was unable to get through the
seventh. Miley has completed at
least seven innings just three times
See MARINERS/2B
PORTLAND — It’s a football
game week in Oregon.
Inter Milan and Paris Saint-Ger-
main, two of the most famous
European clubs, will begin play
in the International Champions
Cup at 2 p.m. on Sunday at Autzen
Stadium.
On Monday, as crews began
installing tempo-
rary sod over the
artifi cial surface
the Ducks play
American football
Inter
on, Inter Milan
Milan
conducted
a
training session at
the University of
Portland.
Paris
The 18-time
Saint-Germain
Serie A cham-
• Sunday, 2
pions estimate that
p.m.
• Autzen
there are about
Stadium
two million Inter
Milan fans in the
U.S., including about two dozen
diehards who showed up at Merlo
Field, home of the Pilots, for a light
practice. Paris Saint-Germain, one
of the most well-funded teams in
the world, has won the last three
Ligue 1 championships.
“We’re looking forward to the
game. Of course it’s a friendly
game, but it’s still important for us
See SOCCER/2B
Olympics
Ducks wideout’s Olympic run inspiring teammates
Allen ready to
represent the USA in
Rio de Janeiro
By RYAN THORBURN
The Register-Guard
EUGENE — If the Star-Span-
gled Banner is played for Devon
Allen in Rio de Janeiro, Mark
Helfrich knows what his reaction
will be.
Oregon’s fourth-year coach
was already moved to tears after
watching his supersonic wide
receiver win the 110-meter hurdles
fi nal during the U.S. Olympic
Track & Field Trials earlier this
month at Hayward Field.
“I was tearing up that night and I
get misty every time I sit down and
think about it for a while because
he’s such a good dude,” Helfrich
said. “First of all, great family,
great representation of who he is,
our university and now our country.
“To be represented by that
kid, that’s a lot of good things
happening.”
Allen is the fi rst collegian to
win the 110 hurdles at the U.S.
Trials since Renaldo Nehemiah
of Maryland in 1980. He’s also
the fi rst to win both the NCAA
championship (2014, 2016) and
Olympic Trials titles since North
Carolina Central’s Lee Calhoun in
1956.
“It’s the most amazing thing
I’ve ever felt in my life,” Allen
said after crossing the fi nish line in
13.03 seconds, the second-fastest
time in the world this year, and
leaping into the stands to celebrate
with his family.
Allen has had lofty goals since
arriving at Oregon, where he
has been an important part of a
national championship in track and
a memorable run to the College
Football Playoff.
The confi dent 21-year-old even
talked about winning the Heisman
Trophy and Bowerman Award as a
younger two-sport star.
Right now, Allen’s focus is on
an Olympic gold medal, a life-
long dream that even a torn ACL
suffered during the Ducks’ domi-
See DUCKS/2B
AP Photo/Matt Slocum
Devon Allen celebrates his win in the fi nals of the men’s 110-meter
hurdles at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials, Saturday, July 9,
2016, in Eugene Ore.
Sports shorts
Tiger to miss PGA Championship
Tiger Woods withdrew from the PGA
Championship, the fi rst time he will go an entire
year without playing a major.
The decision, while not a surprise, also means
he will go an entire PGA Tour
FACES season without playing.
His agent, Mark Steinberg of
Excel Sports Management, said in
a text to The Associated Press on
Tuesday that Woods will not play
the remainder of the tour season
as he continues to rehab following
back surgeries.
Woods
Steinberg said Woods will
continue to work hard and assess when he can
play starting in October.
Woods now has gone eight full years since
winning his 14th major championship at the
2008 U.S. Open.
The PGA Championship starts July 28 at
Baltusrol Golf Club in New Jersey.
“As soon as they said I
was on the team it was
a go ... the reason why
we brought golf into
the Olympics is to grow
the game ... so winning
any type of medal is a
bonus.“
— Bubba Watson
Professional golfer in an inter-
view on the Dan Patrick Show on
Tuesday explaining why he did
not turn down the chance to play
for the United States at the Rio
Olympics. Watson said he had
no fears of the Zika virus, which
is what many athletes cited for
reasons to withdrawl.
NCAA: No. 1 overall seed to
choose tourney site preference
NEW YORK (AP) — The NCAA says
the top overall seed in the men’s NCAA
Tournament will be able to
pick its location to play for the
regional sites.
The Division I Men’s
Basketball Committee decided
the geographic preferences
would be made by teams in
contention for the overall No. 1
seed far in advance of Selection Sunday.
Teams will be able to choose from eight
assigned cities for the fi rst and second round.
The eight cities hosting the fi rst- and
second-round games in 2017 are Buffalo,
Milwaukee, Orlando, Salt Lake City,
Greensboro, Indianapolis, Tulsa and
Sacramento.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1858 — Fans are charged
for the fi rst time to see a base-
ball game. Approximately
1,500 fans pay 50 cents to see
the New York All-Stars beat
Brooklyn 22-18 at Fashion
Race Course on Long Island.
2002 — Tiger Woods,
trying to win the third leg
of the Grand Slam, shoots
his worst round (81) as a
professional.
2010 — One day after
Ilya Kovalchuk of the New
Jersey Devils agrees to a
staggering contract, the NHL
rejects the deal. The 17-year,
$102 million contract is
deemed to circumvent the
league’s salary cap.
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