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MLB
Martin’s walk-off lifts Mariners
Win pushes Seattle back
above .500 on the season
Chicago
Seattle
5
6
By JIM HOEHN
Associated Press
SEATTLE — On the day Felix
Hernandez returned to the mound,
Leonys Martin gave the Seattle
Mariners the biggest boost.
Martin hit his second home run
of the game, a solo shot with one out
in the 11th inning that sent Seattle
over the Chicago White Sox 6-5 on
Wednesday.
“Every time you win a ballgame,
it’s good no matter how you win the
ballgame, but this is a great feeling,”
Martin said.
Martin hit a two-run drive in the
second inning. He then drove an 0-2
pitch from Dan Jennings (3-2) over
the wall in right for his 13th homer.
His previous season high was eight
homers in 457 at-bats with Texas in
2013.
“With two strikes, especially in
the second half, he’s taking some
walks, he’s not swinging quite as
MLB
Seattle trades
Montgomery
to Chicago
Mariners receive
power bat, pitcher
Associated Press
CHICAGO — The NL Central-
leading Chicago Cubs added bullpen
help Wednesday by acquiring left-hander
Mike Montgomery from the Seattle
Mariners for fi rst baseman and designated
hitter Dan Vogelbach.
Chicago
obtained
right-handed
prospect
Jordan
Pries in the deal.
Right-hander Paul
Blackburn also goes
to Seattle.
The 27-year-old
Montgomery
has
a 2.34 ERA in two
starts and 30 relief
appearances
with
the Mariners this
Montgomery
season. The former
fi rst round pick of Kansas City was traded
to Tampa Bay in the 2012 James Shields
deal, when the Cubs’ Joe Maddon was
managing Tampa Bay.
“I was with him in two spring train-
ings. I was in Triple-A, but I went to the
big league camp. I had conversations
with him and he’s great. Everything about
him was fun, so I’m looking forward to
it,” Montgomery said.
Montgomery said Mariners general
manager Jerry Dipoto told him about the
trade during Seattle’s 6-5 win over the
White Sox in 11 innings.
“I was a little sad at fi rst, understanding
that I’m not going to be here with these
guys in this city. But at the same time, I’m
excited because I’m going to a good team
and I’m ready to go contribute any way
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hard,” Mariners manager Scott
Servais said. “I believe the pitch he
hit out was an 0-2 pitch. Not trying
to kill it, just hit it, because he’s got a
lot of ability.”
Vidal Nuno (1-1) pitched one
inning for the victory.
Seattle pulled within 5-4 on Mike
Zunino’s two-run homer in seventh.
The Mariners tied it on Adam Lind’s
solo shot in the eighth.
The Mariners nearly won it in the
10th. Nelson Cruz drew a two-out
walk and tried to score on Kyle
Seager’s double, but right fi elder
Adam Eaton threw out the Seattle
slugger at the plate.
Hernandez, activated off the
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AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
Seattle Mariners’ Leonys Martin (12) heads to fi rst as fans
cheer after he hit a solo walk-off home run in the 11th inning
Wednesday’s game in Seattle.
PENDLETON
Bowman fi nds his hobby
Retired veterinarian
fi nds solace in
triathalons
Pendle-
ton res-
ident
David
Bow-
man
crosses
the fi n-
ish line
at the
Iron-
man
70.3 in
Coeur
d’Alene,
Idaho
on
June
26,
2016.
Bow-
man
fi nished
15th in
his age
group
with a
total
time of
8:16:52.
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
When David Bowman approached
retirement a little more than two years
ago, he began to think about possible
leisure activities to try out to fi ll up his
soon-to-be-free daily schedule.
After giving backpacking a shot, he
soon settled on something that he never
could have dreamed of doing: triathalons.
“I always had thought about doing a
marathon,” Bowman said, “but I thought
about it and liked the idea of three disci-
plines (swimming, cycling, and running)
and having never done any of those I
thought I’d give it a shot.”
But how the 67-year-old retired
veterinarian settle on triathalons? It all
stemmed from a camping and hunting
trip before he retired.
In October of 2013, he was invited by
two friends, both in their 30s, to come on
a weeklong trip near the Salmon River in
Idaho.
One evening, while passing the time
with a little conversation, the two men
mentioned how they had previously
competed in both full and half Ironman
races. The conversation carried on for a
long period of time, and by the time it
fi nished, Bowman’s proverbial light bulb
went off in his head.
“I thought (heck), I was keeping
up with these guys on the trip and I’m
twice their age ... it sounded interesting,”
Bowman thought.
After returning from the trip, Bowman
began training during the early part of
2014, with a goal set for competing in the
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Contribut-
ed photo
via Dave
Bowman
College Basketball
Oregon to face off against Georgetown at Maui Invitational
Tournament to start on
Nov. 21 in Hawaii
By STEVE MIMS
The Register-Guard
EUGENE — Oregon and
Georgetown will once again meet
up outside of the continental United
States for an early season men’s
basketball game.
The Ducks and Hoyas were
paired in the fi rst round of the Maui
Invitational when the eight-team
bracket was released Tuesday
morning. Oregon and Georgetown
will play on Nov. 21 at 1:30 p.m. in
the Lahaina Civic Center.
“It is an outstanding fi eld and we
are excited to be part of it,” Oregon
coach Dana Altman said. “We were
able to play Georgetown three years
ago in Korea and we had a tough
game with them for the servicemen.
We know they are an awfully good
team with a lot of players back and
Maui Invitational
First-Round Schedule
•Tennessee vs. Wisconsin
•Georgetown vs. Oregon
•Oklahoma State vs. UConn
•N. Carolina vs. Chaminade
we have a good core group coming
back.”
Oregon defeated Georgetown
82-75 during the Armed Forces
Classic at the U.S. Army Base
Camp Humphreys in South Korea
on Nov. 8, 2013.
“South Korea was such a unique
experience to travel over there and
play on a military base,” George-
town coach John Thompson III
said. “So much of that game was
about giving back to the servicemen
as it was about getting our teams
ready to go. It was a close game.”
With a veteran team, including
four returning starters, Altman
designed a tough nonconference
schedule for the Ducks including a
trip to Baylor before visiting Maui
where half of the fi eld will likely be
ranked in preseason polls. Oregon,
which went 31-7 last year with a
loss to Oklahoma in the Elite Eight,
is expected to start the season in the
top 10.
“That is a new experience for
us,” Altman said. “We have gone
into each of the last six seasons
not projected to do very well in
our own conference and now we
have got some predictions on a
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Sports shorts
Mariners fi rst-round draft pick
out for remainder of season
SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Mariners
announced Wednesday that minor league
outfi elder Kyle Lewis, the team’s
rst-round draft pick in 2016,
FACES fi injured
his knee and is expected to
miss the rest of the season.
Lewis, 21, a two-time Southern
Conference player of the year at
Mercer, was the 11th overall pick
in last month’s draft.
He was injured Tuesday in
Lewis
a collision at home plate while
playing for the Class-A Everett Aqua Sox and
tore the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), as
well as a medial and lateral meniscus in his right
knee.
Lewis was hitting .299 with three homers,
eight doubles, fi ve triples and 26 RBIs in 30
games with Everett in the Northwest League.
“We are proud
of WNBA
players’engagement and
passionate advocacy
for non-violent solutions
to diffi cult social issues
but expect them to
comply with the league’s
uniform guidelines.“
— Lisa Borders
WNBA president in a statement
on Wednesday regarding the
fi nes handed out to New York
Phoenix, and Indiana’s players for
wearing black warm-up shirts in
wake of the recent shootings by
and against police offi cers.
WADA reinstates Rio Olympic
drug-testing laboratory
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The World
Anti-Doping Agency said Wednesday it has
reinstated the laboratory that will
carry out drug testing for the Rio
de Janeiro Olympics, which start
in just over two weeks.
The lab was shuttered
last month for what WADA
called “nonconformity with
International Standard for
Laboratories.”
In a statement on Wednesday, WADA said
the Rio laboratory “has successfully complied
with the ISL’s requirements for reinstatement
and no further suspension is required.”
The statement will be a relief for local
organizers and the International Olympic
Committee, which would have been forced to
send thousands of samples abroad for testing.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1968 — Arnold Palmer
becomes the fi rst PGA golfer
to earn $1 million over his
career despite losing by one
stroke to Julius Boros in the
PGA championship.
2001 — Chris Webber
signs the second-biggest
contract in NBA history,
agreeing to a seven-year
deal worth $122.7 million to
return to Sacramento.
2013 — Phil Mickelson
wins the British Open with a
spectacular fi nish to win his
fi rst claret jug. Mickelson
birdies four of the last six
holes for a 5-under 66 to
match the best round of the
tournament.
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