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WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2016
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Oregon advances to quarterfi nals Colbray
Rematch with
earns
Montana today
at 8:30 a.m.
national
honor
HERMISTON
Little League Softball
East Oregonian
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.
— Team Oregon’s Jaden Samp
scored the game-winning run
off of an error by Team Idaho’s
centerfi elder for the
9-8 victory in the fi rst
round of single elimi-
nation play at the Little
League Softball West
Regional on Tuesday
afternoon.
The
victory
advances Oregon into the quarter-
fi nals of the bracket, where they
next face a rematch with Montana,
the team that handed Oregon its
only loss of the Regional with a
10-4 defeat in pool play.
Errors were the
name of the game on
Tuesday, as the teams
combined for a whop-
ping 15 miscues — the
same amount of hits the
teams combined for as
well. Oregon’s seven errors led
to zero of the eight runs given up
by starting pitcher Sauren Garton
being counted as earned runs.
Oregon scored the game’s fi rst
run in the second inning when a
single by Ellie Samford coupled
with an error by Idaho allowed
Ella Chrisman to score for the 1-0
advantage. Idaho responded in the
third inning with three runs, two of
those coming off of fi elding errors
and the third on a wild pitch by
Garton to give them the 3-1 lead.
Delaney Duchek got Oregon
back on the board in their half
of the third inning with an RBI
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Hernandez leads M’s to win
MLB
Seattle
Mariners
starting
pitcher
Felix Her-
nandez
delivers
during
the fi fth
inning
of a
baseball
game
against
the Pitts-
burgh
Pirates in
Pitts-
burgh,
Tuesday,
July 26,
2016.
AP Photo/Gene
J. Puskar
King Felix tosses six innings, picks up fi rst win since May 21
By WILL GRAVES
Associated Press
PITTSBURGH — The strained
right calf that sidelined Felix
Hernandez for a third of the season
is healed. That doesn’t mean the
ace is all better, and he knows it.
It will take time for the 2010
AL Cy Young Award winner to
regain his form, yet there’s a grit
that he showed in Seattle’s 7-4
win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on
Tuesday night that offered proof to
Mariners manager
Scott Servais that
Hernandez is on his
way back.
Seattle
Hernandez
picked up his fi rst
victory since May
21 despite getting touched for four
runs over the fi rst two innings,
including a 416-foot homer by
pitcher Francisco Liriano. Though
Hernandez (5-4) never retired the
Pirates in order, he found a way
to get through six innings while
7
giving his team-
mates enough time
to get going at the
plate.
Pittsburgh
“ W e ’ r e
certainly looking
for crisper, sharper
stuff than what he showed early in
the game,” Servais said. “To his
credit, he hung in there. He gave
us a chance, kept it right there, and
then our offense was the story.”
Kyle Seager’s three hits for
Seattle included his 20th home
4
run, and Franklin Gutierrez added
his 10th off Liriano (6-10) as the
Mariners began a rare trip to Pitts-
burgh by overcoming a three-run
defi cit and holding on late.
The Pirates brought the tying
run to the plate in the sixth, seventh
and eighth innings but failed to get
even one man across the plate.
Seattle’s only perfect inning came
in the ninth, when Steve Cishek
picked up his 24th save.
Gregory Polanco collected
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Ex-Hermiston
star named
USA Wrestler
of the Week
East Oregonian
Former Hermiston Bulldog
wrestling star Sam Colbray has
been named the USA Wrestling
Athlete of the Week following his
performances at the 2016 ASICS/
Vaughn Junior
Nationals in
Fargo, North
Dakota over
the weekend.
C o l b r a y,
who will be
wrestling for
the Iowa State
Cyclones
starting this
Colbray
season, won
both
the
Greco-Roman and the freestyle
tournaments at 220 pounds in
dominant fashion with a 13-2
victory over Virginia’s Jeffrey
Allen for the Greco-Roman title
and a 15-4 technical fall victory
over Minnesota’s Keegan Moore
in the freestyle competition.
In the freestyle competition,
Colbray defeated his opponents
by a whopping 65-4 margin spread
over six matches. In the Greco-
Roman side, he amassed six more
victories with two coming by pin
and four coming via technical falls.
He was one of only two compet-
itors to capture Junior national
titles in both disciplines this year,
with the other honor belonging to
Minnesota’s Griffi n Parriott in the
152 pound class.
It also marked the eighth time in
his storied prep career that Colbray
has appeared in the fi nals in Fargo,
and now having fi ve total champi-
onships. Other national titles that
Colbray has in his collection are the
Junior Greco-Roman Nationals in
2014 and the Cadet Greco-Roman
Nationals in both 2012 and 2013.
NFL
Seahawks extend Carroll through 2019
Seattle 60-36 under
Carroll in fi ve seasons
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
RENTON, Wash. — The Seattle
Seahawks and coach Pete Carroll
have agreed on a contract extension,
keeping the oldest head coach in
the NFL locked up beyond the 2016
season.
Team owner Paul Allen tweeted
confi rmation of Carroll’s deal on
Tuesday.
The move with the 64-year-old
Carroll came just two days after the
team locked up general manager John
Schneider to a contract extension.
Both Carroll’s and Schneider’s
current deals were set to expire after
the 2016 season, but the tandem
pairing that has brought the Seahawks
unrivaled success in their franchise
history will be teamed together for
another few seasons.
Carroll is 60-36 in the regular
season since becoming Seattle’s
head coach in 2010. He’s taken the
Seahawks to the playoffs in fi ve of
six seasons, including two Super
Bowl appearances and the only title
in franchise history.
Carroll’s deal was fi rst reported
by ESPN and said the extension goes
through the 2019 season.
Whenever asked during the
offseason about his contract situation,
Carroll would shrug off the question
saying “I’m good.”
But the lack of an extension fueled
speculation that Carroll may be ready
to take on a new role and walk away
from being a head coach, no matter
how often he indicated he was set
on continuing in his position with
Seattle.
“Everything is great. I’m under
contract,” Carroll said at the conclu-
sion of minicamp in June.
Carroll’s somewhat unconven-
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AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin
In this Jan. 3, 2016, fi le photo, Seattle Seahawks coach Pete
Carroll cheers a touchdown against the Arizona Cardinals
during an NFL football game in Glendale, Ariz.
Sports shorts
Trail Blazers extend Harkless
PORTLAND (AP) — The Portland Trail
Blazers have agreed to a four-year deal with
restricted free agent Maurice Harkless.
The $40 million deal was fi rst reported by
Yahoo Sports. Harkless confi rmed
FACES it on Twitter, posting: “4moe’
..... God is so good. Thank you
(hashtag) ripcity.”
The Blazers acquired Harkless
in a trade with the Orlando Magic
and he averaged 6.3 points and 3.6
rebounds in 78 games overall last
season. He fi lled a key role late in
Harkless
the regular season when Meyers
Leonard injured his shoulder, and averaged 12
points and 6.5 rebounds over the fi nal 11 games.
Harkless, who played one season at St. Johns,
was the 15th overall pick in the 2012 draft by
Philadelphia. He was traded to Orlando before
the 2012-13 season in the same deal that sent
Dwight Howard to the Lakers.
“From a competition
standpoint, obviously,
as a competitor, you’re
not gonna say, ‘Yeah, I’ll
take the backseat in this.
It’s my job as a rookie to
push those guys that are
ahead of me however I
can.“
— Paxton Lynch
Denver Broncos rookie QB as he
prepares for his fi rst NFL training
camp where he will be battling
veterans Mark Sanchez and
Trevor Siemien for the starting
QB job, as the trio tries to replace
Peyton Manning.
Twitter to live stream MLB,
NHL games for free
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter will
live stream for free one MLB game and one
NHL game per week under a
new deal.
The agreement announced
Monday will allow viewers to
watch games nationally that
would normally be available
only in the two teams’ home
markets. Users will not need to
be logged into Twitter to see the games.
The baseball games will also be available
outside the U.S., with some exceptions. The
social media network is attempting to move
into live sports streaming through “over-
the-top” broadcasts, which do not require a
cable subscription. In April, Twitter reached
a deal with the NFL to stream 10 “Thursday
Night Football” games this fall.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1986 — Greg Lemond
becomes the fi rst American
to win the Tour de France.
LeMond’s
teammate,
Bernard Hinault of France,
fi nishes second.
2006 — Floyd Landis’
stunning Tour de France
victory just four days earlier
is thrown into question when
he tests positive for high
levels of testosterone during
the race.
2014 — Bernhard Langer
runs away with the Senior
British Open for his fourth
senior major title, fi nishing
a Champions Tour-record 13
strokes ahead of Scotland’s
Colin Montgomerie.
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