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THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 2016
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College Football
EOU needs fast starts in 2016
EOU
quar-
terback
Zach
Bartlow
rolls out
to pass
during
a game
against
Mon-
tana
Western
on Oct.
17, 2015
in La
Grande.
Locals
making the
adjustment
Pendleton, Heppner
natives excited for fi rst
season at college level
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
LA GRANDE — Exactly one year
ago, Pendleton’s Kai Quinn and Jacob
Banks and Heppner’s C.J. Kindle and
Patrick Collins were pouring their blood,
sweat, and tears onto practice fi elds
in Eastern Oregon, preparing for their
senior years and last hurrahs on the
football fi eld as high schoolers.
This year, the quad of athletes again
fi nd themselves on a practice fi eld in
Eastern Oregon, but this time it’s all
together as they are getting settled for
their freshmen seasons at Eastern Oregon
University. With fall camp nearing
completion, Kindle said he’s been happy
with the way he’s performed, but admitted
his fi rst few days were a wake-up call.
Contributed
photo via
EOU Athletics
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Mountaineers hope offseason work leads to better results
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
LA GRANDE — For many
sports teams, the cliche “It’s
about how you fi nish” is a
popular talking point, referencing
the need to not let up down the
stretch in games or in a season.
But the Eastern Oregon
Mountaineer football team has
a different talking point for the
upcoming season — “It’s about
how we start.” Mountaineers
coach Tim Camp points to the
simple fact of his team being
outscored 100-17 in the fi rst
quarter of games last season as
the need for that motto.
“I should’ve been fi red!”
Camp said jokingly.
He’s serious about the team’s
need to start fast in 2016, though.
“Everybody always wants
to talk about fi nishing but for
us it’s just about getting going.
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We emphasized it early in camp
and will continue to work on it
throughout the year.”
The early defi cits were
especially frustrating to Camp
because of how well his team
performed throughout the rest
of games, outscoring their oppo-
nents in every other quarter for
a combined margin of 325-242.
Senior quarterback Zach Bartlow
said Camp’s message is well
received as the team looks to
improve on its 4-7 record from
2015.
“We’re focusing on that for
sure, it was addressed the fi rst
night and every day since,”
Bartlow said. “It all starts with
how we practice, we can’t wait
until the third or fourth drill to be
at our best, we have to be ready
for the fi rst … we have to hold
ourselves accountable.”
Bartlow, coming into his third
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“There is
no room
for mistakes
because
as soon as
you slip up,
there’s a
person right behind you
ready to take your spot.”
— Patrick Collins,
EOU freshman defensive lineman
MLB
Sanchez homers again, Tanaka rolls against M’s
New York
Yankees’
Aaron Judge,
right, slides
in ahead of
the tag by
Seattle Mar-
iners catcher
Chris Iannet-
ta to score in
the second
inning of
a base-
ball game
Wednesday,
Aug. 24,
2016, in Se-
attle.
Yankees gain
ground in AL
wild card race
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
Albany Democrat-Herald photo/AP
OSU running back Tim Cook has overcome getting
shot, getting cut from a JC team and a season-end-
ing injury and is on the brink of getting his fi rst DI
playing time.
Beavers’ Cook nears
end of rough road
Injuries, academic ineligibility
delayed his arrival at D1
By KEVIN HAMPTON
Gazette-Times
CORVALLIS — Tim Cook is on the brink of getting
on the fi eld in a Division I football game.
When Cook runs onto the turf at University of Minne-
sota’s TCF Bank Stadium on Sept. 1 with the Oregon
State football team, it will be the end of a long road that
had several detours.
Cook, a senior running back, has caught the attention
of the coaching staff and OSU fans this fall with his
powerful running style.
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SEATTLE — It took little
time for Yankees’ rookie
Gary Sanchez to receive
the type of respect normally
reserved for established
veterans considered among
the elite hitters.
Seven home runs in the
past nine games will quickly
earn anyone respect. And
in the case of Sanchez in
Wednesday’s 5-0 victory
over the Seattle Mariners
that torrid stretch led to him
receiving two intentional
walks just so the Mariners
could face Mark Teixeira
instead.
“You don’t see it very
often. You really don’t,” New
York manager Joe Girardi
said. “It means that (Seattle
manager) Scott Servais is
paying attention to how he
is swinging, number one,
besides just here in Seattle. It
just says a lot about him, his
abilities.”
Sanchez’s home run in
the fi rst inning and Masahiro
Tanaka winning his fourth
AP Photo/Elaine
Thompson
straight start helped the
Yankees take two of three
from the Mariners and close
on one of the team’s they’re
chasing in the AL wild-card
race. The Yankees won their
third straight road series.
Tanaka (11-4) threw seven
innings and got the better of
the Mariners and his former
Japan league teammate
Hisashi Iwakuma (14-9).
And yet he was overshad-
owed by Sanchez.
“It’s outstanding, aston-
ishing,” Tanaka said through
an interpreter.
Sanchez homered into
the second deck in left fi eld
in the fi rst inning on the fi rst
pitch from Iwakuma, his
ninth home run in 18 games
since joining the Yankees
lineup on Aug. 3. He became
the fi fth player since 1913 to
have nine or more home runs
in his fi rst 21 games. Trevor
Story of Colorado had 10
homers in his fi rst 21 games
earlier this season.
Sanchez added a double
later in the game and his
intentional walk in the
seventh inning led to Teix-
eira’s RBI single for a 4-0
lead. The Mariners took no
chances with the new catcher
the next time, either, again
intentionally walking him.
The walks seemed almost
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New York
Seattle
5
0
AL Wild Card Standings
Games Back
Toronto ........... +1
Boston ............. +1
Baltimore .......... --
Seattle............... 3
Detroit .............. 3
Houston ......... 4.5
Kansas City ....... 5
New York .......... 5
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US Soccer suspends Solo 6 months
CHICAGO (AP) — U.S. women’s national
team goalkeeper Hope Solo has been suspended
for six months for what U.S. Soccer termed
conduct “counter to the organization’s princi-
ples.”
FACES U.S. Soccer President Sunil
Gulati said Wednesday that
comments Solo made after the
U.S. lost to Sweden during the
Rio Olympics were “unacceptable
and do not meet the standard
of conduct we require from our
National Team players.”
Solo
Solo called Sweden a “bunch
of cowards” after the Swedes beat the U.S.
4-3 on penalties following a 1-1 draw in the
quarterfi nals of the Olympic tournament.
Solo, 35, who was previously suspended for
30 days early in 2015 for her conduct, will not
be eligible for selection to the national team
until February.
“We’ll say that it’s ironic the
team now takes issue with
the timing of Joey (Bosa)’s
arrival since the Chargers
decided to remain silent
through the fi rst 14 days of
training camp.“
— Brian Ayrault
Agent at CAA, which represents
former Ohio State DE Joey Bosa,
the No. 3 overall pick in the 2016
NFL draft and the last remaining
unsigned pick. San Diego said
Wednesday it was rethinking its
standing offer because Bosa‘s late
start will negatively impact his abili-
ty to help the team this season.
Participation in high school sports
reached all-time high in 2015-16
INDIANAPOLIS – Led by an encouraging report
in football participation nationwide, the number
of participants in high school sports increased for
the 27th consecutive year in 2015-16
according to the annual High School
Athletics Participation Survey conducted
by the National Federation of State High
School Associations (NFHS).
Based on fi gures from the NFHS the
number of participants in high school sports
reached an all-time high of 7,868,900 – an increase of
61,853 from the previous year.
After a decline of almost 10,000 participants in
football the previous year, the number of boys playing
11-player football in 2015 was almost identical to 2014
with a drop of just 309 – from 1,083,617 to 1,083,308.
Track and fi eld registered the largest increase in
participants, with an additional 12,501 boys and 7,243
girls. Track and fi eld remains the most popular sport
for girls with 485,969 participants.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1922 — In one of the
wildest games ever played, the
Cubs beat the Phillies 26-23.
The Cubs led 25-6 in the fourth
inning, but held on as the game
ended with the Phillies leaving
the bases loaded.
1991 — Carl Lewis
reclaims his title of world’s
fastest human by setting a
world record of 9.86 seconds
in the 100-meter fi nal in
the world championships
in Tokyo. Lewis clips
four-hundredths of a second
off the previous mark of
9.90 set by Leroy Burrell in
the U.S. Championships two
months earlier.
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