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THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 2017
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PENDLETON
MLB
Mariners
fall in 13
innings
Shorthanded Buckaroos swept
Pendle-
ton’s Silas
Johnston
prepares
to return a
shot in his
singles ten-
nis match
against
Hood River’s
Sawyer
Bogard on
Wednesday
in Pendle-
ton.
Springer’s walk-off home
run keeps Seattle winless
Associated Press
HOUSTON — George Springer
hit a three-run homer with two outs in
the bottom of the 13th inning to cap
a fi ve-RBI game, lifting the Houston
Astros to a 5-3 victory over the Seattle
Mariners on Wednesday night.
Springer’s shot off Chase De Jong
(0-1), who started the inning to make
his major-league debut, landed in the
fi rst row of the left-fi eld Crawford
Boxes. Evan Gattis
drew a one-out walk
and advanced to
second on Norichika
Seattle
Aoki’s single with
two outs.
Houston reliever
Jandel
Gustave
walked
Mitch
Haniger, Robinson
Houston
Cano and Nelson
Cruz to load the
bases to start the top
of the 13th. He was
replaced by Brad Peacock (1-0), who
walked Kyle Seager on fi ve pitches
to drive in the go-ahead run before
getting the next three hitters.
The Astros improved to 3-0 for the
fi rst time since 2001, while dropping
the Mariners to their fi rst 0-3 start
since 2011.
Springer also had a two-run double
in the seventh to tie the score against
Seattle reliever Dan Altavilla.
Houston had at least one baserunner
in eight straight innings starting in the
sixth.The Mariners used nine pitchers
in the game, while the Astros used
seven to keep the hitters in check.
Jean Segura homered off Houston
starter Charlie Morton to put Seattle
up 2-0 in the fi fth inning. The oppo-
site-fi eld shot to right was Seattle’s
fi rst home run of the season, more than
22 innings into the year. Last season,
the Mariners homered in the fi rst
inning of the opener.
Segura’s home run scored Leonys
Martin, who had reached base on a
single.
The Astros struggled to get
anything going against Seattle starter
James Paxton, a hard-throwing lefty.
Paxton allowed just two hits, one
walk and no runs in six innings, while
striking out fi ve.
Morton gave up the two runs and
fi ve hits with two walks while striking
out four.
UP NEXT
Mariners: LHP Ariel Miranda starts
in the last game of a four-game series
in Houston on Thursday.
Astros: RHP Joe Musgrove will
face the Mariners for the fi rst time in
his career.
Staff photo by Matt
Entrup
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5
Hood River dominates Pendleton boys in league opener
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
Forced to shuffl e the top of
its lineup due some confl icting
schedules, Pendleton was unable
to pose much of a challenge for
Hood River Valley in their boys
tennis match on Wednesday.
With his top two singles
players attending convention in
Portland, Buckaroos coach Chris
Holdman brought over some
doubles players to fi ll in the gaps.
The difference in experience and
skill level was overwhelming, and
the Eagles swept all six matches
while dropping only a handful
of sets in their Columbia River
Conference opener.
“I think it would have been a
little bit closer if we would have
had (seniors Lincoln Johnson and
Peter Wallace),” Holdman said.
“We had to move guys around they
were matched up against players
that were better than them. But I
think that’s good for them because
they’re gaining experience, and
it’s good to play somebody who’s
better than you because it makes
you better. Matches like this are
good for the kids whether they
realize it or not.”
Stepping into the No. 1 single
T-wolves split doubleheader with Chukars
BMCC softball snaps
three game skid
East Oregonian
ONTARIO — After a disap-
pointing result over the weekend,
the Blue Mountain softball team
bounced back to split a double-
header with Treasure Valley on
Wednesday.
The Timberwolves (7-16,
4-9 NWAC East)
runs in the top of
Softball
the Timberwolves
the second and
held on against the
TVCC
scored
Chukars (10-10, 8-6)
seven of its own
for an 8-7 victory Blue Mtn. Treasure Val. in the bottom of
and nearly pulled
the third. For the
out a doubleheader
Ti m b e r w o l v e s ,
sweep before the
three
straight
Chukars battled back in Game 2 batters reached base with one
and pulled out a walk-off victory. out to load the bases and then
In Game 1, the bulk of both Michaela Thompson was hit-by-
teams’ scoring came via one pitch to bring in the fi rst run and
inning as BMCC scored seven Brook Kralman drew a walk for
8-6
7-7
Seahawks open to trading Sherman
Seattle GM says trade unlikely, but talks have occured
SEATTLE — Seattle Seahawks
general manager John Schneider
said Wednesday the team has
listened to trade offers regarding
cornerback Richard Sherman, but
downplayed that a deal may actually
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Associated Press
match was Silas Johnston, half
of the No. 1 doubles team and
a player Holdman thinks could
make the transition to singles.
Johnston came out with an aggres-
sive approach, attacking the net as
early as possible in each point, but
inconsistency with his returns and
some well-placed lobs by Hood
River’s Sawyer Bogard made it a
happen.
Schneider made his comments
in an interview with KIRO-AM .
Schneider said, “What you’ve seen
lately in the news is real. That’s
on both sides,” in regard to recent
rumblings that teams have inquired
about Sherman.
Schneider’s comments back
those made by Seattle coach Pete
Carroll during the NFL owners’
meetings last week in Arizona.
Carroll said the team always enter-
tains calls about players, but didn’t
anticipate anything happening with
Sherman.
Schneider also gave the impres-
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the second run.
After that, Lauryn Cagle,
Sydney Saxton Siaki and Megan
Ulrey all had RBI singles, and
then Addy Daubert drew a
bases-loaded walk to bring in the
seventh run.
After TVCC scored its seven
runs, Ulrey came up with another
RBI single to drive in Siaki for
what proved to be the winning
See BMCC/2B
In this Nov.
27, 2016,
fi le pho-
to, Seattle
Seahawks
cornerback
Richard
Sherman
(25) covers a
Tampa Bay
wide receiv-
er during
a game, in
Tampa, Fla.
AP Photo/Phelan
Ebenhack, File
Sports shorts
Lynch considering NFL comeback
ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Retired running
back Marshawn Lynch visited the Oakland
Raiders on Wednesday as he decides whether
to come back to the NFL and the team decides
whether it wants to acquire the hometown
favorite.
Seahawks general manager
John Schneider told a Seattle radio
station that he has discussed a deal
to send Lynch to Oakland with
Raiders general manager Reggie
McKenzie in case Lynch does
Lynch
come out of retirement.
Lynch retired following the 2015
season. The Seahawks still hold his rights but
would be unlikely to want to pay his $9 million
for this year if he decides to comeback. The
Raiders have a need for a power running back
after losing Latavius Murray in free agency.
Lynch was born and raised in Oakland and
played college ball nearby at California.
“I wouldn’t take any of
it seriously. I was naiive
enough to think my
playing days would last
forever ... At one point I
was on top of the world
and now watching the
team that cut me a few
months prior from a jail
cell, that stung a lot.“
— Montee Ball
Former NFL running back opened
up to the Sporting News about
his alchoholism, as well as the
felony battery charge he was
arrested and jailed for in 2015,
forcing him to watch his old team
win Super Bowl 50 in a jail cell.
Amazon wins streaming rights
to NFL Thursday night games
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon’s new deal
gives Prime Time a whole new meaning.
The e-commerce powerhouse
will stream NFL Thursday Night
games this season via its Amazon
Prime video service, replacing
Twitter. The live-streams of the
games will be available to the
estimated 65 million members of
Amazon Prime, which costs $99
per year and also includes other perks like free
videos, books and shipping.
A person with knowledge of the agreement
told The Associated Press on Wednesday that
it’s a one-year deal worth close to $50 million.
That would be about fi ve times what
Twitter paid for the right to stream the games
last year. Twitter’s reach last year for the 10
games was an average of about 2.7 million
users.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1896 — The fi rst modern
Olympics begin in Athens,
Greece. James B. Connelly
wins the fi rst event the hop,
step and jump.
2004 — Connecticut’s
championship sweep is
complete as the UConn
women beat Tennessee
70-61, making Connecticut
the fi rst Division I basketball
school to sweep both men’s
and women’s titles.
2010 — New Jersey
Devils
goalie
Martin
Brodeur gets his 600th career
win with his second straight
shutout in a win over Atlanta.
The shutout is Brodeur’s the
110th of his career.
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