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Little League Baseball
Pendleton all-stars topple Hermiston
Pendleton belts 18
hits, 18 runs to stay
alive at districts
East Oregonian
ENTERPRISE — The
Pendleton 11/12 all-stars
stayed alive at the District 3
tournament on Tuesday by
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walloping Hermiston with an
18-4 victory.
The win sends Pendleton
on in the bracket to play
the loser of Triangle and La
Grande (results were not
available by press time) on
Wednesday at 5 p.m.
The loss ends the tourna-
ment run for Hermiston.
Pendleton belted 18 hits
in the game, led by Jack
Lieuallen who was a perfect
4 for 4 with three
home runs and eight
RBI from the No.
6 spot in the order.
Payton
Lambert
went 3 for 3 with
a double and a grand slam
home run, and also threw a
scoreless 1 1/3 innings on the
mound.
Also standing out on
offense was Dylan Gomez
going 4 for 4 with two runs
scored,
Andrew
Deminew going 2
for 2 with a home
run and four runs
scored, and Luke
Bensching going 2
for 2 with a run scored.
Gomez started the game at
pitcher and struck out four in
2 2/3 innings while allowing
three hits and four runs.
Pendleton piled on six runs
in the top of the fi rst inning
to take a commanding lead
of the game, but Hermiston
battled back in the bottom
half of the inning. Austin
Garberg singled to lead off
the inning and then scored on
an error, and then Lane Sinor
hit an RBI single and then
came around to score later in
the inning on a passed ball to
cut the lead to 6-3.
Hermiston crept close
again in the third inning,
R H E
PND
620 10 — 18 18 2
HRM
301 0 —
4 3 0
2B — Leyton Lind (HRM); Gavin Clark, Pay-
ton Lambert (PND). HR — Payton Lambert,
Jack Lieuallen 3, Andrew Deminew (PND).
College Baseball
Florida wins its fi rst championship
Florida
players
cele-
brate
after
defeat-
ing LSU
in Game
2 to
win the
NCAA
College
World
Series
baseball
fi nals in
Omaha,
Neb.,
Tuesday,
June 27,
2017.
T
he odds keep
dropping on Conor
McGregor, though
it’s more because UFC
fans love him than his
actual chances of winning a
boxing match against Floyd
Mayweather Jr.
No, oddsmakers don’t
think McGregor has any
chance. But his fans keep
lining up at the betting
window with $20 bills to
back their
belief that
someone
who has
never
boxed
before can
beat the
greatest
defensive
Tim
Dahlberg boxer of his
time.
AP Columnist
It’s
nonsense,
of course, but that doesn’t
deter McGregor’s fans.
There’s also a good chance
they’ll be spending another
$100 or so to watch the
fi ght on TV, which, of
course, is why the fi ght was
made in the fi rst place.
There will be big crowds
in Florida this summer, too,
though not to watch anyone
fi ght. The St. Lucie Mets
have a new outfi elder who
has more than a bit of name
recognition in the state.
Like McGregor, Tim
Tebow has no real chance.
Not after hitting .220 in
low-A ball, and not in a
sport new to him at the
relatively advanced age of
29.
Tebow is not going
to be a major leaguer, no
matter what those fl ocking
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when Leyton Lind hit an RBI
double to right fi eld and then
scored on an error to cut the
defi cit to 8-4. But then Pend-
leton closed the door with a
ten-run explosion in the top
of the fourth to breeze to the
victory.
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AP Photo/
Nati Harnik
Gators sweep conference rival Tigers in College World Series
By ERIC OLSON
AP Sports Writer
College World Series
OMAHA, Neb. — Maybe this
wasn’t Florida coach Kevin O’Sul-
livan’s best team. Is is, however, his
fi rst national championship team.
The Gators scored four runs in
the eighth inning to pull away from
LSU and beat their Southeastern
Conference rival 6-1 Tuesday night
to complete a two-game sweep in
the College World Series fi nals for
the 103-year-old baseball program’s
fi rst national title.
Florida (52-19) posted the
eighth sweep in the 15 years of the
best-of-three fi nals format, and fi rst
LSU
Florida
1
6
since 2013. LSU (52-20) lost for the
fi rst time in seven appearances in a
championship game.
“Just a gritty group, that’s all
I can say,” said O’Sullivan, the
10th-year coach who had brought
the Gators to Omaha six of the last
eight years. “There are other teams
that may be bigger and stronger, our
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Brendan Sullivan/Omaha World-Herald via AP
LSU’s Kramer Robertson (3) is tagged out by Florida’s Mike Rivera
during the eighth inning of Game 2 of the NCAA baseball College
World Series fi nals, Tuesday, June 27, 2017, in Omaha, Neb. Robert-
son represented the tying run at the time.
MLB
Mariners thumped by struggling Phillies
Seattle falters late
to lose third straight
By JIM HOEHN
Associated Press
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
Philadelphia Phillies’ Cameron Perkins slides safely
home to score during the fi fth inning of the team’s
baseball game against the Seattle Mariners, Tuesday,
June 27, 2017, in Seattle. Philadelphia won the game
8-2, handing Seattle its third straight loss.
SEATTLE — Maikel
Franco and Arron Altherr
homered and Aaron Nola
allowed two runs over seven
innings as the Philadelphia
Phillies overcame an early
defi cit for an 8-2 victory
over the Seattle
Mariners on
Tuesday night.
F r a n c o Philadelphia
opened
the
seventh with
his 10th home
run, sending a
1-0 pitch from James Paxton
over the wall in left-center to
put the Phillies up 3-2.
The Phillies made it 4-2
in the eighth on an RBI
single by Freddy Galvis and
then added four unearned
8
runs in the
ninth, capped
by Altherr’s
t w o - r u n
Seattle
homer,
his
13th.
Nola (5-5)
gave up fi ve
hits, including Jean Segura’s
two-run homer in the third.
He struck out a season-high
nine and walked four in a
113-pitch outing. Joaquin
Benoit pitched a perfect
eighth and Hector Neris
2
struck out the side in the
ninth.
Paxton (5-3) gave up
three runs and four hits in
seven innings. He struck
out nine and walked three in
losing his third consecutive
decision.
The Phillies, who won for
just the 11th time on the road
against 31 losses, erased a
2-0 defi cit in the fi fth on two
sacrifi ce fl ies. They loaded
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Sports shorts
Lyerla to serve 30-day jail term
HILLSBORO (AP) — Former Oregon
tight end Colt Lyerla has been sentenced to an
additional 30 days in jail after escaping from
custody last month and nearly dying from a
drug overdose.
The Oregonian/OregonLive
reports a Washington County
judge told Lyerla on Tuesday to
get clean and sober. The judge
said he wants Lyerla to meet with
him for progress updates, establish
goals and move beyond his
persona as a former college star.
Lyerla
Lyerla said he accepts the
challenge.
Lyerla was sentenced in April to six months
in jail after pleading guilty to forgery. He was
lodged at a minimum-security work release
center. Police found Lyerla a day after the
escape, overdosing on heroin at a Hillsboro
home.
“I actually fell asleep
towards the back end
of the fi rst round of the
draft. But when I woke
up in the morning, my
phone lit up with the
news that the Cowboys
had drafted a Taco. We
had to do something.“
— Mike Roper
CEO for Taco Bueno, a Mexican
restaurant that signed Dallas
Cowboys fi rst round draft pick
Taco Charlton to an endorsement
deal. Taco Bueno’s headquarters
are in Irving, Texas and has 180
stores in seven states.
Beltre hits 450th career homer
CLEVELAND (AP) — Adrian Beltre had
an extra reason to celebrate moving up the
all-time home run list. This latest shot also won
a game.
Beltre hit his 450th career homer, a solo
drive in the ninth inning off Cody
Allen that sent the Texas Rangers
over the Cleveland Indians 2-1.
“Obviously it’s a good
milestone, but I don’t want to get
caught up on thinking about that
right now,” he said. “Hopefully I
can accumulate some more.”
Beltre
Beltre drove the fi rst pitch
from Allen (0-4) into the left fi eld
bleachers, and moved into sole possession of
39th place on the career chart.
“That’s just another piece of the legend of
Adrian Beltre, really, and just what he’s able to
do, especially late in the game,” said Rangers
manager Jeff Banister.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1997 — Evander Holyfi eld,
bleeding badly from his right
ear after being bitten by Mike
Tyson, retains the WBA heavy-
weight championship in Las
Vegas when Tyson is disquali-
fi ed after the third round.
2007 — Craig Biggio
becomes the 27th player in
major league history to get
3,000 hits in Houston’s 8-5
11-inning victory over Colo-
rado.
2009 — Mariano Rivera
earns his 500th save,
becoming the second reliever
to reach the milestone, and
the New York Yankees beat
the Mets 4-2 for a Subway
Series sweep.
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