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SPORTS TUESDAY, JULY 11, 2017 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS PENDLETON Pendleton reaches semifi nals at state Pendle- ton’s Brielle Youncs (7), Jaden Samp and Sauren Garton, seated, prepare to go up to bat in a game at the Ore- gon Little League Soft- ball State Tournament in Portland over the weekend. Softball all-stars unload for 29 runs in two games East Oregonian PORTLAND — The Pend- leton Little League softball all-stars are two wins away from a state title after a domi- nant weekend at the Oregon State Tournament. T h e 10-12-year- olds crushed Gold Valley 16-0 in three innings to open their tournament on Saturday, and then cruised past Klamath Falls 13-3 in six innings on Sunday to reach the semifi nals. Pendleton will play SE Port- land today at 6 p.m., and the winner of that game will have a loss to give when it faces the team that makes it through the loser’s bracket in the champi- onship round on Thursday. Pendleton’s 29 runs in two games is the most of any team at the tournament, and has been led by Daisy Jenness who is 5 for 7 at the plate with six RBI and four runs. She hit an inside- Contributed photo courtesy of Jeanine Roger Contributed photo courtesy of Jeanine Roger Pendleton’s Brielle Youncs connects for a hit during a game at the Oregon Little League Softball State Tourna- ment over the weekend in Portland. the-park grand slam in the win over Gold Valley. Also leading Pendleton at the plate have been Ellie Samford (5 for 7, 5 RBI, 4 runs), and Muriel Jones- Hoisington (4 for 8). Sauren Garton brought her bat against Klamath Falls for a pair of triples and runs batted in, and also pitched a complete game with nine strikeouts and one earned run allowed on three hits. Garton and Jaden Samp split duties against Gold Valley and combined to strike out nine of the 11 batters they faced with no walks and just one hit allowed each. Samp also had a big game at the plate in that one going 2 for 4 with two runs and two RBI. See LITTLE LEAGUE/2B PENDLETON Wimbledon Ousted Nadal extends Wimbledon drought Spain’s Ra- fael Nadal leaves the court after losing to Luxem- bourg’s Gilles Muller in their Men’s Singles Match on day seven at the Wim- bledon Ten- nis Cham- pionships in London Monday, July 10, 2017. Two-time champion misses quarterfinals for sixth year By HOWARD FENDRICH Associated Press LONDON — Rafael Nadal kept getting pushed to the brink of defeat. He kept resisting. He dropped the fi rst two sets, then won the next two. He erased two match points in the riveting fi fth set’s 10th game, then another two in its 20th game. Only when his fourth-round match against 16th-seeded Gilles Muller of Luxembourg stretched past 4½ hours, the sunlight fading, did Nadal blink. After repeatedly digging himself out of diffi cult situations, Nadal fi nally succumbed, broken in the last game of a 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 15-13 loss to Muller on AP Photo/Tim Ireland Monday. “I played with the right deter- mination, right passion, right attitude,” Nadal said, “to win the match.” But he could not pull through, extending his drought without a quarterfi nal berth at the All England Club to six years. “Just tried to hang in there,” Muller said. “Still kept believing. Yeah, somehow in the end, I made it.” Nadal won two of his 15 See NADAL/2B Williams makes quarterfi nals Former champion knocks off another teen By HOWARD FENDRICH Associated Press AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth Venus Williams of the United States returns to Croatia’s Ana Konjuh during their Women’s Sin- gles Match on day seven at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London Monday, July 10, 2017. LONDON — Venus Williams is the oldest woman in the Wimbledon quarterfi nals since 1994. Johanna Konta is the fi rst British woman to make it that far since 1984. Angelique Kerber’s loss means she’ll relinquish the No. 1 ranking. Jelena Ostapenko needed eight match points for her latest win — and latest proof that last month’s French Open title was no fl uke. Magdalena Rybarikova, a Slovakian ranked 87th, reached her fi rst quarterfi nal in 36 Grand Slam tourna- ments. Those were among the signifi cant goings-on in women’s fourth-round action at the All England Club on Monday, when another topic took hold: Why were so few of these matches played on the tournament’s biggest courts? See WILLIAMS/2B D-jaxx third at tourney Pendleton teams produce mixed weekend results East Oregonian The Pepsi Diamondjaxx beat River City Athletics for the second time in as many days on Sunday to wrap up third place at the Chuck Brown Memorial Tournament. It was never close as the Diamondjaxx were ahead 15-2 after two innings, and Ty Beers, Greyson Clark and Caden Primus combined on the mound with Beers getting See D-JAXX/2B MLB Judge smashes way to derby title Yankees rookie beats Twins’ Miguel Sano By RONALD BLUM Associated Press MIAMI — Aaron Judge hit the glass behind left fi eld that supports the retract- able roof at Marlins Park. He drove balls over the Red Grooms home run sculpture in left-center, over the batter’s eye in center and — unusually for a Home Run Derby, to the opposite fi eld, too. He even hit the roof. See JUDGE/2B Sports shorts Mariners bullpen coach resigns SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Mariners are in search of a new bullpen coach as Mike Hampton has resigned from the position. Hampton tendered his resignation following Sunday’s 4-0 win over the Oakland Athletics as the Mariners headed into the All-Star break. No immediate replacement was announced, but the team said a new bullpen coach would be in place prior to the team’s season resuming Friday against the Chicago White Sox. The Mariners are 43-47 and rank near the bottom of the AL in Hampton team ERA. Hampton was in his second season as the Mariners bullpen coach. He had served as a pitching coach for Double-A Arkansas during the 2013-14 seasons. Hampton spent parts of 16 seasons in the majors with six different teams and was a two-time All-Star. “It was a genuine mistake and I think Fabio was the fi rst to recognize that. I apologized straight away on the road as soon as it happened. Any suggestion that it was on purpose is just crazy.“ — Chris Froome Tour de France overall leader speaking during Monay’s rest day, the fi rst of the race. Froome was involved in a near-crash with second-place Fabio Aru during Sunday’s stage to Chambery. Review confi rms decision for Horn over Pacquiao SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An independent review of the scoring in Manny Pacquiao’s contentious WBO welterweight world title loss to Jeff Horn has confi rmed the outcome in favor of the Austra- lian former schoolteacher. A Philippines government department asked the WBO to review the refereeing and the judging of the so-called “Battle of Brisbane” in Australia on July 2 after Horn, fi ghting for his fi rst world title, won a unanimous points decision against Pacquiao, an 11-time world champion. In a statement late Monday, the WBO said three of the fi ve independent judges who reviewed the bout awarded it to Horn, one awarded it to Pacquiao and one scored a draw. THIS DATE IN SPORTS 1967 — Tony Perez homers in the 15th inning off Catfi sh Hunter to give the National League a 2-1 win in the longest All-Star Game. 1981 — Britain’s Sebas- tian Coe breaks his world record in the 1,000-meter run with a time of 2:12.18 in a meet in Oslo, Norway. Seven runners shatter the 3:51 barrier in the mile led by Steve Ovett at 3:49.25. Steve Scott fi nishes third and sets an American record in 3:49.68. 1995 — Maryland quar- terback Scott Milanovich is suspended for eight games by the NCAA for gambling on college sports. Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com
