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TUESDAY, JULY 11, 2017
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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.
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