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Youth Sports
Dames completes journey Oregon
Pilot Rock
native earns
black belt in
Jiu-Jitsu
Brandon
Dames
wipes
a tear
after
receiv-
ing his
black
belt
during a
jiu-jitsu
training
camp at
Pendle-
ton High
School.
Dames,
a Pilot
Rock
High
School
gradu-
ate who
now
lives in
Van-
couver,
Wash-
ington,
returned
home to
receive
his
black
belt
during a
ceremo-
ny that
began
the
half-day
camp.
His old
brown
belt
hangs
from his
neck.
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
In 2008, Brandon Dames
became hooked on the martial
art of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
And over the past nine years,
the Pilot Rock native has put in
countless hours of work to help
escalate himself through the
various belts and ranks of the
sport before fi nally achieving
the superior rank of black
belt. Dames, who now resides
in Vancouver, Washington,
returned to Eastern Oregon to
receive his promotion to black
belt on Saturday morning prior
to a seminar that Pendleton’s
Solid Base Jiu-Jitsu gym was
hosting at Pendleton High
School.
“It’s the biggest life
achievement I’ve ever had next
to getting married,” said the
40-year-old Dames. “It takes
most people around 13 years
to get their black belt and I did
it in nine, which I’m proud of.
But it meant a lot of sacrifi ce
like being away from home
and my family.”
On hand to award Dames
his promotion was Orlando
Sanchez, a Jiu-Jitsu legend
who reached black belt in just
four years that had become
Dames’ professor for the past
three years. Sanchez made the
trip up from his home base in
Los Angeles and was proud to
help Dames achieve his goal.
“He’s an amazing man
See BLACK BELT/2B
Staff photo
by Kathy
Aney
falls to
Arizona
Pendleton all-stars start
bracket play today
East Oregonian
After a good start to pool
play on Friday, the Pendleton
11/12-year-old all-star team did
not have the same luck in its
second game on Monday evening
at the Little League Softball West
Regional.
Team Oregon managed just
three hits and
two runs and it
committed fi ve
errors as Team
Arizona
won
the game 7-2 at
Al
Houghton
Stadium in San Bernardino, Cali-
fornia. Sauren Garton pitched all
six innings for Oregon and struck
out eight while allowing seven hits
and seven runs, though all runs
were unearned.
Faith Broadfoot, Brielle Youncs
and Ellie Samford each collected
a hit in the game for Oregon, with
Broadfoot collecting two RBI and
Samford and Jenness each scoring
a run.
Oregon scored the fi rst run of
the night in the bottom half of the
second, when Daisy Jenness began
the inning with a walk and Broad-
foot followed with an RBI double
to center fi eld for a 1-0 Oregon
lead.
But the lead was short-lived. In
the top of the third, Arizona had
back-to-back singles to start the
inning and then an error allowed the
tying run to score. Later, two more
errors and an RBI single pushed
See YOUTH/2B
MLB
Paxton shines as Mariners win
Seattle Mar-
iners start-
ing pitcher
James Pax-
ton pitches
to Boston
Red Sox’s
Deven Mar-
rero in the
fi fth inning
of a base-
ball game,
Monday,
July 24, 2017,
in Seattle.
Seattle lefty tosses seven
shutout innings
By JIM HOEHN
Associated Press
SEATTLE — James Paxton
allowed four singles over seven
innings to win his fi fth consecutive
start in July and Kyle Seager homered
to pace the Seattle
Mariners to a 4-0
victory over the
Boston Red Sox
Boston
on Monday night.
Paxton (10-3)
retired the fi rst
13 hitters before
Jackie
Bradley
Jr.’s single to
Seattle
center with one
out in the fi fth.
The left-hander,
who worked out
of trouble in the sixth and seventh
innings, struck out 10 and walked
none. Paxton has allowed six earned
runs in 33 1/3 innings and not given
up a home run in fi ve starts this
month.
Nick Vincent and David Phelps
each pitched a perfect inning to fi nish.
Eduardo Rodriguez (4-3) allowed
0
4
AP Photo/Ted S.
Warren
four runs on six hits in 5 1/3 innings.
He struck out six and walked two in
his second start since coming off the
disabled list.
Seager started a three-run second
with his 14th home run, lining a 2-1
pitch over the wall in straightaway
center to open the inning. With one
out, Ben Gamel tripled into the
right-fi eld corner. Gamel scored on
Guillermo Heredia’s fi elder’s choice
chopper to fi rst, beating the throw
home with a head-fi rst slide. Heredia
scored from fi rst on Jean Segura’s
double into the right-center gap.
Seattle added a run in the fourth
when Gamel singled, Segura was
hit by a pitch and Danny Valencia
doubled.
In the sixth, Brock Holt reached
with one out on a throwing error by
fi rst baseman Valencia. Mookie Betts
singled Holt to second, but Paxton
struck out Andrew Benintendi and
Dustin Pedroia.
Hanley Ramirez and Bradley
opened the seventh with consecutive
singles, but Paxton struck out Chris
Young and enticed Deven Marrero
into a double-play grounder to short.
RED SOX MOVES
Boston called up top prospect
Rafael Devers from Triple-A
Pawtucket. The 20-year-old Devers
began the season at Double-A Port-
See SEATTLE/2B
Riding into the Blues
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Jake Anstett, of Port Angeles, Washington, goes airborne
during Saturday’s Nitro in the Blues motorcycle hillclimb
near Rieth. Anstett, who started racing motocross at age
four, began competing professionally in 2016.
Sports shorts
Broncos, Elway agree to extension
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — John Elway
has agreed to a new fi ve-year contract with the
Denver Broncos.
The deal ends a long-running saga that had
fans wondering if their Hall of Fame quarter-
back-turned-front offi ce executive
would leave the franchise he’s led
to three Super Bowl titles.
Elway was set to enter the fi nal
year of his contract as general
manager before agreeing Monday
to the extension through 2021.
The club fi rst approached him
Elway
about a new deal last October. The
issue loomed as the second-biggest question
entering training camp behind the quarterback
competition.
The Broncos are 77-33 with fi ve playoff
appearances in six seasons under Elway’s
leadership. Only New England (86-26) is better
over that span.
“(Conor) McGregor is
going to get killed boxing
... He put his dumb (butt)
in a position where
he’s gonna get knocked
out because this guy’s
(Mayweather) been doing
this all his life since he
was a baby ... He’s not
going to stand much of a
chance.“
— Mike Tyson
The former heavyweight boxing
champion told Barstool Sports’
“Pardon My Take” podcast that
he believes Floyd Mayweather
will easily beat Conor McGregor
in their match on Aug. 26.
Rose agrees to deal with Cavs
CLEVELAND (AP) — For the moment, the
Cavaliers have one content, proven point guard.
Free agent Derrick Rose agreed Monday
to sign with Cleveland, a person familiar with
the decision told The Associated Press. Rose,
a former NBA MVP who has
battled knee injuries, will get a
one-year contract at the veteran’s
minimum of $2.1 million, said the
person who spoke on condition of
anonymity because the team has
not announced the agreement.
The deal is expected to be
Rose
fi nalized and announced today.
Rose played for the New York Knicks last
season and averaged 18 points and 4.4 assists.
The 28-year-old’s role with the Cavs is still to
be determined. He could be used as a backup
or even start depending on what the team does
with All-Star Kyrie Irving, who recently asked
for a trade.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
2010 — Jamie McMurray’s
victory in the Brickyard 400
gives owner Chip Ganassi
the fi rst team triple crown in
American auto racing: winning
the Daytona 500, Indianapolis
500 and the Brickyard 400 in
the same year. McMurray won
the season-opening Daytona
500 in February, and Ganassi
IndyCar series driver Dario
Franchitti won the Indy 500 in
May.
2011 — The NFLPA exec-
utive board and 32 team reps
vote unanimously to approve
the terms of a deal to the end
the 4-month lockout. The fi nal
pact is for 10 years, without an
opt-out clause.
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