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SPORTS
East Oregonian
Friday, July 28, 2017
ELK: State of Oregon says plan would be costly, not yield results
one-month effort, which could
bring in “an optimistic number of
50,” more likely 30, Nuzum said.
One day of darting, which would
tranquilize the elk, is $1,472 per
animal. Fewer than 10 elk could be
darted and transported per day.
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enough to pursue property protec-
tions and ensure public safety.
“We’ve been working on
getting the elk removed, the herd
size reduced for years now,” Gear-
hart’s Russ Earl said Tuesday at a
meeting with Gearhart Golf Links
General Manager Jason Bangild
and Superintendent Forrest Good-
ling. “We’ve had (meetings with)
four different levels of Fish and
Wildlife people, up to the executive
director, and we’ve gotten exactly
the same results.”
If the herds had been managed
properly in the past, it would not of
been such a big issue now, they say.
Their
latest
attempt
to
discourage the elk — up to 100 in
the herd, they say — involved the
use of coyote decoys and coyote
urine, designed to remind the elk of
their predators. Landscape crews
sprinkled the coyote urine on the
eight plastic coyotes strategically
placed on the perimeter of the
100-acre, 18-hole golf course —
the oldest golf course in Oregon
and one of several area courses
facing the problem.
“They’ve basically said, ‘Put
some signs up around the golf
course,’” Earl said. “That didn’t
help us at all.”
Safety at issue
While the course faces tens of
thousands of dollars of damage
caused by elk, the risk to human
safety reached a head this month
when an elk cow protecting its calf
charged a bicyclist in Gearhart,
days after menacing beachgoers,
before trapping becomes ineffec-
tive.
“Thirty elk is not going to make
that much of a dent in the popula-
tion,” he said. “If you were able to
remove a higher percentage, they
breed. You would be back in the
same boat in a very short amount
of time.”
And in a city like Gearhart,
where elk occupy an almost
mythic role, residents may tamper
with traps.
“Inevitably your traps are going
to get vandalized by folks who
are opposed to it,” Nuzum said.
“Somebody always has to mess
with them.”’
A ‘suite’ of responses
JEFF TER HAR / For The Daily Astorian
Making their way from the Gearhart Golf Links over to Gearhart
Palisades, a herd of elk find food in residents’ yards. The Gearhart
City Council met with residents and business operators Tuesday
night to discuss methods of controlling the elk, which can do
thousands of dollars of damage to the golf course and other areas.
children and dogs. The elk was
tranquilized and brought to safety
by police, firefighters and officials
from the Department of Fish and
Wildlife. The elk calf was also
tranquilized and reunited with its
mother at God’s Valley in Tilla-
mook State Forest.
The incident stirred public senti-
ment and led to a call to action.
“You can tell from the last two
weeks of elk incidents, someone is
going to get killed,” Goodling said.
“There are plenty of people pushing
strollers. If a bicycle spooks that
herd and it goes around the corner,
there’s no stopping them. I’ve seen
them jump over a 6-foot concrete
fence one after the other.”
Bangild said the Gearhart herd
has at least “doubled or tripled”
in the six years he has been here.
“That’s way too many for a small
town,” he said.
“I used to take my son down to
the estuary for walks, but now I am
much more cautious. You are stuck
out there.”
Transport urged
Bangild, Earl and Goodling
each said they don’t want to kill
elk — hunting is prohibited in
Gearhart — only to move them out
of the city to reserves like God’s
Valley or Circle Creek.
“We are not seeking to eliminate
the entire herd, but at least get the
herd down to where it is safe for
the town residents,” Goodling said.
But transport has its limits,
Dave Nuzum, acting wildlife biol-
ogist of the Department of Fish and
Wildlife, said Tuesday.
Nuzum has been coming to
Gearhart for several years, meeting
with city leadership, the public and
golf interests.
In 2014, the city asked the
department to come up with a cost
estimate for the transport of 75
percent of the herd.
The total cost for trapping
was estimated at $14,000 for a
A public workshop and subse-
quent meetings with the department
identified “a suite” of responses,
including hazing, fencing and
exclusion.
“Transplanting was part of
that,” Nuzum said.
What complicates matters is the
dichotomy of interests between
those who want to get rid of the elk
and “an even more greater number
of people who love the elk,” he
said. “They don’t want anything
done.”
Trap and transplant, as suggested
by the golf course officials, is a
popular suggestion, he said, but of
limited value.
“Population control through
trap and removal has been widely
shown not to work for any species
causing trouble anywhere, whether
it’s Canada geese, urban deer,
whatever,” Nuzum said. “And of
all the methods discussed, it is by
far the most expensive.”
Elk are baited, usually using
alfalfa hay, before being trapped in
a flat-paneled corral. The traps are
remote-triggered and the panels
then drop a canvas covering so
the animals don’t get spooked by
anyone walking by.
It would be impossible to
remove all the elk, Nuzum said.
A realistic number might be 30
‘Stalag 17’
Fencing is the only “100 percent
sure way” of keeping elk out of
any area, he said, whether a dairy
pasture, orchard or a golf course.
“The downside of that is aestheti-
cally, you don’t want the place to
look like Stalag 17.”
There are a number of ways to
make fencing more attractive, but
exclusion has consequences, he
added. “Say you were to put up an
impenetrable fence around the golf
course — problem solved. Well,
there are still elk going around
town.”
Nuzum’s response may not
satisfy Bangild, Earl or Goodling,
who say they have been down this
path before.
“I can’t believe it’s up to us to
come up with a plan,” Bangild
said. “We’re trying to run a golf
course. I spend more hours than I
ever thought I would coming up
with a solution.”
SOFTBALL: Jenness picks up two hits
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than the Pendleton all-stars
made in last year’s regional
tournament, where it lost
in the first round of bracket
play.
Oregon managed just
three hits in the game and
had only seven baserunners
total. Daisy Jenness was 2
for 3 to lead the team and
Faith Broadfoot picked up
the other hit and stole a
base as well. Sauren Garton
pitched all six innings and
gave up five hits, five runs
(two earned), three walks
and struck out eight.
Utah took the advantage
right out of the gates in the
first inning with a walk and
a single, and then scored the
first run on a wild pitch by
Garton and an RBI single
later in the inning made it
2-0. It added a run in the
fourth and the fifth innings
on Oregon errors and then
another wild pitch in the
sixth to take a 5-0 lead.
Oregon did have some
scoring chances, such as
the bottom of the second
Team Oregon
(Pendleton all-
stars) shakes
hands with Team
Utah after Utah’s
5-0 victory in the
2017 Little League
Softball West
Regional semifi-
nals on Thursday
in San Bernardino,
California.
when Jenness singled and
advanced to third with two
outs, but was left stranded
on a strikeout by Charlie
Mae Franklin. Then in the
fifth, Oregon had runners
at first and second with one
out, but back-to-back outs
by Brielle Youncs and Jaden
Samp ended the threat.
Utah advances to Friday’s
championship game where
it will play Washington or
Northern California. The
Pendleton all-stars’ season
comes to an end with the
loss.
Photo courtesy of Jeanine
Youncs
CARRINGTON: Could thrive in the Utes’ new fast-paced, pass-first offense
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the field,” Whittingham said.
“One of the common denom-
inators from all the people I
talked to about Darren was
his fierce competitive drive
on the field, on the practice
field. He’s just a guy that is
the ultimate competitor and
brings a toughness to that
receiving position that will
help us out.”
Eugene, Oregon, police
have said Carrington was
arrested after hitting a pole
at a McDonald’s restaurant
at 3:15 a.m. on July 1. In
addition to DUI, Carrington
was cited for careless
driving and making an
improper turn.
“It’s always a tough
decision when you talk
about a player that you
are going to add to your
program potentially that
has a checkered past,”
Whittingham said. “You
have got to make a decision
based on all the information
you can gather, based on
the athlete’s attitude. Is he
remorseful, understand that
he has done some stupid
things and is ready to put
it behind him? There is so
much that goes into it and
it’s a judgment call. You’re
not always right but I feel in
this case that it was the right
thing to do to give Darren
another opportunity.”
Carrington should be a
much-welcome
addition
MORRIS: Sights now set on World Cup
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scoring like that,” Morris
said. “It was tough to get over,
especially in such a big game.
My teammates were great
and for me. It just helped to
keep pushing forward and try
to make a difference. It was
a sense of relief almost that I
could try and make up for my
mistake.”
Morris got mad. His team-
mates all saw it.
And they appreciated
seeing those emotions from
a guy who doesn’t always
show them.
“He’s a strong boy,
mentally and physically,”
goalkeeper Tim Howard
said. “You could see disap-
pointment on his face after
the goal. On defensive set
pieces people get lost in the
shuffle You get picked off
sometimes, that happens.
You can’t really point the
finger and blame. But look,
you saw it on his face. He
was annoyed.”
Morris had finished his
freshman year at Stanford
when the U.S. national team
based there ahead of the 2014
World Cup and scrimmaged
against the collegians. He
impressed Jurgen Klins-
mann, then the American
coach, and made his national
team debut that November
in an exhibition at Ireland
— the first college player to
appear for the national team
since Ante Razov in 1995.
“My predecessor did
an outstanding job in
getting him involved in the
program,” said Arena, who
AP Photo/LM Otero
United States’ Jordan Morris, right, goes for the ball
during a CONCACAF Gold Cup semifinal against Costa
Rica in Arlington, Texas, Saturday, July 22, 2017.
replaced Klinsmann last fall.
Morris’ got the break-
through goal with a 14-yard
right-footed shot after Gyasi
Zardes crossed. Jermaine
Taylor tried to clear with
a header and the ball was
knocked by Clint Dempsey
with a leg back to Morris.
The 22-year-old Morris
scored his fifth international
goal while tying 16-year-old
Canadian Alphonso Davies
for the tournament lead with
three goals.
“That was like a dagger
in the heart,” Jamaica coach
Theodore Whitmore said.
Morris has overcome
plenty bigger than his
mistake at Levi’s Stadium.
He has Type 1 diabetes and
takes pride that he can be an
example for young kids.
“I’m happy for Jordan
because that was a tough
moment for him. He lost
his mark for a second and
at this level you lose your
mark for one second and
it can be a goal, and that’s
what happened,” said fellow
forward Jozy Altidore, who
scored the Americans’ initial
goal on a 45th-minute free
kick. “I was telling him,
making fun of him because
the look on his face was
so sad. For him to get that
chance and bury it, every-
body was so thrilled for him.
He works so hard. He’s a kid
with a lot of potential, a lot of
talent and he’s come a long
way.”
Still, Morris wants more.
He has a lot of soccer left,
with his sights set on next
summer’s World Cup in
Russia.
And Arena’s words when
it was all over meant a lot.
“I love playing for Bruce,”
Morris said. “He’s a players’
coach and really does a great
job with the guys, so to hear
that from him meant a lot. A
special moment.”
to Utah’s new fast-paced,
pass-first, spread-the-field
system under new offensive
coordinator Troy Taylor.
The Utah program has built
a reputation of having a
punishing run game, but
has never had a pass offense
ranked higher than No. 9 in
the Pac-12 since joining the
conference in 2011. Three
times it has ranked dead
last.
“I wish Darren nothing
but the best,” Oregon coach
Willie Taggart said in Los
Angeles. “Except against
us.”
Junior Raelon Singleton
was the most productive
returning receiver before
Carrington transferred. He
caught 27 passes for 464
yards and four touchdowns
last season.
Senior quarterback Troy
Williams is also back after
throwing for 2,757 yards,
15 touchdown and eight
interceptions in 2016. He
is trying to hold off soph-
omore Tyler Huntley and
Alabama transfer Cooper
Bateman during fall camp.
Utah finished 9-4 last
season and was picked by
the media to finish second
in the South Division in
2017 behind predicted
Pac-12 champion USC.
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AP freelancer Dan
Greenspan
contributed
to this report from Los
Angeles.
SCOREBOARD
Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE
East Division
W
L Pct GB
Boston
56 47 .544 —
New York
54 46 .540
½
Tampa Bay
53 50 .515
3
Baltimore
48 53 .475
7
Toronto
47 54 .465
8
Central Division
W
L Pct GB
Cleveland
55 45 .550 —
Kansas City
53 47 .530
2
Minnesota
49 51 .490
6
Detroit
45 55 .450 10
Chicago
39 60 .394 15½
West Division
W
L Pct GB
Houston
67 34 .663 —
Seattle
51 52 .495 17
Texas
49 52 .485 18
Los Angeles
49 54 .476 19
Oakland
44 57 .436 23
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Thursday’s Games
Cleveland 2, L.A. Angels 1
Toronto 8, Oakland 4, 10 innings
N.Y. Yankees 6, Tampa Bay 5, 11 innings
Chicago Cubs 6, Chicago White Sox 3
Friday’s Games
Tampa Bay (TBD) at N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka
7-9), 4:05 p.m.
L.A. Angels (Bridwell 4-1) at Toronto
(Happ 3-7), 4:07 p.m.
Houston (Keuchel 9-0) at Detroit (Zim-
mermann 6-8), 4:10 p.m.
Kansas City (Vargas 12-4) at Boston
(Price 5-3), 4:10 p.m.
Baltimore (Tillman 1-5) at Texas (Cashner
5-8), 5:05 p.m.
Cleveland (Salazar 3-5) at Chicago White
Sox (Holland 5-9), 5:10 p.m.
Minnesota (Garcia 4-7) at Oakland
(Gossett 2-5), 7:05 p.m.
N.Y. Mets (Montero 1-7) at Seattle
(Miranda 7-4), 7:10 p.m.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
East Division
W
L Pct GB
Washington
61 39 .610 —
Atlanta
48 52 .480 13
New York
47 53 .470 14
Miami
47 53 .470 14
Philadelphia
35 64 .354 25½
Central Division
W
L Pct GB
Chicago
54 47 .535 —
Milwaukee
54 50 .519 1½
St. Louis
50 52 .49 4½
Pittsburgh
50 52 .490 4½
Cincinnati
41 61 .402 13½
West Division
W
L Pct GB
Los Angeles
71 31 .696 —
Arizona
59 43 .578 12
Colorado
58 45 .563 13½
San Diego
45 57 .441 26
San Francisco
40 63 .388 31½
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Thursday’s Games
Washington 15, Milwaukee 2
Miami 4, Cincinnati 1
Arizona 4, St. Louis 0
Chicago Cubs 6, Chicago White Sox 3
San Diego 7, N.Y. Mets 5
Friday’s Games
Atlanta (Teheran 7-8) at Philadelphia
(Hellickson 6-5), 4:05 p.m.
Colorado (Marquez 8-4) at Washington
(Roark 8-6), 4:05 p.m.
Cincinnati (Romano 2-2) at Miami (TBD),
4:10 p.m.
Chicago Cubs (Quintana 6-8) at Milwau-
kee (Suter 1-1), 5:10 p.m.
Arizona (Ray 9-5) at St. Louis (Wacha
7-4), 5:15 p.m.
N.Y. Mets (Montero 1-7) at Seattle
(Miranda 7-4), 7:10 p.m.
Pittsburgh (Kuhl 3-7) at San Diego
(Lamet 4-4), 7:10 p.m.
San Francisco (Moore 3-10) at L.A.
Dodgers (Wood 11-1), 7:10 p.m.
MiLB
Northwest League
North Division
W
L Pct GB
Everett
2
1 .667 —
Spokane
2
1 .667 —
Tri-City
2
1 .667
—
d-Vancouver
1
2 .333
1
South Division
W
L Pct GB
d-Hillsboro
3
1 .750 —
Salem-Keizer
2
1 .667
½
Eugene
1
2 .333 1½
Boise
0
4 .000
3
d-First-half champions
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Thursday’s Games
Hillsboro 6, Boise 1
Everett at Spokane, late finish
Salem-Keizer at Eugene, late finish
Vancouver at Tri-City, late finish
Friday’s Games
Salem-Keizer at Boise, 6:15 p.m.
Hillsboro at Eugene, 7:05 p.m.
Spokane at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Vancouver, 7:05 p.m.
Soccer
MLS
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W L T
Toronto FC
11 3 7
Chicago
11 4 5
New York City FC 11 6 4
Atlanta United FC 10 7 3
New York
10 8 2
Columbus
10 11 1
Orlando City
8 8 5
Philadelphia
7 9 5
Montreal
6 7 6
New England
6 9 5
D.C. United
5 13 3
Pts
40
38
37
33
32
31
29
26
24
23
18
GF
37
38
40
40
28
31
22
29
30
33
18
GA
22
21
27
27
26
35
30
24
32
34
38
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W L T
FC Dallas
9 3 7
Sporting K.C.
8 4 9
Houston
9 7 5
Seattle
8 7 6
Portland
8 8 6
Vancouver
8 8 3
San Jose
7 9 5
Real Salt Lake
7 12 3
Los Angeles
6 10 4
Colorado
6 11 2
Minnesota United 5 12 4
Pts
34
33
32
30
30
27
26
24
22
20
19
GF
32
25
37
32
37
26
23
28
31
20
25
GA
19
15
30
31
36
29
34
42
37
28
45
NOTE: Three points for victory, one point
for tie.
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Saturday’s Games
Orlando City at Atlanta United FC, 1:30
p.m.
Montreal at New York, 4:30 p.m.
Philadelphia at New England, 4:30 p.m.
Chicago at Sporting Kansas City, 5 p.m.
Colorado at San Jose, 5 p.m.
Columbus at Real Salt Lake, 5 p.m.
D.C. United at Minnesota United, 5 p.m.
Portland at Houston, 5 p.m.
Vancouver at FC Dallas, 5 p.m.
Seattle at Los Angeles, 7 p.m.
Basketball
WNBA
Friday’s Games
New York at Indiana, 4 p.m.
Connecticut at Washington, 4 p.m.
Minnesota at Atlanta, 4:30 p.m.
Los Angeles at San Antonio, 5 p.m.
Phoenix at Chicago, 5:30 p.m.
Dallas at Seattle, 7 p.m.
Sunday’s Games
Indiana at Connecticut, Noon
Washington at Atlanta, Noon
Dallas at Los Angeles, 2 p.m.
New York at Chicago, 3 p.m.
San Antonio at Phoenix, 3 p.m.
Seattle at Minnesota, 4 p.m.
Golf
PGA Tour
RBC Canadian Open
Thursday
At Glen Abbey Golf Club
Oakville, Ontario
Purse: $6 million
Yardage: 7,253; Par 72 (35-37)
Partial First Round
Hudson Swafford
31-34—65
Brandon Hagy
31-34—65
Kevin Chappell
31-34—65
Matt Every
32-33—65
Ollie Schniederjans 32-33—65
Tyrone Van Aswegen 34-32—66
James Hahn
31-35—66
Smylie Kaufman
31-35—66
K.J. Choi
31-35—66
Bubba Watson
33-33—66
Chad Campbell
30-36—66
Vijay Singh
32-34—66
Jim Herman
31-35—66
Jhonattan Vegas
31-35—66
Peter Malnati
32-34—66
Martin Flores
33-33—66
Others
Keegan Bradley
34-33—67
Dustin Johnson
31-36—67
Charley Hoffman
34-34—68
Jim Furyk
35-33—68
Matt Kuchar
37-34—71
LPGA Tour
Ladies Scottish Open
Thursday
At Dundonald Links
Irvine, Scotland
Purse: $1.5 million
Yardage: 6,600; Par: 72 (36-36)
First Round
Karrie Webb
35-30—65
Cristie Kerr
34-32—66
Lina Boqvist
36-33—69
Pornanong Phatlum
34-35—69
Sei Young Kim
33-36—69
Inbee Park
35-34—69
Stacy Lewis
36-33—69
Annabel Dimmock
35-35—70
Pernilla Lindberg
36-34—70
Ally McDonald
34-36—70
Caroline Masson
37-33—70
Suzann Pettersen
37-33—70
Shanshan Feng
35-35—70
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