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THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 2017
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College Football
Seattle secures series victory Beavers
focusing
on the
Rams
Oregon State begins
season with tough
road contest
By KEVIN HAMPTON
The Gazette-Times
AP Photo/John Bazemore
Seattle Mariners’ Kyle Seager (15) celebrates with Nelson Cruz (23) after hitting a three-run home run in the eighth inning of a
baseball game against the Atlanta Braves Wednesday in Atlanta.
Seager, Motter pick up big hits in eighth to boost Mariners
By CHARLES ODUM
Associated Press
ATLANTA — Taylor Motter
replaced an injured Robinson
Cano and gave Seattle the lead
with a two-run single in the
eighth inning, lifting the Mari-
ners over the Atlanta Braves 9-6
on Wednesday night.
Cano had two doubles before
leaving
with
tightness in his left
hamstring in the
third.
Seattle
Kyle
Seager
added a three-run
homer in the eighth
inning off Dan Winkler.
After blowing a 4-3 lead
in the seventh, the Mariners
rallied against Jim Johnson
9
(6-3) in the eighth.
Motter’s single to
center fi eld drove
in Jean Segura,
Atlanta
who doubled, and
Yonder
Alonso,
who walked.
David Phelps (4-5, 2-1 AL)
recorded two outs in the seventh
after coming off the disabled
list. Edwin Diaz recorded the
6
fi nal four outs — including three
strikeouts in the ninth — for his
29th save in 33 chances.
Johnson allowed four runs
without recording an out. He was
booed when leaving the game.
Seattle’s Marc Rzepczynski
gave up two runs to blow a 4-3
lead in the seventh.
Cano pulled up as he
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CORVALLIS — Game week has
begun for Gary Andersen and the
Oregon State football team.
The Beavers have been preparing for
Colorado State in one form or another
for quite some time
and work with the
scout teams started
last week.
Camp is over and
Oregon State
all the focus is now
Beavers
(0-0)
on the Rams, who the
Beavers fact at 11:30
a.m. Saturday in Fort
Collins, Colorado.
“Obviously, these
Colorado State kids are excited,”
Rams
Andersen said. “It’s
(0-0)
been been a long
• Saturday
camp.”
11:30 a.m.
The Rams are no
• at Fort
pushover.
They went
Collins, Co.
7-6 last season and
• TV: CBSSN
have most of their
top offensive players
back.
“Colorado State’s obviously a quality
opponent. It’s easy to see. Anybody that
knows anything about football, you
can fl ip on the tape,” Andersen said.
“They’re coached the right way, they
have some very good players at certain
See BEAVERS/2B
MLS
Valeri sets record as Timbers win
Associated Press
PORTLAND — Diego
Valeri broke Portland’s
career goals record and
set another team mark by
scoring in his fi fth straight
game, leading the Timbers
to a 2-1 victory over
the Colorado Rapids on
Wednesday night.
Valeri
opened
the
scoring in the 21st minute,
heading a left-wing cross
from Vytautas Andriuskev-
icius past goalkeeper Tim
H o w a r d .
Valeri broke a
tie with team-
mate Fanendo Colorado
Adi for the
club
record
with 52 goals
with his career-high 15th of
the season.
Portland (11-9-7) made it
2-0 two minutes later when
Darlington Nagbe received
a pass from Andriuskevicius
just inside the penalty area,
turned and chipped a fl oating
shot over Howard and into
1
the top right
corner for his
third goal of
the season.
Portland
Colorado
(6-14-4)
scored in the
28th minute. Mohammed
Saeid intercepted Portland
defender Lawrence Olum’s
pass, dribbled toward the
penalty area, and sent a
rolling shot from the top of
the area past goalkeeper Jeff
Attinella for his fi rst goal
this year.
2
The Timbers had an
opportunity to restore the
two-goal lead almost imme-
diately, but David Guzman
pulled his penalty shot wide
of the post. Guzman also
received a yellow card in the
73rd minute, and will have
to sit out Sunday against
Seattle.
Portland has won four
of its last six to move into
a tie for second place in the
Western Conference with
Sporting Kansas City, a
point behind Seattle.
Sean Meagher/The Oregonian via AP
Portland Timbers’ Darren Mattocks (11) works against
Colorado Rapids’ Kortne Ford (24) during an MLS soc-
cer match Wednesday in Portland.
College Football
Luke Falk ready for fi nal chapter as Washington State’s quarterback
Just 2,700 yards and 28
TDs away from Pac-12
all-time records
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
PULLMAN, Wash. — Back
when Luke Falk was a freshman
walk-on at Washington State, strug-
gling to strike a balance
between being a fi rst-year
college football player,
school and trying to have
a few dollars of his own,
he picked up a part-time
job working for a catering
company.
One of his assignments Falk
was working a high-end
booster event where Falk was asked
to serve, of all people, Washington
State athletic director Bill
Moos.
“Here I am serving our
athletic director. He didn’t
know me at the time, prob-
ably. But, he’s heard the
story now,” Falk recalled.
“He was one of the only
guys that said, ‘Thank
you, and please, and thank
you.’”
Years later, everyone associated
with Washington State knows Falk.
He’s no longer overlooked. He
doesn’t work with catering compa-
nies on the side anymore either. His
serving happens on the fi eld, and
he’s done it quite well, to the tune of
nearly 11,000 yards passing already
in his career.
For a nightcap, Falk bypassed
early entry into the NFL and
returned for his senior season with
a chance to complete one of the
greatest careers in the quarter-
back-rich Pac-12 Conference.
If all goes to plan, Falk will
rewrite the Pac-12 record book by
the end of the season, the result
of being the distributor in Mike
Leach’s Air Raid offense. Falk
needs just 2,700 yards passing
and 28 TD passes to overtake the
all-time Pac-12 leaders in those
categories — Oregon State’s Sean
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Sports shorts
ESPN host arrested in Wyoming
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — ESPN Radio host
Ryen Russillo has been arrested on criminal
trespass charges after entering a condo in
Jackson, Wyoming.
The 42-year-old Russillo, who hosts “The
Ryen Russillo Show,” was booked
into the Teton County Jail on
Wednesday on a misdemeanor
criminal trespassing charge.
The Jackson Hole News &
Guide reports that offi cers were
called around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday
Russillo
to a condo for a report of a “highly
intoxicated male” who was refusing to leave.
Police Lt. Roger Schultz says police found
the man in a bedroom. Schultz says the man had
slurred speech and was incoherent. He says there
was no evidence of forced entry.
Russillo, of West Hartford, Connecticut,
remained in jail on Wednesday afternoon.
There was no immediate comment from ESPN.
“I was watching [the
trade news] on TV and
I saw breaking news
come across, so it was
just as much of a shock
to me as all the other
fans. I’m pretty sure it
will be a lot of fun ...
[Irving is] a tremendous
player. A superstar in
this league.”
— Jayson Tatum
Boston Celtics rookie on fi nding
out his team acquired star point
guard Kyrie Irving in a trade with
Cleveland on Tuesday.
Orioles reliever has AL record
save streak snapped at 60
BALTIMORE (AP) — Zach Britton’s
AL-record run of converting 60 straight save
attempts ended Wednesday, when the Orioles
closer blew a two-run lead and
failed to get out of the ninth
inning in a game Baltimore
ultimately won in the 12th, 8-7
over the Oakland Athletics.
Baltimore led 7-5 heading into
the ninth when Britton entered
to seal the victory, just as he had
Britton
been doing successfully since the
fi nal days of the 2015 season. On this occasion,
however, the left-hander gave up three straight
hits before a sacrifi ce fl y by Matt Joyce tied it.
Britton had not blown a save since Sept. 20,
2015, at Tampa Bay. The left-hander fi nished
well short of the MLB record of 84 straight
converted saves, set by Eric Gagne from
2002-04.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1963 — The Little League
World Series in Williamsport,
Pa. is covered by ABC’s Wide
World of Sports for the fi rst
time.
2001 — Colorado Rockies’
starting pitcher Jason Jennings
hits a homer in his major
league debut, while pitching
a 10-0 complete game shut
out over the Mets. The right-
hander becomes the fi rst
pitcher in modern history
to throw a shutout and hit a
homer in his fi rst game.
2007 — The NFL indefi -
nitely suspends Michael Vick
just hours after he acknowl-
edged that he did bankroll
gambling on dogfi ghting.
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