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LITTLE LEAGUE SOFTBALL
Pendleton three-peats
Little League All-Stars win 12U
state title for third straight year
East Oregonian
Photo courtesy of Kendall Burke
The Pendleton 12U All-Stars pose after winning the Oregon 12U
state championship on Thursday in Baker City. Team players include
Melanie Boatman, Lilly Brooks, Lanie Burke, Kyah Hunter, Avery Krig-
baum, Bailey Moore, Nessa Neveau, Madaline Schumacher, Chaynne
Spencer, Sammantha Wilks, Lea Wilson and they are coached by Ken-
dall Burke, Brandon Krigbaum, Gordy Schumacher and Scott Wilson.
Pujols hits
630th HR,
Halos rout M’s
By DOUG PADILLA
Associated Press
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Albert Pujols
hit two home runs to tie Ken Griffey Jr.
for sixth place on the career list with 630,
and the Los Angeles Angels rolled to an
11-2 victory over the Seattle Mariners on
Thursday night.
Tyler Skaggs pitched six strong
innings for the Angels in his return from
the disabled list. Pujols hit a two-run shot
in the first and a solo drive in the sixth.
He also had three hits to pass ex-Angel
Rod Carew and move into a tie for 25th
all-time with Rickey Henderson at 3,055.
It was the 50th multihomer game for
Pujols, who went back-to-back with Jus-
tin Upton in the sixth.
David Fletcher also homered in the
first off Mariners starter James Paxton,
who left the game with lower back stiff-
ness after Pujols connected. Paxton (8-4)
gave up three runs and three hits in two-
thirds of an inning, throwing just 17
pitches in his final start of the first half.
Skaggs (7-5), who missed nine games
with a hamstring strain, gave up one
run on five hits with five strikeouts and
a walk. The left-hander has allowed one
earned or less in six consecutive outings,
the longest such streak from an Angels
starter since George Brunet in 1968.
Fletcher hit the first home run of his
career and gave the Angels their third
leadoff home run this season. Ian Kinsler
had the other two. Upton’s home run was
his 18th and gave the Angels a command-
ing 8-1 lead in the sixth.
The Angels took two of three from
Seattle and have won three of their past
four series. The one they lost was last
weekend in Seattle. The Angels had lost
five of their last six against the Mariners
before the series began.
The Mariners grabbed a 1-0 lead on
Kyle Seager’s RBI single in the first
inning, but it was all Angels after that.
After Fletcher’s homer, Pujols’ two-
run shot gave the Angels a 3-1 advan-
tage. Kole Calhoun made it 4-1 in the
second on a sacrifice fly, and the Angels
increased their lead to 5-1 in the fifth on
an RBI single from Kinsler.
Mike Trout scored three runs and stole
a base, making him the second player all-
time, along with Joe Morgan in 1974, to
compile 100 hits, 80 walks and 15 steals
before the All-Star break.
Mariners infielder Andrew Romine
entered as a pitcher in the eighth to
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For the third straight year, Pendleton’s 12U Lit-
tle League All-Stars will get to soak up the Califor-
nia sun.
The Pendleton softball team defeated Beaumont
Little League 11-5 on Thursday evening in Baker
City to capture the Oregon 12U state championship
for the third straight year, which clinched its spot in
the Little League Western Regional Tournament in
San Bernardino, California, once again. The victory
wrapped up a perfect 7-0 run at the state tournament
for Pendleton.
Beaumont put the pressure on Pendleton at the
start of the game, scoring once in the second and once
in the third inning while holding Pendleton score-
less and hitless to lead 2-0 after three innings. How-
ever, things finally came together for Pendleton in the
fourth inning.
Avery Krigbaum worked a one-out walk, stole sec-
ond base two pitches later, and then scored on an error
to get Pendleton on the board. Two batters later, Mad-
aline Schumacher doubled for Pendleton’s first hit of
the game, which scored Lea Wilson to tie the game at
2-2. Schumacher, Samantha Wilks and Kyah Hunter
all scored on passed balls and Lily Brooks scored on
an error to help Pendleton jump out to a 6-2 lead.
Beaumont inched closer to Pendleton after that,
getting one run in the fourth and fifth innings to make
it a 6-4 game. But like it has all tournament, Pendle-
ton’s offense came together for a big push late in the
game and put five runs on the board in the top of the
sixth inning that all but sealed the victory.
With two outs and a runner on first, Bailey Moore
walked and Melanie Boatman and Krigbaum hit
back-to-back doubles to add three runs to Pendleton’s
total. Then after a walk to Wilson and a passed ball
that brought home Krigbaum, Schumacher singled to
left to bring home Wilson to put Pendleton in front
11-4.
The Western Regional will take place from July
21-26 at Al Houghton Stadium in San Bernardino.
JUNIOR LEAGUE SOFTBALL
WHIRLWIND
WEEKEND
Columbia Juniors to represent Oregon at regionals
Photo courtesy of Jennifer Brown
Columbia Juniors player Taylor Longhorn fields a ball during the 2018 District 3 championship game in Pilot Rock
in June. Longhorn and her Columbia teammates are en route to Arizona for the Little League Juniors regional
tournament that begins this weekend.
By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
East Oregonian
I
t was a whirlwind of a weekend for
the Columbia Little League Junior
team, “an emotional roller-coaster” in
the words of head coach Travis Reeser.
The team had just finished a double-
header with Warm Springs, which took
the state championship with a 7-4 vic-
tory over Columbia on Thursday.
Reeser, the team and parents who
all made the trip to Clackamas were
gathered around the bus loading up
their gear and celebrating their efforts.
Reeser was expressing how proud he
was of the team’s efforts despite com-
ing up a few runs short when the tour-
nament director approached him with
news that would extend Columbia’s
season.
Warm Springs handed back the ban-
ner and accolades and weren’t going
to be moving on to the regional tour-
Photo courtesy of Cecili Martin-Longhorn
Columbia Juniors’ Taylor Longhorn
and Katelyn Griffin pose in the win-
dow of Java Junkies. The Umatilla
coffee shop opened for business on
its usual day off to help Columbia
raise funds for its next stop, region-
als in Tucson, Arizona.
nament in Arizona. Instead, it would be
Columbia, who were then named the
new state champions.
“It was an emotional roller-coaster,”
Reeser said. “We went from sitting
there talking about what they had
accomplished to pulling all the parents
together to talk about the situation and
the trip to Arizona.”
Columbia is one of five teams in
Pool A, and will be joined by Arizona’s
representative and teams from Nevada,
Northern California and Washington.
The team, made up of nine players
from Stanfield and one from both Echo
and Boardman, will play its first game
of the six-day tournament at 11:30 a.m.
Saturday.
The softball they are ready for, after
grinding out tough victory after tough
victory late in the season, but it was the
trip that seemed like an impossible feat
See WHIRLWIND/3B
Sports shorts
Marlins suspend
business relationship
with Papa John’s
MIAMI (AP) — The Miami
Marlins have suspended their busi-
ness relationship with Papa John’s
after the company’s chairman of
the board apologized for using a
racial slur and resigned.
In a statement Thursday, the
Marlins said “derogatory and
insensitive comments” by John
Schnatter weren’t reflective of the
values of the baseball franchise.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
New Jersey businesses get $16M in
sports bets in 1st 2 weeks
OCEANPORT, N.J. (AP) — Two
casinos and a racetrack in New Jer-
sey took in $16.4 million in sports
bets during the first two weeks such
wagers were legal in the state.
Figures released Thursday by the
state Division of Gaming Enforce-
ment show the Borgata and Ocean
Resort casinos, in Atlantic City, and
the Monmouth Park racetrack, in
Oceanport, saw gross sports betting
revenue of nearly $3.5 million on
those bets.
But regulators caution that bets
involving future outcomes, such as
the winner of baseball’s World Series
or football’s Super Bowl, won’t be
paid out for months. Just over $1 mil-
lion was wagered on such bets.
The casinos and the track are the
only places legally taking sports bets
right now.
1971 — Reggie Jackson hits a
mammoth home run off the power
generator on the right-field roof at
Tiger Stadium to highlight a bar-
rage of six homers — three by each
team — as the AL beats the NL 6-4
in the All-Star game.
1980 — Amy Alcott shoots a
record score of 280 to win the U.S.
Women’s Open by nine strokes
over Hollis Stacy.
1996 — Cigar matches Cita-
tion’s modern North American
record of 16 consecutive wins.
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