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SPORTS Saturday, July 21, 2018 East Oregonian Page 3B FOOTBALL: Heppner hosting Rookie Tackle jamboree on Sept. 8 Continued from 1B ● Rule changes: There are no three-point stances for either offensive or defensive line positions. Instead, play- ers at those positions will start in upright, two-point stances, which will decrease the chances for blows to the head coming out of the three-point stances. OSAA Assistant Execu- tive Director Brad Garrett, who sits on USA Football’s Board of Directors, said in an interview that he believes Rookie Tackle could be a good way to help participa- tion in football at the high school level increase again. According to the National Federation of High School Athletics Associa- tion surveys, participation in 11-man football at the high school level in Oregon has decreased each of the last four years, from 13,212 players in 2013 to 12,185 in 2016. “For me it’s all about the future of the game,” Garrett said, who has been around football as a player, coach and executive for 40 years. “If someone didn’t step in an affect change, I’m not sure of what the future held. Our goal should be to retain more players and minimize the risk, and this (Rookie Tackle) does that.” While the OSAA can’t instruct individual youth leagues to implement Rookie Tackle, Garrett said that the OSAA would like to see the structure in all leagues like Heppner will have this fall with flag foot- ball, Rookie Tackle and then to tackle football starting in seventh grade. “Coach Grant is a leader that is taking charge, which is what we like to see,” Gar- rett said. “My pitch is to reach out to the high school coaches and open their eyes to the subject. If the OSAA will get anything done, we know it will be through lead- ership and we’ll find it with the head football coaches to make a difference.” Heppner is hosting a Rookie Tackle Jamboree on September 8 with John Day and Stanfield youth pro- grams already committed to playing, and he said Board- man is also interested. Pend- leton Youth Football pres- ident Ron Smith said that he and people involved with PYF have looked into Rookie Tackle, but it’s not something that they have discussed as a board as of yet. “It’s definitely worth a look,” Smith said. “We’re noticing a decline in our numbers over the last few years, some kids just mov- ing away, some kids play- ing other sports and others because of the concussions fear. ... It’s definitely on the table, maybe in the next two years.” Smith added that the City of Pendleton Parks and Rec- reation started a pee wee flag football program for grades 1-4 this summer, and that PYF hopes to team up with that program to increase participation. Grant admitted that it won’t be an easy imple- mentation, especially when it comes to trying to prove to parents that have either played tackle football or already had kids go through tackle at the youth level that Rookie Tackle isn’t some sort of step backwards. “Instead of 11 on 11, it’ll just be 8 on 8 or something, with kids playing different positions,” Grant said. “It should be fun.” ———— Contact Eric at esinger@ eastoregonian.com or 541- 966-039. Follow him on Twitter @ByEricSinger. MARINERS: King Mariners extend contract of Felix returns from DL LEGION: Rosales 3-for-3, 3 RBI Continued from 1B Continued from 1B manager Scott Servais since blowing a save but getting the win for the American League in the All-Star Game, pitched a scoreless ninth for his league-leading 37th save. ROSTER SHUFFLE Seattle called up first baseman Daniel Vogel- bach and outfielder John Andreoli from Triple-A Tacoma and outrighted pitcher Mike Morin. The name missing from Seattle’s roster moves was catcher Mike Zunino, who was thought to be ready to come off the disabled list following the All-Star break after missing time with a bone bruise in his left ankle. Manager Scott Servais said Zunino is expected to play at least a cou- ple of games this weekend at Tacoma before he’s likely to be recalled. The addition of two position players is likely to be a short-term move with Seattle bringing Felix Hernandez off the DL to start Saturday. TRAINER’S ROOM: Mariners: Left-handed starter James Paxton will throw a bullpen session on Saturday and is on track to return to the rotation against San Francisco early next week. Paxton went on the disabled list on July 13 with lower back stiff- ness. He said he threw a little during the All-Star break, but the bullpen will tell if he’s ready to go next week. UP NEXT: White Sox: RHP Dylan Covey (3-5) takes the hill Saturday in the second game of the three- game set at Safeco Field. Covey is 0-4 with an 11.70 ERA and six home runs allowed over his last five starts. Mariners: Hernandez (8-7) returns from a DL stint with lower back stiffness. He has allowed three or fewer runs in each of his last five starts. 299 TACOMA $ NEW 2018 SR5 DBL CAB V6 4X4 Angeles Angels and Texas Rangers. What’s notable about the Ser- SEATTLE — The Seattle Mariners vais extension is the rare continuity it will have some continuity in the mana- will create in Seattle. Assuming noth- ing unexpected forces a change, Ser- gerial chair for a change. Seattle signed Scott Servais to a vais will be just the third manager in the club’s history to begin multiyear contract extension a fourth season in charge of Friday as the club opened the Mariners. Darrell John- the second half of the sea- son, the team’s first-ever son in position to potentially manager in 1977, was let go end the longest current play- off drought in the four major midway through his fourth pro sports. season in 1980. Lou Piniella The extension was a was Seattle’s manager from reward after Servais led Seat- 1993-2002. tle to a 58-39 record prior to Since Piniella left after the All-Star break and a hold Servais the 2002 season, Seattle had on the second wild-card spot eight different managers or in the American League. Seattle hasn’t interim managers over the following 13 been to the postseason since 2001. seasons. Only one — Eric Wedge — “I’m still learning and I look for- completed three full seasons in charge ward to learning,” Servais said. “It’s of the club. about our players and how we prepare “If I had to pick one single-most and how do we beat the opponent. You important thing in any organization, constantly are trying to get better at this. that’s it. It’s that synergy, that con- I’d like to say I have it all figured out; nection, the communication between far from it. And I don’t see myself ever the general manager and manager,” Dipoto said. “Any other relationships being that way.” Servais is 222-199 since arriving in the organization can be solved or in Seattle in 2016, the first managerial you might be able to build a bridge job of his career. Seattle went 87-75 in between them, but if the manager and Servais’ first season, before dipping to general manager don’t see things on 78-84 last year as Seattle was mired in a similar plane or have the ability to injury issues. Servais, 51, previously debate and arrive at a conclusion that worked in the front offices of the Los works for everybody, you’ll never win.” Associated Press Baker squeezes by Hermiston with late score LA GRANDE — For the second straight day, Hermiston’s Legion baseball team lost in a close manner, falling 6-5 to Baker on Friday. Hermiston () scored once in the first on Alexis Rosales’s RBI double to left that scored Ethin Randolph for a 1-0 lead at the time. After Baker took a 3-1 lead in the sec- ond, Hermiston rallied to the lead in the third. Rustin Edmiston got the scoring started with a RBI single to left that scored Kelson Robertson, and then Ethin Randolph hit a RBI triple to tie it and Rosales hit his second double of the game to score Randolph for a 4-3 Hermiston lead. Baker jumped back into the lead in the fourth, but Hermiston got even in fifth when Edmiston scored on a fielder’s choice. A sac- rifice fly in the bottom of the sixth scored the winning run for Baker to make it a 6-5 game. Rosales was a perfect 3-for-3 at the plate with three RBI to lead Hermiston, while Randolph was 2-for-3 and scored twice. Tyson Stocker also had two hits, and Edmis- ton was 1-for-1 with two runs. Edmiston also pitched all six innings, striking out eight and allowing seven hits and six runs. Hermiston plays La Grande on Saturday at 11 a.m. ———— HRM BAK 103 010 120 201 0 X — — R 5 6 H 9 7 E 5 1 /MO proved On Approved Credit stk# 18H821. 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