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SPORTS TUESDAY, JULY 24, 2018 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS PENDLETON 10U All-Stars win state East Oregonian MEDFORD — Pendleton’s 10U All-Star softball team became the latest Pendleton team to win its state tournament this season when it defeated South Beaverton 2-0 in the 2018 Little League State Tour- nament on Monday afternoon. The 10U All-Stars now join the 12U All-Stars and Pendleton High School’s varsity softball team as state champions in 2018. The 10U All-Stars advanced to the championship game with a 3-2 win over South Beaverton on Sunday, and then lost to the same South Beaverton team 5-3 on Mon- day morning, resulting in a win- ner-take-all championship game between the two. In the final game, Pendleton scored in the top of the first inning when Josie Jenness walked, stole second base, moved to third base and then scored when Avery Quae- mpts grounded out to second for a 1-0 lead. The only other run of the game came in the fourth inning, when Pendleton’s Reese Fursten- berg hit a leadoff home run to put Pendleton up 2-0. That cush- ion was all pitcher Kendall Mur- phy needed as she struck out 10 batters and allowed only three hits in six innings to help earn the championship. Pendleton 12U All- Stars starts 2-0 at Western Regional Down in sunny Southern Cal- ifornia, Pendleton’s 12U All-Star softball team, playing as Team Oregon, got off to a tremendous start at the Little League West- ern Regional over the weekend as it defeated Wyoming 23-0 on Saturday and Idaho 24-0 on Sun- See ALL-STARS/2B Photo courtesy of Julie Murphy Pendleton’s 10U All-Star softball team poses with the champion- ship banner after winning the 2018 Little League Oregon State Tournament on Monday in Medford.Pictured, left to right, Front: Kendall Murphy, Cambria Van Nice, Josie Jenness, Bella Estrada. Middle: Reese Furstenberg, Finley Evans. Top row: Avery Quaempts, Bay Bay Matamoros, Caitlin Cooley, Addison Kosey, Ella Sams. HERMISTON Molinari survives wild day to win British Open By DOUG FERGUSON Associated Press Staff photo by Kathy Aney A member of the Net Rippers drives to the basket during the Takin’ it to the Streets 3-on-3 basketball tournament. ‘We can’t get enough’ Funds raised over the course of the weekend are then used to support Herm- iston High School’s basketball programs. “We had teams come from all over the region this year,” said tournament By BRETT KANE organizer Juan Rodriguez. “Some came East Oregonian from as far as Portland, Spokane, and even Boise.” ERMISTON — The only thing Rodriguez, also in the midst of his burning hotter than the sun over third year as Hermiston High School’s downtown Hermiston over the varsity girls head coach, says that bas- ketball is part of the community. weekend was the passion for basketball. “We keep this tournament going More than 150 teams from across the because we love the game,” he said. Pacific Northwest competed from sun- rise to sunset in 90-degrees-and-sunny And judging by the turnout, he’s temperatures in the city’s annual 3-on-3 right. Main Street was packed day in basketball tournament, known as Takin’ and day out with players, fans, friends, It to the Streets. This year marked the and family. Ages of the athletes ranged 14th year that Hermiston’s Main Street from adults and all the way down to the has hosted the competition, where teams second grade, and even included players Staff photo by Kathy Aney compete against one another in 20 dif- A competitor in the slam dunk com- from Hermiston High, hoping to keep ferent brackets depending on age and petition gets ready to stuff it Satur- their skills in tune during the offseason. skill level and winners are awarded with day during the Takin’ it to the Streets See 3-ON-3/2B assorted athletic gear. 3-on-3 basketball tournament. More than 150 teams compete in Hermiston’s Takin’ It To The Streets H CARNOUSTIE, Scotland — Fran- cesco Molinari played a steady hand amid the cheers for Tiger Woods and another crazy ending at Carnoustie to win the Brit- ish Open and become Italy’s first major champion. Woods brought pandemonium by charging into the lead on Sunday at a major for the first time in nine years, only to lose it with one bad hole. Jordan Spieth Molinari cost himself by failing to make a single birdie. Seven players had a share of the lead at some point. Six were still tied on the back nine. Through all that, Molinari never flinched. He closed with a 2-under 69, playing the final 37 holes on the toughest links in golf without a bogey. The clincher was a bold drive on the 18th hole that flirted with the edge of a pot bunker, a wedge to 5 feet and a birdie putt that gave him a lead no one in the last two groups was able to erase. Molinari raised his fist and shook it lightly before slamming it for emphasis. “Just disbelief, to be honest,” the 35-year-old said with the gleaming claret jug in front of him. “To go the weekend bogey-free, it’s unthinkable. Playing with Tiger was another challenge. But I felt really good this morning. I felt I was ready for the challenge.” He finished at 8-under 276, the low- est score in eight Opens at Carnoustie, the course where Jean Van de Velde threw away the British Open with a triple bogey on the last hole in 1999, where Padraig Harrington twice hit into Barry Burn on the last hole to make double bogey and still won. The victory adds to Molinari’s best stretch of golf. Now at a career-best No. 6 in the world, he has won three times and been runner-up twice in the past two months. Molinari is the first Italian with his name on the claret jug. He was 12 when he watched Costantino Rocca lose in a play- off to John Daly at the British Open at St. Andrews. “Hopefully, there were a lot of young kids watching on TV today, like I was watching Costantino in ‘95 coming so close,” he said. “Hopefully, they will get as inspired as I was at the time.” Sports shorts Nowitzki officially signed for record 21st season with Mavs DALLAS (AP) — Dirk Nowitzki is officially signed for a record 21st season with the Dallas Mavericks. The Mavericks announced Monday that they had re-signed the 13-time All-Star. That was their plan when they declined a team option on Nowitzki’s contract at the start of free agency to cre- ate more room under the salary cap before signing DeAndre Jordan. THIS DATE IN SPORTS Mets’ Tebow likely out for rest of season Tim Tebow doubled in the Eastern League All-Star game. NEW YORK (AP) — Mets minor leaguer Tim Tebow is set for hand surgery Tuesday, dashing his hopes of playing in the majors this year. The 30-year-old outfielder will have surgery in New York to remove his broken right hamate bone, an injury that occurred Thursday while swinging a bat for Binghamton against Trenton in the Double-A East- ern League. The former NFL quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner was hitting .273 with six home runs and 36 RBIs in 84 games for Binghamton. He doubled in the Eastern League All-Star Game on July 11. “It’s about a six-to-eight week recovery, so effectively his season is over,” Mets assistant general man- ager John Ricco said after Tebow was examined Monday at the Hospital for Special Surgery. Tebow hit .301 in June for the Rum- ble Ponies and .340 in 15 games in July. 1908 — John Hayes wins the Olympic marathon in a record of 2 hours, 55 minutes, 18.4 seconds. Italian Dorando Pietri is the first to enter the stadium but collapses several times before being dis- qualified when officials help him across the line. 2014 — Baltimore Ravens run- ning back Ray Rice is suspended for two games by the NFL follow- ing his offseason arrest for domes- tic violence. He was arrested after punching then-fiancee. Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com
