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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-
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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
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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.
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