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B2 SPORTS East Oregonian Tuesday, July 2, 2019 Tennis: Gauff shocks champ Venus at Wimbledon Continued from Page B1 AP Photo/Craig Mitchelldyer, File Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard, right, shoots against Golden State during Game 4 of the Western Con- ference finals May 20 in Portland. NBA: Lillard deal worth $196M Continued from Page B1 lion over four years, even though he’ll miss next sea- son with an Achilles injury and could have gotten $221 million for five years from the Warriors. And Kri- staps Porzingis, who hasn’t appeared in an NBA game since Feb. 6, 2018, because of a knee injury, will sign a $158 million, five-year con- tract to stay with Dallas. All deals were con- firmed to The Associ- ated Press by people with knowledge of the agree- ments, all speaking on condition of anonymity because the NBA mora- torium prevents new con- tracts from being signed until noon Eastern time on Saturday. “From the trade to the Sixers in February, through the regular sea- son and playoffs and now on to free agency, this con- tract is a culmination of so much in my life and basket- ball career,” Harris wrote in an essay published on ESPN.com. “It’s also a new beginning.” There were a lot of new beginnings Sunday. Jimmy Butler agreed to a four-year, $142 million deal that will send him to Miami. Butler — a close friend of retired Miami guard Dwyane Wade — made clear to the Heat that he wanted to be in Miami, and over the next three hours the basic framework of a trade was worked out. Miami is sending Josh Richardson to Philadelphia and was still working on a package to Dallas to make the Butler move happen. Goran Dragic was consid- ered at one time for inclu- sion in that trade, though by night’s end he was still with Miami and the Mavs and Heat were still working through options. At least 10 players agreed to contracts that will be worth $100 mil- lion or more. Lillard, Har- ris, Middleton, Durant, Porzingis, Butler, Kemba Walker ($141 million, four- year deal with Boston), Irving, Al Horford ($109 million, four years with Philadelphia) and Nikola Vucevic ($100 million, four years with Orlando) were the big early winners, with more likely to come. Point guards did partic- ularly well, and will likely keep doing well. Lillard, Irving and Walker guaranteed them- selves nearly a half-bil- lion dollars. Terry Rozier left Boston for Charlotte — essentially the swap for Walker — on what will be a $58 million, three-year deal that will be completed via trade. Ricky Rubio also cashed in, getting $51 mil- lion for three years from the Phoenix Suns. Meanwhile, the Leon- ard watch continued with no hints from his camp. The NBA Finals MVP and now two-time champion will meet with the Rap- tors in the coming days, Toronto coach Nick Nurse said. Nurse didn’t say where the Raptors will be seeing Leonard, but said the NBA champs believe they “have a really good chance” to keep him. “I think he had a tre- mendous year,” Nurse said at an event in Jefferson, Iowa, near his hometown. “I think it’s a great place. You guys can see our fans and ownership is great. Our front office leadership is great, his teammates. You know, everything went well for him to re-sign. And probably mostly, on top of that, would be his health. He was a guy that missed a whole season, and he had a good, healthy year and played his best basket- ball in the playoffs.” In other key deals Sunday: • Indiana is set to acquire 2017 rookie of the year Malcolm Brogdon from Milwaukee and sign the shooting guard to a four-year, $85 million deal. • Harrison Barnes, as expected, is remaining in Sacramento on what will be a four-year, $85 million contract. Hodgen Distributing goes 3-2 at WW tourney East Oregonian Hodgen Distributing went 3-2 over the weekend at the Bruin Tournament at Borleske Stadium in Walla Walla. Hodgen opened the tournament on Thurs- day with a 16-2 victory over Washington Rush. The Pendleton team took advantage of eight errors and five walks. Greysen Clark and Kyle Field each drove in two runs, while Clark and Logan Weinke hit doubles. Hodgen split its games on Friday, starting with a 6-4 loss to the Kennewick Phantoms, and finishing with a 10-0 win over the Kennewick Dusters. Against the Phantoms, the game was tied at 4-4 after five innings. Kenne- wick scored two in the top of the sixth, while Hodgen failed to manufacture runs in the bottom half of the inning to get back in the game. Ty Beers had two hits, including a double, while Weinke drove in two runs. Against the Dusters, Field threw a one-hit- ter as Hodgen invoked the 10-run rule after five innings. Seattle Tides, which won the tournament title, scored three runs in the top of the seventh, and held on for a 9-8 win Saturday over Hodgen. Pendleton held an 8-4 lead after five innings, but Seattle scored five runs over the final two innings for the win. Tucker Zander hit a double and drove in three runs for Pendleton, while Cooper Roberts drove in a pair of runs. Hodgen finished the tournament Sunday with an 8-5 win over the La Grande Legends. Roberts threw four innings of two-hit ball, striking out six, while Nat Hunsaker had a dou- ble among his three hits. Beers, Field and Jor- dan DeGeer all had two hits as Pendleton outhit La Grande 13-4. When it ended, Gauff dropped her racket and put her hands on her head. After a handshake and exchange of words at the net with Wil- liams, Gauff knelt by her side- line chair and tears welled in her eyes. Up in the stands, her father leaped out of his seat. “Honestly, I don’t really know how to feel. This is the first time I ever cried after a match. Or winning, obvi- ously; I’ve cried after a loss before,” said Gauff, who is based in Florida. “I don’t even know how to explain how I feel.” This was her third tour- level match; Williams has played more than 1,000. This was Gauff’s first match at Wimbledon, where Williams has played more than 100 and won five titles. By the time Gauff was born in 2004, Williams already had spent time at No. 1 in the rankings and owned four of her seven Grand Slam singles trophies. “It didn’t really seem real, for a moment,” said Gauff’s father, Corey, between hand- shakes and slaps on the back and requests for selfies from spectators leaving No. 1 Court. “On the walk to the court, I was walking behind her. She was excited. I was excited. She seemed confi- dent, but I wasn’t sure if it was false confidence or she really was. I just said to her: This match is really magical. Just enjoy it. Your first Wim- bledon main draw and you’re on a main court against some- body you looked up to from the beginning.” It was by far the most anticipated match of Day 1 at the grass-court tournament, but hardly the only upset. Two-time major champion Naomi Osaka, who was No. 1 until a week ago, lost 7-6 (4), 6-2 to Yulia Putinseva, join- ing two young members of the men’s top-10, No. 6 seed AP Photo/Tim Ireland United States’ Cori “Coco” Gauff, right, greets the United States’s Venus Williams at the net after winning their Women’s singles match during day one of the Wimbledon Tennis Cham- pionships in London on Monday. Alexander Zverev and No. 7 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas, on the way out. This one, though, was special, potentially the sort of changing-of-the-guard moment that people could remember for years. Gauff certainly has the mindset of someone who intends to go far. “I’ve said this before: I want to be the greatest. My dad told me that I could do this when I was 8. Obviously you never believe it. I’m still, like, not 100 percent confident. But, like, you have to just say things. You never know what happens,” she said. “If I went into this match saying, ‘Let’s see how many games I can get against her,’ then I most defi- nitely would not have won. My goal was to play my best. My dream was to win. That’s what happened.” How far does she think she can fare this fortnight? “My goal,” she said, her face expressionless, “is to win it.” Well, then ... Gauff came into the week outside the top 300 but was granted a wild card by the All England Club to enter qual- ifying. She rolled through those rounds at a nearby site, knocking off the event’s top seed. But this was a whole other task. Gauff was sensational and showed zero signs that the moment or the matchup was too daunting for her. It’s the sort of unusual calm and steady way she has progressed through the various levels of youth tennis, including reach- ing the U.S. Open junior final at 13 and winning the French Open junior title at 14. The first set was remark- able: Gauff had 10 winners to only two unforced errors, all the while trading powerful groundstrokes at the baseline with Williams, and never fac- ing a break point. “The sky’s the limit,” Wil- liams said. “It really is.” Gauff, who is black, idol- ized Williams and her younger sister, Serena, the first Afri- can American women since Althea Gibson in the 1950s to win a Grand Slam singles championship. Serena has said Gauff reminds her of Venus. After Monday’s match, Gauff said she thanked Venus “for everything she did.” “I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for her,” said Gauff, who joined the crowd in applauding for Venus as she walked off the court. “And I was just telling her that she’s so inspiring. Like, I always wanted to tell her that. And even though I met her before, I guess now I have the guts to.” She showed plenty of grit in this match, particularly after getting broken to make it 4-all in the second set. Gauff steadied herself right there, though, breaking right back with a pair of forehand pass- ing shots that drew errant volleys. And then in the final game, Gauff needed to erase the dis- appointment of wasting her initial three match points. She did just that, converting her fourth when Venus put a fore- hand into the net. MLB batters set HR record for second straight month NEW YORK (AP) — A month after setting a record for most home runs in a month, big league batters did it again and are on pace to shatter the season mark. The Elias Sports Bureau said Monday that batters hit 1,142 home runs in June, seven more than in May. Five of the top six home run months have been in the last three years. August 2017 is third at 1,119, followed by June 2017 (1,101), May 2000 (1,069) and May 2017 (1,060). A total of 3,421 home runs were hit in 1,255 games through Sunday, an average of 2.73 per game. That is up 19% from the 2.28 average through June last year, when 2,822 home runs were hit in 1,236 games. Batters are on pace to hit 6,624 home runs — well above the record 6,105 set in 2017 and up TENNIS Roberto Bautista-Agut (23), Spain, def. Peter Gojowczyk, Germany, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3. Benoit Paire (28), France, def. Juan Igna- cio Londero, Argentina, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (4). Miomir Kecmanovic, Serbia, def. Roberto Carballes Baena, Spain, 2-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-1. Pablo Cuevas, Uruguay, def. Damir Dzumhur, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 4-6, 7-6 (8), 2-6, 6-4, 6-2. Jiri Vesely, Czech Republic, def. Alex- ander Zverev (6), Germany, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 7-5. from 5,585 last year. Milwaukee’s Chris- tian Yelich leads the major leagues with 29 home runs, followed by New York Mets rookie Peter Alonso (28) and the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Cody Bellinger (27). A year after strikeouts surpassed hits for the first time, whiffs remain ahead: 21,871 to 21,554. While there were more strikeouts than hits in March (949 to 848) and April (6,799 to 6,371), hitting has picked up in the warmer months. There were 7,170 hits to 7,137 strikeouts in May and 7,165 hits to 6,986 strikeouts in June. The major league batting average was .251 through June. That is up three per- centage points from last year’s average, the lowest since 1972 — the year before the American League started using the designated hitter. SCOREBOARD WIMBLEDON RESULTS LONDON (AP) — Results Monday from Wimbledon at The All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club (seedings in parentheses): MEN’S SINGLES First Round Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Philipp Kohlschreiber, Germany, 6-3, 7-5, 6-3. Denis Kudla, United States, def. Malek Jaziri, Tunisia, 6-4, 6-1, 6-3. Leonardo Mayer, Argentina, def. Ernests Gulbis, Latvia, 6-1, 7-6 (12), 6-2. Hubert Hurkacz, Poland, def. Dusan Lajovic (32), Serbia, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4. Felix Auger Aliassime (19), Canada, def. Vasek Pospisil, Canada, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4, 6-3. Corentin Moutet, France, def. Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgaria, 2-6, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3, 6-1. Marcel Granollers, Spain, def. Lorenzo Sonego, Italy, 7-6 (4), 6-4, 6-4. Ugo Humbert, France, def. Gael Monfils (16), France, 6-7 (6), 3-6, 6-4, 7-5, 3-0, ret. Daniil Medvedev (11), Russia, def. Paolo Lorenzi, Italy, 6-3, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (2). Alexei Popyrin, Australia, def. Pablo Car- reno-Busta, Spain, 7-6 (2), 7-5, 6-2. Jeremy Chardy, France, def. Martin Kli- zan, Slovakia, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3, 6-4. David Goffin (21), Belgium, def. Bradley Klahn, United States, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Kyle Edmund (30), Britain, def. Jaume Antoni Munar Clar, Spain, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Fernando Verdasco, Spain, def. Kamil Majchrzak, Poland, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Ivo Karlovic, Croatia, def. Andrea Arn- aboldi, Italy, 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (4). Thomas Fabbiano, Italy, def. Stefanos Tsitsipas (7), Greece, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-7 (8), 6-3. Kevin Anderson (4), South Africa, def. Pierre-Hugues Herbert, France, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2. Janko Tipsarevic, Serbia, def. Yoshihito Nishioka, Japan, 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-2, 5-7, 6-2. Andreas Seppi, Italy, def. Nicolas Jarry, Chile, 6-3, 6-7 (8), 6-1, 6-2. Guido Pella (26), Argentina, def. Marius Copil, Romania, 7-6 (11), 5-7, 6-3, 6-4. Stan Wawrinka (22), Switzerland, def. Ruben Bemelmans, Belgium, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2. Reilly Opelka, United States, def. Ced- rik-Marcel Stebe, Germany, 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-1. Robin Haase, Netherlands, def. Jozef Kovalik, Slovakia, 6-1, 6-3, 6-1. Milos Raonic (15), Canada, def. Prajnesh Gunneswaran, India, 7-6 (1), 6-4, 6-2. Karen Khachanov (10), Russia, def. Soon Woo Kwon, Republic of Korea, 7-6 (6), 6-4, 4-6, 7-5. Feliciano Lopez Diaz-Guerra, Spain, def. Marcos Giron, United States, 6-4, 6-2, 6-4. Steve Darcis, Belgium, def. Mischa Zverev, Germany, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4. WOMEN’S SINGLES First Round Elina Svitolina (8), Ukraine, def. Daria Gavrilova, Australia, 7-5, 6-0. Margarita Gasparyan, Russia, def. Anna- Lena Friedsam, Germany, 6-4, 6-4. Marie Bouzkova, Czech Republic, def. Mona Barthel, Germany, 6-3, 6-3. Maria Sakkari (31), Greece, def. Bernarda Pera, United States, 7-6 (4), 6-3. Petra Martic (24), Croatia, def. Jennifer Brady, United States, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. Anastasia Potapova, Russia, def. Jil Teich- mann, Switzerland, 2-6, 6-4, 6-1. Danielle Rose Collins, United States, def. Zarina Diyas, Kazakhstan, 6-3, 7-5. Anastasija Sevastova (12), Latvia, def. Kristie Haerim Ahn, United States, 6-3, 6-4. Madison Brengle, United States, def. Marketa Vondrousova (16), Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-4. Karolina Muchova, Czech Republic, def. Aleksandra Krunic, Serbia, 7-5, 6-2. Heather Watson, Britain, def. Caty McNally, United States, 7-6 (3), 6-2. Anett Kontaveit (20), Estonia, def. Shelby Rogers, United States, 6-0, 3-6, 6-4. Su-Wei Hsieh (28), Taiwan, def. Jelena Ostapenko, Latvia, 6-2, 6-2. Kirsten Flipkens, Belgium, def. Dalila Jak- upovic, Slovenia, 6-1, 6-3. Monica Puig, Puerto Rico, def. Anna-Kar- olina Schmiedlova, Slovakia, 5-7, 6-4, 7-5. Karolina Pliskova (3), Czech Republic, def. Lin Zhu, China, 6-2, 7-6 (4). Simona Halep (7), Romania, def. Aliak- sandra Sasnovich, Belarus, 6-4, 7-5. Mihaela Buzarnescu, Romania, def. Jes- sica Pegula, United States, 6-4, 6-4. Victoria Azarenka, Belarus, def. Alize Cor- net, France, 6-4, 6-4. Ajla Tomljanovic, Australia, def. Daria Kasatkina (29), Russia, 6-3, 6-1. Madison Keys (17), United States, def. Luksika Kumkhum, Thailand, 6-3, 6-2. Polona Hercog, Slovenia, def. Viktoria Kuzmova, Slovakia, 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-5. Cori Gauff, United States, def. Venus Wil- liams, United States, 6-4, 6-4. Magdalena Rybarikova, Slovakia, def. Aryna Sabalenka (10), Belarus, 6-2, 6-4. Caroline Wozniacki (14), Denmark, def. Sara Sorribes Tormo, Spain, 5-4, ret. Veronika Kudermetova, Russia, def. Ysaline Bonaventure, Belgium, 6-2, 6-4. Yanina Wickmayer, Belgium, def. Rebecca Peterson, Sweden, 6-4, 6-3. Shuai Zhang, China, def. Caroline Garcia (23), France, 6-4, 6-0. Sofia Kenin (27), United States, def. Astra Sharma, Australia, 6-4, 6-2. Dayana Yastremska, Ukraine, def. Camila Giorgi, Italy, 6-3, 6-3. Viktorija Golubic, Switzerland, def. Iga Swiatek, Poland, 6-2, 7-6 (3). BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE East W L Pct GB New York 54 28 .659 — Tampa Bay 49 36 .576 6½ Boston 44 40 .524 11 Toronto 32 53 .376 23½ Baltimore 24 60 .286 31 Central W L Pct GB Minnesota 53 30 .639 — Cleveland 45 38 .542 8 Chicago 39 42 .481 13 Detroit 27 52 .342 24 Kansas City 29 56 .341 25 West W L Pct GB Houston 53 32 .624 — Texas 46 38 .548 6½ Oakland 46 39 .541 7 Los Angeles 42 43 .494 11 Seattle 37 51 .420 17½ ——— Sunday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 12, Boston 8 Cleveland 2, Baltimore 0 Kansas City 7, Toronto 6 Tampa Bay 6, Texas 2 Washington 2, Detroit 1 Chicago White Sox 4, Minnesota 3 Houston 6, Seattle 1 Oakland 12, L.A. Angels 3 Monday’s Games L.A. Angels at Texas, ppd. Toronto 11, Kansas City 4 Tampa Bay 6, Baltimore 3 Tuesday’s Games Boston (Price 5-2) at Toronto (Thornton 2-5), 4:07 p.m. Baltimore (Bundy 3-10) at Tampa Bay (Morton 8-2), 4:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Paxton 5-3) at N.Y. Mets (Wheeler 6-5), 4:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Canning 3-4) at Texas (Minor 8-4), 5:05 p.m. Detroit (Boyd 5-6) at Chicago White Sox (Lopez 4-7), 5:10 p.m. Houston (Urquidy 0-0) at Colorado (Mar- quez 8-3), 5:10 p.m. Cleveland (Bauer 6-6) at Kansas City (Junis 4-7), 5:15 p.m. Minnesota (Odorizzi 10-3) at Oakland (Mengden 2-1), 7:07 p.m. St. Louis (Flaherty 4-5) at Seattle (Carasiti 0-0), 7:10 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 11:10 a.m., 1st game Boston at Toronto, 4:07 p.m. Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 4:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at N.Y. Mets, 4:10 p.m. L.A. Angels at Texas, 5:05 p.m. Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 5:10 p.m., 2nd game Houston at Colorado, 5:10 p.m. Cleveland at Kansas City, 5:15 p.m. Minnesota at Oakland, 6:07 p.m. St. Louis at Seattle, 7:10 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE All Times PDT East W L Pct GB Atlanta 50 35 .588 — Philadelphia 44 40 .524 5½ Washington 42 41 .506 7 New York 38 47 .447 12 Miami 32 50 .390 16½ Central W L Pct GB Milwaukee 46 39 .541 — Chicago 45 40 .529 1 St. Louis 41 41 .500 3½ Pittsburgh 40 43 .482 5 Cincinnati 38 44 .463 6½ West W L Pct GB Los Angeles 57 29 .663 — Colorado 44 40 .524 12 San Diego 42 41 .506 13½ Arizona 43 43 .500 14 San Francisco 36 47 .434 19½ ——— Sunday’s Games Cincinnati 8, Chicago Cubs 6 Philadelphia 13, Miami 6 Washington 2, Detroit 1 Milwaukee 2, Pittsburgh 1 L.A. Dodgers 10, Colorado 5 San Francisco 10, Arizona 4 St. Louis 5, San Diego 3 (11) N.Y. Mets 8, Atlanta 5 Monday’s Games Pittsburgh 18, Chicago Cubs 5 Milwaukee 8, Cincinnati 6 San Francisco at San Diego, late Tuesday’s Games Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 7-5) at Pitts- burgh (Musgrove 6-7), 4:05 p.m. Miami (Gallen 0-1) at Washington (Corbin 7-5), 4:05 p.m. Milwaukee (Anderson 4-2) at Cincinnati (Roark 5-6), 4:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Paxton 5-3) at N.Y. Mets (Wheeler 6-5), 4:10 p.m. Philadelphia (Nola 6-2) at Atlanta (Keuchel 1-1), 4:20 p.m. Houston (Urquidy 0-0) at Colorado (Mar- quez 8-3), 5:10 p.m. Arizona (Clarke 2-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Stripling 3-2), 7:10 p.m. San Francisco (Beede 1-3) at San Diego (Strahm 3-6), 7:10 p.m. St. Louis (Flaherty 4-5) at Seattle (Carasiti 0-0), 7:10 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Miami at Washington, 3:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 4:05 p.m. Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 4:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at N.Y. Mets, 4:10 p.m. Philadelphia at Atlanta, 4:20 p.m. Houston at Colorado, 5:10 p.m. San Francisco at San Diego, 6:10 p.m. Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m. St. Louis at Seattle, 7:10 p.m. Yulia Putintseva, Kazakhstan, def. Naomi Osaka (2), Japan, 7-6 (4), 6-2.