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B2 SPORTS East Oregonian Wednesday, July 3, 2019 Serena moves into the second round at Wimbledon By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer Contributed Photo, File Recent Hermiston High grad Case Hiatt recorded a perfect score June 22 at the Oregon State High School Trap Shoot- ing Championships in Hillsboro. The Bulldogs finished sec- ond as a team. Trap: Bulldogs will send a team of 6 to nationals in Michigan Continued from Page B1 finished second at state. Hamilton is among a group of six that will com- pete at the second annual national tournament July 11-14 in Mason, Michigan. The Bulldogs finished sev- enth last year. Also competing are recent graduates Thomas Mabbott and alternate Trevor Wilson; incoming seniors Kaden Smith and Mitchell Pimentel; and incoming junior Tyson Stocker. All but Wilson will compete in the team com- petition, while all six will participate in the individ- ual portion of the event. “There are 1,000-plus teams in the nation, and 180 qualify for nationals,” Smith said. “There will be more than 2,000 kids at nationals.” Despite his perfect score at state, Hiatt is not part of the national contingent. “He has been part of the program for four years, but he was not one of our top five during the season,” Smith said. “It takes con- sistency to get (to) the top.” Because trap shoot- ing still is a club sport, the Bulldogs are allowed to compete in Oregon. With Hermiston join- ing the WIAA last year, all school-sanctioned sports are contested in Washington. As a club program, the team receives support from the Hermiston Gun Club, does fundraisers, applies for grants, and receives some support from the school district. “We do a few differ- ent things to raise money,” Smith said. “We apply for grants through the NRA that cover our targets and ammo. The school has stepped up and helped these kids a lot.” Soccer: Morgan scores and Naeher saves Continued from Page B1 minute but video review determined she was offside — and the Americans in the crowd of 53,512 at Stade de Lyon roared. Another video review went against the United States late in the game when it determined Becky Sauer- brunn had fouled White in the penalty area. England captain Steph Houghton’s penalty shot was stopped by a diving Naeher in the 84th minute. It was the first penalty kick saved by a U.S. goal- keeper in regular time at the World Cup. At the final whistle, the team mobbed Naeher in front of the goal in celebration. Rapinoe gave her a bear hug. The mild-mannered goalkeeper was asked after- ward if it was the biggest save of her life. “Probably up there, yeah,” she said smiling. “It’s a special team and everybody fought hard tonight for all 90 minutes. Players on the field, players on the bench, ready to come in and make differences,” Naeher said. “Obviously Christen coming in and starting tonight and scoring a great goal was huge for us. And I think it’s just a testa- ment to the team.” The Americans have been to the semifinals of all eight World Cups, and they’ve won the trophy three times, more than any nation. The U.S. team’s lone loss in a World Cup title match came to Japan in 2011. Third-ranked England went through to the semifi- nals in 2015 but fell to Japan before beating Germany in the third-place match for the Lionesses’ best finish in the tournament. “No words that I can say tonight wvill make them feel any better,” said England coach Phil Neville. England will play in the third-place match on Sat- urday in Nice against the loser of the other semifinal. Moments after Tuesday’s loss, Neville was already looking ahead — even to next year. “My first thought was, ‘How do we win on Satur- day,’ and my second thought was, ‘How do we win the Olympics?’” he said. The United States has won 11 straight World Cup matches and is undefeated in its last 16. With the quar- terfinal victory in France, the Americans tied Nor- way’s record winning streak set over the 1995 and 1999 tournaments. The Americans have exuded confidence since arriving in France. After pouncing on Thailand 13-0 in the opener and celebrat- ing each goal in the rout, they beat nemesis Sweden, the team that ousted the United States in the quar- terfinals at the 2016 Olym- pics. And Rapinoe struck a victorious pose in a 2-1 quarterfinal victory over France on Friday night in Paris. Rapinoe suffered a minor hamstring injury late in the second half against France, which she said she didn’t expect would keep her out of the final. Coach Jill Ellis said there was an outside chance that she could have taken a pen- alty if the match against England had come to that. England started Carly Telford in goal instead of Karen Bardsley, who was out with a hamstring injury. Bardsley had shut- outs in both of the team’s knockout round matches. Telford started in the team’s group stage match against Argentina. England had shut out its last four opponents but the United States attacked early as expected — the Amer- icans have scored within the first 15 minutes of all of their games in France. WIMBLEDON, England — Used to be that players would dread the prospect of facing Serena Williams, espe- cially at Wimbledon. Nowadays, they seem to be eager to go up against her — not because they think they can beat Williams, mind you, but because, well, she’s Serena Williams, and what better way to create a mem- ory for life than to share a court with one of the, if not THE, greatest in the history of tennis. So that’s why Giulia Gat- to-Monticone, a 31-year-old qualifier from Italy making her debut at the All England Club, was thrilled when the draw put her up against Wil- liams in the first round Tues- day, and the schedule put them on Centre Court, to boot. So what if Gatto-Mon- ticone fell behind 5-0 in 17 minutes and wound up losing 6-2, 7-5? “Incredibly happy to play her,” Gatto-Monticone said afterward. “Serena is Serena.” The whole day was, she said, “a dream come true,” filled with smiles and tears and goose bumps. From the tour of the stadium that she, her coach, her physiother- apist and her physiothera- pist’s son were given in the morning: “We went through the club members’ area. Just a spectacular place. Truly beautiful couches, flowers. We saw the trophies. We saw the entrance to the court,” Gatto-Monticone said. To the match itself, which was briefly even in the sec- ond set at 5-all, prompting an Italian reporter to ask whether Gatto-Monticone wondered whether maybe she had a chance: “No,” came the reply, “I never thought that.” To the handshake after the highlight-worthy 12-stroke exchange that capped the result, including a trade of volleys with both women at the net: “She told me I’m an amazing player. I don’t know if she really thought so, but she was so nice. I told her she’s the queen of this tourna- ment. I thanked her.” And then came this: Gat- to-Monticone asked the 37-year-old Williams if they could pose for a selfie together. “She was sweet, because I was panicking and I couldn’t find my phone,” Gatto-Mon- ticone recounted. “She said, ‘That’s fine. Don’t worry. I’ll take it with mine and post it on Instagram.’ I said, ‘Perfect!’” Consider, too, the attitude of the next woman standing in the way of Williams’ bid for an eighth Wimbledon cham- pionship and 24th Grand Slam singles trophy overall (which is aside from her hard- ware in women’s doubles and mixed doubles, an event she is entering this week with Andy Murray). That’s another qual- ifier, 18-year-old Kaja Juvan of Slovenia, who was born a little more than a year after Williams won the 1999 U.S. Open. Juvan, like Gatto-Monti- AP Photo/Ben Curtis Serena Williams celebrates winning a point against Italy’s Gi- ulia Gatto-Monticone in a women’s singles match Tuesday at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London. cone, relishes the opportu- nity to meet Williams. “I’m glad I got the chance to still play with her,” Juvan said, “because she’s done so much in her career.” This is true, of course. The thing right now for Wil- liams is that she hasn’t been able to do much this season, in part because of an injured left knee that was a big rea- son Tuesday’s match was only her 13th of 2019. Two former Wimbledon winners who have struggled this season, Maria Sharapova and Garbine Muguruza, both lost, as did a pair of major champions elsewhere, Svet- lana Kuznetsova and Sam Stosur. Sharapova, who recently returned to the tour after missing five months because of a right shoulder operation, quit while one game from defeat against Pauline Parmentier at 6-4, 7-6 (4), 5-0, blaming what she said was “a tendon in my left forearm flaring up.” Defending champion Angelique Kerber, two-time Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova and Ash Barty — playing her first match at No. 1 in the rankings — all won in straight sets. The men’s bracket lost its third top-10 seed, though, when No. 5 Dominic Thiem, a two-time French Open run- ner-up, was eliminated by Sam Querrey of the United States. Williams’ coach said over the weekend that the pain was gone from that knee in recent weeks and so they finally were able to prepare properly for a tournament. The lack of practice time and match play were reasons Williams pointed to after her third-round exit at the French Open. Baseball: Diamondjaxx go 3-1 at Yakima tourney Continued from Page B1 to bring the score to 10-8. Blake Swanson reached home on an error at short- stop in the top of the seventh, but Pendleton’s rally fell just short as the Cubs survived for the sweep. “We had to claw our way back,” Armstrong said. “We had a good approach at the plate. I’m really proud of the way the kids fought back.” Roberts went 2-for-4, scoring two runs for Pend- leton. Sheley also put up a pair of runs. Although Swan- son went 2-for-4, he let go of nine runs on 10 hits over the first 2⅔ innings on the mound. Michael Flores threw 3⅓ innings of relief and kept Idaho down with five strikeouts. Pepsi Diamondjaxx In Yakima, Pendleton’s 16U Pepsi Diamondjaxx went 3-1 at the West Valley Tourney over the weekend. The baseball team started things off with a barn-burn- ing, eighth-inning rally to claim a 4-3 victory over their Yakima hosts. Both teams suffered four scoreless innings before Yakima came to life and held onto a 3-1 lead that lasted until the top of the seventh. Karson Lani and Jack Davis both hit singles, and Gabe Browning walked to fill up the bases. Collin Primus grounded out, but not before scoring Lani. Davis crossed home on Payton Lambert’s following single to pull even at 3-3. It was Blane Peal’s double to center field in the top of the eighth that scored Kobe Fell and clinched the win. A four-run third inning was all it took to take down the Kirkland Merchants later that day. Davis and Jack Monkman both posted RBI singles to jumpstart the Dia- mondjaxx’s early advantage. Peal held off the Mer- chants with nine strikeouts over 6⅔ innings on Pendle- ton’s hill, including a no-hit- ter in the top of the second. But the momentum wouldn’t last as the Diamond- jaxx followed with a 13-2 loss to the Northwest Futures on Saturday. The Vancouver, Wash.- based team put up a nine-run fourth inning from which Pendleton couldn’t recover. Trenton Hughes, Casen Reed, Max Bledy, and Cody Wallace all chipped in two runs each to keep Pendleton at a distance. Pendleton finished the tournament off with a 7-6 win over Ike thanks to Gabe Browning’s walk off single. SCOREBOARD SOCCER 2019 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP QUARTERFINALS Thursday, June 27 At Le Havre, France England 3, Norway 0 Friday, June 28 At Paris United States 2, France 1 Saturday, June 29 At Valenciennes, France Netherlands 2, Italy 0 At Rennes, France Sweden 2, Germany 1 SEMIFINALS Tuesday, July 2 At Lyon, France United States 2, England 1 Wednesday, July 3 At Lyon, France Netherlands vs. Sweden, 12 p.m. THIRD PLACE Saturday, July 6 At Nice, France England vs. Netherlands or Sweden, 8 a.m. CHAMPIONSHIP Sunday, July 7 At Lyon, France United States vs. Netherlands or Swe- den, 8 a.m. WOMEN’S WORLD CUP SCORING LEADERS Six Alex Morgan, United States Ellen White, England Five Megan Rapinoe, United States Sam Kerr, Australia Four Cristiane, Brazil Wendy Renard, France Three Aurora Galli, Italy Carli Lloyd, United States Cristiana Girelli, Italy Jennifer Hermoso, Spain Sara Daebritz, Germany TENNIS WIMBLEDON RESULTS LONDON (AP) — Results Tuesday from Wimbledon at The All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club (seedings in parentheses): MEN’S SINGLES First Round Sam Querrey, United States, def. Dom- inic Thiem (5), Austria, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (1), 6-3, 6-0. Andrey Rublev, Russia, def. Cristian Garin, Chile, 4-6, 6-4, 7-5, 6-4. John Millman, Australia, def. Hugo Del- lien, Bolivia, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4. Laslo Djere (31), Serbia, def. Guido Andreozzi, Argentina, 3-6, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (3), 6-3. Gilles Simon (20), France, def. Salvatore Caruso, Italy, 7-6 (7), 6-3, 6-2. Tennys Sandgren, United States, def. Yasutaka Uchiyama, Japan, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-3. Marton Fucsovics, Hungary, def. Dennis Novak, Austria, 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (2), 6-2. Fabio Fognini (12), Italy, def. Frances Tiafoe, United States, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. Marin Cilic (13), Croatia, def. Adrian Man- narino, France, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (4), 6-3. Joao Sousa, Portugal, def. Paul Jubb, Britain, 6-0, 6-3, 6-7 (8), 6-1. Daniel Evans, Britain, def. Federico Del- bonis, Argentina, 6-3, 7-6 (5), 6-3. Nikoloz Basilashvili (18), Georgia, def. James Ward, Britain, 2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 8-6. Ricardas Berankis, Lithuania, def. Denis Shapovalov (29), Canada, 7-6 (0), 6-4, 6-3. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, France, def. Bernard Tomic, Australia, 6-2, 6-1, 6-4. Nick Kyrgios, Australia, def. Jordan Thompson, Australia, 7-6 (4), 3-6, 7-6 (10), 0-6, 6-1. Rafael Nadal (3), Spain, def. Yuichi Sugita, Japan, 6-3, 6-1, 6-3. Kei Nishikori (8), Japan, def. Thiago Moura Monteiro, Brazil, 6-4, 7-6 (3), 6-4. Cameron Norrie, Britain, def. Denis Istomin, Uzbekistan, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4. Steve Johnson, United States, def. Albert Ramos-Vinolas, Spain, 6-4, 6-2, 6-3. Alex de Minaur (25), Australia, def. Marco Cecchinato, Italy, 6-0, 6-4, 7-6 (5). Jan-Lennard Struff (33), Germany, def. Radu Albot, Moldova, 6-4, 6-3, 6-2. Taylor Fritz, United States, def. Tomas Berdych, Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3. Mikhail Kukushkin, Kazakhstan, def. Pablo Andujar, Spain, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4. John Isner (9), United States, def. Casper Ruud, Norway, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (9). Matteo Berrettini (17), Italy, def. Aljaz Bedene, Slovenia, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 7-6 (3). Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus, def. Brayden Schnur, Canada, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4. Dominik Koepfer, Germany, def. Filip Krajinovic, Serbia, 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (9), 6-1. Diego Schwartzman (24), Argentina, def. Matthew Ebden, Australia, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. Lucas Pouille (27), France, def. Richard Gasquet, France, 6-1, 6-4, 7-6 (4). Gregoire Barrere, France, def. Alexander Bublik, Kazakhstan, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3. Jay Clarke, Britain, def. Noah Rubin, United States, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-4. Roger Federer (2), Switzerland, def. Lloyd Harris, South Africa, 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2. WOMEN’S SINGLES First Round Ashleigh Barty (1), Australia, def. Saisai Zheng, China, 6-4, 6-2. Alison van Uytvanck, Belgium, def. Svet- lana Kuznetsova, Russia, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2. Harriet Dart, Britain, def. Christina McHale, United States, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4. Beatriz Haddad Maia, Brazil, def. Garbine Muguruza (26), Spain, 6-4, 6-4. Alison Riske, United States, def. Donna Vekic (22), Croatia, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5. Ivana Jorovic, Serbia, def. Lesley Kerk- hove, Netherlands, 7-6 (5), 6-4. Kaia Kanepi, Estonia, def. Stefanie Voegele, Switzerland, 5-7, 7-5, 6-4. Belinda Bencic (13), Switzerland, def. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russia, 6-2, 6-3. Serena Williams (11), United States, def. Giulia Gatto-Monticone, Italy, 6-2, 7-5. Kaja Juvan, Slovenia, def. Kristyna Plis- kova, Czech Republic, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4. Varvara Flink, Russia, def. Paula Badosa Gibert, Spain, 6-4, 6-2. Julia Goerges (18), Germany, def. Ele- na-Gabriela Ruse, Romania, 7-5, 6-1. Carla Suarez-Navarro (30), Spain, def. Samantha Stosur, Australia, 6-2, 7-5. Pauline Parmentier, France, def. Maria Sharapova, Russia, 4-6, 7-6 (4), 5-0, ret. Lauren Davis, United States, def. Kat- eryna Kozlova, Ukraine, 6-3, 6-2. Angelique Kerber (5), Germany, def. Tat- jana Maria, Germany, 6-4, 6-3. Kiki Bertens (4), Netherlands, def. Mandy Minella, Luxembourg, 6-3, 6-2. Taylor Townsend, United States, def. Arina Rodionova, Australia, 6-2, 6-3. Laura Siegemund, Germany, def. Katie Swan, Britain, 6-2, 6-4. Barbora Strycova, Czech Republic, def. Lesia Tsurenko (32), Ukraine, 6-3, 6-2. Elise Mertens (21), Belgium, def. Fiona Ferro, France, 6-2, 6-0. Monica Niculescu, Romania, def. Andrea Petkovic, Germany, 2-6, 6-2, 7-5. Tamara Zidansek, Slovenia, def. Eugenie Bouchard, Canada, 6-3, 5-7, 8-6. Qiang Wang (15), China, def. Vera Lapko, Belarus, 6-2, 6-2. Sloane Stephens (9), United States, def. Timea Bacsinszky, Switzerland, 6-2, 6-4. Yafan Wang, China, def. Tereza Martin- cova, Czech Republic, 6-2, 7-5. Katerina Siniakova, Czech Republic, def. Ekaterina Alexandrova, Russia, 2-6, 6-1, 6-1. Johanna Konta (19), Britain, def. Ana Bogdan, Romania, 7-5, 6-2. Amanda Anisimova (25), United States, def. Sorana Cirstea, Romania, 6-3, 6-3. Magda Linette, Poland, def. Anna Kalinskaya, Russia, 6-0, 7-6 (9). Kristina Mladenovic, France, def. Vitalia Diatchenko, Russia, 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-2. Petra Kvitova (6), Czech Republic, def. Ons Jabeur, Tunisia, 6-4, 6-2. BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE All Times PDT East W L Pct GB New York 54 29 .651 — Tampa Bay 50 36 .581 5½ Boston 45 40 .529 10 Toronto 32 54 .372 23½ Baltimore 24 61 .282 31 Central W L Pct GB Minnesota 53 30 .639 — Cleveland 46 38 .548 7½ Chicago 39 42 .481 13 Detroit 27 52 .342 24 Kansas City 29 57 .337 25½ West W L Pct GB Houston 54 32 .628 — Texas 46 38 .548 7 Oakland 46 39 .541 7½ Los Angeles 42 43 .494 11½ Seattle 37 51 .420 18 ——— Tuesday’s Games Detroit at Chicago White Sox, ppd. Boston 10, Toronto 6 N.Y. Mets 4, N.Y. Yankees 2 Tampa Bay 6, Baltimore 3 Houston 9, Colorado 8 Cleveland 9, Kansas City 5 St. Louis at Seattle, 7:10 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Detroit (Norris 2-7) at Chicago White Sox (Cease 0-0), 11:10 a.m., 1st game Boston (Sale 3-7) at Toronto (Waguespack 0-0), 4:07 p.m. Baltimore (Means 7-4) at Tampa Bay (Stanek 0-1), 4:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (German 9-2) at N.Y. Mets (Vargas 3-3), 4:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Canning 3-4) at Texas (Jurado 5-3), 5:05 p.m. Detroit (Alexander 0-0) at Chicago White Sox (Detwiler 1-0), 5:10 p.m., 2nd game Houston (Miley 6-4) at Colorado (Lam- bert 2-0), 5:10 p.m. Cleveland (Clevinger 1-2) at Kansas City (Duffy 3-4), 5:15 p.m. Minnesota (Gibson 8-4) at Oakland (Anderson 0-3), 6:07 p.m. St. Louis (Wainwright 5-7) at Seattle (Leake 7-7), 7:10 p.m. Thursday’s Games Cleveland at Kansas City, 10:15 a.m. Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 11:10 a.m. Minnesota at Oakland, 1:07 p.m. St. Louis at Seattle, 1:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, 2:10 p.m. Boston at Toronto, 4:07 p.m. L.A. Angels at Texas, 5:05 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE All Times PDT East W L Pct GB Atlanta 50 36 .581 — Philadelphia 45 40 .529 4½ Washington 43 41 .512 6 New York 39 47 .453 11 Miami 32 51 .386 16½ Central W L Pct GB Milwaukee 46 40 .535 — Chicago 45 40 .529 ½ St. Louis 41 41 .500 3 Pittsburgh 40 43 .482 4½ Cincinnati 39 44 .470 5½ West W L Pct GB Los Angeles 57 29 .663 — Colorado 44 41 .518 12½ Arizona 43 43 .500 14 San Diego 42 42 .500 14 San Francisco 37 47 .440 19 ——— Tuesday’s Games Washington 3, Miami 2 Cincinnati 5, Milwaukee 4, 11 innings N.Y. Mets 4, N.Y. Yankees 2 Philadelphia 2, Atlanta 0 Houston 9, Colorado 8 Wednesday’s Games Miami (Alcantara 4-7) at Washington (Strasburg 9-4), 3:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Darvish 2-4) at Pittsburgh (Archer 3-6), 4:05 p.m. Milwaukee (Chacin 3-8) at Cincinnati (Gray 4-5), 4:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (German 9-2) at N.Y. Mets (Vargas 3-3), 4:10 p.m. Philadelphia (Pivetta 4-2) at Atlanta (Wil- son 0-0), 4:20 p.m. Houston (Miley 6-4) at Colorado (Lam- bert 2-0), 5:10 p.m. San Francisco (Anderson 3-2) at San Diego (Quantrill 2-2), 6:10 p.m. Arizona (Kelly 7-8) at L.A. Dodgers (Bue- hler 8-1), 7:10 p.m. St. Louis (Wainwright 5-7) at Seattle (Leake 7-7), 7:10 p.m. Thursday’s Games Miami at Washington, 8:05 a.m. Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 11:10 a.m. Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 1:05 p.m. St. Louis at Seattle, 1:10 p.m. Philadelphia at Atlanta, 4:20 p.m. San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, 6:10 p.m.