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SPORTS
East Oregonian
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Tennis: Novak Djokovic meets Roberto Bautista Agut
Continued from Page B1
AP Photo/Chris Pizzello
Carli Lloyd, center, and members of the U.S. women’s na-
tional soccer team accept the award for Best Team at the
ESPY Awards on Wednesday at the Microsoft Theater in
Los Angeles.
Alex Morgan, U.S.
women’s soccer
team honored at
The ESPYS
By BETH HARRIS
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES —
The U.S. women’s national
soccer team celebrated
its Women’s World Cup
victory on both coasts
Wednesday, honored with
a ticker-tape parade in
New York City before jet-
ting to the West Coast and
collecting trophies at The
ESPYS in the evening.
Alex Morgan won
female athlete of the year
and shared the best team
award with her soccer
mates.
“Sorry, but this is proba-
bly the second-best trophy
we won this week,” Mor-
gan said jokingly, hoisting
her individual trophy.
As she got up from the
front row, Megan Rapi-
noe’s black tuxedo jacket
opened and exposed her
left breast, which was
caught by cameras show-
ing the in-house feed of
the show. It wasn’t imme-
diately known whether
it went out over the live
national telecast.
“I’ve dropped the
F-bomb on every stage the
last four days, so we’ll just
spare you that,” Rapinoe
told the audience.
Giannis Antetokoun-
mpo of the Milwaukee
Bucks won male athlete of
the year at the show hon-
oring the past year’s top
athletes and moments in
sports.
“This is all about hard
work. When you believe
in your dreams this can
happen,” Antetokounmpo
said. “Hopefully, if I keep
working hard there’s more
to come.”
Comedian Tracy Mor-
gan presided over the show
at Microsoft Theater in
downtown Los Angeles.
Alex Morgan thanked
ESPN for its recent deal to
carry NWSL games.
“When the World Cup
is behind us, it is the pro-
fessional league that we
need to continually lift
up and grow,” she said.
“Investment in women
and girls should not only
occur on the playing fields
but in more storytelling of
badass, amazing women
who continue to show
that we are more than just
athletes.”
Sandra
Bullock
announced the best team
award, saying, “All those
in favor of equal pay say
aye.”
The U.S. women’s
team is suing to receive
pay equal to their male
counterparts.
“Keep fighting for
equality,” Billie Jean King
told the team from the
stage earlier in the show.
Carli Lloyd informed
the crowd the team had
its hair and makeup done
during the flight from New
York.
“We look pretty fabu-
lous, I think,” she said.
Lloyd added, “It’s
been an incredible jour-
ney. Here’s to the next
World Cup.”
enough to give him that set.
But Federer quickly turned
things around in the sec-
ond, conjuring up whatever
he wanted, exactly when he
wanted it.
His approach shots were
beyond reproach. His vol-
leys vibrant. His returns were
timed so well, and struck so
violently, that one knocked the
net-rushing Nishikori’s racket
plum out of his hands.
And Federer’s serve? Sure,
he faced break points, but he
never allowed 2014 U.S. Open
runner-up Nishikori to con-
vert another.
“Overall, I’m just very
happy how I’m hitting the
ball,” Federer said. “Feel good
off the baseline, too, which is
clearly going to be important,
maybe, for the next match.”
Yeah, maybe.
Nadal, of course, is still a
ball-retrieving, shot-whipping
machine at the back of the
court.
He did have some trou-
ble closing out the first set
against Querrey, an American
ranked 65th who was trying
to reach his second Wimble-
don semifinal.
Nadal wasted three set
points at 5-3, then another
before getting broken when
serving for it at 5-4. Again
serving for that set at 6-5, he
erased a trio of break points
for Querrey before holding —
and finally was on his way.
“I definitely think he’s a
guy that can win it again,”
Querrey said about two-time
AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth
Rafael Nadal celebrates winning a men’s quarterfinal match against Sam Querrey on Wednes-
day at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London.
Wimbledon champ Nadal.
Djokovic, eyeing a fifth
trophy at the All England
Club and 16th overall at
Slams, used a 10-game run to
transform what was shaping
up as an even, entertaining
quarterfinal into a 6-4, 6-0,
6-2 romp against 21st-seeded
David Goffin.
“I felt,” Djokovic said,
“like I managed to dismantle
his game.”
Down an early break, the
defending champion grabbed
control midway through the
opening set and never let go.
“He was everywhere,”
Goffin said.
Djokovic did to Goffin
exactly what he does to so
many men on so many sur-
faces and at so many tour-
naments: He takes their best
shot, deals with it and then
wears them down.
“I
sincerely
hope,”
Djokovic said, “that my oppo-
nent feels like he’s got to work
twice as (hard as) against
any other opponent to win a
point.”
Bautista Agut, a first-
time Grand Slam semifinal-
ist, is supposed to be on the
island of Ibiza right now, hav-
ing a bachelor party with a
half-dozen pals ahead of his
November wedding. Instead,
he will play on after beating
No. 26 Guido Pella of Argen-
tina 7-5, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.
“Well,” the 31-year-old
Bautista Agut said, “it feels
better to be here in London.”
Federer and Nadal are
surely pleased to still be
around, too.
Everyone else will be
thrilled to see them trade
strokes on Centre Court once
more.
“I know they haven’t
played here in a long time. It
seems a little more exciting,
more special, they are play-
ing at Wimbledon, maybe,
rather than outside of a Grand
Slam,” Querrey said. “I’ll be
watching on Friday.
Softball: All-Stars move on to West Regional Tournament
Continued from Page B1
the bases early in the inning.
Neveau drew a walk during
the following at-bat to send
Krighaum home.
Josie Jenness sent a line
drive deep into left field,
good enough to send two
more runs across the plate.
Jenness would reach home
one at-bat later after Wilson
grounded out to first base.
It was the first out Red-
mond managed for the
inning, but it came five runs
too late, as Pendleton had
already taken an advan-
tage that was too vast to
overcome.
Schumacher took to the
circle to close the game out
in the bottom of the fifth
and got two easy strikeouts
before Redmond grounded
out to Ella Sams at second
base, calling the game after
five innings.
“This feels great,” Wilson
said. “The girls played like
state champs.”
The
freshly-crowned
state champs got three runs
each from Schumacher
and Neveau. Boatman hit
2-for-3 and scored two runs.
Krighaum and Jenness also
chipped in two runs each to
aid in the blow out.
Kendall Murphy may
have handed Redmond their
only two hits of the game,
but her steady aim knocked
down five strikeouts over the
first four innings.
“We have a problem that
a lot of teams don’t have,”
Wilson said. “We have too
many good pitchers. It’s a
good problem to have.”
And it’s not over
for
the
Pendleton
Little Leaguers — the team
heads down to San Ber-
nardino, California, on Sun-
day, July 21 to represent
Oregon in the West Regional
Tournament.
“We are no longer
Pendleton,” Wilson said.
Photo contributed by Julie Murphy
Pendleton’s 12U All-Star softball team celebrates its victory
over Redmond in a Little League softball state title game on
Wednesday in Keizer.
SCOREBOARD
BASEBALL
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Karson Lani, of Pepsi Diamondjaxx, pitches against the
Pendleton Black Sox Wednesday at Bob White Field.
Baseball: Diamondjaxx
close season at home today
Continued from Page B1
with a walk-off RBI-sin-
gle on his next at-bat that
sealed the five-inning win.
“We’ve faced a lot of
older, more experienced
pitchers,” said Monkman,
an incoming Buckaroo
sophomore. “Today, it was
all about hanging in there
and waiting for that right
pitch.”
In the second game, The
Diamondjaxx trailed going
into the bottom of the sev-
enth inning. A sacrifice
fly by Jim Smith scored
Monkman and knotted the
score at 8-8.
With one out, Jacob
Deveraux bunted the ball
and moved Karson Lani
to third. A throwing error
on the play allowed Lani to
score the winning run.
“(The Diamondjaxx)
have a little more experi-
ence, but we can compete
with them,” Black Sox
coach J.D. Lambert said.
“We just had some little
mistakes today that shot us
in the foot.”
The Diamondjaxx (16-
11) will finish their season
Thursday, hosting Hanford
in a doubleheader at 4 p.m.
East
W
L
Pct
GB
New York
57
31
.648
—
Tampa Bay
52
39
.571
6½
Boston
49
41
.544
9
Toronto
34
57
.374
24½
Baltimore
27
62
.303
30½
Central
W
L
Pct
GB
Minnesota
56
33
.629
—
Cleveland
50
38
.568
5½
Chicago
42
44
.488
12½
Kansas City
30
61
.330
27
Detroit
28
57
.329
26
West
W
L
Pct
GB
Houston
57
33
.633
—
Oakland
50
41
.549
7½
Texas
48
42
.533
9
Los Angeles
45
46
.495
12½
Seattle
39
55
.415
20
———
Tuesday’s Games
AL 4, NL 3
Thursday’s Games
Houston (TBD) at Texas (Lynn 11-4),
5:05 p.m.
Friday’s Games
Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m.
Toronto at N.Y. Yankees, 4:05 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers at Boston, 4:10 p.m.
Minnesota at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m.
Houston at Texas, 5:05 p.m.
Detroit at Kansas City, 5:15 p.m.
Chicago White Sox at Oakland, 7:07 p.m.
Seattle at L.A. Angels, 7:07 p.m.
Saturday’s Games
Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 10:05 a.m., 1st
game
Toronto at N.Y. Yankees, 10:05 a.m.
Chicago White Sox at Oakland, 1:07 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m., 2nd
game
Minnesota at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m.
Detroit at Kansas City, 4:15 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers at Boston, 4:15 p.m.
Houston at Texas, 5:05 p.m.
Seattle at L.A. Angels, 6:07 p.m.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
East
Atlanta
Washington
Philadelphia
New York
Miami
Central
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
West
Los Angeles
Arizona
San Diego
Colorado
W
54
47
47
40
33
W
47
47
44
44
41
W
60
46
45
44
L
37
42
43
50
55
L
43
44
44
45
46
L
32
45
45
45
Pct
.593
.528
.522
.444
.375
Pct
.522
.516
.500
.494
.471
Pct
.652
.505
.500
.494
GB
—
6
6½
13½
19½
GB
—
½
2
2½
4½
GB
—
13½
14
14½
San Francisco 41 48 .461 17½
———
Tuesday’s Games
AL 4, NL 3
Friday’s Games
Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 11:20 a.m.
Washington at Philadelphia, 3:05 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers at Boston, 4:10 p.m.
N.Y. Mets at Miami, 4:10 p.m.
San Francisco at Milwaukee, 5:10 p.m.
Arizona at St. Louis, 5:15 p.m.
Cincinnati at Colorado, 5:40 p.m.
Atlanta at San Diego, 7:10 p.m.
Saturday’s Games
Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 11:20 a.m.
N.Y. Mets at Miami, 3:10 p.m.
Arizona at St. Louis, 4:15 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers at Boston, 4:15 p.m.
San Francisco at Milwaukee, 4:15 p.m.
Washington at Philadelphia, 4:15 p.m.
Cincinnati at Colorado, 5:10 p.m.
Atlanta at San Diego, 5:40 p.m.
TENNIS
WIMBLEDON RESULTS
LONDON (AP) — Results Wednesday
from Wimbledon at The All England
Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club (seedings in
parentheses):
Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Sinia-
kova (2), Czech Republic, def. Anna-Lena
Groenefeld, Germany, and Demi Schuurs
(8), Netherlands, 6-2, 7-6 (1).
MIXED DOUBLES
Third Round
Bruno Soares, Brazil, and Nicole Melichar
(1), United States, def. Andy Murray, Brit-
ain, and Serena Williams, United States,
6-3, 4-6, 6-2.
Matwe Middelkoop, Netherlands, and
Yang Zhaoxuan, China, def. Marcus Dan-
iell, New Zealand, and Jennifer Brady,
United States, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-4.
Wesley Koolhof, Netherlands, and Kveta
Peschke (5), Czech Republic, def. Aisam-
ul-Haq Qureshi, Pakistan, and Nadiia
Kichenok, Ukraine, 7-6 (5), 6-4.
Artem Sitak, New Zealand, and Laura
Siegemund, Germany, def. Mate Pavic,
Croatia, and Gabriela Dabrowski (3), Can-
ada, 5-7, 7-6 (5), 13-12 (5).
Ivan Dodig, Croatia, and Latisha Chan
(8), Taiwan, def. Edouard Roger-Vasselin,
France, and Andreja Klepac (11), Slove-
nia, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4.
CYCLING
TOUR DE FRANCE RESULTS
MEN’S SINGLES
Quarterfinals
Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. David
Goffin (21), Belgium, 6-4, 6-0, 6-2.
Roberto Bautista Agut (23), Spain, def.
Guido Pella (26), Argentina, 7-5, 6-4,
3-6, 6-3.
Rafael Nadal (3), Spain, def. Sam Querrey,
United States, 7-5, 6-2, 6-2.
Roger Federer (2), Switzerland, def. Kei
Nishikori (8), Japan, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4.
MEN’S DOUBLES
Quarterfinals
Raven Klaasen, South Africa, and Michael
Venus (3), New Zealand, def. Henri Konti-
nen, Finland, and John Peers (8), Austra-
lia, 4-6, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-3.
WOMEN’S DOUBLES
Third Round
Danielle Collins and Bethanie Mat-
tek-Sands , United States, def. Victoria
Azarenka, Belarus, and Ash Barty (10),
Australia, walkover.
Quarterfinal
Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwan, and Barbora Stry-
cova (3), Czech Republic, def. Elise Mer-
tens, Belgium, and Aryna Sabalenka (6),
Belarus, 6-4, 6-2.
Gabriela Dabrowski, Canada, and Xu
Yifan (4), China, def. Bethanie Mat-
tek-Sands and Danielle Collins, United
States, 6-1, 6-3.
Wednesday
At Colmar, France
Fifth Stage
A 109.1-mile hilly ride near the Ger-
man border from Saint-Die-des-
Vosges to Colmar, with a pair of Cate-
gory 2 climbs sandwiched by a pair of
Category 3s
1. Peter Sagan, Slovakia, Bora-Hans-
grohe, 4:02:33.
2. Wout Van Aert, Belgium, Jum-
bo-Visma, same time.
3. Matteo Trentin, Italy, Mitchelton-Scott,
same time.
4. Sonny Colbrelli, Italy, Bahrain-Merida,
same time.
5. Greg Van Avermaet, Belgium, CCC,
same time.
6. Julien Simon, France, Cofidis, same
time.
7. Michael Matthews, Australia, Sunweb,
same time.
8. Nils Politt, Germany, Katusha Alpecin,
same time.
9. Jasper Stuyven, Belgium, Trek-Sega-
fredo, same time.
10. Julian Alaphilippe, France, Deceun-
inck-QuickStep, same time.
11. Xandro Meurisse, Belgium,
Wanty-Gobert, same time.
12. Edvald Boasson Hagen, Norway,
Dimension Data, same time.
13. Alberto Bettiol, Italy, EF Education
First, same time.
14. Guillaume Martin, France,
Wanty-Gobert, same time.
15. Alexey Lutsenko, Kazakhstan, Astana,
same time.
16. Omar Fraile, Spain, Astana, same
time.
17. Fabio Felline, Italy, Trek-Segafredo,
same time.
18. David Gaudu, France, Groupama-FDJ,
same time.
19. Warren Barguil, France, Arkea-Sam-
sic, same time.
20. Daryl Impey, South Africa, Mitchel-
ton-Scott, same time.
Also
30. Joey Rosskopf, United States, CCC,
same time.
64. Tejay van Garderen, United States, EF
Education First, same time.
92. Ben King, United States, Dimension
Data, 8:16.
148. Chad Haga, United States, Sun-
web, 16:58.
Overall Standings
(After five stages)
1. Julian Alaphilippe, France, Deceun-
inck-QuickStep, 18:44:12.
2. Wout Van Aert, Belgium, Jum-
bo-Visma, :14.
3. Steven Kruijswijk, Netherlands, Jum-
bo-Visma, :25.
4. George Bennett, New Zealand, Jum-
bo-Visma, same time.
5. Michael Matthews, Australia, Sun-
web, :40.
6. Egan Bernal, Colombia, Ineos, same
time.
7. Geraint Thomas, Britain, Ineos, :45.
8. Enric Mas, Spain, Deceuninck-Quick-
Step, :46.
9. Peter Sagan, Slovakia, Bora-Hans-
grohe, :50.
10. Greg Van Avermaet, Belgium, CCC,
:51.
11. Michael Woods, Canada, EF Educa-
tion First, same time.
12. Wilco Kelderman, Netherlands, Sun-
web, same time.
13. Thibaut Pinot, France, Groupa-
ma-FDJ, :52.
14. Rigoberto Uran, Colombia, EF Educa-
tion First, :53.
15. Tejay Van Garderen, United States, EF
Education First, same time.
16. Sonny Colbrelli, Italy, Bahrain-Mer-
ida, :56.
17. Matteo Trentin, Italy, Mitchel-
ton-Scott, :57.
18. David Gaudu, France, Groupama-FDJ,
same time.
19. Rudy Molard, France, Groupama-FDJ,
same time.
20. Nicolas Roche, Ireland, Sunweb, 1:00.
Also
72. Joey Rosskopf, United States, CCC,
5:52.
103. Ben King, United States, Dimension
Data, 23:25.
174. Chad Haga, United States, Sun-
web, 39:51.