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Newspaper Page TextSPORTS Friday, August 9, 2019 East Oregonian A9 Argentina recovers after Pan Am jersey blunder By LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press AP Photo/Mark Lennihan Tiger Woods tees off on the 12th hole at the Northern Trust golf tournament at Liberty National Golf Course Thursday in Jersey City, N.J. Low scoring for Tiger at Liberty National By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Liberty National was never so susceptible to low scor- ing as it was Thursday, and Tiger Woods could feel it. He just couldn’t do much about it. Two hours into his open- ing round, Woods already was eight shots behind, and the gap only got wider. When his 12-foot par putt on his final hole stayed left of the cup, Woods had a 4-over 75. It was his second-worst score in 89 rounds of the FedEx Cup playoffs, left him 13 shots behind Troy Merritt and put him in dan- ger of missing the cut at The Northern Trust. “It just feels frustrating to shoot anything high no mat- ter how I feel,” Woods said. “We had the early tee time. We had the perfect greens and had to go out there shoot something under par and get it going. Had to be 4-, 5-, 6-under par today. I went the other way with it.” Of the 60 players who played in the morning, 39 broke par. Only one player, Patrick Rodgers at 76, had a higher score than Woods. Expectations were not as high as usual for Woods, even on a Liberty National course where he was a run- ner-up in his two previous appearances. This was only his third competitive round since the U.S. Open, and he felt enough stiffness in his back during the pro-am that he only chipped and putted on the back nine. He said his back was a lit- tle stiff Thursday, but that’s becoming the new normal. There are good days and bad, and this was some- where in between. What bothered him more was being in reasonable position off the tee on all but three holes and not being able to score. And it was clear early that would be an issue. He tugged a wedge into a lie so buried in the sand left of the 12th green — his third hole of the round — that he could only blast it out away from the flag. It kept rolling into a bunker on the other side, and he had to get up-and-down for bogey. After a two-putt birdie on the 13th, his round fell apart. Woods tried to hit a flat 9-iron on the par-3 14th, the signature hole at Liberty National with a view of the Statue of Liberty and the Manhattan skyline behind her. He pulled it over the flag, over the green and into a 5-foot ditch. Woods stood at the edge and looked down, hopeful of being able to play from there. The ball was sitting down. There was no chance. “Even if I had a perfect lie, it would have been one of those practice round things, where as kids we might try and play it, and hopefully wouldn’t hit ourselves,” Woods said. “But no, it was sitting down.” He took a penalty drop and faced a flop shot to a green that ran away from him, and he left that in the high grass. That led to dou- ble bogey. Unable to reach the green from a fairway bunker on the next hole, he made another bogey. After a beautiful pitch into the slope on the short par-4 16th that left him a 6-foot birdie putt, he started walking right when he hit it, knowing the pace was too strong. Everything about the round was flat. “Just one of those things where I didn’t hit any good shots and didn’t make any putts,” Woods said. “Other than that, added up to a round that broke 80.” His worst score in these playoff events since the FedEx Cup began in 2007 was a 76 in the final round of this tournament in 2012 when it was at Bethpage Black. Woods already is on pace for his fewest tournaments in a season when healthy — for him, that means not injured — and it could get even shorter. He is No. 28 in the FedEx Cup, and with points counting quadru- ple the value, a missed cut means he will have to play well at Medinah next week to return to the Tour Cham- pionship, where last year he won to cap off a remarkable return following four back surgeries. All he was thinking about Thursday was not having to go home Friday. “I’m going to have to figure out a way to get this thing under par and hope- fully move on and have a chance on the weekend to keep progressing and keep going lower,” Woods said. “But I’ve got to get into the red at the end of the day tomorrow, for sure.” That was the objective Thursday, and it didn’t work out for him. It’s been that way since he won the Masters, and it was like that before he won a fifth green jacket at Augusta National. Except for his vic- tory, Woods has finished at least eight shots behind in his stroke-play events. “No matter how much you try to will it around, it doesn’t add up to the num- ber you want,” he said. “It’s happened before in the past. It happened today. And I’m sure it will happen again in the future — just hopefully not tomorrow.” BRIEFLY Hermiston High School to offer ImPACT testing, sports physicals HERMISTON — Hermiston High School will be offering ImPACT testing Tuesday at 2 p.m. Those who plan to participate in the computerized test are suggested to arrive at least 10 minutes before it begins. If the student has had the test done in the past year, there is no need to repeat it, as it remains valid for two years. The high school will also be offering sports phys- icals at the wellness clinic the day before and after the ImPACT testing. Physicals will be available from 8 a.m. until noon on Monday, and 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. on Wednesday. The cost is $10 per student, and only cash and checks are accepted. Both the ImPACT test and physicals are only available for students grades 7-12. LIMA, Peru — After the final buzzer, the members of Argentina’s women’s bas- ketball team huddled near the edge of the center circle and cried — even when they won. Their 73-59 victory over the U.S. Virgin Islands at the Pan American Games on Thursday was bittersweet. A day earlier, they had walked into the same court wearing the wrong uniform color and had been forced to forfeit their match against Colombia, and blocked from advancing to the medal rounds. No one knows exactly what went wrong. The Argentines were supposed to wear white jerseys as the away team but came onto the court in the Peruvian capi- tal in blue, the same color as AP Photo/Martin Mejia Argentina’s players watch the women’s basketball match against the Virgin Islands from the bench, at the Pan Ameri- can Games in Lima, Peru, on Thursday. Colombia. They had 15 min- utes to correct the mistake but couldn’t get the right shirts in time, leading to Colombia being awarded a walkover 20-0 victory. The embarrassing blunder prompted two senior team officials to resign and became a sad end to the medal hopes of a promising team. But “The Giants,” as they are best-known, grew even big- ger with adversity and recov- ered with a resounding, even if symbolic triumph. “It was a very emotional game. We needed to show that we were going to fight until the end,” said Melissa Gretter, who scored eight points. “It was tough yester- day, but we knew we needed to change the chip. We knew that we had a game to play, and we wanted the victory.” Gretter tried to hold back tears in front of journalists until she broke down when she remembered the joy of her teammates when they flew on a plane from Buenos Aires to Lima for the begin- ning of the tournament. “We came in search of medal,” said Gretter, a 5-foot-1 (1.65-meter) point guard who has been called the Lionel Messi of Argen- tina’s basketball. “That hope for us is gone. It’s a tough situation... but we’re going to end this championship in the best possible way.” Rodeo: Clayton Sellars leads in bull riding Continued from Page A8 Guenthner was mak- ing just his second trip to Hermiston, but he liked it so much last year that he made a return trip. “They have a nice facil- ity and great crowds,” he said. Jace Melvin of Fort Pierce, South Dakota, had a time of 5.1, and added to his first run of 4.1, he took the lead on two at 9.2 seconds. Staff photo by Kathy Aney Bull riding Once again, the bulls were the star of the show. Of the seven men who got on the back of a bull, only two turned in a legal ride. Wednesday night, it was bulls 9, cowboys 0. Clayton Sellars of Fruit- Chace and Tyson Thompson, of Munday, Texas, compete in team roping on day two of the Farm-City Pro Rodeo in Hermiston. The brothers won the round with a time of 5 seconds flat. land Park, Florida, turned in a score of 85 points on Red Beard, and leads the event. Dalan Duncan of Bal- lard, Utah, turned his 8-second ride into 82 points on the back of Crocodile Rock. Barrel racing Jennifer Barrett of Bulh, Idaho, had the hot run of the night with a time of 17.48 seconds. Brittney Barnett of Mon- tana leads the event with a time of 17.01, turned in Wednesday night. Ducks: Herbert could be in next season’s top NFL picks Continued from Page A8 he might bolt for the NFL after his junior season, Her- bert announced shortly before Oregon’s 7-6 victory over Michigan State in the RedBox Bowl that he would stay for his senior year. Barring disas- ter, he should be among the top quarterback prospects in next year’s NFL draft. “I think it’s a really special group of guys — all the guys sitting over there, they’re great to be around, they’re great teammates,” Herbert said at Oregon’s media day at the start of fall camp. “The coach- ing staff and all the staff, it’s really special. It’s really some- thing I wanted to be around for another year.” And there’s something else: Herbert will be joined this season at Oregon by his brother, tight end Patrick Her- bert, a four-star recruit who was among nearly a dozen early enrollees for the Ducks. The younger Herbert is already grabbing attention from Cristobal, who said he worked with the tight ends and tackles on the first day of practice. “My first chance to really kind of get in there with him and he responded great and that’s his DNA. The family DNA. We all know his fam- ily,” Cristobal said. “Expect- ing big things from Patrick and we really think he’s in the mix to play this year.” The elder Herbert will be looking for a new primary target this season. Dillon Mitchell, who topped the league last season with 75 catches for 1,184 yards and 10 touchdowns, left Ore- gon early and was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings. The team also took a hit this week when senior receiver Brenden Schooler under- went a foot procedure. He is projected to miss six to eight weeks. SCOREBOARD BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE East W L Pct GB New York 76 39 .661 — Tampa Bay 66 50 .569 10½ Boston 61 56 .521 16 Toronto 47 71 .398 30½ Baltimore 38 76 .333 37½ Central W L Pct GB Minnesota 70 44 .614 — Cleveland 68 46 .596 2 Chicago 51 62 .451 18½ Kansas City 41 75 .353 30 Detroit 34 78 .304 35 West W L Pct GB Houston 75 40 .652 — Oakland 65 50 .565 10 Texas 58 56 .509 16½ Los Angeles 56 60 .483 19½ Seattle 48 68 .414 27½ ——— Wednesday’s Games Boston 4, Kansas City 4, 9½ innings, susp. Chicago White Sox 8, Detroit 1 Cleveland 2, Texas 0, 1st game Atlanta 11, Minnesota 7 Toronto 4, Tampa Bay 3 Houston 14, Colorado 3 Chicago Cubs 10, Oakland 1 Cleveland 5, Texas 1, 2nd game Seattle 3, San Diego 2 N.Y. Yankees 14, Baltimore 2 Thursday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 12, Toronto 6 Boston 3, L.A. Angels 0 Detroit 10, Kansas City 8 Cleveland at Minnesota, 5:10 p.m. Friday’s Games Oakland (Fiers 10-3) at Chicago White Sox (Detwiler 1-2), 12:10 p.m. Houston (Miley 10-4) at Baltimore (Bundy 5-11), 4:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Happ 9-6) at Toronto (Reid-Foley 1-2), 4:07 p.m. Kansas City (Keller 7-11) at Detroit (Jack- son 1-5), 4:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Barria 4-5) at Boston (John- son 1-1), 4:10 p.m. Cleveland (Bieber 11-4) at Minnesota (Smeltzer 1-1), 5:10 p.m. Texas (Allard 0-0) at Milwaukee (Gonza- lez 2-1), 5:10 p.m. Tampa Bay (TBD) at Seattle (Gonzales 12-9), 7:10 p.m. Saturday’s Games N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 12:07 p.m. L.A. Angels at Boston, 1:05 p.m. Kansas City at Detroit, 3:10 p.m. Houston at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m. Cleveland at Minnesota, 4:10 p.m. Oakland at Chicago White Sox, 4:10 p.m. Texas at Milwaukee, 4:10 p.m. Tampa Bay at Seattle, 7:10 p.m. NATIONAL LEGUE East Atlanta Washington Philadelphia New York Miami Central W 68 61 59 59 43 W L 49 53 55 56 71 L Pct .581 .535 .518 .513 .377 Pct GB — 5½ 7½ 8 23½ GB Chicago 63 52 .548 — Milwaukee 60 56 .517 3½ St. Louis 58 55 .513 4 Cincinnati 54 59 .478 8 Pittsburgh 48 66 .421 14½ West W L Pct GB Los Angeles 77 40 .658 — Arizona 58 57 .504 18 San Francisco 56 59 .487 20 San Diego 52 61 .460 23 Colorado 52 62 .456 23½ ——— Wednesday’s Games N.Y. Mets 7, Miami 2 Atlanta 11, Minnesota 7 Houston 14, Colorado 3 Chicago Cubs 10, Oakland 1 L.A. Dodgers 2, St. Louis 1 Washington 4, San Francisco 1 Seattle 3, San Diego 2 Milwaukee 8, Pittsburgh 3 Arizona 6, Philadelphia 1 Thursday’s Games Chicago Cubs 12, Cincinnati 5 Miami 9, Atlanta 2 Philadelphia at San Francisco, 6:45 p.m. Colorado at San Diego, 7:10 p.m. Friday’s Games Atlanta (Teheran 6-7) at Miami (Smith 7-5), 4:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Darvish 4-5) at Cincinnati (Bauer 9-8), 4:10 p.m. Washington (Strasburg 14-5) at N.Y. Mets (Stroman 6-11), 4:10 p.m. Texas (Allard 0-0) at Milwaukee (Gonza- lez 2-1), 5:10 p.m. Pittsburgh (Archer 3-8) at St. Louis (Hud- son 10-6), 5:15 p.m. Arizona (Ray 10-7) at L.A. Dodgers (Bue- hler 10-2), 7:10 p.m. Colorado (Freeland 3-9) at San Diego (Quantrill 4-3), 7:10 p.m. Philadelphia (Smyly 2-6) at San Francisco (Beede 3-6), 7:15 p.m. Saturday’s Games Philadelphia at San Francisco, 1:05 p.m. Atlanta at Miami, 3:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 4:10 p.m. Texas at Milwaukee, 4:10 p.m. Washington at N.Y. Mets, 4:10 p.m. Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 4:15 p.m. Colorado at San Diego, 5:40 p.m. Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 6:10 p.m. SOCCER MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER EASTERN Philadelphia Atlanta New York City FC New York D.C. United Montreal New England Toronto FC Orlando City Chicago Columbus Cincinnati WESTERN Los Angeles FC Minnesota United San Jose W L T Pts GF GA 12 7 6 42 46 37 12 9 3 39 41 29 10 4 8 38 40 29 11 9 4 37 41 34 9 7 9 36 32 31 10 12 3 33 34 44 9 9 6 33 34 41 9 10 5 32 38 40 8 11 5 29 32 33 6 10 9 27 35 35 7 14 4 25 25 37 5 17 2 17 23 55 W L T Pts GF GA 16 3 4 52 61 23 11 7 5 38 39 30 11 7 5 38 40 34 Seattle 11 7 5 38 35 31 LA Galaxy 12 10 1 37 30 34 Real Salt Lake 10 9 4 34 33 31 FC Dallas 9 9 6 33 31 28 Portland 9 9 4 31 35 33 Houston 9 12 3 30 34 39 Sporting Kansas City 7 9 7 28 36 41 Vancouver 5 11 9 24 25 42 Colorado 6 12 5 23 39 48 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie. ——— Thursday, August 8 New York City FC 3, Houston 2 Saturday, August 10 New England at Seattle, 1 p.m. Cincinnati at Columbus, 4:30 p.m. Orlando City at Toronto FC, 4:30 p.m. Minnesota United at FC Dallas, 5 p.m. Real Salt Lake at Sporting Kansas City, 5:30 p.m. Montreal at Chicago, 6 p.m. San Jose at Colorado, 6 p.m. Vancouver at Portland, 8 p.m. Sunday, August 11 New York City FC at Atlanta, 12:55 p.m. Houston at Philadelphia, 3 p.m. LA Galaxy at D.C. United, 4:30 p.m. New York at Los Angeles FC, 7 p.m. Wednesday, August 14 Sporting Kansas City at Orlando City, 4:30 p.m. Colorado at Minnesota United, 5 p.m. Seattle at Real Salt Lake, 7 p.m. FC Dallas at LA Galaxy, 7:30 p.m. Chicago at Portland, 8 p.m. Saturday, August 17 New England at New York, 4 p.m. FC Dallas at Montreal, 4:30 p.m. New York City FC at Cincinnati, 4:30 p.m. Toronto FC at Columbus, 4:30 p.m. Orlando City at Minnesota United, 5 p.m. Philadelphia at Chicago, 5 p.m. San Jose at Sporting Kansas City, 5:30 p.m. Colorado at Houston, 6 p.m. D.C. United at Vancouver, 7 p.m. Los Angeles FC at Real Salt Lake, 7 p.m. Seattle at LA Galaxy, 7 p.m. Sunday, August 18 Atlanta at Portland, 7 p.m. FOOTBALL AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Buffalo 1 0 0 1.000 New England 1 0 0 1.000 Miami 1 0 0 1.000 N.Y. Jets 0 1 0 .000 South W L T Pct Tennessee 1 0 0 1.000 Houston 0 1 0 .000 Indianapolis 0 1 0 .000 Jacksonville 0 1 0 .000 North W L T Pct Baltimore 1 0 0 1.000 Cleveland 1 0 0 1.000 Cincinnati 0 0 0 .000 Pittsburgh 0 0 0 .000 PF PA 24 16 31 3 34 27 22 31 PF PA 27 10 26 28 16 24 0 29 PF PA 29 0 30 10 0 0 0 0 West Denver Kansas City L.A. Chargers Oakland W 1 0 0 0 L 0 0 0 0 T Pct PF PA 0 1.000 14 10 0 .000 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 .000 0 0 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA N.Y. Giants 1 0 0 1.000 31 22 Dallas 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Philadelphia 0 1 0 .000 10 27 Washington 0 1 0 .000 10 30 South W L T Pct PF PA Carolina 1 0 0 1.000 23 13 New Orleans 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Tampa Bay 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Atlanta 0 2 0 .000 37 48 North W L T Pct PF PA Green Bay 1 0 0 1.000 28 26 Minnesota 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Chicago 0 1 0 .000 13 23 Detroit 0 1 0 .000 3 31 West W L T Pct PF PA Arizona 0 0 0 .000 0 0 L.A. Rams 0 0 0 .000 0 0 San Francisco 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Seattle 0 0 0 .000 0 0 ——— Thursday’s Games Buffalo 24, Indianapolis 16 Baltimore 29, Jacksonville 0 New England 31, Detroit 3 Cleveland 30, Washington 10 Tennessee 27, Philadelphia 10 Miami 34, Atlanta 27 N.Y. Giants 31, N.Y. Jets 22 Carolina 23, Chicago 13 Green Bay 28, Houston 26 Denver at Seattle, 7 p.m. L.A. Chargers at Arizona, 7 p.m. Friday’s Games Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh, 4:30 p.m. Minnesota at New Orleans, 5 p.m. Saturday’s Games L.A. Rams at Oakland, 5 p.m. Cincinnati at Kansas City, 5 p.m. Dallas at San Francisco, 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 15 Philadelphia at Jacksonville, 4 p.m. Green Bay at Baltimore, 4:30 p.m. N.Y. Jets at Atlanta, 4:30 p.m. Cincinnati at Washington, 4:30 p.m. Oakland at Arizona, 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 16 Buffalo at Carolina, 4 p.m. Chicago at N.Y. Giants, 4:30 p.m. Miami at Tampa Bay, 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17 Cleveland at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. New England at Tennessee, 4 p.m. Kansas City at Pittsburgh, 4:30 p.m. Detroit at Houston, 5 p.m. Dallas vs L.A. Rams at Honolulu, Hawaii, 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18 New Orleans at L.A. Chargers, 1 p.m. Seattle at Minnesota, 5 p.m. Monday, Aug. 19 San Francisco at Denver, 5 p.m.