SPORTS
Friday, August 9, 2019
East Oregonian
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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.