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E AST O REGONIAN SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 2019 FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS | FACEBOOK.COM/EOSPORTS B1 Seattle’s Moore out for Week 1 with shoulder injury RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Seat- tle Seahawks wide receiver David Moore will miss the start of the regular season after suffering a shoulder injury in practice. Coach Pete Carroll said Friday that the team is still fi guring out the extent of the injury. But Car- roll said he does not expect Moore to be available for Week 1 against Cincinnati. Moore suffered the injury during Thursday’s practice. Moore was expected to be in the mix among Seattle’s wide receiv- ers after hav- ing 26 catches for 445 yards and fi ve touchdowns last season. He’s also been an option in the return game. Moore Moore’s injury will impact Seat- tle’s depth for Saturday’s presea- son game against the Chargers. The Seahawks are already without rookie DK Metcalf as he recovers from minor knee surgery. SEAHAWKS AT CHARGERS Seattle’s starters will likely get their fi nal preseason action as Car- roll’s plan in the past has the major- ity of them sitting for the fi nal week of the preseason. Russell Wilson played one quarter last week in Minnesota and will likely get a bit more time against the Chargers. The Seahawks’ starting offense looked crisp against the Vikings with the exception of two missed third-down throws that would have extended drives. The other competition to watch on offense will be the depth at wide receiver with several players — Jazz Ferguson, Keenan Reyn- olds, Gary Jennings, John Ursua, Malik Turner — battling for the fi nal spots. Philip Rivers, Keenan Allen and Joey Bosa will not play for the third straight game for the Char- gers. Rivers, who used to want to get as many preseason snaps as possible, has been asked if he is comfortable rolling into the regu- lar season without any live game reps and he said he would be ready to go. Allen tweaked his ankle last week but has practiced this week and hopefully should not miss time during the regular season. Bosa is a healthy scratch like Rivers. Adrian Phillips and Jaylen Wat- kins will be scrutinized at safety after Derwin James had surgery for a stress fracture in his right foot. Watkins had an interception last week off a tipped pass. Hermiston’s Lerten has a big game and a soft heart AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta David Fox, center, with his sons Jim- my, left, and Dewey gather their equipment as they wrap up practice at a baseball fi eld in northeast Wash- ington on Friday. Put me in, coach Youth baseball participation on the rise By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press Staff photo by Ben Lonergan Colby Lerten, 12, shows off his swing at the Big River Golf Course in Umatilla on Wednesday evening. Young golfer qualifi es for Charlotte Tournament of Champions By ANNIE FOWLER East Oregonian H ERMISTON — There are two things you should know about Colby Lerten. He’s a heck of a golfer for being just 12 years old, and he has a passion for help- ing others. Lerten, who will start sixth grade at Sandstone Middle School in Hermiston next week, won an Oregon Golf Associa- tion junior tournament at Wildhorse Golf Course in Pendleton on Aug. 9. The fol- lowing day, he won another OGA junior event at La Grande. His luck ran out Aug. 13 in The Dalles, fi nishing third to a pair of golfers a year older. But his performance at the fi rst two events qualifi ed him for the Charlotte Tournament of Champions on Sept. 21 at Creekside Golf Club in Salem. It will be his second trip to the event. “If you win one of the qualifi ers, you get to go play for a trophy and be the best in the state,” Lerten said. “I won two of three. In The Dalles, the guys who beat me are ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in the state. They have 3 and 9 handicaps. I’m a 25.” Lerten fi nished eighth in the Charlotte last year in the 11-year-old division, but he said he has it fi gured out this year. “If you stay focused, it doesn’t get to you,” he said. “If you let them get in front of your game, you could lose the tournament.” The Charlotte is an 18-hole stroke play competition. Girls 8-11 and boys 8-9 play nine holes. A chip off the old block Lerten, who also plays lacrosse and basketball and runs cross-country, got his fi rst set of clubs when he was about 2 years old. They were made of plastic and they were for right-handed players. No problem. Lerten just turned the club around so he could hit left-handed. His parents, Kris and Stacey, started playing golf when Lerten was a toddler, and he has grown up playing Big River Golf Course in Umatilla. “He can beat his mom, but not me — yet,” Kris Lerten said. “His short game might be better than mine. He spends most of his time playing with adults. It’s a fun family thing.” Lerten will play in the Campus Life Golf Tournament with his mom at Big River on Saturday. “This tournament helps kids,” Ler- ten said. “I want to golf, and helping kids is exciting.” See Heart, Page B2 WASHINGTON — David Fox and his wife, Mary Ann, have a rule for their sons, 11-year-old Dewey and 8-year-old Jimmy: They have to play a team sport. The kids get to choose which one. Dewey tried soc- cer and Jimmy had a go at fl ag foot- ball, but for them, nothing compares to baseball. “They always came back to base- ball,” David Fox said. “Every spring or fall we ask, ‘Do you want to try something else?’ And they say, ‘No.’” Dewey and Jimmy are not alone: Over the past six years, participa- tion in youth baseball has been on the rise. While no one is saying the erst- while national pastime is return- ing to its glory years, Major League Baseball is encouraged that kids are returning to baseball and sticking with it. Between 2013 and 2018, the number of U.S. kids playing base- ball and softball combined increased by nearly 3 million, according to annual surveys by the Sports Fitness & Industry Association. During that same period, participation in soccer and football declined and basketball increased only slightly. “The increase in baseball par- ticipation is real, there’s no ques- tion about it, and it’s substantial. It’s statistically signifi cant without a doubt,” said Tom Cove, president and CEO of the SFIA. See Youth, Page B2 SPORTS SHORTS Patent off ice sacks Brady’s bid for ‘Tom Terrific’ trademark BOSTON (AP) — It’s settled: Tom Seaver is “Tom Terrifi c,” not Tom Brady. The U.S. Patent and Trade- mark Offi ce rejected Brady’s application to take control of the nickname on Thursday, rul- ing that it “points uniquely and unmistakably to Tom Seaver.” It adds that giving Brady a trademark for “Tom Ter- rifi c” might lead people to con- clude the Hall of Fame pitcher endorses any products, rather than the New England Patriots quarterback. Brady has said he doesn’t even like the nickname and was just trying to trademark it to keep others from using it with- out his permission. But Seaver fans accused Brady of trying to appropriate their hero’s identity. Brady will have to make do with the nicknames TB12 and, of course, G.O.A.T. — or “Greatest of All Time.” New England Patriots quarter- back Tom Brady speaks to the media Thursday following an NFL preseason football game against the Carolina Panthers in Foxborough, Mass. AP Photo/Charles Krupa
