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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