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S PORTS
THE BULLETIN • THUrsday, May 27, 2021
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GOLF
PREP WRESTLING
Next edition of
The Match on July 6
HELENA, Mont. — The
next edition of The Match
will feature PGA stars Phil
Mickelson and Bryson
DeChambeau along with
NFL quarterbacks Tom
Brady and Aaron Rodgers.
The celebrity fundrais-
ing competition will be
held at the Reserve golf
course at Moonlight Ba-
sin in Montana on July 6
and will be televised on
TNT starting at 5 p.m. EDT,
Turner Sports announced
Wednesday.
Players will have open
mics and will be able to
talk with other players and
the commentators during
the modified alternate
shot match play event,
which will raise money
for Feeding America and
other charities.
Mickelson, winner of
this year’s PGA Cham-
pionship, will be paired
with seven-time Super
Bowl champion Brady to
take on 2020 U.S. Open
champion DeChambeau
and Rodgers, a three-time
NFL MVP and Super Bowl
champion.
Mickelson won the
inaugural edition of
The Match against Tiger
Woods in Las Vegas in
2018.
Mickelson and Brady
lost the second event to
Tiger Woods and Peyton
Manning in May 2020.
But in November, Mick-
elson and former NBA
star Charles Barkley upset
three-time NBA champion
Stephen Curry and Man-
ning, who will be inducted
into the Pro Football Hall
of Fame in August.
— Associated Press
INSIDE
• Lefty will try to focus on
The Colonial following
his historic PGA Cham-
pionship victory, A7
MLB
Coach banned over
harassment probe
NEW YORK — Former
New York Mets manager
Mickey Callaway was sus-
pended by Major League
Baseball on Wednesday
through at least the end of
the 2022 season following
an investigation of sexual
harassment allegations.
Shortly after MLB’s
announcement of the
suspension, the Los Ange-
les Angels said they had
fired Callaway, the team’s
pitching coach since Oc-
tober 2019. The Angels
suspended him on Feb. 2
at the start of MLB’s inves-
tigation.
Commissioner Rob
Manfred did not release
details of what MLB’s
probe determined, but
said in a statement, “I have
concluded that Mr. Calla-
way violated MLB’s poli-
cies, and that placement
on the ineligible list is
warranted.”
In a report published
on Feb. 1, The Athletic said
Callaway “aggressively
pursued” several women
who work in sports media
and sent three of them in-
appropriate photos.
Callaway sent unin-
vited and sometimes un-
answered messages to
the women via email, text
or social media and asked
one to send nude photos
in return, according to
the report. He often com-
mented on their appear-
ance in a way that made
them uncomfortable and
on one occasion “thrust
his crotch near the face
of a reporter” while she
interviewed him, The Ath-
letic said.
Manfred said once the
2022 season ends, Calla-
way can apply for possible
reinstatement.
— Associated Press
A win-win for Outlaws, Cougars
Mountain View and
Sisters wrestlers get some
experience, as bigger
meets are on the horizon
BY BRIAN RATHBONE • The Bulletin
SISTERS —
N
o score was kept
for the dual meet
between Mountain
View and Sisters on
Tuesday evening at Sisters High
Dean Guernsey/The Bulletin photos
School.
Sisters’ Hayden Kunz (in black) wrestles Mountain View’s Reid Kamperman during a dual meet on Tuesday night at Sisters High School.
Even if it was, both coaches would
Sisters program.
have felt good about the outcome, no
“This is good for us because we
matter what the scoreboard may have are a growing program with a young
shown.
team,” said Sisters coach Gary Thor-
For Mountain View — one of the
son. “Mountain View is a great 6A pro-
state’s better wrestling programs
gram. Les does an unbelievable
in Class 6A coming off of
job with that group. Our guys
a third-place finish at the
got to see up close what a
Inside
state meet in 2020 — the
championship caliber pro-
High school
meet at Sisters offered
gram looks like, acts like
scores and results
an opportunity for some
and wrestles like.”
in Scoreboard,
younger wrestlers to com-
Mountain View won
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pete in a dual-meet format.
seven of the nine matches.
“We’ve gotten the events
Peter Cole, Jeremiah Reid,
for all of our varsity kids, but
Liam Williams, Cameron
we haven’t gotten a lot of events for
Myhre and Grant Lemery all won by
our junior varsity kids,” said Mountain pin for the Cougars, while Sisters’ Car-
View coach Les Combs. “It is a great
son Brown and Hunter Spor pinned
way for our guys to get experience in
their opponents.
a dual-meet format, just try to give ev-
While the state wrestling tourna-
eryone the most chances they can get.”
ment was underway in late February
On the opposing side of the mat
2020, the first case of COVID-19 was
was Sisters, a 4A program that is ac-
detected in Oregon. Not long after the
customed to competing in multiteam
2020 state tournament was completed,
tournaments but not necessarily dual
wrestling became a prohibited sport,
meets. Even though Mountain View
due to it being considered full-contact
did not send their A-team, it was a
by the Oregon Health Authority.
See Wrestling / A6
beneficial evening for the fledgling
NFL | SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS
Mountain View’s Cameron Myhre, top, wrestles Sisters’ Scott Henderson during a dual
meet on Tuesday night at Sisters High School.
COLLEGE BASEBALL
What has happened to the Beavs’ bullpen?
BY JARRID DENNEY
Corvallis Gazette-Times
Jeff Chiu/AP photo
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo (10) smiles next
to quarterback Josh Johnson (1) and fullback Kyle Juszczyk (44) at the
team’s training facility in Santa Clara, California, on Tuesday.
Garoppolo uses criticism
to push to the ‘next level’
BY JOSH DUBOW
AP Pro Football Writer
SANTA CLARA, Calif. —
Jimmy Garoppolo couldn’t
help but hear the criticisms all
offseason.
The San Francisco 49ers
couldn’t rely on him because of
durability concerns. He lacked
the mobility and playmaking
ability of the top young quar-
terbacks in the league. The
Niners needed an upgrade at
QB if they wanted to be a pe-
rennial contender.
The critiques were followed
by a blockbuster trade when
the 49ers traded the 12th over-
all pick and two future first-
round selections to move up to
No. 3 in the draft where they
took Trey Lance to be their
quarterback of the future.
But for now Garoppolo is
still the No. 1 quarterback for
San Francisco despite those
criticisms and the inevitabil-
ity of a change at some point
when the Niners decide to go
with Lance.
“Being in the NFL for as
long as I have, you kind of get
used to it I guess you could
say,” Garoppolo said Tuesday.
“It kind of comes with the job.
It’s one of those things that
keeps pushing you, though.
When you hear those critiques
and you hear those little things
out there, it pushes you to take
your game to the next level.”
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At the start of the season,
Oregon State adopted a nick-
name for it’s pitching staff:
The Gauntlet.
The group was perceived to
be so deep with talented start-
ers and relievers that the nick-
name felt like an appropriate
one at the time. Even if op-
posing batters managed to get
after one pitcher, Mitch Can-
ham had the option of choos-
ing from at least a dozen other
talented arms on a nightly
basis.
But at the most important
point of the season, the bull-
pen has turned out to be Ore-
gon State’s Achilles heel.
In each of the Beavers’ last
four conference baseball se-
ries, they have surrendered a
lead in the eighth inning or
later at least once and gone on
to lose. Those games against
UCLA, USC, Arizona State
and Arizona have loomed
large.
The sixth-place Beavers sit
4.5 games back of Arizona,
which won the conference
title in Corvallis last Sunday
when it scored five unan-
swered over the final two in-
nings to add another instance
to an ever-growing list of re-
cent bullpen mishaps.
“I think you can tell if a
tough series happens and we
have a big loss or something
like that, guys will come out
the next day and really try
to overthrow the baseball,”
Canham said. “Wanting to
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Oregon State coach Mitch Canham.
put the weight of the world
on their shoulders and win it
right away. It’s just like a hitter
going up there to try and hit
a grand slam with the bases
empty. Like, ‘The team needs
this.’ I think we just have to
do a better job collectively not
putting so much weight on
ourselves and trying to do too
much.”
Statistically speaking, Or-
egon State’s staff was among
the best in the nation at the
start of Pac-12 play. But after
the Arizona series, only two
relievers who have pitched a
significant amount of innings
own an ERA that is lower
than 4.00 — Bryant Salgado,
who has not surrendered an
earned run in conference play,
and Will Frisch, who is carry-
ing a 1.29 ERA.
Often, the late-game fail-
ures have come at the expense
of pitchers who have been
reliable, shutdown relievers
throughout their careers.
“I’d say the bullpen, we’ve
had our ups and downs,”
closer Jake Mulholland said.
“I think that there started to
be a few guys who have be-
come really confident in their
roles. I think that certain guys
know when they’re going to
pitch and when they’re not.
But I don’t think there’s a guy
in the bullpen who isn’t going
to go out there and fight and
compete when you give him
the ball.”
Canham and pitching
coach Rich Dorman have
pin-pointed a few reasons
for the recent struggles. Part
of that, they believe, comes
from pitchers overthrowing
because they want so badly to
succeed in a big moment.
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