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THE BULLETIN • SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 2021
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PREP SOFTBALL
Cycling
4 Lava Bears earn
all-state honors
After wrapping an
18-1 spring campaign
and widely considered on
one of the state’s top soft-
ball teams in a year with
a state tournament, four
Bend High softball play-
ers were named to the
Class 6A All-State Team.
Freshman Addisen
Fisher (pitcher) and soph-
omore Gracie Goewey
(outfield) were named to
the state’s first team. Ju-
nior Violet Loftus (infield)
was named to the second
team, while sophomore
Allison Parker (utility) was
named to the state’s third
team.
In her debut season
with the Lava Bears, Fisher
was dominant in the circle,
striking out 127 batters in
56.1 innings to finish the
year with a microscopic
0.25 earned run average.
She also tossed four no
hitters, two of which were
perfect games.
As a team, the Lava
Bears hit 26 home runs,
10 of them off the bat of
Goewey. She also led the
team with a .574 batting
average and drove in a
team-high 39 runs.
Loftus also hit above
.500 with a .536 average
and led the team in sto-
len bases with 12. While
batting .460 and driving
in 24 runs, Parker did not
allow an earned run in 28
innings pitched. Two of
her no hitters were per-
fect games.
All four players are eli-
gible to play for the Lava
Bears in 2022.
— Bulletin staff report
NCAA OUTDOOR
TRACK & FIELD
Threesome helps
Ducks finish 2nd
At the conclusion of
the men’s NCAA Outdoor
Track & Field Champion-
ships at Hayward Field in
Eugene on Friday night,
the Oregon Ducks fin-
ished second with 53 total
points, only behind cham-
pion LSU, which domi-
nated with 84 points.
Oregon’s Cole Hocker
(1,500 meters), Cooper
Teare (5,000) and Emman-
uel Ihemeje (triple jump)
were individual winners.
The women’s compe-
titions finished Saturday
night .
In the men’s 1,500-me-
ter final, behind an im-
pressive effort in the final
lap, Hocker took first place,
winning a national cham-
pionship with the sec-
ond fastest time in meet
history, 3 minutes, 35.35
seconds. Down the final
stretch, Hocker chased
down Notre Dame’s Yared
Nuguse, passing him just a
few strides before crossing
the finish line.
With a UO-record per-
formance, Ihemeje fin-
ished in first place in the
triple jump, winning a
national championship
with a leap of 56 feet,
2¾ inches. Isaiah Griffith
placed sixth.
Micah Williams, a fresh-
man, got off to a fast start
out of the blocks in the
100-meter final, but even-
tually finished in third
place in 10.11 seconds.
LSU’s Terrance Laird won
in 10.05.
Charlie Hunter fin-
ished in third place in the
800-meter final with an
outdoor personal record
time of 1:45.75 .
Senior Jonathan Har-
vey placed seventh out of
nine competitors in the
400-meter hurdles with a
time of 49.64.
With the second-fast-
est men’s 5,000-meter
time in collegiate history,
Teare crossed in 13:12.27
to win the national cham-
pionship.
— The Oregonian
A new kind of victory
Ian Boswell, born and raised in Bend, wins the Unbound
Gravel 200 on June 5 in Emporia, Kansas.
Andy Chastain/Wahoo Fitness photos
Bend’s Ian Boswell reflects on win in prestigious gravel cycling race in Kansas
BY MARK MORICAL
The Bulletin
I
an Boswell gained a new perspective
on life and cycling after retiring
from WorldTour road racing at the
end of 2019.
“Finding balance in your life is
incredibly important,” said Boswell, born
and raised in Bend. “Stressing about what
you haven’t done isn’t as beneficial as being
happy with what you are able to do, and
I think that’s something a lot of athletes
can realize, is that you don’t need to do the
training that everybody else is doing, just
focus on what you can do and what you
have time for.”
Former Bend resident Ian Boswell after his Unbound
Gravel 200 victory in Kansas earlier this month.
NFL | SEATTLE SEAHAWKS
Boswell, 30, can still race and beat the best.
He proved that on June 5 with his inspiring vic-
tory in the Unbound Gravel 200 in Kansas, the
most prestigious gravel cycling race in the coun-
try.
Boswell sprinted past Dutch former road racer
Laurens ten Dam just before the finish line in Em-
poria to take the victory in 10 hours, 17 minutes,
24 seconds, after racing 206 miles on a hot, windy
day in the Flint Hills.
“It was a bit of a surprise, to be honest,” Bo-
swell said via phone from his home in Peacham,
Vermont, three days after his win. “It’s kind of a
new arena that I’m participating in. Once I had
stopped my road career at the end of 2019, I was
planning on doing more (gravel) events, but the
pandemic kind of put all that on hold. I’m still
very new to it. This is my second-ever big gravel
event, so still very much learning and observing.
I know a lot of the contenders and the riders up
front.”
Boswell and ten Dam were the two fastest rid-
ers to break free from the 1,000-rider field.
They pulled ahead of other top racers and for-
mer pro road cyclists Peter Stetina, Ted King, and
defending-champion Colin Strickland in the final
30 miles.
Then Boswell pulled away from ten Dam in the
final straightaway to the finish line.
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TENNIS | FRENCH OPEN
Seahawks QB Wilson looking
Djokovic meets Tsitsipas
forward to new offense in action in Old vs. New final
BY BOB CONDOTTA
The Seattle Times
RENTON — The Sea-
hawks’ offense in 2021 fig-
ures to be as pored over and
picked apart as any offensive
or defensive unit in the NFL
this season.
Are the Seahawks passing
enough for Russell Wilson’s
liking? Are they assuring they
aren’t wasting another year of
his prime?
After the offseason that
was, those questions and oth-
ers like them surely will be
asked every week — if not
every quarter — of the 2021
season.
And anything short of a
Super Bowl, or an offense
that sets even more records
than last year — which was
deemed a failure despite Se-
attle scoring a franchise-re-
cord 459 points without the
benefit of a single defensive or
special-teams touchdown —
might not be enough to chill
the chatter.
mistaken — for him, it’s a great
achievement, but I’m sure he
As big a deal, as significant
doesn’t want to stop there.”
an accomplishment, as it was
Neither, of course, does
for Novak Djokovic to elimi-
Djokovic.
nate Rafael Nadal in the French
He doesn’t enter Grand Slam
Open semifinals, there
tournaments to get to
is still another match to INSIDE
finals (this will be his
play in Paris.
29th, 28 more than his
• Barbora
And that four-set,
much younger oppo-
Krejcikova
claims wom- nent).
four-hour-plus vic-
en’s singles
tory over 13-time Ro-
He has made per-
title, B3
land Garros champion
fectly clear that all
Nadal really won’t
he really cares about
mean much to Djokovic in the at this stage of his career is
scheme of things if he can’t fin- winning them, and a victory
ish the job Sunday by beating
over Tsitsipas would give the
Stefanos Tsitsipas, too.
34-year-old from Serbia a sec-
“It’s not the first time that
ond French Open champion-
I play an epic semifinal in a
ship and, more importantly, a
Grand Slam and then I have
19th major overall.
That would be Djokovic’s
to come back in less than 48
seventh title in a span of 11
hours and play a final. My re-
covery abilities are pretty good, Slams and move him within
just one of the men’s-record 20
I must say, throughout my ca-
accumulated by his two great
reer,” Djokovic said. “I know
rivals, Roger Federer and Na-
what I need to do. Obviously,
dal.
Tsitsipas, first time in the fi-
See French Open / B3
nals of a Grand Slam, if I’m not
BY HOWARD FENDRICH
AP Tennis Writer
Ted S. Warren/AP
Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson passes during practice
on Tuesday in Renton, Washington.
Driving the talk is Wilson,
his offseason of comments
and trade rumors and a per-
ception that, for now, Seattle
and Wilson have reached a
one-year truce and that his
future could be debated again
next year depending on what
happens this year.
That’s where new offensive
coordinator Shane Waldron
comes in.
Waldron was hired in Jan-
uary after four years with
the Rams to replace the fired
Brian Schottenheimer. The
obvious assumption is Wal-
dron will sprinkle Seattle’s
offense with lots of elements
of Sean McVay’s play-action
happy attack in Los Angeles.
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