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S PORTS
THE BULLETIN • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2021
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PREP SOFTBALL
PREP FOOTBALL
Summer camps
available in July
The Bend High School
softball coaching staff,
along with other Cen-
tral Oregon coaches and
collegiate standouts, will
host a pair of July clinics
in conjunction with the
Bend Park and Recreation
District.
The first camp is July
6-9 and is an all-skills
camp for incoming eighth-
grade students through
incoming high school
seniors. Camp times are
8:30 a.m. to noon.
The second camp is
July 6-8 and is an all-skills
camp for incoming fourth-
through seventh-grade
students. Camp times are
12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Both camps will be
held at Skyline Sports
Complex in Bend.
Camp shirts and
awards will be included at
both camps.
For more information
or to register, visit bend-
parksandrec.org or call
541-389-7275.
Central Oregon players set for all-star games
BY BRIAN RATHBONE
The Bulletin
Bulletin file
Mountain View’s Jakoby Moss (2) cele-
brates with his teammates after scoring
against Bend High this past season.
Four football players and one coach
will represent Central Oregon in high
school football all-star games this sum-
mer.
Mountain View quarterback Jakoby
Moss and coach Brian Crum will be
part of the South Team in the 73rd Les
Schwab Bowl on July 3 at Linfield Uni-
versity in McMinnville.
It is the second time that Crum has
been an assistant coach on an all-star
team, having also coached on the 2018
team after the Cougars’ run to the state
semifinals.
Crum called it a “no-brainer” to
coach an all-star game with Oregon and
“In Oregon (making the Les Schwab Bowl roster) is the top of the top and
just to be able to be in that experience will be cool. I’m ready to show that I
can play and that I can compete.”
— Jakoby Moss, Mountain View football player
southwest Washington schools.
While the Les Schwab Bowl has been
played annually for more than 70 years,
it will be the first time that underclass-
men will compete in the game. That
opened the door for Moss, who will be
a senior next fall for the Cougars, to
land on the roster.
“I was surprised, especially as a ju-
nior, it is a pretty big accomplishment,”
said Moss, who passed for 14 touch-
downs and 942 passing yards in the
Cougars’ 6-0 campaign this spring. “It
is something that has been in Oregon’s
history for a long time. I’m thankful for
the opportunity to play.”
It is the third time in four years that a
Mountain View player has made the all-
star game roster.
See All-Star / A6
TRACK AND FIELD
Better late than never
— Bulletin staff report
BASEBALL
MLB cracks down
on doctored balls
NEW YORK — Pitch-
ers will be ejected and
suspended for 10 games
for using illegal foreign
substances to doctor
baseballs in a crackdown
by Major League Baseball
that will start June 21.
The commissioner’s
office, responding to
record strikeouts and a
league batting average at
a more than half-century
low, said Tuesday that
major and minor league
umpires will start regular
checks of all pitchers, even
if opposing managers
don’t request inspections.
While suspensions
would be with pay, repeat
offenders would receive
progressive discipline, and
teams and club employees
would be subject to disci-
pline for failure to comply.
“After an extensive pro-
cess of repeated warnings
without effect, gathering
information from current
and former players and
others across the sport,
two months of compre-
hensive data collection,
listening to our fans and
thoughtful deliberation,
I have determined that
new enforcement of for-
eign substances is needed
to level the playing field,”
baseball Commissioner
Rob Manfred said in a
statement.
“I understand there’s
a history of foreign sub-
stances being used on the
ball, but what we are see-
ing today is objectively far
different, with much tack-
ier substances being used
more frequently than ever
before. It has become
clear that the use of for-
eign substance has gener-
ally morphed from trying
to get a better grip on the
ball into something else
— an unfair competitive
advantage that is creating
a lack of action and an un-
even playing field.”
The last pitchers sus-
pended for using foreign
substances were Balti-
more’s Brian Matusz and
Milwaukee’s Will Smith for
eight games each in May
2015. Both appealed, and
Smith’s penalty was cut to
six games while Matusz’s
ban was upheld.
The perception of an
increased use of foreign
substances, tied to a drop
in offense, is viewed as
the largest instance of
widespread cheating in
baseball since the rise of
steroids, which ended in
the adoption of random
drug-testing with pen-
alties ahead of the 2004
season.
— Associated Press
Justin Tafoya/NCAA Photos via Getty Images
Runners compete in the 10,000 meters final during the NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Hayward Field on Thursday in Eugene.
The U.S. Olympic Trials finally return to new Hayward Field in Eugene
BY CHRIS HANSEN
The (Eugene) Register-Guard
T
housands of fans were at
Hayward Field last week for the
“Our mission is to create a world-class experience for the athletes, our fans and the community.
We’re not deviating from that in the least, and it’s the framework from which
we try to make all of our key decisions in hosting the event. There are some things
that must be implemented in order to conduct this large event safely.”
— Michael Reilly, CEO of TrackTown USA
NCAA Outdoor Track & Field
Championships, creating a scene that was
both invigorating and emotional for those
who longed for the return of elite track meets
to Eugene ever since the two-year stadium
remodel that began in 2018 was extended by
the 15-month COVID-19 shutdown.
Count Michael Reilly among them.
The CEO of local organizing committee Track-
Town USA strolled by Hayward Field more than
once during the NCAA meet and was energized
by the crowds that averaged more than 5,600
during each of the four days.
“Even the crowds on the sidewalk around it, I
just got a big adrenaline rush just walking through
it,” Reilly said. “I was not prepared for that kind of
physical reaction. It’s awesome. It really is.”
It should only get better when the U.S. Olym-
pic Track & Field Trials begins its 10-day run this
week.
For the fourth straight Olympic cycle, the U.S.
track and field team heading to the Summer
Games in Tokyo in July will be determined at
Hayward Field.
The meet begins Friday and wraps up June 27,
with off days June 22-23.
See Hayward / A7
GOLF
Mickelson at home and running out of time for U.S. Open title
BY DOUG FERGUSON
AP Golf Writer
SAN DIEGO — Phil Mick-
elson accepted a special ex-
emption from the USGA with
reason to believe this might
be his last shot to finally win a
U.S. Open.
Now he gets five more years,
courtesy of his stunning vic-
tory last month at the PGA
Championship that made him
the oldest winner in 161 years
of the majors.
The clock is still ticking,
though.
Mickelson turns 51 on the
eve of the U.S. Open, and Lefty
is leaving nothing to chance.
He took a few days to celebrate
his sixth major title, and then it
was time to get to work.
“It’s a unique opportunity
because I’ve never won a U.S.
Open,” Mickelson said Mon-
day. “It’s in my backyard. I have
a chance to prepare properly,
and I wanted to put in the right
work. So I’ve kind of shut off
all the noise. I’ve shut off my
phone. I’ve shut off a lot of the
other stuff to where I can focus
in on his week and really give
it my best chance to try to play
my best.”
If his victory at Kiawah Is-
land was a surprise, this would
be sheer fantasy.
Mickelson holds the wrong
kind of U.S. Open record with
his six runner-up finishes,
most recently in 2013 at Mer-
ion, and it stands out even
more considering it is the only
major keeping him from join-
ing the most elite group in golf
with a career Grand Slam.
He is a three-time winner of
the PGA Tour event at Torrey
Pines, though to call it a home-
field advantage can be mislead-
ing. It has been 20 years since
Mickelson last hoisted a trophy
at Torrey Pines, right before
Rees Jones — known as the
“Open Doctor” — overhauled
the South Course with hopes
the municipal course could
host a U.S. Open.
Since then, Mickelson has
missed the cut as often as he
finished in the top 10 — five
each — and he has rarely con-
tended.
How much of that was the
redesign? How much was atti-
tude? Hard to tell. Mickelson
has never lacked for enthusi-
asm — how else to explain how
he has gone a record 30 years
between PGA Tour victories?
— though even he has ques-
tioned his effort at Torrey.
He grew up in San Diego
and still lives here, but Torrey
wasn’t his primary course as a
junior and he never comes to
Torrey except for the week of
the PGA Tour event in January.
That changed last week. Mick-
elson typically likes to play the
week before a major. This time,
he took two weeks off for a
crash course.
See Golf / A6