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A5 S PORTS THE BULLETIN • THUrsday, OcTOBEr 13, 2022 bendbulletin.com/sports NFL PREP GIRLS SOCCER Raiders’ Adams charged with assault Las Vegas Raiders re- ceiver Davante Adams has been charged with misdemeanor assault for shoving a photographer to the ground as he left the field following a loss at Kansas City. Kansas City, Missouri, police said Adams pushed Ryan Zebley to the ground while running off the field following the Raiders’ 30-29 loss to the Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium on Monday night. Police called it an “intentional, overt act” that caused whiplash, a headache and a possible minor concus- sion. Charges were filed Wednesday morning in Municipal Court of Kan- sas City. Adams apologized in his postgame comments to the media and later on Twitter. “He jumped in front of me coming off the field. I kind of pushed him. He ended up on the ground,” Adams said after the game. “I want to apologize to him for that. That was just frustration mixed with him really just running in front of me. “I shouldn’t have re- sponded that way, but that’s the way I responded. I want to apologize to him for that.” The NFL is also investi- gating Adams’ actions. A person familiar with the process told The Associ- ated Press on Tuesday that Adams could face possible punishment, including a fine or suspension. Raiders coach Josh Mc- Daniels said Tuesday that he supports Adams and will cooperate in any in- vestigation. Adams had three catches for 124 yards and two touchdowns in the game. He has 29 catches for 414 yards and five TDs so far in his first season with the Raiders. —Associated Press NBA Dean Guernsey/The Bulletin Mountain View’s Makenna Bomke (2) and Bend’s Meredith King (20) collide over the ball during Tuesday’s soccer match in Bend. Cougars sweep Bend High to remain in playoff hunt Mountain View making moves BY BRIAN RATHBONE The Bulletin If there was ever a time to play its best match of the season, the Mountain View girls soccer team picked the right game Tuesday evening against Bend High. With the regular season winding down and four Intermountain Con- ference teams jostling for a postseason berth, the Cougars picked up a much- needed 3-0 home victory over their rival Lava Bears. “We really needed this win, and we worked really hard to get this one,” said Mountain View sophomore Tayten Wi- gle, who scored twice in the win. “This is probably the best game we have played.” From 2013 through 2021, the Lava Bears had won all 15 of the matchups against their in-town rivals, outscoring the Cougars 53-5 in those meetings and shutting out the Cougars in five of those matchups. But this fall, Mountain View (4-6 overall, 3-4 IMC) not only put an end to the losing streak, one that coach James Erickson estimates goes back as far as 2010, but swept Bend High (2-9, 1-6). “I don’t know if we have ever beaten them twice in a season,” Erickson said. “So it is a real morale-booster for us.” And the win could not have come at a better time with the regular season winding down and the playoff picture starting to become more clear. The IMC is allotted three guaran- teed playoff spots. Two spots are all but locked up by Summit and Caldera, who are both 6-0-1 in the IMC. As for the fi- nal automatic bid, it is up for grabs and any of the four other teams could sneak in and grab it in the final two weeks of the regular season. See Soccer / A7 Green to rejoin Warriors SAN FRANCISCO — Draymond Green was fined and is slated to re- turn to the Warriors this week after being at the forefront of what coach Steve Kerr called the “big- gest crisis” of his Golden State tenure. Green won’t be sus- pended for punching Jor- dan Poole in the face at last Wednesday’s practice. Kerr announced Tuesday that the 10-year NBA vet- eran is expected to rejoin the Warriors at Thursday’s practice and play in the preseason finale Friday against the Denver Nug- gets. Kerr also anticipates Green will be available opening night Oct. 18 against the Los Angeles Lakers. “While this is not the easiest decision, we feel this is the best decision going forward,” Kerr said Tuesday night after the Warriors’ reserves beat the Damian Lillard-less Port- land Trail Blazers, 131-98. The Warriors came to the conclusion to wel- come Green back after a week of “deep discussions” with team leaders, includ- ing Stephen Curry, Andre Iguodala and Kevon Loo- ney, who helped navigate some of those conversa- tions. The final decision, though, was up to Poole. Green and Poole got together recently and had a “great discussion that will help us move forward,” Kerr said. — Bay Area News Group GOLF COMMENTARY | LIV GOLF MLB PLAYOFFS Organization shouldn’t wait much longer on getting world ranking LIV Golf plays its last individual event this week in Saudi Arabia BY DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Kevin M. Cox/AP Seattle Mariners relief pitcher Paul Sewald (37) during the ninth inning in Game 1 of an American League Division Series baseball game against the Houston Astros in Houston on Tuesday. How do the Mariners come back from devastating loss? BY ADAM JUDE The Seattle Times HOUSTON — Paul Sewald approached Robbie Ray in the far corner of a quiet visi- tors’ clubhouse. Ice wrapped around his right arm, Sewald drew closer to Ray, whose head hung down. The Mariners veteran closer tried to offer some encouraging words to Ray, the Mariners’ unexpected first-time closer. What came out sounded more like an apology. “He feels bad, and I feel bad that he even pitched,” Sewald told reporters inside the clubhouse a few moments later. “There’s not a lot to say in that situation. Everybody knows how everybody feels.” The Mariners’ stunning 8-7 walkoff loss Tuesday to the rival Houston Astros in Game 1 of American League Division Se- ries had to be the most devastating defeat in franchise history, outside a playoff elimina- tion game anyway. How, the Mariners were asked, do they come back from that? “It’s not easy … but we’ve come back from tough losses before,” starting pitcher Logan Gilbert said. “I don’t think this changes anything about what our team is and what we can do.” See Mariners / A7 In this contentious year of disruption and hyperbole, the raw numbers would suggest the global golf space is big enough to share. The PGA Tour had 12 of the top 50 players in the world ranking competing last week in Las Vegas. LIV Golf also had 12 of the top 50 in the world play- ing in Bangkok. The difference, aside from LIV Golf providing triple the prize money, is that only one of those circuits received credit from the Official World Golf Ranking. That needs to change. The question is how quickly. Greg Norman, the CEO, commissioner and chief evan- gelist for Saudi-funded LIV Golf, applied in early July to be part of the OWGR system. The process historically takes about a year, which even by golf stan- dards seems slow. Besides, there has never been a tour in history like LIV Golf. Regardless of how it attracted Seth Wenig/AP file LIV CEO Greg Norman talks with fans at the first tee during the final round of the Bedminster Invita- tional LIV Golf tournament in Bed- minster, New Jersey, on July 31. so many players — seemingly limitless money from Saudi Ara- bia’s sovereign wealth fund — find another “start-up” tour that started out with Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed and Cameron Smith. They have combined to win 11 majors in the last decade. The OWGR leadership would be foolish not to bring LIV Golf into the ranking sys- tem, and it should make it a pri- ority. Just not this year. There’s only one event left, this week in Saudi Arabia. And while LIV Golf is not a typical newcomer to world golf, points never have been awarded retroactively. There’s no need to start now. See Ranking / A7
