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Deadline deals
Several big names change
clubhouses at trade deadline
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Wednesday, August 1 2012
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Thursday
WCL baseball
Bellingham Bells at
Wenatchee AppleSox
7:05 p.m.
The Sox begin their final
homestand of the season with
a four-game set against the
Bells, who are nipping at their
heels down the stretch for
first place in the West Coast
League’s East Division.
Saturday
Auto racing
The Wenatchee Valley’s
Super Oval
6 p.m.
The Pro 4 Alliance, Thunder
Cars, Pure Stocks and Youth
Hornets series take to the East
Wenatchee track as the Super
Oval begins a full August of
auto racing.
Swimming
13 champions at meet
SPOKANE — Velocity
Swimming of Wenatchee
placed third in the Inland
Empire Long Course
Meters Championships
over the weeken at Wittier
Pool, a three-spot jump
from last year’s event.
Connor Elwyn, Jordan
Hartley and Jessica
Wierzbicki were the big
winners individually for
Wenatchee.
Wierzbicki was the high
point scorer in the 11-12
girls age group, and won
the 50 and 100 butterfly.
Hartley, also 12, won the
200 IM, 50 breaststroke
and 100 breaststroke.
Connor Elwyn, 11, won
the 50 fly, 100 backstroke
and 400 freestyle, and
set the meet record in
winning the 100 butterfl.
Eight Velocity teams
also captured relay titles.
Wierzbicki, Hartley
and Elwyn will represent
Velocity at the Western
Zone Championships
next weekend in Grand
Junction, Colo.
—Brian Adamowsky, World staff
Quiz time
What Major League
Baseball record does
former pitcher Bobo
Newsom hold?
Answer in today’s
Scoreboard, Page B3
Seattle beats
Toronto for 6th
win in a row
BY GEOFF BAKER
The Seattle Times
SEATTLE — Jason Vargas
had said all along he wanted
to stay with the Mariners.
And one of the first things
he did to thank them for
keeping him was strike out
the side Tuesday night in
the very
first inning.
Things didn’t
always go
as perfectly
for Vargas
in this 7-2
Mariners 7, win over the
Blue
Blue Jays 2 Toronto
Jays, but they
Tuesday
didn’t have to
Next: vs. Blue Jays
thanks to an
Today, 7 p.m.
offense that
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once again
scored early
and often.
The Mariners pounded
onetime teammate Aaron
Laffey for four runs the first
two innings and then Vargas
withstood a brief barrage
to win his fifth consecutive
start.
Dustin Ackley homered
on Lackey’s very first pitch
of the game while Trayvon
Robinson and Miguel Olivo
each had a double and a
two-hit game to pace Seattle’s
attack.
A crowd of 21,434 at
Safeco Field watched the
Mariners win their sixth in
a row — and ninth in 11 tries
— while climbing back into
positive run differential for
the season. Olivo’s two-run
single off relief pitcher
Brandon Lyon in the fifth
negative territory.
inning gave the Mariners
For Vargas, the decision
one more run scored than
by the team not to trade
allowed after spending
him by Tuesday’s 1 p.m. PT
the majority of the year in
AppleSox
out-slug
Falcons
Wenatchee clinches
postseason berth
BY BRIAN ADAMOWSKY
World sports writer
AP photos
Above: Seattle Mariners’ Kyle
Seager comes in to score
against the Toronto Blue Jays
in the fifth inning of the
Mariners’ 7-2 win Tuesday.
Left: Seattle Mariners
shortstop Brendan Ryan, left,
forces out Toronto Blue Jays’
Yunel Escobar at second base
in the fifth inning.
deadline means he could be
a Mariner for some time.
Vargas improved to 12-7 on
the season with a 3.71 earned-
U.S. WOMEN WIN GYMNASTICS GOLD;
MICHAEL PHELPS SETS MEDALS RECORD
BY JAY COHEN
The Associaed Press
LONDON — Michael Phelps’ first gold
medal of the London Olympics was one
special prize.
The American swimming star broke the
Olympic medals record as the United States
romped to a dominating win in
4x200-meter freestyle relay.
With 19 career medals
spanning three Olympics,
Phelps moved one ahead of
Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina,
who got her haul in 1956, 1960
and 1964. He helped the relay
team to the victory after settling
for silver when he glided at the
end of the 200 butterfly earlier
Tuesday.
The United States team of Ryan Lochte,
Conor Dwyer, Ricky Berens and Phelps on the
anchor leg won in 6 minutes, 59.70 seconds.
France took the silver in 7:02.77, while China
was third in 7:06.30.
AP photo
Phelps now has 15 golds, two silvers and
U.S. gymnast Jordyn Wieber, center, lifts up
two bronzes. He still has three more events in
the hand of teammate Aly Raisman, as they
London before he retires.
celebrate along with McKayla Maroney after
“It has been a pretty amazing career,” the
Olympics
roundup
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being declared winners of the Artistic
Gymnastic women’s team gold medal.
run average and remains
on-pace for well over 200
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KELOWNA, British
Columbia — Here’s a recipe
for baseball success.
Get the top three hitters
in the batting order on base
in 12 of their
15 plate
appearances.
The
Wenatchee
AppleSox
followed
AppleSox 12,
that formula
Falcons 7
on Tuesday
Tuesday
night, and
Next: at Falcons
combined
Today, 6:35 p.m.
with a few
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home runs
and goodenough relief
pitching, it added up to a
12-7 win over the Kelowna
Falcons.
With the third-place
Falcons six games back
of Wenatchee with only
six games left on their
schedule, it also meant that
the AppleSox have clinched
a playoff berth for the 10th
consecutive season.
The Sox out-slugged the
Falcons for the third straight
night, and have now put up 36
runs in the three victories at
Elks Stadium.
“We were good offensively. We were swinging it
well,” Wenatchee manager Ed
Knaggs said.
The top three hitters in
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Seahawks sign Edwards
Former Browns star receiver newest project
BY TIM BOOTH
The Associated Press
RENTON — Braylon Edwards is getting another shot to
re-ignite his once promising NFL career after signing with
Seattle on Tuesday and adding yet another option for the
Seahawks’ No. 2 receiver spot.
Edwards was on the practice field Tuesday morning,
running routes, catching passes and trying
to put an injury-filled 2011 season with San
Francisco in his past.
“I like what they’ve got going on out
here. Just walking and talking to these guys
when I came on an interview last year it’s a
high-positive organization. There is a lot of
Seahawks
positivity and you can see the energy these
training camp
guys have. These guys are happy to come
out here and play for coach Carroll and
their position coaches and it seems like
Inside
they have the thing moving in the right
A closer look at
direction.”
Seahawks WR
It wasn’t that long ago the 29-year-old
Golden Tate
Edwards was among the top young
receivers in the NFL. In 2007, Edwards
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was a rising star after catching 80 passes
for 1,289 yards and 16 touchdowns for
Cleveland. But he eventually wore out his welcome in
Cleveland and showed only flashes of his talent with the
New York Jets while also running into trouble off the field.
Edwards had 53 catches for 904 yards and seven touchdowns with the Jets in 2009. Last year, Edwards played in
nine games for San Francisco, catching 15 passes for 181
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