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AP Sportlight
August 7
1907 — Walter Johnson
wins the first of his 417
victories leading the
Washington Senators to a
7-2 victory over the
Cleveland Indians.
1952 — 74-year-old
Bion Shively drives Sharp
Note to victory in the third
heat of the Hambletonian
Stakes.
1982 — Speed Bowl
wins the Hambletonian
Stakes in straight heats
with 25-year-old Tom
Haughton in the sulky, the
youngest to win the
Hambletonian.
1983 — Hal Sutton over-
comes three straight bogeys
and edges Jack Nicklaus by
one stroke to win the PGA
championship.
1983 — Norway's Grete
Waitz takes the women's
marathon in the first world
track and field champi-
onships at Helsinki,
; Finland.
1985 — Commissioner
Peter Ueberroth announces
the end of the two-day
strike by the Major League
Baseball Players
Association as the players
and owners reach a tenta-
tive agreement.
1992 — Sergei Bubka,
the world record-holder
and defending Olympic
champion, fails to clear a
height in the pole vault.
1994 — Carolyn Hill
captures her first title in 14
years on the LPGA Tour.
Hills shoots a final-round
69 for 275 that gave her a
three-stroke victory over
Nancy Ramsbottom in the
McCall’s LPGA Classic.
' Hill, who tied the tourna-
ment record of 13-under-
par. had made a tour-record
359 starts before tasting
victory.
1995 — Britain's
Jonathan Edwards twice
breaks the world record on
his way to the World
Championship becoming
the first man to clear 18
meters and 60 feet in the
triple jump. After clearing
18.16 on his initial attempt
to break the world record. !
he pushes the mark to j
18.29. for 60 feet. 1-4 inch- j
I es.
1999 — Wade Boggs
becomes the first player to
homer for his 3,(KX)th hit,
connecting in rare style
with a two-run shot in
Tampa Bay's 15-10 loss to
Cleveland. Boggs already
with a pair of RBI singles,
homers off Chris Haney in
the sixth inning for the
milestone.
2004 — Greg Maddux
becomes the 22nd pitcher
in major league history to
reach 300 victories, leading
the Chicago Cubs to an 8-4
victory over San Francisco.
2005 — Justin Gatlin
dominates the 100 meters
at the world track and field
championships, Helsinki,
Finland. The 23-year-old
Olympic champion wins in
9.88 seconds, 17-hun-
dredths of a second ahead
of runner-up Michael
Frater of Jamaica. The mar-
gin of victory is the largest
in the 10 world champi-
onships that have been held
since the meet's inception
in 1983.
2007 — San Francisco's
Barry Bonds hits home run
No. 756 to break Hank
Aaron's storied record.
Noticeably absent are com-
missioner Bud Selig and
Aaron.
2012 — Aly Raisman
becomes the first U.S.
woman to win Olympic
gold on floor, and she picks
up a bronze on balance
beam on the final day of the
gymnastics competition at
the London Olympics. She
just misses a medal in the
all-around, finishing with
the same score as Russia's
Aliya Mustafina but drops
to fourth on a tiebreak.
BY ERIC BRUCE
HERALD EDITOR
KIEFER - The Kiefer
Trojans are pursuing their third
District Title this season in fast
pitch softball but have loftier
goals set for themselves, that
includes another shot a the
Regional Final and a trip to
state.
The Trojans lost five sen-
iors, three of them starters.
Aspen Brown, who was the
catcher. Marissa Herrera, who
pitched for the Lady Trojans
and Hailee Rowlett who was
an All-Conference short stop.
Also gone are role players
Lindsay Perry and Jessica
Tyre.
Head Coach Corey
Campbell, in his third year as
the skipper, says the Lady
Trojans return a lot of talent
and bring up a good freshmen
class.
They begin their quest on
Aug. 12. when they host Class
3A top five Morris and Class
2A top five Drumright. last
years conference champion.
Trial end approaches for Oscar Pistorius
JOHANNESBURG (AP)
— Prosecutors and lawyers for
Oscar Pistorius have one last
chance to convince a South
African judge when they pres-
ent closing arguments this
week in the murder trial of the
once-celebrated athlete who
fatally shot his girlfriend,
Reeva Steenkamp. through a
toilet cubicle door in his home.
On Thursday and Friday,
both sides will summarize
their versions of the shooting
to Thokozile Masipa, the red-
robed judge who will deter-
mine the fate of the double-
amputee Olympic runner.
Masipa has sat impassively
through most proceedings
since the globally televised
trial began four months ago in
a Pretoria courthouse, but legal
experts say she may now, in
this final stage, reveal insights
into her thinking about the
sensational case.
"The judge will show
where her allegiance lies once
she starts asking questions."
said Marius du Toil, a former
prosecutor and now defense
lawyer who is not involved in
the trial. "The party that gets
hammered by tin judge when
arguing is the party that's got
the short end of the stick when
it comes to the ruling."
Masipa can interrogate
prosecutor Gerrie Nel and
chief defense lawyer Barry
Roux on their explanations for
the killing and evidence in the
court record, which amounts to
thousands of pages. The prose-
cution says Pistorius, 27,
intentionally shot 29-year-old
Steenkamp multiple times
before dawn on Feb. 14,2013
in a fit of anger after a fight.
The defense counters that he
fired by mistake, fearing for
his life after thinking an
intruder was in the toilet cubi-
cle and Steenkamp was in the
bedroom.
Masipa has maintained an
air of neutrality while over-
looking the courtroom from
her chair on a dais through
weeks of testimony by dozens
of witnesses.
"Now the judge's true col-
ors will in fact be shown," said
John Welch, a former high-
ranking lawyer with South
Africa's national prosecutors'
office. "Many judges like to
ask questions ... things that
have bugged them or bothered
them during the trial."
Because South Africa has
no trial by jury, Masipa will
decide with the help of two
legal assistants if Pistorius
committed murder, is guilty of
a negligent killing, or if he
made a tragic error and should
be acquitted. The runner faces
25 years to life in prison if
convicted of premeditated
murder, and also would be sent
to prison for years if guilty of
murder without premeditation
or culpable homicide. He faces
three separate firearm charges,
and pleaded not guilty to all
four counts.
The prosecution has
accused Pistorius of being a
hot-headed egotist who carried
a gun everywhere he went, and
alleges he twice shot a firearm
in public before the Valentine's
Day killing. Pistorius' defense
has portrayed him as mentally
fragile, a disabled man who
lived in fear of crime and who
was terrified when he stood on
just his stumps in the dark and
fired four shots into the toilet
cubicle door.
Sports Briefs
Sapulpa football season tickets to go on sale
The 2014-2015 athletic season tickets go on sale Friday,
Aug. 1, at the Chieftain Center, 1201 East Lincoln. Office
Hours are from 8:30-11 a.m. and 12:30-2:45 p.m. Monday
thru Friday except on holidays.
The prices for the ticks are as follows:
Season ticket for all sports with reverved
football seat $75
Five home varsity football games with
reserved seat $50
Student athletic tickets for all sports
$25
There will be new gate prices at the High School Varsity
games, bringing the price for Adults to $7 and students $5.
Tulsa's Sims is WNBA Rookie of
the Month
TULSA, Okla.(AP) — The Tulsa Shock's Odyssey Sims has
been the WNBA's Rookie of the Month for July.
The award was announced Tuesday.
Sims averaged 18.3 points and 4 assists per game during the
month and scored a career high 39 points on July 22 against
San Antonio.
Sims was selected by the Shock as the second overall pick in
the 2014 WNBA draft.
Oklahoma St, Tulsa pairings in
tournament set
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The brackets have been set
and pairings announced for Oklahoma State and Tulsa in the
MGM Grand Main Event basketball tournament scheduled for
November in Las Vegas.
OSU will play Oregon State starting at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 24
followed by Tulsa taking on Auburn starting at 10 p.m.
The winners will play for the heavyweight bracket champi-
onship starting at 10:30 p.m. on Nov. 26.
Becky Hammon was All-American
at Colorado State
FORT COLLINS. Colo. (AP) — The first full-time paid
female NBA assistant coach is a former Colorado State All-
American.
Becky Hammon played for CSU from 1996 to 1999. The
Coloradoan reports that the 5-foot-6 guard ranks first in most
categories in the Rams' record book, including 2,740 career
points and making 918 field goals.
The Rapid City. South Dakota native has always seemed to
be going against the grain. She wasn't drafted by any WNBA
team but went on to play for the New York Liberty. She
became one of the league's 15 greatest players of all-time.
In 2004. Hammon was inducted to the CSU athletics hall of
fame.
Former Texas A&M player agrees
to prison time
DALLAS (AP) — Texas A&M's all-time leading rusher is
likely headed to prison after pleading guilty to federal charges
related to armed robberies.
The U.S. Attorney's Office told The Dallas Morning News
Tuesday that 45-year-old Darren Lewis has agreed to spend
between 25 and 30 years behind bars. The record-setting run-
ning back known as "Tank" pleaded guilty in April to charges
related to the 2012 robberies of an unreported amount of cash
from DeSoto businesses.
The office says Lewis' accomplice Christopher Washington
pleaded guilty Tuesday. It says all sides have agreed to the
same sentences for both men. Sentencing is scheduled for
September.
Lewis rushed for 5.012 yards while at Texas A&M from
1987-1990. He led the Aggies in rushing for three straight sea-
sons. He was drafted in 1991 by the Chicago Bears.
SD high school coach publicly
announces he's gay
DELL RAPIDS, S.D. (AP) - A volleyball and baseball
coach at St. Mary High School in Dell Rapids who has pub-
licly announced he's gay says he feels elated, though he wor-
ries it might affect his employment at the private Catholic
school.
Nate Alfson made the announcement Tuesday in an online
essay he posted on the website www.outsports.com . Local
sportscaster Mike Henriksen said Alfson is believed to be the
first openly gay high school Coach in South Dakota.
"When you're the first at anything, I think that’s big."
Henriksen told the Argus Leader newspaper, adding that
Alfson's decision might help high school athletes who are gay.
"Nate is a coach and an athlete, and I think that opens a few
more doors."
Alfson, 25, graduated from high school in Pipestone,
Minnesota, in 2007, and went on to play baseball at Auguslana
College in Sioux Falls. He said he has known he was gay since
he was in ninth grade. He said he struggled with it but has now
decided "to share with the world that it is OK to be who you
are bom as and feel confident about it."
"I have found that there are other people in the world just
like me and I don’t have to feel alone any longer," he wrote
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