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Watson in 3-way tie for
U.S. Senior Open lead
By The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -
Tom Watson still gets quite a
thrill seeing his name atop the
leaderboard.
Maybe even more at age 65.
Pro golf
Roundup
Watson withstood the
scorching heat to shoot a 1-un-
der 69 on Friday, finishing in a
three-way tie atop the bunched
leaderboard after the second
round of the U.S. Senior Open.
“The illusion that I can still
do it,” Watson said when asked
what keeps him playing com-
petitive golf. “I don’t have the
tools in the toolbox I used to
have. They’re missing. Some of
the tools are missing. And so
it’s getting more and more dif-
ficult for me to compete, but I
still feel as if I can somehow
get it done.”
Sure seems that way so far
in Sacramento.
Watson was joined at 5 un-
der for the championship by
JeffMaggert and Peter Fowler.
Maggert shot a 65, and Fowler
a 66 in their morning rounds.
But all the attention turned
to the Hall of Famer heating
up in the sizzling sunshine.
Watson made four birdies
and three bogeys to provide the
drama at sun-drenched Del
Paso Country Club, where the
temperature soared above 100
degrees again. Watson is trying
to become the oldest winner of
the event, the oldest to win a se-
nior major and the oldest to win
on the Champions Tour.
“To hit a shot under pres-
sure that’s really a good golf
shot is why I’m out here,” Wat-
son said. “That’s what I like to
do. And when I get to the point
where I can’t do it or I can’t do
it often enough to really satisfy
myself, then I won’t be out
here.”
Randy Pench/AP
Tom Watson tees off on the 18th hole during the second
round of the U.S. Senior Open at Del Paso Country Club on
Friday in Sacramento, Calif.
It’s the fourth time Watson
has held or shared the lead
through 36 holes at the U.S.
Senior Open. He has never
won the event, which is in its
36th year.
A victory would be the ex-
clamation point to his storied
career.
Watson will play in his final
British Open next month at St.
Andrews. He’s the only man to
claim the claret jug on five
courses — but never at St. An-
drews — and suddenly seems
ready to be more than a feel-
good story at the Old Course.
If he can sweat out the
competition at Del Paso, Wat-
son would be the oldest player
to ever win such an event.
The long-hitting lefty shot
a 3-under 67 to maintain the
two-stroke lead he took with
an opening 62.
“[Thursday] I added it up
after I left the media center, I
had three holes I didn’t have a
wedge into,” he said. “Today
was different, because the
wind conditions were differ-
ent. They were faster and it
was coming from a different
direction, so it made the golf
course a little bit tougher.”
The two-time Masters
champion is trying to become
the first wire-to-wire winner at
TPC River Highlands since
Peter Jacobsen in 2003.
Watson won his first PGA
Tour title at the 2010 event and
has finished in the top 20 five
times in eight previous starts.
He tied for sixth in 2008, tied
for second in 2012, and fin-
ished fourth in 2013.
He was delayed in talking
to the media Friday after being
pulled for a random drug test,
something he saw as a positive
sign.
Travelers Championship
CROMWELL, Conn. -
Bubba Watson was forced to
think a bit more Friday at the
Travelers
where the wind was a little
stronger, the greens a bit fir-
mer and the pin placements
more challenging.
Championship,
Alan Diaz/AP
Connor McDavid, second from right, prepares to put on an Edmonton Oilers sweater after
being chosen first overall by the Oilers during the first round of the NHL draft on Friday in
Sunrise, Fla.
San Jose and Mikko Rantanen
to Colorado. That meant left
wing Lawson Crouse, who some
thought would be a top-five
pick, fell to Florida at No. 11 —
and got a huge ovation from the
Panthers’ crowd.
“It all turned out very well for
me,” Crouse said.
Dallas went with another
right wing, taking Russian pros-
pect Denis Gurianov at No. 12.
And then the next 15 minutes or
so belonged to Boston.
The Bruins had the No. 14
pick starting the day — then got
the No. 13 and No. 15 selections
in a pair of trades Friday. They
sent left wing Milan Lucie to Los
Angeles for defenseman Colin
Miller, goalie Martin Jones and
the 13th pick, then got No. 15,
No. 45 and No. 52 from Calgary
for defenseman Dougie Hamil-
ton.
then made another swap with
Stanley Cup finalist Tampa Bay
for No. 28 and snared forward
Anthony Beauvillier.
For the first time since 2012,
a goalie went in the first round
when Washington took Russia’s
Ilya Samsonov at No. 22.
Chicago, which won the
Stanley Cup for the third time in
six seasons, didn’t have a first-
round pick. The Blackhawks
won’t select until the draft’s final
six rounds are held today.
Regardless of what anyone
did, the lights shined brightest
on McDavid.
A year ago on draft night,
Florida defenseman Aaron Ek-
blad was a nervous wreck. This
time around, fresh off returning
from Las Vegas where he was
presented the Calder Trophy as
the NHL’s best rookie this past
season, Ekblad coolly munched
on chicken fingers in an arena
suite.
From Page IB
NHL draft
the Stanley Cup. A group of Ed-
monton men wore matching
McDavid No. 97 jerseys. A few
from Buffalo wore “I like Eich”
T-shirts, a nod to the 34th U.S.
President Dwight Eisenhower.
They knew who the first two
picks would be.
The rest of the evening was a
guessing game.
Arizona used the No. 3 pick
on center Dylan Strome —
McDavid’s teammate with the
Ontario Hockey League’s Erie
Otters, finishing this season with
nine more points but in 21 more
games. Toronto took Mitch
Mamer at No. 4, making it four
straight centers to lead off.
Defenseman Noah Hanifin
went No. 5 to Carolina, so with Ei-
chel that meant two U.S. players
were top-five picks for the first
time since 2007. Center Pavel Za-
cha went sixth to New Jersey, de-
fenseman Ivan Provorov seventh
to Philadelphia and Columbus
grabbed defenseman Jack
Werenski with the eighth pick.
For Werenski, who doesn’t
even turn 18 until next month,
it’s an odd pairing: He’s a Michi-
gan Wolverine who’s going to
the home of Ohio State.
Apair ofrightwings rounded
out the top 10, Timo Meier to
The Bruins took defenseman
Jakub Zboril, left wing Jake De-
Brusk and right wing Zachary
Senyshyn.
“The cap system in the NHL
makes it tough to get good play-
ers,” DeBrusk said. “I think the
moves they made were good.
They’re making strides —
mean, we are making strides.’
The New York Islanders
weren’t scheduled to pick until
No. 72, but swung two deals to
land first-round talent. They got
the 16th pick from Edmonton
and took center Mathew Barzal,
He knows McDavid well, and
believes the Gretzky, Crosby,
whoever comparisons won’t af-
fect him.
“I’m lucky. I’m not nearly as
good as him. I don’t draw those
comparisons,” Ekblad said. “It’s
going to be tough to live up to
but Connor has a set of expecta-
tions for himself and I’m think-
ing he’s probably the only one
who’s going to worry about that.
He’s not worried about anyone
else’s expectations.”
I
From Page IB
Rangers
plateau. Bobby Bonds (332) and
career leader Barry Bonds (762)
are the only other father and son
to reach the 300-homer mark.
“That’s pretty good compa-
ny,” Fielder said.
It’s the longest losing streak
for Texas since an eight-game
slide from Aug. 30-Sept. 6,2014.
The Rangers (37-37) fell to .500
for the first time since May 30,
when they were 25-25.
‘We need to figure out what
we can do better,” manager Jeff
Banister said.
Martinez allowed nine runs,
eight earned, and nine hits in six
innings. He has won just once in
his past six starts.
“I fell behind a lot of guys,”
Martinez said.
Rosales became the ninth
position player to pitch for the
Rangers when he came on in the
eighth. The last to do it was J.P.
“You can go find a bunch of Arencibia, who pitched against
good athletes that play the quar- Tampa Bay on Aug. 13, 2014.
terback position like Shawn and
throw it like Shawn,” Walsh said, balls,” Rosales said. “I didn’t try
“What makes him unique is he’s to put anything on them. I tried
both of those and his brain one in warm ups but that wasn’t
works at a really high level. His going to happen. I don’t have the
football IQ, is really crazy. You control with the off-speed.”
see a great athlete and passer as
an observer, but you don’t see Quick off the mark
that he’s almost an offensive co-
ordinator on the field, and that’s four batters into a game was July
8, 2012. In that game, Colby
Robinson said he’s glad to Rasmus and Encamacion both
have the recruiting process in hit two-run homers,
the past, meaning he can now
focus solely on his final two years Princely performance
of high school football with the
goal of getting Guyer back to the double and leads the majors
state championship game, with 31 multihit games,
where the Wildcats have been
three times since 2010.
In his first year at Guyer after From Page IB
starting as a freshman at Sagi-
naw Chisholm Trail in 2013,
Robinson led the Wildcats to the
Maegan Puetz/DRC file photo
Guyer quarterback Shawn Robinson escapes a Keller Central Charger during the first quarter
at C.H. Collins Stadium on Oct. 17.
Fred Thornhill/AP
Texas Rangers starting pitcher Nick Martinez pitches against
the Toronto Blue Jays during the first inning of a game in To-
ronto on Friday.
said. “The Big 12 is kind of our
conference. We all have some
kind of allegiance to the Big 12.
His dad has been in the Fort
Worth area as a head coach.
Sonny Cumbie has done an un-
believable job of recruiting him.
I think I saw this coming about
six months ago.”
TCU has long been known for
its defensive prowess, but the new
offense Cumbie and Meacham
installed in 2014 brought an excit-
ing new look to the program and
caught Robinson’s eye while set-
ting numerous school records
and finishing second in the nation
with 46.5 points per game.
“I think [head coach] Gary
Patterson has made them a win-
ner for some time now,” Walsh
said. “If you’re a quarterback,
them bringing in Cumbie [from
Texas Tech] and Meacham
[from Oklahoma State] has giv-
en them some offensive firepow-
er. If you look at Boykin, it looks
like a lot what Shawn brings to
the table. It’s a perfect match.”
Robinson’s talent is evident
to a casual observer. As a young
sophomore a year ago, Robin-
son passed for 2,799 yards and
33 touchdowns with just five in-
terceptions, all while complet-
ing better than 60 percent of his
pass attempts. On the ground,
Robinson made opponents pay
to the tune of 1,416 yards and 17
touchdowns while averaging
more than 10 yards per carry.
From Page IB
Robinson
j just threw all straight
Up next
Rangers: RHP Yovani Gal-
lardo is 3-0 with a 1.22 ERA in
his past six starts, lowering his
ERA from 4.26 to 2.98 in that
seem like the perfect fit to Rob-
inson throughout the recruiting
RHP Rob Rasmussen was op-
tioned to Buffalo.
process.
Trainer’s room
Rangers: RHP Matt Harri-
son (back surgery) threw a 35
pitch bullpen session in front of
manager Jeff Banister and
pitching coach Mike Maddux.
Harrison is set to throw another
session on Sunday.
Blue Jays: Toronto activated
2B Devon Travis (left shoulder)
off the 15-day DL and optioned
INF Munenori Kawasaki to Tri-
ple-A.
“I liked TCU growing up, but
I also liked other schools, too,”
Robinson said. “I wouldn’t say
TCU was my favorite school
back then. It’s pretty cool and
ironic, though, since I spent a lot
of time there growing up.
“I followed them the whole
span.
The last time Toronto led 4-0
Gallardo has not allowed a
run in his past 15 innings.
Blue Jays: Toronto selected
LHP Matt Boyd from Triple-A
Buffalo to make his MLB debut
today. Boyd went 7-2 with a L26
ERA in 14 starts at Double-A
and Triple-A this season. He’ll
start in place of RHP Aaron
Sanchez (strained back muscle).
truly what he is.’
[2014 season]. When I got the
TCU offer it kind got my eye on
them. What they were doing
was exactly what I was looking
for. It was good to see.”
Guyer coach John Walsh,
who is familiar with the Big 12
conference given his son and
former Guyer quarterback J.W.
Walsh plays for Oklahoma State,
said Robinson will fit in nicely at
TCU. He became convinced of
that fact after watching Trevone
Boykin run the Homed Frogs’
offense last season under new
co-offensive coordinators Cum-
bie and Doug Meacham.
John Walsh added he wasn’t
surprised to see Robinson stay
close to home when he had his
choice of just about anywhere in
the country.
“He’s the son of a Texas high
school football coach,” Walsh
Fielder went 2 for 4 with a
World Cup
area round of the Class 6A play-
offs before bowing out to South- and past goalkeeper Fei Wang.
That brought cheers from the
“It’s very relieving,” Robinson overwhelmingly pro-American
said of ending his recruitment, crowd of 24,141 at Lansdowne
“I’m excited to get back to work Stadium,
and now it’s just about getting
better and helping this team get
that state title. I’m very excited.
There are no distractions at all.” cleared in front of an open net by
defender Li Dongna. Johnston
also had a header off a comer
kick in the 31st minute that
2011 quarterfinals.
Germany advanced earlier by
beating France 5-4 on penalty
kicks after a 1-1 tie. The United
States has an 18-4-7 overall re-
cord against the Germans, in-
cluding a 3-2 advantage in
World Cup matches. In Satur-
day’s quarterfinals, host Canada
faces England and Australia
plays defending champion Ja-
pan.
popped over the crossbar.
Brian had a chance to double
the lead in the 73rd, but her long
strike hit a post, and Lloyd
missed high on the rebound.
The U.S. had a 17-6 advan-
tage in shots and its offense was
less stagnant than in the round-
of-16 win over Colombia. The
American face a considerable
challenge in Germany, which
lost to Japan in overtime in the
lake Carroll.
Before that, the best Ameri-
can chance was by Johnston in
the 26th minute that was
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