BASEBALL

WCL

WEST COAST LEAGUE

All Times PDT

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East Division

W L Pct GB

Yakima Valley Pippins 27 18 .600 —

Wenatchee AppleSox 24 21 .533 3

Walla Walla Sweets 21 24 .467 6

Kelowna Falcons 14 30 .318 121/2

South Division

W L Pct GB

Corvallis Knights 30 15 .667 —

Bend Elks 26 19 .578 4

Medford Rogues 22 23 .489 8

Klamath Falls Gems 11 34 .244 19

West Division

W L Pct GB

Bellingham Bells 32 12 .727 —

Cowlitz Black Bears 21 24 .467 111/2

Kitsap BlueJackets 20 23 .465 111/2

Victoria HarbourCats 20 25 .465 12

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Thursday’s Games

Corvallis 10, Bend 1

Kitsap 4, Kelowna 3

Yakima Valley 4, Walla Walla 1

Wenatchee 9, Victoria 2

Today’s Games

Medford at Bend, 6:35 p.m.

Walla Walla at Kitsap, 6:35 p.m.

Corvallis at Klamath Falls, 6:35 p.m.

Kelowna at Yakima Valley, 7:05 p.m.

Cowlitz at Wenatchee, 7:05 p.m.

Bellingham at Victoria, 7:11 p.m.

Thursday’s Summary

Knights 10, Elks 1

Bend 000 010 000 — 1 4 1

Knights 010 300 06X — 10 11 3

McGuff, Schnieder (4), Bennett (5), Bauer (7), Wilcox (8), Gomez (8) and Newton, Blackwell. Bishop, Haddeland (7), Hammond (9) and Latta, Snodgrass. W — Bishop. L — McGuff. 2B — Corvallis: Leopold. 3B — Corvallis: Smith (2).

Little League

Northwest Regional

at San Bernardino, Calif.

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POOL PLAY

Today’s Games

Bend North vs. Lynwood (Wash.) Pacific, 8:30 a.m.

Boulder (Mont.) Arrowhead vs. Lewiston (Idaho), 4 p.m.

Saturday’s Games

Knik (Alaska) vs. Lewiston (Idaho), 11 a.m.

Bend North vs. Cody (Wyo.), 7 p.m.

Sunday’s Games

Boulder (Mont.) Arrowhead vs. Lynwood (Wash.) Pacific, 8:30 a.m.

Cody (Wyo.) vs. Knik (Alaska), 4:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games

Bend North vs. Knik (Alaska), 11 a.m.

Lynwood (Wash.) Pacific vs. Lewiston (Idaho), 7 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games

Bend North vs. Boulder (Mont.) Arrowhead, 8:30 a.m.

Cody (Wyo.) vs. Lynwood (Wash.) Pacific, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games

Lewiston (Idaho) vs. Cody (Wyo.), 11 a.m.

Boulder (Mont.) Arrowhead vs. Knik (Alaska), 6 p.m.

SEMIFINALS

Thursday, Aug. 7

No. 2 vs. No. 3, 2 p.m.

No. 1 vs. No. 4, 6 p.m.

CHAMPIONSHIP

Saturday, Aug. 9

Semifinal winners, 1 p.m.

SOCCER

MLS

MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER

All Times PDT

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Eastern Conference

W L T Pts GF GA

Sporting Kansas City 11 5 5 38 31 19

D.C. 11 5 4 37 32 20

New England 8 11 2 26 28 33

Toronto FC 7 7 5 26 27 28

Columbus 6 7 8 26 25 27

New York 5 6 10 25 33 32

Philadelphia 5 8 8 23 33 35

Chicago 3 5 12 21 27 33

Houston 5 11 4 19 22 40

Montreal 3 12 5 14 21 37

Western Conference

W L T Pts GF GA

Seattle 12 5 2 38 35 27

Real Salt Lake 8 4 9 33 32 27

Los Angeles 8 4 6 30 29 16

Colorado 8 7 6 30 31 27

FC Dallas 8 7 6 30 34 31

Vancouver 6 4 11 29 31 29

Portland 6 6 9 27 35 35

Chivas USA 6 9 5 23 21 33

San Jose 5 8 5 20 22 20

NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

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Today’s Game

Philadelphia at Sporting Kansas City, 5 p.m.

Saturday’s Games

Portland at Los Angeles, 11:30 a.m.

Toronto FC at Montreal, 2 p.m.

New England at New York, 4 p.m.

Columbus at Chicago, 5:30 p.m.

Real Salt Lake at Colorado, 6 p.m.

Seattle FC at San Jose, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games

D.C. United at Houston, 5 p.m.

FC Dallas at Chivas USA, 7 p.m.

NWSL

NATIONAL WOMEN’S SOCCER LEAGUE

All Times PDT

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Wednesday’s Games

Washington 2, FC Kansas City 1

Seattle FC 4, Houston 1

Thursday’s Game

Sky Blue FC 1m Western New York 0

Saturday’s Games

Chicago at Washington, 3:30 p.m.

Seattle FC at FC Kansas City, 5 p.m.

Sunday’s Games

Houston at Portland, 2 p.m.

Western New York at Boston, 3:30 p.m.

Golf

WGC

Bridgestone Invitational

Thursday

At Firestone Country Club, South Course

Akron, Ohio

Purse: $9 million

Yardage: 7,400; Par 70 (35-35)

First Round

Marc Leishman 32-32—64

Ryan Moore 31-34—65

Charl Schwartzel 31-34—65

Justin Rose 33-32—65

Patrick Reed 35-32—67

Francesco Molinari 33-34—67

Graham DeLaet 33-34—67

Rickie Fowler 35-32—67

Jamie Donaldson 32-36—68

Brandt Snedeker 35-33—68

Keegan Bradley 36-32—68

Sergio Garcia 35-33—68

Tiger Woods 35-33—68

Branden Grace 35-34—69

Harris English 36-33—69

David Howell 35-34—69

Seung-Yul Noh 34-35—69

Jimmy Walker 32-37—69

Miguel A. Jimenez 35-34—69

Rory McIlroy 36-33—69

Steven Bowditch 37-32—69

Chris Kirk 34-35—69

J.B. Holmes 32-37—69

Jim Furyk 34-35—69

Bubba Watson 34-35—69

Adam Scott 36-33—69

Thomas Bjorn 35-34—69

Matt Jones 34-36—70

Thongchai Jaidee 35-35—70

Hideki Matsuyama 34-36—70

Fabrizio Zanotti 34-36—70

Gary Woodland 35-35—70

Jason Dufner 35-35—70

Zach Johnson 33-37—70

Pablo Larrazabal 34-37—71

Jordan Spieth 36-35—71

Graeme McDowell 36-35—71

Hunter Mahan 36-35—71

Phil Mickelson 35-36—71

Matt Kuchar 40-31—71

Kevin Stadler 36-35—71

Ernie Els 36-35—71

Kevin Na 35-36—71

Henrik Stenson 37-34—71

Bill Haas 36-35—71

Tim Clark 35-37—72

Alexander Levy 35-37—72

Brian Harman 36-36—72

Webb Simpson 36-36—72

Lee Westwood 36-36—72

Victor Dubuisson 36-36—72

Scott Stallings 38-34—72

Russell Henley 36-36—72

Brendon de Jonge 39-33—72

Angel Cabrera 37-36—73

Joost Luiten 35-38—73

Luke Donald 37-36—73

Daisuke Maruyama 34-39—73

Ben Crane 36-37—73

Ian Poulter 38-35—73

Matt Every 38-36—74

John Senden 39-35—74

Stephen Gallacher 38-36—74

Brendon Todd 35-39—74

Yoshitaka Takeya 39-35—74

Jason Day 38-36—74

Steve Stricker 37-37—74

Louis Oosthuizen 38-37—75

Richard Sterne 37-38—75

Mikko Ilonen 37-38—75

Jonas Blixt 38-37—75

Tano Goya 39-37—76

David Lynn 39-37—76

Martin Kaymer 37-40—77

Kevin Streelman 40-38—78

Gonzalo Fdez-Castano 40-39—79

PGA Tour

Barracuda Championship

Thursday

At Montreux Golf and Country Club

Reno, Nev.

Purse: $3 million

Yardage: 7,472; Par 72

First Round

Note: Unnder the modified Stableford format, players receive 8 points for double eagle, 5 for eagle, 2 for birdie, 0 for par, minus-1 for bogey and minus-3 for double bogey or worse.

Nick Watney 18

Geoff Ogilvy 16

Tim Wilkinson 16

Martin Laird 13

Chad Campbell 13

Kevin Chappell 12

John Huh 12

John Rollins 12

Wes Roach 12

Tommy Gainey 11

Woody Austin 11

Derek Ernst 11

Danny Lee 11

George Coetzee 11

Eric Axley 11

Doug LaBelle II 11

Patrick Rodgers 11

Nathan Green 11

Rod Pampling 11

D.H. Lee 11

Kevin Lucas 11

Thorbjorn Olesen 10

Robert Streb 10

Jim Herman 10

Tim Petrovic 10

Bryce Molder 10

Johnson Wagner 10

Padraig Harrington 10

Nicholas Thompson 10

Miguel Angel Carballo 10

Joe Durant 9

Brendan Steele 9

David Lingmerth 9

Justin Hicks 9

Hudson Swafford 9

Charlie Wi 8

Michael Putnam 8

Justin Bolli 8

Andrew Loupe 8

Lee Janzen 8

Dicky Pride 8

Mark Wilson 8

Kevin Tway 8

Chris Smith 8

Cameron Beckman 7

Trevor Immelman 7

Skip Kendall 7

Brian Gay 7

Ben Curtis 7

Tag Ridings 7

Andres Romero 7

Arjun Atwal 7

Jeff Overton 7

Jonathan Byrd 7

Matt Bettencourt 7

Chad Collins 7

Jason Allred 7

Y.E. Yang 6

Stuart Appleby 6

Will Wilcox 6

Oliver Goss 6

Marc Turnesa 6

Morgan Hoffmann 6

Charlie Beljan 6

Bronson La’Cassie 6

Jamie Lovemark 6

Chris Riley 6

Ricky Barnes 5

Todd Hamilton 5

Kyle Stanley 5

Retief Goosen 5

Kent Jones 5

Troy Matteson 5

Richard S. Johnson 5

Edward Loar 5

Craig Barlow 5

J.J. Henry 5

John Mallinger 4

Ryuji Imada 4

Brian Stuard 4

Mike Weir 4

D.A. Points 4

Tim Herron 4

David Gossett 4

Richard H. Lee 4

John Merrick 3

Peter Malnati 3

Alex Cejka 3

Greg Chalmers 3

Billy Mayfair 3

Lucas Glover 3

Guy Boros 3

Alex Prugh 3

D.J. Trahan 2

Brad Fritsch 2

Tyrone Van Aswegen 2

Davis Love III 2

Bobby Wyatt 2

John Peterson 1

Steve Flesch 1

Heath Slocum 1

Sebastian L. Saavedra 1

Josh Teater 0

Jesse Schutte 0

Scott Langley 0

David Toms 0

Ken Duke 0

Scott McCarron 0

Roberto Castro 0

Robert Allenby 0

Dean Wilson 0

David Duval -1

Steve Marino -1

Daniel Chopra -1

Len Mattiace -1

Stuart L. Smith -1

Brice Garnett -2

Glen Day -2

Jhonattan Vegas -2

Kevin Foley -2

John Daly -3

Rich Beem -3

Rory Sabbatini -3

Alex Aragon -3

Aaron Baddeley -4

Ted Purdy -4

Jim Renner -5

David Carr -5

Chris DiMarco -6

James Hahn -6

Joe Ogilvie -6

Paul Stankowski -10

Football

College

USA Today Top 25 Poll

The USA Today preseason Top 25 football coaches poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, 2013 record, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, and last year’s final ranking:

Record Pts Pvs

1. Florida State (56) 14-0 1543 1

2. Alabama 11-2 1455 8

3. Oklahoma (3) 11-2 1382 6

4. Oregon (1) 11-2 1314 9

5. Auburn 12-2 1271 2

6. Ohio State (1) 12-2 1267 10

7. UCLA 10-3 1085 16

8. Michigan State 13-1 1050 3

9. South Carolina (1) 11-2 1009 4

10. Baylor 11-2 965 13

11. Stanford 11-3 955 10

12. Georgia 8-5 905 —

13. LSU 10-3 833 14

14. Wisconsin 9-4 654 21

15. Southern Cal 10-4 627 19

16. Clemson 11-2 535 7

17. Notre Dame 9-4 509 24

18. Arizona State 10-4 358 20

19. Mississippi 8-5 346 —

20. Texas A&M 9-4 266 18

21. Kansas State 8-5 257 —

22. Nebraska 9-4 228 25

23. North Carolina 7-6 175 —

24. Texas 8-5 143 —

25. Washington 9-4 142 —

Others receiving votes: Missouri 126, Florida 122, UCF 102, Mississippi State 74, Oklahoma State 56, TCU 54, Michigan 53, Iowa 49, Miami 45, Duke 41, Louisville 32, Marshall 27, BYU 18, Boise State 13, Louisiana 12, Virginia Tech 12, Texas Tech 8, Cincinnati 6, Minnesota 6, Northwestern 5, Fresno State 4, Oregon State 4, Georgia Tech 2, Houston 2, Arizona 1, Arkansas 1, Northern Illinois 1.

BASKETBALL

WNBA

WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION

All Times PDT

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Eastern Conference

W L Pct GB

Atlanta 17 9 .654 —

Indiana 13 14 .481 4½

Washington 13 14 .481 4½

New York 11 15 .423 6

Chicago 11 16 .407 6½

Connecticut 10 17 .370 7½

Western Conference

W L Pct GB

x-Phoenix 22 4 .846 —

x-Minnesota 21 6 .778 1½

San Antonio 13 14 .481 9½

Los Angeles 12 15 .444 10½

Tulsa 10 18 .357 13

Seattle 9 20 .310 14½

x-clinched playoff spot

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Thursday’s Games

Chicago 87, New York 74

Minnesota 75, Phoenix 67

Atlanta 85, Tulsa 75

Indiana 76, Seattle 67

Today’s Game

Connecticut at San Antonio, 5 p.m.

TENNIS

Professional

WTA Bank of the West Classic

Thursday

At The Taube Family Tennis Center

Stanford, Calif.

Purse: $710,000 (Premier)

Surface: Hard-Outdoor

Singles

Second Round

Garbine Muguruza, Spain, def. Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakia, 6-4, 6-4.

Angelique Kerber (3), Germany, def. CoCo Vandeweghe, United States, 7-6 (4), 0-6, 6-2.

Ana Ivanovic (5), Serbia, def. Caroline Zhao, Canada, 6-1, 6-1.

Venus Williams, United States, def. Victoria Azarenka (4), Belarus, 6-4, 7-6, (1).

Citi Open

Thursday

At William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center

Washington

Purse: Men, $1.4 million (WT500); Women, $250,000 (Intl.)

Surface: Hard-Outdoor

Singles

Men

Third Round

Kevin Anderson (7), South Africa, def. Malek Jaziri, Tunisia, 6-3, 6-4.

Steve Johnson, United States, def. Ivo Karlovic (9), Croatia, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (7).

Donald Young, United States, def. Denis Istomin (15), Uzbekistan, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.

Milos Raonic (2), Canada, def. Lleyton Hewitt (14), Australia, 7-6 (1), 7-6 (3).

Richard Gasquet (6), France, def. Tim Smyczek, United States, 6-3, 6-2.

Vasek Pospisil (13), Canada, def. Tomas Berdych (1), Czech Republic, 6-2, 6-4.

Santiago Giraldo (10), Colombia, def. Victor Estrella Burgos, Dominican Republic, 6-2, 6-0.

Women

Second Round

Svetlana Kuznetsova (6), Russia, def. Kirsten Flipkens, Belgium, 6-4, 7-5.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (5), Russia, def. Hiroko Kuwata, Japan, 6-3, 6-3.

Vania King, United States, def. Christina McHale, United States, 6-1, 6-3.

Ekaterina Makarova (2), Russia, def. Lauren Davis, United States, 6-2, 6-4.

Deals

Transactions

BASEBALL

American League

BOSTON RED SOX — Traded LHP Jon Lester, OF Jonny Gomes and cash considerations to Oakland for OF Yoenis Cespedes and a 2015 competitive balance draft pick. Traded RHP John Lackey, LHP Corey Littrell and cash considerations to St. Louis for OF/1B Allen Craig and RHP Joe Kelly. Traded LHP Andrew Miller to Baltimore for LHP Eduardo Rodriguez. Traded SS Stephen Drew and cash considerations to the N.Y. Yankees for INF Kelly Johnson.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Traded RHP Jarred Cosart, INF/OF Kiki Hernandez and OF Austin Wates to Miami for 3B Colin Moran, OF Jake Marisnick, RHP Francis Martes and a 2015 compensatory draft pick.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Traded OF Sam Fuld to Oakland for LHP Tommy Milone and optioned Milone to Rochester (IL). Recalled 1B Kennys Vargas from New Britain (EL). Agreed to terms with C Kurt Suzuki on a two-year contract.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Released INF Scott Sizemore unconditionally. Claimed RHP Esmil Rogers off waivers from Toronto.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Designated SS Jake Elmore for assignment. Optioned OF Billy Burns to Sacramento (PCL).

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Traded LHP David Price to Detroit, who sent LHP Drew Smyly and INF Willy Adames to Tampa Bay and OF Austin Jackson to Seattle. Seattle sent INF Nick Franklin to Tampa Bay.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Placed 1B Dan Johnson on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Chad Jenkins from Buffalo (IL).

National League

ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Traded OF Gerardo Parra to Milwaukee for OF Mitch Haniger and LHP Anthony Banda. Traded INF Martin Prado to the N.Y. Yankees for C Pete O’Brien and cash considerations or a player to be named. Selected the contract of INF Andy Marte from Reno (PCL). Recalleed OF Roger Kieschnick from Reno.

CHICAGO CUBS — Traded INF/OF Emilio Bonifacio and LHP James Russell and cash to Atlanta for C Victor Caratini. Optioned RHP Blake Parker to Iowa (PCL). Recalled LHP Chris Rusin from Iowa.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Optioned INF Cristhian Adames and RHP Rob Scahill to Colorado Springs (PCL). Designated 3B Ryan Wheeler for assignment. Selected the contract of LHP Pedro Hernandez from Colorado Springs. Sent RHP Jordan Lyles to Colorado Springs for a rehab assignment.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Transferred RHP Tyler Thornburg to the 60-day DL. Optioned OF Logan Schafer to Nashville (PCL).

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Designated RHP Josh Wall for assignment. Claimed RHP Angel Sanchez off waivers from the Chicago White Sox and optioned him to Altoona (EL).

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Traded OF Chris Denorfia to Seattle for RHP Stephen Kohlscheen and OF Abraham Almonte.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Optioned OF Tyler Colvin to Fresno (PCL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Traded SS Zach Walters to Cleveland for INF Asdrubal Cabrera and cash considerations. Recalled RHP Blake Treinen from Syracuse (IL).

BASKETBALL

National Basketball Association

DENVER NUGGETS — Signed C Jusuf Nurkic and G Gary Harris.

MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Named Jeff Bzdelik assistant coach, John Townsend director of player development and Trevor Moawad mental endurance coach. Promoted Jason March to assistant coach/advance scout and Drew Graham to trainer and vice president of player care.

MILWAUKEE BUCKS — Signed G Jerryd Bayless.

FOOTBALL

National Football League

ATLANTA FALCONS — Announced the retirement of DT Peria Jerry.

CHICAGO BEARS — Signed OL Graham Pocic and T Dennis Roland to one-year contracts. Released WR Terrence Toliver with an injury settlement. Waived T Cody Booth.

DENVER BRONCOS — Signed DT Cody Larsen and DE Will Pericak.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Waived C David Snow from injured reserve.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed CB Kip Edwards.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed DE Jake McDonough.

FOOTBALL

National Football League

ATLANTA FALCONS — Announced the retirement of DT Peria Jerry.

HOCKEY

National Hockey League

BOSTON BRUINS — Renewed their affiliation agreement with South Carolina (ECHL).

DALLAS STARS — Re-signed F Scott Glennie to a one-year, two-way contract.

OTTAWA SENATORS — Signed G Robin Lehner to a three-year contract extension.

PITTSBURGH PENGUINS — Agreed to terms with F Nick Spaling on a two-year contract.

COLLEGE

AUSTIN PEAY — Announced the resignation of Kirk Kayden golf coach.

CHESTNUT HILL — Named Michael Gospodarek softball coach.

CLEMSON — Named Kyle Shields premium seats coordinator/major gifts officer for IPTAY.

JACKSON STATE — Named Maurice Johnson defensive line coach.

LA SALLE — Announced the resignation of men’s and women’s cross country and track and field coach Dan Ireland, to become director of cross country and track and field at Columbia. Promoted men’s and women’s assistant cross country and track and field coach Tom Peterson to head coach.

LIMESTONE — Named Holli Dawson assistant trainer.

LOYOLA (NO) — Named Jeff Lorio men’s and women’s golf coach.

MILES — Named Leon Douglas men’s basketball coach.

NJIT — Named Danny Goncalves men’s volleyball coach.

TEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI — Named Kolby Banker women’s assistant soccer coach.

WAKE FOREST — Suspended RB Dominique Gibson from the football team.

Fish count

Upstream daily movement of adult chinook, jack chinook, steelhead and wild steelhead at selected Columbia River dams last updated on Thursday.

Chnk Jchnk Stlhd Wstlhd

Bonneville 560 213 4,219 1,984

The Dalles 534 302 2,013 996

Upstream year-to-date movement of adult chinook, jack chinook, steelhead and wild steelhead at selected Columbia River dams last updated on Thursday.

Chnk Jchnk Stlhd Wstlhd

Bonneville 297,817 51,436 101,997 51,907

The Dalles 237,945 40,051 53,597 29,453

John Day 206,713 35,632 31,889 16,234

McNary 190,227 31,381 23,314 11,803