Sports in brief
Published 12:00 am Saturday, March 24, 2018
- Ducks and Beavers
Baseball
Ducks take two from Cal — Jakob Goldfarb was 4-for-5 with a triple and two RBIs, leading Oregon to a 7-2 win over California in the second game of a Pac-12 doubleheader Saturday at PK Park in Eugene. Kyle Kasser was 4-for-5 for the Ducks in the opener, an 8-5 Oregon victory. Matt Mercer (3-1) was the winning pitcher in the first game, striking out eight over six innings, and Parker Kelly earned a three-inning save. Kenyon Yovan (1-1) allowed one run and five hits over five innings to claim the victory in the second game as the Ducks (2-3 Pac-12, 14-7 overall) notched their first two conference wins of the season.
Baseball
Oregon, Oregon State games postponed — Friday night’s Pac-12 games in the Willamette Valley were postponed because of bad weather and have been rescheduled as part of a doubleheaders on Saturday. Oregon is hosting California, and a doubleheader between the Ducks and the Golden Bears at PK Park in Eugene is set to start at noon. Oregon State is entertaining Washington, and a twin bill between the Beavers and the Huskies at Goss Stadium in Corvallis is set to start at 1:05 p.m.
Football
Eagles’ Bennett charged with injury to elderly paraplegic — Authorities issued a warrant Friday for the arrest of three-time Pro Bowl defensive end Michael Bennett, who is accused of injuring a paraplegic woman as he tried get onto the field at last year’s Super Bowl to celebrate with his brother. The Harris County district attorney’s office said a grand jury indicted 32-year-old Bennett, a member of the Philadelphia Eagles, on a felony count of injury to the elderly. Bennett was a spectator at the game at NRG Stadium in Houston in February 2017 when he tried to get onto the field immediately afterward to see his brother, Martellus Bennett, a tight end for the Patriots at the time. Prosecutors allege he pushed through security personnel, including a 66-year-old woman in a wheelchair who was a stadium employee and who had told him to use a different entrance to access the field. Bennett is also accused of pushing two other people, including another woman, and ignoring a request by a police officer to stop as he made his way onto the field. Bennett’s agent, Doug Hendrickson, did not respond to a message seeking comment Friday.
Tennis
6-time champ Djokovic out at Miami Open — Six-time champion Novak Djokovic lost his opening match at the Miami Open to Benoit Paire on Friday, 6-3, 6-4. Djokovic’s 16-match Key Biscayne winning streak ended, and his struggle to overcome a bothersome right elbow continued. He lost serve four times, returned poorly and had difficulty anticipating Paire’s drop shots. The defeat was Djokovic’s third in a row. He returned from a six-month injury absence at the Australian Open and lost in the fourth round, and was upset two weeks ago in the second round at Indian Wells by Taro Daniel, a 109th-ranked qualifier.
— From wire reports