Arkansas takes CWS opener over Oregon State
OMAHA, Neb. — Arkansas scored four fifthinning runs against a faltering Luke Heimlich and moved a step closer to its first national championship in baseball with a 4-1 win over Oregon State in Game 1 of the College World Series finals Tuesday night.
The finals opener, delayed a day because of rain, saw the collapse of Heimlich, who looked so good, and then so bad.
After failing to get out of the third inning in both of his previous CWS starts, the Beavers’ embattled ace was in full command while striking out five and limiting the Razorbacks to one hit through four innings.
In the fifth, though, the senior lefthander issued a walk, hit two batters, gave up two hits and got a bad break when second baseman and first-round draft pick Nick Madrigal fumbled the ball trying to make a throw.
Last year, Heimlich left the team before the CWS when it was revealed he had pleaded guilty to molesting a young relative when he was 15. The university allowed him to return to the team this year. He served two years of probation and went through a treatment program but denied wrongdoing in recent interviews. In other college news:
• Justin Gorham ,a 6-7 power forward from Towson, plans to transfer to the University of Houston. He must sit out the 2018-19 season and will have two years of eligibility remaining.
BASKETBALL Wizards’ Gortat dealt for Rivers
The Washington Wizards traded Marcin Gortat, their starting center, to the Los Angeles Clippers for guard Austin
Rivers on Tuesday night. The 34-year-old Gortat is a durable big man who has played 12 years in the league, the past five with Washington. He averaged 8.4 points and 7.6 rebounds last season.
Rivers, who turns 26 in August, averaged a careerbest 15.1 points and four assists last season while playing for his father, Doc, the Clippers’ coach.
HOCKEY Bettman part of new Hall class
NHL commissioner
Gary Bettman, pioneering black player Willie O’Ree and Martin Brodeur, the league’s leader in wins among goaltenders, top the latest class for the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Along with Bettman and O’Ree in the builder category, forward Martin
St. Louis, four-time gold-medal-winning Canadian women’s national team star Jayna Hefford and Russian Alexander
Yakushev were part of the six-person class of 2018 that will be inducted Nov. 12 in Toronto..
PRO FOOTBALL Body discovered at Jenkins’ home
A body has been found at a New Jersey home where New York Giants cornerback Janoris Jenkins lives. The Bergen County prosecutor’s office says it is investigating a death at the house in Fair Lawn, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) north of MetLife Stadium. Authorities have identified the dead man as 25-yearold Roosevelt Rene ,a family friend of Jenkins.
PRO BASEBALL Skeeters beaten by Barnstorners
Anthony Giansanti hit two homers and finished with five RBIs, but the Sugar Land Skeeters fell to the visiting Lancaster Barnstormers 8-6 in Atlantic League action.