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Sunday, June 19, 2011

Sports editor:Dan Ruthemeyer 360-416-2133 / sports@skagitpublishing.com

Felix, Ms Murphy takes B Main

Driver transferred
fall to
into the A Main event
Phillies

ened the highlight of the

Skagit Speedways season,
it didnt stop
a competitive
SATURDAY
group of races
For more results,
including the A
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main scramble,
w h i c h d e t e rmined starting order for the top
race of the night.
Stewart claimed the win in that
six-lap event, using his inside starting row position to beat Jonathan
Allard.
Jason Scott won the C Main and
Murphy won the B Main, which
Scott Terrell / Skagit Valley Herald
saw speedway regulars Danielle
Peter
Murphy
(left)
leads
Toni
Lutar
Saturday
in a one-two finish
Huson (seventh) and Barry Martiin the B Main. Both advanced to the A Main.
nez (eighth) earn transfer spots.

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Associated
By TREVOR PYLE
Press Staff Writer
Graphics
By Geoff Baker
ALGER Peter Murphy
The Seattle Times
turned in a strong performance to
claim the B Main Saturday night at
M
SEATTLE CAnother
the 40th Annual Jim Raper MemoY aKlarge
tense battle with
rial Dirt Cup in a race that saw lots
crowd in the stands gave
of fierce racing.
the Mariners a taste of
Murphy led a field of eight drivers
what they can expect if this
who transferred into the A Main.
run of City
theirs carries over
Kansas
The results of the evenings A
into
the second half.
Royals
Main which featured Shane
And some
Stewart going for a sweep of all
of the lesthree nights of the event were
sons learned
not available at press time.
in a 5-1 loss
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thing other
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than May
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June wonders. Facing
the weakest in a quintet of
Philadelphia starting pitchers, the MarinersC piled
up
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five base runners Yin the
first
K
two innings but managed to
score only one run.
That proved costly as
Felix Hernandez kept a 1-1
tie going into the seventh
inning, only to surrender
a two-run, bases loaded
ders
double with two outs by
Shane Victorino that gave
the visitors their eventual
margin of victory. Victorino,
who also tripled in the third
inning, would close things
out in the ninth with a tworun homer to right field
off Seattle reliever Jamey
Wright.
Hernandez gave up a
run in the very first inning
as the first two Phillies
reached base and Ryan
Howard later hit a towerFrank Varga / Skagit Valley Herald
ing sacrifice fly to center.
Clayton Sibley of Mount Vernon stands in front of his Sportsman Sprint 360 car Friday at the Jim Raper Memorial Dirt Cup.
But the Mariners tied it
up in the second inning off
Phillies starter Vance Worley as Dustin Ackley sent a
full count offering over the
right field wall for his first
major league home run.
The crowd of 35,829 at
Safeco Field gave Ackley
a long and loud ovation as

One of a kind

See SEATTLE, Page B3

Sounders
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Toronto
The Associated Press

TORONTO Fredy
Montero sent home a free
kick late in the second half
and the Seattle Sounders
defeated Toronto FC 1-0 on
Saturday.
The Seattle striker
beat Toronto
goalkeeper
Stefan Frei
in the 90th
minute into
SATURDAY
the top right
Seattle........... 1
Toronto........... 0 corner.
THURSDAY
To r o n New York at
to (2-6-9)
Seattle, 7 p.m.
couldnt take
(ESPN2)
advantage of
Jhon Kennedy Hurtados
second yellow card and is
winless in eight matches
(0-3-5). The Reds havent
won in MLS play since a
2-1 defeat of Houston on
May 7.
Seattle, which played
Vancouver to a 2-2 draw
last weekend at home,
improved to 6-4-7.
See SOUNDERS, Page B3

Mount Vernon resident drives an under-powered car during Dirt Cup

premier race of the season and its just a lot of fun to be here and
be able to race.
You get a great opportunity to see a lot of really good racLGER There was exactly one modified Sportsman
ers and watch and learn from them. Thats what this is really
Sprint 360 car competing on all three days at this years 40th all about. You can learn a lot by watching these guys and their
Annual Jim Raper Memorial Dirt Cup.
crews.
And that car was driven by Mount Vernons Clayton Sibley.
In order for Sibley to get as much horsepower out of his
Sibley has been racing for years in the Sportsmans class at
Sportsmans class car, it was as simple as removing a restrictor
Skagit Speedway and usually mashes the gas at Dirt Cup, know- plate in order to garner about 25 more horsepower. Even with
ing full well his chances of finishing anywhere near the top is slim the horsepower increase to between 520-525 horsepower, that
to none.
doesnt mean much when the other drivers are pushing 800-900
But thats fine with Sibley, who says he competes at Dirt Cup
horsepower.
for the experience and for the possibility to put some cash in his
Im way under-powered, Sibley said.
pocket.
But thats not the only issue with Sibleys race car. He was
Seeing how Sibley was the lone 360 driver in the field all three T-boned a week ago, forcing crew chief Ray Benoit and him to
days, if he raced all three nights, he would take home a $500
piece together his damaged car in order to race at Dirt Cup.
bonus.
I tore it up pretty good, Sibley said of his tangle the previous
Sibley met one of his goals Saturday, as he participaterd in the week. I got sideways and then got hit. It bent the down tube, and
C Main.
did a bunch of other stuff. But we got it back up and running.
I could come away with upwards of $800 to $1,200, he said
Saturday. Im just trying to make a little extra money. This is the
See SIBLEY, Page B4
By VINCE RICHARDSON
Staff Writer

McIlroy carries 8-stroke lead into final day

By EDDIE PELLS
AP National Writer

BETHESDA, Md. Rory McIlroy

kept punishing the golf course and the
record book Saturday, setting himself up
with an eight-shot lead at the U.S. Open
with 18 holes left between him and his
first major championship.
In a third round that felt more like a
regular day on tour than the toughest test
in golf, McIlroy shot 3-under-par 68 to finish at 14-under 199, breaking Jim Furyks
record for the best 54-hole score by one
Eric Gay / AP stroke.
McIlroy leads Y.E. Yang (70) by eight
Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, tees off on the
and Lee Westwood (65), Jason Day (65)
14th hole Saturday during the third round of the
U.S. Open Championship tournament in Bethesda, and Robert Garrigus (68) by nine.
Md.
The 22-year-old from Northern Ireland

will sleep on the lead heading into the

final day of a major for the second straight
time. But this lead is double the size of the
one he held at the Masters two months
ago, when he blew up on the back nine,
shot 80 and finished 15th.
Overall, Im very happy with the way
I played today, McIlroy said. Now, I just
have to do that for 18 more holes.
Knowing their chances were slim to
catch the leader, the rest of the field took
its frustration out on Congressional, a
softy of a course thanks to forgiving rough
and rain-soaked greens.
There were 26 rounds under par,
a record for the third round of the U.S.
Open, and the 72 players carded a total of
See U.S. OPEN, Page B4