B Sports Tuesday Section July 2, 2013 Sports Editor: Cam Huffman Phone: 304-255-4475 Scores: To report a sports score INSIDE SPORTS: Scoreboard ........3B MLB ..................4B Wimbledon ........5B ■ TO SUBSCRIBE: CALL 255-4444 or 1-800-950-0250 EAST-LEADING MINERS TO HOST BUTLER TONIGHT INSIDE | Page 2B By Cam Huffman SPORTS EDITOR WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS — It was 1:30 a.m. in the early morning hours of July 8, 2012, and North Au- gusta, S.C., native Scott Brown was in bed preparing for the fi- nal round of The Greenbrier Classic. The PGA TOUR rookie — who had finished eighth on the Nationwide Tour money list to earn a spot on golf’s largest stage — was playing well at 3- under-par and hoping to work his way up the leaderboard for a big paycheck and some earn- ings that would be critical for his future in professional golf. Brown had just dozed off when his phone rang. His wife, Allison, who was back at home, was headed across the river to University Hospital in Augusta, Ga., for the birth of the couple’s first child, who was still supposed to be a cou- ple weeks away. Running on pure adrenaline, Brown never hesitated about what to do. Despite urging from Allison to stay and finish the tournament — with a sev- en-hour drive ahead of him, he might not make it in time for the birth, anyway — Brown jumped in a car with his cad- die and began to drive south. “It was a no-brainer,” he said. “I don’t think I could have focused on playing, any- way. “The drive couldn’t have happened at a better time. It was really early in the morn- ing and nobody was out. So I could book it. I really thought I was going to make it there, but she was only (in labor) for 53 minutes.” It turns out Allison was right. Somewhere around Co- lumbia, S.C., about an hour from Augusta, Brown received a text message with a picture of his newborn daughter, Elly. “It was cool,” he said. “I was running on pure adrenaline at that moment. I hadn’t even been to bed, because my caddie and I went to one of the con- certs and it didn’t end until 11:30. “I didn’t sleep for like 39 hours.” Brown did make it to the John Deere Classic the next week, finishing seventh and earning money that would eventually allow him to gain conditional status. That would pay big dividends seven months later. ■ ■ ■ Brown’s life has changed a great deal in the past year, and not just because he’s changing diapers and figuring out the intricacies of properly buckling a car seat. After finishing 148th on the money list in 2012, his first year on the PGA TOUR, he was relegated to conditional status and was prepared to play a large portion of the 2013 season on the Web.com Tour. But on March 10, with Alli- son and Elly waiting for the re- sults back in South Carolina, Brown beat out Fabian Gomez and Jordan Spieth to win the Puerto Rico Open with a 20- under-par four-round score. He earned enough money to buy a lot of Pampers — $630,000 — with the victory, but, more im- portantly, he regained his PGA TOUR card through 2015. He’ll play in the 2013 Open Championship and the 2013 PGA Championship. “It’s crazy how things work out,” said Brown of the life-al- tering victory, which wouldn’t have been possible without the money he earned in the John Deere Classic. “It happened so Notes: Collinsworth impressed on 1st visit Greenbrier Classic special to Browns Scott Brown, daughter Elly on Monday at The Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs. Elly was born on the morning of July 8, 2012, the day Scott was supposed to be playing in the final round of The Green- brier Classic. Daughter Elly was born on morning of 2012 final round RICK BARBERO/THE REGISTER-HERALD Cris Collinsworth walks up the third fairway Monday during The Greenbrier Classic Pro-am at the Old White TPC Course. Stay connected with The Greenbrier Classic Don’t miss any of the latest news from this week’s Greenbrier Classic. The Register-Herald will have re- porters and photographers at The Greenbrier all week and will provide up-to-date information on a variety of platforms. Visit www.register-herald.com for the latest stories, and be sure to sign up for free text alerts to have infor- mation sent directly to your mobile phone. Another source will be The Register-Herald (Official) Facebook page, and on Twitter be sure to follow @Regis- ter_Herald as well as sports editior Cam Huffman at @CamHuffmanRH. See NOTEBOOK, 3B See BROWN, 3B By Jim Workman ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR A shot at the big time. That’s what was at stake at Monday’s PGA TOUR Open Quali- fier on the Cobb Course at The Re- sort at Glade Springs. Dan Obremski didn’t leave any doubt that he wanted a chance to compete at The Old White TPC lat- er this week. Obremski fired a 9-under 62, a Cobb Course record, to be the first of four from the qualifier for this week’s Greenbrier Classic — on the big stage of the PGA TOUR as a FedExCup event. “I had no idea it was a course record,” said Obremski, a Irwin, 20-foot putt for eagle on 12 and Obremski’s Cobb-record 62 is low round at Glade Qualifier On Page 3B ■ Complete qualifier scores By Cam Huffman SPORTS EDITOR It hasn’t exactly been a tight-lipped secret, but on Monday, it finally became offi- cial. After a 33-year break, golf is returning to West Virginia University. Athletic Director Oliver Luck officially announced the return of the program, which had a place at WVU from 1933 until 1982. The Moun- taineers will begin play dur- ing the 2015 season. “I am pleased to announce that men’s golf will be return- ing as an intercollegiate sport at West Virginia University,” said Luck in a statement re- leased early Monday morning. “Golf had a strong tradition on this campus, and its statewide popularity makes it a perfect addition to our de- partment. A lot of thought, time and effort went into this decision as far as cost, travel and infrastructure goes, and I believe the strong tradition and history of Big 12 golf will only enhance our chances of building a championship pro- gram.” Luck said he plans to have a coach in place by next March, giving the coach more than a year to get the program on its feet. Discussions are still ongoing with a num- ber of courses around the state to host com- petitions and prac- tices. “We were able to bring the baseball team to a number of different venues last year, and we hope to do that with other sports, including golf,” said Luck, pointing out some of the great courses around the state such as The Resort at Glade Springs, The Greenbrier and Pete Dye in Bridgeport. “We have so many great courses, and they’re so important to our econ- omy. I can’t imagine we wouldn’t have a great opportunity to put together a great tournament at a place like Glade Springs, for example.” The addition of golf allows WVU to meet the Big 12’s requirement of a minimum of six men’s sports and six women’s sports. WVU will have six men’s sports and 10 women’s sports sponsored by the Big 12 at the start of the 2015-16 academic year. The move is also a welcome one for supporters of the sport around the Mountain State. This past season, 108 high schools in West Virginia field- ed a golf program with more than 1,000 participants. “The West Virginia Golf As- sociation is delighted that WVU has decided to reintro- duce golf at our flagship uni- versity,” said Ken Tackett, the executive director of the West Virginia Golf Association. “Golf has established itself as Men’s golf officially returning as a varsity sport at WVU Program will begin play in 2015 See WVU, 4B
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WHITE SULPHURSPRINGS — It was 1:30 a.m.in the early morning hours ofJuly 8, 2012, and North Au-gusta, S.C., native Scott Brownwas in bed preparing for the fi-nal round of The GreenbrierClassic.
The PGA TOUR rookie —who had finished eighth on theNationwide Tour money list toearn a spot on golf’s largeststage — was playing well at 3-under-par and hoping to workhis way up the leaderboard fora big paycheck and some earn-ings that would be critical forhis future in professional golf.
Brown had just dozed offwhen his phone rang. His wife,Allison, who was back athome, was headed across theriver to University Hospital inAugusta, Ga., for the birth ofthe couple’s first child, whowas still supposed to be a cou-ple weeks away.
Running on pure adrenaline,Brown never hesitated aboutwhat to do. Despite urgingfrom Allison to stay and finishthe tournament — with a sev-en-hour drive ahead of him, hemight not make it in time forthe birth, anyway — Brownjumped in a car with his cad-die and began to drive south.
“It was a no-brainer,” hesaid. “I don’t think I couldhave focused on playing, any-way.
“The drive couldn’t havehappened at a better time. Itwas really early in the morn-ing and nobody was out. So Icould book it. I really thought Iwas going to make it there, butshe was only (in labor) for 53minutes.”
It turns out Allison wasright. Somewhere around Co-lumbia, S.C., about an hourfrom Augusta, Brown receiveda text message with a pictureof his newborn daughter, Elly.
“It was cool,” he said. “I wasrunning on pure adrenaline atthat moment. I hadn’t evenbeen to bed, because my caddieand I went to one of the con-certs and it didn’t end until11:30.
“I didn’t sleep for like 39hours.”
Brown did make it to the
John Deere Classic the nextweek, finishing seventh andearning money that wouldeventually allow him to gainconditional status. That wouldpay big dividends sevenmonths later.
■ ■ ■Brown’s life has changed a
great deal in the past year,and not just because he’schanging diapers and figuringout the intricacies of properlybuckling a car seat.
After finishing 148th on themoney list in 2012, his firstyear on the PGA TOUR, hewas relegated to conditionalstatus and was prepared toplay a large portion of the 2013season on the Web.com Tour.
But on March 10, with Alli-
son and Elly waiting for the re-sults back in South Carolina,Brown beat out Fabian Gomezand Jordan Spieth to win thePuerto Rico Open with a 20-under-par four-round score. Heearned enough money to buy alot of Pampers — $630,000 —with the victory, but, more im-portantly, he regained his PGATOUR card through 2015.He’ll play in the 2013 OpenChampionship and the 2013PGA Championship.
“It’s crazy how things workout,” said Brown of the life-al-tering victory, which wouldn’thave been possible without themoney he earned in the JohnDeere Classic. “It happened so
By Cam HuffmanSPORTS EDITOR
WHITE SULPHURSPRINGS — Sightings of fa-mous athletes are nothingout of the ordinary at TheGreenbrier Classic, but usu-ally those sports stars areknown for sinking birdies in-stead of scoring touchdowns.
During Monday’s Pro-Am,though, a former gridironstar made his way to thelinks.
Three-time Pro Bowler CrisCollinsworth — an All-Amer-ican wide receiver at the Uni-versity of Florida before be-coming a Pro Bowl selectionwith the Cincinnati Bengals— played in a group withPGA TOUR golfer StevenBowditch and two other ama-teurs during the first officialevent of the 2013 tourna-ment.
“Katie, my daughter, won asales event for The GolfChannel, and she didn’t wantto play and gave me her
place,” said Collinsworth,who grew up in Dayton,Ohio, and currently lives inFort Thomas, Ky. “It’s abeautiful place. It’s the firsttime I’ve been here. I’ve beento a lot of places, but notmany places look like thiswith the creeks and themountains. It’s like goingback in time a little bit.”
Now a commentator onNBC’s Sunday Night Foot-ball, Collinsworth will call hisfirst game of the 2013 seasonon Aug. 4 when the DallasCowboys and Miami Dol-phins face off in a preseasoncontest at the annual Hall ofFame Game at Fawcett Sta-dium in Canton, Ohio.
Notes: Collinsworthimpressed on 1st visit
Greenbrier Classicspecial to Browns
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Scott Brown, right, and his wife Allison pose for a photo withdaughter Elly on Monday at The Greenbrier resort in White SulphurSprings. Elly was born on the morning of July 8, 2012, the dayScott was supposed to be playing in the final round of The Green-brier Classic.
Daughter Elly was born on morning of 2012 final round
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Cris Collinsworth walks up the third fairway Monday duringThe Greenbrier Classic Pro-am at the Old White TPC Course.
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By Jim WorkmanASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR
A shot at the big time.That’s what was at stake at
Monday’s PGA TOUR Open Quali-fier on the Cobb Course at The Re-sort at Glade Springs.
Dan Obremski didn’t leave anydoubt that he wanted a chance to
compete at The Old White TPC lat-er this week.
Obremski fired a 9-under 62, aCobb Course record, to be the firstof four from the qualifier for thisweek’s Greenbrier Classic — onthe big stage of the PGA TOUR asa FedExCup event.
“I had no idea it was a courserecord,” said Obremski, a Irwin,
Pa., native. “I was just happy withthe way I finished. I came around3-under after nine (holes) and I hita 20-foot putt for birdie on 10, hit a12-foot putt for birdie on 11, had a
20-foot putt for eagle on 12 andbirdied 13 with a one-foot putt. Iwas pumped — for the way I wasplaying.”
Ryan Zylstra sported the second-best round of the day with a 7-un-der 64, to equal the previous bestlow round on Cobb.
Obremski’s Cobb-record 62 is low round at Glade Qualifier
ObremskiSee QUALIFIER, 3B
On Page 3B■ Complete qualifier scores
By Cam HuffmanSPORTS EDITOR
It hasn’t exactly been atight-lipped secret, but onMonday, it finally became offi-cial.
After a 33-year break, golf isreturning to West VirginiaUniversity.
Athletic Director OliverLuck officially announced thereturn of the program, whichhad a place at WVU from1933 until 1982. The Moun-taineers will begin play dur-ing the 2015 season.
“I am pleased to announcethat men’s golf will be return-ing as an intercollegiate sportat West Virginia University,”said Luck in a statement re-leased early Monday morning.“Golf had a strong traditionon this campus, and itsstatewide popularity makes ita perfect addition to our de-partment. A lot of thought,time and effort went into thisdecision as far as cost, traveland infrastructure goes, and Ibelieve the strong traditionand history of Big 12 golf willonly enhance our chances of
building a championship pro-gram.”
Luck said he plans to have acoach in place by next March,giving the coach morethan a year to get theprogram on its feet.Discussions are stillongoing with a num-ber of courses aroundthe state to host com-petitions and prac-tices.
“We were able tobring the baseballteam to a number ofdifferent venues last year, andwe hope to do that with othersports, including golf,” saidLuck, pointing out some of the
great courses around the statesuch as The Resort at GladeSprings, The Greenbrier andPete Dye in Bridgeport. “We
have so many greatcourses, and they’re soimportant to our econ-omy. I can’t imaginewe wouldn’t have agreat opportunity toput together a greattournament at a placelike Glade Springs, forexample.”
The addition of golfallows WVU to meet
the Big 12’s requirement of aminimum of six men’s sportsand six women’s sports. WVUwill have six men’s sports and
10 women’s sports sponsoredby the Big 12 at the start ofthe 2015-16 academic year.
The move is also a welcomeone for supporters of the sportaround the Mountain State.This past season, 108 highschools in West Virginia field-ed a golf program with morethan 1,000 participants.
“The West Virginia Golf As-sociation is delighted thatWVU has decided to reintro-duce golf at our flagship uni-versity,” said Ken Tackett, theexecutive director of the WestVirginia Golf Association.“Golf has established itself as
Men’s golf officially returning as a varsity sport at WVU
Luck
Program will begin play in 2015
See WVU, 4B
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By Gary FauberASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
Taking the all-turffield at Linda K. EplingStadiun tonight will bethe first-place West Vir-ginia Miners.
Didn’t seem possible aweek ago.
The Miners (18-12)will start a two-gamehomestand against theButler BlueSox while sit-ting in the cockpit of theProspect League’s EastDivision. First pitch willbe 7:05 p.m.
West Virginia has aone-game lead overChillicothe at the sea-son’s midway point. Un-like in the past, the sea-son has not been split in-to halves for the purposeof qualifying for the play-offs. Instead, the top twoteams in each division atthe end of the regularseason will meet in best-of-3 series to determinethe league championshipseries contenders.
Which is exactly whyMiners manager TimEpling puts no stock inbeing in first place onJuly 2.
“It really doesn’t mat-ter, other than we havebeen playing well,”Epling said. “Hopefully,we can sustain it andkeep it going through theend of the year. This sea-son we don’t have a firstor second half. We’re justat the halfway mark,and the top two teams goto the playoffs. That’s allI am focused on.”
Last Tuesday, theMiners were 12-12 andtrailed Chillicothe bythree games. West Vir-ginia has won all six ofits games since and hasa resurgent offense part-ly to thank.
The Miners had 16 hitsin each of their wins overLorain County last week.During the winningstreak, they are hitting.325 and have scored 38runs.
“I would not say we arewhere I would like us tobe, but I will say we aregetting timely hittinglate in games,” Eplingsaid. “I still think we cando a better job of gettinginto better counts. Butwe have been scoringenough runs and havebeen getting good pitch-ing.”
Infielder Zach Wool-cock, a rising sophomoreat Radford University,has led the offense’s re-bound. Over the six-game stretch, Woolcockis hitting .522 (12-for-23)with two doubles, twohomers and eight runsbatted in. He also has a.957 slugging percent-age.
“He’s not trying to dotoo much,” Epling said.“He’s allowing the pitch-ers to provide the powerfor him. He’s been put-ting some smoothstrokes on the ball andfinding holes.”
Three other players
are hitting .400 or betterfor the Miners duringthe streak — outfielderKaeo Aliviado (.462),catcher Robert TavoneJr. (.455, 1.091 slugging,2 HRs) and infielderDouglas Votolato (.400).Infielder Griffin Moore ishitting .375.
Kevin Johnstone (2-1)will start for the Minerstonight against Butler’sAnthony Caringi (2-2).
■ ■ ■Tonight will be Two for
Tuesday (buy a ticket, geta second free) and Base-ball Bingo Night. It willalso be Employee Night— a night of appreciationfor stadium employees.
Wednesday will beWJLS Big Dawg Nightand Military Night, withthe Army National Guardattending and displayingsome of its military vehi-cles. Any serviceman orservicewoman in uniformwill get in free of charge.
In addition, a pair oftickets to the Kenny
Chesney concert at theState Fairgrounds on theFourth of July will be giv-en away.
East-leading Miners to host Butler tonightTwo for Tuesday offer ongoing; Fireworks, Military Night, Chesney tickets giveaway Wednesday
Epling to lead Eastin All-Star game
West Virginia Min-ers manager TimEpling hasbeen namedmanager of theEast Divisionin the ProspectLeague All-Star game forthe thirdstraight year.He earned thepost after theMiners fin-ished thehalfway point withthe division’s bestrecord.
Managing the Westwill be Quincy Gemsmanager Chris Mar-
tin. The two managedagainst each other inthe 2011 game at Lin-da K. Epling Stadiumin Beckley.
Epling was sup-posed to man-age in lastyear’s game inSpringfield,Ill., but couldnot make thetrip because ofillness.
The All-Stargame will beplayedWednesday,July 17, at
Pullman Park in But-ler, Pa.
The legue will re-lease the all-star ros-ters Friday.
— By Gary Fauber
Epling
MORGANTOWN— You may re-call, if you are
a regular reader of thiscolumn, that a few daysbefore West Virginia’sJune 20 birthday, I sug-gested that Gov. EarlRay Tomblin call for anoutside investigationinto West Virginia Uni-versity’s troubled ath-letic department.
As I’ve said previous-ly, the turmoil is theworst — by far — in mygoing-on 68 years of re-porting on the Moun-taineer sports beat.
It allegedly involvesmembers of the school’sBoard of Governors,
WVUPresidentJimClements,AthleticDirectorOliverLuck andothers, Iwas told.It includ-ed suchthings as
cited inequities, con-flicts of interest, viola-tions of the school’s bid-ding process, etc.
Spending has been vi-olently out of control, allthe while, with athleticsin debt $13.3 million forfiscal year 2011-12 (six
months past the normalreporting date).
Getting back to thegovernor, I sought to findout whether he has evenso much as looked intothis mess at WVU. I triedto contact by telephoneeither Gov. Tomblin’scommunication directoror his secretary. I wastold they were still cele-brating the state’s birth-day.
So I called the gover-nor’s office again on Mon-day, June 24, and failedto reach either of the twopeople I asked about. Butanother woman got onthe line, took my twoquestions and promised
to respond — hopefullywith answers.
However, I have not re-ceived any word from thegovernor’s office sincethat day — not even a“no comment,” as a mem-ber of the state’s media.It’s absolutely a lack ofcourtesy, if not a lack ofrespect.
I have not heard orseen anything as towhether Gov. Tomblinhas even tried to helpsolve the embarrassingcrisis at our university.Nor do I know whetheranyone in the state Leg-islature realizes it’s aserious matter of con-cern.
Yet each branch ofgovernment inCharleston had time atthe last gathering to re-assemble in special ses-sion to approve legista-tion for construction of anew baseball stadiumthat growing numbersdon’t believe Morgan-town really needs.
Is this governor con-cerned that at least twolawsuits have been filedagainst his chosen WVUBoard of Governors,plus individual mem-bers, and PresidentClements, Luck and oth-er bigwigs?
A governor and somelegislators showed that
they were concernedsome 32 years ago whenthe athletic departmenthad similar problems.
Fred Schaus took overas athletic director and,with changes, got thedepartment out of thered over a period oftime.
Schaus, who is de-ceased, didn’t need to betold to lower athletic de-partment spending. Heserved very well for nineyears.
How long will it takefor WVU to clean its redink in athletics thistime and restore somesense of relief?
Only time will tell.
Governor does not respond to inquiries into WVU athletics situation
Shady SpringSummer TournamentSaturdayGreenbrier East 7, Shady Spring 3PikeView 14, Shady Spring 6PikeView 4, Greenbrier West 0SundayPikeView 8, Greenbrier East 4SemifinalsWoodrow Wilson 4, Greenbrier East 1PikeView 9, Independence 5ChampionshipWoodrow Wilson 1, PikeView 0
W L Pct. GBGreenville (Red Sox) 7 4 .636 —Augusta (Giants) 6 5 .545 1Lexington (Royals) 6 5 .545 1Charleston, S.C. (Yankees)5 5 .500 11⁄2x-Savannah (Mets) 5 6 .455 2Asheville (Rockies) 4 7 .364 3Rome (Braves) 3 8 .273 4x-clinched first halfMonday’s GamesDelmarva 6, Lakewood 2Hickory 5, Savannah 0Kannapolis 8, Augusta 6Hagerstown 6, West Virginia 2Greensboro at Asheville, ppd., rainRome at Charleston, S.C., lateGreenville at Lexington, ppd., rainToday’s GamesGreensboro at Asheville, 5:05 p.m., 1st gameGreenville at Lexington, 5:05 p.m., 1st gameAugusta at Kannapolis, 7:05 p.m.West Virginia at Hagerstown, 7:05 p.m.Rome at Charleston, S.C., 7:05 p.m.Delmarva at Lakewood, 7:05 p.m.Hickory at Savannah, 7:05 p.m.Greensboro at Asheville, 7:35 p.m., 2nd gameGreenville at Lexington, 7:35 p.m., 2nd gameWednesday’s GamesHickory at Savannah, 6:05 p.m.Rome at Charleston, S.C., 6:35 p.m.Greenville at Lexington, 7:05 p.m.Delmarva at Lakewood, 7:05 p.m.Augusta at Kannapolis, 7:05 p.m.Greensboro at Asheville, 7:05 p.m.West Virginia at Hagerstown, 7:05 p.m.
NASCAR Sprint Cup LeadersBy The Associated PressThrough June 30Points1, Jimmie Johnson, 610. 2, Carl Edwards, 572. 3,Clint Bowyer, 569. 4, Kevin Harvick, 544. 5, MattKenseth, 528. 6, Dale Earnhardt Jr., 512. 7, KyleBusch, 500. 8, Martin Truex Jr., 490. 9, Greg Bif-fle, 489. 10, Joey Logano, 479.11, Kasey Kahne, 478. 12, Jeff Gordon, 477. 13,Brad Keselowski, 465. 14, Kurt Busch, 463. 15,Paul Menard, 459. 16, Tony Stewart, 457. 17, Ar-ic Almirola, 457. 18, Ryan Newman, 448. 19,Jamie McMurray, 437. 20, Ricky Stenhouse Jr.,433.
Money1, Jimmie Johnson, $5,321,741. 2, Kyle Busch,$3,538,008. 3, Matt Kenseth, $3,512,047. 4,Kevin Harvick, $3,319,069. 5, Brad Keselowski,$3,296,561. 6, Dale Earnhardt Jr., $3,169,348.7, Carl Edwards, $3,133,194. 8, Tony Stewart,$2,893,014. 9, Jeff Gordon, $2,891,125. 10,Martin Truex Jr., $2,886,584.11, Clint Bowyer, $2,841,584. 12, Joey Logano,$2,835,590. 13, Ryan Newman, $2,756,984. 14,Kasey Kahne, $2,721,243. 15, Ricky StenhouseJr., $2,698,420. 16, Greg Biffle, $2,698,399. 17,Aric Almirola, $2,557,693. 18, Kurt Busch,$2,532,513. 19, Jamie McMurray, $2,458,928.20, Juan Pablo Montoya, $2,432,672.
■ The West Virginia Miners will sponsor a golftournament July 29 on the Cobb Course at TheResort at Glade Springs. The format will be afour person scramble with registration from11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and a shotgun startat 1 p.m. Entry fee is $500 per team or $125per person. Entry fee includes green fees, cart,door prizes and gift bags. A hole-in-one prizewill be offered from John Howerton Honda togo along with prizes for first place, secondplace, closest to the pin and longest drive. Var-ious sponsorship levels are available alongwith a “Play with a Miner” package. The pack-age includes a West Virginia Miner baseballplayer for the day as a 5th player, autographedmemorabilia, one mulligan per player per 18holes, one red tee per side and one woodenbat drive per side. Pre-registration deadline isJuly 22. For reservations or more informationsplease call 304-253-1996.■ The 13th Annual Ron Kidd BasketballCamps have one session remaining this sum-mer at the YMCA of Southern West Virginia. Allsessions but the last will focus on fundamen-tals: dribbling, passing and shooting. Each full-day camp will have lunch provided by the YM-CA. The July 8-10 session is from 9 a.m.-nooneach day for boys and girls going into the sec-ond through sixth grades. The court will be di-vided between younger and older campers andwill consist of individual and team games. Costis $40 for YMCA members and $50 for non-members. The camps will be conducted byWoodrow Wilson boys basketball coach RonKidd, who has a 245-88 record in 13 seasonsat the Flying Eagles’ helm, and who led themto Class AAA state championships in 2004and 2008. For more information, contact theYMCA at 304-252-0715.■ Coach Dave Barksdale and coach Dan Burdwill hold the following basketball camps thissummer: July 8-12 for third, fourth and fifthgraders; July 15-19 for sixth and seventhgraders and July 22-26 for first, second andthird graders. All camps are for boys and girlsand will run from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m., exceptthe July 22-26 camp, which is from 9 a.m. un-til noon. The camps will be held in the gymna-sium at Memorial Baptist Church, located at1405 South Kanawha Street in Beckley.Brochures with detailed information on thecamps are available by calling 304-237-4067or 304-763-5885.
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“It was good to play asolid game,” he said. “It’sa huge boost of confidencefor me. It proves that Istill have what it takes.”
The 33-year old GlenAllen, Va., resident hasbeen a spectator twice atThe Greenbrier Classic,and actually sat out frompro golf for six years. Hehas strong local ties toGreenbrier County.
“My mother-in-law livesin Rupert, W.Va. — about20 minutes from TheGreenbrier — so my wifeand I came down the pasttwo years,” he explained.“My mother-in-law en-couraged me to comedown and try to qualify —she even paid for it. Ithought it was worth ashot.
“I was playing on theGateway Tour in 2007and I just wasn’t progress-ing as much as I thought Ishould. But I got the bugback.
“It’s a dream come true— to play in The Green-brier Classic. I always saythat if you’re not dream-ing, you probably should-n’t be doing this.”
The final two qualifyingspots came down to aplayoff between BradAdamonis, Ryan Blaumand Jamie Lovemark,who all shot 5-under 65.
Lovemark bogeyed thefirst playoff hole on No.10, sending Adamonis andBlaum on to White Sul-phur Springs.
Also just missing thecut were Jonathan Cur-ran, Matthew Short andDrew Weaver at 66 —equaling the best score inthe 2012 Open Qualiferwhich forced a six-man
playoff for the four spots.Eight more golfers came
in two strokes off themark with a 67 — CorbinMills, Marc Turnesa, Ste-fan Wiedergruen, ArjunAtwal, Matt Harmon,Frank Lickliter, GarlandGreen and Jay McLuen.
It will be a quick turn-around for the four Openqualifiers.
The opening round ofThe Greenbrier Classic isThursday, with practicerounds scheduled for to-day and Wednesday.
“I feel like football’s al-ready begun with some ofthese crazy off-the-fieldstories we have going on,”said Collinsworth, whoadmitted he’s starting toget that itch for the sea-son to begin again. “Butit’s really an interestingyear. It feels like the pow-er has shifted a little bitWest with Denver, SanFrancisco and Seattle. Ithink you have to startout there, with all thethings that happenedwith Baltimore sort ofdismantling.
“There’s so many inter-esting stories. (RobertGriffin III’s) return (tothe Redskins) is going tobe interesting to follow.What Chip Kelly does inPhiladelphia now (will be
interesting), and withSean Payton comingback, you know theSaints are going to beright back in play, too.There’s a lot of things go-ing on in the league, butit’s like this every year.Anybody that thinks theyknow what’s going onwith the NFL is out oftheir mind. Until theystart, nobody knows.”
■ ■ ■Fans hoping to catch a
glimpse of some of thebest players in the field atWednesday’s Pro-Am aregoing to have to set theiralarms that morning.
Tee times for the morn-ing session begin at 7a.m., and some of the topnames are among thefirst to take the tee. Bub-ba Watson, in fact, willbegin the day with a 7a.m. tee time on the firsttee. Webb Simpson willfollow at 7:10, with Tom
Watson going off at 7:20.The afternoon session
will provide some starpower for those whowould rather wait. PhilMickelson will begin theafternoon session with anoon tee time on No. 1.AT&T National winnerBill Haas will go off ofNo. 10 at 12:30 p.m., andJohn Daly will begin onNo. 10 at 1:20.
A complete list of teetimes for Wednesday’sPro-Am is available onthe scoreboard page.
■ ■ ■Haas won’t be the only
golfer in this week’s fieldcoming off a big victory.
The Greenbrier’s ownKenny Perry — with TheGreenbrier logo on hisshirt and visor — won theSenior Players Champi-onship Sunday in Pitts-burgh, his first major ti-tle.
The Franklin, Ky., resi-
dent has won 14 times onthe PGA TOUR and threetimes on the ChampionsTour. He finished secondin the 2009 Masters andthe 1996 PGA Champi-onship and third in the2003 U.S. Open but hadnever won one of the bigones until Sunday.
■ ■ ■Of the players in this
year’s tournament, no-body has played TheGreenbrier’s Old WhiteTPC any better thanCharlie Wi.
The 41-year-old fromSeoul, South Korea, hasnever won on the PGATOUR, but in eightrounds at The GreenbrierClassic, he has a strokeaverage of 67.25, betterthan any other player inthe field. Wi finishedthird last year, two shotsout of the playoff betweenchampion Ted Potter Jr.and Troy Kelly.
Pat Perez, who won hisonly PGA TOUR event atthe 2009 Bob Hope Clas-sic, has also played thecourse well, averaging ascore of 67.38 througheight rounds.
■ ■ ■This year’s field in-
cludes 68 PGA TOURwinners, who have won313 events. Thirteen havewon Major Champi-onships, and six havewon World Golf Champi-onship events. Four play-ers are currently in thetop 10 in FedEx Cuppoints, and two are in thetop 10 in the OfficialWorld Golf Rankings.
Players in the field hailfrom 10 different coun-tries.
■ ■ ■Today’s main attraction
will be Greenbrier ClassicYouth Day, presented byPolo Golf and Med Ex-press. A junior clinic will
begin at 1:30 p.m. on thefirst fairway of the Mead-ows course. The clinic willfeature the Greenbrier’sBilly Winters performingtrick shots and a specialguest appearance by PGATOUR professional ScottLangley.
Youth Day will con-clude with The First TeeScramble, presented byPolo Golf at 3 p.m. Theevent features PGATOUR players MorganHoffman and BillyHorschel playing golfwith four First Tee kids,three from The First Teeof West Virginia and onefrom the First Tee ofRoanoke Valley. It will bea three-hole scramble ex-hibition starting on thefirst hole of The OldWhite TPC Course.
fast. I really didn’t havetime to process winninga golf tournament. Butit was a cool moment.”
Even without the win,though, Brown said hislife is definitely betterthan it was a year ago.
“(Having Elly) justmakes bad days easier,”he explained. “They’re
able to travel with mefull time, which is nice.It takes a lot of stressoff of you.”
Brown has played in14 events this season,making eight cuts andposting a pair of top 25finishes.
Brown, who’s back inThe Greenbrier Classicfor a second time — andhoping to play all fourrounds — is confidentthat a return to TheGreenbrier will be just
what his game needs.The couple will cele-
brate Elly’s birthday to-day with a party at TheGreenbrier’s pool, andAllison said the historicresort will always be aspecial place in the cou-ple’s life.
“It definitely is tome,” said Allison. “I’vegot trinkets from herethat people that werehere last year broughtme when I had her.Now, to actually come
here and feel the ener-gy, it’s definitely a spe-cial week.
“Plus (Elly’s) turning1, so we survived thefirst year.”
The Browns plan onattending both concertsthis week, and Allisonsaid that the events sur-rounding the tourna-ment make The Green-brier Classic unlike anyother event on the PGATOUR.
“It’s so focused on
family,” she said. “It’snot just about golf.We’re really going to en-joy the week.”
■ ■ ■The Greenbrier isn’t
the only place that holdsa specially spot inBrown’s heart. As a sen-ior at the University ofSouth Carolina-Aiken in2006, Brown helpedlead his Pacers to athird straight NCAA Di-vision II Men’s GolfChampionship on the
Cobb Course at The Re-sort at Glade Springs.He was given the JackNicklaus Award as thetop golfer in NCAA Di-vision II that year.
“(West Virginia’s)been a good spot,” saidBrown, who will be in-ducted into that school’sathletic hall of fame inFebruary. “I played goodhere last year, too. I justhad to leave early.”
At least he had a goodexcuse.
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WHEELING — TheMountain East Confer-ence officially welcomedits 12 charter membersof the newest NCAA Divi-sion II league Monday.
“This is one of severallandmark days for theMountain East as we of-ficially become thenewest active NCAA Divi-sion II conference thisyear,”said Commission-er Reid Amos.
The new league’scharter members in-clude: Concord, Fair-mont State, GlenvilleState, Notre Dame Col-lege (Ohio), Shepherd,University of Charleston,University of Virginia’sCollege at Wise, Urbana,West Liberty, West Vir-ginia State, Wheeling Je-suit and West VirginiaWesleyan.
■ Summers County softball tournamentMen and women interested in playing in an adult, coed softball
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Monday’s Results Sunday’s ResultsBoston 5, Toronto 4Tampa Bay 3, Detroit 1LA Angels 3, Houston 1Cleveland 4, Chicago Sox 0Kansas City 9, Minnesota 8Baltimore 4, NY Yankees 2Texas 3, Cincinnati 2Oakland 7, St. Louis 5Chicago Cubs 7, Seattle 6
Monday’s Results Sunday’s ResultsWashington 13, NY Mets 2Pittsburgh 2, Milwaukee 1, (14)Atlanta 6, Arizona 2LA Dodgers 6, Philadelphia 1San Francisco 5, Colorado 2Miami 6, San Diego 2
Today’s GamesDetroit (Fister 6-5) at Toronto (Wang 1-1), 7:07 p.m.San Diego (Erlin 1-0) at Boston (Lackey 5-5), 7:10 p.m.Seattle (J.Saunders 5-8) at Texas (Grimm 7-5), 8:05 p.m.Baltimore (Hammel 7-4) at Chicago White Sox (Joh.Danks 1-5), 8:10 p.m.Cleveland (Kluber 6-5) at Kansas City (Mendoza 2-4), 8:10 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 3-7) at Minnesota (Deduno 4-2), 8:10 p.m.Tampa Bay (Price 1-4) at Houston (Bedard 3-3), 8:10 p.m.Chicago Cubs (Feldman 7-6) at Oakland (Griffin 6-6), 10:05 p.m.St. Louis (Lynn 10-2) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 1-4), 10:05 p.m.
Today’s GamesMilwaukee (W.Peralta 5-9) at Washington (Strasburg 4-6), 7:05 p.m.Philadelphia (Pettibone 3-3) at Pittsburgh (Locke 7-1), 7:05 p.m.Arizona (Corbin 9-0) at N.Y. Mets (Hefner 2-6), 7:10 p.m.Miami (Koehler 1-5) at Atlanta (Medlen 5-7), 7:10 p.m.San Francisco (Lincecum 4-8) at Cincinnati (H.Bailey 4-6), 7:10 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 6-5) at Colorado (Oswalt 0-2), 8:40 p.m.
Washington 10, Milwaukee 5Miami 4, San Diego 0San Francisco at Cincinnati, lateArizona at NY Mets, late
Toronto 8, Detroit 3NY Yankees at Minnesota, lateTampa Bay at Houston, late
Baseball MillionairesPlayer, Club Salary1, Alex Rodriguez, NYY $29,000,0002, Cliff Lee, Phi 25,000,0003, Johan Santana, NYM 24,644,7084, Vernon Wells, NYY 24,642,8575, CC Sabathia, NYY 24,285,7146, Mark Teixeira, NYY 23,125,0007, Prince Fielder, Det 23,000,000
Nationals 10, Brewers 5Milwaukee Washington
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Wednesday’s GamesMilwaukee at Washington, 6:05 p.m.; Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.; Arizona at N.Y. Mets,7:10 p.m.; Miami at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.; San Francisco at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.; L.A. Dodgers atColorado, 8:10 p.m.
Wednesday’s GamesDetroit at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.; Baltimore at Chicago White Sox, 7:10 p.m.; San Diego at Boston,7:10 p.m.; Seattle at Texas, 8:05 p.m.; Cleveland at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.; N.Y. Yankees atMinnesota, 8:10 p.m.; Tampa Bay at Houston, 8:10 p.m.; Chicago Cubs at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.;St. Louis at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.
one of the main sports inWest Virginia, with athriving junior golf pro-gram, competitive ama-teur competitions and aPGA TOUR event. Withthe success of the gamein our state, it is only fit-ting that our largest uni-versity provide an oppor-tunity for our top juniorgolfers to stay in WestVirginia and compete ata Division I level. Wecommend the leadershipof Oliver Luck and thoseresponsible for bringingback the greatest gameto West Virginia Univer-sity.”
When WVU’s programbegins, all 10 Big 12schools will field a golfteam. Current confer-ence schools have won14 national champi-onships, and pros likeRickie Fowler (Okla-homa State), HunterMahan (OklahomaState), Ben Crenshaw(Texas), Tom Kite(Texas), Justin Leonard(Texas) and many othershave played at Big 12schools.
■ ■ ■Luck said during a
Monday morning confer-ence call that a numberof other sports were con-sidered — includingtrack and field, crosscountry and tennis —but that a committeethat was formed to lookinto those options agreedthat golf was the bestchoice.
“Ultimately, we be-lieved that men’s golfmade the most sense for
a number of reasons,”said Luck, mentioning fi-nancial considerations,Title IX compliance,fundraising and infra-structure as factors thatwere considered.
Luck also said that thetravel will be eased, be-cause the Big 12 Confer-ence Championship atthe end of the spring willbe the only time theteam will competeagainst conferenceschools. All other compe-titions will be more re-gionally located.
■ ■ ■Luck said he’s already
received a “handful” ofresumés for the headcoaching position, but hesaid they’re a long wayfrom even posting thejob. WVU plans to hire ahead coach and will alsohave a graduate assis-tant.
The program willeventually field the fullallotment of 4.5 scholar-ships, but the programwill slowly be phased in,with 1.5 scholarshipsprovided the first year.
He explained that sucha plan helps ease the fi-nancial burden, and hesaid there are alreadysome strong golfers en-rolled at WVU that playas a club sport.
When the team is fullyimplemented, Luck esti-mated it will cost a littlemore than $257,000 eachyear to fund.
He said WVU alreadyhas verbal commitmentsfor more than $1.5 mil-lion to help fund the pro-gram.
WASHINGTON (AP)— Bryce Harper home-red on his first swingsince coming off the dis-abled list and his Wash-ington Nationals team-mates quickly joined in,beating the slumpingMilwaukee Brewers 10-5Monday night.
After missing 31games with bursitis inhis left knee — the mostlingering fallout from hiscollision with the DodgerStadium wall — Harperenergized the Nationalsand sparked their secondrout in two days. Aftertoying with .500 for theentire month of June,Washington moved twogames above the break-even mark for the firsttime since late May.
Jayson Werth had fiveRBIs, and even pitcherJordan Zimmermannwas an offensive jugger-naut with a team-highthree hits, including adouble to start a five-runthird inning and a singleto open a two-run fourth.
Working with an 8-0lead, Zimmermann (12-3) pitched six inningsand allowed four runs totie unbeaten MaxScherzer of the DetroitTigers for the majorleague lead in wins.
The Nationals, per-haps finally finding theirstride after a middlingfirst half of the season,have won five of seven topull within six games ofthe first-place AtlantaBraves in the NL East.Washington scored aseason-high 13 runs onSunday against the NewYork Mets.
Batting third and play-ing left field, Harperlaunched the secondpitch he saw — a fast-ball from Yovani Gallar-do (6-8) — into the visi-tors’ bullpen beyond leftfield for an opposite-fieldhomer. He raised hisright arm and pointed tothe fans as he finishedhis familiar sprintaround the bases. Afterlots of high-fives in thedugout, he returned tothe top of the steps andgave a thumbs-up cur-tain call.
The solo shot wasHarper’s 13th homer of
the season and 24thRBI. The 20-year-oldslugger hurt his knee inthe mishap in Los Ange-les on May 13 and rein-jured it several timesover the following twoweeks before going onthe 15-day disabled list.He went 4 for 11 in mi-nor league rehab gameslast week and was rein-stated a few hours beforeMonday’s game.
The Nationals im-proved to 26-19 whenHarper plays; they are16-21 when he doesn’t.
■ Marlins 4, Padres 0MIAMI (AP) — Jose
Fernandez struck out 10and allowed only twohits in a career-higheight innings, and theMiami Marlins matcheda season high with theirthird consecutive victory.
Jeff Mathis deliveredthe big hit for the secondgame in a row, raisinghis batting average to.154. He hit a three-rundouble in the sixth,when the Marlins scoredfour unearned runs offJason Marquis.
Mathis’ ninth-inninggrand slam beat thePadres on Sunday.
The Marlins began theweek with the worstrecord in the majors, butsince June 1 they’re 16-10, and they’ve won sixof their past sevengames. They’ve allowedthree runs in the pastthree games.
■ Blue Jays 8, Tigers 3TORONTO (AP) —
R.A. Dickey won again,Jose Reyes and MarkDeRosa homered and theToronto beat Detroit forits seventh straighthome win.
The Blue Jays delight-ed a sellout crowd of45,766 on Canada Daywith their 11th victoryin 13 games at RogersCentre.
Coming off his two-hitshutout against TampaBay, Dickey (8-8) wassharp and won for thethird time in four starts.The knuckleballer al-lowed two runs and sixhits in seven innings,striking out four andwalking one.
■ MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL ROUNDUP
PITTSBURGH (AP) — As theowner of the locker just to theright of the main entrance to thecommon area of the PittsburghPirates clubhouse, Garrett Jonesarguably has the best panoramicview among his teammates as hesits at his stall.
Since first establishing himselfas a major-league regular withPittsburgh three years ago, theplayers he sees when he surveysthe clubhouse has changed dra-matically.
So have the results.The Pirates are the toast of
baseball, owners of the majors’best record at their precise mid-point of their season (51-30).Should they maintain that paceover the next three months, theywould win 102 games just threeseasons after the desultory 2010Pirates lost 105.
Of course, they could win morethan 102, as well, and it likelywon’t be long before they officiallyguarantee a winning season —their first since 1992.
But it goes beyond numbersand historical roadblocks for thisteam. Jones believes, in additionto the new faces he encounters,there’s also a new attitude.
“There’s absolutely been a hugedifference in confidence,” he saidbefore a 2-1 Pittsburgh victoryover the Milwaukee Brewers ex-tended its winning streak to ninegames Sunday. “When you’re los-ing, you kind of get caught up in itand it gets ingrained in your headand sometimes it’s tough to get itout. Now, everything and every-body is positive. We just focus on,‘We’re going to win, we can win,we will win.’ We just had tochange that mind-set around andbe confident in ourselves.
“And it’s shown on the field.”Has it ever. The Pirates hold a
two-game lead over the St. LouisCardinals not only in the Nation-al League Central, but also in therace for the best record in base-ball. Saturday, they became thefirst team to reach 50 wins — do-ing it before July 1 for the firsttime in the 127-year history of thefranchise.
That’s heady stuff for an organi-zation — and a fan base — thathas suffered through 20 consecu-tive losing seasons, a record forany North American major profes-sional sports league.
“We’re over it. We don’t want tohear any more of that,” veteranstarting pitcher A.J. Burnett said.“I understand the frustration out-side the locker room but we don’t
even think about that. We thinkabout the present and how good ofa ballclub we are.”
Whether or not the Pirates’ paceof winning is sustainable throughthe end of the season is more inquestion in the context of collaps-es the past two years. It appearedthe run of losing seasons couldend in 2011 when the Pirateswere 53-47 after 100 games — un-til they sputtered to a 19-43 finishto end with 90 losses, that is.
That late flop pales in compari-son, however, to last season,when Pittsburgh topped out at 16games over .500 as late as 110games in — only to limp througha 16-36 stretch to end the cam-paign.
Harper homersin return to Nats
Pirates won’t rest on surging success
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Pittsburgh Pirates fans wave “Jolly Roger” flags at PNC Park during agame against the Milwaukee Brewers Sunday in Pittsburgh. The Pirateswon the game, 2-1 in 14 innings, stretching their current win streak tonine games. The team with the best record in baseball isn’t trying tothink too far down the road. After 20 seasons of losing, the first-place Pi-rates are just trying to enjoy the moment.
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The defending champi-on and five-time Wimble-don winner failed to closeout a see-saw third setMonday, dropping thelast four games to SabineLisicki of Germany andlosing 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 in thefourth round. The resultended Williams’ career-best 34-match winningstreak.
It was the latest in astring of improbable exitsto jolt the tournament,with defending championRoger Federer and RafaelNadal knocked out in thefirst three days alongwith Maria Sharapovaand Victoria Azarenka.
“I probably couldn’t bemore disappointed,”Williams said. “I think Imay have backed off of a
success. I was playingsomething successful. Ididn’t continue that path.The result didn’t go theway it could have gonehad I continued to playthe way I did in the sec-ond set.”
Her loss left top-rankedNovak Djokovic and No. 2Andy Murray as the onlypre-tournament favoritesstill standing.
Those two stayed oncourse for a meeting inthe final by winning instraight sets on CentreCourt. Djokovic oustedGerman veteran TommyHaas after Murray beatMikhail Youzhny of Rus-sia. Neither player hasdropped a set en route tothe quarters.
Williams hadn’t eitherbefore this match. But af-ter dropping the firstagainst Lisicki, she wonnine straight games tolead 3-0 in the third. Theplayers then traded
breaks to give Williams a4-2 lead, but the Ameri-can couldn’t win anothergame despite having fourbreak points at 4-3.
Lisicki converted hersecond match point witha forehand winner.
“I’m still shaking,”Lisicki said in a post-match interview, cover-ing her face with herhands to wipe awaytears. “I’m just so happy.”
Williams said her serve— usually her mainweapon — let her downin the third set.
“I felt that I was on theverge of winning,” shesaid. “At that point I justwas physically unable tohold serve. ... You have tobe ready and willing tohold your serve. I wasn’twilling or able, probablydidn’t even want to holdmy serve today.”
Lisicki reached thesemifinals at the All Eng-land Club in 2011 but
this will rank as herbiggest victory at thegrass-court Grand Slam.She has eliminated thereigning French Openchampion the last fourtimes she played Wim-bledon, having missedthe tournament in 2010.She ousted Sharapova inthe fourth round lastyear.
Djokovic reached his17th straight GrandSlam quarterfinal bybeating Haas 6-1, 6-4, 7-6 (4). He failed to serveout the match at 5-3 inthe third and wasted amatch point in the nextgame before closing outthe tiebreaker with aforehand winner on hisfourth match point.
“I think that I’m play-ing really, really goodtennis at this moment,”Djokovic said. “Maybeeven better than back in2011 when I won thistournament.”
