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SPORTSSaturday 24 October 2015
NFL Roundup
Wilson, Seahawks rule rivalry with 49ers again in 20-3 win
BY JANIE MCCAULEY Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson (3) passes against the San Francisco 49ers during gized on Twitter in the wan-
AP SPORTS WRITER the first half of an NFL football game in Santa Clara, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015. ing moments by saying:
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) “This performance wasn’t
-- Russell Wilson and the Se- Associated Press acceptable. I apologize for
ahawks ruled their one-sid- that.”
ed rivalry against the 49ers in four road games this Wilson made the key plays host the Super Bowl in early This time, it was former
for another night. season, avoiding another and Colin Kaepernick strug- February. 49ers wideout Kassim Os-
Another Thursday night, in fourth-quarter collapse. gled once again facing Se- Wilson was sacked five good weighing in on Twit-
fact, and on San Francis- “The idea was to believe in attle as the 49ers (2-5) lost times to push his NFL-lead- ter with: “’Something ain’t
co’s home field again. No one another,” Wilson said four days after snapping a ing total to 31 and threw a right in SF.” Kaepernick’s er-
turkey this time, just some about his message to the four-game losing streak by pair of interceptions, but still rant passes sailed into both
high-flying defense and team along with defensive beating Baltimore. made plenty of big plays sidelines, one ball even hit-
hard running by Marshawn end Michael Bennett. “We Steven Hauschka sent dirt for another lopsided result ting a 49ers staff member in
Lynch. lost four tough games but flying when he kicked a 49- against the Niners. the head early in the game
Wilson threw a 43-yard we thought we could have yard field goal in the sec- “It’s always cool to win in and requiring him to be
touchdown pass to Tyler won.” This game lacked ond quarter four days after the division, it’s great to win checked.
Lockett late in the first half, its usual intrigue with both Ravens kicker Justin Tucker on the road,” Carroll said. Phil Dawson kicked a 35-
Lynch added a leaping teams trying to save their slipped on the turf and Fans left early again in yard field goal late in the
1-yard score, and Seattle seasons and Carroll missing shanked one off the right an eerily similar scene to third, and the 49ers have
beat San Francisco 20-3 former nemesis and Michi- upright and slipped to the Thanksgiving night, when been held to single digits
for its fourth straight victory gan coach Jim Harbaugh. ground on the field that will 49ers CEO Jed York apolo- in their past three losses to
against the NFC West rivals. Seattle with just one touch-
“It felt like a really normal down - outscored 56-13.
Seahawk night tonight,” Kaepernick dropped to
coach Pete Carroll said. 1-6 in seven starts against
“Defense played really well the Seahawks with three
all night. ... Nice to see us touchdown passes to nine
run the football again and interceptions and 24 sacks,
run it with some authority.” six more Thursday.
The Seahawks (3-4) Michael Bennett had 3 1/2
whipped San Francisco of those sacks for Seattle,
in Levi’s Stadium on a which expects to build off
Thursday in prime time 11 this game after some close
months after Richard Sher- losses the Seahawks wish
man chomped turkey on they could have back like
the field last Thanksgiving Sunday’s overtime loss to
night following a 19-3 vic- Carolina at home.
tory. Wilson completed 10 He has a new motto, too:
of his first 12 passes and fin- chopping wood.
ished with 235 yards pass- “When you’re chopping
ing and Lynch ran for 122 wood, just keep chopping
yards after vomiting on the until the tree falls, man, you
sideline in the first half. Se- can’t get ahead of your-
attle won for the first time self,” Bennett said.
Henin, Safin nominated for
International Tennis Hall of Fame
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Jus- ships, including four at the nominated posthumously In this June 9, 2007, file photo, Belgium’s Justine Henin poses with
tine Henin and Marat French Open. She spent in the master player cat- the trophy after beating Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic in the women’s fi-
Safin, who each won mul- 117 weeks atop the WTA egory. nal match of the French Open tennis tournament at Roland Gar-
tiple Grand Slam titles and rankings, finishing at No. 1 ros stadium in Paris.
reached a No. 1 ranking, in 2003, 2006 and 2007. Petra, who died in 1984,
were nominated Friday for Safin, a Russian, won the was the last man from Associated Press
the International Tennis Hall 2000 U.S. Open and 2005 France to win the Wimble-
of Fame. Australian Open and was don singles title, in 1946.
No. 1 for nine weeks. Scriven was the first left-
Others eligible for the Class Sukova, from the Czech Re- hander to win a Grand
of 2016 are doubles spe- public, won 14 Grand Slam Slam title, taking the French
cialist Helena Sukova, Yvon tournament titles in wom- national championships —
Petra and Margaret Scriv- en’s doubles and mixed now known as the French
en. Induction is in July. doubles. She was a four- Open — in 1933-34. Scriv-
Henin, a Belgian, won sev- time major finalist in singles. en, who was British, died in
en major singles champion- Petra and Scriven were 2001.
