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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Virginia Thrasher went through a three-week spring whirlwind, winning three NCAA titles and a spot on the U.S. Olympic Shooting team.The precocious 19-year-old closed out the summer with her biggest surprise yet.Keeping her nerve on sports biggest stage, Thrasher on Saturday earned the first gold medal of the Rio Olympics, outlasting two-time gold medalist Du Li to capture the womens 10-meter air rifle title.This is beyond my wildest dreams, Thrasher said. I knew it was a realistic expectation for me to get into the finals and once you get into the finals, anything can happen. For me, this year has been incredible.Thrasher had a quick rise to the top.A figure skater growing up, she switched sports five years ago after a hunting trip with her family. Thrasher killed a deer with her first shot of her first hunting trip and has continued to hit the mark wherever shes gone.Thrasher was not expected to be among the top five scorers -- all that counts in NCAA competition -- at shooting powerhouse West Virginia, yet got better as the season progressed. She became the first freshman to win both NCAA rifle titles and led the Mountaineers to the team championship.Less than a month later, Thrasher won the U.S. Olympic Trials, earning a spot in Rio.She didnt flinch at the sports brightest spotlight -- or an air horn.Though not expected to be a medal contender, Thrasher finished a spot behind fellow American Sarah Scherer at sixth in qualifying to make the eight-person final.She opened the elimination finals -- a new format in this years Olympics -- with a perfect 10.9 and was in the lead after Scherer became the first shooter knocked out.Thrasher stayed in the top spot as her competitors fell off, consistently hitting 10s despite a fan blowing an air horn at random times.Thrasher entered the final with a 0.7-point lead and opened with a solid 10.5, which Li matched. Thrasher smiled after a 10.4 left a slight opening, but Lis 10.1 on her final shot sent Thrasher on a surprising trip to the podium.In the finals, about halfway through, it kind of became clear to me that I was in contention for a medal, Thrasher said. But I quickly pushed that thought away and focused on breathing, just taking one shot at a time.Thrasher pulled it off against two of the worlds best rifle shooters, Li and Yi Siling.Li won gold medals in air rifle in 2004 at the Athens Games and in 3-position rifle in Beijing four years later. She also competed in the 2012 London Games and pulled off a clutch shot in the Rio final, hitting 10.9 to stay alive in the second round.Yi took a similar path as Thrashers, earning air rifle gold at the 2012 London Games just three years after starting her international shooting career.Thrasher stood her ground against the two Chinese shooters in the medal eliminations, hitting nothing lower than 10.4. Yi went out after a 9.8 on her final shot to earn bronze and Thrasher finished with a cumulative score of 208.0 to beat Li by a point in front of a rowdy crowd.I heard the cheers and the horns and it was very disturbing, Yi said. But I just had to control myself. I also looked up and saw that Virginia and Du Li were doing well themselves.Thrasher ended up on top of the podium and her whirlwind will wind down soon; a biomedical engineering major, she starts classes again at West Virginia on Aug. 17.Im actually looking forward to getting back to school again, Thrasher said.She will have a new title when she returns: Olympic champion. Nike Air Force Ones Sale . Boucher previously coached the Tampa Bay Lightning and had a 97-78-20 record over two-plus seasons. He was dismissed by the team last March after the Lightning struggled in the lockout-shortened season with a 13-18-1 record. Nike Air Force 1 Cheap Outlet . 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Their offense didnt fare much better.Shields allowed seven runs in 4 2/3 innings as the White Sox managed just two hits in a 9-0 loss to the Oakland Athletics on Friday night. The right-hander has surrendered 27 earned runs in 14 innings over his last four starts for the White Sox, who have dropped 10 of 13.I need to finish strong, no doubt about it, said Shields, who is 3-8 since the White Sox acquired him from San Diego on June 4. Im not helping this team out right now, so I need to do my job and get better and move on.Kendall Graveman faced one batter over the minimum while throwing a two-hitter and Khris Davis hit his 31st home run to hand Shields his 15th loss overall.Graveman (9-8) allowed leadoff singles to Jose Abreu in the third and Adam Eaton in the seventh. Both were immediately doubled off first on line drives. Justin Morneau reached on an error by first baseman Yonder Alonso in the eighth.Graveman struck out five and needed 97 pitches for his second complete game of the season.Boy, I was looking to see what time it was. It felt like it was an hour and 55-minute game, at least on his end, As manager Bob Melvin said. Weve seen him pitch well. Weve seen the sinker, weve seen the cutter. We just havent seen a shutout like this.Stephen Vogt and Yonder Alonso also homered for the As, who snapped a five-game losing streak.Shields (5-15) matched a career-high for losses in a season set with Tampa Bay in 2010. The three homers allowed gave him a major league high-tying 29 and the six earned runs gave him a major league-high 91.Im not getting the job done with runners on base, Shields said. When you give up homers, its fine, as long as no ones on. Thats not what Im doing right now. I need to get better at that.Shields walked three, includding .dddddddddddd211-hitting Max Muncy in the second to force in a run. Davis hit a solo shot to left in the third and Vogt and Alonso connected with two outs in a four-run fifth.Davis also singled, doubled and scored three runs and Vogt added an RBI double for the As, who had scored three or fewer runs in 12 of their previous 19 games.He had a stretch of three or four outings that he was doing well, White Sox catcher Dioner Navarro said about Shields. He has to keep grinding and find something that clicks. I still believe that hes going to help us out.Graveman came in having allowed five home runs in his last four starts. But the right-hander used strong command while allowing the fewest hits of his season.His ball moves a lot, White Sox manager Robin Ventura said. We didnt get anything done. I mean, all the way around it wasnt a good night for us.TRAINERS ROOMWhite Sox: 2B Brett Lawrie, on a rehab assignment for a hamstring injury, experienced quadriceps soreness earlier in the week. He didnt play Friday for Double-A Birmingham. . OF Avisail Garcia (knee) is expected to begin a rehab stint in the next few days.ZERO AGAINThe White Sox were shut out for the ninth time this season and the first time since July 16, at the Angels.SEMIENS STREAKAs and former White Sox INF Marcus Semien had an RBI single in the eighth while playing in his 124th consecutive game. But that streak may soon end.His wife is going to have something to say about that, Melvin said.Semiens wife is due Saturday.UP NEXTWhite Sox ace Chris Sale (14-6, 3.30 ERA) seeks his first win since July 2 when he faces fellow lefty Ross Detwiler on Saturday night. Sale has allowed eight earned runs and 15 hits in his last two starts. ' ' '