By World sports staff

WENATCHEE — Alex Harvill didn’t quite hit the 300-foot gap he was hoping to Saturday in Richland, but he came pretty close.

His 297.55-foot dirt to dirt jump was less than 3 feet shy of his 300-foot goal, but still good enough to set the new record. The previous record was 291 feet.

“I was really trying to hit 300 but I’m extremely happy with the results,” Harvill posted Sunday on his website, alexharvill.com. “I have so many people involved to thank. It’s great to have family and friends who are so supportive.”

The Ephrata native made the jump at Horn Rapids MX Park — it was the second record-setting distance jump in his young career. Harvill, 20, also holds the record for longest motorcycle jump on fl at-level ground. He set that mark with a 425-foot jump in May 2012.

Harvill, whose jump was recorded by Powerband Films, a professional fi lm team based out of Santa Barbara, Calif., will be featured in the upcoming documentary, “The Daredevil Project.” The fi lm features both of Harvill’s record-setting jumps and is scheduled for release later this fall.

Alex Harvill comes close to goal, still sets record

Alex Harvill

BY BOB CONDOTTA

The Seattle Times

SEATTLE — Could CenturyLink Field really be the loudest stadium in the world?

A local group headed by a former Seahawk is hoping to fi nd out on Sept. 15 when the Seahawks host the San Francisco 49ers in what looms as one of the marquee games of the NFL season.

Volume 12, a Seahawks fan group formed in 2009, said it had an application accepted by the Guinness Book of World Records to make an attempt to be certifi ed as the loudest stadium in the world.

The current world record is 131.76 decibels, set on March 18, 2011, during a soccer match at the Ali Sami Yen Sport Complex Turk Telekom Arena in Istanbul.

Filing the application for Volume 12 was Joe Tafoya, who played defensive end in the NFL, including the 2005-06 seasons with the Seahawks.

Tafoya, an Arizona graduate who lives in Woodinville, Wash., has his own company, Jump It Media, which also includes former Seahawk running back Kerry Carter, and helped organize the Richard Sherman Celebrity Softball Game on Sunday in Tacoma, Wash.

Tafoya was recently hired by Volume 12 to help with its social media.

The former Seahawk said the idea of setting a world record came to him in the middle of the night recently.

“It occurred to me late one night, like at 3 in the morning, that there was an opportunity to do something really cool by breaking the world

record,” Tafoya said. “I didn’t even know how to do it so I went online and saw the Guinness site and fi lled out an application and they responded relatively fast and accepted the application.”

Technically, the rules state that applicants get three attempts at setting a world record. Tafoya said

a Guinness representative will be fl own to Seattle for the game-paid for by Volume 12 - to set up meters to record the noise level.

Tafoya said he doesn’t want to disrupt the game, so one likely scenario is that shortly before the game, fans will be told to cheer in an attempt to break the record.

“The goal would be to put a noise meter somewhere that is visible for the fans to see and then get an attempt and watch the needle peak past 131.77 decibels,” Tafoya said.

A Seahawks spokesman said Tuesday that the team is aware of the record attempt and is reviewing the opportunity and guidelines.

Volume 12 has trademarks on several slogans, including Legion of Boom-aka the Seattle second-ary-and sells various Seahawks-related apparel. While Tafoya acknowledges the company could benefi t from any visibility out of the record attempt, he added, “I don’t want anything from this attempt except a certifi cate that says Seahawks fans are the loudest. . . . I think it’s just a really cool thing to do.”

The Seahawks have long touted the noise at CenturyLink Field, displaying at every game the number of false-start penalties committed by opponents through the years.

Tafoya noted that fans of other teams-notably those of the 49ers-quickly took to social media to tout the merits of the loudness of their stadiums.

“Other NFL teams are saying they are the noisiest,” Tafoya said. “But they are going to have to wait in line because we have the fi rst appli-cation and are going to get the fi rst crack at it.”

Seahawks fans aim to be loudest in history

AP photo

Seahawks fans hope to set a Guinness World Record at CenturyLink Field in Seattle this season against the San Francisco 49ers.

Briefl y From World news services

SEATTLE

Huskies get commitment from Timberline’s Dorsey

Just days after Washington snagged its fi rst recruit for the class of 2014, Timberline High of Lacey star Donaven Dorsey gave a verbal commitment to play for the Husky men’s basketball team.

The 6-foot-6 wing, who will be a senior next season, declined off ers from Washington State, Gonzaga, Oregon State and Portland State.

“It’s a big relief,” Dorsey told The Olympian. “I’m very excited to become a Dawg.”

Dorsey, who averaged 21 points and nine rebounds last season, was a second-team Class 3A pick by The Associated Press.

Dorsey joins 6-10 Canadian Tristan Etienne as the Huskies’ second recruit for the class of 2014.

DETROIT

Lions, Stafford agree to contract extension

Matthew Staff ord has agreed to a three-year contract extension that will keep him a Lion through 2017 and make him — for the second time in his short career — one of the highest-paid players in the NFL, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.

Staff ord’s new deal is worth $76 million over fi ve years, includes $43 million guaranteed and gives both the team some downside protection in case he doesn’t reach his massive potential and him a chance at a third mega deal while he’s still in the prime of his career.

He was scheduled to make $12.5 million this season and carry a $20.8-million cap charge.

over the 30 mph limit when pulled over in the 2200 block of West Woodin Avenue, and pulled into the lot of the hotel where he was staying. The sergeant detected the odor of both marijuana and alcohol from the vehicle.

In a police interview, Williams admitted to smoking “a bowl 5 hours ago,” and said “last I had a beer before my nap” at about 7 p.m. at “a friend’s house.”

His passenger was not arrested or cited.

Williams chose UW in 2011 after turning down attractive recruitment off ers from UCLA and Boise State University, among others.

Last year he made 77 catches, the third-best season record in UW history. His father, Aaron Williams, is also a former UW receiver.

As a receiver for Skyline High School in Sammamish, Williams notched 56 touch-downs — 20 of them in 2009 alone, including three in the state title game — and fi nished his prep career with 4,121 receiving yards and 235 catches. He was named Parade magazine’s Player of the Year in 2011, and was also a star track and fi eld athlete in the long jump and high jump.

Williams has been fi ned a total of $525 for four speeding tickets in the last three years, including one in Chelan County in 2010.

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hitter, tying Harold Baines for the career record. Ortiz doubled twice and singled in the eighth.

“It means I’m getting old, man. You’ve got to play for a while to put numbers together,” Ortiz said. “But I’m really thankful. I’m really glad to be able to come through for the ballclub.”

Boston avoided its fi rst four-game skid of the season thanks to a bullpen that fi nally stymied the Mariners.

Seattle was potent early, with Kendrys Morales hitting two homers, but couldn’t solve the Red Sox bullpen. Alfredo Aceves, Craig Breslow and Andrew Bailey kept the Mariners scoreless for 4 2-3 innings after starter Allen Webster was tagged for seven earned runs in 2 1-3 innings.

Seattle got a run off Junichi Tazawa in the eighth, but Koji Uehara pitched the ninth for his sixth save. Breslow (3-2) got the victory after throwing 2 1-3 innings.

“Those four innings in the middle of the game were the key to stabilizing it for us,” Boston manager John Farrell said. “We fell behind early, our off ense bails us out through the course of the night.”

Seattle took a 5-1 lead in the second when rookie

Brad Miller lined a three-run double into the right-fi eld corner, but the lead was gone by the time the Mariners got back to the plate. Boston sent up nine batters and scored fi ve times in the third, highlighted by two-run homers from Pedroia and Napoli, sandwiched around a double from Ortiz that missed clearing the fence by only a couple of feet.

Pedroia added an RBI single in the fourth and Bradley gave the Red Sox the lead in the fi fth when he hit a hanging curveball from Blake Beavan (0-2) to right-center for his second homer. Bradley was recalled from Triple-A Pawtucket earlier in the day to provide depth in the outfi eld with Jacoby Ellsbury (wrist) and Victorino (hamstring) nursing injuries.

Farrell also made sure to point out Ortiz’s stolen base in the eighth inning.

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The Associated Press

ATTLEBORO, Mass. — A man linked to the murder case involving former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez cast him as the triggerman in a police interview, according to documents fi led Tuesday in Florida that provide the most damning evidence yet against the star athlete.

The records, obtained by The Associated Press, also show a vehicle wanted in a double killing in Boston a year before had been rented in Hernandez’s name.

Hernandez has been charged with murder in the June killing of Boston semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd. The records say Hernandez associate Carlos Ortiz told Massachusetts investigators that another man, Ernest Wallace, said Hernandez shot Lloyd in an industrial park near Hernandez’s

home in North Attleborough.The documents were fi led in court

by the Miramar, Fla., police department to justify a search of Wallace’s mother’s home in that city.

The records also show that police, while investigating Lloyd’s killing, searched in Hernan-dez’s hometown of Bristol, Conn., and found a vehicle wanted in connection with a July 2012 double homicide near a Boston nightclub.

Hernandez has pleaded not guilty in Lloyd’s killing. His legal team did not return email messages Tuesday. Wallace faces an accessory to murder charge in the case and has pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors say Hernandez, Wallace and Ortiz drove with Lloyd in a rented Nissan Altima to the industrial park where Lloyd was fatally shot.

Ortiz told police that during the drive Hernandez told Lloyd that Lloyd had been “chilling” with people Hernandez had problems with, the documents say. But Ortiz told police the two men shook hands and the problem seemed smoothed over. However, the Altima soon stopped, and everyone but Ortiz got out to urinate, according to Ortiz’s account.

The witness told police he then heard gunshots before Hernandez and Wallace got back into the car without Lloyd and the car sped away.

Ortiz said he couldn’t see who fi red the shots because it was dark. Back at Hernandez’s home, Ortiz said, Wallace asked him to get a small gun out from under the driver’s seat. Ortiz said he did and gave it to Hernandez once they

were inside.Ortiz said he then went to sleep.

When he woke up in the afternoon, according to his account, the three men returned the Altima and rented a Chrysler 300 before returning to Hernandez’s home. Ortiz and Wallace then went to an apartment in the area that Hernandez and other football players used. Wallace let Ortiz in before leaving for a long time, the documents say. The two then drove to Bristol. Ortiz told police Wallace said Hernandez shot Lloyd.

The gun used in the killing has not been found.

Hernandez, Wallace and Ortiz appear linked through Bristol. Wallace told Florida police he grew up with Hernandez’s father. Ortiz’s attorney, John Connors, said Tuesday his client, who’s athletic and around the age of Hernandez’s older brother, is from Bristol.

DOCS PAINT EX-PATRIOT AARON HERNANDEZ AS TRIGGERMAN

Aaron Hernandez

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