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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2015
Narrow win sends Fishermen to state
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
The South Umpqua and
Astoria football teams bat-
tled hard for 47 minutes,
48 seconds Friday night at
CMH Field.
And it all came down to
one 32-yard field goal at-
tempt by the Lancers with
12 seconds left.
The result? The Fish-
ermen left the field with
their first playoff victory in
five years, 7-6, while South
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in games on the North Coast
over the last three years.
Jaret Remington’s late
field goal attempt had the
distance, but it drifted wide
right, and Astoria moves on
to the sweet 16 for the first
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ria coach Howard Rub said
Remington’s field goal at-
tempt. “From my angle, it
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chance to sneak inside the
post. The snap was a lit-
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pushed. His head went down
right away, and that was an
indicator that he missed. It
was close. Really close.”
Outgained by a wide mar-
gin, the Fishermen spent
much of the night trying to
stop a tough Lancer offense.
South Umpqua rolled up
356 yards in total offense
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downs.
But, as so often happens,
playoff football comes down
to turnovers and penalties.
And that’s where the Lanc-
ers lost it.
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finished with three crucial
turnovers, and the Lancers
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Friday’s game lasted just
under two hours.
Each team had only three
offensive possessions in the
first half, Astoria had just
three first downs in the sec-
ond half, to South Umpqua’s
“Only three posses-
sions in the first half, and
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Astoria’s Wyatt Dietrich
celebrates after a South
Umpqua missed field goal
sealed the win for Astoria.
on 22 carries, while Wallace
finished with 119 yards on
28 attempts.
“You can’t say enough
about the character of the
kids to win a game like this,”
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Rub said. “On both sides.
Astoria players including Luke Crews, No. 58, and Trystan Smith, No. 72, celebrate after a 7-6 win against South Umpqua Friday. The South Umpqua kids
played their hearts out. It
not much better the second
drove 53 yards in nine plays, was what you would expect
half,” Rub said. “We’re dis-
with Shawn Rigsby scor- from a Play-in game of some
appointed that we didn’t fin-
ing on a sweep from 1-yard evenly matched teams.”
With starting quarterback
ish some drives and execute
out. The snap from center on
some drives, but it was just
the point-after attempt was Fridtjof Fremstad out with a
that kind of night. They were
dropped, and the Fishermen separated shoulder, the Fish-
ermen will go with Ryker
in the same boat. They can
kept a 7-6 lead.
be a pretty explosive offense
Astoria’s best drive of Helmersen through the rest
at times.
the second half was its first of the playoffs.
“We didn’t throw down
“If you win the turnover
drive, when the Fishermen
battle and play solid defense,
marched 29 yards to the field a lot, but Ryker did a
you give yourself a chance,”
Lancer 46-yard line, before great job and actually had a
he said. “Between the weath-
turning the ball over on couple great audibles in our
er and the fact the teams
downs. That was as far as the run game that made some
were evenly matched in a lot
Astoria offense would get in big plays,” Rub said.
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of different areas, just made
the second half.
it that type of game.”
South Umpqua’s last pos- ter did a great job on both
Astoria’s lone scoring
session started at its own 11- sides of the ball tonight,” he
drive of the night came mid-
yard line, with 1:46 left and added. “Ryan Palek had a
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nice night, Samboy Tuimato
way through the first half.
no timeouts.
After stopping the Lanc- Astoria’s Ryker Helmersen tries to avoid a tackle by South
Two Nathan Thomp- played really well, and up
ers on downs, the Fisher- Umpqua’s Nathan Thompson in the third quarter.
son-to-Tristin Gross pass front in general our offen-
men took over and drove 63
completions moved the ball sive line did a decent job.”
After the game, Rub said
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an 8-yard scoring run from and South Umpqua’s third er a pretty good drive, and it mask penalty on the Fisher- he was “99 percent sure” As-
Carter Wallace with 9:19 possession of the first half was big to get the turnover men later in the drive moved toria’s next opponent would
left in the second quarter. reached the Astoria 23, and turn it around.
it to the Fishermen 15 with be Mazama (winners of sev-
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Andrew Schauermann add- before the Lancers were
“The one drive we mount- 22 seconds left.
ed what turned out to be the flagged for an unsportsman- ed in the first half was good.
Thompson threw an in- Fishermen will travel Friday
game-winning point, and like conduct, followed on We executed a play on fourth complete pass on third down, to North Bend, where Asto-
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tion from Fishermen junior itive things than negative.”
fourth down field goal at- state champion Bulldogs 22-
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Meanwhile, the Lancers’ Ryan Palek.
After back-to-back inter- tempt.
The winner will play ei-
opening drive of the game
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ended with a lost fumble opening drive was huge,” the second half, the Lancers 0HUULWWUXVKHGIRU\DUGV ther North Marion or Sisters.
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Astoria’s Carter Wallace scores a touchdown in the second
quarter of the football game against South Umpqua Friday.
Astoria’s Ryan Palek, No. 81, recovers a fumble in the first
quarter of the football game against South Umpqua Friday.
Astoria’s Carter Wallace, runs in the third quarter. See more
photos from Friday’s game online at www.dailyastorian.com
Vernonia wins Logger Bowl
The Daily Astorian
Warrenton 29,
Portland Christian 0
PORTLAND — Warrenton
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Christian Friday night in Portland,
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season in perfect style.
Still, Warrenton’s 1-2 league re-
cord came up just short of clinch-
ing a spot in the sweet 16, as Rain-
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be the two representatives from the
Lewis & Clark League in the state
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overall.
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yards on the ground on 37 carries
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ker led the way with 99 yards on
just nine carries.
Whitaker opened the scoring
on a 75-yard run, just 25 seconds
into the game.
Nathan Bighill and Tyler
Coolidge added touchdown runs
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Defensively, Anthony Cochran
had eight tackles, while Jesse Sal-
cedo had an interception and the
Warriors recovered three fumbles.
KNAPPA — After suffer-
ing through a combined 1-13
league record over the past three
seasons, the Vernonia football
program completed its amaz-
ing turnaround Friday night at
Knappa, where Vernonia scored
a 34-22 win in the annual Logger
Bowl.
A Knappa win would have cre-
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Northwest League, but the victory
gave Vernonia the NWL title, as
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part by the tough Knappa defense.
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terback Dale Takalo and receiver
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run.
Andrew Goozee scored all
three touchdowns for Knappa,
which trailed 12-6 at halftime,
even after losing three of six fum-
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Vernonia recovered an onside
kick to start the game, and never
Ilwaco 22, South Bend 7
trailed.
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Knappa had beaten Vernonia waco’s Alec Bell and Jack Kaino
the last three years, 44-6, 64-6 and ERWK EURNH WKH \DUG EDUULHU
on the ground, and the Fishermen
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contest.
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the league’s No. 4 seed, and will
travel to Napavine for a crossover
game Friday.
Bell rushed for 131 yards and
all three Ilwaco touchdowns, while
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NASELLE, Wash. — Naselle
closed out the regular season with
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ley Friday.
Donny Edwards had an 82-yard
kickoff return for a score, and re-
turned a punt 62 yards and an in-
terception 35 yards for additional
touchdowns.
Boys Soccer
Ontario 5, Astoria 1
ONTARIO — Ontario’s Hec-
tor Aguado scored three goals in a
5-1 win over Astoria Saturday, in
a 4A boys soccer Regional Play-in
game.
Tiger teammates Saul Guar-
dado and Enrique Sanchez added
goals in the victory, which sends
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playoffs.
Ontario will play at Molalla
Tuesday, while the season comes
to a close for the Fishermen, who
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SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TUESDAY
Boys Soccer — Junction City at Seaside, 7 p.m.
CROSS COUNTRY
OSAA State Championships
at Lane Community College
Girls Team: Siuslaw 81, Sisters 105, Molalla
112, South Umpqua 136, Phoenix 151, Scap-
poose 152, Philomath 154, Tillamook 166, Hidden
Valley 183, Cascade 234, Junction City 257, Es-
tacada 299, Ontario 304, McLoughlin 376.
Individual (Top 10)
1, Celie Mans, Siuslaw, 18:45
2, Lexi Healy, Henley, 19:06
3, Perrin Xthona, Yamhill-Carlton, 19:09
4, Linnaea Kavulich, Scappoose, 19:24
5, Zaruba Anderson, Hidden Valley, 19:30
6, Heather Keniry, La Grande, 19:33
7, Amanda Clarizio, Molalla, 19:34
8, Danielle Jantzer, Phoenix, 19:37
9, Jazmin Chavez, Marshfield, 19:40
10, Emma Amundsen, Phoenix, 19:47
Boys Team: Seaside 49, Phoenix 65, Tillamook
78, Newport 134, La Grande 160, Crook County
169, Sisters 208, Brookings-Harbor 220, Siuslaw
226, Elmira 240, Ontario 265, Hidden Valley 280,
Molalla 297, Philomath 319.
Individual (Top 10)
1, Bradley Rzewnicki, Seaside, 16:13
2, Tony Hooks, Sisters, 16:18
3, Michael Brown, North Bend, 16:20
4, Eulises Cruz-Vieyra, Tillamook, 16:21
5, Hunter Thompson, Seaside, 16:34
6, Ayrton Ledesma, Tillamook, 16:34
7, Robert Vos, Phoenix, 16:35
8, Sawyer Heckard, Marshfield, 16:37
9, Jackson Januik, Seaside, 16:40
10, Murray Bingham, Siuslaw, 16:41
FOOTBALL
Astoria 7, South Umpqua 6
S.Umpqua
0 0 0
6—6
Astoria
0 7 0
0—7
Second Quarter
AST: Carter Wallce 8 run (Andrew Schauer-
mann kick) 9:19
Fourth Quarter
SU: Shawn Rigsby 1 run (no attempt) 11:24
Team Statistics
SU
AST
First Downs
20
11
Total Offense 356
206
Rushing yards 199
163
Passing
157
40
Comp-Att-Int 13-23-2
4-7-1
Fumbles-lost
1-1
2-0
Turnovers
3
1
Penalties-yards 6-60
4-35
South Umpqua Statistics
Rushing: Merritt 22-110, Thompson 9-62, Rigs-
by 5-22, Gross 1-3, Yates 1-2. Passing: Thomp-
son 13-23-157-2. Receiving: Kelly 6-58, Gross
3-73, Rigsby 3-23, Merritt 1-3.
Astoria Statistics
Rushing: Wallace 28-119, Englund 7-37, Wil-
liams 3-10, Helmersen 1-(-3). Passing: Helmers-
en 4-7-40-1. Receiving: Strange 2-24, Wallace
1-14, Ranta 1-2.
Warrenton 29, Portland C. 0
Warrenton
13 8 0 8—29
P.Christian
0 0 0
0—0
WAR: Tyler Whitaker 75 run (David Foster kick)
WAR: Nathan Bighill 3 run (run failed)
WAR: Tyler Coolidge 8 run (Bighill run)
WAR: Collidge 5 run (Bighill run)
Warrenton Statistics
Rushing: Whitaker 9-99, Bighill 12-48, McFad-
den 3-36, Coolidge 7-29, Martinez 6-(-13). Pass-
ing: Martinez 7-18-68-0, McFadden 0-1-0-0. Re-
ceiving: McFadden 2-38, Wilson 1-15, Coolidge
1-5, Salcedo 1-4, Little 1-3, Bighill 1-3.
Ilwaco 22, South Bend 7
Ilwaco
6 0 8 8—22
South Bend
7 0 0
0—7
ILW: Alec Bell 1 run (kick failed)
SB: Boyington 1 run (Mora kick)
ILW: Bell 15 run (Bell run)
ILW: Bell 1 run (Jack Kaino run)
Ilwaco Statistics
Rushing: Bell 19-131, Kaino 13-106, Odneal
7-23, R.Thompson 1-8. Passing: Odneal 8-10-
93-0. Receiving: Bell 5-27, R.Thompson 2-58,
Sparks 1-8.
