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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2016
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SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Cubs beat
Dodgers
8-4, head
home with
3-2 lead
Warrenton
netters score
playof win
The Daily Astorian
PORTLAND — Landree
Miethe delivered 20 kills with 15
digs, to help the Warrenton volley-
ball team score a four-game vic-
tory at Catlin Gabel Thursday, in
a loser-out Lewis & Clark League
playoff match.
With the win (26-24, 19-25,
25-17, 25-18), the sixth-place
Warriors move on to face sec-
ond-place Portland Christian at
6 p.m. Monday, for a spot in the
state tournament.
Warrenton had a big night at
the service line to key the win,
with Claire Bussert leading the
way with an 18-for-18 effort.
Miethe was 14-for-14 and Sierra
Lyons 13-of-14.
Bussert added 36 assists and
Asia Lambert sparked the defense
with 24 digs.
By BETH HARRIS
AP Sports Writer
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TODAY
Football — Astoria at Scappoose, 7
p.m.; Seaside at Banks, 7 p.m.; Warren-
ton at Clatskanie, 7 p.m.; Knappa at Ver-
nonia, 7 p.m.; Ocosta at Ilwaco, 7 p.m.
Volleyball — NWL Playoff: Faith Bible
vs. Knappa, at Vernonia HS, 3 p.m.
SATURDAY
Volleyball — 4A Regional Play-in:
Seaside at Estacada, Noon.
Rodgers
pushes
Packers
past Bears
By GENARO C. ARMAS
AP Sports Writer
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Davante
Adams woke up Thursday not
knowing if he would be cleared to
play after spending a few days in
the NFL’s concussion protocol.
The doctors gave him the
go-ahead in the early afternoon.
By the time the night was over,
the third-year receiver had the best
game of his young career.
Adams had 13 catches for a
career-high 132 yards and two
scores, Aaron Rodgers threw for
326 yards and three touchdowns
and the Green Bay Packers over-
powered the Chicago Bears in the
second half for a 26-10 victory.
“In a sense, a statement game.
I’m ready to play. I felt good,”
Adams said about the signiicance
of his milestone day.
Rodgers reached a milestone,
too. He was 39 of 56, setting a
franchise mark for completions in
a game.
The Bears (1-6) are down to
their third-string quarterback after
Brian Hoyer, who was starting for
the already injured Jay Cutler, left
in the second quarter with a bro-
ken left arm. Matt Barkley was 6
of 15 for 81 yards and two inter-
ceptions in place of Hoyer.
“I don’t think anybody’s proud
of what we’ve done so far,” Chi-
cago tight end Zach Miller said.
“You can describe it in many
ways. It’s no fun.”
Photos by Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Kristen Travers of Astoria prepares to kick the ball in a game against Banks on Thursday at CMH Field in Astoria.
LADY FISH ‘WIN’ A
1-1 TIE WITH BANKS
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
At the end of the game, the big
scoreboard at CMH Field read, “Guest
1, Home 1.”
But it sure didn’t feel like a 1-1
tie for the Astoria girls soccer team,
which was hosting Banks in a Cow-
apa League Senior Night game at the
Fish Bowl.
With ive straight losses to Banks,
it felt like the biggest win in years for
the Lady Fishermen soccer program.
Astoria’s last “non-loss” to the
Braves was Oct. 18, 2012, when the
Fishermen beat Banks 3-1.
Jenna Rudolph’s 25-yard free kick
following a foul on the Braves in the
inal two minutes of regulation was
Astoria’s lone goal of the game Thurs-
day — a game in which the Lady Fish-
ermen actually dominated in posses-
sion time.
“It’s a great group of kids,” said
Astoria coach Tim Fastabend, whose
eight seniors were honored before the
game. “It’s a big ‘win’ for them. We’ve
been a little snakebit on offense. We
have moved the ball well all year, we
just have trouble inishing and putting
it in the back of the net.
“But we got a lot of minutes for
a lot of seniors tonight, and they all
played well,” he said. “Our midield-
ers, Anna Gimre, Daniela Garcia
and Rachel Simmons on the side, all
did a great job of feeding the ball to
Jenna.”
Astoria spent the better part of the
night possessing the ball, with two
corner kicks and numerous throw-ins
deep in the Braves’ end of the ield in
the irst half.
But Astoria had no shots on goal in
the irst 40 minutes. The Braves had
less time with the ball, but took advan-
tage of their few chances.
A close-range shot by Kim Jordan
in the 9th minute was stopped by a div-
Sarah Lertora battles for the ball with Banks’ Aspen Slifka on Thurs-
day at CMH Field. The Lady Fish’s last non-loss to Banks was in 2012.
ing save from Astoria goalkeeper Lexi
Law, but in the 10th minute (10:08),
Kassidy Selfaison managed to knock
the ball in off a corner kick from team-
mate Marissa Dotson for the game’s
irst goal.
The Lady Fishermen stepped up
their play on both ends of the ield in
the second half.
More shots on goal for Astoria
(six), and fewer for the Braves, who
had just one shot on goal in the inal
40 minutes.
Most of the time, it was Astoria’s
Claire Albright stopping a few runs,
or Fishermen defenders teaming up to
stop breakaways for Banks sophomore
Aspen Slifka.
“Defensively, Claire stopped the
ball a few times, and Sariah Dieffen-
bach played well alongside her,” Fas-
tabend said. “And Lexi (Law) made
one great save in the irst half that kept
us in it.”
Elsewhere, he said, “Sarah Ler-
tora and Andrea Harris with her speed
played well, and we did a good job
of closing down on the outside wall
passes.”
Meanwhile, Rudolph, Jasmin
Mabry, Garcia and Sarah Lertora had
attempted shots that were knocked
down or missed, and a breakaway for
Hannah McCarley with 5:40 left was
saved by the Banks’ keeper.
Finally, Rudolph had the last and
best opportunity, a free kick from 25
yards out, in the middle of the ield.
Rudolph set up the shot, took a lit-
tle hug from McCarley, then drilled
the ball into the lower left corner of
the net for the game’s tying goal with
1:10 left.
“(McCarley) probably just told her
to put it in the net — something sim-
ple like that,” Fastabend said. “And
Jenna has a strong leg and placed it
beautifully.”
The Lady Fishermen are currently
in ifth place with a 3-8-2 overall
record, 2-5-2 in league play. Banks is
4-4-1 in league, 5-5-3 overall.
Astoria inishes the regular season
Tuesday at Scappoose.
LOS ANGELES — One win
away. Two chances at home.
Seven decades of waiting.
The Chicago Cubs closed in on
their irst World Series trip since
1945 by beating the Los Angeles
Dodgers 8-4 on Thursday in Game
5 of their National League playoff.
Jon Lester pitched seven sharp
innings , Addison
Russell hit a tie-
breaking homer
and the Cubs
grabbed a 3-2
lead in the NL
Championship
Series.
On deck, a pair of opportuni-
ties to wrap up that elusive pen-
nant at Wrigley Field.
“The city of Chicago has got
to be buzzing,” manager Joe Mad-
don said. “We’re not going to run
away from anything. It’s within
our reach right now.”
The Cubs’ irst opportunity to
clinch comes Saturday night in
Game 6, when Dodgers ace Clay-
ton Kershaw faces major league
ERA leader Kyle Hendricks.
“That’s a game we expect to
win,” Los Angeles manager Dave
Roberts said.
Of course, the Cubs were in
the same favorable position 13
years ago — heading home to
Wrigley with a 3-2 lead in the
NLCS.
But even with ace pitchers
Mark Prior and Kerry Wood start-
ing the inal two games, Chi-
cago collapsed against the Mar-
lins in one of its most excruciating
failures.
More than a decade later, the
franchise is still chasing its irst
World Series championship since
1908.
“We’ve heard the history,”
center ielder Dexter Fowler said,
“but at the same time we’re trying
to make history.”
Budding star Javier Baez was
in the middle of everything for the
Cubs, a common theme this Octo-
ber. The second baseman made a
sensational defensive play when
the game was still close in the
seventh, and his three-run double
capped a ive-run eighth that made
it 8-1.
After busting out of his post-
season slump Wednesday, Rus-
sell hit a two-run homer for the
second straight game. This one
was a sixth-inning drive off losing
pitcher Joe Blanton that gave Chi-
cago a 3-1 lead.
“Just rounding the bases, it
was pretty exciting,” Russell said.
“Pumped up, not only for myself
but for the team and that little
cushion that Jonny had to go for-
ward from that.”
Baez had three of Chicago’s 13
hits, matching the team’s total in
Game 4, when the Cubs snapped
a 21-inning scoreless streak and
won 10-2.
Lester allowed one run and
ive hits, improving to 2-0 in three
playoff starts this year. He has
given up two runs in 21 innings.
The left-hander struck out six
and walked one in a slow-paced
game that lasted 4 hours, 16
minutes.
Cardinals look to end home skid vs Seattle in NFC West
By BOB BAUM
AP Sports Writer
GLENDALE, Ariz. —
Coach Bruce Arians has
accomplished a lot in his three
seasons with the Cardinals.
Beating Seattle in Arizona
isn’t one of them.
That 0-3 record at home
against the Seahawks was a
major topic as the Cardinals
prepared for the Sunday night
matchup of two teams that
have dominated the NFC West
in recent years.
Cornerback Patrick Peter-
son brought it up in the locker
room moments after Arizona’s
28-3 victory over the New York
Jets on Monday night.
The Cardinals have won two
of their past three at Seattle, but
the Seahawks have dominated
the past three in Arizona by a
combined score of 105-34.
Asked if there’s a common
thread through those losses,
Arians was characteristically
blunt.
“Yeah,” he said. “They beat
the (heck) out of us.”
There were some mitigating
circumstances. The Cardinals
were down to Ryan Lindley in
a 35-6 loss late in the 2014 sea-
son. And Arizona already had
clinched the No. 2 playoff berth
before a 36-6 loss to Seattle last
season.
But another Seahawks vic-
tory this season would have
a signiicant impact for both
teams. Seattle would improve
to 5-1, Arizona would drop to
3-4. A Cardinals win, on the
other hand, would put Arizona
just a half-game behind Seattle.
Seattle Seahawks free safety Earl Thomas (29) intercepts a pass intended for Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Julio
Jones as middle linebacker Bobby Wagner (54) and cornerback Jeremy Lane, right, look on in the second half of an
NFL football game, Oct. 16, in Seattle. The Seahawks beat the Falcons 26-24.
AP Photo/Stephen Brashear