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SPORTS 4A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2015 Astoria wins baseball league opener, 6-0 The Daily Astorian JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Astoria’s Joey Voeller hits his second shot of the 13th hole during the Fish Invitational at the Astoria Golf and Country Club Mon- day. See more photos at www.dailyastorian.com Fish Invitational belongs to Gulls, again The invite was played in a mod- L¿HG 6WDEOHIRUG IRUPDW ZLWK HDFK WHDP¿HOGLQJWKUHHSDLUVRIJROIHUV WARRENTON — How much with best-ball scoring. better can the defending state Seaside’s top duo (Sam Hinton champions get? Check back in and Aaron Richardson) combined about a month, because lately, the WRSRVWDZLWK9DOOH\&DWKROLF¶V Seaside Gulls are lowering their 1RWHDP¿QLVKLQJVHFRQGZLWKD scores every time they step on the 59. Seaside teammates Shane Frit- course. ter and Kevin LaCoste took third at By now, the state’s top contend- 58. ers in Class 4A boys golf are be- More importantly, Seaside’s top ginning to realize — the defending four golfers combined for a 312 state champs from Seaside aren’t team score, less than a week after just leveling off, they’re getting posting a 313 in a dual match win better. RYHU9DOOH\&DWKROLF The Gulls are putting up some The 313 represented the best team scores that will be hard for score by a Seaside team in nearly anyone to top, now or in May. a decade, and the Gulls topped last Seaside also picked up its latest week’s score with a 312. ¿UVWSODFH WURSK\ 0RQGD\ DIWHU- By comparison — taking into noon, as the Gulls continued their account different scores for differ- “tradition like no other” by winning ent courses — Seaside’s two-round the annual Fish Invitational, hosted scores in last year’s state tourna- by Astoria at the Astoria Golf & ment were 328 and 321. Country Club. “We shot a 312 under regular With all six Cowapa League scoring conditions, so we were schools (plus St. Helens) compet- one better than we shot last week,” ing, the Gulls collected 123 points said Seaside coach Jim Poetsch. WR ¿QLVK DKHDG RI 9DOOH\ &DWKROLF “That’s the way we want to go. (112), St. Helens (96), Scappoose If we can just keep taking one off (83), Tillamook (82), Banks (79) here and there, we’ll be in good and Astoria (72). shape.” By GARY HENLEY The Daily Astorian REDUCED $ 10 FS 40 C-E TRIMMER 159 $ 95 “So easy to start I purchased one for my 80 year-old father... and even my mother can start it!“ – user Redfender FREE TRIMMER LINE WITH PURCHASE OF FS 40 C-E OR FS 50 C-E TRIMMER As always, Astoria coach Dan Foss came up with some creative scoring rules for the Fish Invite — 11 points for a ‘halibut’ (double ea- gle or hole-in-one); eight points for DµFRG¶HDJOHDQG¿YHSRLQWVIRUD ‘salmon’ (birdie). “The pars, bogeys and dou- ble-bogeys are typical, but when you get aggressive it jumps to more points with birdies and eagles,” Foss said. “It’s always nice to play a dif- ferent format. It gives a little variety to the game. Today it was pairs, best-ball, with points added to it.” 9DOOH\&DWKROLF¶V5\DQ6FKPLG- OLQ KDG ELUGLHV RQ WKH ¿UVW WKUHH holes. 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Wallace and Ryker Helmerson had two hits apiece IRUWKH)LVKHUPHQZKRSOD\DW9DOOH\&DWKROLFWRGD\ SOFTBALL Seaside 8, Clatskanie 3 SEASIDE — Jetta Ideue struck out four batters and held the Clatskanie bats in the check, and the Gulls racked up 10 runs at the plate, in a 10-2 win over Clats- kanie Monday. 3RRU¿HOGFRQGLWLRQVLQ&ODWVNDQLHIRUFHGWKHQRQ- league softball game to Broadway Field. Seaside was coming off a doubleheader loss at home to Cascade Saturday, 10-4 and 17-6. Jetta Ideue and Brittany West each had two hits in Game 1, while Paige Ideue, Whitney Westerholm and Allison Bussert all had two hits apiece in Game 2. The Gulls trailed 12-0, before scoring six runs in the bottom of the second inning. JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Astoria’s William Keeran watches his drive off the tee of the 15th hole. will feel good about where they’re at, at this point.” Seaside’s third team of Trenten Meyer and Josef Barbic scored 58 points, while Astoria’s other scorers ZHUH:LOO.HHUDQDQG-RH\9RHOOHU (35), and Kirk Fausett and Ron Schumacher (33). Astoria visits Gearhart Golf Links for a dual match with the Gulls Thursday. MM 55 STIHL YARD BOSS ® $ SCOREBOARD PREP SCHEDULE TODAY Baseball — Astoria at Valley Catholic, 5 p.m.; Til- lamook at Seaside, 5 p.m.; Warrenton at Taft, 3:30 p.m.; Knappa at Faith Bi- ble, 4:30 p.m. Softball — Rainier at As- toria, 4:30 p.m.; Warrenton at Taft, 3:30 p.m.; Naselle at Knappa, 4 p.m. Track — Portland Chris- tian at Warrenton, 3:30 p.m. 359 95 DOUBLE WHEN YOU PURCHASE EITHER STIHL HP ULTRA OIL It doesn’t bog down and doesn’t jump around like other tillers. I will not buy anything but STIHL from here on out.” (SIX 2.6 OZ. 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