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SPORTS THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2015 11A JEFF TER HAR — For The Daily Astorian Astoria first baseman Ryan Palek, right, stretches to get the out on a Seaside runner in Wednesday’s baseball game. Clatsop Clash win streak reaches 27 for Fishermen The Daily Astorian SEASIDE — The Astoria Fishermen are coming up on 10 years’ worth of Clatsop Clash baseball wins, following Wednes- day’s 11-0 victory over Seaside at Broad- way Field. Seaside’s last win in the Clash came April 13, 2006. Since then, the Fishermen have won 27 in a row against their Clatsop rivals — in- cluding two wins in two days this week. $IWHU GURSSLQJ DQ ¿YHLQQLQJ GHFL- sion to the Fishermen Tuesday, the Gulls put up a better challenge in Wednesday’s seven-in- ning contest. But, ultimately, six Seaside errors and 10 walks were too much to overcome for the Gulls. Astoria scored four runs in the fourth inning, then tacked on four in the seventh to pull away. Carter Wallace went the distance on the mound for the Fishermen, allowing just three hits with seven strikeouts and no walks. While the young Gulls were plagued by mental mistakes and some untimely errors, the Fishermen came through with a few timely hits, including a two-out single by Nick Scott LQWKH¿UVWLQQLQJWKDWVFRUHG.\OH6WUDQJHZLWK WKH¿UVWUXQ Astoria led 3-0 through three innings, then opened the fourth with three straight singles. Cade O’Brien and Wallace reached on base hits, and both scored on a sharp single up the middle from Samboy Tuimato. An error and a passed ball brought in two more runs. %HKLQGVRPH¿QHGHIHQVLYHSOD\VDQGVRPH FDWFKHV RQ WKH UXQ LQ FHQWHU ¿HOG E\ -DFRE Bassett, the Gulls kept Astoria scoreless in the WKLUG¿IWKDQGVL[WKLQQLQJV 0RUHHUURUV¿QDOO\FDXJKWXSZLWK6HDVLGH in the seventh, however. Bronson Holthusen reached on an error to lead off, which was followed by back-to-back singles from O’Brien and Wallace. Courtesy runner Jasyn Gohl scored on an error, and a single to center by Strange brought in O’Brien and Wallace. Astoria had 10 hits off two Seaside pitchers, but the Fishermen stranded 11 baserunners. Zach Quicke had a double and Bassett had a triple in the seventh for the Gulls, who fall to JEFF TER HAR — For The Daily Astorian 2-12 overall. Astoria (11-3) improves to 6-0 in league play, with a 10-game win streak head- Seaside coach Joel Dierickx, left, greets Jacob Bassett at third base, following a seventh inning triple in Wednesday’s game at Broadway Field. ing into next week’s games vs. Banks. Defending state champs tune up for postseason The Daily Astorian BANKS — In a match be- tween the two schools that have won the last 11 Cowapa League boys golf titles, the Seaside Gulls showed that there is no longer a question who owns the league. The defending state champion Gulls scored a 56-stroke victory over Scappoose Wednesday at Quail Valley Golf Course, as Sea- side closes in on another Cowapa League championship. Seaside junior Aaron Richard- son was medalist, shooting a 78, leading Seaside to a 332-388 vic- tory over Scappoose. “It is nice getting a win in this matchup,” said Seaside coach Jim Poetsch said. “But we need to play better heading into the district and regional tourna- ments.” Seaside’s Sam Hinton shot 82, Trenten Meyer carded an 84 and Kevin Lacoste and Shane Fritter added a pair of 88s for the Gulls. Nathan Mapes led the Indians with a 90. “The winds swirl around this course so the players really need to think their way around the course, and we struggled a bit with that today,” Poetsch said. “Aaron had a good round today and is the first player this sea- son to beat Sam. Trenten shot a score we need him to shoot and could have scored even better if not for a couple lost balls. “Kevin had some great holes along with some not-so-great ones. Kevin had three putts for eagle today, including when he drove the green on the 325-yard 15th hole. This is the course where we will play districts, re- gionals and hopefully state so we need to tune up our games a bit in the next few weeks.” The Seaside JV team also re- mained undefeated, squeaking by Scappoose 401-408. Andrew Ker- cher of Scappoose was JV medal- ist with an 85. Calvin Pollard led Seaside with a 96, followed by Jackson Kunde (99), Josef Barbic (100) and Berkley Posalski (106). SCOREBOARD PREP SCHEDULE TODAY Girls Golf — Astoria Invitational, 10:30 a.m. FRIDAY Baseball — Warrenton at Cat- lin Gabel, 4:30 p.m.; Nestucca at Knappa (2), 3 p.m. Softball — Astoria at Tillamook (2), 4 p.m.; Seaside at Banks (2), 4 p.m.; Knappa at Portland Christian, 4:30 p.m. Boys Golf — Seaside at Crook County Invitational, 10 a.m. SATURDAY Track — Banks Invitational, 10 a.m. BASEBALL HIGH SCHOOLS Astoria 11, Seaside 0 Astoria 210 400 4—11 10 1 Seaside 000 000 0—0 3 6 Wallace and Gohl; Walsh, Plamp- in (5) and Quicke. W: Wallace. L: Walsh. RBI: Ast, Tuimato 2, Strange 2, Scott, Wallace, Hageman. 2B: Sea, Quicke. 3B: Sea, Bassett. LOB: Astoria 11, Seaside 4. Seaside medalist Aaron Richardson, left, and Sam Hinton talk after Wednesday’s round at Quail Valley Golf Course. Submitted photo Grizzlies take 2-0 series lead, beating Trail Blazers 97-82 MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Known for pounding op- ponents inside with Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph, the Memphis Grizzlies are showing they can be just as effective outside the paint. Hey, they can even shoot 3-pointers. Mike Conley and Courtney Lee each scored 18 points, and the Griz- zlies beat Portland 97-82 Wednesday night to grab the franchise’s first 2-0 lead in a playoff series. The Grizzlies took full advantage of starting the playoffs at home for only the second time in their short postseason history. They had only won their playoff opener once before, and that was on the road in San Antonio in 2011. “All we did is just take care of home court, which we were supposed to do,” AP Photo/Mark Humphrey Portland Trail Blazers center Robin Lopez (42) fouls Mem- phis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol (33), of Spain, in the sec- ond half of Game 2 of an NBA basketball Western Con- ference playoff series Wednesday in Memphis, Tenn. The Grizzlies won 97-82 and lead the series 2-0. Lee said. “We didn’t want those guys to come in here and get one and switch home-court advantage in their favor.” Gasol had 15 points, and Randolph and Beno Udrih added 10 apiece. LaMarcus Aldridge led Portland with 24 points and 14 rebounds, and he also had four blocks with two steals. Damian Lillard add- ed 18 points but the Trail Blazers lost their first two playoff games for the first time since 2011, when they fell in six games to Dallas. Game 3 in this best-of- seven series is Saturday night in Portland, and the Trail Blazers hope to draw on their fans the way the Grizzlies have. “We got to try to do something there,” Lillard said. Memphis is known for its bruising inside game with Gasol and Randolph. That duo combined to shoot 9 of 31, not that it mattered with Memphis shooting 50 percent (8 of 16) outside the arc and 42.7 percent overall. “If they are going to keep giving us that, we’re going to keep taking them,” Gasol said of the outside shots. Memphis was 22nd in the NBA shooting 3s this sea- son while Portland ranked eighth. But the Grizzlies shot 50.9 percent against the Trail Blazers sweeping all four games in the season. So the Grizzlies’ 3-point ac- curacy didn’t surprise Port- land coach Terry Stotts. “They’re good shooters,” Stotts said. “They don’t look for them a lot. We can’t leave them open either.” Portland came into this series with several players banged-up, and the list got longer with center Chris Kaman out after spraining his left ankle Tuesday in practice. Stotts juggled his lineup, starting guard Allen Crabbe for the first time in the postseason. The Blazers looked like the team that won 51 games during the regular season early. Crabbe hit a 3 in the opening minutes to give the Blazers their first lead in this series, and they jumped out to a 10-2 lead with Al- dridge connecting on four of his first five shots. Yet even with the Griz- zlies shooting so poorly that they missed a handful of layups in the quarter, Port- land led only 21-19 at the end of the first. Memphis took control in the second with a 15-2 run, turning Portland’s four-point edge to a 34-25 lead on a 3-pointer by Jeff Green. The Grizzlies out- scored Portland 31-18 in the quarter and led 50-39 at halftime. The Grizzlies simply clamped down tighter and led 73-60 at the end of the third after leading by as much as 18 late in the quar- ter.