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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2015
Royals pass the test, defeat Warrenton
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
WARRENTON — Port-
land Christian and Warrenton
hooked up in a volleyball en-
durance test Thursday night.
And while the Warriors
scored well and had game
points in Games 2 and 3, the
Royals ultimately won the
battle in four intense games,
11-25, 26-24, 28-26, 25-20.
Portland Christian bounced
back from a 14-point loss in
the opening game, overcame a
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lied late in Game 3, then led
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to pick up the win in the crucial
Lewis & Clark League match.
“You have to give credit
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back and wins the match,”
said Warrenton coach Jenny
Forney Smith, whose team
played well, but still drops to
0-2 in league.
The Warriors looked dom-
inant in the opening game.
After falling behind 2-0,
Ally Bentley served the
Warriors into a 9-2 lead, and
teammate Landree Miethe
followed with more pinpoint
serving to put Warrenton
ahead 14-3.
The Royals made a brief
run, but Miethe and freshman
Claire Bussert teamed up for
a double block on Portland
Christian’s Hannah Antal,
sparking the crowd and the
Warriors to a 21-9 lead and
eventual win.
Bentley had three ace
serves to help Warrenton to a
quick 5-0 advantage in Game
2.
But Portland Christian
freshman Simone Gordon
and Antal showed off some
hitting power of their own, as
the Royals stormed back and
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the match.
Game 3 featured 14 ties,
and the Warriors again found
themselves with a game
point, as a perfectly placed
set over the net by Lexie
Lumberg gave Warrenton a
24-22 lead.
Gordon had a kill for the
Royals to end a long rally,
and Portland Christian es-
caped with a 28-26 win.
The Royals were never
seriously threatened in Game
4, building leads of 14-5 and
19-11.
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every game with the intensity
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need to play to win and stop
playing afraid to lose.”
Libby Biel played a big
part in keeping the Warriors
ahead or at least in every
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with team highs of 17 kills
and 16 digs.
Bentley had 12 digs, nine
aces and four kills; Miethe
had four kills in the Game
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with 19 assists.
Cougars def. Seagulls
SEASIDE — Cascade
got past Seaside in a three-
game sweep Thursday night,
25-15, 25-19, 25-21, in non-
league volleyball action at
the Gulls’ Nest.
Falcons def. Loggers
HILLSBORO — The
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Asia Lambert, left, and Allison Bentley, right, both try to keep the ball in play during Warrenton’s third set against Portland Christian Thursday.
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Katelynn Blodgett’s shot is blocked by Portland Chris-
tian’s Hannah Antal, No. 7, in the third set of Warrenton’s
volleyball match.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TODAY
Football — Astoria at North
Bend, 7 p.m.; Seaside at Cas-
cade, 7 p.m.; Willamina at Warren-
ton, 7 p.m.; Knappa at Kennedy,
7 p.m.; Tacoma Baptist at Ilwaco,
Knappa volleyball team
highlighted their night with a
dramatic win in Game 2, but
Faith Bible won the North-
west League match in four
games, 25-15, 26-28, 25-10,
26-24.
Mack Strain opened the
second game with eight
straight serves for an 8-0
lead.
The Falcons rallied and
took a brief lead before Strain
and teammate Bailey Corder
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7 p.m.
SATURDAY
Volleyball — Seaside at Cas-
cade Tournament, 8:30 a.m.; War-
renton at Dayton Tournament, 9
a.m.
Cross Country — Ultimook In-
vitational, Tillamook, 10 a.m.
Warrenton’s Asia Lambert, No. 13, runs through a tunnel of students after being an-
nounced as a starter before the volleyball match against Portland Christian
served out a win for the Log-
gers.
Knappa came back from a
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the game at 24-24, before the
Falcons scored the next two
points to close out the match.
Warrenton players cheer
from the bench after a
point in the first set.
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The Daily Astorian
Gull, Cougar girls soccer teams battle to 0-0 tie
Seaside almost stole a
win with a shot by Wester-
holm that deflected off the
post in the final minute of
play.
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their tails off, our forwards
challenged everything, and
the defense just shut the
door,” Johnson said. “I was
very pleased with the im-
provement they showed to-
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season was clunky and it
looked like we didn’t know
what to do with the ball, but
tonight we were a different
team and it was an exciting
game.”
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SEASIDE — A nonleague
girls soccer match between
Cascade and Seaside ended
in a 0-0 stalemate Thursday
night at Broadway Field.
Cascade was “a chal-
lenging side to stay with,
but the defensive back four
did a great job, turning back
each attack,” Seaside coach
Matt Johnson said. Gulls’
goalkeeper Jesse Trott “took
care of everything that got
through the D-line, includ-
ing a point-blank shot which
she smothered.
“Everyone who spent
time on the defense line
played tough, disciplined
defense, and I am very proud
of them,” Johnson said.
Cascade threatened to
score more often in the first
half than the Gulls, but in
the second half the Gulls
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Seaside’s Whitney Westerholm, right, nearly scored a game-winner late in Thursday’s
soccer game.
“started to push the attack
offensively,” Johnson said.
“The Cascade goalkeeper
was solid and handled a cou-
ple of tough shots, deflecting
a quality shot far post from
Whitney Westerholm and
tracking down through-balls
in the box.”
Boys Soccer
Cascade 1, Seaside 0
TURNER — In non-
league boys soccer action
Thursday, Cascade defeated
Seaside 1-0, the first loss of
the season for the Gulls.
Hunting
event for
youth nears
LONG BEACH, Wash.
— A Youth Waterfowl
Hunt Event, hosted by the
Washington Waterfowl As-
sociation, Ducks Unlimit-
ed, and Friends of Willapa
National Wildlife Refuge,
starts at 7 a.m. Sept. 19 at
the Willapa National Wild-
life Refuge, Porter Point
Unit. Follow signs to S.
Bay Units/Riekkola Unit,
located off of Sandridge
Road, at the east end of
67th Place in Long Beach.
The event includes prizes,
food and hunter education.
To attend, RSVP by
Wednesday by calling the
Willapa National Wildlife
Refuge at 360-484-3482 or
emailing willapa@fws.gov