THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2015
SPORTS
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Scappoose kickers stun Seaside boys
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — The shocking
result from Broadway Field
Thursday night: Scappoose 1,
Seaside 0. And it was shock-
ing only because the Seaside
Gulls completely dominated
the crucial Cowapa League
boys soccer showdown.
The Indians had just one
shot on goal, and made it
count, as Scappoose scored
with 1 minute, 20 seconds left
in regulation for the 1-nil vic-
tory.
And an important victory
it was, as the defending Cow-
apa League champion Indians
keep their hopes alive for a
repeat.
The ¿rst place Gulls fall to
3-1 in league play, still a half-
game up on both Scappoose
(2-1) and Astoria (2-1).
Seaside could have taken
a big step toward clinching
a league championship with
a win, but none of the Gulls’
nine shots on goal got through.
A well set-up play between
Seaside’s Hunter Thompson
and Colton Carter was broken
up by the Scappoose keeper in
the 19th minute, the only shot
on goal of the ¿rst half.
The Gulls had a Àurry of
opportunities in the second
half — a long attempt from
Jackson Januik near the left
sideline in the 57th minute
that was saved; shots by Cris-
tian Angeles and Juneau Mey-
er that either sailed over the
cross bar or were wide of the
mark; and a direct free kick
by Taylor Barnes in the 69th
minute that missed.
Additional shots on goal
by Januik and Thompson in
the ¿nal seven minutes were
saved.
With just under two min-
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TODAY
Football — Astoria at Valley Catholic, 7 p.m.; Seaside at Tillamook, 7
p.m.; Warrenton at Knappa, 7 p.m.; St. Mary’s at Ilwaco, 7 p.m.; Taholah
at Naselle, 7 p.m.
SATURDAY
Cross Country — Seaside at Philomath Invitational, 1 p.m.
utes remaining, the Indians
worked the ball through the
Seaside defense — which oth-
erwise played a solid game —
and a failed clear attempt was
knocked around and ended up
at the feet of Scappoose fresh-
man Logan Hopkins, who
simply had to tap the ball into
an open net for the game’s
only goal, at the 78:40 mark.
The Gulls — who also had
six corner kick opportunities
to none for Scappoose — re-
turn to action Tuesday at Val-
ley Catholic.
Girls Soccer
Banks 2, Astoria 1
WARRENTON — The
Astoria girls scored their third
goal of the season Thursday
night, but it wasn’t enough to
catch the Banks Braves, who
posted a 2-1 victory over the
Lady Fishermen at Volunteer
Field.
Astoria coach Sarah von
Colditz called it a “tough,
tough, tough loss.”
Still, “I couldn’t be more
proud of my Lady Fish,” she
said. “We came out positive,
energetic and gave it our
all. (Goalkeeper) Lexi Law
had an amazing game. She
had 12 saves in the first half
alone.”
Astoria’s Victoria Kee
scored the game’s ¿rst goal
off of a cross from Ashlee
Dalton in the 47th minute.
“By far one of the most
amazing goals I have ever
seen in person,” von Colditz
said. “It was a hard-driven
volley in the upper far left
corner. Perfectly placed.”
The Braves scored 15 min-
utes later to tie, then slotted
one in the net with just 12 sec-
onds left in the game.
“This was the game where
everything clicked,” von
Colditz said. “I couldn’t be
happier with the ¿ght and en-
thusiasm, composure and pos-
itivity the girls showed on the
¿eld today.”
In other Cowapa League
girls soccer action, Scappoose
defeated Seaside, 11-0.
Cross Country
Gulls run at
the Trojan Relays
ST. HELENS — Running
without several of their top
key runners, the Seaside girls’
and boys’ cross country teams
still fared well at the Trojan
Relays, sponsored by St. Hel-
ens High School and run in
the park adjacent to the old
Trojan Nuclear Plant.
Each school had ¿ve ath-
letes, each running two miles.
The Seaside girls’ team of
Josie Smith, Sydney Villegas,
Lucy Swenson, Kara Ipson and
Anesha Smart placed fourth.
The Seaside boys (Bradley
Rznewicki, Jack Whittle, Da-
vid Schwinof, Adam Morse
and Jacob Bassett) placed
¿fth, without several runners
who were playing soccer.
Lady Loggers fall in four
games to Delphian Dragons
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KNAPPA — It’s always a
tough place for an opposing
team to win, but Delphian ac-
complished that feat Thursday
night at Knappa, as the Drag-
ons scored a four-game victo-
ry over the Lady Loggers, 25-
15, 21-25, 25-14, 25-23.
Knappa led 16-12 in Game
4, before the Dragons rallied
to win the Northwest League
volleyball match.
The Loggers competed
well, said Knappa coach Jeff
Kaul, “and the ¿nal scores
only tell a small part of the
battles that were waged …
there was some absolute-
ly fantastic rallies and some
awesome saves along with
some brilliant placement
shots tonight.”
Kaitlyn Landwehr led
Knappa with 10 kills, 10 digs
and three assists. She had help
from Bailey Corder (14 digs),
Paris Vanderburg (13-of-14
serving) and Kaitlyn Truax
(three blocks).
Jaden Miethe had 27 digs
for the Loggers, and Mack
Strain was 10-for-10 serving.
Banks def. Astoria
The Banks Braves kept
their hold on ¿rst place in the
Cowapa League standings
Thursday night, with a three-
game sweep (25-23, 25-7, 25-
11) over Astoria at the Brick
House.
In other Cowapa League
action, Seaside took the ¿rst
game, but the next three and
the match belonged to Scap-
poose, which left town with a
four-game win over the Gulls,
18-25, 25-12, 25-23, 25-11.
OES def. Warrenton
PORTLAND — Solid ef-
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Knappa’s Paris Vanderburg, No. 5, bumps the ball over the
net while defended by Delphian’s Fernanda Caeaga, No. 2,
during the volleyball games Thursday at Knappa.
Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
Knappa’s Kaitlyn Landwehr, No. 4, spikes the ball in the first set during the volleyball
match against Delphian Thursday at Knappa.
forts in Games 2 and 3 were not
enough for the Warrenton vol-
leyball team Thursday night, as
Oregon Episcopal held on for
a 25-9, 25-20, 25-22 win over
the Warriors in Lewis & Clark
League action in Portland.
“We are starting to play
tough again,” said Warrenton
coach Jenny Smith. “We still
came up short, but made some
improvements tonight. OES
had a great passing team. They
didn’t allow much to get past
them on defense.”
Ally Bentley had 16 digs
and Libby Biel added six kills
for the Warriors.
Jeff Ter Har/For the Daily Astorian
Seaside’s Jetta Ideue sets up a play for the Gulls in Thurs-
day night’s match.
Landree Miethe ¿nished
with 12 digs, and Claire Bus-
sert had a solid night of setting
for Warrenton.
High times: Owner of Nature’s Choice said, ‘It was a long time coming’
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“Some people cannot be-
lieve that this has happened,
especially the old people,”
Guerrero said. “They’re so
happy just to have this op-
tion.”
Take ’n’ bake
Meanwhile, at Sweet Re-
lief Natural Medicine on
Commercial Street, custom-
ers poured into the downtown
location, smelling the robust,
earthy aroma before they had
even crossed the threshold.
When the dispensary
opened at midnight, roughly
65 people had already lined
up outside, and, except from 3
a.m. to 6 a.m., the store stayed
slammed with patrons until it
closed at 7:30 p.m.
“It’s been far beyond my
expectations,” said co-owner
Oscar Nelson as he checked
customers’ IDs and savored
the contained excitement on
their faces. “I’ve seen a lot
of 50-year-old people turn
into young kids in front of my
eyes.”
Many of the people in the
waiting room — mingling, re-
laxing on the furniture, grab-
bing packets of M&Ms from
a glass bowl — said smoking
marijuana helped them deal
with various ailments: chronic
pain, insomnia, post-traumat-
ic stress disorder, etc. Some
said they had not obtained a
medical marijuana card be-
cause the application process
and wait period took too long
and they couldn’t afford to
purchase one.
With many customers,
“It’s not like, ‘Oh man, I’m
gonna go get f----- up.’ It’s
more like, ‘I’m going to get
some sleep. I’m going to have
a lot better day now,’” Nelson
said. “It’s a little bit different
attitude than just getting lit
— although, you know, that’s
fun, too.”
Josh Binder, an Astoria
resident, came from the East
Coast, where marijuana use
is illegal and, he said, stigma-
tized. “There’s really kind of a
cavalier attitude here, but it’s
kind of evolved into a positive
attitude,” he said.
A pot user since high
school, Binder stood near the
front of the late-night line and
bought a popular, highly con-
centrated strain called Sticky
Bitch. After a night of sweet
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A line forms outside of Sweet Relief Natural Medicine be-
fore the midnight opening Thursday.
dreams, he returned for a pre-
rolled joint.
“I never smoked pot legal-
ly before, so it was kind of
a milestone,” he said. “Just
wanted to get it and smoke it
and feel con¿dent that I didn’t
break the law.”
Into the weeds
It was a similar story at
Nature’s Choice Alternative
Medicine in Astoria, and at
Highway 420 and Cannabis
Nation in Seaside: long lines,
giddy grown-ups and the feel-
ing of buyers and sellers that
the world had ¿nally caught
up to them.
“It was a long time com-
ing,” Nick Clark, owner of
Nature’s Choice, said.
At each dispensary, more
than 90 percent of customers
turned up to get recreational
marijuana. In fact, Clark had
warned his medical patients
that the place would be packed
that day; several patients even
chose to stock up on medicine
ahead of the recreational rush,
he said.
“We were very busy, we’re
tired, we’re gonna get some
sleep, and we’re going to do
it again tomorrow,” said Gary
Reynolds, co-owner of Sweet
Relief.
As in Colorado, the initial
demand for legal recreational
marijuana is expected to taper
off, but will likely stay well
above the demand for medical
marijuana, Nelson said.
Clatsop County Dis-
trict Attorney Josh Marquis,
who opposed Measure 91
— which legalized the use
of recreational marijuana —
noted that the voter-approved
measure called for taxing and
regulating marijuana.
“The argument was: let’s
tax and regulate marijuana
and take it out of the black
market,” he said.
But when the state Legis-
lature passed Senate Bill 460
in July, which allowed medi-
cal marijuana dispensaries to
temporarily sell recreational
marijuana, lawmakers basi-
cally allowed for the untaxed
and unregulated sale of the
drug, he said.
To be sure, dispensaries
will start collecting a 25 per-
cent tax on all limited rec-
reational marijuana product
sales beginning Jan. 4. And,
eventually, the Oregon Liquor
Control Commission will
have the tools and the staff
to regulate recreational and
retail sale of marijuana, but
“they don’t have either yet,”
Marquis said.
“The Oregon Legislature
were the ones who decided
we simply couldn’t wait,” he
said.
Budding industry
Marquis said it will take
one to two years to know
the effects of legalized recre-
ational marijuana in Oregon,
and that it would be presump-
tuous for him to speculate on
what those effects will be.
“In fairness to the busi-
nesses, I suspect the ones in
business now are going to
try and carefully adhere to
the law,” he said, “because
nothing would cause them
to get shut down by the state
faster than obvious abuses,”
like selling recreational pot
to minors or giving out illegal
amounts.
“I’m just glad that the will
of the people ¿nally overcame
the small minds in govern-
ment,” Steve Geiger, owner
of Highway 420, said.