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By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — Whenever
two rivals meet on the court,
as the old saying goes, “You
can throw the records out the
window.”
The Astoria and Seaside
volleyball teams would like
nothing more than to throw
their league records (a com-
bined 2-16) out the window at
this point, as the two met for
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season.
Astoria’s
three-game
sweep over the Gulls Tuesday
night at Seaside gave the Lady
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league victory of the season,
while the Gulls fall to 1-8.
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to lead Astoria in the 25-11,
25-19, 25-22 win.
Astoria is still holding out
hope for a berth in the league
playoffs and the 4A Regional
Play-in round. The Lady Fish
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and hope Tillamook can de-
feat the Gulls.
For now, Astoria is just en-
joying league win No. 1.
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night,” said Astoria coach
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hope to extend the season. The
(Seaside) tournament came at
the right time, and that gave
us a chance to work through
some things.”
Astoria lost to Philomath
in a best-of-three match in the
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end’s Seaside Tournament.
The Lady Fishermen dom-
inated Tuesday night’s opener,
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few kills for a quick 13-5 lead.
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to help close it out.
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service ace for a 4-0 lead in
Game 2, in which Astoria
built a 16-6 lead.
The Gulls got their game in
order, as Maddi Utti blocked
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sia Gonzales pounded a pair
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bring Seaside to within 22-17.
Astoria answered with a
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at game point gave the Lady
Fishermen the second game.
Game 3 was the closest,
a back-and-forth set that fea-
tured ties at every point from
eight to 15.
Aurora Grafton’s serving
run helped Astoria build a 23-
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and delivered a few kills to
bring the Gulls to within 23-22.
But after a quick time out,
Astoria responded with kills
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game point to close out the
match.
“It was just back-and-forth
and back-and-forth,” coach
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of hoping to hold Seaside off
and get one of our servers
back there. We were solid in
serve receive all night. Our
defense really came to play.”
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average is four kills, but the
senior stepped up and pound-
ed six per game Tuesday.
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Utti led the Gulls offen-
sively, with help from a strong
serving night from freshman
Annaka Garhofer.
Rainier def. Warrenton
WARRENTON — Rainier
remained unbeaten in league
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Warrenton Tuesday night, 25-
21, 25-13, 25-10.
Fourth-ranked Rainier (10-
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by one game in the Lewis &
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the Warriors drop to 3-6.
Ally Bentley led Warren-
ton’s charge, as she moved
into the middle blocker spot
and responded with nine kills,
one block and seven digs.
Libby Biel added 10 digs and
six kills, and Landree Miethe
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kills.
Vernonia def. Knappa
VERNONIA — The Ver-
nonia Loggers topped the
Knappa Loggers in Northwest
League volleyball Tuesday,
25-18, 22-25, 25-11, 25-18.
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was perfect from the service
line (11-for-11), and also had
10 digs and four kills. Team-
mate Kaitlyn Landwehr added
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four blocks.
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with three blocks, Alisha
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four kills, and Jaden Miethe
had 15 digs.
“To put things in perspec-
tive, Vernonia had six seniors
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Night,” Knappa coach Jeff
Kaul said, “and while only
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great to see our young team
competing so well against a Astoria’s Chloee Hunt, No. 11, spikes the ball while Seaside’s Maddi Utti, No. 15, tries to defend during their volleyball
game at Seaside Tuesday.
much older team.”
ABOVE: Seaside’s Mad-
di Utti, dives to keep
the ball in play during
the volleyball game
against Astoria.
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Astoria’s Madi Landwehr sets the ball during the volley-
ball game at Seaside Tuesday.
Photos by Joshua Bessex
The Daily Astorian
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TODAY
Cross Country — Astoria at Val-
ley Catholic Invitational, TBA
THURSDAY
Volleyball — Valley Catholic at
Astoria, 7 p.m.; Tillamook at Sea-
side, 7 p.m.; Warrenton at Portland
Christian, 6:30 p.m.; Knappa at
City Christian, 6 p.m.; Chief Leschi
at Ilwaco, 7 p.m.
Girls Soccer — Seaside at Asto-
ria, 7:30 p.m.
Boys Soccer — Seaside at As-
toria, 5:30 p.m.
FRIDAY
Football — Astoria at Seaside,
7 p.m.; Clatskanie at Warrenton, 7
LEFT: Seaside’s Maddi
Utti, No. 15, spikes the
ball during the volley-
ball game against Asto-
ria at Seaside Tuesday.
p.m.; Knappa at Nestucca, 7 p.m.;
Ilwaco at Raymond, 7 p.m.
SATURDAY
Football — Naselle at Twin Val-
ley, 1 p.m.
Volleyball — Astoria at Corbett
Tournament, TBA; Seaside at Phi-
lomath Tournament, 8:30 a.m.; Life
Christian at Knappa, 6 p.m.
Astoria, Seaside soccer on collision course
the Indians, the Fishermen
now hold the tie-breaker ad-
Boys Soccer
vantage over Scappoose.
The Astoria and Seaside
The Gulls and Fishermen
boys soccer teams will meet will face off in Game 1 of a
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possibly on the line.
followed by the Astoria and
Both teams were victori- Seaside girls.
ous Tuesday, as Astoria won
GirOs Soccer
2-0 at Scappoose, and Sea-
Scappoose 6, Astoria 0
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Scappoose took a 2-0 half-
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time lead and turned it into a
5-2.
Seaside is still on top of the 6-0 win over Astoria Tuesday
league standings with a 4-1 night, in a girls soccer game
league record, followed by DW&0+)LHOG
“This was the best game
Astoria and Scappoose, both
at 3-2. With two victories over I have seen the girls play all
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season,” Astoria coach Sar-
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team. “Their passes were on
point and they were com-
municating well with each
other. Each game these girls
are exposed to more soccer,
so they continue to improve.
It’s great to watch as a coach.
Scappoose’s team has talent
everywhere you turn, and we
broke them down at times.”
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Seaside 0
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side 9-0 in girls soccer action
on Broadway Field in Sea-
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