THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2015
SPORTS
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Naselle netters move closer to state
Comets must
win Saturday
to advance
By PATRICK WEBB
For EO Media Group
NASELLE, Wash. — The
Comets took care of business
Thursday night.
Members of the Naselle vol-
leyball team clocked in for their
shift at 6:11 p.m. and were able
to clock out at 7:01.
They won in three sets over
Pope John Paul II High School
of Lacey, Wash., 25-11, 25-7,
25-18 in a performance which
demonstrated their power serv-
ing and decisive kills.
Next for the Comets is a
loser-out game 6 p.m. Saturday
at Black Hills High School in
Olympia, Wash., against Co-
lumbia Adventist.
Naselle Head Coach Kim
Eaton was pleased and cautious-
ly optimistic about the coming
task in Olympia.
“Our serving was amaz-
ing,” she said, noting her play-
ers served 24 aces and made
only four serving errors. The
teamwork that the Comets have
been working on all season was
evident, too. “Everybody was
invested in the team as a whole
— that is what we want all the
time.”
Eaton was pleased that the
players all rotated in and the
team played consistently. Two
JV players, freshmen Taylor
Gudmundsen and Lily Harman,
were called up to join the squad
and performed well, she said.
The Eagles wore the same
blue and gold uniform colors
as the home team, but that was
where all similarities ended. The
visitors just could not handle the
Comets’ intensity. Naselle was
soon ahead thanks to dominant
play at the back of the court
and at the net by senior Kendra
Leeland. Junior Amelia Tutu’u
made a good play to bring the
score to 14-9 then immediately
served an ace. The set was won
with a kill by Leeland and a tip-
over by co-captain Taylor Eaton.
Eaton served three consec-
utive aces to set the tone of the
second set, junior Ellie Chap-
man made a kill for the fourth
point and Eaton then served
another ace. Junior Tayler Ford
had an ace and two clever plays
where she tipped the ball over
the net softly to win points. The
visitors only replied with points
seven times. Freshman Hailey
Weston served four aces to win
the set.
The momentum continued in
the third with Leeland dominat-
ing at the net and Chapman and
Tutu’u adding kills. Senior Ha-
ley Footh made an impressive
play to rescue the ball which
Chapman successfully hit over
the net and the Eagles could not
return. Footh and Weston both
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Senior captain Taylor Eaton, left, sets the ball during action against Pope John Paul II High School in the Naselle gym Thursday. She had a team-high
12 assists in the game. With her are, left to right, juniors Tayler Ford (12), Amelia Tutu’u (17) and Ellie Chapman (10).
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TODAY
Football — Astoria at North Bend, 6 p.m. (live stream online at www.
astoriaford.com); Ilwaco at Napavine, 7 p.m.
VOLLEYBALL
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Senior captain Kendra Leeland served seven aces and 12 kills in Naselle’s three-set win
over Pope John Paul II High School. Behind her is junior Ellie Chapman, who had three
kills. The first-round state playoff win puts the Comets one win away from going to the
WIAA state championships.
combined well with Tutu’u for
points, and a bad serve by the
visitors sealed the ¿nal point for
Naselle.
Leeland served seven aces
and made 12 kills. Tutu’u served
three aces and made seven kills.
Eaton contributed six aces and
made 12 assists. Ford made
10 assists, ¿ve kills and served
three aces.
Three Rivers Christian of
Longview, Wash., and Lake
Quinault will also play Satur-
day. The district semi-¿nals will
be played simultaneously in ad-
joining gyms with the winners
of those two games advancing
to the WIAA 1B state champi-
onships at the Yakima Sun Bowl
Nov. 13-14.
The two winning teams from
the 6 p.m. games will play a seed-
ing game at 7:30 p.m. Saturday
to determine their positions in the
state championship bracket.
Naselle reached the state
championships last year, but
lost both its games in three sets
to Riverside Christian and even-
tual runners-up Almira Coulee
Hartline. Pomeroy is the reign-
ing 1B state champions.
Cowapa All-League
Player of the Year: Megan Bunn, Banks
Coaches of the Year: Suzanne Alley/Diana Herb, Banks
First Team
Megan Bunn, Sr., Banks
Nikayla Doane, Sr., Banks
Sarah Gram, Jr., Valley Catholic
Chloee Hunt, Sr., Astoria
Olivia Jackson, Sr., Valley Catholic
Lizzy Osborn, So., Valley Catholic
MaKenna Partain, Sr., Banks
Mary Schorn, Jr., Banks
Madison Smith, Sr., Tillamook
Alyssa Spang, Jr., Scappoose
Maddy Standley, Jr., Banks
Maddi Utti, Jr., Seaside
Honorable Mention (Astoria)
Aurora Grafton, Jr.
Madi Landwehr, So.
Hunt, Utti named all-league
The Banks Braves had ¿ve players on the Cowapa All-
League squad, as voted on by the league’s coaches.
Banks senior Megan Bunn was selected as Player of the
Year, while Suzanne Alley and Diana Herb of the Braves
were the Coaches of the Year.
Astoria senior Chloee Hunt and Seaside junior Mad-
di Utti were the lone players from the North Coast on the
12-player all-league team, while Astoria junior Aurora Graf-
ton and sophomore teammate Madi Landwehr were selected
honorable mention.
Tsunami: ‘It is de¿nitely about the con¿dence of the employees...’
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there’s even more talk about
Cascadia, the reality is more
people are aware of it, so our
visitors to our coast are going
to say, ‘Do you guys know
what to do?’” Parmelee said.
Preparing hotels
The roughly 600-mile-
long Cascadia Subduction
Zone runs from British Co-
lumbia down to Northern
California, and lies about 70
to 100 miles off the Oregon
coast. The zone is capable
of producing large-magni-
tude earthquakes — possi-
bly more than a magnitude
9.0 — and the shaking from
those earthquakes could pro-
duce a tsunami similar to
the one that hit the coast of
Japan in 2011. There is a 37
percent chance that a Casca-
dia Subduction Zone earth-
quake will occur in the next
50 years, according to the
presentation.
There was advice for hos-
pitality business owners and
staff about how to commu-
nicate necessary information
to their guests on what to do
and where to go if an earth-
quake were to occur during
their stay.
Use printed key cards or
Àiers in hotel lobbies and
rooms with evacuation maps
LEARN MORE
www.oregontsunami.org
or for information on your
specific location, go to
www.opb.org/aftershock
and other information.
In Seaside, more than
10 hotels have opted to use
sleeves for key cards print-
ed with information and
graphics detailing what to
do during and after an earth-
quake, said Jon Rahl, assis-
tant general manager for the
Seaside Visitors Bureau. The
city originally printed 52,000
of the sleeves, and has dis-
tributed more than 30,000 of
them to local hotels so far,
Rahl said.
Con¿Gent employees
It’s important that hotel
and dining employees know
how to respond to a natural
disaster is key, said Patrick
Corcoran, a faculty member
with Oregon State University
who deals with coastal haz-
ards.
“It is de¿nitely about the
con¿dence of the employ-
ees, because if the employees
aren’t comfortable talking
about it, that fear is going
to eke out into the guests, as
well,” Parmelee said.
Spence Barker, a chauf-
Cynthia Washicko/Coast River Business Journal
Patrick Corcoran, a faculty member with Oregon State
University dealing with Coastal Hazards, discusses some
of the things hospitality business owners and employees
can do in the event of an earthquake and tsunami.
feur with the Cannery Pier,
said he and some other em-
ployees were heading to the
hotel after the meeting to
walk the path they would
take if they needed to evac-
uate after an earthquake.
Barker added he and his fel-
low employees were trying to
determine how long it would
take to get to high ground,
and what they might have to
navigate around if the bridge
near the hotel is down.
Don West, general manag-
er at the Cannery Pier hotel
and owner of Astoria Crest
Hotel, was concerned not just
with what should be done
directly after the earthquake
and tsunami,
“I’m thinking, ‘We do a
great job of getting every-
body out of the inundation
zone, then what?’” West said.
“They do have plans, so I
need to ¿nd out more about it
so that we know.”
A personalized set of instructions is available to Oregon
residents at www.opb.org/aftershock
No reason to fear
The point of making
guests aware of the possible
hazards of an earthquake
and tsunami isn’t to scare
them, Parmelee said, but
to keep them prepared in
case a disaster does strike.
She added that, of the ho-
tels who have implemented
the practices of informing
guests of the hazards, very
few have reported losing
guests as a result.
The Cascadia Subduction
Zone earthquake and subse-
quent tsunami are just some
of the possible natural haz-
ards facing Oregon, Parme-
lee said, and it’s important
to discuss the issue without
making it a topic of fear.
“If you’re in Florida,
you’ve got hurricanes in-
stead of earthquakes, you’ve
got sinkholes instead of
landslides,” Parmelee said.
“Really, this is just facing
one of our hazards that we
have to plan for that we hav-
en’t really tackled planning
for, because the magnitude
of it is really just becoming
better understood.”
