THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2015
SPORTS
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Cascade defeats Scappoose 37-28 for Class 4A title
121-yard rushing perfor-
mance from Braden Clark.
HILLSBORO — Garrett Quarterback Robert Lohman
Coffey ran for 155 yards and passed for 118 yards and two
three touchdowns and Cas- touchdowns, both to Brennen
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state football title in 35 years
The loss snapped an 11-
after the Cougars defeat- game winning streak for
ed Scappoose 37-28 in the Scappoose. The Indians lost
OSAA Class 4A state cham- their season opener and state
pionship game Saturday.
title game, both to Cascade.
Cascade, the No. 9 seed,
Cascade coach Steve
rallied from a 21-14 halftime Turner took over the Cou-
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utive points during the sec- Mountain View of Bend to a
ond half. The state title is the Class 5A state championship
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history.
high school coaching career
Quarterback John Schirm- DW&DVFDGHLQ
er passed for 232 yards, and
“Look at all those peo-
scored the go-ahead touch- ple over there,” said Turn-
down for Cascade (12-1) on er, pointing to a crowd sur-
a 1-yard run with 1:43 left in rounding his team. “I’m
the third quarter.
gonna say half of them are
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The Associated Press
of 2 and 31 yards.
Cascade got its offense
going in the second quar-
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at Knappa, 8 p.m.
ter, as the Cougars pulled to
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within 14-7 on Coffey’s 11-
Basketball — Warrenton at Ver-
Boys Basketball — Warrenton
yard touchdown run. Mid-
nonia Tournament, TBA
at Ilwaco, 7:30 p.m.
way through the quarter,
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FOOTBALL
Cascade tied the game at 14
Girls Basketball — Liberty
when Coffey ran 4 yards for
at Seaside, 6 p.m.; Waldport at
OSAA State Championships
Warrenton, 3 p.m.; Clatskanie at
Class 4A
a touchdown.
Knappa, 6 p.m.; Ilwaco at North
Cascade 37, Scappoose 28
Scappoose led 21-14 at
Beach, 5:45 p.m.
Class 3A
halftime, scoring the go-
Boys Basketball — Liberty at
Vale 27, Santiam Christian 20
ahead touchdown with 1:24
Seaside, 7:45 p.m.; Waldport at
Class 2A
Warrenton, 4:45 p.m.; Clatskanie
Heppner 48, Kennedy 0
left in the second quarter on
a 2-yard run by Clark.
our community. A lot of
“Cascade has always been
Cascade’s defense took
those guys who busted their a very physical place, and over the game after halftime,
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we can bring another one physical game,” Coffey said. nus-2 yards during the third
home to them. I’m happy. I
Scappoose started quickly, quarter.
couldn’t be happier.”
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approach, using an old- HQG RI WKH ¿UVW TXDUWHU 0F- much. We knew that some-
school offense that employs Nabb ended both drives, thing had to change,” Cof-
two running backs.
catching touchdown passes fey said. “We knew if we
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just kept playing, hopefully
things would turn around,
and it did.”
Coffey pulled Cascade
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through the third quarter with
his third rushing touchdown
of the game, a 5-yard run.
Five minutes later, Schirmer
gave the Cougars the lead for
good, when he dove into the
end zone from a yard out for
a 27-21 lead.
Hunter Thomas’ 5-yard
touchdown run early in the
fourth quarter increased Cas-
cade’s lead to 34-21. Scap-
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when Lohman ran 1 yard for a
touchdown with 9:52 remain-
ing. But the Cougars put the
game away with a six-minute
drive that ended on a 32-yard
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with 3:21 left.
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By TIM BOOTH
AP Sports Writer
SEATTLE — Russell Wil-
son was sick of the story line
about the Seattle Seahawks
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fourth quarter.
And he was just sick,
needing three IVs to make
it through a game Sunday
against Pittsburgh after waking
up feeling awful.
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of the day, after one of the best
performances of his career led
the Seahawks to a needed 39-
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job tonight on offense,” Wil-
son said. “We hung in there,
kept battling. We played re-
lentless football, and that’s
how we have to play.”
Wilson threw a career-high
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Seahawks pulled away late to
spoil a record-setting day by
Pittsburgh quarterback Ben
Roethlisberger. Wilson threw
three touchdowns to Doug
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left that gave the Seahawks a
nine-point lead.
After relying so much on
its defense in the past, Seattle’s
offense won this one.
“Whenever his back is
against the wall is when he
plays his best,” Baldwin said
of Wilson. “I wouldn’t count
him out for anything.”
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better of a top quarterback af-
ter losing to Aaron Rodgers,
Cam Newton, Carson Palm-
er and Andy Dalton earlier in
the season. They didn’t let a
fourth-quarter lead slip away
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all season, putting them in
position for a late charge at a
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weeks.
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cause of an amazing day by
Roethlisberger, who threw
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against the Seahawks. It was
the third highest total of Ro-
ethlisberger’s career but came
along with two interceptions
that both led to touchdowns for
the Seahawks.
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minutes getting examined for
a possible concussion, leaving
Landry Jones to try and pull
off a late rally that never ma-
terialized.
“We felt like the opportu-
nities were there today in the
pass game and they were,”
Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin
said. “Just not enough largely,
collectively to win.”
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STILL STREAKING:
Lost in the performance by
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day on the ground by the Se-
ahawks, extending their streak
to 22 straight games of rushing
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by Thomas Rawls’ 81 yards
on 21 carries with one touch-
down. Usual starter Mar-
shawn Lynch underwent sur-
gery earlier this week to repair
a lower abdominal injury and
Ted S. Warren/AP Photo
Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson throws against the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, in Seattle.
John Froschauer/AP Photo
Seattle Seahawks’ Thomas Rawls, left, rushes past Pitts-
burgh Steelers’ Vince Williams in the first half of an NFL
football game, Sunday, in Seattle.
is expected to be out until late
in the season. Rawls averaged
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half, but Pittsburgh’s run de-
fense was far better in the sec-
ond half.
FORGOTTEN ABOUT:
Tomlin insisted that Pittsburgh
can still run, but the ground
game was an afterthought.
The Steelers attempted just 14
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from Roethlisberger. DeAn-
gelo Williams had just eight
carries, although he was sig-
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seven catches for 88 yards.
The 14 rushes were the
fewest by Pittsburgh since at-
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loss to Baltimore.
FAILED FAKE: Pitts-
burgh’s attempt at catching Se-
attle unprepared instead pro-
vided the Seahawks a spark.
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ond quarter, the Steelers lined
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Chris Boswell. But after get-
ting into formation, Landry
Jones stood up, took the snap
and attempted a pass down
the sideline for tackle-eli-
gible Alejandro Villanueva.
Seattle’s Jeremy Lane wasn’t
fooled, intercepting the pass
and returning it 54 yards to set
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pass.
“Al’s the second option on
that whole deal. I just tried to
put one up and that guy made
a great play on the ball,” Jones
said.
PLAYOFFS?
PLAY-
OFFS??: Seattle helped itself
in its attempt to get back to the
postseason moving into a tie
— in terms of record — with
Atlanta for the second wild
card spot in the NFC. Pitts-
burgh’s loss leaves it three
games behind Cincinnati in
the AFC North, but the Steel-
ers are still in the middle of
the wild card race. Pittsburgh
has the same record as Kansas
City, Houston, Indianapolis
and the New York Jets in the
wild card chase.
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John Froschauer/AP Photo
Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll, center, cheers as Doug Baldwin, left, races
past for a touchdown, followed by Pittsburgh Steelers’ Antwon Blake late in the second
half of an NFL football game, Sunday, in Seattle.
Ted S. Warren/AP Photo
Seattle Seahawks running back Thomas Rawls (34) scores a touchdown against the
Pittsburgh Steelers in the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, in Seattle.