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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 2016
Lady Loggers top the ’Cats, 33-19
all (Hunter Thompson). We
still have other kids who can
step up and score.”
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
KNAPPA — The Knappa
girls basketball team snapped
a nine-game losing streak
Friday, with a 33-19 win over
visiting Nestucca Bobcats.
It was the second win of
the season for the Loggers
(2-14), who broke an 11-11
halftime tie with a 12-2 run
in the third quarter.
“I just told the girls at
halftime, it’s 0-0,” Knappa
coach Marie Green said. “I
asked them, ‘who wants to
protect our house?’ And they
responded. We made a few
mistakes, but we can iron out
those things.”
Paris Vanderburg scored
10 points with four rebounds,
while Bailey Corder and
Kaitlyn Landwehr added
eight points apiece. Corder
had four steals, and Kaitlyn
Truax pulled down 10 re-
bounds.
Lady Fish 52, Tigers 27
YAMHILL — Astoria
closed out the nonleague sea-
son with a 52-27 win at Yam-
hill-Carlton Friday.
Chloee Hunt scored 17
points with ¿ve rebounds and
three steals to lead the Lady
Fishermen, now 7-7 overall.
Freshman Sam Hemsley
added 11 points with 13 re-
bounds and ¿ve steals for
Astoria, which built a 31-10
halftime lead. Kaylee Mitch-
ell ¿nished with nine points
and seven rebounds, and Tay-
lor Mickle had seven points
and three assists.
Gulls 63, Huskies 45
AURORA — The No.
2-ranked Seaside girls had to
overcome a nine-point de¿cit
in the third quarter to beat
North Marion Friday, 63-45,
in a nonleague game.
The Huskies led 33-24
midway through the third
quarter, when Seaside’s
Whitney Westerholm caught
¿re and made three straight
3-pointers, helping cut the
lead to 38-37.
“All of a sudden the game
turned, the girls stepped up
the defensive pressure and
rebounded better and pushed
the tempo,” Seaside coach
Wally Hamer said, “and the
game swung to us.”
Westerholm ¿nished with
11 points and ¿ve rebounds,
while Maddi Utti scored a
game-high 30 points, to go
with 12 boards, seven steals
and three assists.
“We knew this was going
to be a very tough game, and
it was,” Hamer said. “North
Fishermen 65, Tigers 39
YAMHILL — Astoria
tuned up for Cowapa League
play with a 65-39 win Fri-
day over an old foe from the
Cowapa, Yamhill-Carlton.
The Fishermen have won
four of their last ¿ve, includ-
ing a 43-42 victory over No.
4-ranked North Marion.
Astoria opens league play
at Banks Tuesday.
Akiko Miller/For the Daily Astorian
Knappa’s Paris Vanderburg looks to pass the ball in Friday’s win over Nestucca.
Marion was coming off a
good win versus Valley Cath-
olic, and seemed to be primed
to beat us.”
And now the Gulls —
winners of eight in a row —
are primed to win their third
straight Cowapa title, when
league play starts Tuesday.
“We needed a game like
this, when we could have
folded, we didn’t and re-
sponded in a positive man-
ner,” Hamer said. “We stayed
tough and together and were
resilient and it paid off. This
game is the type of game we
need going in to a very tough
Cowapa League schedule.”
Seaside (11-2 overall),
plays at Scappoose (4-8)
Tuesday.
Tigers 53, Warriors 49
WARRENTON — Clats-
kanie won a foul-plagued,
free-throw festival Friday
night at Warrenton, 53-49,
in Lewis & Clark League ac-
tion.
The Tigers (1-7) won their
¿rst league game, while the
Warriors slip to 0-8.
The teams combined for
56 fouls and 77 free throw at-
tempts (including 41 missed).
The Tigers made 21-of-42, to
Warrenton’s 15-for-35.
Clatskanie let a 12-point
¿rst half lead slip away, as
Warrenton rallied behind
Tyla Little and Landree Mi-
ethe in the second half to
build an eventual 46-43 lead
with three minutes left.
its way to an easy 60-21 win
over Oakville.
Tayler Ford (16 points)
and teammate Kendra Lee-
land (15) combined for 31 to
lead the Comets.
Boys Basketball
Akiko Miller/For the Daily Astorian
Knappa’s Jason Miller works the ball up the floor in Fri-
day’s game vs. Nestucca.
The fourth quarter was a
free-throw shooting contest,
with Clatskanie making 14-
of-24 to Warrenton’s 9-for-
17.
Little led the Warriors
with 15 points, while Miethe
had 14 off the bench. Olivia
Warren scored 17 for Clats-
kanie.
The Warriors were with-
out three key players down
the stretch, as Sophia Thom-
as, Claire Bussert and Miethe
all fouled out.
Friday night in Salem, St.
John Bosco outscored Jewell
10-2 in the fourth quarter for
a 34-23 win over the Jays.
Aly Littlepage scored 15
points with nine rebounds for
Jewell, which trailed 24-21
heading into the ¿nal quarter.
Down to just four players
because of injuries, coach
Mark Fick had to search the
school for another player,
and added freshman Rebecca
Wammack to the roster.
With just one practice,
Wammack had eight re-
bounds and two points.
Knights 34, Lady Jays 23
SALEM — Lack of depth
is beginning to cost the Jew-
ell girls basketball team,
which has played the last two
games with just ¿ve players.
Comets 60, Acorns 21
NASELLE, Wash. —
Naselle led 24-2 after just
one quarter Friday night, on
14, Blodgett 7, Thomas 6, Bussert 6,
King 1, Morrill.
Clatskanie
11 17 7 18—53
Warrenton
11 7 16 15—49
SJB (34): Megan Crowell 18, Emi-
ly Crowell 12, Moore 4, Sindlinger 2.
Jewell
4 6 11 2—23
St. John
8 10 6 10—34
Knappa 33, Nestucca 19
NES (19): Jaykayla Jackson 8,
Chatelain 3, Wilkinson 2, Chavarin
2, Morgan 2, Logan 2.
KNA (33): Paris Vanderburg 10,
Corder 8, Landwehr 8, McMahan
4, Truax 2, Vandergriff 1, Miethe,
Strain.
Nestucca
8 3 2 6—19
Knappa
7 4 12 10—33
Naselle 60, Oakville 21
OAK (21): Chelsea Brays 10,
Moore 4, Bray 4, Thediay 3.
NAS (60): Tayler Ford 16, Leeland
15, Chapman 9, TuTu’u 4, Zim-
merman 4, Eaton 3, Gudmundsen
2, Jacot 2, Ridgway 2, Glenn 2,
Weston 1.
Oakville
2 5 6 8—21
Naselle
24 11 18 7—60
Gulls 45, Huskies 37
AURORA — The Seaside
Gulls ¿nished the nonleague
season unbeaten against 4A
competition, as the Gulls
took down yet another top 10
opponent on the road Friday,
45-37 at North Marion.
The No. 3-ranked Gulls
won their 12th straight game
by holding off a late rally
against the fourth-ranked
Huskies, who have now lost
to both Seaside and Astoria.
North Marion trailed 38-
27 going into the fourth quar-
ter, but rallied to within four
points on consecutive layups
by Drew Torian.
A pair of free throws
by Seaside’s Jaxson Smith
with 1:16 remaining helped
the Gulls close out the win.
Smith led Seaside with 15
points, and made 6-of-8 free
throws in the ¿nal period (in-
cluding his last ¿ve in a row).
“Austin Eagon (12 points)
played one of his best games
for us,” Seaside coach Bill
Westerholm said. “He had
eight rebounds in the ¿rst
half, and I’m sure he had a
couple more in the second.
And we showed we can still
overcome when one of our
top scorers doesn’t score at
Tigers 61, Warriors 30
WARRENTON — A hot
start by Clatskanie led to a
61-30 victory for the Tigers,
Friday night at Warrenton.
Clatskanie’s
Cooper
Starkel and Dawson Howard
hit back-to-back 3-pointers
to open the game, and Starkel
added two more treys later
in the ¿rst quarter for the Ti-
gers.
Starkel had all 11 of his
points in the ¿rst quarter,
while Christian Holt and
Anthony Cochran scored 10
points apiece for the Warriors.
Bobcats 47, Loggers 43
KNAPPA — A back and
forth game ended up going
in Nestucca’s favor Sat-
urday, as the Bobcats left
Knappa with a 47-43 win
over the Loggers in North-
west League action.
Knappa rallied from a 24-
18 halftime deficit to take a
fourth-quarter lead, but too
many missed opportunities
down the stretch cost the
Loggers, who fall to 5-3 in
league.
Brett Elder scored 16
points for Nestucca, while
Dale Takalo had 17 and Da-
kota Severson added 11 for
the Loggers.
Knights 64, Blue Jays 40
SALEM — Kalvin Sin-
dlinger scored 18 points to
lead St. John Bosco to a 64-
40 win over Jewell Friday in
Casco League action.
The Knights held a 40-17
lead over the Blue Jays, who
were led by Ben Stahly (12
points, 15 rebounds) and Ry-
lan Murray (11 points).
Comets 66, Acorns 55
NASELLE, Wash. —
Hayden
Gudmundsen
scored 12 points, and fresh-
man Cole Dorman added
12 off the bench to help
Naselle to a 66-55 win over
Oakville Friday.
The Comets had the game
well in hand by halftime,
leading 33-21.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TUESDAY
Girls Basketball — Astoria at
Banks, 7:45 p.m.; Seaside at Scap-
poose, 7:45 p.m.; Portland Christian
at Warrenton, 6 p.m.; Ocosta at Il-
waco, 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball — Astoria at
Banks, 6 p.m.; Seaside at Scap-
poose, 6 p.m.; Portland Christian at
Warrenton, 7:45 p.m.
Wrestling — Neah-Kah-Nie at
Knappa, 6 p.m.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Astoria 52, Yamhill-Carlton 27
AST (52): Chloee Hunt 17, Hems-
ley 11, Mitchell 9, Mickle 7, Wallace 5,
Rogers 2, Abrahams 1, Gimre, Dalton.
YC (27): Taylor Reimann 7, Gaibler
4, Sauers 4, Ready 3, Whitchurch 3,
Carlgren 2, Home 2, Southard 2.
Astoria
19 12 15 6—52
Yamhill-C
7 3 9 8—27
Seaside 63, North Marion 45
SEA (63): Maddi Utti 30, Wester-
holm 11, Villegas 9, J.Ideue 5,
Brown 4, Bodner 2, West 2, P.Ideue,
Trott.
Seaside
11 9 20 23—63
North Marion 12 12 14 7—45
Clatskanie 53, Warrenton 49
CLA (53): Olivia Warren 17, Sim-
mons 10, Haas 9, Lindblom 6,
Sermino 5, Mitchell 3, Moravec 2,
Dykes 1.
WAR (49): Tyla Little 15, Miethe
St. John Bosco 34, Jewell 23
JWL (23): Ally Littlepage 15, Mo-
rales 4, Olvera 2, Wammack 2,
Kaczenski.
BOYS BASKETBALL
Seaside 45, North Marion 37
SEA (45): Jaxson Smith 15, Ea-
gon 12, Januik 9, Babb 6, Marston
2, Cazarez 1, Thompson, Lewis.
NM (37): Drew Torian 12, Scanlan
8, Martin 6, Barrow 2, Ramon 2,
Barton 2, Robinson 2, Ledesma 1.
Seaside
10 18 10 7—45
North Marion 10 6 11 10—37
Clatskanie 61, Warrenton 30
CLA (61): Cooper Starkel 11, Wy-
att McKay 11, McCallister 9, Sewald
7, Norgren 7, Karber 4, Watson 4,
Nichols 4, Howard 3, Luquette 1.
WAR (30): Christian Holt 10, An-
thony Cochran 10, Knight 6, Wilson
2, Fischer 2, Little, Whitaker, Alco-
bendas, Stein.
Clatskanie
18 11 19 13—61
Warrenton
10 6 9 5—30
St. John Bosco 64, Jewell 40
JWL (40): Ben Stahly 12, Murray
11, Hinson 6, Silva 6, Ritchie 3,
Meehan 3.
SJB (64): Kalvin Sindlinger 18,
Crowell 10, J.Brophy 10, Andreas
8, Williamson 7, Kaleb Sindlinger 5,
A.Brophy 5, Schulz 2.
Jewell
8 9 7 15—40
St. John
21 19 12 11—64
Naselle 66, Oakville 55
OAK (55): Devin Boyd 32, Youck-
ton 16, Keller 2, Eichelberger 2,
Boyd 2, Christin 1.
NAS (66): Hayden Gudmundsen
12, Cole Dorman 12, Estes 10,
Scrabeck 8, Pine 7, Edwards 7, Lund
7, Wirkkala 3.
Oakville
8 13 10 24—55
Naselle
15 18 15 18—66
So white: 1853 ruling ‘decided that slavery ... was illegal in Oregon’
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By 1845, the law softened
to a flat ban on slavery in Or-
egon. But the law was loose-
ly enforced, and slaveown-
ers were given a three-year
grace period to free slaves,
leading to small numbers of
slaves being brought in.
“In those days, the pro-
visional government and the
federal government allotted
a square mile of land to the
first settlers that came out,”
Nokes said. “A square mile
of land is a lot of land. And
so the temptation was for
some of the slaveholders in
Missouri to bring out a few
slaves with them get their
land cultivated.”
Holmes v. Ford
“Breaking Chains” tells
the story of one slave-owning
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY WALK
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at the corner of 12th and Commercial streets at 5:30 tonight. The walk ends at Peace Lutheran
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family, the Fords, who left
Fayette, Missouri, in their
own wagon train and settled
around present-day Rickreall
west of Salem in 1844.
With the family came six
slaves, including Robin and
Polly Holmes. Nathaniel
Ford, a prominent politician
and landowner, and some
other offered the slaves free-
dom in exchange for work,
Nokes said.
After several false prom-
ises and long after the expi-
ration of the three-year grace
period, the Holmes and their
newborn earned their free-
dom in 1850. But three of
their children were still held
in bondage by the Fords,
who had secretly sought to
sell them in Missouri using
the Fugitive Slave Act.
Nokes’ book details the
landmark case of Holmes v.
Ford, in which the Holmes
sued their former owners in
Polk County court for the
freedom of their three chil-
dren, two of whom died be-
fore being freed. The case
went through three appoint-
ed territorial justices before
a fourth, recently appoint-
ed Oregon Supreme Court
judge George H. Williams
from the abolitionist hotbed
of Massachusetts, ruled in
the Holmes’ favor in 1853.
“It was that ruling which
really decided that slavery
… was illegal in Oregon,”
Nokes said.
No slaves, no blacks
“I was astounded in my
research to discover there
was no issue more more
compelling or controversial
in that period than wheth-
er Oregon would become a
slave state,” Nokes said.
When the Oregon Con-
stitution was under consid-
eration in the late 1850s, it
included three provisions
put forth to white male vot-
ers: whether to accept the
Constitution as presented,
whether Oregon should be a
slave state and whether Or-
egon should exclude black
people.
Nokes said econom-
ic reality, not altruism, led
poorer, working-class white
males in Oregon to oppose
slavery. “It was very diffi-
cult for a white working man
competing against a slave
who was unpaid.”
But when accepted by the
Union in 1859, Oregon was
the only state with an exclu-
sion clause in its Constitu-
tion barring blacks, a clause
which was not repealed until
Nov. 3, 1926. Oregon did not
ratify the 15th Amendment,
which granted voting rights
to black people, until 1959.
The state re-ratified the 14th
Amendment, which granted
U.S. citizenship to all native
and naturalized people, in-
cluding slaves, in 1973.
“It really only takes a
generation for that history
to be lost,” Nokes said. He
made a serendipitous discov-
ery on page 367 of his fam-
ily’s 1,200-page genealogy,
noting that his ancestors had
brought several slaves on the
Oregon Trail.
Nokes said he grew up as
a child in largely white Port-
land thinking Oregon had
no part in the institution of
slavery, with no understand-
ing the integral role the issue
of slavery played in the cre-
ation of Oregon.
“I think that’s important
for everybody to know,”
Nokes said. “Then we need
to take that knowledge, and
apply it to ourselves.”