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SPORTS THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2016 7A Loggers sixth at Gervais The Daily Astorian Photos by Jeff Ter Har/For EO Media Group Coaches provide side court guidance. Gulls: Good team chemistry is key Continued from Page 1A AEout midway through the regular season, the players have put up some notaEle numEers, Eoth as individuals and as a team. They are 20-7 overall and scheduled Ior a game tonight in Seaside against Valley Catholic. Coach :ally Hamer and assistant coach Mike Hawes lead the team, which is comprised oI ¿ve seniors, three Muniors and three sophomores. Teamwork is a pri]ed concept Ior the Lady Gulls EasketEall program. “<ou don’t win league championships without having good team chemistry,” Hamer said. During the ¿rst week oI practice, the girls EasketEall program held an in-town retreat. AIter splitting oII Irom the Munior varsity players Ior the night, the varsity girls went over their goals Ior the season, according to senior :hitney :esterholm. This year, she said, they “Eonded over the Tuestion” oI what were their Eiggest Iears Ior the season. “<ou kind oI get to know your team on a diIIerent level Eeside EasketEall,” she said. “:e talk aEout how we’re going to accomplish those goals and how we’re going to overcome those Iears as a group. I think that’s another reason why we’re so close as a team. %ecause we know each others’ Iears, and we know what they need to do to overcome them. And we all have the same goal in the end.” Some oI the deep connections Eetween players can Ee attriEuted to long- standing Iriendships Iorged through many years living in the same small town, attending the same schools and partic- ipating in many oI the same activities Eesides EasketEall. <et players like senior -esse Trott, who moved to Seaside Irom out oI state as a Ireshman, show there is more to it than simply adding up years. “I had no Iriends Ior the ¿rst 3 12 months,” she said. “:hen I walked on the EasketEall court, I kind oI Must immediately had Iriends.” During those months, she said, she Ielt like an outsider “everywhere else, Eut not on the EasketEall court.” “I never got treated like a new kid,” she added. The team’s slogan, created two years ago and Erought into reuse this year, is T², which stands Ior “tough and together,” Hamer said. “It has Eeen really a cool thing Ior our girls to think aEout, always Eeing tough. 1o matter what the situation is, we’ve got to handle it in a tough manner,” he said. “And we’re going to Ee together and have each others’ Eacks, no matter what.” Good people off the court As student-athletes, the girls approach the game with an understanding that other responsiEilities are eTually important. The varsity team practices aIter school each day and on Sundays. To participate in games, the girls aEide Ey certain criteria. They cannot Ee Iailing The Lady Gulls loosen up before a game. more than one oI their ¿ve classes. They cannot practice iI they’ve taken an unexcused aEsence that day. II they don’t practice the day EeIore a game, they can’t play in at least the ¿rst halI. II they’re Iailing a class, they can’t miss that class to go to an event. Senior Annuka %rown, who plays post, said the coaches encourage them to Ee “really good people oII the court,” which means “having respect and manners” and “treating everyone nicely.” The girls know EasketEall doesn’t last Iorever, and when the game ends, it is what they have learned that will last. “It’s not Must aEout how good we are and how many points we scored and stuII like that,” :esterholm said. “It’s more aEout how it relates to the Eigger picture.” Hamer Eelieves the Eeauty oI athletics is “you can learn liIe skills” that can’t Ee learned in a regular classroom setting. “It’s competitive and you Iail, you succeed, you have to work together with people,” he said. “:here else do you learn that until you get out oI high school and college" <ou don’t learn that in a lot oI spots, unless you’re on a team.” In addition to their Iamilies and coaches, the players see one another as a prominent source oI accountaEility. “:e can Ee hard on each other and we can push each other, Eut we know our limits and we know when to stop,” senior %rittany :est said. “I think that improves everyone on our team, younger and older.” This accountaEility, the pressure oI not wanting to Iail a teammate, drives the players to perIorm at a high level. However, when the chips are down — in a game, in a class or in liIe — the girls know who they can rely on Ior nonMudg- mental support, advice and encouragement. Discussing what she will miss the most when she graduates this year, :est said she has “made some oI the Eest Iriends I could ever ask Ior, and some liIelong Iriends.” Senior Paige Ideue agreed she would miss “the natural click oI the team, Eecause that’s really hard to ¿nd.” The players also Ieel connected to their coaches, who give advice without criticism and provide support even in the Iace oI mistakes, which relieves the girls Irom the Iear oI Iailure. “<ou could talk to them aEout anything and they’d Ee there and understand,” :est said. “I think having that relationship with a coach or coaches is something rare.” ‘A natural progression’ The girls hope to Ee playing EasketEall into March, at W A NTED Alder and Maple Saw Logs & Standing Timber N orth w es t H a rdw oods • Lon gview , W A Contact: Steve Axtell • 360-430-0885 or John Anderson • 360-269-2500 VtÜx Clatso p Come join us for some fun! 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For :est, %rown, Trott and :esterholm, however, they see their days on the court as numEered. “I’ve played sports Ior so long and I’ve Eeen a part oI the sports community Ior so long,” :esterholm said. “I love the sports community, Eut I think at this point in my senior year, I’ve kind oI made my peace with the Iact that this is my last year doing it. It was Iun while it lasted, Eut it’s almost like a natural progression to move on and move on to Eigger things.” The other girls agreed playing college sports compet- itively is not Ior everyone. “There are so many other things in the world and so many other avenues,” Trott said. She Ieels like she has missed out pursuing some oI her other interests Eecause oI practice and games. :hile she is content having made that sacri¿ce, she said, “I”m ready to not have to say, µI have to Ee at practice right now,’ and go do other things with my liIe.” GERVAIS — The Knappa wrestling team took part in the 17-team Cougar Classic Saturday in Gervais, where the /oggers ¿nished sixth in the team standings, against a ¿eld oI mostly larger schools. Scio was the team champion with 166.5 points, Iollowed Ey :oodEury, Dayton, Myrtle Point, Riverside and Knappa. “I was pleased with our team,” Knappa coach Dan Owings said. “They perIormed well. There were 12 schools larger than us and we came in sixth. “:e were short in Iour weight classes, so I think we did a great MoE as a team.” AIter a Eye in the ¿rst round at 113 pounds, Knappa Ireshman /uke Goo]ee pinned Pleasant Hill’s Logan Parrish in 26 seconds, then scored a 3-second Iall over Lili Giron oI :oodEury in the semi¿nals to reach the championship. In the title Eout, Goo]ee pinned Anorve )lores oI Gervais in 5:18. “Luke worked extremely hard and pinned all oI his opponents, with his last opponent Eeing ranked in state at the 3A level,” Owings said. At 160 pounds, Knappa’s ReuEen Cru] lost Must one match and that was to the eventual champion (Cody Stahl oI Dayton. Cru] ¿nished with a pin (3:28 over -ared OMua oI Amity Ior third. AIter a ¿rst round Eye at 182, Andrew Goo]ee scored pins over -acoE %arker oI <amhill-Carlton (38 seconds and Gage Hardy oI Pleasant Hill (2:30, to reach the championship vs. Avery McDaniel oI Scio, last year’s second place ¿nisher at the 3A level. “It was a thrilling match, with it going into the last round oI overtime (Sudden Victory,” Owings said, “where (Goo]ee managed to escape and score a win (6-2.” Team results: Scio 166.5, :oodEury 12, Dayton 139.5, Myrtle Point 139, Riverside 126, Knappa 109, Pleasant Hill 95, <amhill- Carlton 95, TaIt 76, 1eah- Kah-1ie 71, Monroe 68, Clatskanie 65, Gervais 58, Amity 7, Vernonia 1, Sheridan 36, Colton 0. Knappa wrestles at :aldport today, where all eight teams in the district will wrestle to determine seeding Ior Districts, )eE. 12-13. Swimming Fish compete at Tillamook TILLAMOOK — The Astoria girls ¿nished Iourth and the )ishermen Eoys placed ¿Ith in the Tillamook Cheese Relays, which took place Friday at the Tillamook <MCA. Tillamook won the girls’ team title, Iollowed Ey 1ewport, TaIt, Astoria, Rainier and Valley Catholic; while 1ewport captured the Eoys’ team championship. The Astoria girls opened the meet with a win in the very ¿rst event, the 200-yard medley relay, where the Ioursome oI Megan Sparks, Kendal GustaIson, Ashley Schacher and Olivia Paul won in 2 minutes, 9.89 seconds. The same Iour won the 00-yard Ireestyle relay (:28.7 and placed second in the 00-yard medley relay. Astoria’s -an KreiEich and Ryan Russell were second in the Eoys’ 200-yard Ireestyle relay. Team results: Girls — Tillamook 10, 1ewport 90, TaIt 72, Astoria 60, Rainier 2, Valley Catholic 12. %oys — 1ewport 108, Rainier 86, Valley Catholic 60, TaIt 52, Astoria , Tillamook 32. SCOREBOARD PREP SCHEDULE TODAY Boys Basketball — Astoria at Scappoose, 6 p.m.; Valley Cath- olic at Seaside, 6 p.m.; Portland Adventist at Warrenton, 7:45 p.m.; Knappa at Gaston, 8 p.m.; South Bend at Ilwaco, 7 p.m. Girls Basketball — Astoria at Scappoose, 7:45 p.m.; Valley Catholic at Seaside, 7:45 p.m.; Portland Adventist at Warrenton, 6 p.m.; Knappa at Gaston, 6 p.m. Wrestling — Knappa at Wald- port, 5 p.m. THURSDAY Girls Basketball — Ilwaco at South Bend, 7 p.m. Swimming — Scappoose at As- toria, 4 p.m.; Tillamook at Seaside, 4 p.m. Wrestling — Astoria, Seaside at Banks, 5:30 p.m.
