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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2016
Gulls sweep Valiants
on player’s birthday
The Daily Astorian
BEAVERTON — The
Seaside Lady Gulls are back
to looking like the two-time
defending league champions,
as they scored a big victory
Thursday night at Valley Cath-
olic, 48-46, on a late score by
the birthday girl.
Seaside had to overcome a
big second quarter by the Val-
iants, who outscored the Gulls
25-10 to take a 32-25 halftime
lead. Valley’s Molly Danielson
scored 15 of her game-high 18
points in the second period.
Seaside rallied with three
3-pointers (two by Whitney
Westerholm, one from Jesse
Trott) to cut Valley’s lead to
37-36 after three quarters.
Back-to-back hoops by
Trott and Westerholm gave the
Gulls a 40-37 advantage early
in the fourth, and Seaside’s
lead would reach 44-39 on
consecutive layups by Maddi
Utti and Sydney Villegas.
The Valiants rallied to tie
the game 46-46 on a trey from
Noelle Mannen, with 1:15 left.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TODAY
Girls Basketball — Scappoose
at Astoria, 6 p.m.; Warrenton at
Clatskanie, 6 p.m.; St. John Bosco
at Jewell, 5:30 p.m.
Boys Basketball — Scappoose
at Astoria, 7:45 p.m.; Warrenton at
Clatskanie, 7:45 p.m.; St. John Bo-
sco at Jewell, 7 p.m.
Swimming — District 1/4A, at
Astoria AC, 1 p.m.
SATURDAY
Swimming — District 1/4A, at
Astoria AC, 11:30 a.m.
Wrestling — District 1/4A at
Scappoose, 10 a.m.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Seaside 48, Valley Catholic 46
SEA (48): Paige Ideue 15,
Westerholm 8, Utti 6, Villegas 6,
Trott 5, J.Ideue 4, Smart 2, Hoek-
stre 2, West.
VC (46): Molly Danielson 18,
Beyer 8, Mannen 7, Flemmer 5,
Nguyen 4, Duyck 4.
Seaside
15 10 11 12—48
V. Catholic
7 25 5 9—46
BOYS BASKETBALL
Seaside 53, Valley Catholic 48
SEA (53): Jaxson Smith 18,
Eagon 10, Januik 10, Marston 8,
Thompson 5, Babb 2.
VC (48): Joey Braun 9, Shan-
kar Krishnakumar 9, Robbins 8,
Plambeck 6, Jones 5, Hardy 3,
Haggerty 3, Welsh 2, Katin 2, Par-
thasarathy 1.
Seaside
17 14 10 12—53
V. Catholic
13 13 14 8—48
Daily Astorian/File Photo
The Gulls ran a little time
off the clock, and ¿nished with
a layup by Paige Ideue, who
marked her birthday with the
game-winning points at the
24-second mark.
Seaside forced a miss in the
closing seconds, and left with
the victory.
Ideue led Seaside with 15
points (13 in the ¿rst half),
while Westerholm had eight,
with Utti and Villegas chip-
ping in six points apiece.
Seaside (5-3 in league play)
has games remaining vs. Asto-
ria (3-4) and Tillamook (1-6),
while the Valiants (6-2) play
Banks (7-0) and Astoria.
Boys Basketball
Gulls 53, Valiants 48
BEAVERTON — The Sea-
side boys gained a little pay-
back Thursday night at Val-
ley Catholic, where the Gulls
defeated the Valiants 53-48 in
a Cowapa League contest.
The Gulls had three players
in double ¿gures and managed
to hold off a late rally by the
Valiants, as Seaside avenged a
51-46 loss to Valley in the ¿rst
meeting Jan. 26 at Seaside.
Jaxson Smith tossed in a
game-high 18 points, 10 in the
¿rst half, while Jackson Januik
and Austin Eagon scored 10
points apiece for Seaside.
The Gulls (6-2 in league)
are now the top-ranked team
at the Class 4A level, and pull
to within a half-game of Asto-
ria (6-1) in the Cowapa League
standings. The Fishermen host
Seaside’s Paige Ideue, No. 5, passes to Annuka Brown
during a basketball game at Seaside High School in De-
cember.
Scappoose tonight, before
playing at Seaside Tuesday.
Three-pointers by Hunter
Thompson and Smith gave
Seaside an early 13-6 lead, and
the Gulls pushed the advan-
tage to 27-19 midway through
the second quarter.
Colin
Haggerty
and
Andrew Plambeck connected
on 3-pointers in the third
period for the Valiants, who
cut Seaside’s lead to 37-36.
Valley Catholic even man-
aged to take a 47-45 lead with
¿ve minutes left, on two free
throws by Joey Braun.
But the Gulls answered
with an 8-0 run, highlighted
by baskets from Smith, Attikin
Babb and Eagon.
Januik made two free
throws on an intentional foul
in the closing seconds.
Hands-on: College agreed to lower vocational tuition
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help many students stomach
academics in order to experi-
ence more hands-on activities.
He spoke with hope about
this winter term, for the ¿rst
time in ¿ve years, the high
school has restarted a dedi-
cated class at MERTS, with
10 students learning basic
automotive skills from col-
lege instructor Thad Nolan.
Fix your own car
Monday in Nolan’s class,
high schoolers were learning
the basics of changing tires.
“I went to the Area Voca-
tional Center when I was in
high school,” Nolan said.
“They had an electrical pro-
gram, which I took.”
Nolan’s interest led him
to a career as a mechanic,
and eventually, as an adjunct
instructor and now the direc-
tor of the college’s automo-
tive program, where he said
the college is trying to rebuild
its high school presence.
“The ¿rst thing I talk to
kids about is not getting tons
of student loans,” Nolan said,
adding he also tries to impart
how much money students
can save by learning to ¿x
their own vehicles.
Junior Jared LuCore
thought he had a problem
with his transmission, but
Nolan mentioned it could be a
U-joint, and had him bring it
in to work on as part of class.
“If you’re going to learn
how to work on a car, work on
your own,” Nolan said, add-
ing the college also gets cars
from the community for stu-
dents to work on.
Starting early
While Nolan’s is the ¿rst
dedicated auto class at the col-
lege’s vocational campus in
several years, a small trickle
of students have come on their
own over the years as simulta-
neous enrollees in high school
and college to learn work-
force skills.
In Jesse Fulton’s welding
class, Astoria High School
seniors Clay Englund and
Bronson Holthusen have both
been welding for years.
“People are going to want
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Astoria High School senior Kyle Meisner prepares to jack up a Ford Taurus in Thad No-
lan’s introductory automotive class at Clatsop Community College.
‘The first thing I talk to
kids about is not getting
tons of student loans.’
Thad Nolan
Astoria High School seniors Bronson Holthusen, left, and
Clay Englund learned to weld at Clatsop Community Col-
lege’s Marine and Environmental Research and Training
Station.
these people working on their
stuff. Not everyone’s going to
college,” Englund said, ironi-
cally while in a college-credit
welding course. “Honestly,
this is my favorite part about
school.”
Holthusen and Englund,
along with two other students
from Astoria taking night
classes, have helped weld
parts onto the college’s new
mobile welding unit, a Àatbed
truck teaching students how
to weld in the ¿eld with lim-
ited equipment, along with a
time capsule for the Oregon
Department of Transportation.
Both Fulton and Nolan
talk about how rewarding and
well-paid careers in auto and
welding can be, even with
just a certi¿cate and some
experience.
Kurt Donaldson, head of
the college’s ¿re science pro-
gram, started as a 16-year-
old ¿re cadet. Taking a simi-
lar route is 16-year-old Justin
Perdew, who has been travel-
ing from Knappa High School
for two years to take ¿re sci-
ence courses and volun-
teers with Donaldson for the
Knappa Fire District.
Perdew, mostly interested
in battling forest ¿res, has
been learning basics of ¿re-
¿ghting and more special-
ized skills such as incident
management, while providing
support for the Knappa Fire
District until he becomes an
adult and gets to into his ¿rst
¿re¿ght.
“This is just what I want
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he plans to take more college
courses after graduation. “I
want to ¿ght ¿res.”
Always a need
The Area Vocational Cen-
ter, a campus in Miles Cross-
ing funded by the Northwest
Regional Education Service
District and offering automo-
tive, welding and horticulture
programs to high schoolers
from across the county, closed
in 2002-03 amid budget con-
straints. By the next academic
year, the college had signed
a memorandum to offer ded-
icated high school classes in
automotive, welding and ¿re
science.
The program was an
immediate hit, with esti-
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a year from Astoria taking
the program. Kristin Wilkin,
the dean of workforce edu-
cation and head of the col-
lege’s vocational campus for
more than six years, said at
least 69 percent of students
stayed throughout the entire
academic year, while nearly
a quarter went on to earn a
certi¿cate or degree from the
college.
“There’s always a need
for it,” Astoria Superinten-
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out there and paying for the
tuition.”
In the new agreement,
Wilkin said, the college
agreed to lower the tuition per
credit from $99 to $49 for the
program, along with creating
a dedicated class. Hoppes said
that while the district started
small, it would like to at least
double the number of high
schoolers attending the col-
lege for career-technical train-
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“There’s a hole left in our
labor pool by kids not having
those skills when they’re get-
ting out of high school,” Hop-
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Wilkin said the college
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