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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2016
Clash: ‘One win closer to a league championship’
Continued from Page 1A
Still, a 3-pointer by Kyle
Strange and a layup by Derek
Jarrett gave Astoria an early
9-5 lead. But the lead was
short-lived, as the Gulls
answered with a 12-0 run for
a 17-9 lead, and never trailed
again.
Thompson started the rally
with a 3-pointer, and ended it
with a 3-pointer, as the junior
guard had 11 of his 20 in the
¿rst Tuarter.
The Fishermen kept it
close, for a while.
Jarrett’s 3-pointer had
Astoria within 21-17, but Jack-
son Januik knocked down a
short jump shot, fed Thomp-
son for another two, then made
two free throws and another
jumper for a 29-19 lead.
Attikin Babb banked in a
3-pointer, and everyone pretty
much knew it was going to be
Seaside’s night.
Just as they expected.
“Our kids have been look-
ing forward to this game for
about 2 1/2 weeks,” Wester-
holm said, following Astoria’s
double overtime win at the
Brick House.
“After that game, we stayed
in the locker room for a long
time,” he said. “We sat and
talked and sulked and kicked
ourselves, but we made it a
point that we were going to
look forward to this game,
but take it one game at a time.
To make sure that this game
meant something.”
And “we put ¿ve wins
together to get to this point, and
now this puts us one win closer
to a league championship.”
Should both teams win
Thursday, they would play a
tie-breaker on a neutral court.
Seaside hosts Tillamook
(1-8), while Astoria hosts Val-
Seaside’s Zach Marston, No. 25, and Jackson Januik, No.
3, get the ball away from Astoria’s Fridtjof Fremstad, No.
12, during the Clatsop Clash in Seaside on Tuesday.
Photos by Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
Seaside’s Maddi Utti, No. 25, pulls down a rebound against Astoria’s Rylee Demander,
No. 14.
ley Catholic (5-4).
“They’re a good team,”
Westerholm said of the Fisher-
men. “It was nice to see Hunter
Thompson hit some big shots
for us. He was a ¿erce compet-
itor. Always is. Different guys
played well defensively, and
it was a good team effort. If
Hunter hadn’t been on, some-
body else would have picked
up the slack.”
Meanwhile, Thompson is
con¿dent in the way the Gulls
are playing.
“Jackson was still dishing
out great passes, playing great
D and controlling our offense
… Austin (Eagon) hit some
big buckets, Zach (Marston)
had some great defensive stops
… everyone was playing good.
“I was shooting good,” he
added. “I was hyped up. If we
have a tie-breaker, we’ll be
ready for them.”
Respite: ‘Anything is
going to be a little bit
better than nothing’
Continued from Page 1A
Memorial Hospital, Providence
Seaside Hospital and Greater
Oregon Behavioral Health.
The Astoria City Council
voted unanimously Tuesday
night to send a letter to the part-
nership urging them to consider
locked beds before the respite
center opens, which could be
in April.
Rich Mays, the interim
county manager, said the part-
nership is meeting today to
hear from the project manager
about how much it would cost
to retro¿t the respite center to
accommodate locked rooms.
City Councilor Drew Her-
zig said the idea the respite
center would accept violent
patients without locked beds —
“I guess calling 911 whenever
it gets beyond their capacity to
control” — seems like “an irra-
tional business plan.”
City Councilor Cindy
Price, whose husband, Clat-
sop County District Attorney
Josh MarTuis, said last summer
that the county was in crisis on
mental health, recommended
that councilors send the letter.
“Anything is going to be a
little bit better than nothing,
which is what we have now,”
Price said after the vote. “But
hearing law enforcement, hear-
ing Chief Johnston, hearing
Josh MarTuis, hearing from the
Warrenton City Commission,
where this respite center will be
located, it’s clear that the lack
of the secure beds is going to be
a real problem.
“And we know that. We’ve
had so many incidents.”
‘Extremely
disappointed’
Warrenton City Commis-
sioner Henry Balensifer said he
was extremely disappointed.
“Without those locked beds,
I have no choice but to oppose
the establishment of the center
due to the strain on our limited
law enforcement resources,”
he said in an email. “Without
those beds, our police depart-
ment will not have the relief
promised to our city by CBH
when they approached us
about the center.
“Our city has worked in
good faith and understanding
that CBH would have facil-
ities to handle mental health
Cindy
Price
Henry
Balensifer
patients whose incidents war-
rant police response. Instead,
I received word from another
jurisdiction that CBH no lon-
ger was going to have locked
beds at the respite facility.
“The fact they changed
their plan after the city
approved their building plans,
and that they never noti¿ed us
of their change incensed me.
I shouldn’t learn about these
things from another jurisdic-
tion and it’s nothing short
of fraud to tell us we’d have
locked beds to allay our con-
cerns, only to remove the beds
after we sign off on the project.
If these beds are not put back
into the plan, Warrentonians
will suffer.”
Nick Benas, the director of
business operations at Clat-
sop Behavioral Healthcare,
said the partnership “is meet-
ing today to see how they can
make that happen.”
Girls Basketball
Seaside 51, Astoria 30
SEASIDE — The Seaside
Gulls won their ninth straight
Clatsop Clash Tuesday, a
51-30 victory over Astoria in
a key Cowapa League show-
down at the Gulls’ Nest.
Seaside’s win brings the
Lady Gulls into a second-place
tie with Valley Catholic at
6-3 in league (9-0 Banks has
clinched the Cowapa crown).
Seaside’s Sydney Villegas,
No. 20, shoots in the first
quarter.
playoffs.
Maddi Utti had seven of
Seaside’s ¿rst nine points, and
scored twice off steals late in
the ¿rst Tuarter to help the
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