THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2016
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Gull golfers still
perfect in league
The Daily Astorian
BANKS — The Sea-
side boys golf team is still in
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as the Gulls remained perfect
in league competition with a
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Thursday at Quail Valley Golf
Course.
Seaside’s Aaron Richard-
son overcame an early tri-
ple-bogey followed by a dou-
ble-bogey two holes later to
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honors.
Teammate Berkley Pos-
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side’s scoring. Colby Lup-
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player.
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Seaside coach Jim Poetsch.
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ing back from some early
adversity to come in with a
pretty good score.
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home match next Thursday
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the Gulls will host Tillamook.
Photos by Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
Astoria’s Ryan Palek, No. 5, reacts after flying out during the baseball game against Valley Catholic on Thursday.
Astoria bats silenced in
6-1 loss to Valley Catholic
The Daily Astorian
Life in Cowapa League
baseball is getting tougher by
the week.
Through two weeks of the
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Fishermen and the Scappoose
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ists in last year’s state play-
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while Banks and Valley Cath-
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All four teams are rated in
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rankings.
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all) won their third in a row
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where Valley Catholic scored
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win over the Fishermen.
Valiant senior Ethan Cape
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while junior pitcher Chris
Rapp tossed a complete-game
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outs and one walk.
Astoria junior Fridtjof
Fremstad countered with six
strikeouts and a walk. The
Valiants had six of their eight
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which included four extra-
base hits. There was no scor-
ing after the second inning.
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Nakamura had a leadoff sin-
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scored on a grounder by Jakob
Pruitt.
Will Desmond beat out
Astoria’s Ryan Palek, No. 5, attempts to get out Valley Catholic’s Makoa Nakamura, No.
12, on a pick-off attempt.
Astoria’s Fridtjof Fremstad, No. 2, pitches in the third inning.
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ond and scored moments later
on a double by Alex Tran-
quill; Tranquill came in on a
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the scoring later in the inning
with a two-run double.
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their lone run in the bottom of
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Kyle Strange drew a lead-
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two straight wild pitches.
Astoria could not take
advantage of a triple by Car-
ter Wallace later in the inning.
Wallace drove a Rapp
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on one hop to the softball dug-
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baserunners on the day.
Astoria plays at Valley
Catholic today. The Fisher-
men are off to their worst start
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Cheesemakers win
5-2 at Broadway
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tered four hits and struck out two in the seventh.
The Gulls scored their
nine Thursday night in Sea-
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a Cowapa League baseball RBI single scored Brent
game at Broadway Field.
Walsh.
The two teams combined
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Games postponed
nine by the Gulls.
Friday’s scheduled base-
Seaside pitchers Jacob ball and softball double-
Bassett and Scott Plampin headers at Warrenton have
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strikeouts and two walks.
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double plays.
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Simon Elinsky and Zack p.m. for both baseball and
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The Daily Astorian
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
FRIDAY
Baseball — Astoria at Valley Catholic, 5 p.m.; Knappa at Delphian
(2), 3 p.m.; Naselle at Ilwaco, 4 p.m.
Softball — Scappoose at Astoria (2), 3:30 p.m.; Valley Catholic at
Seaside (2), 3:30 p.m.; Knappa at Delphian (2), 3 p.m.
SATURDAY
Track — Daily Astorian Invitational, Seaside HS, 10 a.m. (Running
events begin at noon).
Baseball — Astoria at Newport, 1 p.m.; Rainier at Warrenton (2),
2 p.m.
Softball — Rainier at Warrenton (2), 2 p.m.
BASEBALL
Valley Catholic 6, Astoria 1
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Astoria
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Rapp and Pruitt; Fremstad and Helmerson. W: Rapp. L: Fremstad.
RBI: VC, Cape 3, Pruitt, Tranquill. 2B: VC, Tranquill, Hyland, Cape. 3B:
VC, Cape; Ast, Wallace. LOB: Valley Catholic 2, Astoria 5.
Tillamook 5, Seaside 2
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Reeves and Macias; Bassett, Plampin (6) and Landwehr. W: Reeves.
L: Bassett. RBI: Til, Maloney 2, Werner, Witthoft; Sea, Blanchard. 3B:
Til, Elinsky, Maloney. HBP: Til, Maloney, Macias; Sea, Bassett. LOB:
Tillamook 8, Seaside 9. DP: Seaside 2.
Rip City returns: Blazers make playoffs despite doubters
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on. I think everybody felt dis-
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land Trail Blazers passed out Allen Crabbe said. “It was
T-shirts reading “Never Doubt everybody’s goal since train-
ing camp that we were gonna
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with that: We got better as the
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son expectations and made a helluva season.”
Portland was expected to
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seed in the Western Confer- reach the playoffs last season
ence. They open their third — and did — with a starting
straight postseason on Sun- lineup that included Damian
day in Los Angeles against the /LOODUG /D0DUFXV $OGULGJH
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Clippers.
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succeeded despite the cynics.
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AP Sports Writer
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playoffs seemed a longshot.
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lard departed in the offsea-
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was tasked with assembling a
cohesive unit around his tal-
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smaker predicted Portland
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the regular season 44-38. The
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ket on Denver Nuggets center Jusuf Nurkic (23) and forward
Kenneth Faried during the second half of an NBA basketball
game in Portland, Wednesday. The Blazers won 107-99.
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Jeffery said of the lack of an has concerns that the state is
economy of scale. “We’re moving toward a more online
running at break even with model that will lessen the per-
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director of education pro-
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