SPORTS
4A
Backs to the wall, Astoria rallies for win
SPORTS ROUNDUP
The Daily Astorian
Loggers roll over Tigers, 12-2
CLATSKANIE — Knappa continues to romp through the
regular season unchallenged, as the Loggers scored a 12-2
win over Class 3A Clatskanie in a nonleague baseball game
Tuesday.
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scoring three times.
While pitchers Dale Takalo and Michal Goodman limited
the Tigers to just four hits, Goodman highlighted the offense
with a grand slam in the fourth inning.
Reuben Cruz, Mason Hoover and Noah Kinney all had two
hits apiece for the Loggers, who had seven stolen bases and
had 13 hits off three Clatskanie pitchers. Cole Warren started
and took the loss for the No. 11-ranked Tigers.
Knappa plays at Regis Friday.
Fishermen rack up 13 runs on 13 hits
Astoria scored a much-needed 13-6 win over Tillamook
Tuesday, in Cowapa League baseball action at Aiken Field.
The Fishermen were coming off consecutive losses to Val-
ley Catholic last week, and improved to 2-3 in league, tied for
third with Scappoose.
Astoria scored in every single at-bat, including a three-run
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Carter Wallace was 3-for-4 with a double and two runs
scored to lead Astoria’s 13-hit attack, while No. 9 hitter Cade
O’Brien was also 3-for-4 and scored twice.
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seven hits with six strikeouts and a walk, while two Tillamook
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1-for-3, scored a run, drove in three and was hit by pitch twice.
Astoria (7-7 overall) plays at Tillamook (3-12) Thursday
(7 p.m.), followed by a nonleague game at 1 p.m. Saturday (at
McMinnville) vs. Philomath.
Fifteen errors cost Lady Loggers
CLATSKANIE — Knappa committed 15 errors and took
a pounding from the Clatskanie softball team Tuesday, as the
Tigers scored a 26-3 win over the Lady Loggers in a non-
league contest.
Knappa remains 7-2 against Northwest League competi-
tion, but falls to 1-8 in nonleague games.
The Loggers had just three hits, including two (with a tri-
ple) by Kaitlyn Truax.
Warriors blank the Royals, 12-0
WARRENTON — Warrenton pitchers Joe Little and Dal-
ton Knight limited Portland Christian to just two hits, and
the Warriors scored a 12-0 win over the Royals Tuesday, in
a Lewis & Clark League baseball game at Huddleston Field.
Little was 2-for-2 with four RBIs to lead the Warriors, now
1-2 in league, 6-6 overall.
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ferent Warriors had seven hits off three Portland Christian
pitchers.
Little and Knight combined for four strikeouts and a walk for
Warrenton, which plays a doubleheader Friday at Catlin Gabel.
Warrior girls overcome errors to win
WARRENTON — Sophomore pitcher Niqui Blodgett
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tory over Portland Christian.
The Royals had six hits to Warrenton’s four, and the War-
riors had seven errors to Portland Christian’s two, but the
Royals stranded 10 baserunners.
Warrenton left nine runners on base, but managed to draw
seven walks and three hit batters. The Warriors also over-
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in the fourth to take the lead.
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walked three times for the Warriors, and scored twice.
Warrenton had eight stolen bases, while Blodgett threw
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By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
If the Astoria softball team
could start every game down
two runs, in the bottom of the
seventh inning … they would
probably be undefeated.
The Lady Fishermen —
who posted a dramatic 4-3 win
over Seaside Tuesday afternoon
at CMH Field — seem to play
their best when their backs are to
the wall with virtually no chance
to win.
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what we’ve been doing lately,”
said Astoria coach Junior Israel,
whose team scored a come-
from-behind, 8-inning win at
Tillamook the night before.
And Astoria’s backs were
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Gulls, who were literally one
strike away from a big road win.
The scenario: Seaside held a
3-1 lead in the bottom of the sev-
enth, Gulls’ pitcher Jetta Ideue
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batters of the inning, with Asto-
ria’s seven, eight and nine bat-
ters coming to the plate with
no runners on base … in other
words, the ideal situation for the
Lady Fish.
McKailyn Rogers blooped a
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to keep Astoria hopes alive.
Abi Danen followed, and
Ideue had a 1-2 count on Asto-
ria’s No. 8 hitter, one strike away
from helping Seaside improve
to 3-1 in league.
But Danen singled to left,
and the ball got past the Seaside
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ond and third.
And the luck of the Lady
Fish continued with the next bat-
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Astoria’s McKailyn Rogers makes a diving catch in center field during the seventh inning of the
softball game against Seaside at CMH Field on Tuesday. More photos at www.dailyastorian.com
ter, as No. 9 hitter Lexi Lyngs-
tad sent a sharp single to center,
scoring Rogers and Danen, and
the ball got past the Gulls’ out-
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sending Lyngstad to third.
With Astoria’s top of the
order at the plate, it didn’t take
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off their second comeback win
in two days, as Taylor Mickle
lined a grounder down the third
base line, easily scoring Lyngs-
tad with the game-winner.
“A little luck plays a part,”
Israel said. “I don’t imagine
Seaside is too happy, but it was a
great, exciting Clatsop Clash for
the fans.”
He added, “(Ideue) pitched a
super game. She struck out six
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game (allowing only a walk to
DiBartolomeo in the second
inning), and there aren’t many
pitchers who can do that, in
order.”
The Gulls had thoroughly
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Seaside led 3-0 and Ideue
took a no-hitter into the bot-
tom of the sixth, when Caitlyn
Hougham lined a two-out dou-
ble to center, scoring Mickle
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Both teams were making
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Seaside’s Whitney Westerholm
and Astoria’s Mykka Abrahams
were both robbed of potential
extra-base hits when their line
drives were caught.
Rogers made perhaps the
play of the game in the top of
the seventh.
Going to her right, she made
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a line drive by Westerholm, who
would have had at least a triple
had the ball gotten past Rogers,
Astoria’s sophomore transfer
from Knappa.
“That was one of the best
plays you will see by an out-
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full-out dive.”
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of their hits and Seaside com-
mitted all three of its errors in
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outs and two walks, but took the
tough luck loss.
Astoria’s Libby DiBar-
tolomeo picked up the victory
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The Gulls had seven hits,
but stranded seven baserunners.
GeriAnne Klaffke had two of
the hits, including a double,
and the Gulls scored two runs
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and two Astoria errors. Klaffke
had a run-scoring single in the
fourth.
With the victory, the Fish-
ermen can reset their sights
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able schedule over the next two
weeks.
With the exception of a
home game vs. Banks Tuesday,
Astoria has two games with
Valley Catholic (0-4) and two
games with Tillamook (0-4)
over the next 10 days.
Holdiman, Blodgett. 2B: PC, Osborne.
HBP: War, Holdiman, Blodgett, Arm-
strong. LOB: Portland Christian 10,
Warrenton 9. DP: Portland Christian.
Ast, Tuimato 2, Fremstad, Hageman,
Gohl. LOB: Tillamook 8, Astoria 12.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
SOFTBALL
TODAY
Baseball — Banks at Seaside, 5
p.m.
Track — Seaside, Tillamook at
Astoria, 3:30 p.m.; Warrenton Invita-
tional, 3:30 p.m.
Boys Golf — Astoria at Tillamook,
11 a.m.
THURSDAY
Baseball — Astoria at Tillamook,
7 p.m.; Seaside at Banks, 5 p.m.
Softball — Warrenton at Portland
Adventist (2), 3:30 p.m.; Rainier at
Ilwaco (2), 3 p.m.
Girls Golf — Astoria Invitational,
1 p.m.
Boys Golf — Scappoose at Sea-
side, 2 p.m.
FRIDAY
Baseball — Warrenton at Catlin
Gabel (2), 3:30 p.m.; Knappa at Re-
gis, 4:30 p.m.
Softball — Astoria at Valley Cath-
olic (2), 3:30 p.m.; Seaside at Tilla-
mook (2), 3:30 p.m.; Portland Chris-
tian at Knappa, 3 p.m.
SATURDAY
Baseball — Philomath vs. Astoria,
at McMinnville, 1 p.m.
Track — Meet of Champions,
TBA
Astoria 4, Seaside 3
Seaside
000 120 0—3 7 3
Astoria
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WP: Libby DiBartolomeo (8 K’s,
5 walks). LP: Jetta Ideue (8 K’s,
2 walks). RBI: Ast, Lyngstad 2,
Hougham, Mickle; Sea, Klaffke,
West. 2B: Sea, Klaffke, P.Ideue; Ast,
Hougham. LOB: Seaside 7, Astoria 3.
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Warrenton 6, P. Christian 4
P.Christian 201 001 0—4 6 2
Warrenton 101 301 x—6 4 7
WP: Niqui Blodgett (8 K’s, 2 walks).
LP: Alli Osborne (5 K’s, 7 walks). RBI:
PC, Voronoff; War, Miethe, Ra.Dyer,
BASEBALL
Astoria 13, Tillamook 6
Tillamook 000 040 2—6 8 3
Astoria
311 233 x—13 13 4
Rumage, Maloney (6) and Wagner;
Fremstad, Arnsdorf (6) and Helmer-
son. W: Fremstad. L: Rumage. RBI:
Til, Maloney 2, Pulhiere 2, Werner;
Ast, Tuimato 3, Helmerson, Fremstad,
Strange, Wallace, Lyngstad, Arns-
dorf. 2B: Til, Maloney; Ast, Wallace.
3B: Ast, Wallace. HBP: Til, Pulhiere;
Warrenton 12, P. Christian 0
P.Christian
000 00—0 2 3
Warrenton
317 1x—12 7 0
Duckett, Lowery (3), Osborne (4) and
Wright; Little, Knight (4) and McFadden.
W: Little. L: Duckett. RBI: War, Little 4.
2B: War, McFadden, Little, Wilson.
Knappa 12, Clatskanie 2
Knappa
330 51—12 13 3
Clatskanie
010 10—2 4 4
Takalo, Goodman (3) and Goozee;
Warren, Nichols (3) and Karber. W:
Takalo. L: Warren. HR: Kna, Goodman.