SPORTS
THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2016
5A
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TODAY
Baseball — Rainier at Astoria,
4:30 p.m.; Warrenton at Clats-
kanie, 5 p.m.
Softball — Astoria at Rainier,
4:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Softball — NWL Playoff: Neah-
Kah-Nie vs. Knappa, 3 p.m., Pa-
cific U.
THURSDAY
Softball — 4A Regional Play-in:
Hidden Valley at Astoria, 4 p.m.,
CMH Field
FRIDAY
Baseball — 4A Regional Play-
in: Sweet Home at Astoria, 4:30
p.m., Aiken Field
TRACK
Gary Henley/The Daily Astorian
Knappa’s Devin Vandergriff, right, took second in the 200 and 400 meter races, and won the 800 meters to qualify for
state in all three events.
Warriors, Loggers and
Jays head to state meet
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
PORTLAND — The Warrenton,
Knappa and Jewell track teams will all be
sending athletes to the state track meet in
Eugene later this week, as the Warriors,
Loggers and Blue Jays all found success
in weekend district track meets.
All three district meets — at the 3A,
2A and 1A levels — took place Friday
and Saturday at Portland Christian High
School.
The OSAA State Track & Field meet
begins Thursday at Historic Hayward
Field on the University of Oregon cam-
pus, with the 3A, 2A and 1A competition.
Bowser, a junior, won the discus com-
petition with a throw of 121-11.
More points in the jumps came from
junior Tyler Whitaker, who was second
in three events: the high jump (5-4), long
jump (20-2½) and triple jump (40-3½).
Warrenton’s foreign exchange student
from Brazil, Rodrigo Verrisimo, cleared
10-9 to win the pole vault — the irst time
Verrisimo had competed in the event in an
actual track meet.
On the track, the Warriors’ Austin Stein
was third in both the 110-meter hurdles
(18.04) and the 300-meter hurdles (46.92).
The Warrenton girls had one district
champ, as junior Taylor Owens won the
300 hurdles in 50.45, and took third in
the 100 hurdles (18.02).
Lewis & Clark League
In the District 1/3A (Lewis & Clark
League) meet, the Warrenton boys racked
up a boatload of points in the ield events,
with three district champions, enough to
inish fourth in the team standings.
In the throwing events, senior Eli
Petersen won the shot put with a toss of
43 feet, 10 inches, just ahead of teammate
Devon Bowser, second with a 41-4½.
Northwest League
Knappa had a few state qualiiers out
of the District 1/2A (Northwest League)
meet.
Logger junior Devin Vandergriff won
the 800 meters in 2:43.12; she also had
the best time in the 200-meter preliminar-
ies (28.55), then took second in the 200
inal in 28.69.
Vandergriff added second-place
points in the 400 meters, where she ran a
1:03.49 to qualify for state.
Knappa junior Chelsea Sapp inished
second in the triple jump (28-0), and was
third in the long jump (14-0¾).
Knappa’s Meranda Godwin was third
in the 1,500 meters (5:57.57).
On the boys’ side, Logger senior Chris
Montano placed second in both the long
jump (20-1) and triple jump (39-0).
Casco/Valley League
The Jewell boys placed third out of 12
schools in the District 1/1A meet.
The foursome of Trystan Silva,
Sean Hinson, Dallas Ritchie and Ben
Stahly placed second in the 400-meter
relay (47.66), just behind St. Stephen’s
47.36.
Hinson also fared well in the throwing
events, inishing second in both the dis-
cus (120-10) and javelin (150-4).
For the Lady Jays, sophomore Gabi
Morales won the 300 hurdles in 51.81,
and took second in the 100 hurdles
(18.10). She added points with a second
place showing in the high jump (4-4).
Cowapa League Champion-
ships
at St. Helens HS
Combined Team Points: As-
toria 312, Scappoose 288, Til-
lamook 200, Banks 187, Valley
Catholic 183, Seaside 140.
Girls Team: Astoria 234, Scap-
poose 143, Valley Catholic 90,
Banks 89, Tillamook 67, Seaside
30.
Boys Team: Scappoose 145, Til-
lamook 133, Seaside 110, Banks
98, Valley Catholic 93, Astoria 78.
Girls
100: 1, Natalie Cummings, Ast,
12.53. 2, Gracie Cummings, Ast,
12.83.
200: 1, Natalie Cummings, Ast,
26.22. 2, Gracie Cummings, Ast,
26.31.
400: 1, Lucy Davidson, Scp,
59.33. 2, Julia Clark, VC, 59.78.
800: 1, Kaylee Mitchell, Ast,
2:23.07. 2, Kara Putman, Til,
2:31.73.
1,500: 1, Kaylee Mitchell, Ast,
4:49.83. 2, Linnaea Kavulich, Scp,
4:52.73.
3,000: 1, Linnaea Kavulich, Scp,
11:30.77. 2, Maricela Jaroch, VC,
11:37.61.
100 Hurdles: 1, Eleanor Jones,
Scp, 16.45. 2, Victoria Kee, Ast,
16.83.
300 Hurdles: 1, Nara Van De
Grift, Ast, 47.50. 2, Eleanor Jones,
Scp, 48.40.
400 Relay: 1, Astoria (G.Cum-
mings, Kee, Mitchell, N.Cum-
mings), 50.13. 2, Valley Catholic,
50.41.
1,600 Relay: 1, Scappoose,
4:09.60. 2, Astoria, 4:09.97.
Discus: 1, Skaki Freyr, Ast, 113-
6. 2, Halie Korff, Ast, 113-5.
Javelin: 1, Skadi Freyr, Ast, 129-
11. 2, Halie Korff, Ast, 125-2.
Shot Put: 1, Skadi Freyr, Ast,
40-7 ½. 2, Halie Korff, Ast, 35-10.
High Jump: 1, Darian Hage-
man, Ast, 5-7. 2, Kate MacNaugh-
ton, VC, 5-4.
Long Jump: 1, Darian Hage-
man, Ast, 18-3. 2, Kim Jordan,
Banks, 16-4 ½.
Triple Jump: 1, Darian Hage-
man, Ast, 37-6 ½. 2, Daisy Gayral,
Ast, 33-10 ½.
Pole Vault: 1, Darian Hageman,
Ast, 10-6. 2, Shrida Sharma, Ast,
9-6.
Boys
100: 1, Rory Coon, Til, 11.00. 2,
Jarrett White, Scp, 11.28.
200: 1, Rory Coon, Til, 22.47. 2,
Jarrett White, Scp, 23.08.
400: 1, Rory Coon, Til, 51.26. 2,
Seancarlos Gonzalez, VC, 51.42.
800: 1, Lucas Caruana, Ast,
1:59.20. 2, Jackson Januik, Sea,
1:59.23.
1,500: 1, Aryton Ledesma, Til,
4:07.63. 2, Hunter Thompson,
Sea, 4:09.15.
3,000: 1, Ben Davidson, VC,
8:58.13. 2, John Kavulich, Scp,
8:59.06.
110 Hurdles: 1, Will Garvin,
Sea, 16.00. 2, Steven Scheetz,
Til, 16.32.
300 Hurdles: 1, Will Garvin,
Sea, 41.23. 2, Levi Carreon,
Banks, 41.39.
400 Relay: 1, Scappoose,
43.72. 2, Valley Catholic, 44.79.
1,600 Relay: 1, Tillamook,
3:29.11. 2, Seaside (Thompson,
Januik, Garvin, Meyer), 3:30.96.
Discus: 1, Sawyer Christopher,
Scp, 137-2. 2, Tim Barnett, 136-10.
Javelin: 1, Sawyer Christopher,
Scp, 182-8. 2, Darian Kinney, Til,
171-9.
Shot Put: 1, Jacob Cason, 47-
4¼. 2, Zander Arnold, Ast, 46-4¾.
High Jump: 1, Tyler Kemper,
Banks, 6-1. 2, Jaxson Smith, Sea,
5-10.
Long Jump: 1, Jaxson Smith,
Sea, 20-11. 2, Emmy Carrizales,
Banks, 20-9.
Triple Jump: 1, Kaler Moore,
Til, 40-8 ½. 2, Emmy Carrizales,
Banks, 40-6 ½.
Pole Vault: 1, Raiden Bowles,
Sea, 14-1. 2, Michael King, Banks,
12-6.
Lewis & Clark League
Combined Team Points: Port-
land Christian 204, Rainier 199,
Oregon Episcopal 194, Catlin
Gabel 186, Clatskanie 183, War-
renton 135, De La Salle 103, Riv-
erdale 95.
Girls Team: Rainier 144, Port-
land Christian 118, Oregon
Episcopal 96, De La Salle 77,
Riverdale 69, Catlin Gabel 49,
Clatskanie 49, Warrenton 42.
Boys Team: Catlin Gabel 137,
Clatskanie 134, Oregon Episco-
pal 98, Warrenton 93, Portland
Christian 86, Rainier 55, De La
Salle 26, Riverdale 26.
Northwest League
Combined
Team
Points:
Nestucca 351, Vernonia 238.5,
Faith Bible 180, City Christian
173.5, Neah-Kah-Nie 168, Knap-
pa 99, Life Christian 35.
Girls Team: Nestucca 179,
Neah-Kah-Nie 104, Faith Bible
99, Vernonia 84.5, City Christian
68.5, Knappa 57, Life Christian
2.
Boys Team: Nestucca 172,
Vernonia 154, City Christian 105,
Faith Bible 81, Neah-Kah-Nie 64,
Knappa 42, Life Christian 33.
Seaside’s Richardson sixth after one round in state golf tourney
The Daily Astorian
CRESWELL — Day 1 of
the OSAA state golf tourna-
ment is in the books, and while
the Seaside boys are not there
as a team for the irst time since
2007, the Gulls still have one
golfer competing.
Seaside senior Aaron Rich-
ardson shot an 81 Monday at
Emerald Valley Golf Course in
Creswell, and inished the day
in sixth place overall.
The tournament concludes
today at Emerald Valley.
Richardson made it through
the day with nothing worse
than a bogey, but had no bird-
ies on a day where birdies were
very hard to come by, said Sea-
side coach Jim Poetsch.
“It was a tough course today,
even with the wet conditions,”
What is TSA’s PreCheck?
By SCOTT
MAYEROWITZ
AP Airlines Writer
NEW YORK — Fli-
ers facing extremely long
airport security lines this
spring and summer might
want to consider becoming
members of the Transpor-
tation Security Administra-
tion’s PreCheck, an expe-
dited screening program that
can speed travelers through
the checkpoint.
Q: What is PreCheck?
A: The program allows
previously vetted liers
to use special lanes at the
checkpoint. Shoes, belts and
light jackets stay on. Laptops
and liquids stay in bags. And
these liers go through stan-
dard metal detectors rather
than the explosive-detect-
ing full-body scanners most
pass through. Learn more at
www.tsa.gov/tsa-precheck
Q: How do liers join?
A: Travelers get Pre-
Check if they are a mem-
ber of one of the Customs
and Border Protection’s
expedited entry programs
— Global Entry, Nexus
and Sentri — or by join-
ing directly with the TSA.
Membership in these pro-
grams ranges from $50 to
$100 for ive years. Travel-
ers can ill out an application
online and it then takes some
time for the government to
approve the application and
schedule an in-person inter-
view, typically at an airport.
Those without a passport
can just get PreCheck for
$85. The nearest IdnentoGo
enrollment centers to Clat-
sop County are in Portland
at 2700 N.E. Sandy Blvd. or
in the Kelso (Wash.) Train
Station, 501 First St.
Q: How do the airlines
know who is a member?
A: Once approved, trav-
elers get a “known traveler
number.” If they enter that
in frequent lier programs or
while making a reservation
online, the airline knows of
their PreCheck qualiica-
tion. Then, when a boarding
pass is generated a check is
made with the TSA and usu-
ally PreCheck is granted and
added to the document.
Q: Is it good on all
airlines?
A: Most major carri-
ers participate but airlines
such as Spirit Airlines and
Frontier Airlines have yet
to upgrade their computer
systems to allow PreCheck.
Here are the airlines cur-
rently participating: Alle-
giant Airlines, Air Canada,
Alaska Airlines, American
Airlines, Delta Air Lines,
Hawaiian Airlines, JetBlue
Airways, OneJet, South-
west Airlines, Sun Coun-
try, United Airlines, Virgin
America and WestJet.
Poetsch said. “Aaron was play-
ing with a two-time state cham-
pion and Carter Lee from Til-
lamook, and between the three
very good golfers there was
only one putt made outside of
ive feet.”
That was Bryce Wortman’s
10-foot putt on the very irst
hole, for par, for the senior from
Mazama.
“Aaron probably felt like
he wasn’t playing well, but as
the scores show he was playing
better than most of the ield,”
Poetsch said. “I hope he has
a great day (today) to inish a
great career for Seaside golf.”
With over 1,000 holes of
golf played by all the compet-
itors, there were less than 30
birdies on the day.
Wortman, the defending
state champion, had ive bird-
ies en route to a 1-under par 71
to sit atop the leaderboard after
one round.
Region 1 champion Mason
Tibbs of Crook County was one
stroke back, as the only other
player at even par or better.
Region 1 and Cowapa
League golfers were well-rep-
resented on the leaderboard,
with seven players from the
region and ive from the Cow-
apa currently in the top 10.
Three of the top ive teams
were also from Region 1, with
Valley Catholic leading the
team standings with a 350.
Seven teams were within
16 strokes — Klamath Union
in second with a 354, followed
by Crook County (355), Marsh-
ield (359), Scappoose and
Baker (364) and McLoughlin
(366).
Fliers: TSA loses about 100 screeners a week
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Record numbers
Airlines are expecting a
record number of liers this
summer, meaning more pas-
sengers and bags to screen.
Johnson said TSA is work-
ing with airlines to enforce
limits on carry-on bags and
their size. Passengers often
over-pack carry-ons to avoid
paying the $25 checked bag
fee most airlines charge. Two
U.S. senators last week sug-
gested that airlines should
drop those fees. But that
doesn’t appear to be a solu-
tion either.
The TSA still scans
checked luggage. And even
that might not ease check-
point problems. On Thurs-
day, a video surfaced of giant
lines at Chicago’s Midway
airport. Southwest Airlines
— which is the only U.S. air-
line that doesn’t charge for
checked bags — is the pre-
dominant airline at Midway.
In the past three years, the
TSA and Congress cut the
number of front-line screen-
ers by 4,622 — or about 10
percent — on expectations
that an expedited screening
program called PreCheck
would speed up the lines.
However, not enough people
enrolled for TSA to realize
the anticipated eficiencies.
Congress this week agreed
AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz
A Transportation Security Administration K9 unit member
attend a news conference on airport security, Friday, at
Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport.
to shift $34 million in TSA
funding forward, allowing
the agency to pay overtime to
its existing staff and hire an
extra 768 screeners by June
15 to bring it up to the con-
gressionally mandated ceil-
ing of 42,525.
But that might barely
make a dent on the lines.
Even as it boosts hiring,
the agency loses about 100
screeners a week through
attrition.
And J. David Cox, the
president of the union repre-
senting the TSA oficers, this
week sent a letter to congres-
sional leaders suggesting that
6,000 additional screeners
are needed.
After the press confer-
ence, Rep. John Mica, a
Florida Republican who sits
on the House Transporta-
tion Committee, suggest that
TSA should tailor screeners’
schedules to it the volume
of passenger trafic in lines,
rather than conforming to
shift schedules.
Airlines and airports have
hired extra workers to handle
non-security tasks at check-
points — such as returning
empty bins to the beginning
of the line — as part of an
effort to free up as many TSA
employees to handle passenger
screening.
Need for relief
The help can’t come
quickly enough for travelers.
Friday morning, Ameri-
can Airlines held at least ive
lights at Dallas-Fort Worth
International Airport because
of passengers stuck at secu-
rity lines, according to airline
spokesman Ross Feinstein.
On the 7:20 a.m. light to
Las Vegas, 52 of the 160 pas-
sengers were not onboard
10 minutes before departure.
American held the plane an
extra 13 minutes. That allowed
23 passengers to hop onboard,
but 29 still missed the jet and
arrived on later lights.
At another American hub,
Chicago’s O’Hare Interna-
tional Airport, security lines
peaked at one hour and 45
minutes on Thursday.
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed
Bastian told The Associated
Press Thursday that “the lon-
ger lines get the more passen-
gers are going to miss lights
and there’s not much you can
do about that.”
The biggest help to ease
lines is to have more liers
enroll in the PreCheck pro-
gram .
PreCheck gives previ-
ously vetted passengers spe-
cial screening. Shoes, belts
and light jackets stay on. Lap-
tops and liquids stay in bags.
And these liers go through
standard metal detectors rather
than the explosive-detecting
full-body scanners most pass
through.