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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2016
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League playoff loss ends Logger season
The Daily Astorian
FOREST GROVE — The
league playoff system doesn’t
make a lot of sense sometimes.
One bad day can end an other-
wise good season, as it did for
the Knappa Lady Logger soft-
ball team Wednesday.
Knappa inished 10-5 and
tied for second in the North-
west League standings this
year, while Neah-Kah-Nie
took fourth with a 7-8 record.
But league games count
for very little in the Northwest
League.
Despite defeating the
Pirates in all three league
games earlier this
season, the Log-
gers had to beat
Neah-Kah-Nie
one more time
— on a neutral
ield — to make
the state playoffs.
And the Pirates
took advantage of their
“one-more-chance”
game,
as they collected 12 hits in a
16-9 upset win over the Log-
gers. The game was played at
Paciic University in Forest
Grove.
The season comes to a close
for Knappa, and it also came to
a close for the Pirates, who lost
a league playoff to
Gaston in Wednes-
day’s
second
game. Vernonia
and Gaston will
be the North-
west League’s
two state playoff
teams.
“(The Pirates) just
bunted and bunted and bunted,
all game long,” said Knappa
coach James Nichols. “And
I just didn’t have our players
prepared for that.”
Of Neah-Kah-Nie’s 12 hits,
10 were bunts. The Pirates had
just two batted balls reach the
outield.
Meanwhile, Knappa in-
ished with just ive hits, two
apiece for Hailey Murray and
Paris Vanderburg.
The Lady Loggers opened
the league season with three
straight wins over Neah-
Kah-Nie, by scores of 17-1,
23-13 and 10-8, before the
Pirates pulled off Wednesday’s
shocker.
“The good news is that we
have all of our players return-
ing next year,” said Nichols,
whose team had no seniors.
“And we may even have a
junior varsity team next year,
which would be the irst time
in our history with a JV team.”
Derby winner Nyquist draws No. 3 post as Preakness favorite
By DAVID GINSBURG
AP Sports Writer
Daily Astorian/File Photo
BALTIMORE — Doug
O’Neill couldn’t have done any
better if he picked Nyquist’s
post position himself.
After Kentucky Derby
winner Nyquist landed the
No. 3 post for the Preakness
in a blind draw Wednesday,
O’Neill looked like a man with
a winning lottery ticket.
“The 3 is exactly what I
wanted,” O’Neill said. “...
We’re very optimistic that
we’re going to break good and
get into position.”
Unbeaten in eight races,
Nyquist was made the over-
whelming 3-5 favorite among
11 horses in Saturday’s race.
His selection as the best
horse in the ield was justi-
ied, according to Hall of Fame
trainer Bob Baffert, who will
saddle new shooter Collected.
“I’d probably be surprised
if he didn’t win,” Baffert said
about Nyquist. “He’s going to
be tough to beat.”
Secretariat started from the
3-hole to win the 1973 Preak-
ness, but California Chrome in
2014 was the only horse to win
from third post since 1993.
Starting from the 13th post
position in the Derby, Nyquist
won the 20-horse race by 1
1/4 lengths over Exaggera-
tor. Nyquist can expect far less
trafic against a smaller ield at
the Preakness, which covers 1
Jordan Poyer races for first base in a May 2006 game.
Throwback Thursday,
Playoff Friday for Fish
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A young Astoria fresh-
man named Jordan Poyer
sprints for irst base in
a state playoff game in
May 2006. The Fishermen
won playoff games vs. La
Grande, Wilsonville and
Newport, on their way to a
9-2 win over Sherwood in
the Class 3A state champi-
onship game.
The OSAA realigned
into six classiications the
following year. Wilsonville
is now a 5A school, and
Sherwood competes at the
6A level.
The 2006 title was Asto-
ria’s irst state baseball
championship in school his-
tory. From 2006 to 2011, the
Fishermen appeared in ive
of six games, winning three.
Poyer now plays for the
Cleveland Browns.
Astoria opens 2016
post-season play Friday
with a Class 4A Regional
Play-in game vs. Sweet
Home, 4:30 p.m. Friday at
Aiken Field.
Admission is $6 for
adults and $4 for students.
Only OSAA-issued passes
will be recognized for free
admission.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TODAY
Softball — 4A Regional Play-
in: Hidden Valley at Astoria, 4
p.m., CMH Field; L&C Playoff:
Warrenton at Clatskanie, 5 p.m.;
NWL Playoff: Gaston vs. Knap-
pa, TBA
Track — OSAA State Meet,
Hayward Field, Eugene, TBA
FRIDAY
Baseball — 4A Regional Play-
in: Sweet Home at Astoria, 4:30
p.m., Aiken Field
Track — OSAA State Meet,
Hayward Field, Eugene, TBA
SATURDAY
Track — OSAA State Meet,
Hayward Field, Eugene, TBA
AP Photo/Julio Cortez
Nyquist, left, ridden by Mario Gutierrez, rides past Gun Runner during the 142nd running
of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. Gun Runner, third-
place finisher in the Kentucky Derby, will skip the Preakness, leaving a likely field of 11
for the middle leg of the Triple Crown on Saturday at Pimlico.
3/16th miles at Pimlico Race
Course.
“He’s a very mature horse
that has speed away from the
gate,” O’Neill said. “And he
doesn’t like to lose.”
O’Neill enters the Preak-
ness seeking to keep alive his
hopes of winning the Triple
Crown. A year ago, American
Pharoah became the 12th Tri-
ple Crown winner and the irst
since Afirmed in 1978.
Exaggerator has the best
odds behind Nyquist at 3-1.
The horse, trained by Keith
Desormeaux, drew the ifth
post position.
“Being that Nyquist is
speed oriented, he’ll probably
get pressed from the outside,”
Desormeaux said. “It may
make him go a little faster.
That could be tactically advan-
tageous for us.”
Exaggerator has inished
behind Nyquist on four differ-
ent occasions, but Desormeaux
hopes things will be different
on Saturday.
“We respect what he’s
done,” Desormeaux said, “but
we’re hopeful of turning the
tables.”
Stradavari, at 8-1, was the
third choice, as selected by
Pimlico handicapper Keith
Feustle.
Trainer Todd Pletcher,
asked his reaction to hav-
ing Stradavari starting outside
at 11, said, “I’m happy with
it. The good thing is you can
kind of dictate things instead
of them being dictated to you.”
The race is scheduled for
around 6:30 p.m. EDT on Sat-
urday. The ield includes Lani,
a Japanese-bred horse who in-
ished ninth in the Derby, and
eight new shooters.
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