SPORTS
4A
THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, MAY 23, 2016
Fishermen off to state with win over Huskies
The Daily Astorian
The Astoria Fishermen
opened the 2016 post-sea-
son on a positive note Friday,
scorching the Sweet Home
Huskies, 7-2, in a Class 4A
Regional Play-in baseball
game at Aiken Field.
Astoria pitchers Fridtjof
Astoria’s Fridtjof Fremstad,
No. 2, pitches in April.
Joshua Bessex
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Fremstad and Carter Wal-
lace combined on a three-hit-
ter for the Fishermen, who
improve to 15-11 overall.
And now it’s on to the
state playoffs for the 13th
time in the last 14 years for
the Fishermen, in a run which
began in 2003 under Ralph
Steinback.
Astoria will open play in
the state playoffs Wednesday,
5 p.m. at North Bend.
Fremstad started and
pitched six and a third
innings, striking out six
with one walk. The Huskies
scored both of their runs in
the seventh inning, on three
Astoria errors.
Other than that, the Fish-
ermen were lawless in the
ield, while seven different
players had hits for Astoria.
Nick Strange, Samboy
Tuimato and Wallace each
had a double for the Fisher-
men, who gave Fremstad an
early lead on Strange’s two-
run double to right ield in
the second inning. Strange
took third when the Huskies
missed the cutoff throw to the
inield.
Tuimato’s double came in
the third, and he scored on a
pair of errors, as the Huskies
struggled defensively with
ive errors on the day.
Ole Englund had a pair
of run-scoring singles for
the Fishermen, who stranded
eight base runners and in-
ished with four errors in the
ield, three in the seventh.
Champs: Hageman was the 4A girls High-Point Athlete
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the scoreboard — the Fish-
ermen would only pull away
from there.
The Lady Fish won at state
in 1981 and then had to wait
until last year for their next
championship title.
Sophomore Darian Hage-
man was honored as the 4A
girls High-Point Athlete put-
ting up 32.5 across her four
events. The highlight came
with a win in the triple jump
where she set the state record
twice in the process.
She got out ahead of the
competition by 2 full feet
stretching out to 37-feet,
2.5-inches on her irst attempt.
Her next trip saw her surpass
the 4A state mark at 38-1, and
she would advance that record
on her ifth trip at 38-6½.
“I was really focused on
getting the most out of my
inal phase — that’s always
the part of the jump that drags
me down,” Hageman said.
“Today I was able to get some
good height out of it and that
carried me.”
Even her shortest attempt
would have won the competi-
tion by more than a foot.
“I always try to get a good
one out there early, so I can be
relaxed the rest of the way and
try some new things,” Hage-
man said.
Hageman cleared 5-8 to
win the high jump on Fri-
day, getting over the bar on
third attempts at her last two
heights. She also survived
some nervous moments to win
the long jump (17-7½) Friday,
needing a safe run at the end
of preliminaries after fouling
her irst two times down the
runway. Her ‘safe’ attempt
proved to be her best of the
day, vaulting her to the top of
the leaderboard heading into
inals. Hageman started her
Saturday session by tying for
sixth in the pole vault.
“Darian is just an incred-
ible athlete. I can’t tell you
how many meet and school
records she has gone through
this season,” Parks said. “She
always rises to the challenge,
and it’s infectious for the rest
of the team.”
Seaside’s Januik 2-for-2 in the 800
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Photos by David Ball/For the Daily Astorian
As only a sophomore, Astoria’s Darian Hageman is one of
the most-decorated athletes in school history.
LEFT: Astoria junior Skadi Freyr scored a second-place
finish in the shot put, and added big points in the discus
and javelin. RIGHT: Astoria’s Kaylee Mitchell added cru-
cial points in the 800- and 1,500-meter races.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
WEDNESDAY
Baseball — 4A State Playoff:
Astoria at North Bend, 5 p.m.; 2A
State Playoff: Oakland at Knappa,
4:30 p.m.
BASEBALL
The pack
Kaylee Mitchell scored a
pair of runner-up inishes in
the distance races, starting her
day in the 1,500-meter inal
where she would hold the
lead twice. Halfway through
the race, she found herself at
the lead of the pack, check-
ing over her should coming
around the turn.
“I wanted to see how much
space I had, and who was
there with me,” she said.
She would stay in the
pacesetter spot for almost a
full loop of the track before
Yamhill-Carlton senior Per-
rin Xthona moved into the
lead at the bell lap. The two
dueled for the next 200 meters
with Mitchell swinging to
the outside and briely pull-
ing ahead late on the back-
Class 4A Regional Play-in
stretch. Xthona answered the
challenge and came through
the inish line a couple strides
ahead.
Mitchell clocked in second
in 4:43.51.
“During practice runs our
1-mile marker is a Dutch
Bros., so I pictured the race
like that — I was running
from Dutch Bros. back to a
sign we hit when we inish,”
Mitchell said.
She returned to the track
later in the afternoon to place
second in the 800 (2:18.02).
Mitchell came off the inal
turn a full stride in front of
two challengers, but Siu-
slaw’s Destinie Tatum swung
wide and put on a spurt that
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gave her the win.
Cummings followed up
her relay performance with a
photo-inish win in the 100-
meter dash (12.33), lean-
ing through the line .03 hun-
dredths ahead of North Valley
rookie Baylee Touey.
“I felt her coming on the
outside, but I pushed to the
very end and got it,” Cum-
mings said.
She would take the run-
ner-up spot in the 200 later in
the day.
EUGENE — While the
Astoria girls were busy win-
ning their second straight
team title, there were other
athletes from Clatsop
County accepting medals at
Hayward Field.
Topping the list (and
the awards stand) was Sea-
side junior Jackson Januik,
who continued the Gulls’
winning ways in the 800
meters.
For the third time in four
years, a Seaside athlete was
winning the 800 inal on the
inal day of the state meet,
as Januik outdueled Hen-
ley’s Chris Ramirez to win
Saturday’s inal in 1 minute,
58.42 seconds.
Ramirez inished in
1:59.17, followed closely
by Astoria’s Lucas Carauna
(1:59.22).
Seaside graduate Brett
Willyard was the 800 state
champion in 2013, and now
Januik is the 2015 and ’16
winner. In Friday’s prelim-
inary, Januik ran a personal
best 1:57.91, fourth-fastest
in school history.
Only a junior, Januik
will be the clear favorite to
make it 4 for 5 next year.
Other
point-scorers
from the weekend were
Seaside’s Raiden Bowles,
who cleared 14-feet to take
third in the pole vault; and
the Gulls’ Jaxson Smith,
seventh in the long jump
(20-7).
The foursome of Hunter
Skadi Freyr and Halie
Korff scored across all three
throwing events with Freyr
taking second in the shot put
(40-3¼), third in the javelin
(123-9) and sixth in the dis-
cus (112-0). She held the top
mark through the irst round
of throws in the shot put.
Korff was ifth in the dis-
cus (113-2), ifth in the javelin
(118-0) and eighth in the shot
put (35-11). She was the inal
qualiier out of prelims, but
jumped up four spots on the
leaderboard in the discus after
her irst two throws of inals.
The Fishermen scored
points in all seven ield
events, putting multiple ath-
letes onto the podium in four
of them.
Other Astoria scorers were
Daisy Gayral (sixth, triple
jump) and Gracie Cummings
(seventh, 100 and 200).
• On the boys side, Asto-
ria’s Lucas Caruana was one
of three racers to break the
two-minute barrier in the 800.
He battled for position at the
Submitted Photo
Seaside’s Jackson Januik
takes a breather after win-
ning his second straight
state title in the 800 meters.
Thompson, Januik, Will
Garvin and Juneau Meyer
combined for a 3:31.97
(seventh) in the 1,600-meter
relay.
The Fishermen had two
other medal winners, both
in the throws, as Zander
Arnold was seventh in the
shot put (48-3¼), and Tim
Barnett placed eighth in the
discus (134-3).
career with a toss of 43
feet, 9½ inches in the shot
put; and junior Tyler Whita-
ker scored his highest in-
ish, taking sixth in the triple
jump (41-7).
Whitaker added a sev-
enth-place in the long
jump (19-11¼), and Tay-
lor Owens took seventh in
the girls’ 300-meter hurdle
inals (50.87).
Devon Bowser inished
ninth in the shot put (42-4½)
and 10th in the discus (106-
2); and Rodrigo Verrisimo
cleared 10-6 for 10th in the
pole vault.
Vandergriff scores
Warriors take ive
In the 2A meet, Knappa’s
Devin Vandergriff qualiied
for the 400-meter inal, and
placed sixth in 1:02.75.
Senior Chris Montano
soared 39-¾ for eighth in
the triple jump, in addition
to a 10th place showing in
the long jump.
Vandergriff had the
11th-fastest time in the 800
meters; and Chelsea Sapp
took 12th in the triple jump.
The 3A/2A/1A portion
of the state meet took place
Thursday and Friday, and
all three Clatsop County
schools placed athletes on
the victory stand.
Warrenton took ive ath-
letes to the meet, scored a
combined 10 points, and
returned with four medals.
The Warriors had a pair
of sixth-place showings in
the ield events, as senior
Eli Petersen closed out his
Jewell had two sev-
enth-place inishes at the
1A level — Sean Hinson in
the discus (125-7) and Gabi
Morales in the 300 hurdles
(50.02).
Hinson was 10th in the
javelin, and the boys’ 400
relay team of Trystan Silva,
Hinson, Dallas Ritchie and
Ben Stahly had the 11th
fastest time (48.26).
bell lap, squeezing through
some tight spaces to move
into fourth place on the inside
of the track, setting himself
up to make a challenge on the
backstrech.
“I didn’t want to get stuck
behind the pack again — that
happened to me last year —
I wanted to be in position to
swing out and make a surge,”
Caruana said.
He came through by zip-
ping forward into second
place — a spot he would hold
until a step before the in-
Jays win medals
ish line. Henley senior Chris
Ramirez lashed by in lane
two, leaning through the in-
ish line .05 hundredths ahead
to leave Caruana in third place
at 1:59.22.
“That last 200 feels like
you are walking even though
you are going as fast as you
can — I didn’t expect anyone
to come up behind me,” Caru-
ana said.
David Ball is the sports
editor for the Gresham Out-
look, Sandy Post and Estacada
News.
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