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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2016
Coaching changes for Gulls, Warriors, Fishermen
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
It’s the season for new
coaching hires, and so far,
Astoria, Seaside and Warren-
ton have all added new coaches
for the next school year.
Seaside
At Seaside, two new
coaches will start this fall, as
Chad Smith replaces Jeff Rob-
erts as the Gulls’ varsity foot-
ball coach; and Josh Garhofer
was hired as the varsity girls
soccer coach.
Smith was an assistant
under Roberts last season, and
before that was the head coach
for the 2014 season at La
Grande. Previously, he served
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as the offensive line coach at
Madras High School.
La Grande made big strides
during Smith’s one season at
the helm, as he took the Tigers
from a 2-6 league record in
2013 to a 5-4 mark in 2014,
and a Greater Oregon League
championship.
Roberts resigned when he
became the new principal at
the high school.
He coached the Gulls for
Martin homers in ninth, as
Mariners rally to beat A’s
By JIM HOEHN
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Leonys
Martin needed a few looks
to igure out Ryan Madson’s
changeup, and then he solved
the offspeed pitch in a big way.
Martin hit a game-ending,
two-run homer off the closer
in the ninth inning to give the
Seattle Mariners a 6-5 come-
back victory over the Oakland
Athletics on Tuesday night.
“I’ve faced him a few
times and he’s never thrown
me a changeup,” Martin said.
“I don’t even know what the
action on the ball (is). ... I just
see the ball and swing and
don’t get too aggressive.”
Seattle trailed 5-2 after
seven innings but got a two-
run homer from Robinson
Cano in the eighth off John
Axford.
Madson (2-1) came on in
the ninth and got two quick
outs before Norichika Aoki
punched a double down the
left ield line.
Martin then drove a 1-2
pitch deep over the wall in
right-center for his ninth home
run.
“I slowed him down with
four changeups in a row,”
Madson said. “The last one
was pretty much right down
the middle. That’s the frus-
trating part, is the location of
the last one. I’ve gone four in
a row before, but you make
the fourth one the best one.
That’s not what happened
tonight.”
Martin, whose previous
season high was eight hom-
ers in 457 at-bats in 2013 with
Texas, showed the black bat
afterward with the seams of
the ball visible on the barrel.
“As soon as I hit the ball, I
knew it was going to be gone,”
Martin said. “I crushed the
ball. I was just trying to put the
ball in play.”
Oakland erased a 2-1 dei-
cit in the sixth, jumping on
the Mariners bullpen to com-
plete a four-run rally capped
by Coco Crisp’s bases-loaded
double off Mike Montgomery.
Montgomery (2-0) wasn’t
charged with the runs and in-
ished the game with 3 1/3
scoreless innings.
Cano put the Mariners
up 1-0 in the irst, follow-
ing a one-out single by Seth
Smith with an RBI double to
left-center.
four years, going 5-4 in 2012
and 8-3 in 2013. Seaside was
5-4 in 2014, and inished 1-4 in
league last season.
Garhofer is replacing Matt
Johnson as the girls’ soc-
cer coach, after serving as an
assistant last year.
Seaside was 4-8-2 overall
last season, 4-6 in league.
Mike Hawes — a longtime
assistant in both girls and boys
basketball at Seaside — is the
new varsity girls
Travis Freeman, who
basketball coach at
left after succeeding
Seaside.
Ian O’Brien.
Hawes
was
O’Brien coached
chosen to replace
from 2012-14, fol-
Wally Hamer, who
lowing John Matti-
recently resigned.
la’s run from 1974
In his three years,
to 2011.
Hamer led the
Edwards, from
Lady Gulls to Cow-
Seaside, coached
apa League titles in
the
Warrenton
Mike
2013-14 and 2014-
junior varsity last
Hawes
15, three straight
season, and worked
20-win seasons, a 26-4 record with the varsity offense.
in league play and state tour-
A familiar face will be back
nament appearances in each on the sidelines for Warrenton
of his three years.
volleyball, as Jim Hackwith
replaces Jenny Forney-Smith
Warrenton
for the 2016 season.
The Warriors have hired
Forney-Smith coached the
their third football coach in three last two years, after Hack-
years, as Jason Edwards replaces with coached the Lady War-
riors from 2005-2013. He pre-
viously took Warrenton to the
state tournament four straight
seasons, 2006-09.
Warrenton volleyball has
had just three varsity volley-
ball coaches over the last 31
years (Dianne Dick, 1985-
2004), followed by Hackwith
and Forney-Smith.
Astoria
Jessie Todd has been hired
as the Astoria varsity volley-
ball coach, replacing Angee
Hunt, who has stepped down
because of an increased work-
load outside of coaching.
Hunt coached a total of
nine years, leading the Lady
Fish to a state championship
appearance in 2013.
Westbrook, Thunder put Warriors on brink of elimination
By CLIFF BRUNT
AP Sports Writer
OKLAHOMA CITY —
Suddenly, these Golden State
Warriors who have been com-
pared all season to the Chicago
Bulls dynasty of the 1990s are
on the brink of elimination.
Russell Westbrook had 36
points, 11 rebounds and 11
assists, and the Oklahoma City
Thunder beat the Warriors 118-
94 on Tuesday night to take a
3-1 lead in the Western Con-
ference Finals. Golden State,
which won a league record 73
games in the regular season,
lost consecutive games for the
irst time this season.
The Warriors must win
Game 5 on Thursday in Oak-
land to keep their season alive.
“We all have to bounce
back,” Warriors coach Steve
Kerr said. “The good news is,
we go home. Obviously we
play well at home. The idea
now is to go home and get one
win. Do that, and we put some
pressure on them and we’ll see
what happens.”
Klay Thompson led Golden
State with 26 points, but two-
time league MVP Stephen
Curry was limited to 19 points
on 6-for-20 shooting. Curry’s
shooting performance was so
uncharacteristic that reporters
AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki
Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook (0) cel-
ebrates with teammates Andrew Morrow, center, and Enes
Kanter, right, following a basket against the Golden State
Warriors in Game 4 of the NBA basketball Western Confer-
ence finals in Oklahoma City, Tuesday.
asked if he was hurt.
“He’s not injured,” Kerr
said. “He’s coming back from
the knee, but he’s not injured.
He just had a lousy night. It
happens, even to the best play-
ers in the world.”
The Warriors lost consecu-
tive playoff games by at least
20 points for the irst time since
Games 2 and 3 of the 1972
Western Conference semii-
nals against the Milwaukee
Bucks. Golden State’s Dray-
mond Green, who was ined for
kicking Steven Adams in the
groin in Game 3, inished with
six points, 11 rebounds and six
turnovers.
Meanwhile, Oklahoma City
got a boost from an unlikely
source. Andre Roberson, a
player the Warriors have ignored
at times during the series, scored
a career-high 17 points and
grabbed 12 rebounds.
Kevin Durant added 26
points and 11 rebounds and
Serge Ibaka added 17 points
and seven rebounds.
As for Westbrook, it was his
irst triple-double of the play-
offs after posting 18 in the regu-
lar season. It was his ifth career
playoff triple-double.
“I play every game like it’s
my last, regardless of who’s in
front of me,” he said. “That’s
my job, and my job is to worry
about my team, and that’s all I
do.”
The Thunder know they
have to close. Nine teams have
rallied from 3-1 deicits to win.
“I think we’re in a good
place, but like I said, this
game is over,” Westbrook said.
“We’ve got to move on to the
next game. Every game is
different.”
The Thunder led 30-26 at
the end of the irst quarter, then
gained control in the second.
In the most unlikely of con-
nections, Adams threw a bul-
let pass to Roberson near the
basket for a dunk that gave the
Thunder a 56-43 lead with just
over four minutes left in the
irst half.
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