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Knappa’s ‘Big D’
shuts ‘em down, 6-3
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
It’s not the ideal way to win
ball games, but hey, whatever
works.
For the second time in three
days, the Knappa Loggers fell
behind, chipped away at the
lead, brought in Dale Takalo,
then shifted into “Cruz control”
to score another state playoff
victory.
This time, it was a 6-3 deci-
sion over North Douglas in a
2A state quarterinal. And now
it’s on to yet another Final Four
appearance for the Loggers,
who host Monroe Tuesday.
Friday’s playoff was
moved from Knappa to a more
water-resistant CMH Field,
after a slight threat of rain ear-
lier in the day.
And a “slight threat” was
about all North Douglas could
muster off Takalo.
After the Warriors scored
twice in the irst inning and
once in the second for a 3-0
lead, Takalo took the mound
in the top of the fourth, trailing
3-2.
Knappa coach Jeff Miller
always has just one message for
his big sophomore right-hander:
Shut ‘em down, Big D.
Maybe not in the those exact
words, but close.
“I just come in and pitch,
and give it everything I’ve got,”
Takalo said. “Whenever coach
says to come in, I just get ready,
throw strikes, and pound the
zone.”
And Takalo did just that in
Friday’s win.
It took six pitches to retire
the irst three batters he faced,
and of the 12 outs Takalo
recorded, six were strikeouts.
North Douglas had the tying
run at the plate in the top of the
seventh, but Takalo struck out
Austin Gordon for the inal out.
Offensively, the Loggers
only had four hits.
“We didn’t do much at the
plate, but we were solid on the
base paths and forced some
mistakes,” Miller said.
Knappa scored twice in
Submitted Photo
The Astoria baseball team following Friday’s win at Cottage Grove. It’s on to another
Final Four for the Fishermen.
Fishermen outlast
the Lions in nine, 4-2
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
COTTAGE GROVE —
The team that’s become a
mainstay in the Final Four of
4A baseball is back again for
the seventh time in 11 years.
Astoria’s eighth trip to the
quarterinals since 2006 was a
winner Friday, as the Fisher-
men worked overtime for a 4-2
win at Cottage Grove.
Tyler Lyngstad belted a
one-out, two-run homer in the
top of the ninth inning to break
a 2-2 tie, and teammate Fridt-
jof Fremstad retired the side in
order in the bottom of the ninth
to close it out.
And now the No. 12 seed
Fishermen advance to another
Final Four, where they will
play at No. 1 seed Henley
Tuesday. Astoria is the only
team in the semiinals that’s
won both playoff games on the
road.
“And we’re not done trav-
eling,” said coach Dave Gas-
ser, who has seen his share of
playoff travels with Astoria.
“Jordan Poyer’s senior year
(2009), we went from Ontario
to Hidden Valley,” he said. “In
Matthias Brause’s senior year
we went from Hidden Valley
to La Grande. But I have never
gone from Coos Bay to Cot-
tage Grove to Klamath Falls.
And it’s going to be about 150
degrees (Tuesday).”
Speaking of which, Asto-
ria’s bats are heating up.
“We hit the ball well to
every part of the ield” against
the Lions, Gasser said. “What
we haven’t been able to do
most of the season, we’re
doing now. And it’s a great
time to arrive.”
Astoria had nine hits in the
win, although the Fishermen
stranded 10 baserunners.
Meanwhile, pitchers Jack-
son Arnsdorf, Lyngstad and
Fremstad combined for just
four strikeouts on the mound,
“so we had to make a lot of
plays in the ield, and we did,”
Gasser said of his defense,
which handled 23-of-23
chances in the ield, with no
errors.
“We played extremely well
defensively, and so did (the
Lions),” he said.
The game was tied 2-2 after
six innings, and remained that
way through eight.
In the top of the ninth, Trey
Hagemen led off with a double,
took third on a sacriice bunt
by Ryan Palek, and Lyngstad
homered to the opposite ield
on a two-strike pitch.
Fremstad came in to pitch,
and “just mowed ‘em down,”
Gasser said, retiring the side
on just six pitches.
Astoria’s “pitch by com-
mittee” formula is working, so
far.
“It’s the best we can do,”
he said. “We have four kids
who are quite conident, and
we don’t have a Matt Brause, a
Jordan Poyer or a Conor Har-
ber. We are who we are.
“When you have to play 16
innings in 24 hours, you need
to have four people,” he said.
“Jackson Arnsdorf threw beau-
tifully. It was a super-nice per-
formance by all three of our
pitchers. The kids did a great
job.”
Astoria has played in half
the state title games over the
last 10 years, and with a win
at Henley, the Fishermen
would make their sixth cham-
pionship game appearance in
11 years.
Tuesday’s winner will play
either Banks or Estacada in the
state championship game Sat-
urday at Volcanoes Stadium.
Astoria’s current run is sim-
ilar to their last state title in
2011, when the Fishermen won
back-to-back games in Hills-
boro over Henley and Sisters,
won a semiinal game at Baker,
then defeated North Valley in
the state championship.
On the plus side, Gasser
said of all the miles, “It’s great
memories, and the kids travel
super-well.”
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Knappa’s Dale Takalo cel-
ebrates after assisting in
a double play in the first
inning as the Knappa
Loggers faced off against
the North Douglas War-
riors in the 2A quarterfi-
nals Friday at CMH Field
in Astoria. Knappa defeat-
ed North Douglas 6-3.
the bottom of the third on ive
walks, a wild pitch, a passed
ball and an error. And not a sin-
gle hit.
Again, whatever works.
Said the coach, “When we
had the opportunities, we took
advantage, and that’s what you
have to do in playoff baseball.”
The Loggers did have three
hits in a four-run fourth inning,
including singles by Logan
Bartlett and Colton Weirup to
start the rally, and a one-hop
double off the fence in left ield
by Reuben Cruz that scored
Weirup.
Noah Kinney’s sacriice
bunt scored Takalo, and Cruz
sprinted home on the Warriors’
ifth error.
“When we had to, we had
some timely hitting,” Miller
said. “At this time of year, you
can’t expect double-digit hits
all the time — you have to have
timely hitting.
“Reuben had the big hit,
Kinney had a big bunt — those
types of things.”
And Knappa’s current rou-
tine — starting Michal Good-
man on the mound, then bring-
ing in Takalo, is winning games
and saving on the workload for
Takalo, who should be available
for both games this week.
“I don’t know if that’s our
routine, but Mike threw a lot of
good pitches and really found
his groove in the third inning,”
Miller said. “He maybe started
a little tight, but we haven’t
helped him (defensively). We
need to do a better job behind
him. He’s thrown ine both
games.
“He settled down and threw
ine against the heart of their
order in the third inning. I com-
pliment Mike, because the
game really could have gotten
out of hand.”
Especially in the irst inning,
when the Warriors had the bases
loaded and no outs. They scored
two runs before the Loggers
turned a 3-2-4 double play to
end the inning.
And once Knappa got the
lead in the fourth, it was Takalo
Time.
“We just wanted to change
the pace of the game a little, and
I think Dale did a good job of
that,” Miller said. “The (Good-
man-Takalo)
combination
worked again. It’s not a plan,
necessarily, going in. But if you
look at the games this week,
that’s been the pattern.”
When asked what pitches
have been working, Takalo
said, “all of ‘em. I’ve just been
locating well. Not velocity or
anything, just hit my target in
whatever pitch I throw, and it’s
worked out well for me. Really
just locate, locate, locate.”
Meanwhile, no deicit is
too big to overcome for the
Loggers.
“We haven’t been behind
too many times this year,”
Miller said. “The irst game of
the year (against Reedsport),
we’re down two in the sixth
right here on this ield, and ear-
lier this week we’re down four,
and down three today.
“It wasn’t perfect and
it wasn’t always pretty, but
our kids answered the bell,
answered the challenge, and
showed that they can come
back and overcome obstacles.”
Tuesday’s winner advances
to Volcanoes Stadium to play
either Irrigon or Burns in Fri-
day’s 2A state championship
game.
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