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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016
Old school rivals split doubleheader
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
WARRENTON — The
Knappa and Warrenton
Junior State teams managed
to squeeze in two games in
4 1/2 hours of baseball Tues-
day afternoon at Huddleston
Field, and both left with a
victory.
Facing an all-state pitcher
in Game 1, the Warriors
overcame seven errors and
stunned the Loggers 7-6,
before Knappa bounced back
with 23 runs in five at-bats
in Game 2, for a 23-2 win,
resulting in a doubleheader
split for the old school rivals.
Granted, the Loggers
were missing a few regu-
lars from their lineup in the
opener; and granted, War-
renton was using a pitcher
not from Warrenton.
Still, the Warriors did
what they had to do to hold
off the Loggers in Game 1.
Warrior starter Zac Tapio,
from Ilwaco High School,
allowed just two hits and
finished with nine strikeouts
and five walks to pick up the
win.
Knappa scored two runs
in the top of the first on three
walks and two errors, but
Warrenton answered with a
run in the bottom of the first
(Dalton Knight scoring on a
single by Derek Ham), and
four runs in the second.
Devin Jackson had a two-
run single to left to highlight
Warrenton’s big inning, as
the Warriors held a 7-2 lead
through six innings.
Tapio retired the Loggers
in order in the fifth and sixth
innings, before Knappa ral-
lied in the top of the seventh.
Cody Stuhr had the Log-
gers’ only hit of the inning,
as Knappa took advantage of
three Warrior errors.
With runners at second
and third and two outs, Tapio
got Colton Weirup to fly out
to left field to end the game.
Warrenton
commit-
ted seven errors, while the
Loggers stranded 10 base
runners.
Among others, the Log-
gers were missing Reuben
Cruz, Andrew Goozee and
Jason Miller. Still, Knappa
did not miss their regulars in
Game 2, in which the Log-
gers pounded out 16 hits and
scored in every at-bat.
That included a 13-run
fourth inning, while the
Warriors committed another
seven errors.
Weirup started on the
mound and threw four solid
innings, allowing just one
hit with eight strikeouts and
four walks.
Stuhr drove in five runs
(three on a bases-loaded
double), while Ty Vander-
burg had three singles, Shaun
Lackey had three RBIs, and
David Patterson drove in
two runs on two hits.
Dale Takalo played all of
Game 2, after missing most
of Game 1. He had an RBI
triple in the second inning,
and scored twice in Knap-
pa’s 13-run inning.
“Both teams were miss-
ing some kids, so it gave us
both an opportunity to see
what some others could do,”
said Warrenton coach Lennie
Wolfe.
“And I was happy with
the Warrenton kids. We
ran the bases well and we
were aggressive in Game 1.
Photos by Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Warrenton’s Kaleo’o Kapua slides into second as Knappa’s Mason Hoover prepares to field the ball in Junior State Baseball on Tuesday at Warrenton
High School . Warrenton defeated Knappa 7-6 in the first game of the doubleheader. Knappa bounced back 23-2 in the second game.
Warrenton’s Ethan
Holthusen slides
into home as
Knappa’s Quentin
Pinkstaff pre-
pares to tag him
out Tuesday at
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Knappa’s Shaun Lackey makes a throw to first as Warren-
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We didn’t have many hits
(three), but we did have
some timely ones.
“And our loaner (Tapio)
did a nice job for us,” Wolfe
said. “It’s nice to have Zac,
who we need when we’re
playing four or five games
a week in the summer, or
six games in six days in this
case.”
Warrenton hosts a dou-
bleheader with Seaside (4
p.m.) Thursday.
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