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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 2016 SPORTS 7A Seaside is the star of volleyball tournament sphere,” Dyk, from Medford, said. “Everyone is very laid back. You just make friends with whoever’s around, lis- ten to music, hang out, play pick-up games — it’s just a By R.J. MARX very fun atmosphere.” The Daily Astorian They were just a few of the 1,500 teams and 3,500 competi- SEASIDE — Seaside’s tors. Seaside Chamber of Com- biggest party was in full swing merce President Brian Owen over the weekend, with spec- estimated more than 10,000 tacular weather and a beach visitors attended the event. full of volleyball players and Behind the scenes, orga- fans. nizers Thilavanh, Deng The- With the Summer Olym- pharat, and Mike Grifin — pics in Brazil airing the world’s “the bad boys of volleyball” best athletes every night, the — described a smooth-run- competitors in this ning event and year’s amateur tour- hailed the launch nament received of a new schedul- added inspiration. ing program. The “Gosh, to me it cellphone applica- actually boosts up tion enables players the morale and that to check online for excitement of play- court assignments ing,” said co-orga- and times, eliminat- nizer PT Thilavanh. ing needless waits “The players are and confusion. PT watching the Olym- “The dificulties Thilavanh pics after they’re have been the new- done and then ness of how we’re they’re anxious to play even running the format, every- more.” body’s not really familiar On the Turnaround, New about going on the electronic York City’s Josh Sweigert brackets, but given a tutorial and Katie Nicholls shared the on it they’re ine,” Grifin said. energy of competition and a “The system works as pitch-perfect 70-degree day on planned,” Thilavanh said. the beach with coed doubles “People are loving that the partners Joey Burda and Katie schedule is online. There’s no Dyk. center bulletin boards to worry Nicholls — who was mak- about checking their matches. ing her irst trip to Seaside — They can watch matches. It’s and Sweigert lew in for the been great.” tournament from New York “It’s paid off in spades,” City late Thursday. A three- Owen added. “What I’m hear- hour delay deposited them in ing from local merchants, is Portland at 4 a.m., only hours that when people arrive com- before their irst matches. ing off the beach, they aren’t The trip is an annual one complaining not knowing for Sweigert, a Portland native, when they play next, having who has appeared in 16 Sea- to be stuck on the beach wait- side volleyball tournaments. ing for the bracket boards to “My parents actually met be updated, they’re actually playing beach volleyball here, able to shower and have lunch so it was kind of like part of and come back and play their their marriage,” he said. “I matches.” grew up with it being part of Even better, “This is prob- my family.” ably the best weather out of Rounding out the family my many years playing in affair, Burda, who now lives this tournament,” Thilavanh in metro Portland, is a former added. volleyball teammate of Swei- “This is what we call gert’s cousin. ‘Chamber of Commerce “This is an awesome atmo- weather,’” Owen said. Hundreds of players hit the beach Jeff TerHar/Submitted Photo Hundreds of amateur volleyball players hit the beach in Seaside over the weekend. Jeff TerHar/Submitted Photo Jeff TerHar/Submitted Photo Betsi Flint, left, Kelley Larsen, right, took the women’s open title. Miles Evans, left, and Marty Lorenz, right, won the men’s open division. Soccer gets a jump on 2016 season Gulls look strong in tournament By GARY HENLEY The Daily Astorian WARRENTON — It’s a long ways to November, but fans of the Seaside boys soccer team have to be encouraged with the early results. The Gulls looked to be in midseason form over the weekend in an annual “pre” preseason tournament. Today is the irst oficial day of fall sports practice, but nowadays — with summer tournaments, open gyms and conditioning camps — most teams in most sports like to get a jump on things. And some local soccer teams took it a bit further over the weekend. The players were playing and the coaches were coach- ing in Astoria’s annual pre- season tournament Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Lower Columbia Youth Soc- cer complex. Other than a shorter time limit on games, every scrim- mage looked pretty much like any regular season game. Or, in this case, playoff game … since many of the teams that took part will end up in the state playoffs a few months from now. Participants included the Astoria, Catlin Gabel, Hen- ley, Hidden Valley and Seaside boys; with the Astoria, Banks, Catlin Gabel, Henley, Hidden Valley and Klamath Union girls. “It’s just a brilliant tour- nament that (former Asto- ria coach) Bill Patterson and LCYSA with Astoria puts on,” said Seaside boys coach John Chapman. “There’s some good schools here. Being local, we’re honored to take part in some of these games. “Going into daily doubles, it’s a great opportunity to see where our boys are, what we need to work on, and where we Gary Henley/The Daily Astorian Irving Contreras of Seaside outraces a Henley defender down the field in a Saturday morning soccer match. need to focus,” he said. Chapman’s team got off to a great start, as Seaside defeated Hidden Valley 4-0 Friday. The Gulls also jumped out to a 3-0 lead over Henley, in a 9 a.m. contest Saturday morn- ing. The Hornets — a Class 4A semiinal team last year — scored two goals in the second half, as the Gulls won 3-2. Seaside’s irst goal came from Colton Carter, off a give- and-go from teammate Jack- son Januik; Januik assisted on a second goal; and Irving Con- treras converted a penalty kick in the closing seconds of the irst half. “That’s a great league they have down there (the Skyline Conference), with Hidden Val- ley, Mazama, Phoenix and Henley,” Chapman said. “We don’t get to see those teams until a playoff situation. A lit- tle early-season lavor helps us see how those leagues do.” Seaside’s main challenger in the Cowapa League could be Astoria. The Fishermen scored ive irst half goals in a win over Class 5A St. Helens Friday, despite not having their coach. Tim Fastabend — who coached the Astoria boys last year and was recently named the girls’ varsity coach — was on the sidelines for both in the weekend scrimmages. “I think the boys and the girls looked real good this weekend,” Fastabend said. “It was mainly just a chance to give all the young kids a chance to play. “These facilities are so nice, and Camp Kiwanilong was open to everybody — it’s just a real nice opportunity for the North Coast to show every- one what we have,” Fastabend said. “The University of Ore- gon women’s team was here earlier in the summer, OES was here for a few days … and we had 150 kids here this weekend.” Lee Cain will coach the Astoria boys this season, but Cain was in Mexico on a ield trip with students, which included several players for the Astoria girls. The Lady Fishermen had a nice start, as Hailey Ranta scored in the opening min- utes against St. Helens Friday, before the Lions answered with ive unanswered goals. 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