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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
Lady Loggers
tied for second in
Northwest League
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KNAPPA — A three-
way race for irst place in
Northwest League volleyball
includes Knappa, as the Lady
Loggers posted a three-game
victory Thursday, 26-24,
25-21, 25-10 over winless
City Christian.
Knappa improves to 4-1
in league, tied with Faith
Bible and one game behind
Gaston.
In Thursday’s victory,
the Loggers rallied from a
5-0 deicit in Game 1, tak-
ing advantage of six straight
Astoria’s Jenna Rudolph, left, battles for the ball with Seaside’s Elizabeth Barnes on Thursday at Broadway Field in Seaside.
Seaside, Astoria battle to 0-0 tie
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — Two teams
looking for a spark to their
2016 seasons met on the ield
Thursday evening, in the Clat-
sop Clash girls soccer match at
Broadway Field.
Coming into the game with
a combined 1-8-1 record, the
Astoria and Seaside girls soc-
cer squads were both battling
hard to pick up their irst win
of the season in league play
— and they’re still both look-
ing for their irst win in league
play, following a 0-0 tie.
Both teams have had trou-
ble scoring over the irst two
weeks of the season, and with
two of the Cowapa League’s
best keepers in goal, Thurs-
day’s game had “scoreless tie”
written all over it.
The shots on goal were
indeed hard to come by, as Sea-
side managed only three shot
attempts in the irst half, and the
Lady Fishermen had just two
shots on goal in the second half.
While the Seaside defense
kept the ball safely away from
their own goal, Astoria relied
on a couple big-time saves
from goalkeeper Lexis Law.
With 10 minutes remaining
in regulation, Law turned away
two Seaside shot attempts in a
10-second span.
Madeline Brown had the
irst, an attempt on a break-
away in which Law had to
make a diving save.
The ball delected to the
center of the ield, where
Audrey Kunde followed with
another open attempt — which
resulted in another diving sav-
ing by Law.
Seaside had three cor-
ner kick opportunities in the
second half, while Astoria
defender Claire Albright man-
aged to stop a breakaway for
Seaside’s Sydney Villegas.
Gulls’ goalkeeper Kirstin
Lent had to make two saves of
her own in the inal ive min-
utes, off shot attempts by Asto-
ria’s Daniela Garcia and Anna
Gimre.
Both defenses did the rest,
as the two teams battled to
their third scoreless tie since
2013.
Other than four ties, the
Gulls have nine wins over
Astoria since 2009, with Asto-
ria’s last Clatsop Clash victory
coming in 2008.
Seaside (0-4-2 overall)
hosts Valley Catholic Tues-
day, while the Lady Fisher-
men (1-4-1) host Tillamook
Tuesday.
service points by Kourtney
Tischer.
The second game was
another battle with some
long rallies, but Knappa took
an early lead and kept up the
pressure for a two-game lead,
then dominated Game 3 for
the match.
Tischer inished with
16 digs, while Kaitlyn
Landwehr led the offense
with eight kills to go with
seven assists. Paris Vander-
burg added six kills, six digs
and ive assists, and Kaitlyn
Truax was 14-of-15 serving
with ive aces.
Gulls and Lady
Fishermen swept
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It was another rough
night in Cowapa League
volleyball for the North
Coast teams.
At Tillamook, the Lady
Mooks swept past Seaside,
25-21, 25-15, 25-21.
The No. 2-ranked Chee-
semakers improve to 9-1
overall, while the Lady
Gulls slip to 1-3 in league.
Astoria is still looking for
its irst league win, as Banks
swept the Lady Fishermen
on the Braves’ home loor,
25-20, 25-23, 25-14.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TODAY
Football — Valley Catholic at Astoria, 7 p.m.; Scappoose at Seaside,
7 p.m.; Nestucca at Warrenton, 7 p.m.; Colton at Knappa, 7 p.m.; Toutle
Lake at Ilwaco, 7 p.m.; Evergreen Lutheran at Naselle, 7 p.m.
SATURDAY
Volleyball — Seaside at Sisters Tournament, TBA
Cross Country — Nike Portland Invitational, 9:45 a.m.
Astoria’s Sariah Dieffenbach prepares to head the ball Thurs-
day in Seaside. More photos at DailyAstorian.com/sports
AP Photo/Bob Leverone
AP Photo/Elaine Thompson
San Francisco 49ers head
coach Chip Kelly on the
sidelines during the first
half of an NFL football
game in Charlotte, N.C., ear-
lier this month.
Seattle Seahawks head
coach Pete Carroll yells to
his team against the Miami
Dolphins in the second half
of an NFL football game in
Seattle earlier this month.
Late goal lifts Gulls over Fishermen, 2-1 Carroll and Kelly
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — Eighty min-
utes of intense, fast, physical,
high-contact, action? Must be
Clatsop Clash boys soccer.
That’s exactly what it was
Thursday night at Broadway
Field, where the Astoria and
Seaside boys soccer teams
squared off for the irst time in
2016.
Fresh off a disappoint-
ing 1-1 tie against Scappoose
Tuesday, the defending Cow-
apa League champion Gulls
felt like they had a little more
to prove.
Which they did. The Gulls
were indeed feeling a little bet-
ter about themselves late last
night, as they were celebrat-
ing with their fans following
a hard-fought 2-1 win over the
Fishermen.
“I don’t think you’ll ever
ind a Clatsop Clash that
doesn’t come with the adren-
aline overlowing, which
was evident from both teams
tonight,” said Seaside coach
John Chapman. “It’s Clatsop
pride.”
Jackson Januik’s unassisted
goal with just over 20 minutes
remaining snapped a 1-1 tie,
and gave the Gulls their third-
straight victory over Astoria.
After a string of ive
straight Astoria wins from
2012-14, the Gulls have now
taken three in a row from the
Fishermen, for the irst time
since 2009-10.
(Note for the Oct. 11 game:
the Gulls have not won four
straight over Astoria since
1996-98).
The Gulls jumped on the
scoreboard irst in Thursday’s
match.
After their irst four shots
reunite as Seahawks
host 49ers Sunday
By TIM BOOTH
AP Sports Writer
Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Astoria’s Rafael Alcantar dribbles down the field as Seaside’s defense gets ready on
Thursday at Broadway Field in Seaside.
on goal were turned away or
missed the mark, Januik sent a
perfect crossing pass to Colton
Carter in the center of the ield,
and Carter blasted the ball into
the left side of the net from 15
yards out for a 1-0 lead.
But all it takes is one defen-
sive letdown or misplayed
ball, and that’s exactly what
happened in the 42nd minute
(2:26 into the second half),
when Seaside goalkeeper
Jesus Perez lost the handle on
a ball, and the delection was
quickly covered and kicked
into the net by Astoria’s Jorge
Herrejon.
“That’s what you look for
in front of the net,” Chap-
man said, “and they had the
right guy in the right place at
the right time. It was a good
equalizer.”
Herrejon had two more
scoring opportunities over
the next 10 minutes, but one
shot was saved by Perez, and
another drifted wide right.
A Seaside two-on-one
breakaway for Carter was
stopped by Rafael Alcantar; an
attempt by Januik was saved
by Astoria keeper Kyle Birge;
and a header by Carter off a
free kick from Brent Walsh
also missed the mark.
“I was quite impressed
by some of the quick tran-
sition of Astoria tonight,”
Chapman said. “They caught
us lat-footed over the irst
15, 20 minutes. They were
out-stepping us, and they were
out-passing us.
“It took us a while to calm
down a little. But for the irst
20 minutes, Astoria was put-
ting some pressure on us that
we weren’t quite expecting.”
Januik’s goal in the 60th
minute came seconds after a
corner kick from Wesley Cor-
liss, as the ball took a high hop
and landed in front of Januik,
who scored straight in front of
the net from 12 yards out.
After going the entire irst
half with no shots on goal,
the Fishermen were unable to
muster any shots in the inal 25
minutes of the second half.
Seaside didn’t panic after
Astoria tied the game.
“I don’t think we ever
looked at the clock,” Chap-
man said. “I had a feeling
that something was going to
break, one way or another. And
tonight, it went our way.
“(The Fishermen) played
an equal par game, if not a lit-
tle better than us at times,” he
said. “We didn’t play very well
as a unit. We found moments
and we did enough, but it was
not one of our memorable
performances.”
SEATTLE — Chip Kelly
and Pete Carroll overlapped
for only one season as college
coaches in the Pac-10. They’ve
met only once since both found
their way to the NFL.
If all goes to plan in both
Seattle and San Francisco,
the pair will get quite famil-
iar over the next few sea-
sons, beginning Sunday
when the Seahawks host the
49ers. While the relationship
between Carroll and former
San Francisco coach Jim Har-
baugh was more contentious,
his dealings with Kelly have
been mostly congenial.
When Kelly was the coach
at Oregon, one of the irst
places he visited to see how
other teams run in-season
practices was Seattle.
“It was his request to come
here, then I was grilling him,”
Carroll said.
Kelly recalled this week
also visiting then-49ers coach
Jim Harbaugh and taking a
trip to Air Force, but the Sea-
hawks were his irst stop.
“I spent all my time try-
ing to take as much informa-
tion as I could in on all three
of those visits, and I was for-
tunate because of, whether it
was Jim or Pete or Troy Cal-
houn at Air Force, that they
allowed me to do it,” Kelly
said. “Not a lot of people
would allow people to come
in, especially in-season, but it
was good experience for me.”
San Francisco has sur-
prised with its performance
through the irst two weeks,
opening with an impressive
28-0 shutout of the Rams,
before losing 46-27 at Caro-
lina in a game that was 34-27
midway through the fourth
quarter before the Panthers
pulled away.
Seattle is showing signs of
major offensive issues after
managing 15 points through
two games , including three
points last week against a
Los Angeles team the 49ers
routed in Week 1. The offen-
sive line has been unable to
fully protect quarterback Rus-
sell Wilson or get the run
game started. It hasn’t helped
that Wilson has played with a
sprained right ankle suffered
early in the second half of the
opener against Miami.
“We feel like we’re really
close,” Carroll said. “We feel
like we can see the execu-
tion, we can see the potential
to make the ball move up and
down the ield like we want
to.”
Here’s what else to watch
as Seattle goes for its ifth
straight regular-season win
against San Francisco:
THE
INFIRMARY:
Seattle came out of last
week’s loss to Los Ange-
les beaten up. Wide receiv-
ers Doug Baldwin and Tyler
Lockett suffered minor knee
injuries, while running back
Thomas Rawls has a muscle
strain in his lower left leg.