SPORTS
THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
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HOMETOWN REPORT
Hunt helps Geoducks win the day
(69-70), one stroke ahead of
Lewis & Clark’s Drew Gro-
shong and Alex Plusquellec of
George Fox.
Willamette also won the
team title with a 570 team score.
Danielle Willyard, So.,
Northwest Christian volleyball
Kelly Willyard, So., North-
west Christian volleyball
ILWACO
Kenneth Sheldon, So.,
Willamette golf
Placed fourth overall in the
Paciic Invitational with a 142.
Evan Sutherland, So.,
Clackamas CC XC
Clark Wilson, Sr., Willa-
mette golf
Placed seventh overall in the
Paciic Invitational with a 144.
Other former athletes from
around the region, now com-
peting at the collegiate level:
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
It was a college volleyball
match with a touch of the Clat-
sop Clash last Saturday at the
Costantino Recreation Cen-
ter in Olympia, Wash., where
the Evergreen State volleyball
team hosted Northwest Chris-
tian College of Eugene.
The Evergreen Geoducks
feature freshman outside hit-
ter Chloee Hunt from Asto-
ria, while Seaside graduates
Danielle and Kelly Willyard
both suit up for Northwest
Christian.
In Saturday’s match, North-
west Christian won the irst two
games and led by six points
in Game 3, when Evergreen
mounted a big rally to win
Games 3, 4 and 5 to win the
match (22-25, 20-25, 25-19,
25-17, 15-13).
With the win, Evergreen
snapped a six-match losing
streak, and is now 2-6 in the
Cascade Collegiate Confer-
ence, 3-11 overall, while North-
west Christian drops to 3-5 in
conference.
The Beacons of NCC built
a 12-6 lead in Game 3, before
Evergreen rallied to tie the
game at 17-17, then snapped a
tie at 18-18 on a kill by Hunt.
The Geoducks had 10 team
blocks for the match, including
six block assists by Hunt.
For the season, Hunt is cur-
rently third on the team in kills,
with 112 in 52 sets played.
Evergreen returns to confer-
ence action tonight when it
hosts No. 20-ranked Northwest
University.
Other local athletes compet-
ing this fall:
ASTORIA
Kaylee Mitchell, Jr.,
Sprague High School
After competing her irst
two years at Astoria High
School, Mitchell now attends
Sprague High School. She cur-
rently has the eighth-fastest
5,000-meter time in the state at
the 6A level, a personal best 18
minutes, 34.1 seconds set at the
Meriwether National Classic
last Friday.
Jordan Poyer, Cleveland
Browns
In his fourth NFL season,
Poyer has started every game
so far for the Browns in 2016.
In last Sunday’s loss at
Miami, he led Cleveland
with 12 tackles (10 total, two
assisted).
Poyer has a team-high 25
combined tackles (19 total, six
assisted) through three games,
tied for 24th in the league with
Photo courtesy Evergreen College
Astoria’s Chloee Hunt waits for the serve in a recent game for Evergreen College, where Hunt is in her freshman season
with the Geoducks.
ClevelandBrowns.com
Jordan Poyer breaks up a pass in Cleveland’s Week 2
game vs. the Baltimore Ravens.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TODAY
Volleyball — Valley Catholic at Astoria, 7 p.m.; Scappoose at Sea-
side, 7 p.m.; Oregon Episcopal at Warrenton, 5:30 p.m.; Knappa at
Delphian, 6 p.m.
Girls Soccer — Astoria at Banks, 4:15 p.m.; Seaside at Tillamook,
7:30 p.m.
Boys Soccer — Taft at Astoria, 5 p.m.; Tillamook at Seaside, 7:30
p.m.
Cross Country — Blake Lake (Ilwaco) Invitational, TBA; Seaside
at St. Helens Invitational, 4 p.m.
FRIDAY
Football — Seaside at Astoria, 7 p.m.; Warrenton at Corbett, 7
p.m.; Knappa at Gaston, 7 p.m.; Ilwaco at South Bend, 7 p.m.; Jewell
at Crow, 7 p.m.
SATURDAY
Football — Naselle at Mary M. Knight, 1 p.m.
Volleyball — De La Salle at Warrenton, 2 p.m.
Atlanta’s Deion Jones and Sean
Lee of Dallas.
SEASIDE
Aaron Chesnut, assistant
coach, Northwest Christian
soccer
Austin Eagon, Fr., George
Fox football
Hannah Garhofer, So.,
Northwest Christian soccer
Ian Hawksford, Sr., North-
west Christian soccer
An All-Conference selec-
tion in 2014, Hawksford is back
in action on the back line for the
Beacons in his senior season.
“Losing Ian last season (to
an injury in the preseason) was
devastating,” said NCC coach
Benny Flores. “He is a leader
for us and a four-year player.
Having him back is tremen-
dous for our guys who can rely
on his experience.”
Sam Hinton, So., Willa-
mette golf
Hinton took medalist hon-
ors recently in the Paciic Invi-
tational, held last Saturday at
Quail Valley Golf Course in
Banks.
Hinton inished with a 139
Banks
Megan Bunn, Fr., Eastern Oregon
volleyball
Briana Cantu, Fr., Portland CC
soccer
Alyssa Chung, So., Clackamas CC
volleyball
Hunter Copley, Fr., Western Ore-
gon football
Nikayla Doane, Fr., Clark College
volleyball
Aubrey Kimmel, Fr., Pacific volley-
ball
Twister McComas, Fr., Western Or-
egon football
Emily Vandehey, So., Chemeketa
soccer
Kiana Yokoi, Fr., Chemeketa vol-
leyball
Rainier
Marshall Dean, So., Pacific football
Parker Dean, Sr., Pacific football
Monica Guisinger, Fr., Lower Co-
lumbia soccer
Mitch Staeffler, Sr., Eastern Oregon
football
Scappoose
Derek Anderson, Carolina Panthers
Dan Carrier, So., Clackamas CC XC
Lucy Davidson, Fr., University of
Portland soccer
Jacob Harley, So., Clackamas CC
XC
Tayler Heaton, R-Fr., Southern Or-
egon football
Eleanor Jones, Fr., Western Ore-
gon soccer
David Krupsky, R-Fr., Western Or-
egon football
Joey Krupsky, Fr., Western Oregon
football
Michael Lohman, R-Fr., Western
Oregon football
Emily Muth, So., Linfield soccer
Natalie Muth, Fr., University of Port-
land soccer
Paul Revis, R-Jr., Western Oregon
football
Ariel Viera, Sr., University of Port-
land soccer
Allison Wedgworth, So., Blue
Mountain CC soccer
Tillamook
Colin Atchison, Jr., George Fox XC
Andrew Jenck, R-Fr., University of
Portland XC
Zachary Macias, Fr., Pacific football
Riley Maloney, Fr., George Fox
football
Kaler Moore, Fr., Easton Oregon
football
Damara Morales, Fr., Blue Moun-
tain CC soccer
Justices take up
trademark case that
could affect Redskins
Tickets
on sale for
Clatsop
Clash
By SAM HANANEL
Associated Press
The Daily Astorian
The Astoria High
School athletic depart-
ment is offering presale
tickets for Friday’s Clat-
sop Clash/Homecoming
football game at CMH
Field.
By purchasing advance
tickets, spectators will be
allowed to park via the
Recology entryway.
Gates will open at 5:30
p.m. Kickoff is scheduled
for 7 p.m.
Tickets for the game
may be purchased at the
Astoria High School
ofice through Friday,
from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m..
Cost of admission is $6
for adults, $4 for students
grades K-12.
A presold ticket must
be present for all passen-
gers in the vehicle in order
for any car to be allowed
to use the lower Recology
entryway.
Any person with a
reserved ticket or an
approved OSAA or Asto-
ria School District pass
may also use the lower
entryway.
For more information,
contact the Astoria ath-
letic department at 503-
325-3911, ext. 318.
AP Photo/Eric Christian Smith
Seattle Mariners’ Robinson Cano, right, celebrates his three-run home run off Houston
Astros starting pitcher Doug Fister with Nelson Cruz in the first inning of a baseball
game, Wednesday in Houston.
Cano’s homers top Astros
12-4 to press playoff bid
By KRISTIE RIEKEN
AP Sports Writer
HOUSTON — Robinson
Cano continued his dominance
against the Houston Astros on
Wednesday to keep Seattle’s
playoff hopes alive.
Cano hit a three-run homer
in the irst inning, and the Mar-
iners kept pressure on the other
AL wild-card contenders with a
12-4 win over the Astros.
Kyle Seager added another
three-run drive in the eighth,
his 30th home run this season,
as Seattle remained two games
behind Baltimore for the sec-
ond AL wild card. Houston
dropped 3½ games back as its
magic number for elimination
was cut to one.
“If you want to help your
starter, you’ve got to start early
and also put pressure on the
other team,” Cano said. “That’s
what we did today.”
Cano’s career-best 36th
home run, a drive off Doug Fis-
ter (12-13), landed in the irst
row of the Crawford Boxes in
left ield. Cano has nine hom-
ers and 25 RBIs in 19 games
against Houston this season.
“Huge home run early by
Robbie really got everybody
relaxed a little bit,” manager
Scott Servais said. “Everybody
contributed today ... everybody
had to contribute and we’re still
alive.”
Seattle doubled its lead in
the second on Nori Aoki’s RBI
single and Seth Smith’s two-
run single. Ketel Marte made
it 7-0 with a run-scoring inield
single in the third.
James Paxton (6-7) allowed
three runs and six hits in ive
innings, striking out eight.
Fister gave up ive runs
and ive hits over 1 1/3 innings
in the shortest start of his big
league career.
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The Supreme Court is tak-
ing up a First Amendment
clash over the government’s
refusal to register offen-
sive trademarks, a case that
could affect the Washington
Redskins in their legal ight
over the team name.
The justices agreed
Thursday to hear a dispute
involving an Asian-Amer-
ican rock band called the
Slants, but they did not act
on a separate request to hear
the higher-proile Redskins
case at the same time.
Still, a high court ruling
in favor of the Slants could
bolster the football team’s
legal ight. Both groups
argue that it is unconstitu-
tional for the government to
reject trademark rights for
offensive speech.
The trademark dispute
is one of eight new cases
the Supreme Court added
to its calendar for the term
that starts Monday. The
court continues to operate
with only with eight justices
since Antonin Scalia died
in February. His successor
appears unlikely to be con-
irmed until sometime after
the election.
In the Slants case, front
man Simon Tam tried to
trademark the name in 2011,
but the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Ofice denied
the request on the ground
that it disparages people of
Asian descent. He sued, and
a federal appeals court ruled
last year that the law barring
offensive trademarks vio-
lates free speech rights.
The Redskins hoped to
piggyback on the band’s
case, asking the Supreme
Court to consider both dis-
putes at the same time.
The trademark ofice can-
celed the team’s trademarks
last year after inding they
are disparaging to Native
Americans.
But the team’s appeal has
not even been heard yet by
a federal appeals court in
Richmond, Virginia. In an
unusual request, the team
asked the Supreme Court to
intervene before the lower
court acts. The high court
almost never grants such
requests.