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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2016
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SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Miethe delivers 24 kills in victory
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Soccer schedule
change for
Clatsop Clash
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Because of a schedule change,
Tuesday’s Clatsop Clash soccer
games will take place at two dif-
ferent ields.
Seaside vs. Astoria boys will
kick off at 5 p.m. at Volunteer
Field in Warrenton. Admission
for the Endowment Game is $6
for adults, $4 for students. Only
OSAA-approved passes will be
allowed for free admission.
The Seaside vs. Astoria girls
soccer game is scheduled for a
7:30 p.m. start at CMH Field in
Astoria. Admission is also $6 for
adults, $4 for students.
Fans attending the boys’ varsity
game will not be charged admis-
sion to the girls’ game, provided
they show proof of payment.
Junior varsity soccer games
(Astoria vs. Seaside) will both
take place in Seaside. JV girls start
at 4:15 p.m. at Broadway Field,
followed by the JV boys’ game
(free admission).
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TODAY
Boys Soccer — Seaside at Astoria, 5
p.m. (at Volunteer Field, Warrenton).
Girls Soccer — Seaside at Astoria,
7:30 p.m. (at CMH Field)
WEDNESDAY
Volleyball — Banks at Astoria, 7 p.m.;
Tillamook at Seaside, 7 p.m.
THURSDAY
Football — Banks at Astoria, 7 p.m.;
Perrydale JV at Jewell, 7 p.m.
Volleyball — Knappa at Nestucca, 6
p.m.
Boys Soccer — Gladstone at Sea-
side, 6:30 p.m.
FRIDAY
Football — Tillamook at Seaside, 7
p.m.; Portland Christian at Warrenton, 7
p.m.; Neah-Kah-Nie at Knappa, 7 p.m.;
Ilwaco at Willapa Valley, 7 p.m.
STANDINGS
FOOTBALL
Cowapa League
League Overall
Astoria
3-0 5-1
Scappoose
3-0 4-2
Banks
2-1 4-2
Valley Catholic 1-2 4-2
Seaside
0-3 2-4
Tillamook
0-3 0-6
Northwest League
Knappa
2-0 3-3
Neah-Kah-Nie 1-0 2-3
Gaston
1-1 3-3
Vernonia
0-1 2-4
Nestucca
0-2 1-5
Pacific 2B Coastal
Ilwaco
2-0 4-2
Willapa Valley 1-0 3-2
North Beach 1-1 3-3
Raymond
1-1 3-3
South Bend
0-1 2-3
Ocosta
0-2 2-3
Nationals
take 2-1 lead
By BETH HARRIS
AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES — Jayson
Werth always wanted to hit a
home run out of Dodger Stadium
when he played two seasons in
the venerable ballpark. His latest
attempt came close with a 450-
foot blast into the upper reaches of
the left-ield pavilion.
Werth’s homer helped break
open a one-run game in the ninth
inning, moving the Washington
Nationals within one victory of
taking a postseason series for the
irst time with an 8-3 win over the
Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday
and a 2-1 lead in their best-of-ive
NL playoff.
Heck, he even tied Babe Ruth
with his 15th career postseason
homer, good for 11th all-time.
“Ever since Dusty (Baker)
moved me into the two-hole, I
just felt like my job is to get on
base for the animals behind me,”
said Werth, whose three hits tied a
postseason career high.
Four relievers combined for
4 2/3 shutout innings, putting the
Nationals in position to wrap up
the NL Division Series on Tues-
day at Dodger Stadium.
“They work quick and they’re
not afraid to go after anybody,” said
third baseman Anthony Rendon.
Landree
Miethe
CLATSKANIE — The War-
renton volleyball team locked
up a spot in the upcoming Lewis
& Clark League playoffs, with a
four-game victory at Clatskanie
Monday.
Warrenton bounced back
from a loss in Game 1, and closed
it out in quick fashion, 20-25,
25-20, 25-14, 25-14.
Warrior senior Landree
Miethe pounded out 24 kills to
lead Warrenton, which improves
to 5-5 in league play, 8-8 overall.
The Warriors are currently a
half-game ahead of Catlin Gabel
(4-5) in the standings, with one
league match remaining for War-
renton (next Monday at Rain-
ier), while Catlin Gabel has two
matches left, since the Eagles
play in a different division of the
Lewis & Clark League.
Warrenton and Catlin Gabel
will likely meet in a sixth-place
vs. ifth-place league play-
off match, date and time to be
announced.
Warrenton’s Michelle Arney
was 22-of-25 serving with nine
aces, while Sierra Lyons had 21
digs, Claire Bussert inished with
17 digs, and Miethe added 16 digs.
Morgan Blodgett had three blocks.
“We just kept feeding Landree
for the attacks,” said Warrenton
coach Jim Hackwith. “She really
had a great night. We had a slow
start in the irst game, but we
slowly turned it around in Game
2, and just decided we were going
to start playing volleyball.”
Giants stay alive after 13 innings
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Panik’s walk-off
double extends
postseason series
Chicago 2, San Francisco 1
Today: Cubs at Giants, 5:40 p.m. (FS1)
Washington 2, Los Angeles 1
Today: Nationals at Dodgers,
2:05 p.m. (FS1)
By JANIE MCCAULEY
AP Baseball Writer
SAN FRANCISCO — Sure is
hard to send these San Francisco
Giants home in October.
Joe Panik doubled off the
right-center wall in the 13th inning to
drive in Brandon Crawford, and the
Giants outlasted the Chicago Cubs
6-5 on Monday night in Game 3 to
extend their NL Division Series.
Boosted by Conor Gillaspie’s
go-ahead triple in the eighth off
Aroldis Chapman, the Giants rallied
from a three-run deicit and won their
10th straight game when facing post-
season elimination.
San Francisco overcame Kris
Bryant’s two-run homer off closer
Sergio Romo that tied it 5-all in the
ninth, and an early three-run shot by
pitcher Jake Arrieta against Giants
ace Madison Bumgarner.
“Just because we’re down, we’re
not out. If we’re breathing, we’re still
ighting,” Panik said.
The wild-card Giants forced
Game 4 at their raucous ballpark,
postponing a potential Cubs clinch
party in the visitors’ clubhouse.
Chicago leads the best-of-ive
playoff 2-1 and will send John
Lackey to the mound Tuesday night
opposite lefty Matt Moore.
“We played it hard, we played it
right — and they beat us,” Cubs man-
ager Joe Maddon said.
Teammates piled on Panik in cel-
ebration after he came through on the
57th pitch from Mike Montgomery,
beginning his ifth inning of relief.
Crawford hit a leadoff double on an
0-2 curve, bringing Panik to the plate.
His big hit ended a 5-hour, 4-min-
ute game that was only 29 minutes
AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez
San Francisco Giants’ Joe Panik, right, hits a double to score Brandon
Crawford in front of Chicago Cubs catcher David Ross during the thir-
teenth inning of Game 3 of baseball’s National League Division Series
in San Francisco, Monday. The Giants won 6-5 in 13 innings. notforsale
shy of the total time it took to play
the irst two series games combined
last week at Wrigley Field.
“Somehow we always just ind
a way with our backs up against
the wall,” Panik said. “It’s always
somebody.”
Gillaspie hit a two-run triple in the
eighth and Crawford added an RBI
single to give the Giants a 5-3 lead.
Rookie left-hander Ty Blach
earned the win, escaping a 13th-in-
ning jam when pinch-hitter David
Ross bounced into a double play.
“There’s a sense of calmness,”
Panik said. “It’s like we’ve been
there before.”
Bryant’s tying drive hit the top of
the left-ield fence and bounced into
the seats, silencing the orange tow-
el-swirling sellout crowd. The slug-
ger received a warm hug of congratu-
lations in the dugout from Chapman,
who had just given up the lead.
On a night when the early focus
was the marquee pitching matchup
between Bumgarner and Arrieta, the
bullpens decided this one hours later.
Arrieta’s three-run drive in the
second held up most of the way.
“The game had everything — pitch-
ing, timely hitting on both sides. It was
just a fun game to be involved with,”
Giants manager Bruce Bochy said.
Arrieta’s shot ended Bumgar-
ner’s postseason scoreless streak at
24 innings. The left-hander had also
thrown 24 straight shutout innings
with the Giants facing postseason
elimination, a separate string that was
snapped as well.
Buster Posey hit an RBI single for
the Giants in the third, and Brandon
Belt had a sacriice ly in the ifth.
Chapman relieved with two on in
the eighth, trying for the second six-
out save of his career, and Gillaspie
tripled to deep right-center to put San
Francisco ahead 4-3.
Starting at third base for a
banged-up Eduardo Nunez, Gillaspie
also hit a three-run homer in the ninth
inning for all the runs in Bumgar-
ner’s wild-card win over the Mets last
Wednesday in New York.
In the bottom of the ninth, Albert
Almora Jr. made a diving catch in
deep right ield on Posey’s sinking
liner and doubled up Belt at irst base
for an inning-ending double play that
kept the Cubs in it.
The Giants won the World Series
in 2010, ‘12 and ‘14, and still believe
they can get by Chicago and do it
again given their remarkable track
record with the season at stake.
“I just think it’s part of our DNA,”
Belt said. “We never think we’re out
of it.”
No big hits left for Big Papi as Red Sox swept
By KYLE HIGHTOWER
AP Sports Writer
BOSTON — David Ortiz didn’t
want it to end.
With his team trailing the Cleve-
land Indians by two runs in Game 3 of
the AL Division Series, Boston’s big-
gest star trotted to irst base after an
eighth-inning walk Monday night and
turned toward the Red Sox fans who
had cheered him through so many
memorable moments for 14 seasons.
Raising his hands high above his
head , he tried to clap the Fenway
Park crowd into a frenzy one more
time.
It wasn’t to be.
After providing so many huge
hits for the franchise, winning three
World Series championships and
becoming a beloved igure in Boston,
it was time for Big Papi’s story to end.
That four-pitch walk turned out to
be the inal plate appearance of his
storied, 20-year major league career.
He was soon replaced by a pinch run-
ner and left to a standing ovation. But
he could only watch from the dugout
in a red pullover when Travis Shaw
hit a game-ending lyout an inning
later as the Red Sox were swept out
of the playoffs with a 4-3 loss.
After the inal out, the crowd of
39,530 — the largest at Fenway since
at least World War II — chanted
“We’re not leaving!” and “Thank
you, Pa-pi!” for more than 10 min-
utes, drawing Ortiz back onto the
ield.
The 40-year-old slugger strolled
out to the mound to cheers and tipped
his cap in all directions, tapping his
heart and eventually wiping tears
from his eyes as a year’s worth of
emotions lowed through him.
“I went through like three differ-
AP Photo/Charles Krupa
Boston Red Sox’s David Ortiz blows a kiss from the mound at Fenway
Park after Game 3 of baseball’s ALDS against the Cleveland Indians,
Monday in Boston. The Indians won 4-3 to sweep the Red Sox in the
series. Ortiz said he will retire at the end of the season.
ent times where emotions popped.
But they’re different,” Ortiz said.
His initial thoughts were about the
loss of his friend and Miami Marlins
star Jose Fernandez, killed in a boat-
ing accident last month. It wasn’t
until later that Ortiz thought about his
own career .
“Tonight when I walked to the
mound, I realized that it was over,”
he said. “Even if things didn’t end
up the way we were looking for, I
believe that in baseball, especially
in the baseball game that we play in
today’s day, it’s a big step because it’s
like going from bad to good, from day
to night.”
After a career that included a 2013
World Series MVP award and 10
All-Star appearances, Ortiz had two
chances Monday to deliver another
one of the clutch postseason hits he’s
become so well known for.
In the sixth inning against reliever
Andrew Miller, the designated hitter
came to the plate with one out and
runners on second and third, but could
only muster a sacriice ly to center
ield that scored Dustin Pedroia and
pulled Boston to 4-2.
That was still the score in the
eighth when Ortiz came up with two
outs and Mookie Betts on irst base.
Ortiz walked on four straight
pitches before imploring the crowd to
its feet.
He inished his inal game 0 for 1
with two walks and an RBI. But he
was just 1 for 9 in the series.
“Obviously, I’m not happy that
moment shows up,” Ortiz said. “I was
cheering so bad. Once I got out of the
game, I was screaming at my team
to put me back in it. Make me wear
this uniform one more day. Because
I wasn’t ready to be over with the
playoffs.”
Reminders of Ortiz’s 14 seasons in
Boston greeted him from the moment
he arrived at the ballpark.
The irst piece of nostalgia came in
a “Thank You! 34” banner that hung
over the players’ parking lot through-
out the season. It features a caricature
of him with both hands pointing to the
sky as he gazes upward.
During batting practice, about
a dozen TV cameras lined up for
Ortiz as he made his way through the
clubhouse tunnel to the ield. They
panned and then paused with him
as he reached the top of the dugout
and leaned for a moment against his
bat while looking toward the Green
Monster.