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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2016 CONTACT US FOLLOW US facebook.com/ DailyAstorianSports Gary Henley | Sports Reporter ghenley@dailyastorian.com BRAVING ELEMENTS the SCOREBOARD PREP SCHEDULE TODAY 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. SATURDAY Volleyball — Astoria at Corbett Tour- nament, TBA; Seaside at Philomath Tournament, 8:30 a.m.; Knappa at Ver- nonia, 6 p.m. Cross Country — George Fox Clas- sic, 11:30 a.m. FOOTBALL Astoria 22, Banks 6 0 0 0 6—6 0 3 7 12—22 Second Quarter Ast: Andrew Schauermann 31 FG, 6:53 Third Quarter Ast: Ryan Palek 3 pass from Fridtjof Fremstad (Schauermann kick) 4:17 Fourth Quarter Ast: Fremstad 1 run (kick failed) 9:59 B: Jake Evans 1 run (run failed) 1:18 Ast: Fremstad 45 kick return (kick failed) 1:10 Banks Statistics Rushing: Applebee 25-121, Evans 6-27, Partain 2-23, J.Cameron 4-6. Passing: Evans 1-5-23-1. Receiving: Partain 1-23. Astoria Statistics Rushing: Lyngstad 15-65, Fremstad 13-54, Tuimato 9-19, Ranta 9-10, J.Ol- son 1-2. Passing: Fremstad 6-7-63-0. Receiving: Palek 4-40, Englund 2-23. Team Statistics Banks AHS Total offense 200 213 First downs 8 13 Rushes-yards 37-177 47-150 Comp-Att-Int 1-5-1 6-7-0 Passing yards 23 63 Penalties 2-15 3-15 Fumbles-lost 5-3 3-1 Banks Astoria Photos by Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian Fridtjof Fremstad runs upfield as Astoria faces off against Banks on Thursday at CMH Field in Astoria. More photos at www.dailyastorian.com Fishermen beat Banks to clinch share of league title Kershaw’s save sends Dodgers to NLCS By GARY HENLEY The Daily Astorian W hat would have been a mud bath at John Warren Field two or three years ago … was more like a fun game of slip ’n’ slide (with wind) Thursday night at CMH Field. In a driving wind and rain storm, the Astoria football team put the “Fighting” back in Fisher- men, with a 22-6 win over Banks. The Fishermen adapted to the conditions a lot better than the Braves, to clinch at least a share of the Cowapa League championship. Astoria improves to 4-0 in league play, one game up on the Scappoose Indians, who lost to Valley Catholic Thursday. The game — and the storm, for that matter — brought back memories of Astoria’s 2008 46-26 win over Banks at John Warren, when Jordan Poyer ran for six touchdowns in a driving rainstorm, a big win on the way to a state championship. “I was thinking just before kickoff tonight, this game has a little ’08 feel to it,” said Astoria head coach Howard Rub, following Thursday’s win. With one week left in the regular season, Rub’s team is right where it wants to be. Or close, anyway. Undefeated in league play, ranked third in the latest state rankings, a six-game win streak and guaranteed at least a share of the league title. “We’d like to get that No. 1 seed though,” said Rub, which is another thing winning coaches say. “We’d like that all to ourselves.” A victory over Scappoose next Friday would give the Fishermen their irst outright title since 2009. Running game On a night when running the ball was a lit- tle more conducive than throwing it, senior Tyler “Bubba” Lyngstad led the Astoria offense with 65 yards rushing on 15 carries. Senior Fridtjof Fremstad — the most eficient quarterback at the Class 4A level — completed 6-of-7 passes for 63 yards and a score, with no turnovers. Fremstad also rushed for a touchdown, and returned an onside kick 45 yards for the inal nail in the cofin, after a late touchdown by the Braves. On the other side of the ield, the Braves fum- bled ive times (lost three), while quarterback Jake Evans completed just 1-of-5 passes for 23 yards. He also completed one pass to the Fishermen, a late interception by Olaf Englund. Senior night The Emotion Factor was certainly in Astoria’s favor, with Senior Night, and the loss of senior receiver Kyle Strange to a broken leg the week AP Photo/Alex Brandon Dodger’s Clayton Kershaw gets the first save of his career in Game 5 of the NLDS. By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Sports Writer Astoria’s Zachary Patterson makes a fumble recovery against Banks. The Fishermen won 22-6. before. Strange watched the game from a wheel- chair on the Astoria sidelines. “With Kyle and Cole (Olson) being out, and Senior Night … there was a lot of emotion,” Rub said. “I thought our guys dealt with the loss of Kyle last week in a good way. We were obviously upset that we were going to lose one of our lead- ers, our captains and one of our best players.” Meanwhile, when a player who normally plays guard on offense and wears No. 55 (Lyngstad) leads the team in rushing — that’s a telltale sign of what kind of game it was for the Fishermen. “When our starting ‘Mike’ backer (middle line- backer) and backup guard is our leading rusher, you absolutely know what kind of night it was,” Rub said. Offensively, “If you look at what we did in practice all week, we didn’t do much of that during the game,” he said. “Fortunately we were able to move the ball in our old-school T-formation.” The weather “was still a part of it,” Rub said. “And we ended up winning the turnover battle, which was pretty huge. “Fritz and Tyler had tremendous games, and you can’t say enough about our offensive and defensive lines. Their main athlete and running back, (Milo) Applebee, is quite a ballplayer, and for the most part we held him in check.” Power on And on a night when even the shotgun snaps were affected by the wind, Astoria put the irst points up on a 31-yard ield goal by Andrew Schauermann into a swirling wind, with 6:53 left in the second quarter. The lights lickered at times and so did the scoreboard, but the power stayed on. The Braves didn’t. Banks lost a fumble on its irst possession; a key holding penalty helped end their second drive; and the Braves fumbled the ball away again on their third and last possession of the irst half. And the Braves picked up in the third quarter right where they left off in the second, as Evans lost a fumble on the second play of the second half. The Fishermen gave it right back for their only turnover of the night, but the Braves shot them- selves in the foot on an attempted quick kick on their next drive. Evans — who was only 3 yards behind the line of scrimmage — punted the ball straight into the back of one of his linemen. The ball delected right back to Evans, who was tackled for a4-yard loss. The Fishermen — whose scoring drives usu- ally last ive or six plays — had more weather-ap- propriate drives Thursday. After the bungled punt by the Braves, Astoria drove 35 yards in nine plays, capped by Frems- tad’s 3-yard TD toss to Ryan Palek. The Braves went four-and-out on their next series, and the Fishermen basically put the game away with another nine-play, 39-yard scoring drive, with Fremstad diving in from 1 yard. Banks did not score until a nine-play, 72-yard march late in the fourth quarter. On the ensuing onside kick, Fremstad ielded the ball on the run, and took it the distance for the inal touchdown. If the power had gone out (it did Thursday night in areas of Clatsop County), “we did actu- ally have a plan to come back tomorrow at 6 p.m. if we lost power,” Rub said. “I’m really glad we did not have to do that. “Back out at the old stadium, this would have been something in the mud. But it was still pretty fun, even on artiicial turf. It was a great night, and a great win for the kids.” It was also Astoria’s irst victory over Banks since 2009. “It’s been a little too long,” Rub said, “so it feels good.” WASHINGTON — A little past midnight in Game 5 of the NL Division Series, Clayton Ker- shaw emerged from the bullpen to pitch in relief for the irst time in seven years. Two outs later, the only save of his major league career in the books, Kershaw’s arms were raised and teammates were rush- ing to celebrate with a guy whose postseason performances have never carried the luster of his reg- ular-season success. Coming in after closer Ken- ley Jansen entered in the seventh inning and threw a career-high 51 pitches but issued a pair of one-out walks in the ninth, Kershaw got Daniel Murphy to pop out, then struck out Wilmer Difo to end it. That inished the Los Ange- les Dodgers’ dramatic 4-3 vic- tory over the Washington Nation- als that decided their NLDS in the wee hours of Friday. “The adrenaline rush was pretty good right there,” said Ker- shaw, who approached Dodgers manager Dave Roberts in the sev- enth inning to offer to pitch if need be on the must-win occasion. “At the at the end of the day, if we don’t win that game, we’re going home, anyway, so what does it matter?” Kershaw said . “I just wanted to be available, and it ended up to the point where I could help out tonight.” The Dodgers won the last two games of the best-of-ive NLDS with Kershaw pitching in each and now head to the NL Champi- onship Series to face the Chicago Cubs. That opens at Wrigley Field on Saturday night. The Nationals, meanwhile, still have never won a postsea- son series, winning three NL East titles in the past ive years but los- ing in the NLDS each time.
