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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.