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Late score gives Tillamook league title
hop and delivered a close range shot
into the lower left of the net for the
game-winning goal in the 77th min-
ute of the 80-minute game.
The Cheesemakers scored the
game’s irst goal just over 17 minutes
into the contest, when Lorenzo Maz-
zolari took a crossing pass in from the
left side and scored up the middle for
a 1-0 lead.
The two teams were scoreless over
the next 48 minutes of action.
Astoria goalkeeper Kyle Birge
managed to stop a couple breakaways
for the Cheesemakers, as Tillamook’s
Luis Macias was unable to inish.
More bad luck for Macias — in
the third minute of the second half,
the Fishermen were called for a foul
in the penalty area, resulting in a pen-
alty kick for Macias.
But the sophomore pushed his
kick wide left of the post, and the
Fishermen stayed within a goal.
Meanwhile, Astoria was unable
to take advantage of six corner kick
opportunities (four in the irst half),
while the Fishermen also had numer-
The Astoria boys soccer team was
within 2 1/2 minutes of handing the
seventh-ranked Tillamook Cheese-
makers their irst non-win in Cowapa
League play Tuesday night at CMH
Field.
But in a hotly contested match
with a fast and furious inish, the
Cheesemakers scored with just 2:28
left on the clock for a 2-1 win over
the Fishermen.
The victory clinched the Cow-
apa League title for Tillamook, 6-0 in
league ahead of Seaside (4-1-2).
The Cheesemakers have 10 seniors
on their 16-player varsity roster.
Astoria (2-5) held a slight edge in
time of possession, and when Gus-
tavo Velazquez scored with 11:53
remaining to tie the game, it appeared
that the Fishermen would hang on for
at least their biggest tie of the season.
But a little less than 10 minutes
later, Tillamook’s Paul Donant took
a pass into the box, ielded a high
SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Astoria wins irst game in four-set loss
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
Gulls blank
Valiants at
Broadway, 2-0
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SEASIDE — Seaside scored
a goal early in each half Tuesday,
on its way to a 2-0 win over Val-
ley Catholic in a Cowapa League
boys soccer game at Broadway
Field.
With Tillamook’s win at Asto-
ria, the Gulls lost their chance at
playing the Cheesemakers for the
league title, but still locked up
second place in league, and will
get a home game in the Regional
Play-in round.
The Gulls scored less than
two minutes into the irst half, as
James Kennedy assisted on a goal
by Colton Carter for a quick 1-0
lead.
And in the irst minute of the
second half, Will Garvin crossed
a pass to Jackson Januik, who
scored for a two-nil advantage.
The Gulls had to scramble for
a goalkeeper before the game.
Starter Jesus Perez sprained
his ankle shortly before the end
of warm-ups, forcing the Gulls to
start Ashton Boyd in goal.
Boyd played the irst half, and
Christian Hernandez played the
second half in goal for Seaside,
which played solid defense and
allowed very few opportunities
for the Valiants.
The Gulls close out league
play Thursday at Tillamook.
Lady Fish score
win at Tillamook
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TILLAMOOK — Astoria
scored its third win of the season
Tuesday night at Tillamook, as the
Lady Fishermen dominated the
Lady Mooks, 5-0, in a Cowapa
League girls soccer game.
Astoria outscored Tillamook
11-1 in the two-game series this
season, helping the Fishermen
improve to 3-8-1 overall, while
Tillamook falls to 0-12, and
0-45-2 since 2014.
No details were available.
Knappa volleyball
swept by Vernonia
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VERNONIA — The Knappa
volleyball team inished up league
play Tuesday, and will now turn its
attention to the league playoffs.
In a Logger Showdown at Ver-
nonia, the host Loggers of Ver-
nonia scored a three-game sweep
over Knappa, 25-15, 25-14, 25-10.
Knappa inishes in a ifth-place
tie with Columbia Christian in the
Northwest League standings at 5-6.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TODAY
Football — Oregon Deaf School at
Jewell, 7 p.m.
Cross Country — Seaside at Taft, 4
p.m.
THURSDAY
Girls Soccer — Banks at Astoria, 7:30
p.m.; Tillamook at Seaside, 7:30 p.m.
Boys Soccer — Seaside at Tillamook,
7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY
Football — Astoria at Scappoose, 7
p.m.; Seaside at Banks, 7 p.m.; Warren-
ton at Clatskanie, 7 p.m.; Knappa at Ver-
nonia, 7 p.m.; Ocosta at Ilwaco, 7 p.m.
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SCAPPOOSE — The Astoria
Lady Fishermen saved their best for
last Tuesday.
In their inal match of the regu-
lar season, Astoria inally won its
irst game in a league match, but
ultimately lost in four games to
Scappoose.
The Indians — who had already
locked up fourth-place in the Cow-
apa League — secured their fourth
league win of the season with a
25-15, 15-25, 25-22, 25-12 victory.
Jacqueline Jarrett had nine kills
and ive blocks for Astoria, and
teammate Aurora Grafton added 11
assists and seven kills for the Lady
Fish.
“We played really well,” said
Astoria’s irst-year coach, Jessie
Todd. “We came out and put the
pressure on, and played well all the
way through.
“I was really happy with the way
we played, and the way we improved
this season,” she said. “We played
a lot of close games, every night.
The Cowapa League is deinitely a
ous direct free kick chances on Tilla-
mook fouls within 30 yards of the goal.
Shots on goal by Rafael Alcantar
and Cole Beeson were either saved by
the Tillamook keeper or missed.
Astoria did not score the equal-
izer until the 68th minute, when Luis
Herrejon tapped a short pass ahead to
Velazquez, who scored into the right
side of the net for the 1-1 tie.
Donant’s go-ahead goal for the
Cheesemakers came at the 77:32
mark, and Astoria was unable to pos-
sess the ball in the inal two minutes.
tough league (with three of its teams
ranked in the top ive in state), with
ive teams in the top 16, and they’re
all going to state.”
Madi Landwehr chipped in 12
assists with ive kills, and Hailey
O’Brien inished with 21 digs. Chel-
sea Christensen added 15 digs, and
Darian Hageman had three blocks
for Astoria.
Dodgers beat Cubs 6-0 for NLCS lead
By BETH HARRIS
AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES — Rich Hill
never strayed from his mindset of
pitching in the moment, even when he
was far from the major leagues play-
ing independent ball with the Long
Island Ducks.
Convinced there would be another
opportunity to get back to the big
leagues, he focused on executing
pitches without worrying about his
current circumstances.
Fourteen months later, Hill
allowed two hits over six innings to
beat Cy Young Award winner Jake
Arrieta and the Chicago Cubs 6-0
Tuesday, giving the Los Angeles
Dodgers a 2-1 NL Championship
Series lead.
“It’s the biggest game of my
career,” Hill said. “It’s just putting in
the work, putting in the time, having
a routine, persevere, all those things
that you can say to sum up some
kind of endurance or resiliency. For
me, that’s all I’ve ever known is just
work.”
Rookie Corey Seager had three
hits, including a go-ahead single in
the third, and Yasmani Grandal hit a
two-run homer in the fourth.
After winning a big league-high
103 games during the regular sea-
son and sparking belief they could
win the World Series for the irst time
since 1908, the Cubs have been shut
out in consecutive games for the irst
time since May 2014, managing just
six hits — ive of them singles. Their
18 straight scoreless innings mark the
longest postseason drought in fran-
AP Photo/David J. Phillip
Dodgers’ Justin Turner celebrates after hitting a home run in the sixth
inning of Game 3 against the Cubs Tuesday in Los Angeles.
chise history, according to the Elias
Sports Bureau.
“More than anything, I think we
need to get a couple runs and hits
and runs early to try to get that kind
of feeling back,” Cubs manager Joe
Maddon said, “because, obviously,
when you’re not scoring any runs, it
makes it even more dificult in the
dugout.”
Hill, who made two starts in
the independent Atlantic League in
August 2015 before signing a minor
league deal with Boston , struck out
six and walked two. Joe Blanton,
Grant Dayton and Kenley Jansen in-
ished. Playing their 200th postseason
game, the Dodgers posted consecu-
tive shutouts for the irst time.
Julio Urias starts Game 4 for the
Dodgers on Wednesday and at 20
years, 68 days will become the young-
est starting pitcher in postseason his-
tory. John Lackey starts for the Cubs.
“He’s not scared of the moment,”
Seager said of Urias. “He’s not scared
of anything.”
Hill was acquired from Oakland
along with Josh Reddick at the Aug.
1 trade deadline. The 36-year-old left-
hander struggled with a blister on the
middle inger of his pitching hand that
landed him on the disabled list from
mid-July to late August. The blister
still bothered him in the inal weeks
of the regular season, and Dodgers
manager Dave Roberts pulled him
after seven perfect innings against
Miami on Sept. 10, saying the team
had to keep its focus on bigger goals
in October.
Hill was strong from the start
against one of his former teams, retir-
ing the side to open the game and
later eight in a row. He’s given up
one run in 23 innings over four home
starts for the Dodgers, lowering his
ERA to 0.39.
“When he’s got that attitude out
there, you can tell,” Dodgers irst
baseman Adrian Gonzalez said.
“That’s when you know he’s rolling,
that his pitches are working, and he’s
doing what he wants to do out there.”
Seager’s go-ahead single ended an
0-for-15 slide with runners in scoring
position in postseason play.
Grandal was 0 for 5 with three
strikeouts against Arrieta in his career
before he launched a 3-2 pitch into
the right-ield pavilion in the fourth
for a 3-0 lead. Grandal drove in Red-
dick, who singled and stole second
and third.
“He’s been so good for the last
couple years just because he doesn’t
give in,” Grandal said of Arrieta. “He
still made a really good pitch down
in the zone. I was just lucky to put a
swing on it and hit it out.”
Justin Turner homered on the irst
pitch leading off the sixth to chase
Arrieta, who gave up four runs and
six hits in ive innings. He dominated
the Dodgers in his previous two starts
against them, including a no-hit-
ter at Dodger Stadium on Aug. 30,
2015. Los Angeles had gone 2 for 51
against him in two games.
Blue Jays stave off ALCS elimination, beat Indians 5-1
By NOAH TRISTER
AP Baseball Writer
TORONTO— Just in time, Josh
Donaldson and the Toronto Blue Jays
broke out the bats to save their season.
Now they have a chance to really
make things interesting in this AL
Championship Series.
Donaldson backed up his iery pep
talk to teammates before the game,
hitting a home run and turning in a
timely diving stop Tuesday to help
the Blue Jays avert a sweep with a 5-1
win over the Cleveland Indians.
The Indians still lead the matchup
3-1, but with a couple of big hits and
a strong outing by Aaron Sanchez,
Toronto handed them their irst loss
of this postseason.
“I’m not going to give too much
away of what I had to say, but just
more so getting everybody’s atten-
tion and focus and understanding,”
Donaldson said. “I mean, everybody
knew coming into today how import-
ant today was. But at the same time
I just wanted to kind of reiterate that
and let the boys know that I was com-
ing to play today.”
Cleveland will try again Wednes-
day to win to earn its irst World
Series trip since 1997, but the big
concern for the Indians coming into
the series — an injury-riddled rota-
tion — still lingers. In Game 5, Cleve-
land will start Ryan Merritt, who has
Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press
Blue Jays’ Edwin Encarnacion hits a two-run single against the Indi-
ans during seventh inning of Game 4 in Toronto on Tuesday.
pitched just 11 innings in the majors,
against Marco Estrada.
It was an emotional day all around
at Rogers Centre, where the home
crowd had fallen silent watching the
season slipping away because of a
slumbering offense that totaled only
three runs in the irst three games of
the series.
“I thought we battled pretty good
today, with the bats,” Toronto man-
ager John Gibbons said. “Naturally,
when you score, which we haven’t
been doing, it always looks good.”
Donaldson’s solo shot to left-center
ield off Corey Kluber in the third put
the Blue Jays ahead for the irst time
all series. Two innings after that, the
star third baseman made an outstand-
ing play to preserve a one-run edge.
Sanchez, the American League
ERA champion, allowed a run and
two hits in six innings, and the bullpen
inished with three perfect innings.
Kluber was starting on three days’
rest for the irst time in his career.
“I felt ine. I don’t think it physi-
cally affected me. I made a mistake to
Donaldson,” Kluber said. “We’re one
win away from the World Series and
that’s what we’re focused on.”
Kluber hadn’t allowed a run in
either of his irst two starts this post-
season. Donaldson, the reigning
AL MVP and sporting a still freshly
shaved face, opened the scoring with
his irst home run of these playoffs.
The wild-card Blue Jays made
it 2-0 in the fourth when Ezequiel
Carrera’s blooper fell between three
Cleveland ielders in left-center for
an RBI single.
Roberto Perez hit an RBI double
in the ifth off Sanchez. Carlos Santa-
na’s two-out grounder to the left side
might have had a chance to score him,
but Donaldson made the play to his
left , then popped up and danced off
the ield with a bit of a ist pump.
“I was locked in,” Donaldson said.
“It helps when you have a guy like
Sanchez in the zone, where you can
really focus in on a certain area of the
strike zone. And I was able to get a
really good read off the bat, and I was
fortunate enough to be able to make
the play.”
The Indians didn’t have another
baserunner after that. Brett Cecil,
Jason Grilli and Roberto Osuna
pitched an inning each in relief for
Toronto.
Taking no chances, Gibbons
brought in Osuna, his closer, in a non-
save situation to inish off Cleveland.