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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2016
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SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Lady Fish fall
to Scappoose
in soccer finale
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SCAPPOOSE — Scappoose
held a slim 1-0 lead at halftime,
then pulled away in the final 40
minutes for a 4-0 win over Astoria
Tuesday, in a Cowapa League girls
soccer season finale at Scappoose.
Astoria coach Tim Fastabend
said his team didn’t have a lot of
opportunities on offense, while
the Fishermen did what they could
defensively.
“Lexi (Law) played well for
us,” he said. “She came out and
made some big stops, and did what
good keepers do. Claire Albright
also had a nice game. All of the
seniors played well.”
Astoria finishes 3-9-2 overall,
2-6-2 in league play.
In other Cowapa League action
Tuesday, the regular season came
to a close for the Seaside girls, as
Banks posted a 3-1 win over the
Lady Gulls on the Braves’ home
field.
Warriors forfeit
football finale
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Due to multiple injuries, the
Warrenton football team has for-
feited its season finale at Rainier
Friday.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TODAY
Cross Country — Cowapa League
Championships, Camp Rilea, 2 p.m.
Football — Naselle at Taholah, 6 p.m.
THURSDAY
Cross Country — 3A/2A/1A District 1
Championships, Tualatin Hills, 3:30 p.m.
FRIDAY
Football — Knappa at Central Linn, 7
p.m.; Ilwaco at North Beach, 7 p.m.
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Rafael Alcantar goes up for a header as Astoria played against Scappoose on Tuesday at CMH Field. Scappoose won 4-0 in what may be the
Fishermen’s last game this season.
Fishermen drop
league finale at CMH
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T
Sweet
16
Blazers continue
home opener
win streak
Associated Press
PORTLAND — Damian Lil-
lard scored 39 points and the Port-
land Trail Blazers extended their
winning streak in home openers to
a league-record 16 straight games
with a 113-104 victory over the
Utah Jazz on Tuesday night.
CJ McCollum added 25 points
for the Blazers, who trailed 83-77
at the start of the fourth quarter.
They were still down 102-99 with
under 5 minutes left before McCo-
llum made a pull-up jumper and
3-pointer to give Portland a 104-
102 lead.
Lillard made a pair of free
throws before nailing a 3-pointer
that put Portland up 109-102 with
1:02 left and the Jazz couldn’t
catch up.
Joe Johnson scored 29 points
in his debut with the Jazz and
Rodney Hood added 26, includ-
ing a rim-rattling dunk in the third
quarter.
The Jazz were without several
key players. Gordon Hayward is
out with a broken finger, while
Derrick Favors played in just one
preseason game. Alec Burks con-
tinues to rehab from surgery.
TIP-INS: The Blazers linked
arms in unity during the national
anthem. ... With his first assist of
the night, Damian Lillard passed
Jim Paxson for sixth on the fran-
chise all-time list (2,008).
NEXT GAME
• Portland vs. Los Angeles
Clippers
• Thursday, 7:30 p.m. TV: TNT
Astoria’s Jonathan Jimenez battles for ball control with Caden Verzino.
he worst loss of the season for
the Astoria boys soccer team
came in the season opener, a 7-1
loss to Catlin Gabel.
And the second-worst loss of the
season for the Fishermen took place
in the final game of the regular sea-
son, a 4-0 setback to Scappoose Tues-
day night at CMH Field.
In between, Astoria went 5-5 and
played some pretty good soccer this
season.
But unless a late playoff spot
opens up, the season came to a close
for the Fishermen.
The Indians built a 2-0 lead in the
first 14 minutes, then cruised to the
win to close out the Cowapa League
season.
Scappoose finishes 3-3-1 in
league (third place, behind Tillamook
and Scappoose), 5-3-4 overall, and
jumped to 18th in the latest OSAA
rankings.
The Fishermen dropped one spot
to 24th, and finish fourth in the Cow-
apa at 2-5, 5-7 overall.
The first half was the decisive 40
minutes in Tuesday’s encounter.
Just 2 minutes, 50 seconds into
the game, Scappoose freshman D.J.
Backus scored off a deflected shot,
when a close-range attempt by team-
mate Robby Walsh was stuffed by
Astoria goalkeeper Kyle Birge. The
ball landed right at the feet of Backus,
who scored into an open net.
Birge had a couple more stops in
the following minutes, but the Indians
kept up the pressure and scored in the
13th minute, with Blake Peterson tap-
ping the ball in off a corner kick from
Tyler Cooper.
Scappoose made it 3-0 when Alex
Varga chased down a long pass and
scored on a breakaway.
The Fishermen created more
opportunities in the second half,
which included open shot on goal
attempts from Rafael Alcantar and
Gustavo Velázquez — but both shots
deflected off Scappoose defenders
before the ball got to the net.
Another attempt by Alcantar off
a free kick was just a few inches too
high, and a fourth shot on goal was
saved by the Scappoose keeper. Asto-
ria finished with five shots on goal in
the second half.
The only second half shot that
went in belonged to the Indians, as
Kevin Bachman won a scramble in
front of the net to make it 4-0 with
6:02 remaining.
While the season will likely con-
tinue for the Indians and their 10
seniors, the Fishermen will have to
wait for the final rankings to see if
they make the playoffs.
The Fishermen honored four
seniors before the game, as Luis
Herrejon, Jorge Herrejon, Alcantar
and Birge all closed out their home
careers.
Kluber, Perez, Indians blank Cubs 6-0 in opener
By RONALD BLUM
AP Baseball Writer
CLEVELAND — Corey Kluber
and the Cleveland Indians are off to a
pitch-perfect start in the World Series.
The Chicago Cubs, meanwhile,
fell completely flat in their first
appearance since 1945.
Kluber dominated into the sev-
enth inning, Roberto Perez had four
RBIs with a pair of home runs and
the Indians beat the Cubs 6-0 in Tues-
day night’s opener of a highly antic-
ipated matchup between the teams
with baseball’s longest championship
droughts.
“It’s almost like you have that
extra level of intensity,” said Kluber,
who became the first Series pitcher
to strike out eight batters in the first
three innings.
AL Championship Series MVP
Andrew Miller escaped a bas-
es-loaded, no-out jam in the sev-
enth and stranded runners at the cor-
ners the eighth, preserving a three-run
lead and delighting the sellout crowd
of 38,091 in Cleveland’s first-ever
Series home opener.
“The atmosphere in the World
Series is so great,” Miller said. “You
can’t help but get caught up in it and
enjoy it.”
The Indians pitched their fourth
shutout in nine games this postsea-
son. After stifling two dangerous line-
ups in Boston and Toronto during the
AL playoffs, Cleveland shut down a
hard-hitting Cubs team that scored 23
runs against the Dodgers in the final
three games of the NLCS.
Back in the Series for the first time
since 1997, the Indians scored twice
in the first off October ace Jon Lester.
Perez hit a fourth-inning solo
shot and added a three-run drive in
the eighth against Hector Rondon,
WORLD SERIES: GAME 2
• Chicago Cubs at Cleveland
• Today, 4 p.m. TV: Fox
• Cleveland leads series 1-0
becoming the first Cleveland player
and the only No. 9 batter to homer
twice in a Series game.
“Oh, I don’t think I’ve ever had a
night like that,” Perez said.
He has three home runs in 27
at-bats during the postseason after
hitting three in 153 during the regu-
lar season.
“I’ve come a long ways,” Perez
said,
Francisco Lindor added three hits
as the Indians improved to 8-1 this
postseason. Cleveland manager Terry
Francona is 9-0 in the Series, includ-
ing sweeps by his Boston teams in
2004 and ‘07.
The Game 1 winner has taken the
title in the last six Series and 17 of 19.
“I have no concerns,” Cubs man-
ager Joe Maddon said. “It’s the first
game. I’m fine. We’re fine.”
Trevor Bauer, trying to come back
from a sliced pinkie caused by a freak
drone accident, starts Game 2 for the
Indians on Wednesday night against
Jake Arrieta. Because the forecast
called for an increased chance of rain
later in the evening, Major League
Baseball took the extraordinary step
of moving up the first pitch by an
hour to 7:08 p.m.
Kluber painted the corners, and 24
of his 59 strikes were called by plate
umpire Larry Vanover. Twelve batters
were caught looking, including seven
Cubs.
“I think his ball was moving too
much today,” said Perez, Cleveland’s
catcher. “We got guys off balance the
whole night.”