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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2016
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SEASIDE’S JANUIK SCORES
HAT TRICK IN PLAYOFF WIN
Gulls couldn’t
have been much
more dominant
in Saturday’s win
Ilwaco defeats
North Beach
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OCEAN SHORES, Wash. —
Ilwaco locked up the No. 2 seed
in the Coastal 2B division with a
37-14 win at North Beach Friday.
The Fishermen improved to
6-3 overall, and will host the No.
3 team from the River division, the
winner of a three-way, Kansas Plan
tiebreaker Monday in Kalama,
between Mossyrock, Toutle Lake
and Wahkiakum.
In Friday’s win, Ilwaco quar-
terback Jack Odneal threw for 143
yards and two touchdowns, on
10-of-17 passing.
Brandon McMullen led the
ground attack with 122 yards rush-
ing on 16 attempts, while Alec Bell
added 47 yards on 11 carries, with
two touchdowns.
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — The Seaside boys
soccer team missed out on their Cow-
apa League title this season — but the
Gulls more than made up for it Satur-
day night on their home field.
Seaside’s Chase Januik scored
three goals and the defense pitched a
shutout for the Gulls, who defeated
Cottage Grove 3-0 in a Class 4A
Regional Play-in at Broadway Field.
And from all appearances, Seaside
isn’t going to stop at just one playoff
win. The Gulls could be playing for a
while.
Their next action will be 1 p.m.
Wednesday at La Grande for a Sweet
16 game. The winner will face either
Madras or McLoughlin, and the Gulls
are already talking about the possibility
of hosting a game in the quarterfinals.
“Without being overconfident, I
think it’s important in the playoffs
that you do look ahead,” said Seaside
coach John Chapman. “Our boys are
focused for the next couple games,
that we have a very good chance of
succeeding.
“We didn’t finish the league the
way we wanted to,” he said. “But we
think we can still compete well in the
playoffs. We’re fit, we’re uninjured
and we’re peaking right when we want
to be.”
The Gulls couldn’t have been much
more dominant in Saturday’s win.
From the opening kick, Seaside
was threatening to score. The Gulls did
all the possessing, passing and shoot-
ing in the first half, while the Lions
crossed midfield just a few times, with
no shots on goal.
Meanwhile, Seaside had the Cot-
tage Grove defenders with their backs
to the wall from the outset.
The Gulls had seven shots on goal
in the first 10 minutes, including a
breakaway by Will Garvin just min-
utes into the game. Lion keeper Zach-
ariah Stewart managed to stop the
shot, then smothered another attempt
by Garvin off a deflection of the first
shot.
Additional attempts by Colton Car-
ter, Jackson Januik and Brent Walsh
were all saved by Stewart, who played
a solid first half under pressure.
The first goal finally came off the
foot of Chase Januik, the younger
brother of Jackson. Chase actually out-
ran is older brother to run down a pass
in the 34th minute, and once he caught
up to the ball, Chase — from 30 yards
out — sent a left-footed shot into the
lower right corner of the net for the
game’s first score.
“We were wondering when that
first goal was going to slip in,” Chap-
man said. “It didn’t happen until the
end of the first half, and it was just
another momentum change for us. We
went from fourth gear to fifth gear.
“I was very pleased with how the
boys came out,” he added. “Poised,
SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Central Linn
edges Knappa
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Photos by Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Teammates celebrate after Seaside Seagulls’ Chase Januik, center, scores his third goal of the night as
Seaside faced off against Cottage Grove on Saturday at Broadway Field in Seaside. Seaside defeated Cot-
tage Grove 3-0. More photos online at DailyAstorian.com
strong and committed to what we
wanted to do with the ball, and we
immediately controlled the middle of
the field.”
The sophomore scored again with
just 1:09 left in the half, when a shot by
Garvin deflected back to Januik, who
scored from close range.
While there was very little action
at the northwest end of the field in the
first half, and there wasn’t much more
at the southeast end in the second half.
Seaside goalkeeper Jesus Perez
only had to make one stop in the final
40 minutes.
The Gulls also had fewer shots on
goal in the second half (just five), as
a free kick from Carter bounced off
the left post in the 57th minute, and
another attempt by Walsh was saved.
Januik recorded his third goal with
15:11 remaining in the game, as Chase
chased down a pass up the middle
from Carter, and scored from the left
side of the penalty area, from 20 yards
out.
“Cottage Grove plays in a tough
division with Sisters and some of those
others,” Chapman said. “They haven’t
scored many goals, but they’ve also
kept some of the strong teams close at
hand. They challenged hard, but our
guys were a step ahead for most of the
game.”
The Lions will also be tough in
the future, with only one senior on the
roster.
Meanwhile, the Gulls gave a
glimpse of their own future, with the
younger Januik.
“I believe he has scored before,
but I can’t think of another time when
a sophomore has scored a hat trick
in a playoff game,” Chapman said of
Chase Januik. “Give credit to Chase
for putting it in the net, and give credit
to the rest of the team for getting him
into a position to do it.”
HALSEY — The Knappa Log-
gers scheduled another tough non-
league opponent as they tune up for
the Class 2A football state playoffs.
After marching through the
league season with a 4-0 record,
the Loggers fell to 1-4 against non-
league competition Friday, as Cen-
tral Linn scored a 41-20 win over
Knappa.
The Loggers will host St. Paul
in a first round state playoff at 2
p.m. Saturday, at CMH Field.
Season ends for
Seaside spikers
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Seaside Seagulls’ Jackson Januik goes up for the ball.
Seaside Seagulls’ William Garvin collides with Cottage Grove’s goalkeeper.
SISTERS — The Cowapa
League won three matches and lost
two Saturday in the Sweet 16 of the
Class 4A state playoffs.
Unfortunately for Seaside, the
Gulls were one of the two losses,
as Sisters swept Seaside in three
games, 25-14, 25-16, 25-18.
The season comes to a close
for the Gulls, who advanced to the
final 16 despite a 2-8 record in the
Cowapa League.
Sisters advances to the state
tournament Friday and Saturday at
Forest Grove High School, where
the Outlaws will play Henley in a
quarterfinal.
Alyssia Gonzales had seven
kills for Seaside, which loses just
three seniors.
Six-foot-2 junior Hawley Har-
rer led the offensive attack for Sis-
ters, while setter Alex Hartford and
libero Jessie Brigham highlighted
the strong passing for the Outlaws.
In other playoff action Satur-
day, No. 1-ranked Valley Catholic
swept Sutherlin; Banks defeated
Philomath in four games; and Til-
lamook swept Siuslaw. Crook
County swept Scappoose to round
out the day for the Cowapa League,
which will have three teams in the
final eight.
Saints get physical, Cubs, Indians hope to celebrate
championship in Cleveland
outlast Seahawks
Seattle falls to 4-2-1
By BRETT MARTEL
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — Sean Pay-
ton had a surprise in store for a Seat-
tle defense that thrives on harassing
quarterbacks and physically intimi-
dating receivers.
The Saints coach dialed back
New Orleans’ prolific passing game
and challenged his running backs
and offensive line to deliver as much
punishment to Seahawks defenders
as they could.
Drew Brees wound up well short
of his typical passing numbers in the
Superdome 265 yards and one touch-
down but the Saints (3-4) pulled out
a 25-20 victory they sorely needed to
improve their prospects for climbing
back into the NFC playoff picture.
“It doesn’t really have to be
aesthetically pleasing to be effec-
tive,” Payton asserted. “The key is
winning.”
The victory wasn’t assured until
the New Orleans’ much-maligned
defense, which entered the game
ranked 29th in the NFL, came up
with a stop on the Seahawks’ final
drive, which started on the Seattle 32
with 1:50 left. Russell Wilson took
the Seahawks (4-2-1) to the New
Orleans 10, where he had one final
play. He lofted a pass toward the cor-
ner of the end zone, where Jermaine
Kearse caught the ball, but landed
out of bounds.
“It was close. I tried to give him a
shot,” Wilson said of his last throw to
Kearse, adding that cornerback B.W.
Webb “did a good job of trying to
drive him out of bounds. I think he
got one (foot) in and was trying to get
the second one down. The last drive
was a testament to our resilience.”
By ANDREW SELIGMAN
Associated Press
CHICAGO — One way or another,
there will be a championship celebra-
tion in Cleveland.
Still to be determined? Whether the
Indians or Cubs will be popping the
champagne.
The Cubs won a World Series
game at Wrigley Field for the first time
since 1945 and at least delayed Cleve-
land’s big party with a 3-2 victory Sun-
day night.
Aroldis Chapman got the final eight
outs in the longest appearance of his
career, Jon Lester pitched six strong
innings and Kris Bryant homered as
Chicago cut the Indians’ lead to 3-2.
So a World Series between the
teams with baseball’s longest title
droughts goes back to Cleveland, with
2015 NL Cy Young Award winner
Jake Arrieta set to start for the Cubs
WORLD SERIES: GAME 6
• Chicago Cubs at Cleveland
• Tuesday, 5 p.m. TV: Fox
• Cleveland leads series 3-2
AP Photo/Matt Marton
Chicago Cubs fans celebrate out-
side of Wrigley Field after Game
5 of the Major League Baseball
World Series against the Cleveland
Indians on Sunday in Chicago.
and Josh Tomlin going on short rest
for the Indians in Game 6 on Tuesday
night.
“We’re writing our own history,”
Chicago shortstop Addison Russell
said. “We’re making history. Why
stop?”
His team rolled through the regu-
lar season with a major league-leading
103 wins, took out playoff-tested San
Francisco in the NL Division Series
and rallied to beat the Los Ange-
les Dodgers in the NL Championship
Series. The Cubs were so dominant at
times they had their long-downtrod-
den fans believing that, after decades
of supposed curses and sincere heart-
break, this just might be the year.
It still could be but it would take an
historic effort. Only five teams have
come back from a 3-1 deficit to win
a best-of-seven World Series, most
recently Kansas City in 1985.