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ATHLETES
OF THE WEEK
Celebrating best in Cowapa volleyball
(For Oct. 23-29)
The Daily Astorian
The best league in Class 4A vol-
leyball picked its best players last
week, with the announcement of the
Cowapa All-League volleyball team.
The Cowapa — which will have
three teams in the eight-team state
GIRLS
McKenzie Burnett, Astoria
The junior had the highest fin-
ish among local runners in last
week’s district cross country
meets. Burnett finished ninth over-
all in the Cowapa League meet at
Camp Rilea, running the 5,000-
meter course in 22 minutes, 48
seconds.
tournament later this week — had
co-Players of the Year, as Valley
Catholic junior Lizzy Osborn shared
the award with Banks’ senior Mary
Schorn.
Coach of the Year is Valley Cath-
olic’s Becky Kemper. The Valiants
had five players on the first team, and
two more were selected honorable
mention.
The 14-player first team squad has
10 seniors, including Seaside’s Maddi
Utti. Astoria senior Jacqueline Jarrett
was named honorable mention.
The Fishermen and Gulls lead the
way in non-senior selections, with
Astoria junior Madi Landwehr on the
first team, and junior Darian Hage-
man honorable mention.
Seaside junior Alyssia Gonza-
lez was a first team selection, while
junior teammate Jetta Ideue and soph-
omore Anna Huddleston were named
honorable mention.
Indians try to bring Cleveland
long-awaited home party
BOYS
Chase Januik, Seaside
A sophomore who wasn’t even
on the varsity roster at the start
of the season, Januik started and
scored all three goals for Seaside
in the Oct. 29 win over Cottage
Grove in a 4A Regional Play-in
game at Broadway Field.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
WEDNESDAY
Boys Soccer — Class 4A State Play-
off: Seaside at La Grande, 1 p.m.
VOLLEYBALL
Cowapa All-League
Players of the Year: Lizzy Osborn,
Valley Catholic; Mary Schorn, Banks
Coach of the Year: Becky Kemper,
Valley Catholic
First Team
Lizzy Osborn, Jr. Valley Catholic
Mary Schorn, Sr., Banks
Grace Buchanan, Sr., Banks
Regan Dean, Sr., Valley Catholic
Alyssia Gonzalez, Jr., Seaside
Sarah Gram, Sr., Valley Catholic
Abby Groh, Sr., Valley Catholic
Madi Landwehr, Jr., Astoria
Kayla Robbins, So., Valley C.
Alyssa Spang, Sr., Scappoose
Maddy Standley, Sr., Banks
Maddi Utti, Sr., Seaside
Lexie Zuercher, Sr., Tillamook
Jordan Zweifel, Sr., Tillamook
Honorable Mention
Bella Albert, So., Banks
Lindsey Beck, Fr., Banks
Hannah Galey, Jr., Scappoose
Darian Hageman, Jr., Astoria
Makayla Hopkes, Jr., Tillamook
Anna Huddleston, So., Seaside
Jetta Ideue, Jr., Seaside
Jacqueline Jarrett, Sr., Astoria
Kaylie Kopra, Sr., Scappoose
Allie Merz, Fr., Valley Catholic
Anna Oldenkamp, Jr., Tillamook
Daria Wonderlick, Sr., Valley C.
SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Exposed again,
Vikings lose to
last-place Bears
AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar
A small group of Cleveland Indians participate in an optional team workout at Progressive Field, Monday in preparation for base-
ball’s upcoming World Series Game 6 against the Chicago Cubs tonight in Cleveland.
By RONALD BLUM
AP Baseball Writer
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WORLD SERIES: GAME 6
LEVELAND — Flash back to
Oct. 12, 1920.
“An overjoyed crowd of nearly
28,000 fans blazed into a confla-
gration of hysterical excitement
when the game was over and Cleveland had
realized at last the baseball ambition of two-
score years,” The New York Times wrote the
following day.
Stan Coveleski’s five-hitter led Cleveland
over Brooklyn 3-0 that afternoon at League
Park for a 5-2 win in that year’s best-of-nine
World Series.
The Indians have not won the champion-
ship at home since, a streak they hope will end
tonight in Game 6 against the Chicago Cubs.
“We haven’t been able to celebrate in front
of our fans once this postseason, so it would
be definitely special to have the opportunity
to do it in front of them,” first baseman Mike
Napoli said Monday.
Cleveland’s only other World Series title
was in 1948, when the Indians secured the
crown with a Game 6 victory at Braves Field
in Boston. The club then traveled home by
train.
Eddie Robinson, the last living mem-
ber from that team, planned to be at Progres-
sive Field to watch Cleveland’s Josh Tomlin
pitch against the Cubs’ Jake Arrieta with a 3-2
Series lead.
The 95-year-old Robinson was the starting
first baseman on the ‘48 team, which featured
• Chicago Cubs at Cleveland
• Today, 5 p.m. TV: Fox
• Cleveland leads series 3-2
Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller, Larry Doby
— who broke the AL color barrier — short-
stop/manager Lou Boudreau and pitcher Bob
Lemon.
1979 Pittsburgh Pirates.
Arrieta, who pitched no-hit ball into the
sixth inning to win Game 2, starts on five
days’ rest for the Cubs against Tomlin, who
will have had three days off since throwing 58
pitches in his Game 3 no-decision.
If the Cubs force Game 7, Kyle Hendricks
would pitch on regular rest for Chicago against
Corey Kluber, who would make another start
on short rest and try to become the first pitcher
to win three starts in one Series since Detroit’s
Mickey Lolich in 1968.
On a roll?
No Cleveland team has secured a profes-
sional title at home since the Browns won the
1964 NFL Championship Game at Cleveland
Municipal Stadium, and the city missed this
year’s big events, too.
First, the Cavaliers completed their NBA
Finals comeback on the road, beating Golden
State in Game 7 for the city’s first major pro
sports championship in 52 years. Then, the
Indians clinched the AL Central crown at
Detroit, won the AL Division Series in Boston
and the AL Championship Series at Toronto.
After winning Games 3 and 4 in Chicago
to open a 3-1 Series lead, the Indians lost 3-2
Sunday at Wrigley Field.
“It’ll be ideal. We have a better situation
to do it now,” second baseman Jason Kipnis
said.
Chicago, which hasn’t won it all since
1908, is trying to become the first team to
overcome a 3-1 Series deficit since the 1985
Kansas City Royals and the first to do it by
winning Games 6 and 7 on the road since the
Flying in
Chicago delayed its charter flight to Cleve-
land until Monday night. In the Wrigley Field
clubhouse, a message said: “Halloween cos-
tumes are encouraged on the plane.”
“We wanted them to have the opportunity
to be with their kids today during the Hallow-
een moment,” Cubs manager Joe Maddon
said. “After that game last night, believe me,
man, I was in no mood to get up and travel
today. I think it actually is working out pretty
well. We’re going to get in at a really good
hour, grab stuff to eat and go to bed.”
With the switch to the American League
ballpark, the designated hitter is back: Carlos
Santana for the Indians and Kyle Schwarber
for the Cubs. Schwarber was out from April 7
until the Series opener after tearing knee lig-
aments. He has not been given medical clear-
ance to play the field, so he was limited to one
pinch-hitting appearance at home. He is 3 for
8 in the Series with a double, two walks and
two RBIs.
Associated Press
CHICAGO — Sam Bradford
and the Minnesota Vikings were
rolling as the NFL’s last unde-
feated team. Now, they can’t even
beat the last-place team in their
division.
Bradford got sacked five times
behind a leaky offensive line and
the Vikings dropped their second
straight in a stunning 20-10 loss
to the Chicago Bears on Monday
night.
“We’re a good team,” guard
Brandon Fusco said. “It’s not us.
It’s not Viking football. That’s
what is frustrating, we’re such a
good team. What we’re putting
out on the field is not us. We have
to watch the film and get better
from this.”
The Vikings (5-2) lost their
second straight following a defeat
against Philadelphia last week.
And if there was any doubt the
blueprint to beat them was out, it
got squashed with this loss.
Seahawks continuing to get little help from offense
By TIM BOOTH
AP Sports Writer
AP Photo/Butch Dill
Seattle Seahawks tight end
Nick Vannett (81) is stopped by
New Orleans Saints cornerback
De’Vante Harris (21) in the sec-
ond half of an NFL football game
in New Orleans, Sunday.
RENTON, Wash. — To little sur-
prise, Pete Carroll is giving the Seat-
tle Seahawks an extra day of rest this
week with a Monday night game
coming up.
Seattle’s defense has certainly
earned the bonus day off. The same
can’t be said of the Seahawks’
offense.
Over the past two weeks, Seattle’s
been pushed to the limits defensively.
After being on the field for 95 plays
and more than 46 minutes a week
ago against Arizona, the Seahawks
defense was on the field for another
76 plays and more than 36 minutes in
Sunday’s 25-20 loss to New Orleans.
While the opponents are doing
their part in exhausting Seattle’s
defense, one of the major culprits is a
struggling Seahawks offense that has
one offensive touchdown in the past
nine quarters.
“We need to get out of what we’ve
been in here the last two weeks. This
is not the way we’re going to play
football. We’re going to fix this,”
Carroll said Monday. “It just hap-
pened back to back to us in very simi-
lar fashion and I can’t wait to get back
on the practice field. We all feel the
same. There will be some things that
will look different.”
Seattle’s lackluster offensive per-
formance against the Saints came on
the heels of last week’s overtime tie
with Arizona where the Seahawks
failed to find the end zone for the sec-
ond time this season.
The struggles against the Cardinals
were chalked up to a divisional oppo-
nent that knows Seattle well and has
given the Seahawks trouble in the past.
But that was expected to be solved by
a New Orleans defense that entered the
week ranked 29th in the NFL.
Instead, the Seahawks ran just 19
plays and had 3 yards rushing in the
first half; finished with 74 yards rush-
ing; and for the second straight week
left their defense on the field for far
too long.
The core of Seattle’s problem con-
tinues to be inconsistency in the run
game. There were flashes against New
Orleans, including a strong drive to
start the second half. It was the only
drive of the game where Seattle had
at least three running plays of more
than five yards.