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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2016 CONTACT US FOLLOW US facebook.com/ DailyAstorianSports Gary Henley | Sports Reporter ghenley@dailyastorian.com SPORTS IN BRIEF Warrior girls beat Comets NASELLE, Wash. — War- renton improved to 2-1 overall with an easy 52-29 win at Naselle Tuesday, in a nonleague girls bas- ketball game. Tyla Little scored 13 points and Fernanda Alvarez added 12 for the Warriors, who led 17-3 after one quarter and 27-5 at halftime. Rachel Dyer added nine points for Warrenton, which connected on eight 3-pointers. The Warriors play at Knappa Thursday. USF’s Taggart to be next Oregon coach First loss for Lady Jays JEWELL — The Jewell girls basketball team suffered its fi rst loss of the season Tuesday night at home, as Willamette Valley Christian posted a 37-29 win over the Lady Jays in a Casco League opener. Alyscia Littlepage scored 10 points for Jewell, which slips to 3-1 overall. Emma Guillen had 10 rebounds for the Jays, who out- scored the Knights 7-3 in the sec- ond quarter, but trailed 13-11 at halftime. Ilwaco girls score 38-point win PUYALLUP, Wash. — It was another easy win for the Pacifi c 2B League favorites Tuesday night, as the Ilwaco girls basketball team cruised past Chief Leschi, 71-33. After a close win over R.A. Long in the season opener, Ilwaco has won its last three games by a combined 115 points (205-90). Madeline Jacobson and MaK- enzie Kaech scored 20 points apiece in Tuesday’s win. The Lady Fishermen improved to 3-0 in league play. Gulls boys win YAMHILL — Seaside broke open a close game at halftime by outscoring Yamhill-Carlton 21-13 in the third quarter, on its way to an 83-65 win over the Tigers Tuesday night, in a Class 4A non- league boys basketball game. The Gulls held a slim 41-40 lead at halftime over the former Cowapa League team, before out- scoring Yamhill 42-25 in the sec- ond half. “We were real lackadaisical in the fi rst half,” said Seaside coach Bill Westerholm. “We came out slow, and we just didn’t give Yam- hill enough respect in the fi rst half. “I thought the kids responded well in the second half,” he said. “The beginning and end of the third quarter and into the fourth, we played better defensively.” Two last names — Januik and Thompson — combined to score 66 of Seaside’s 85 points. Chase Januik and Jackson Januik scored 21 points apiece to lead the way; Attikin Babb added 14 points; Hunter Thompson scored 13 and Duncan Thompson fi nished with 11 for the Gulls, now 2-0. Seaside plays at Corbett Friday. Warriors hold off Comets boys NASELLE, Wash. — Chris- tian Holt erupted for a career-high 31 points, and the Warrenton boys basketball team held off Naselle 61-52 in a cross-state game Tues- day night at Naselle. The Warriors held a slim 27-24 lead at halftime, before gradually building a 13-point lead with four minutes left in the fourth quarter. “Naselle’s a good team, and they just kind of hung around,” said Warrenton coach Nate McBride, whose team managed to hold off the Comets for their sec- ond win of the season. Holt was 11-for-21 from the fi eld, 6-of-7 at the free throw line, and made three 3-pointers on his way to a career night. Tyler Whita- ker was Warrenton’s next-highest scorer, with nine points. Donny Edwards and soph- omore transfer Antonio Nolan scored 16 apiece for Naselle. The Warriors play at Knappa Thursday. AP Photo/Chris O’Meara South Florida head coach Willie Taggart shouts instructions to his team against Central Florida, in Tampa, Fla., on Nov. 26. Associated Press S outh Florida football coach Willie Tag- gart has informed the school that he is leaving to become the coach at Oregon, a person with direct knowledge of the situa- tion told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of ano- nymity Wednesday because neither school was prepared to make an offi cial announce- ment. ESPN fi rst reported Oregon had hired Taggart. Taggart is in his fourth season at USF and has gone 18-7 the last two seasons, including 10-2 this year. He also spent three seasons as coach of Western Kentucky, his alma mater, and was an assistant coach at Stanford under Jim Harbaugh. Oregon fi red Mark Helfrich last week after the Ducks went 4-8. Taggart, 40, is the fi rst coach Oregon has hired from outside the program since 1976. The Ducks’ previous three coaches, Mike Bellotti, Chip Kelly and Helfrich, were all assistants who were promoted. Taggart will be the fi rst black head foot- ball coach at Oregon. The length and terms of his contract with the Ducks were not immedi- ately released. Taggart was 16-20 at Western Kentucky, taking over when it was fi rst transitioning to FBS. He went 7-5 in his last two seasons with the Hilltoppers and then moved to USF, not far from where he grew up in Bradenton, Florida. It took two seasons and a change in offen- sive philosophy from more pro-style, West Coast schemes to a spread, but he now has the 25th-ranked Bulls rolling. They fi nished sec- ond in the American Athletic Conference East Division to Temple and will play South Caro- lina on Dec. 29 in the Birmingham Bowl. This is the second straight day the AAC has lost one of its best coaches, and the third the conference has lost since Thanksgiving weekend. Temple’s Matt Rhule was hired by Baylor on Monday and Tom Herman left Houston for Texas on Nov. 26. SCOREBOARD GIRLS BASKETBALL Seaside 52, Yamhill-Carlton 25 YC (25): Reilly Southard 10, O’Lough- lin 4, Dixon 3, Horne 3, Reimann 2, Gai- bler 2, Carlgren 1. SEA (52): Maddi Utti 17, Babbitt 12, Villegas 11, Ideue 6, Kiser 4, Garhofer 2, Smart, Huddleston, Bodner, Turner, Falleur. Yamhill-C 2 10 6 7—25 Seaside 12 16 14 10—52 Field goals: Yamhill-Carlton 9-35; Seaside 21-60. 3-Point goals: Yam- hill-Carlton 1-7 (Dixon); Seaside 0-12. Free throws: Yamhill-Carlton 5-9; Sea- side 10-18. Turnovers: Yamhill-Carlton 39, Seaside 12. JV: Seaside 44, Yamhill-Carlton 37 Photos by Jeff Ter Har/For the Daily Astorian Seaside’s Jetta Ideue, right, hits the floor for a loose ball in Tuesday’s game with Yamhill-Carlton. Gulls jump on Tigers early in win The Daily Astorian Warrenton 52, Naselle 29 WAR (52): Tyla Little 13, Alvarez 12, Dyer 9, K.Blodgett 6, Miethe 6, Bussert 4, Morrill 2, M.Blodgett, Schenbeck, DeJesus, Diego, Heyen. NAS (29): Ellie Chapman 7, Harman 4, Ford 4, Tu Tu’u 4, Zimmerman 4, Scra- beck 2, Glenn 2, Weston 2, Jacot 2. Warrenton 17 10 11 14—52 Naselle 3 2 14 10—29 Willamette VC 37, Jewell 29 JWL (29): Alyscia Littlepage 10, Guil- len 5, G.Morales 4, Kaczenski 4, Wam- mack 2, Olvera 2, Hollenbach 2, N.Mo- rales, Norman, Shaw. Willamette VC 10 3 12 12—37 Jewell 4 7 8 10—29 BOYS BASKETBALL SEASIDE — The Seaside Lady Gulls were back to winning how they usually win Tuesday night — a hot start, pressure defense and forcing turnovers. Lots of turnovers. Seaside scored on its fi rst four pos- sessions in a 52-25 win over Yam- hill-Carlton, in a nonleague girls bas- ketball contest at the Gulls’ Nest. Maddi Utti led the Gulls with 17 points, while the Seaside defense forced 39 turnovers, 24 in the fi rst half. The Tigers had 11 turnovers before they even scored their fi rst points, as Seaside built a 12-2 lead after one quarter. Utti scored twice off steals mid- way through the second period, while Bryre Babbitt was hot from the out- side early, scoring 10 of her 12 points in the fi rst half. Sydney Villegas added 11 points for the Gulls, who were 21-of-60 from the fi eld, to Yamhill’s 9-for-35. Seaside 83, Yamhill-Carlton 65 SEA (83): Chase Januik 21, Jackson Januik 21, Babb 14, H.Thompson 13, D.Thompson 11, Westerholm 2, Hague 2, Hoekstre 2, Sibony, Landwehr, John- son, Meyer. YC (65): Hunter Horne 21, Garrison 15, Frost 12, Morris 5, Stepper 5, Long 2, Davis 2. Seaside 25 16 21 21—83 Yamhill-C 23 17 13 12—65 Warrenton 61, Naselle 52 WAR (61): Christian Holt 31, Whita- ker 9, Knight 6, Fischer 6, Alcobendas 6, Jackson 3, Kapua, Fowler, Bingham, Oseguera. NAS (52): Donny Edwards 16, Antonio Nolan 16, Lund 6, Eaton 4, Fauver 3, Lopez 3, Lindstrom 2, Dorman 2, Fon- tanilla. Warrenton 17 10 20 14—61 Naselle 15 9 14 14—52 Seaside senior Sydney Villegas, No. 20, battles for a rebounds in Tues- day’s win over Yamhill-Carlton. Willamette Valley 66, Jewell 34 JWL (34): Ben Stahly 15, Littlepage 7, N.Kane 6, Hinson 3, Meehan 2, R.Kane 1, Culp, Lilley, Godwin, Lyon. Willamette VC 12 10 21 23—66 Jewell 8 8 6 12—34
