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SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Loggers pound
the Dragons
The Daily Astorian
Ilwaco wins annual
Warrior Wrestling Invite
SHERIDAN — The Knappa
boys opened the Northwest
League season with an easy win
Friday, 73-38, at Delphian.
Leading 19-13 after one quar-
ter, the No. 3-ranked Loggers out-
scored the Dragons 44-14 over the
second and third quarters.
Dale Takalo led all scorers with
28 points, with Joe Ramvick toss-
ing in 15 and Timber Engblom
adding 12.
Jason Miller hauled in nine
rebounds with four assists and
four steals for the Loggers.
Photos by Damian Mulinix/For The Daily Astorian
AP Photo/Steven Senne
Astoria’s Matthew Hubbert pins his opening round opponent during Saturday’s Warrenton Wrestling Tournament.
Patriots running back LeGar-
rette Blount tries to shake free
from Ravens safety Eric Wed-
dle during the second half,
Monday in Foxborough, Mass.
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
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Patriots win, inch
toward playoffs
Associated Press
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — By
the time the Patriots took the field
Monday night against the Ravens,
they knew they’d have to wait at
least another week to wrap up their
eighth consecutive playoff berth.
It didn’t stop New England
from producing a postseason-qual-
ity effort.
The Patriots overcame a pair of
miscues on special teams and pro-
vided some timely offense late to
beat the Baltimore Ravens 30-23
on Monday night .
New England enters its final
three regular season games in great
position for an eighth straight AFC
East crown.
Tom Brady carved up the
NFL’s top-ranked defense for 406
yards passing and three touch-
downs, saving his best for last with
a 79-yard strike to Chris Hogan in
the fourth quarter.
He became just fourth NFL
quarterback with at least 450
career touchdown passes.
Vernonia’s Nick Bennett brings down Warrenton’s
Giovanni Martinez during the Warrenton tournament.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
TODAY
Girls Basketball — Rainier at War-
renton, 7:45 p.m.; Gaston at Knappa, 6
p.m.
Boys Basketball — Rainier at War-
renton, 6 p.m.; Gaston at Knappa, 8
p.m.; Ilwaco at Raymond, 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Girls Basketball — Falls City at Jew-
ell, 5:30 p.m.
Boys Basketball — Falls City at Jew-
ell, 7 p.m.
Swimming — Scappoose at Seaside,
4 p.m.
THURSDAY
Girls Basketball — Warrenton at
Clatskanie, 7:30 p.m.; Knappa at Verno-
nia, 6 p.m.; Ilwaco at Raymond, 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball — Warrenton at
Clatskanie, 6 p.m.; Knappa at Vernonia,
8 p.m.
Seaside Holiday Classic
Thursday’s Schedule
Girls
10 am-Astoria vs. Cottage Grove
1:00-South Whidbey vs. Newport
4:00-Crook County vs. TBA
7:00-Sisters vs. Seaside
Boys
11:30-Cottage Grove vs. Astoria
2:30-Newport vs. Montesano
5:30-Elma vs. Madras
8:30-Sisters vs. Seaside
BOYS BASKETBALL
Knappa 73, Delphian 38
KNA (73): Dale Takalo 28, Ramvick
15, Engblom 12, Miller 7, E.Takalo 6,
Weirup 3, Goodman 1, Hunt 1, Rubus,
Vanderburg, Geisler.
DEL (38): Leo Wang 11, Hung 8, Mar-
razzo 6, Xu 5, Morales 3, Jin 2, Abulo-
houm 2.
Knappa
19 21 23 10—73
Delphian
13 6 8 11—38
Seaside’s Donald Latourette tries to flip Astoria’s Dalton
Sommers during their match at the Warrenton tournament.
ARRENTON — The Wash-
ington schools ruled the day
at the annual Warrenton
Wrestling Tournament, hosted by the
Warriors Saturday.
Ilwaco, Washington, left with the
team victory, as the Fishermen racked
up 260 points to top second-place
Willapa Valley, followed by Castle
Rock.
Vernonia took fourth in the team
standings, followed by Clatskanie,
Seaside, Knappa, Rainier, Warrenton
and Astoria.
Ilwaco had four individual cham-
pions, with six more taking second
place and two third place finishers.
The individual champions were Jack
Odneal at 145 pounds; Daylin Kem-
mer at 170; Brandon McMullen (182)
and Alec Bell (285).
“The annual Warrenton Tourna-
ment is a great chance to showcase
our team to our home crowd,” said
Warrenton coach Corey Conant. “Our
young team continued to earn valu-
able mat time on Saturday with the
added bonus of putting on a pretty
good show for the fans.”
The Knappa Loggers placed sev-
enth, with just seven wrestlers, with
the Goozee brothers scoring most of
the points.
At 126 pounds, Luke Goozee
pinned his first two opponents in
the first round, then struggled in his
championship match against Ilwa-
co’s Trenton Cox, before finally pin-
ning Cox.
Andrew Goozee also opened with
two pins, then held on for a 7-2 deci-
sion over Astoria’s Kaden Gilbert in
the title bout at 195.
In his second year of wrestling,
Knappa’s Spencer Fulton is now 8-2
this season.
After second round pins over his
first two opponents, Fulton lost the
championship match to Odneal of
Ilwaco.
Knappa’s Dawson Whiteside had
two pins at 152 before losing to Storm
Henson of Vernonia.
Knappa is still missing David Pat-
terson at 220, but “I was extremely
pleased with our small team (seven
wrestlers) at the tournament,” said
Knappa coach Dan Owings. “If you
figured out the percentage wins, we
actually did better than Ilwaco. That’s
encouraging.”
The home Warriors had four wres-
tlers end up with third-place fin-
ishes, including Ivy McCargish (106
pounds), Armin Rodriguez (126),
Giovanni Martinez (152) and Thomas
Atwood (170).
“We are really happy with the
work our wrestlers are putting in,
and now that we have a handful of
matches under our belts, we can start
building some momentum towards
the end of the season,” Conant said.
Astoria had one individual cham-
pion, as Juan Jimenez wrestled up a
weight class and won the champion-
ship at 113 pounds.
Elsewhere, Kaden Gilbert won his
first two matches, and wrestled tough
before losing to Andrew Goozee in
the finals.
Astoria’s Riley Ashton (120)
and Jeff Stutznegger (220) both tied
for third in their respective weight
classes.
Second-place finishers for Ilwaco
included: Aaron Chatwood (106),
Ghannon Whelden (120), Tren-
ton Cox (126), Royce Murry (152),
Landin Frank (170) and Marcus Con-
nor (220).
Clippers sweep Blazers in three-game series
By STEVE DILBECK
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — J.J. Redick
came through at the free-throw line
in the closing seconds to help the Los
Angeles Clippers pull out a win in a
game that saw the teams trade leads
until the final minutes.
Blake Griffin had 26 points and 12
rebounds, Chris Paul had 21 points
and 14 assists, and the Clippers held
off the Portland Trail Blazers 121-
120 Monday night to sweep the three-
game season series.
Redick finished with 19 points,
hitting all eight of his free throws —
including three in the final seconds to
push Los Angeles’ lead to four points.
Portland’s Damian Lillard hit a
3-pointer with 1.7 seconds left for the
final margin.
“It was an up-and-down game,
back and forth,” Blazers coach Terry
Stotts said. “Each team made not big
runs, but little runs and that was kind
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of the ebb and flow of the game.”
The final minutes saw Clippers
center DeAndre Jordan and Blazers
forward Evan Turner ejected. Port-
land center Mason Plumlee was hit
with a technical after he elbowed
Griffin on a drive in his face, caus-
ing a cut on his upper lip that needed
three stitches after the game.
That only highlighted what was a
roughly played game throughout.
“I’m sure there is no love lost,”
Clippers coach Doc Rivers said. “We
play each other a lot and whenever
you play each other a lot it seems like
you get testy. We don’t really care if
you like us or not.”
Paul was also charged with a fla-
grant foul.
“It’s just competition,” Paul said.
“Guys out there fighting and trying to
get a win and stuff happens.”
Paul hit a three-pointer with just
over 2 minutes to play, and later
added a pair of free throws to give the
Clippers a 118-113 lead with 18 sec-
onds to play.
But the Blazers responded again,
Lillard hit a pair of free throws him-
self. After Lillard’s last 3 the Clippers
ran out the clock.
“It was probably our most com-
petitive game of the year,” Stotts said.
“It was a tough loss but I like the way
we competed throughout the game.
We got down and came back. It was
a very good effort.”
C.J. McCollum had 25 points and
Lillard finished with 24 points and
eight assists for the Trail Blazers, who
lost their fourth straight — all on the
road.
“The way we played tonight is the
way we’re supposed to play,” Lillard
said.
MLB hazing rules
ban dressing
rookies as women
Associated Press
NEW YORK — That baseball
hazing ritual of dressing up rook-
ies as Wonder Woman, Hooters
Girls and Dallas Cowboys cheer-
leaders is now banned.
Major
League
Baseball
created an Anti-Hazing and
Anti-Bullying Policy that covers
the practice. As part of the sport’s
new labor deal, set to be ratified
by both sides today, the players’
union agreed not to contest it.
The policy, obtained by The
Associated Press, prohibits
“requiring, coercing or encour-
aging” players from “dressing
up as women or wearing cos-
tumes that may be offensive to
individuals based on their race,
sex, nationality, age, sexual ori-
entation, gender identify or other
characteristic.”