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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2016
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Gulls
drop 97
points on
Eagles
Astoria
hosts a
four-way
dual meet
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The Astoria wrestling team
hosted a four-way dual meet
with a trio of Washington schools
Wednesday at the Brick House,
as Ilwaco, Mark Morris and R.A.
Long made the trip across the
river to take part.
Less than a week after winning
the team title at the Warrenton
Tournament, Ilwaco scored two
more victories Wednesday, defeat-
ing Mark Morris (46-30) and R.A.
Long (56-22).
Ilwaco had five wrestlers finish
2-0 on the night: Allen Chetwood
(138 pounds), Jack Odneal (145),
Daylin Kemmer (170), Brandon
McMullen (182) and Alec Bell
(220).
Astoria’s Kaden Gilbert
won both of his matches at 195,
to highlight the home team’s
performance.
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
Photos by Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Damian Mulinix/For EO Media Group
Ilwaco’s Joe Thompson tries
to get untangled from his Mark
Morris opponent Wednesday
night in Astoria.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TODAY
Girls Basketball — Astoria JV2 at
Jewell, 5 p.m.; Life Christian at Ilwaco,
5:45 p.m.
Boys Basketball — Life Christian at
Ilwaco, 7 p.m.
SATURDAY
Girls Basketball — Jefferson at War-
renton, Noon
Boys Basketball — Jefferson at War-
renton, 4:30 p.m.
Wrestling — Warrenton at Nestucca
Tournament, 9 a.m.; Knappa at Wahkia-
kum Meet, TBA
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Astoria 45, Cottage Grove 38
CG (38): Reilly Kelty 11, Ema Gardner
11, Murphy 9, Pardee 3, Child 2, Blom-
quist 2, Weybright, Albrecht.
AST (45): Sam Hemsley 12, Rylee De-
Mander 12, Hankwitz 8, Wallace 5, Dal-
ton 4, Cummings 2, Gimre 2, Rogers.
C.Grove
11 9 10 8—38
Astoria
4 11 11 19—45
Field goals: Cottage Grove 13-27;
Astoria 16-54. 3-Point goals: Cottage
Grove 0-2; Astoria 3-14 (Hemsley 2,
Wallace). Free throws: Cottage Grove
12-25; Astoria 10-23. Fouls: Cottage
Grove 20, Astoria 20. Turnovers: Cot-
tage Grove 35, Astoria 19.
BOYS BASKETBALL
Astoria 52, Cottage Grove 43
CG (43): Blake Sentman 12, Parent 11,
Grover 8, Porter 4, Ellingworth 4, Alonzo
2, Husko 2, Bellamy.
AST (52): Olaf Englund 16, Fremstad
14, Gohl 12, Palek 6, O’Brien 2, John-
son 2, Burchfield, Sharp, Olson.
C.Grove
10 8 11 14—43
Astoria
18 12 12 10—52
Field goals: Cottage Grove 16-41;
Astoria 23-42. 3-Point goals: Cottage
Grove 3-15 (Grover 2, Sentman); Asto-
ria 2-7 (Gohl 2). Free throws: Cottage
Grove 8-10; Astoria 4-6. Fouls: Cottage
Grove 10, Astoria 13. Turnovers: Cot-
tage Grove 15, Astoria 15.
Seaside 97, Elma 40
ELM (40): Trace Thompson 15,
Av.Brown 10, A.J.Brown 7, Schneider 6,
Vollan 2.
SEA (97): Chase Januik 32, H.Thomp-
son 25, J.Januik 9, Hoekstre 6, Wester-
holm 6, D.Thompson 5, Babb 4, Carter
4, Hague 2, Landwehr 2, Johnson 2.
Elma
9 11 12 8—40
Seaside
32 28 29 8—97
Lady Fish Rylee Demander looks to take a shot while Cottage Grove’s Keara Murphy defends during the
Seaside Holiday Classic Basketball Tournament on Thursday at Seaside High School.
Lady Fishermen rally for win
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SEASIDE — Cottage Grove and
Astoria combined to miss 26 free
throws Thursday afternoon, in the
first game of the annual Seaside Hol-
iday Classic.
While most of Astoria’s misses
were in the first half (5-for-15), the
Lions missed their last six in the
fourth quarter, including an 0-for-4
effort in the final 1:51 — and that
helped the Lady Fishermen rally for
an exciting 45-38 victory in the non-
league girls basketball matchup.
Astoria trailed for most of the con-
test, which included a 9-0 lead for the
Lions in the opening minutes.
But the Fishermen gradually took
advantage of Cottage Grove’s turn-
overs (35), as well as Astoria’s huge
advantage in shots taken.
The Lady Fish launched 54 shots
from the field, making 16, while Cot-
tage Grove finished 13-for-27.
Astoria saved its best for last.
Trailing 32-26 in the first minute
Astoria’s Anna
Gimre fights
for ball control
with Cottage
Grove’s Ema
Gardner
during the
Seaside Hol-
iday Classic
Basketball
Tournament
Thursday at
Seaside High
School.
of the fourth quarter, Alexis Wallace
connected on a 3-pointer to spark a
7-0 run to give the Fishermen their
first lead.
The Lions answered with a 6-0
run of their own, but Cottage Grove
wilted under Astoria’s defensive pres-
sure, which resulted in 10 turnovers
by the Lions in the final minutes.
Astoria had baskets in transi-
tion from Anna Gimre and Rylee
DeMander off a steal, while Brook-
lyn Hankwitz and Sam Hemsley hit
four straight free throws, and Hems-
ley finished it off with a 3-pointer in
the final seconds.
Hemsley and DeMander led Asto-
ria with 12 points apiece. The Lions
were 12-for-25 at the free throw line,
to Astoria’s 10-for-23.
The Fishermen return to action
today at Seaside (3:15 p.m. vs. South
Whidbey), then finish the tournament
Saturday (2:15 p.m. vs. Elma).
SEASIDE — For the record,
a nine-day layoff definitely did
NOT have a negative effect on the
Seaside boys basketball team.
After sitting around all day
Thursday — after not playing a
game since Dec. 6 — the Gulls
came out on fire in a first-round
game of the Seaside Holiday Clas-
sic, and ended up scorching Elma,
97-40.
If anything, the Gulls are the
most exciting team in Oregon 4A
boys basketball, as they were on a
pace to score 128 points after one
quarter.
Long range 3-point bombs from
Attikin Babb, Hunter Thompson,
Jackson Januik, Chase Januik and
Payton Westerholm highlighted a
32-9 first quarter.
With more triples from Chase
Januik and Thompson in the sec-
ond, Seaside’s lead reached 66-20
by halftime.
Seaside did not slow down in
the third, as Chase and Jackson
Januik combined for five points
in the opening seconds of the
period, followed by a highlight
reel of scores from Chase Januik,
the sophomore who finished with
a game-high 32 points.
Thompson added 25 for Sea-
side, which plays either Madras or
Sisters tonight at 8:30 p.m. (as of
Thursday night, it was unknown
which team would be participat-
ing Friday).
For Seaside, “I was worried,
because we’d only practiced three
times this week, and they were
fairly lackluster practices,” said
Seaside coach Bill Westerholm.
“But we were ready to go defen-
sively, and that was about as good
a first half as I’ve seen.
“All I did was ask the kids to
come out with some energy, and
they did.”
The 97 points tied a school
record for a Westerholm-coached
team. On Jan. 4, 2005, the Gulls
lost a 99-97 overtime game at Taft.
The previous mark for most points
in a regulation, four-quarter game
was Jan. 2, 2004, when Seaside
defeated Waldport, 94-33.
Gull girls fly
past Eagles
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Fishermen boys top Lions in latest showdown
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SEASIDE — The Cottage Grove
Lions and Astoria Fishermen have
gone head-to-head in some pretty
big games over the last year.
State playoff games in both boys
basketball and football over the last
nine months has resulted in a split
for the two schools, with the Lions
ending Astoria’s football season just
over a month ago with a 25-21 win
over the Fishermen at CMH Field.
But the Fishermen hoopsters —
featuring many of the same athletes
— gained a little revenge Thursday
afternoon, as they scored a 52-43
win over Cottage Grove in a first
round boys’ game of the Seaside
Holiday Classic.
“I think they were, a little bit,”
Lower Columbia Connector
Astoria coach Kevin Goin said,
when asked if his players were more
fired up than usual. “We played them
in the tournament last year, and they
beat us in football.”
It was Goin’s team that defeated
Cottage Grove 56-46 in last year’s
consolation final at the state basket-
ball tournament.
“I was real happy with our effort,”
he said. “We had good ball move-
ment and played real well defen-
sively. Jackson Arnsdorf was down
with the flu, but Jasyn Gohl did a
great job of stepping up, and K.J.
(Karsten Johnson) filled in nicely for
Jackson.”
Astoria jumped out to a 13-3 lead
and never looked back, as the Fish-
ermen maintained a 10- to 12-point
lead for much of the game.
The Lions pulled to within 48-43
with 48 seconds left in regulation,
before Olaf Englund made two free
throws, and Fridtjof Fremstad scored
on a drive to the hoop to help Astoria
to its fourth win of the season.
Englund scored 10 points in the
second half and finished with 16,
while Fremstad tossed in 14 points
and Gohl scored 10 of his 12 points
in the first half.
“It was nice to see some of the
young guys stepping up and contrib-
uting,” Goin said. “K.J., Josh Olson,
Alex Burchfield … we played a good
game against a good team. Cottage
Grove is back with their two best
players from last year — (Kory) Par-
ent and (Blake) Sentman. We lost
our focus there a little at the end, but
I was real happy with the win.”
SEASIDE — An 11-0 start
was all Seaside needed Thursday
night, in a first-round girls game of
the Seaside Holiday Classic.
The Gulls led from start to fin-
ish in a 70-48 romp over Elma, in
Seaside’s first game since Dec. 6.
Just about every player on the
Seaside roster contributed in the
first quarter. Baskets from Syd-
ney Villegas, Bryre Babbitt, Maddi
Utti, Annaka Garhofer, Emy Kiser
and Anesha Smart had the Lady
Gulls in front 20-7 after one period.
Utti had 13 points by halftime,
finished with 21, and narrowly
missed a quadruple-double.
Villegas added 18 points for
Seaside, which is scheduled to
play Cottage Grove at 6:30 p.m.
today. The Gulls wrap up the tour-
nament Saturday at 4:15 p.m.
against South Whidbey.
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