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CATHLAMET, Wash. — The
Knappa Loggers went up against more
top-notch competition in Washington
over the weekend, and placed ninth in
Wahkiakum’s Down River Challenge.
Adna won the team title with 194
points, followed by Mark Morris and
Kelso. Clatskanie took fifth and War-
renton placed 11th in the 13-team
tournament.
Knappa had one individual cham-
pion, as senior Andrew Goozee was
3-0 at 195 pounds, scoring two first-
round pins, followed by a 1-0 decision
over the No. 1 seed.
Luke Goozee was 2-1 at 126 for
a second-place finish, while Dawson
Whiteside was 4-1 at 152, where he
placed fifth.
“Luke Goozee lost a heartbreaker
in the finals in the third round,” said
Knappa coach Dan Owings. “He was
leading 6-2 and ended up being pinned
in a unusual situation.
“Dawson had a decent tournament,
winning by two pins and two deci-
sions for fifth place,” Owings said.
“His only loss was to the eventual
first place winner, who also won out-
standing wrestler in the upper weight
divisions.”
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
Kathy Morgan/For The Daily Astorian
Junior Sanchez of Warrenton, right, battles Lucas Beres of Mark Morris in Saturday’s Down River Challenge.
Complete team results: Adna 194,
Mark Morris 154, Kelso 153.3, Wil-
lapa Bay 134.5, Clatskanie 102, White
Salmon 100.5, Ocosta 99, Castle Rock
85, Knappa 74, Napavine 47, Warren-
ton 46, North Beach 30, Wahkiakum
11.
Nestucca Hagerty Tournament
CLOVERDALE — The Sea-
side wrestling team competed in the
Hagerty Tournament, held Dec. 17 at
Nestucca High School.
Will Kautz had the top finish of
the day for the Gulls, placing second
at 220 pounds. He scored a fall (5:35)
over Angel Torres of Tillamook in the
semifinals.
Kautz lost by a fall to Tillamook’s
Levi Crabtree in the first-place match,
for the second-place finish.
Adding points for the Gulls was
Andrew Gastelum, third at 113
pounds. He highlighted his day with
a fall (5:28) over Vernonia’s Kailia
Jackson in the third-place match.
Seaside’s Donald LaTourette took
fourth at 132 pounds.
SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Oregon State
women rally to
nip UNLV 62-59
Associated Press
LAS VEGAS — Sydney
Wiese scored 25 points and No.
25 Oregon State scored the last
seven points of the game to defeat
UNLV 62-59 in the Play4Kay
Shootout on Monday night.
The Rebels missed all five of
their field goals in the last four
minutes and didn’t score after a
pair of free throws from Brooke
Johnson at 3:27 made it 59-55.
Two free throws by Breanna
Brown tied it with 47 seconds
left. After a UNLV miss, Gabri-
ella Hanson made one free throw
at 22.8 seconds and Mikayla Pivec
made a steal and two free throws
at 14 seconds. A 3-point attempt
by Johnson with 2 seconds left
was off the mark.
Oregon State (8-1) had 22 turn-
overs. Wiese had four 3-pointers
and is two behind Candice Wig-
gins’ Pac-12 record of 295.
Dakota Gonzalez had 16 points
for UNLV (8-2). Her jumper had
the Rebels, who lost point guard
Nikki Wheatley to a knee injury
in the third quarter, up nine with
7:12 to play.
AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin
Arizona Cardinals running back David Johnson (31) scores a touchdown as New Orleans Saints corner-
back B.W. Webb defends during the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday in Glendale, Ariz.
AFTER ANOTHER LOSS,
ARIZONA GETS SEATTLE
ON CHRISTMAS EVE
By BOB BAUM
Associated Press
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TODAY
Girls Basketball — Seaside at North
Bend, 6 p.m.; Knappa at Rainier, 6 p.m.;
Jewell at Seaside JV2, 11 a.m.; North
Beach at Ilwaco, 5:45 p.m.
Boys Basketball — Seaside at North
Bend, 7:45 p.m.; Knappa at Rainier, 8
p.m.; North Beach at Ilwaco, 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Girls Basketball — Seaside at
Marshfield, 6 p.m.; Jewell at Astoria JV,
5:30 p.m.
Boys Basketball — Seaside at
Marshfield, 7:45 p.m.; Jewell at Astoria
JV, 7 p.m.
Wrestling — Astoria at Gladstone In-
vitational, 10 a.m.
THURSDAY
Girls Basketball — Scappoose at
Warrenton, 5 p.m.; Montesano at Ilwa-
co, 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball — Montesano at Il-
waco, 5:45 p.m.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Cougars 55, Warriors 27
PA (55): Kira LaSage 20, Halvers-
en 15, Johnson 9, E.MacLachlan 8,
E.Blank 2, Petersen 1.
WAR (27): Tyla Little 15, Dyer 3,
K.Blodgett 2, Bussert 2, Schenbeck 2,
Alvarez 2, Diego 1, Miethe, M.Blodgett,
Dejesus, Heyen.
P.Adventist
14 20 11 10—55
Warrenton
8 4 8 7—27
BOYS BASKETBALL
Cougars 80, Warriors 54
PA (80): Dylan Irvine 18, Couch 13,
Collinet 12, Cooper 11, Kight 8, Booze
6, Roberts 4, Garcia 4, Ford 2, Ceregh-
ino 2.
WAR (54): Dalton Knight 22, Whitaker
15, Holt 15, Kapua 2, Fowler, Fischer,
Jackson, Alcobendas, Bingham, Oseg-
uera.
P.Adventist
26 22 11 21—80
Warrenton
10 23 6 15—54
T
EMPE, Ariz. — Now that his
team is guaranteed to have a
losing record for the first time
in his four seasons in Ari-
zona, Cardinals coach Bruce Arians’
next chore is to prepare a team headed
nowhere for a Christmas Eve encoun-
ter with the Seahawks in Seattle.
“It’s the Seahawks,” Arians said at
his Monday news conference, “so we
should be ready to play.”
Arians liked everything but his
defense in Sunday’s 48-41 home loss
to the New Orleans Saints. The out-
come left Arizona at 5-8-1. The Car-
dinals finish the season with road
games at Seattle and Los Angeles,
and the best they could hope for is to
wind up 7-8-1.
But Arizona is 1-5 on the road
with the only victory away from
home at San Francisco, a team that
stands 1-13.
And a strong finish to the sea-
son would entail beating a Seahawks
team that will have extra rest and
something to play for when the teams
meet at Century Link Field.
Arizona has won in Seattle two out
of three times under Arians, including
last season’s 39-32 back-and-forth tri-
umph en route to a 13-3 season and an
NFC West title for the Cardinals.
“The way it went, to get way
ahead,” he said, “to lose it, and then
come back, it was very special.”
Now, Seattle (9-4-1) has sewn up
the division title and is a half-game
ahead of Detroit and Atlanta for the
No. 2 seed in the NFC and the first-
round bye that goes with it.
Arians has a healthy respect for
the Seahawks.
AP Photo/Rick Scuteri
Cardinals head coach Bruce Ari-
ans Sunday in Glendale, Ariz.
UP NEXT: SEAHAWKS
• Arizona Cardinals (5-8-1)
at Seattle Seahawks (9-4-1)
• Saturday, 1:25 p.m. TV: FOX
“Every time you play them,” he
said, “you better have your big-boy
pants on.”
That will be a big challenge for
an inexperienced, makeshift offen-
sive line that held up well against the
Saints. So will the next game, the sea-
son finale against the rugged front of
the Rams.
“They’ll have their hands full both
times,” Arians said. “Being on the
road with arguably the two best, most
disruptive players in (Michael) Ben-
nett and Aaron Donald, we have our
hands full when we have a healthy
offensive line.”
Two months ago in Arizona, the
Cardinals and Seattle fought to an
odd 6-6 tie with both teams missing
chip-shot field goals that would have
won the game in overtime.
This is a much different Ari-
zona squad, though, after a series of
injuries.
“We don’t have the same team we
played them here with, but I like the
way we played this past week offen-
sively,” Arians said. “Special teams,
other than the (missed) extra point,
were good. We had a couple of good
kickoff returns. Defensively, we’ve
got to show up.”
The coach described the play of
his secondary as “very, very below
par for us.”
He said safety Tyrann Mathieu,
playing despite a shoulder injury,
“gave it everything he had.”
There were some bright spots.
In addition to the overall strength
of the inexperienced offensive line,
Arians also liked the play of defen-
sive tackle Robert Nkemdiche, the
first-round draft pick who played
after being inactive for most games
this season.
“Robert did well,” Arians said.
“The stat sheet didn’t look it, but he
was explosive. He’s been practicing
really well.”
David Johnson set an NFL record
by topping 100 yards from scrim-
mage in the first 14 games of a sea-
son. But Arians doesn’t like John-
son’s chances for reaching another
huge milestone — 1,000 yards rush-
ing and 1,000 yards receiving.
Johnson needs 200 yards receiv-
ing to reach the goal.
“I’ll be surprised if he gets it,” Ari-
ans said.
WARRENTON — The Warren-
ton Warriors had one big momen-
tum swing Monday night at home,
and that had the Warrior fans hop-
ing for a victory against winless
Portland Adventist.
Unfortunately, the Cougars had
four or five momentum swings of
their own, which led to an 80-54
win over the Warriors, in a Lewis
& Clark League boys basketball
game.
The Cougars’ start would have
been enough to take the drive out
of any team.
Three 3-pointers from Portland
Adventist’s Dylan Irvine had the
Cougs ahead 22-4 just minutes into
the game.
But the never-say-die Warriors
charged back and outscored the
Cougars 22-9, and actually pulled
to within 31-26 midway through
the second period. Warrenton’s
Dalton Knight keyed the comeback
with four 3-pointers in a four-min-
ute span, with another trey from
Christian Holt.
But too much Irvine — with
help from Brent Kight, Kieran Col-
linet and Kenalo Cooper — led to
another momentum shift in favor
of Portland Adventist, which left
the floor at halftime with a 48-33
advantage.
A hot night from the field for
Holt and Knight just wasn’t enough
to keep pace with the deep and tal-
ented Cougars, who won for the
first time this season. Portland
Adventist came into the game with
an 0-6 record, against some tough
nonleague opponents including
Dayton, Horizon Christian, Regis
and Life Christian.
On any other night, Knight’s
22 points would have been plenty,
along with 15 points apiece from
Holt and Tyler Whitaker. But the
only other Warrior to score was
Kaleo Kapua, with two points late
in the game.
Portland Adventist countered
with four players in double figures,
led by Irvine’s 18 points. Tyler
Couch added 13 off the bench, with
12 from Collinet and 11 by Cooper.
If that wasn’t enough, six other
players also made the scoring col-
umn for the Cougars.
It was Portland Adventist’s 13th
straight win over the Warriors,
going back to Feb. 15, 2010, when
Warrenton defeated the Cougars in
a league playoff, 65-63 in overtime.
No. 4 Cougs
too much for
Warrior girls
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WARRENTON — The War-
renton girls basketball team had
a tough task Monday night, as
they hosted No. 4-ranked Port-
land Adventist in a Lewis & Clark
League showdown.
Just six days following a 59-31
loss to Rainier, the Warriors were
going up against a team that beat
the same Rainier team 49-43 just
two days prior.
And the Cougars indeed
proved to be worthy of their rank-
ing, as they left town with a 55-27
win over Warrenton.
Portland Adventist (5-1 over-
all, 3-0 in league) outscored the
Warriors in every quarter, which
included a 27-8 lead midway
through the second period, and
34-12 at halftime.
Warrenton was actually within
10-8 following a 3-pointer from
Rachel Dyer late in the first quar-
ter, but the next 17 points belonged
to the Cougars, who were scoring
off turnovers, offensive rebounds,
in transition and from the outside.
Senior sparkplug guard Kira
LaSage scored 17 of her game-
high 20 points in the first half,
while 6-foot senior Sarah Halv-
ersen finished with 15 points.
Tyla Little led Warrenton with
15 points, but the next highest
scorer was Dyer, with three.
The Warriors host a nonleague
game with Scappoose Thursday.