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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2017
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SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Lady Loggers
rally for win
‘SEASIDE’S THE NO.1 4A TEAM FOR A REASON,
BUT I THOUGHT WE PLAYED PRETTY GOOD.’
CHRIS SPENCER, KNAPPA COACH
The Daily Astorian
KNAPPA — After scoring just
16 points in the entire first half,
the Knappa Lady Loggers scored
18 in the fourth quarter Saturday
afternoon on their way to a 45-37
win over Nestucca.
The Bobcats held a 24-16 lead
at halftime and a 32-27 edge after
three quarters, but all the Loggers
had to do was apply a little defen-
sive pressure in the fourth quarter
of the Northwest League girls bas-
ketball game.
Knappa came up with 21 steals
for the game, most of them in the
final period, when the Loggers
outscored Nestucca 18-5.
Knappa’s Kaitlyn Landwehr
did most of the damage, scoring
18 points to go with eight steals,
15 rebounds and five assists.
Logger teammate Devin Van-
dergriff had nine of her 14 points
in the fourth quarter, while Mad-
elynn Weaver had six steals and
Aiko Miller grabbed six rebounds.
The Lady Loggers are right
back in the league title race,
improving to 5-3 in league, behind
Faith Bible (6-0) and Vernonia
(6-1).
Loggers crush
Nestucca, 62-21
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Photos by Krissy Barendse-Goodman/For The Daily Astorian
Knappa’s Dale Takalo goes up for a shot in Friday’s game versus Seaside.
KNAPPA — The Knappa boys
basketball team overcame a slow
start (Loggers only led 29-10 at
halftime), then poured it on in the
second half Saturday afternoon
in a 62-21 win over Nestucca in
a Northwest League contest at
Knappa.
Eight players made the scor-
ing column for the Loggers, who
improved to 7-0 in league play,
10-2 overall.
Colton Weirup led the way
with 11 points, followed by Joe
Ramvick and Dale Takalo with 10
points apiece.
Ramvick, Timber Engblom
and Kaleb Miller combined to
score 27 points off the bench, out-
scoring the entire Nestucca team.
Defensively, the Loggers came up
with 21 steals.
The Loggers have won their
last three league games by a com-
bined 209-75 (a 44.6-points per
game margin of victory).
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TUESDAY
Boys Basketball — Astoria at Valley
Catholic, 6 p.m.; Seaside at Scappoose,
6 p.m.; Warrenton at Rainier, 7:45 p.m.;
Knappa at Life Christian, 7 p.m.; Jewell
at Willamette Valley Christian, 7:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball — Astoria at Valley
Catholic, 7:45 p.m.; Seaside at Scap-
poose, 7:45 p.m.; Warrenton at Rainier,
6 p.m.; Jewell at Willamette Valley Chris-
tian, 6 p.m.; Willapa Valley at Ilwaco, 7
p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Wrestling — Knappa at League Meet,
Vernonia, TBA
BOYS BASKETBALL
Knappa 62, Nestucca 21
NES (21): Andrew Morgan 7, Strober 5,
Richwine 5, Darrington 2.
KNA (62): Colton Weirup 11, Ramvick
10, D.Takalo 10, Engblom 9, K.Miller
8, Rubus 6, Vanderburg 6, J.Miller 2,
Goodman, Geisler, Eltagonde, Hunt.
Nestucca
5 5 2 9—21
Knappa
14 15 16 17—62
Seaside 78, Knappa 54
SEA (78): Jackson Januik 20, Wester-
holm 15, C.Januik 14, H.Thompson 12,
D.Thompson 7, Babb 6, Hoekstre 4, Si-
bony.
KNA (54): Dale Takalo 16, Weirup 13,
Engblom 9, E.Takalo 8, J.Miller 6, Ru-
bus 2, Goodman, Geisler, K.Miller.
Seaside
19 19 18 22—78
Knappa
16 14 12 12—54
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Knappa 45, Nestucca 37
NES (37): Olivia Leslie 16, Jackson 10,
Logan 3, Chatelain 2, Johnson 2, Ozu-
na-Pena 2, Kirkpatrick 2.
KNA (45): Kaitlyn Landwehr 18, Van-
dergriff 14, Inman 7, Vanderburg 5, Miller
1, Weaver, Strain.
Nestucca
13 11 8 5—37
Knappa
4 12 11 18—45
Seagulls secure victory
in rare Clatsop matchup
Seaside, Knappa both
have high hopes for
4A, 2A postseason
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
K
NAPPA — With both schools hav-
ing canceled or postponed their orig-
inally scheduled games, the Seaside
and Knappa boys basketball teams decided to
keep it “in county” Friday night, as the Gulls
paid a rare visit to Knappa for a nonleague
Clatsop Clash.
And in the matchup between the best team
at the Class 4A level and one of the best at the
2A level, the Gulls got the best of the Loggers
in a 78-54 Seaside victory.
Knappa is undefeated against 2A and 3A
competition, but dropped to 0-2 against the 4A
(Astoria knocked off Knappa Dec. 3, 54-47).
“Knappa has a pretty good ball team,” said
Seaside coach Bill Westerholm. “Dale Takalo
is one of the better offensive players we’ll see,
they’ve got guards who can handle the ball
really well, and they don’t turn the ball over.”
Meanwhile, it was one of the closest half-
time margins of the season for the unbeaten
(10-0) Gulls, who held a slim 38-30 lead at
the break.
Basically, these were two teams with high
hopes of playing in state championship games
come March. And they gave the fans their
money’s worth.
First half fireworks saw both teams hot
from the field, with four 3-pointers by the
Gulls and three for Knappa.
Consecutive scores by Takalo, Colton Wei-
rup (3-pointer) and Ethan Rubus gave the Log-
gers an early 9-6 lead, but Seaside answered
with 3-pointers from Jackson Januik and
Hunter Thompson, with a two-point bucket
from Januik giving the Gulls a 14-9 lead.
Duncan Thompson’s old-fashioned three-
point play had Seaside in front, 19-12, before
Knappa closed the first quarter with a 4-0 run.
Following a steal and score by Thompson,
Takalo’s 3-pointer had Knappa within 21-19.
Jackson Januik had 14 of his game-high 20
points in the first half, and had help in the first
half from Payton Westerholm, who assisted
Attikin Babb for two midway through the fourth
quarter, then drained a 3-pointer with 1:30 left
to give the Gulls an eight-point halftime lead.
And — as they do in every game — the
Gulls gradually wore down the Loggers in the
second half and pulled away.
A three-point play by Weirup had Knappa
within 45-37, but scores by the Januik broth-
ers, including a steal and layup for Jackson,
pushed Seaside’s lead to 51-37.
A long-range bomb by Hunter Thompson,
followed by two free throws from Thompson,
Knappa’s Colton Weirup drives to the hoop for a shot against Seaside’s Chase Januik
in Friday’s Clatsop Clash.
Any game at Knappa is going to have players on the floor, as Seaside’s Jackson
Januik, center, finds out.
gave the Gulls a 56-40 advantage.
The Loggers had a few highlights of their
own in the second half — a pair of 3-point-
ers from Eli Takalo and a three-point play by
big brother Dale — but Seaside had a little too
much depth down the stretch.
Westerholm banked in a pair of jump shots,
and the Gulls were nearly flawless at the free
throw line, building an eventual 24-point lead.
The 78 points was by far the most given up
this season by the Loggers.
“Seaside’s the No. 1 4A team for a rea-
son, but I thought we played pretty good,”
said Knappa coach Chris Spencer. “They’ve
got a lot of skilled players, and maybe we
gave them a game they weren’t expecting. We
showed that we can play with anybody, and if
not for a couple calls and a few misses, things
might have turned out differently.”
Coach Westerholm, meanwhile, was anx-
ious to see how his players played in the
“Knappa Environment.”
“I was really looking forward to see-
ing how our kids played out there,” Wester-
holm said of Knappa, where he still has con-
nections and relatives. “I told them before the
game about all the history of that place, and I
thought it was good for our kids to face a little
adversity and play in a gym where the fans are
right on you, yelling and screaming. I made
sure we weren’t looking past them.
“Knappa teams have always been tough
and competitive, and they’re not going to back
down against anybody,” he said. “Even going
back to the old (Craig) Cokley days, they
would take on bigger schools in the summer.”