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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2017
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SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Eagles defeat
Lady Jays, 40-23
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JEWELL — The Crosshill
Christian girls basketball team
remained unbeaten (7-0) in Casco
League play with a 40-23 win at
Jewell Monday night.
The No. 16-ranked Falcons
held a slim 17-14 lead at halftime,
increased their advantage to 30-21
after three quarters, then finished
strong in the fourth, outscoring
Jewell 10-2 in the final period.
Emma Guillen scored eight
points and Heidi Hollenbach
added six for Jewell. Hollenbach
and Lily Kaczenski had seven
rebounds each, while Ashley
Wammack had four steals.
The Lady Jays were coming
off a 58-32 loss to Willamette Val-
ley Christian, in which Haley Nor-
man had nine points and seven
steals, Guillen had eight rebounds
and five points, and Hollenbach
finished with nine points.
SUPER BOWL WILL PIT
BRADY’S PATRIOTS
VS. RYAN’S FALCONS
Crosshill beats
Jewell, 57-28
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JEWELL — Andrew DeJager
scored 15 points and Luke Cotter
added 13, helping Crosshill Chris-
tian to a 57-28 win at Jewell Mon-
day in a Casco League boys bas-
ketball game.
Carson Littlepage had 11
points and Ben Stahly grabbed 10
rebounds for Jewell, which was
within 27-14 at halftime, before a
21-7 run by Crosshill in the third
quarter.
The Jays were coming off
losses last week at Willamette
Valley Christian (68-23) and C.S.
Lewis (53-38).
Jewell returns to action tonight
at Livingstone Adventist, the first
of five straight road games for the
Jays, who begin makeup games
missed over the last two weeks.
Gulls swim at
Tillamook
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TILLAMOOK — The Seaside
and Tillamook swim teams split a
Cowapa League dual meet, held
Thursday at the Tillamook County
YMCA.
Seaside scored an 87-42 win
on the boys’ side, while the Til-
lamook girls defeated the Lady
Gulls, 129-18.
The Seaside boys opened with
a win in the 200-yard medley relay,
as Brad Rzewnicki, James Ken-
nedy, Will Garvin and Luke Lil-
jenwall teamed up for a 2:01.48,
well ahead of Tillamook’s 2:36.72.
The same four also won
the 200-yard freestyle relay in
1:45.53.
Rzewnicki went on to win the
200-yard freestyle (2:08.46); Lilj-
enwall took the 50-yard freestyle
(24.97) and 100-yard freestyle
(55.84); Wes Corliss won the 100-
yard backstroke (1:22.83); and
Nick Konya captured the 100-yard
breaststroke (1:22.83).
The Gulls finished by win-
ning the 400-yard freestyle relay
in 4:35.46.
Tillamook won every event on
the girls’ side, as the Lady Gulls
were missing numerous swimmers
because of injuries and illness.
Defending champ,
Olympian in race
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Two-time
defending champion Shannon
Rowbury and Olympian Clay-
ton Murphy will run in the Wana-
maker Mile at next month’s Mill-
rose Games.
New York Road Runners said
Tuesday they’ll compete Feb. 11
at The Armory in the 110th run-
ning of the event.
Rowbury is the American
record-holder in the 1,500 meters
and 5,000. She won the 2015
Wanamaker Mile title in 4 min-
utes, 24.31 seconds, and defended
her title last year in 4:24.39.
AP Photo/Matt Slocum
Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady celebrates with wide receiver
Julian Edelman after throwing a touchdown pass during the sec-
ond half of the AFC championship NFL game.
Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan tosses a touchdown
pass to Mohamed Sanu during the first quarter in the NFL NFC
championship game against the Green Bay Packers.
New England seeking fifth trophy, Atlanta going for first
By HOWARD FENDRICH
Associated Press
A
season that began with Tom Brady
serving a four-game suspension will
end with him in the Super Bowl, where
his New England Patriots will take on Matt
Ryan and the Atlanta Falcons.
While much of the attention between now
and the NFL championship game on Feb.
5 in Houston will be focused on Brady vs.
Ryan, the truly key matchup could be Atlan-
ta’s score-at-will offense, which produced the
most points during the regular season, against
the unheralded defense of New England,
which allowed the fewest.
And these two teams are playing their best
football at the most important time.
AFC champion New England (16-2) has
won nine consecutive games — and hasn’t
even trailed since Nov. 27. NFC champion
Atlanta (13-5) has won its past six in a row,
UP NEXT: SUPER BOWL
• New England Patriots (14-2)
at Atlanta Falcons (11-5), in Houston
• Feb. 5, 3:30 p.m. TV: FOX
scoring at least 33 points in each.
“We’ll enjoy this,” Ryan said after earning
his first Super Bowl trip in his ninth season,
“but we’ve got some work to do.”
Brady and coach Bill Belichick will be
seeking their — and the Patriots’ — fifth
Lombardi Trophy, and second in three years.
This will be the franchise’s league-record
ninth appearance in the Super Bowl, includ-
ing titles in the 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2015
editions.
“This team showed a lot of mental tough-
ness over the course of the year,” Brady said.
The Falcons have never won the Super
Bowl. This will be Atlanta’s second trip to the
big game; it lost to Denver in 1999.
The club’s never had a quarterback quite as
good as Ryan, though.
The guy nicknamed “Matty Ice” went 27
for 38 for 392 yards, four touchdowns and
zero interceptions, while adding a rushing TD,
to boot, leading Atlanta past Aaron Rodgers
and the Green Bay Packers 44-21 on Sunday
in the NFC championship game.
“We did exactly what we’ve been doing all
year and it feels really good,” Ryan said after
becoming the first quarterback in NFL history
to throw for at least three TDs in four consec-
utive postseason games. “We’ll be ready to
go. That’s for sure.”
Later Sunday, the 39-year-old Brady tied
Hall of Famer Joe Montana’s record with a
ninth three-TD postseason game, helping the
Patriots beat Ben Roethlisberger 36-17 for the
AFC championship.
Oddsmakers didn’t even wait for the sec-
ond game to end before making New England a
3-point favorite over Atlanta in the Super Bowl.
Kerr calls some players’
All-Star votes a ‘mockery’
Nearly 300 players
made it onto ballot
By TIM REYNOLDS
Associated Press
MIAMI — Golden State coach
Steve Kerr wishes players had taken
their voting for the NBA All-Star
Game more seriously, calling it a
“mockery” after nearly 300 players in
the league wound up on at least one
ballot.
Players had a say in deciding
starters for next month’s game in
New Orleans, with their selections
accounting for 25 percent of some-
one’s total score in the balloting. Fan
and media votes were also part of
the process of selecting starters, and
NBA coaches vote this week for the
reserves to be revealed on Thursday.
“I am very disappointed in the
players,” Kerr, who will coach the
Western Conference in the game, said
before the Warriors lost 105-102 at
Miami on Monday night. “They’ve
asked for a vote and a lot of them just
made a mockery of it. I don’t know
what the point is.”
Nearly 100 players got only one
vote from either themselves or an
NBA peer in the All-Star balloting,
including Mo Williams — who hasn’t
played a single second this season.
The NBA said a total of 324 players
participated in the voting process.
Kerr was asked why he would use
the word “mockery.”
“I saw the list,” Kerr said. “I saw
all the guys who got votes. ... There
AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack
Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr called the voting for the
All-Star Game a “mockery.”
were 50 guys on there who had no
business getting votes. Although a lot
of people wrote in their buddies in the
presidential vote as well. So maybe
that’s just their own way of making
a statement. I think if you’re going to
give the players a vote, I think they
should take it seriously.”
In past years, starters have been
picked entirely by fan vote. This
year, those whose All-Star hopes now
hinge on the coaches’ vote include
Dwyane Wade, Zaza Pachulia, Joel
Embiid, two-time All-Star MVP Rus-
sell Westbrook and perennial All-Star
pick Carmelo Anthony. Wade, Pachu-
lia and Embiid would have started
under the old formula.
Kerr said the change to the way
starters are picked this year didn’t
affect the way he made his votes for
reserves. He sent his vote in Sunday.
“Didn’t alter anything,” said Kerr,
whose spot as the West coach was
clinched when Houston lost to Mil-
waukee on Monday.
Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said he
called a staff meeting to get input on
the ballot he’ll send to the league.
“How is Russell Westbrook not in
the starting lineup?” Spoelstra asked.
“I know how it’s important to play-
ers and especially guys that are giving
their heart and soul and emotions into
the game and should be rewarded for
it. I do have to admit, in some years
past, I would just give it to my assis-
tants. Not anymore.”
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TODAY
Boys Basketball — Tillamook at Asto-
ria, 6 p.m.; Valley Catholic at Seaside, 6
p.m.; Warrenton at Portland Adventist, 8
p.m.; Knappa at Neah-Kah-Nie, 8 p.m.;
Jewell at Livingstone Adventist, 5:30
p.m.; Ilwaco at Life Christian, 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball — Tillamook at As-
toria, 7:30 p.m.; Valley Catholic at Sea-
side, 7:30 p.m.; Warrenton at Portland
Adventist, 6 p.m.; Knappa at Neah-Kah-
Nie, 6 p.m.; Jewell at Livingstone Adven-
tist, 7:15 p.m.; Ilwaco at Life Christian,
7 p.m.
Wrestling — Knappa League Meet,
TBA
WEDNESDAY
Girls Basketball — Jewell at Falls
City, 5:30 p.m.
Boys Basketball — Jewell at Falls
City, 7 p.m.
THURSDAY
Girls Basketball — Vernonia at Knap-
pa, 6 p.m.
Boys Basketball — Vernonia at
Knappa, 8 p.m.
Swimming — Valley Catholic at Sea-
side, 4 p.m.
Wrestling — Warrenton at League
4-Way, Sheridan, 5 p.m.
BOYS BASKETBALL
Crosshill 57, Jewell 28
CC (57): Andrew DeJager 15, Cotter
13, Bennett 8, Isa.Rodriguez 5, Dallum
4, Haskell 3, Vanderhoof 3, Harris 2,
Ism.Rodriguez 2, Poliakov 2.
JWL (28): Carson Littlepage 11,
R.Kane 7, Hinson 4, Meehan 2, Stahly
2, Culp, Lilley 2, Godwin, N.Kane, Lyon.
Crosshill
16 11 21 9—57
Jewell
5 9 7 7—28
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Crosshill 40, Jewell 23
CC (40): Sarah Stoddard 13, A.Bartel
6, Foster 7, E.Schanz 7, H.Schanz 5,
M.Bartel 2.
JWL (23): Emma Guillen 8, Hollen-
bach 6, G.Morales 5, Wammack 2, Nor-
man 2, Littlepage, N.Morales, Gonza-
les, Olvera, DeWees, Kaczenski, Shaw,
Murray.
Crosshill
8 9 13 10—40
Jewell
6 8 7 2—23