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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2017 CONTACT US FOLLOW US facebook.com/ DailyAstorianSports Gary Henley | Sports Reporter ghenley@dailyastorian.com Area swimmers tune up for districts The Daily Astorian ST. HELENS — Scappoose was the host team for the Cow- apa League swim championships Saturday, as the Cowapa schools tuned up for the more-important district meet later this week. The Tillamook girls and the Scappoose boys won the team titles, while the Astoria girls placed third and the Seaside boys took second in the team standings. The top two finishers in each event earned All-League recognition. Brad Rzewnicki highlighted Seaside’s day, as the senior won two individual events and took part on two winning relays. Rzewnicki won the 200-yard individual medley in 2 minutes, 24.27 seconds, and later won the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:14.00. He teamed with Nick Konya, Will Garvin and Luke Liljenwall to help the Gulls take first in the 200-yard medley relay (1:57.84), and the foursome of Garvin, Wes- ley Corliss, Rzewnicki and Liljen- wall won the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:42.63). Other Seaside victories came from Garvin (100-yard butterfly, 1:00.23, and the 100-yard back- stroke, 1:02.45); and Kendy Lin, swimming her first 200-yard free- style in 2:15.40. Lin was also sec- ond in the backstroke. Also gaining all-league status were Astoria’s Shannon Christie, second in both the 50-yard free- style (27.56) and 100-yard free- style (1:01.56); Thayne Covert, second in the 200 individual med- ley (2:27.07) and the 500-yard freestyle (5:42.94, an 11-sec- ond drop); and Riley Cameron was second in the backstroke (1:10.87). Astoria’s Kendal Gustafson, Megan Schacher, Carla Zulli and Christie placed second in the 200 freestyle relay; and the foursome of Cameron, Ryder Dopp, Elias Simmons and Covert took second in the 400-yard freestyle relay. For Seaside, Maya McGill dropped six seconds on her time (6:21.04) for second in the 500 freestyle; and Liljenwall took sec- ond in the 50- and 100-freestyle events. As always, Astoria will be the host for the district meet, Fri- day and Saturday at the Astoria Aquatic Center. SCOREBOARD PREP SCHEDULE TODAY Girls Basketball — Portland Christian at Warrenton, 6 p.m.; Oregon School for the Deaf at Jewell, 5:30 p.m.; Onalaska at Ilwaco, 5:30 p.m. Boys Basketball — Portland Chris- tian at Warrenton, 7:45 p.m.; Oregon School for the Deaf at Jewell, 7:15 p.m.; Winlock at Ilwaco, 7:15 p.m. Seaside at Astoria and Knappa games are canceled for today. THURSDAY Girls Basketball — Warrenton at De La Salle, 6 p.m.; Jewell at Livingstone Adventist, 5:30 p.m. Boys Basketball — Warrenton at De La Salle, 7:45 p.m.; Life Christian at Knappa, 7 p.m.; Jewell at Livingstone Adventist, 7 p.m. Photos by Kathy Morgan/For The Daily Astorian Astoria’s Trey Hageman, top, defeated Zeke Coon of Tillamook twice to take third at 152 pounds at the league championship meet. Astoria 4th at Cowapa The Daily Astorian EASIDE — The five wrestling teams from the Cowapa League met Satur- day in Seaside for the one-day league championship meet, in preparation for the upcoming Regional meet, Friday and Satur- day at Scappoose. Tillamook won the team title with 451 points, far ahead of the rest of the field, which included Scappoose (281), Banks (267.5), Astoria (87.5) and Seaside (57). Individually, Astoria had one champion and a pair of third-place finishers. Astoria sophomore Kaden Gilbert placed first at 182 pounds. Gilbert opened with a 1-minute, 16-second pin over Zach Dexheimer of Banks, followed by another fall (1:35) over Tieson O’Hagen of Tillamook in the semifinals. In the championship bout, Gilbert won by technical fall (13-13, 1.5 4:00, 15-0) over Zach Knight of Scappoose. At 145 pounds, Tyler Ranta had a quar- terfinal win over Stephen Hanson of Scap- poose (pin, 46 seconds); and after a loss in the semifinals, Ranta scored a fall over Tilla- mook’s Jesus Torres (1:26) in the consolation semifinals; then won by fall (58 seconds) over Mitchell Herinckx of Banks in the third-place match. Fisherman Trey Hageman placed third at 152. After a quarterfinal win over Tillamook’s S Donald LaTourette of Seaside, top, was eventually pinned by Brydon Merrow-Hansen of Scappoose. Tillamook won the team title with 451 points. Zeke Coon (11-3 major decision), Hage- man lost in the semifinals, but bounced back with a consolation fall over Seaside’s Zach- ary Kuzakin (45 seconds) and a 40-second pin over Coon in the third-place match. Andrew Gastelum and Luke Nelson had third-place finishes for the Gulls. Gastelum won twice on the mat in conso- lation at 113 pounds, a 4:13 pin over Dame- trius Hannon of Banks, and a 13-3 major deci- sion over Blake Johnston of Scappoose in the third-place match. At 220, the Gulls’ Luke Nelson won by fall (4:40) over Astoria’s Jeff Stutznegger in the third- and fourth-place match. Earlier, Nelson scored a pin over Asto- ria’s Skyler Smith (5:32) in the quarterfi- nals, and after a loss in the semifinals, Nel- son rebounded with another pin (4:55) over Quincy Clevand of Scappoose. Seaside teammate Shane Smith took fourth at 132. Lady Warriors wrestle at state level The Daily Astorian SPRINGFIELD — The Warrenton wres- tling team had six athletes competing in the OWA (Oregon Wrestling Association) Girls Wrestling State Championships, held last Fri- day and Saturday at Thurston High School in Springfield. It was announced as Oregon’s largest-ever girls wrestling tournament. The Warriors took six wrestlers and fin- ished 35th out of 60 teams, from 1A to 6A. “It was an awesome experience for our team, all of whom just completed their first year of wrestling,” said Warrenton coach Corey Conant. “We didn’t know what to expect coming into it, but we scored a bunch of wins and left feeling fired up for next year. Our coaching staff is super proud of the work that the girls put into our first year as a program.” At 108 pounds, junior Ivy McCargish bat- tled injuries this season and two experienced wrestlers at the state meet. “She went out with a bang, scoring several takedowns and raising some eyebrows across the gym,” Conant said. At 128, junior Alma Bolanos drew the even- tual third-place wrestler and hung tough before being pinned at 1:26. She lost a 10-8 decision, despite a comeback from an early deficit. Also at 128, Warrenton’s lone senior, Asia Lambert, pinned two wrestlers before being knocked out of the tournament by the even- tual sixth-place finisher. “Asia served as a leader on our very young team,” Conant said. “She will be missed.” At 140 pounds, freshman Isabella Carr went 1-2 and “impressed with her tenacity and grit,” Conant said. In the 172-pound weight class, Noel O’Bryan battled to the edge of placement before losing a close overtime match. In the 172-plus bracket, Jade Freniere suf- fered a tough loss to the eventual fifth-place finisher before receiving a bye and stringing together two impressive wins. She was forced to injury-default in her final match, just missing qualification for the second day. “It was an amazing learning experience to see how our program can compete with the rest of the state,” Conant said. “This is a very hard sport and our girls’ team finished strong. The sport has grown every year and we will be looking forward to making our mark in the years to come.” 49ers hire Shanahan as new head coach By JOSH DUBOWA Associated Press SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The San Francisco 49ers officially hired Atlanta offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan as their new head coach on Monday, more than a month after fir- ing Chip Kelly after just one season. The 49ers settled on Shanahan a couple weeks ago but had to wait until after the Falcons played in the Super Bowl to sign him to a contract. Shanahan will be formally introduced at a news conference later this week. Shanahan is the son of two-time Super Bowl winning head coach Mike Shanahan, who also won a title as offensive coordinator in San Fran- cisco in 1994. The younger Sha- nahan served as a ball boy then but now will be tasked along with new general manager John Lynch with rebuilding a team that just matched the worst record in franchise history with a 2-14 mark, leading to the dis- missal of Kelly and general manager Trent Baalke. “As a young man, I had the unique benefit of being exposed to the sto- ried history of the San Francisco 49ers firsthand,” Shanahan said in a state- ment. “From that exposure, I devel- oped great respect for those who cre- ated a world-class, championship standard. As this team begins the task of re-establishing that standard, I could not ask for a better partner than John Lynch. He is a man who certainly has personal knowledge of what champi- onship organizations look like. John and I look forward to establishing a strong culture that will serve as our foundation for constructing this team.” AP Photo/John Bazemore The 49ers have officially hired Fal- cons offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan as their head coach more than a month after firing Chip Kelly after just one season. Shanahan won the AP award as the top assistant coach in the NFL this season when he helped the Falcons post a league-high 33.8 points per game in the regular season and return to the Super Bowl for the second time in franchise history. That ended in disappointment after Atlanta blew a 28-3 lead to New England and lost 34-28 in overtime. Shanahan came under criticism for his play-calling in the fourth quarter. He called a deep drop back on a third-and-1 that led to a sack and fum- ble that sparked the Patriots comeback and then with Atlanta in field-goal range to make it a two-possession game late, Shanahan again passed up on the opportunity to run, leading to a sack and a holding penalty. Those were rare blots on an oth- erwise stellar season as a play-caller that led Lynch to call him the “catch” of the head coaching cycle. San Fran- cisco was the last of six teams to hire a coach this offseason. Audience of 111.3M watches Super Bowl Associated Press NEW YORK — Fox drew an audience of 111.3 million viewers for the first Super Bowl to go into overtime, a smaller audience than the game has had in the last two years but still ranking among the biggest for a television program in the United States. The top Super Bowl audience — and the biggest for any Amer- ican TV show — was the 114.4 million viewers who saw the New England Patriots beat the Seattle Seahawks in 2015, according to the Nielsen company. The audience was 117.5 million for Lady Gaga’s halftime performance, Nielsen said. Last year’s Denver-Carolina game reached 111.9 million.
