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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2017
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Area
swimmers
tune up for
districts
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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
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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.