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8A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2017 CONTACT US FOLLOW US facebook.com/ DailyAstorianSports Gary Henley | Sports Reporter ghenley@dailyastorian.com Lady Gull will fly east to play soccer Seaside High School senior Lizzy Barnes, front, signed a letter of intent this week to play soccer at Guilford Col- lege in North Carolina. The Daily Astorian Seaside High School multi-sport athlete Lizzy Barnes will travel all the way across the country to con- tinue her sports career next year. The senior signed a letter-of-in- Submitted Photo tent this week to play soccer at Guil- ford College in Greensboro, North Carolina. Coached by Michael Shenigo, the Quakers compete in the NCAA Divi- sion III Old Dominion Athletic Con- ference, and finished 6-9-1 last year. Submitted Photo Astoria High School’s Pizazz dance team took first at a competition at Gresham High School Saturday. Astoria’s Pizazz wins first event The Daily Astorian he Astoria dance team Pizazz took first place in their division last Saturday in their first competition of the season at Gresham High School. Competing with Astoria in the T 4A/3A/2A/1A division were dance teams from Banks, Estacada, Scappoose and Sweet Home. The team is coached by Jeannie Petersen of Maddox Dance Studio in Warrenton. Pizazz performed their state routine during halftime of Wednesday’s Clatsop Clash basketball doubleheader. Astoria’s successful dance team will be looking to improve on last year’s finish at state, where Pizazz finished eighth out of 13 teams in the preliminary round. State finals take place March 16-18 at Memorial Coliseum in Portland. Knights sweep Warriors The Daily Astorian PORTLAND — The De La Salle Knights scored a double- header basketball sweep over Warrenton Thursday night, in a Lewis & Clark League show- down in Portland. Just two nights after scoring 74 points in a win over Portland Christian, the Warrenton girls were held to a season-low by the Knights, who posted a 39-27 upset over the Warriors. The loss snapped a six-game win streak for Warrenton, which had not lost since Jan. 24. De La Salle built an early 16-point lead, holding the War- riors to just five points in the first half, three points in the first quar- ter, two in the second. Warrenton rallied in the sec- ond half and pulled to within eight points early in the fourth quarter before running out of time. Fernanda Alvarez led the War- riors with 11 points, with six points apiece from Tyla Little and Landree Miethe. Portland Adventist defeated Portland Christian Thursday and finished the regular season 16-0, followed by Rainier (14-2), with Warrenton and Portland Christian tied at 10-6. The Warriors and Royals split the regular season series, with the fifth tie-breaker giving the third- place spot to Portland Chris- tian, which defeated De La Salle twice, while the Warriors split the regular season with De La Salle. Portland Christian plays a league playoff at Rainier, with the winner advancing to face Port- land Adventist for the league’s No. 1 seed to the state playoffs. Fourth-place Warrenton will host either Clatskanie or De La Salle Tuesday, with the winner advancing to play the loser of Portland Christian-Rainier for the league’s No. 3 seed to the state playoffs. De La Salle defeated Warren- ton 64-29 in the boys’ game. Details were unavailable. SCOREBOARD PREP SCHEDULE Lions rally past Loggers The Daily Astorian KNAPPA — “We’re struggling right now,” said Knappa boys basketball coach Chris Spencer, whose team lost its third straight Thursday night at home. Life Christian spoiled Knap- pa’s Senior Night with a 54-45 win over the Loggers, as the Lions rallied from a small halftime defi- cit and outscored the Loggers 34-22 in the second half to win. “We were up three at half, but we were unable to take advantage and extend the lead in the second half,” Spencer said. “They kind of got us out of our zone (defense), and it’s tough to play man when you’re going against great athletes like they have.” Brothers Zeke and Bo Quinlan combined for 25 points (14 and 11, respectively), and Zac Ross added 11 for the Lions. Life Christian also made 16-of- 26 free throws on the night, while Knappa missed five straight down the stretch. The Loggers return to action Saturday at Nestucca, and finish the regular season Tuesday at Life Christian. “We’re playing hard — we only had three turnovers tonight — and we had a great crowd for Senior Night and all that,” Spen- cer said. “We’re just going to have to do whatever we can to get off the schneid. Nestucca is going to be another tough game.” Colton Weirup led Knappa with 16 points, followed by Jason Miller with 11. UCLA rallies to beat Oregon By BETH HARRIS Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Nothing was going right for UCLA when the Bru- ins trailed by 19 points in the first half. They were forced to call time out after Oregon scored 14 points in 5 minutes to start the second half. Suddenly, the team with one of the nation’s most explosive offenses started playing defense. Aaron Holiday gave UCLA its first lead on a 3-pointer with 4 min- utes remaining in the game and the 10th-ranked Bruins rallied from a 19-point first-half deficit to beat No. 5 Oregon 82-79 on Thursday night. “We know we can score with all the teams in the country so it’s just about being tough on the defensive end,” Holiday said. Holiday and star freshman Lonzo Ball scored 15 points each, com- bining to score UCLA’s final seven points. Ball had 11 rebounds to help his team control the boards, 43-35. The Bruins (22-3, 9-3 Pac-12) moved into a third-place tie with idle Califor- nia in the league standings. “When you’re down 19, you got to have help and our guys did a great job helping each other,” UCLA coach Steve Alford said. Dillon Brooks and Tyler Dorsey scored 19 points each for the sec- ond-place Ducks (21-4, 10-2). Dorsey BOYS BASKETBALL AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill UCLA guard Isaac Hamilton, right, shoots as Oregon forward Dillon Brooks defends during the second half Thursday in Los Angeles. missed a potential tying 3-pointer with 23 seconds left. “We just have to let this one go,” Dorsey said. “We got the lead and we got too confident. After that, we really didn’t get that many good shots.” The Bruins closed with a furious rush, battling for rebounds after not getting back to defend early in the game. Holiday’s go-ahead basket was part of a 33-15 run to end the game. “The second half we guarded a lot better,” Ball said. “I’m glad our team came together.” Two free throws by Jordan Bell got the Ducks to 80-79 with 19 sec- onds to go. Holiday got fouled and made both to preserve the win before Payton Pritchard’s 3-pointer missed with 1 second left. “We were ahead in all categories that we were supposed to be in the first half, but the second half it was different,” Ducks coach Dana Altman said. “It’s like at the 10-minute mark we were stuck in mud.” Aaron scores 18, as USC cruises past Oregon State 92-66 Associated Press LOS ANGELES — With Shaqquan Aaron and Bennie Boatwright settling in, and shots starting to fall, the South- ern California Trojans feel like they’re more dangerous than ever. Aaron scored 21 points and Boat- TODAY Girls Basketball — Astoria at Tilla- mook, 6 p.m.; Seaside at Valley Catho- lic, 6 p.m. Boys Basketball — Astoria at Til- lamook, 7:30 p.m.; Seaside at Valley Catholic, 7:30 p.m.; NW Christian vs. Ilwaco (at Tumwater), 8 p.m. Swimming — District 1/4A, at Astoria AC, 1 p.m. Wrestling — 4A Regionals, at Scap- poose, TBA SATURDAY Girls Basketball — Knappa at Nestucca, 4 p.m.; Adna vs. Ilwaco (at Montesano), 1 p.m. Boys Basketball — Knappa at Nestucca, 6 p.m. Swimming — District 1/4A, at Astoria AC, 10 a.m. Wrestling — 4A Regionals, at Scap- poose, TBA wright added 16 as Southern Califor- nia cruised to a 92-66 victory over Ore- gon State on Thursday night. Aaron, who sat out last season after transfer- ring from Louisville, made 7 of 10 shots, including 5 of 6 3-pointers. JaQuori McLaughlin had 12 points and Stephen Thompson Jr scored 11 points, grabbed eight rebounds and added six assists for Oregon State (4-21, 0-12 Pac-12), which lost its 12th straight, and fell for the 18th time in 19 games. The Beavers have lost their 12 Pac-12 games this season by an aver- age of 16.6 points. Life Christian 54, Knappa 45 LC (54): Zeke Quinlan 14, B.Quinlan 11, Ross 11, Wooten 8, Vasilyev 8, Lam- bert 2. KNA (45): Colton Weirup 16, J.Miller 11, D.Takalo 7, Engblom 7, E.Takalo 4. Life Christian 11 9 15 19—54 Knappa 9 14 7 15—45 Thomas, Celtics down Blazers Associated Press PORTLAND — Isaiah Thomas’ teammates kept tell- ing him to keep shooting, that the shots would fall. And they did. Thomas wound up with 34 points, including 15 in the fourth quarter, and the Boston Celtics rebounded from a loss the previ- ous night to beat the Portland Trail Blazers 120-111 on Thursday. Marcus Smart added 18 for the Celtics, who had seven scorers in double figures. Damian Lillard had 28 points and seven assists for the Blazers, while Al-Farouq Aminu added a season-high 26 points.
