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12A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2017 CONTACT US FOLLOW US facebook.com/ DailyAstorianSports Gary Henley | Sports Reporter ghenley@dailyastorian.com SPORTS IN BRIEF Jewell girls cruise to ninth straight win The Daily Astorian JEWELL — Win No. 9 in a row was another easy one for the Jewell girls basketball team, which posted a 28-15 victory over Oregon School for the Deaf Tuesday at Jewell. Playing their third straight game at home, the Lady Jays will now play for third place in the Casco League, in a tie-breaker today vs. Perrydale, at Gaston High School. Jewell scored just four points in the second half of Tuesday’s win, but did not even need the four points, since the Jays led 24-0 at halftime. Emma Guillen had nine points and eight rebounds to lead Jewell, while Gabi Morales added eight points. Hinson leads Jays past OSD The Daily Astorian JEWELL — The Jewell boys basketball team finished the sea- son strong Tuesday night, with an 81-50 win over Oregon School for the Deaf. Sean Hinson completed his career with 23 points, eight rebounds and three blocks for the Blue Jays, who led 42-25 at halftime. Carson Littlepage added 17 points and five steals; Ryan Kane had 13 points, five assists and four steals; and Ben Stahly chipped in 10 points with nine rebounds and six steals. SCOREBOARD PREP SCHEDULE THURSDAY Thursday, Feb. 16 Girls Basketball — Astoria at Scap- poose, 6 p.m.; Seaside at Banks, 6 p.m.; Gaston at Knappa, 6 p.m. Boys Basketball — Astoria at Scap- poose, 7:45 p.m.; Seaside at Banks, 7:45 p.m.; Knappa at Life Christian, 7:30 p.m. GIRLS BASKETBALL Banks 47, Astoria 31 BAN (47): Aspen Slifka 11, Gregg 10, Klein 9, Gerlinger 8, Jordan 3, Maller 3, Ragsdale 2, Berning 1. AST (31): Julia Norris 9, Hemsley 7, Wal- lace 5, DeMander 4, Hankwitz 4, Gimre 2, Cummings, Rogers, O’Brien, Jackson. Banks 13 14 7 13—47 Astoria 3 6 15 7—31 JV: Astoria 40, Banks 29 Seaside 63, Tillamook 37 SEA (63): Sydney Villegas 16, Utti 14, Ideue 13, Hoekstre 7, Smart 4, Falleur 4, Garhofer 3, Babbitt 2, Kiser, Huddleston, Bodner. Tillamook 8 9 6 14—37 Seaside 15 20 20 8—63 Warrenton 65, De La Salle 56 DLS (56): Sarygh Dalton 25, Bristol 12, Fesser 9, Boyd 5, Brannon 3, Imes 3, Miller 1. WAR (65): Landree Miethe 19, Little 15, Dyer 9, Morrill 9, K.Blodgett 5, Bussert 4, Alvarez 4, M.Blodgett. De La Salle 13 14 14 17—56 Warrenton 21 11 20 13—65 Jewell 28, OSD 15 JWL (28): Emma Guillen 9, G.Morales 8, Stapleton 4, Wammack 4, N.Morales 2, Norman 1, Littlepage, Gonzalez, Olvera 0, DeWees, Kaczenski, Shaw, Murray. OR School 0 0 3 12—15 Jewell 13 11 2 2—28 BOYS BASKETBALL Banks 66, Astoria 57 BAN (66): Zach Streblow 12, Blake Gobel 12, Geraci 11, Taylor 9, Evans 7, Renne 7, Cameron 4, Hutchins 4. AST (57): Ole Englund 14, Arnsdorf 13, Wallace 7, Palek 6, Strange 4, Fremstad 4, Johnson 4, Gohl 3, Burchfield 2, Olson, O’Brien. Banks 12 18 14 22—66 Astoria 13 17 12 15—57 Seaside 84, Tillamook 53 TIL (53): Ian Collett 22, Wagner 9, John- son 6, Abbott 4, Flores 2, Rumage 2, Hurliman 2, Taylor 2, Berge 2, Werner 2. SEA (84): Hunter Thompson 31, Babb 11, C.Januik 10, Westerholm 7, J.Januik 7, D.Thompson 7, Hoekstre 4, Landwehr 4, Meyer 2, Carter 1, Sibony, Johnson. Tillamook 15 4 19 15—53 Seaside 22 33 15 14—84 Life Christian 62, Knappa 54 KNA (54): Timber Engblom 21, Weirup 18, J.Miller 5, D.Takalo 5, Ramvick 3, Ru- bus 2. LC (62): Zeke Quinlan 22, B.Quinlan 18, Wooten 14, Vasilyev 3, Ross 2, Lambert 1. Knappa 4 21 15 14—54 Life Christian 15 11 18 17—62 Jewell 81, OSD 50 JWL (81): Sean Hinson 23, Littlepage 17, R.Kane 13, Stahly 10, N.Kane 9, Mee- han 4, Culp 2, Lilley 2, Godwin 1. OR School 16 9 12 13—50 Jewell 22 20 16 23—81 Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian Banks’ Aspen Slifka defends while Astoria’s Rylee Demander drives to the basket on Tuesday at Astoria High School. Braves slip past the Lady Fishermen The Daily Astorian The No. 2-ranked Banks girls basketball team jumped out to leads of 17-3, 22-5 and ulti- mately 27-7, but the Astoria Lady Fishermen made the Braves work for their eventual 47-31 win Tuesday night at the Brick House. Astoria rallied to within 10 points after three quarters (34-24), before the Braves finished the game on an 8-2 run. Banks had balanced scoring from Aspen Lady Warriors advance with win The Daily Astorian WARRENTON — The War- renton girls basketball program won its first post-season game since 2014, as the Warriors took down De La Salle 65-56 in a Lewis & Clark League playoff game Tuesday at Warrenton. Now it’s on to Portland Chris- tian, as Warrenton continues its march toward the state tourna- ment in the game for the No. 3 seed, against a team the Warriors defeated 74-57 just seven days earlier. The Royals will host War- renton Thursday. Once again, the Warriors played one of their most complete games of the season in Tuesday’s win, with balanced scoring and solid defense. Landree Miethe had a team- high 19 points, highlighted by three 3-pointers; Tyla Little added 15 points and Rachel Dyer hit three 3-pointers for nine points. Krista Morrill (nine points) had her career high, and Claire Bussert led the defensive charge. “It was a very physical game,” said Warrenton coach Robert Hoepfl. “The most physical game we’ve had. “Krista and Claire both played their best games of the year,” he said. “Claire didn’t score a lot of points (four), but she was the rea- son we were able to put up 65.” Slifka (11 points), Sydney Gregg (10), Anna Klein (nine) and Karlie Gerlinger (eight). Astoria’s hustling defense forced 12 sec- ond-half turnovers, while freshman Julie Nor- ris sparked a late third-quarter comeback, in which she hit a 3-pointer, followed by a steal and a score and a bank shot that helped the Fishermen close to within 10 points. Norris led Astoria with nine points off the bench, while sophomore Sam Hemsley added seven. A 3-pointer by Hemsley and four points from Rylee DeMander again had Astoria within 10 (41-31), before the Braves were able to close out the win. Astoria’s seniors played their last home game, unless the Lady Fishermen receive a home contest in the Regional Play-in round. Astoria (3-6 in league, 7-15 overall) finishes the regular season Thursday at Scap- poose (2-17 overall) before opening the playoffs. Hunter bags 31 for Gulls The Daily Astorian SEASIDE — Seaside bounced back from its one and only loss of the season last week with a decisive 84-53 win over Tillamook Tuesday at the Gulls’ Nest. “We had a hard practice (Monday), we came out with a lot of energy, cre- ated turnovers and got out to a good lead,” said Seaside coach Bill Wester- holm, whose team is still ranked No. 1 in the state at the 4A level, with an 18-1 overall record. While the Gulls lost a close game to Valley Catholic late last week, Tilla- mook was coming off a 40-point win over Astoria. But Seaside had a lock on Tues- day’s game in the second quarter, out- scoring the Cheesemakers 33-4, for a 55-19 halftime lead. Senior Hunter Thompson hit six 3-pointers, as he sparked the Gulls The Daily Astorian Jeff Ter Har/For the Daily Astorian Seaside’s Hunter Thompson split the Tillamook defense for 31 points in Tuesday’s win. with 26 points in the first half, on his way to a career-high 31 points. Attikin Babb scored 11 and Chase Januik added 10 for Seaside. Lady Gulls pound Cheesemakers The Daily Astorian SEASIDE — The Seaside Lady Gulls are one hurdle away from another Cowapa League champion- ship and their first undefeated league season since 2013-14. Sydney Villegas celebrated Senior Night at the Gulls’ Nest with a team- high 16 points in a 63-37 win over Tillamook. Maddi Utti joined in the fun with another triple-double — 14 points, 12 assists and 10 steals, with six rebounds. Jetta Ideue chipped in a career-high 13 points, while the Gulls had 24 steals as a team. Seaside coach Mike Hawes called it a “solid, workman-like victory. We seemed to be stuck in the mud a bit the first quarter-and-a-half, espe- cially defensively, but we kept scoring enough to keep increasing the lead.” The Gulls outscored Tillamook 40-15 over the middle two quarters to build an eventual 55-23 lead. Seaside “spread out the scoring pretty well,” Hawes said. “(The Chee- semakers) focused on Maddi in a box for a portion of the first half. “Jetta Ideue had her best offen- sive game of the season, and Gretchen Hoekstre pitched in with seven points, nine rebounds and, like nine fouls. “Maddi and Sydney again were very good,” he said. “It was Senior Night, and Lucy (Bodner), Sydney and Maddi … what three awesome, won- derful young women they are.” The Gulls can finish off a perfect league season with a win at Banks Thursday. Life Christian wins Round 2 vs. Knappa boys, 62-54 The Daily Astorian PORTLAND — Other than an early 18-4 lead for Life Christian, the Lions and the Knappa Loggers bat- tled right to the end Tuesday night, in a Northwest League regular season finale. No. 6-ranked Life Christian did just enough to hold off the Loggers, 62-54, to finish with the league’s sec- ond-place spot. Despite sweeping the regular sea- son series with Knappa, the Lions (15-3 in league) will have to beat the Loggers (14-4) one more time, in a much bigger game, as Knappa travels to play Life Christian for a third time Braves go 3-point crazy in win over Astoria in a league playoff Thursday. Big games for Timber Engblom (21 points) and Colton Weirup (18) kept the Loggers close, as Knappa ral- lied to within 26-25 at halftime, and trailed just 44-40 entering the fourth quarter. Knappa finished 13-of-20 at the free-throw line. A barrage of 3-pointers in the second quarter and another round of 3s in the fourth quarter helped Banks defeat Astoria 66-57 in a big Cowapa League boys basketball showdown Tuesday at the Brick House. Banks improves to 14-5 over- all and No. 8 in the latest OSAA rankings, with Seaside and Val- ley Catholic holding down the top two spots. The Braves host Seaside Thursday. Astoria slips to 1-8 in league play, but the Fishermen showed a glimpse of what they could do in the upcoming Regional play-in round, as they tune up for the post-season. The Fishermen held their larg- est lead at 20-14 early in the second quarter, before the Braves scored 3-pointers from Jake Evans, Trevor Geraci and Kylan Taylor to grab a 28-24 lead. Astoria rallied to force a 30-30 tie at halftime. Astoria never led in the second half. A pair of 3-pointers by Fisher- men senior Ole Englund were off- set by 3-pointers from the Braves’ Ian Hutchins and Zach Streblow, as six different players combined to make 11 3-pointers for Banks. Still, the Fishermen trailed just 44-42 entering the final quarter. That’s when the Braves went on another 3-point binge, with triples from Streblow (twice), Geraci and Bret Cameron helping Banks re-es- tablish a 60-44 lead. Englund and Jackson Arnsdorf combined to score 27 points for Astoria, with Englund scoring 11 of his 14 in the second half, and Arnsdorf scoring 11 of his 13 in the first half. Fritz Fremstad and Kyle Strange each scored four points for the Fishermen, who finish the league season Thursday at Scappoose.
