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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2017
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SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Jewell girls
cruise to ninth
straight win
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.