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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2017
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Athletes of the Week
(FOR THE WEEK OF FEB. 6-11)
WILL
GARVIN
Seaside
MAKENZIE
KAECH
Ilwaco, Wash.
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he senior was busy at the District swim meet in Astoria Feb. 11, racking
T Garvin
up points to help the Seaside boys fi nish second behind Newport.
had the lone victory for the Gulls, winning the 100-yard butterfl y in
aech has been a key ingredient for the Lady Fishermen, 19-4 overall and
K Ilwaco
currently 2-1 in the post-season.
scored a 57-43 win over Adna Saturday. The playoff win snapped a
57.63 seconds, almost 2 seconds faster than his time in the preliminaries.
He also helped the Gulls qualify two relay teams for the state meet — the
200-yard medley (with Isaiah Collins, Brad Rzewnicki and Luke Liljenwall) and
the 200-yard freestyle (with James Kennedy, Rzewnicki and Liljenwall).
Garvin will be seeded sixth in the butterfl y at the state meet this weekend.
two-year losing streak to Adna at Districts.
And Kaech, the 5-foot-10 junior, played a key role, with 17 points (10 in the
fourth quarter), eight rebounds, four assists and three steals.
Ilwaco advanced to the District semifi nals and clinched a trip to Spokane
for 2B Regionals and the state tournament.
On Feb. 8, Kaech scored 18 fi rst-half points (and fi nished with 22) in a 69-21
win over Onalaska in the fi rst round of Districts, also the 200th win of Ilwaco
coach Ned Bittner’s coaching career.
Mariners’
Iwakuma
ready to
shoulder
load again
SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Pirates beat
Jewell, 35-19,
in tie-breaker
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GASTON — Jewell’s nine-
game win streak came to a
screeching halt Wednesday night,
as Perrydale defeated the Lady
Jays 35-19 in a third-place tie-
breaker game in the Casco League
girls basketball standings.
For the third game in a row, the
Jays held their opponent score-
less in the fi rst quarter, with Jewell
leading 2-0 after one period.
Perrydale outscored the Jays
12-7 in a high-scoring second
quarter, for a 12-9 lead at the
break.
The Pirates were able to hold
off Jewell in the second half.
Perrydale freshman Sydney
Lawrence led all scorers with 15
points, followed by sophomore
teammate Sydney Perkins with 10.
Heidi Hollenbach had seven
points to lead Jewell, which plays
Falls City Friday (2 p.m., at Cor-
ban College) for the Casco’s No. 3
seed to the state playoffs.
Russia to
punish athletes
who don’t
return medals
By JOSE M. ROMERO
Associated Press
AP Photo/Rick Bowmer
Portland Trail Blazers guard C.J. McCollum (3) shoots as Utah Jazz forward Gordon Hayward (20) defends
during the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday in Salt Lake City.
Portland’s road woes continue
Trail Blazers fall
to 9-20 on road
following blowout
from Utah Jazz
By KAREEM COPELAND
Associated Press
Associated Press
MOSCOW — Russian track
and fi eld athletes haven’t been
giving up their medals in Olympic
doping cases, and local offi cials
have vowed to kick them off the
national team until they do.
The Russian track federation
said Thursday only one medal
has been returned out of 23 which
must be handed back because of
failed retests of samples from the
2008 and 2012 Games.
The only medal returned so far
is a bronze won by Anton Koko-
rin in the men’s 4x400-meter relay
at the 2008 Olympics. Kokorin
didn’t test positive, but teammate
Denis Alexeyev’s disqualifi cation
for a banned steroid means the
whole team must give their med-
als back.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TODAY
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.
SALT LAKE CITY — Gordon
Hayward was presented with his All-
Star jersey Wednesday night and will
play in the game for the fi rst time
on Sunday. He had some unfi nished
business, though, before heading to
New Orleans.
Hayward scored 22 points and
George Hill added 19 as the Utah Jazz
ended a three-game losing streak to
the Portland Trail Blazers with a 111-
88 victory.
UP NEXT: TRAIL BLAZERS
• Portland Trail Blazers (23-33)
at Orlando Magic (21-37)
• Feb. 23, 4 p.m. TV: FSFL, CSNW
The Jazz also ended a three-game
overall losing streak heading into the
All-Star break.
“We had a bad taste in our mouth
and didn’t want to go into the break
losing four straight,” Hayward said.
“This was one we needed to have and
I think we played like that a little bit
tonight. We need to be able to play
like that more often.”
Utah used a 20-4 third-quarter run
to take a 15-point lead after Hayward
warmed up following a 2-for-9 fi rst
half. He scored 13 in the quarter.
Joe Ingles scored 18 for the Jazz,
and Rudy Gobert had 13 points and
12 rebounds.
“I told (Hayward) don’t you dare
change anything you’re doing after
he had a really tough night against
Boston,” Jazz coach Quin Snyder
said. “It’s just a question of him con-
tinuing to play his game. If the ball’s
not going in, he can think about
other things he can do. Maybe get a
more open shot, but not to ever stop
attacking.
“That’s who he is. That’s who he’s
worked to become. That’s the guy we
have confi dence in.”
Damian Lillard and CJ McCol-
lum had torched Utah the six previ-
ous games against the Jazz, but were
fairly contained most of the night.
Lillard fi nished with 13 and McCol-
lum had 18.
The Trail Blazers cut the lead to
single digits in the third quarter, but
never got closer than seven.
PEORIA, Ariz. — Pitcher
Hisashi Iwakuma was a major rea-
son the Seattle Mariners stayed in
the race for an American League
wild-card playoff spot until the
second-to-last day of the 2016
season.
The big right-hander led the
Mariners with 16 wins, and he
got the start on Oct. 1 with Seat-
tle in a must-win situation at home
against Oakland in order to have
a chance. Iwakuma faltered, how-
ever, and gave up fi ve runs on nine
hits in 3 2-3 innings.
The Mariners wound up los-
ing 9-8 and were eliminated. But
Iwakuma was their workhorse in a
season that saw ace Felix Hernan-
dez lose some velocity and miss a
few starts due to injury.
Iwakuma got to Arizona sev-
eral days before the spring train-
ing report date to get a jump on
preparation for this season.
Iwakuma made 33 starts and
fell an inning short of 200 in
2016. A couple of months shy of
turning 36 years old, he’s eager to
show he can still be counted on as
often.
“‘Kuma takes his offseason
as serious as anybody. I think he
wants to show people that he can
carry that workload,” Mariners
manager Scott Servais said. “It’s
hard for him, especially where
he’s at in his career. We got prob-
ably more out of him than we
expected, which is great. We cer-
tainly needed it, and he wants to
back it up again this year.”
Champion Cubs get started with fanfare, big expectations
By JANIE MCCAULEY
Associated Press
MESA, Ariz. — Back home in
Las Vegas this winter, Kris Byrant
fi nally understood just how much the
Cubs championship meant far beyond
the Windy City.
He felt the constant love from fans
just by seeing people in the streets
wearing Chicago gear. Or when many
recognized him and offered congrat-
ulations for his huge part in the fran-
chise’s fi rst title in 108 years.
He’s hard to miss at 6-foot-5, too.
“I didn’t really realize how many
fans we had around the
country and I really got a
sense of that this year,”
Bryant said Wednesday,
when the World Series
champs held their fi rst
pitchers and catchers
workout of spring. “It
was kind of hard to even
go places in my hometown. I
was just seeing Cubs hats everywhere
driving my car down the road or guys
running in a Cubs hat. I’m like, ‘This
is crazy.’ It really shows what we did,
and it’s something that we can be
proud of.”
Jake Arrieta gets it. He
experienced the same
thing, and he can’t
always hide behind his
signature bushy brown
beard.
“Kris can’t go any-
where without get-
ting recognized,” Arrieta
quipped. “He’s got beautiful
hair and being 6-foot-6 it’s a little
hard to stay hidden for him. But the
beard for me kind of gives me away.
I was able to fl y under the radar for a
couple weeks without facial hair but
it came back pretty quickly.”
Now that this group has its banners
and baseball’s bragging rights until a
new winner is crowned next fall, the
Cubs want to do it again. Keep fl ying
that W in Wrigleyville.
No doubt the fanfare has reached
the Arizona desert, where the Cubs
were a main attraction in Mesa when
they formally began 2017.
Around Sloan Park and the club’s
adjacent training complex, there are
signs of winning: Large decorative
baseballs declaring “2016 World
Series Champions” and banners
hanging from light posts that read
“2016 World Champs.”