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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2017
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Playoff
hopes alive
for Lady
Loggers
The Daily Astorian
KNAPPA — The Knappa Lady
Loggers have been a second half
team all season, and they put that
trait to good use Thursday night at
home, in a Northwest League play-
off game with Gaston.
The Greyhounds held a 12-2
after one quarter and 17-10 at half-
time, before the Loggers staged
their usual second half rally for a
34-25 win.
Knappa (9-12 overall) advances
to the league tournament Saturday,
and will play City Christian (14-9),
with the winner securing a spot in
the Class 2A Sweet 16. The Lions
beat the Loggers twice in the reg-
ular season, but will have defeat
Knappa a third time on a neutral
court for the trip to state.
“We outscored (the Grey-
hounds) 15-3 in the third quarter,
and that really flipped it around,”
said Knappa coach Marie Green.
“That just switched a light on
in our girls, and it was great to
watch.”
In possibly her last home game,
Kaitlyn Landwehr led Knappa
with 12 points, with 14 rebounds
and five steals.
Aiko Miller and Madelynn
Weaver scored six points apiece
for the Loggers, who outscored
Gaston 24-8 in the second half.
Weaver added five rebounds
and three assists.
Seaside goes overtime to beat Banks
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
BANKS — It was gut-check time
for the Seaside boys basketball team
Thursday night at Banks.
With a league title on the line and
their two seniors having fouled out of
the game, the Gulls responded when
they needed it most — in overtime —
for a 70-68 win over the Braves.
Sophomore Chase Januik’s jump
shot in the closing seconds proved to
be the winning points.
“It was nice to see our kids bat-
tle a little adversity, playing without
the seniors when the game was on the
line,” said Seaside coach Bill Wester-
holm. “You don’t see that very often,
with sophomores carrying you in over-
time. They were a little frantic at first
(in the OT), but we settled down and
made some big plays.”
Coupled with Valley Catholic’s win
over Tillamook, the Gulls and Valiants
(ranked first and second in the state,
respectively) finish in a tie atop the
Cowapa League standings at 9-1, and
will play a tie-breaker/seeding game in
a doubleheader Tuesday at Tillamook,
7:45 p.m. (Seaside girls play for the
No. 1 seed vs. Banks at 6 p.m.).
Seaside controlled most of the
first half, as the Gulls turned a 12-10
deficit into a 21-12 lead early in the
second quarter.
Hunter Thompson’s seven first-half
points helped Seaside to a 27-21 lead
at the break.
But the Braves — coming off a big
victory at Astoria Tuesday — rallied
behind 3-pointers from Dalton Renne
and Ian Hutchins to tie the game at
32-32, before Payton Westerholm and
Thompson answered with 3-pointers
of their own for a 44-41 lead going
into the fourth quarter.
The Braves rallied again, as Jake
Evans knocked down a trey midway
through the quarter, and Hutchins and
Kylan Taylor added long-range bombs
to give Banks a 54-49 lead.
Before fouling out late in regula-
tion, Jackson Januik made four key
free throws (and finished 10-for-10
from the line), and the Gulls were able
to grab a 61-57 lead.
But in a wild fourth quarter, Taylor
hit four straight free throws for Banks
in the final minute to send the game to
overtime.
Thompson fouled out early in the
overtime session, but Seaside’s young
players answered the call.
Chase Januik scored on a jumper
to tie the game at 63-63, Westerholm
hit a 3-pointer and sophomore Duncan
Thompson added a basket at the 1:53
mark for a 68-63 lead.
“Chase made a nice jumper in the
key, then Babb and Payton both had
big three’s for us,” coach Westerholm
said. “But it seemed like every time
we made a run, they would come back
with one. They’re a good team. They
made nine 3s, and Hutchins had four
of them.”
One last rally from the Braves
forced a 68-68 tie, with Taylor scoring
on a layup with 35 seconds left.
But Seaside played for — and made
— the last shot, as Chase Januik’s
fadeaway jumper went through the net
with one second left, the game-winner
for the Gulls.
The younger Januik finished with
18 points, followed by Jackson Januik
and Westerholm with 12 points apiece.
Astoria
girls pound
Scappoose
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SCAPPOOSE — Sophomore
Sam Hemsley scored 16 points
and freshman Brooklynn Hank-
witz added six for Astoria Thurs-
day night, leading the Lady Fisher-
men to a 40-28 win at Scappoose.
Astoria led 12-4 after one quar-
ter, and never trailed, as the Lady
Fishermen swept the regular sea-
son series with the Indians.
All six Cowapa schools will
take part in the league playoffs,
beginning Saturday.
Scappoose (1-9) and Tillamook
(1-9) play Saturday at Banks, with
the winner to play at Astoria (4-6)
Monday at 6:30 p.m. The winner
of Monday’s game will play at Val-
ley Catholic (6-4) Tuesday (6:30
p.m.) for third place in the league.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TODAY
Swimming — OSAA State Meet, Mt.
Hood CC, Gresham
Wrestling — District 1/3A, at Rainier,
TBA; District 1/2A, at Waldport, TBA
SATURDAY
Girls Basketball — City Christian vs.
Knappa (at Forest Grove HS), 2 p.m.;
Adna vs. Ilwaco (at WF West, Chehalis),
1 p.m.; Tahola vs. Naselle (at Montesa-
no), 1 p.m.
Boys Basketball — Columbia Chris-
tian vs. Knappa (at Forest Grove HS), 7
p.m.; Tahola vs. Naselle (at Montesano),
3 p.m.
Swimming — OSAA State Meet, Mt.
Hood CC, Gresham
Wrestling — District 1/3A, at Rainier,
TBA; District 1/2A, at Waldport, TBA
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Astoria 40, Scappoose 28
AST (40): Sam Hemsley 16, Hankwitz
6, Wallace 4, Norris 4, O’Brien 4, Cum-
mings 2, DeMander 1, Gimre.
SCP (28): Shaylan Smith 11, Brodala 6,
Kopra 4, Dost 3, Kopra 1.
Astoria
12 7 10 11—40
Scappoose
4 10 7 7—28
Banks 39, Seaside 30
SEA (30): Maddi Utti 13, Babbitt 7,
Smart 4, Villegas 2, Garhofer 2, Bodner
2, Ideue, Kiser, Hoekstre.
BAN (39): Anna Klein 18, Slifka 14,
Gregg 4, Gerlinger 2, Maller 1.
Seaside
6 11 4 9—30
Banks
18 4 10 7—39
Portland Chr. 55, Warrenton 52
WAR (52): Landree Miethe 18, Alvarez
10, Bussert 8, Morrill 6, Dyer 5, Little 5,
K.Blodgett.
PC (55): Krystian Brownell 15, Guild
12, McKinney 11, Conard 6, Cummins 6,
Hansen 2, Stumetz 2.
Warrenton
8 11 18 15—52
PDX Christian 17 14 9 15—55
Knappa 34, Gaston 25
GAS (25): Charity Hall 16, Bassel 6,
Clark 1, Becker 1, Richardson 1.
KNA (34): Kaitlyn Landwehr 12, Weav-
er 6, Miller 6, Inman 6, Vanderburg 3,
Vandergriff 1, Strain.
Gaston
12 5 3 5—25
Knappa
2 8 15 9—34
BOYS BASKETBALL
Scappoose 54, Astoria 49
AST (49): Kyle Strange 10, Englund 9,
Wallace 7, Gohl 6, Palek 6, Johnson 5,
Fremstad 4, Arnsdorf 2, O’Brien.
SCP (54): Chris Bendle 23, Kramer 10,
Toman 8, Rieman 4, Verbout 4, Holma-
son 3, Gift 2.
Astoria
9 14 11 15—49
Scappoose
7 13 13 21—54
Seaside 70, Banks 68
SEA (70): Chase Januik 18, J.Januik
12, Westerholm 12, H.Thompson 10,
Babb 9, D.Thompson 6, Hoekstre 2.
BAN (68): Dalton Renne 23, Evans 13,
Taylor 13, Hutchins 12, Gobel 7.
Seaside
14 13 17 17 9—70
Banks
12 9 20 20 7—68
Knappa 46, Life Christian 44
KNA (46): Dale Takalo 18, Engblom 9,
Weirup 8, Goodman 3, K.Miller 3, J.Miller
2, Rubus 2, E.Takalo 2.
LC (44): Zac Ross 16, Z.Quinlan 11,
B.Quinlan 11, Vasilyev 4, Wooten 2.
Knappa
10 14 14 8—46
Life Christian 14 13 6 11—44
Krissy Barendse-Goodman/For the Daily Astorian
Knappa’s Timber Engblom cuts in front of Life Christian’s Zeke Quinlan for a shot in a loss against the
Lions last week. Knappa returned to Life Christian Thursday, and beat the Lions in a league playoff.
LOGGERS FINALLY
TAME THE LIONS
The Daily Astorian
PORTLAND — It’s hard to beat the same team
three times in the same season.
The Knappa boys basketball team put that the-
ory to the test Thursday night. And it must be true,
because the Loggers — in their third meeting of the
season with Life Christian — finally beat the Lions,
46-44.
Knappa will now get a shot at the No. 1 seed in
the Northwest League, as the Loggers advance to
play Columbia Christian Saturday at Forest Grove
High School (7 p.m.).
And the Loggers could have the edge in this one,
too. The Knights defeated Knappa twice in the regu-
lar season, but they will have to do it a third time, at
a neutral site, to earn the league’s No. 1 seed.
“The third time’s the charm, and whatever other
cliché you want to use,” Knappa coach Chris Spen-
cer said of Thursday’s win. “We punched our ticket
(to state). It was a huge win for us.”
Win or lose Saturday, the Loggers (17-7 overall)
will host a first-round state playoff game next week.
Knappa rallied from a 27-24 halftime deficit,
outscoring the Lions 14-6 in the third quarter.
While Dale Takalo led the Loggers with a game-
high 18 points, Knappa held Life Christian’s Zeke
and Bo Quinlan to a combined 22.
“That has to be some kind of record,” Spencer
said. “Obviously you have to stop both of them, but
our focus was on stopping Zeke. And we had three
guys — Ethan Rubus, Michal Goodman and our
freshman Joe Ramvick — who rotated on him and
did whatever they could — knock him down, step
on his feet — whatever it took to stop him.
“It was an unbelievable defensive effort.”
Still, the teams were locked in a 40-40 tie with a
minute remaining, when Takalo drove the baseline
to put the Loggers ahead, 42-40.
With 30 seconds left, Rubus drew an offensive
charge (“the play of the game,” Spencer said), and
Knappa played the free throw game after that, mak-
ing 4-of-5 down the stretch for their final four points.
Jason Miller had two big free throws in the
final seconds for his only two points, to go with 10
rebounds.
Timber Engblom had nine points and Colton
Weirup finished with eight for the Loggers.
Indians top
Fishermen
boys, 54-49
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SCAPPOOSE — Scappoose
scored 21 points at the free throw
line to Astoria’s three Thursday
night, and that was more than
enough to provide the difference
in a 54-49 win for the Indians in
a Cowapa League boys basketball
season finale.
The Fishermen held a 23-20
lead at halftime before Scappoose
rallied in the second half, most of
it from the free-throw line.
The Indians made 21 of their
30 free throw attempts, including
14-of-21 in the second half. Asto-
ria was 3-for-6 on the night.
Chris Bendle scored 23 points
for Scappoose.
The Fishermen had a balanced
scoring attack, as Kyle Strange led
the way with 10 points, followed
by Ole Englund (nine), Tristan
Wallace (seven), with Jasyn Gohl
and Ryan Palek adding six apiece.
The Fishermen finish the sea-
son 10-13 overall.
Royals sail past Warriors Braves, Lady Gulls share
The Daily Astorian
PORTLAND — It was a 20-point
turnaround for the Portland Christian
girls basketball team Thursday night, in
the Royals’ favor.
After a 74-57 loss to Warrenton just
nine days earlier, the Royals made a royal
rebound in Thursday’s Lewis & Clark
League playoff, with a 55-52 win over
Warrenton.
Portland Christian hit three 3-point-
ers in the final 1:30 to earn the win, and
advance to the league tournament.
“We didn’t play well early (trailing
17-8 after one quarter), but by the third
quarter, we’d cut it to 40-37,” said War-
renton coach Robert Hoepfl, whose team
finishes the season 16-9 overall.
From there, a 3-pointer by Warren-
ton’s Claire Bussert to start the fourth
tied the game, and the Warriors eventu-
ally took the lead.
A runner by Landree Miethe gave
Warrenton a late 52-51 advantage, before
Portland Christian’s Journie Conard hit a
3-pointer with 25 seconds left for a 54-52
lead.
A free throw added another point for
the Royals, and Rachel Dyer’s 3-pointer
at the buzzer just missed for the Warriors.
“Rachel got a good look at it,” Hoepfl
said. “It just didn’t go, and it is what it is.
“I’m still real proud of this team,” he
said. “These girls were 2-22 two years
ago, and had not won more than two
league games in each of the last two
years (2-14 each year).
“I’m especially proud of our three
seniors, Kate (Blodgett), Landree and
Krista (Morrill),” Hoepfl said. “They
were an inspiration to the rest of the girls
and could not have done more for the
program.”
Miethe led Warrenton with 18 points,
followed by Fernanda Alvarez with 10.
Krystian Brownell had 15 points for the
Royals.
Cowapa League title
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BANKS — The last time
they played the Banks Braves,
the Seaside girls basketball
team had 33 points at halftime,
in an eventual 62-58 victory.
It was a big difference Thurs-
day night at Banks, where the
No. 2-ranked Braves scored a
39-30 win over the Lady Gulls.
The result — Seaside lost
for just the first time in league
play, and will have to share the
Cowapa League title with the
Braves, as both finish with 9-1
records.
The two teams will play for
the Cowapa’s No. 1 seed to the
state playoffs Tuesday at Til-
lamook High School, with a
6 p.m. tip-off.
Seaside scored the first two
points, but the rest of the night
belonged to the Braves, who led
18-6 after one quarter.
Seaside’s Anesha Smart
opened the second quarter with
a pair of jump shots, helping the
Gulls close to within 22-17 at
halftime.
But Banks’ senior Anna
Klein had the hotter hand, as the
5-foot-11 post began the third
quarter with a jump shot, spark-
ing the Braves to a 10-4 run.
Klein finished with a game-
high 18 points. After scoring 37
in the last meeting, Seaside’s
Maddi Utti was held to 13,
with seven points from Bryre
Babbitt.