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Lions
hold off
Lady
Loggers
The Daily Astorian
FOREST GROVE — The third
time was not the charm for the
Knappa Lady Loggers Saturday in
Forest Grove.
City Christian had to rally
to win their third game against
Knappa this season, 44-33, in a
Northwest League girls basketball
playoff.
Knappa finishes 9-13 overall,
but just one win away from mak-
ing the Sweet 16.
City Christian (15-9) advances
to play at Western Mennonite
Saturday.
Kristina Dickinson scored a
game-high 15 points for the Lions,
who swept the regular season
series with Knappa. City Christian
defeated Knappa 50-24 in the last
meeting, Jan. 31.
In Saturday’s game, however,
the Loggers held a 23-19 lead at
halftime.
“The first half was fantastic,”
said Knappa coach Marie Green.
“The girls were doing a great job,
and we even scored first after
halftime.
“But we just had too many turn-
overs (35, including 19 in the sec-
ond half),” she said. “We had one
stretch where we turned it over on
four straight possessions, and they
scored on all four.”
City Christian outscored
Knappa 17-8 in the third quarter,
and 8-2 in the fourth.
Kaitlyn Landwehr and Devin
Vandergriff scored seven points
apiece in their last game for the
Loggers.
SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Sweet Home
sweeps state
swim meet
The Daily Astorian
GRESHAM — The Sweet
Home Huskies swept the team
titles Saturday, in the Class
4A/3A/2A/1A portion of the
OSAA state swim meet at Mt.
Hood Community College.
Astoria and Seaside failed to
advance any swimmers to Satur-
day’s finals, although the Fish-
ermen and Gulls recorded some
personal best swims in the
preliminaries.
Seaside’s Kendy Lin swam
a 2:12.42 in the 200-yard free-
style prelims; and Astoria’s Shan-
non Christie timed a 27.07 in the
50-yard freestyle.
The Astoria girls’ 200-yard free-
style relay dropped nearly 3 sec-
onds on their time (1:56.85); while
the Seaside boys’ 200-yard free-
style relay recorded a 1:40.21. Sea-
side’s 200-yard medley relay just
missed qualifying for the finals,
finishing seventh in the prelims.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TODAY
Girls Basketball — Scappoose at As-
toria, 6:30 p.m.
TUESDAY
Girls Basketball — Astoria at Valley
Catholic, TBA; Banks vs. Seaside (at Til-
lamook HS), 6 p.m.
Boys Basketball — Valley Catholic vs.
Seaside (at Tillamook HS), 7:45 p.m.
BOYS BASKETBALL
Columbia Chr. 39, Knappa 36
KNA (36): Colton Weirup 13, D.Takalo
10, Engblom 8, J.Miller 4, Rubus 1, E.
Takalo, Goodman, K.Miller, Eltagonde,
Ramvick.
CC (39): Levi Morris 10, Wagner 9, En-
dresen 5, Barbarick 4, Dalzell 4.
Knappa
3 6 4 23—36
Columbia C.
8 9 13 9—39
GIRLS BASKETBALL
City Christian 44, Knappa 33
KNA (33): Kaitlyn Landwehr 7, Devin
Vandergriff 7, Weaver 6, Miller 6, Vander-
burg 5, Inman 2, Carlson, Strain.
CC (44): Kristina Dickinson 15, Cruz 9,
Owen 8, Ishibashi 6, Lasater 4, Castillo 2.
Knappa
10 13 8 2—33
City Christian 12 7 17 8—44
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Knappa’s Jason Miller, right, gets off a pass around a Columbia Christian defender in Saturday’s playoff game.
Logger rally comes up short
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
FOREST GROVE — The Columbia Chris-
tian Knights — the possible favorite to win
the Class 2A state title, and a team that rou-
tinely scores over 80 points per game — scored
another narrow, low-scoring victory over their
closest challenger Saturday night.
In their third win of the season over
Knappa, the mighty Knights had to hold on for
their championship lives in a 39-36 victory in
the Northwest League boys basketball top-seed
game at Forest Grove High School.
Both teams advance to the Sweet 16
and could easily meet for a fourth time in
Pendleton. Columbia Christian will host
Union, while the Loggers play at Imbler Friday.
The Knights were rarely challenged this
year, on their way to a 23-2 record. Other
than their two losses to Life Christian (a team
Knappa defeated in a league playoff last week),
Columbia Christian’s two closest victories
came against the Loggers (42-40 and 39-36).
Knappa only had nine points at halftime
of Saturday’s championship — but they only
trailed by eight, 17-9.
“We had them a little frustrated,” Knappa
coach Chris Spencer said of the Knights. “We
just couldn’t make shots. We had some wide-
open looks, but they just weren’t going down.
“We didn’t make our first 3-pointer until the
fourth quarter, and we were 11-for-19 at the
free-throw line, which didn’t help.”
Knappa’s comeback was gradual. In fact,
the score got worse before it got better.
With seven minutes left in the fourth quar-
ter, the Loggers trailed 32-15.
From there, Knappa scored nine straight
points and cut the deficit to 32-24 with 4:29
remaining.
A three-point play by Dale Takalo with 12
seconds left cut the Knight lead to just 39-33.
Columbia Christian missed a free throw at
the other end, and Knappa’s Colton Weirup hit
a desperation 3-pointer at the buzzer for the
final three points.
The Loggers missed their first 13 3-pointers
of the game, and finished 3-for-19.
“I wasn’t upset with the way we played,”
Spencer said. “They’re a great team and
well-coached.
“We started forcing some turnovers and
getting out in transition,” he said. “It was just
hard to play from behind, when we only had
13 points going into the fourth quarter. It’s like
using the two-minute offense in football — it’s
hard to play like that for an entire game.
“By the time we got close, they made some
free throws at the end and we were in some foul
trouble.”
Weirup led Knappa with a game-high 13
points, followed by Takalo with 10.
Knappa Loggers third in Reynolds takes third for
District wrestling meet Warriors wrestling team
The Daily Astorian
WALDPORT — Knappa
wrestling had one district cham-
pion and five third-place finish-
ers in the District 1/2A tourna-
ment, held Friday and Saturday
at Waldport.
After finishing second at
182 pounds last year, Knappa’s
Andrew Goozee got his district
title at 195, and will compete in
the state tournament for the third
straight year.
The senior had qualified for
state before he even had to wres-
tle Saturday, as Goozee advanced
to the finals with two byes and a
forfeit win over Nestucca’s Con-
ner Cook.
In the championship match,
Goozee scored a 3-0 decision
over Nestucca’s Chase Cook, the
defending champion at 195.
Knappa had five more wres-
tlers place third to qualify for
state.
At 126, Luke Goozee opened
with a 52-second pin over Levi
Lancaster of Siletz Valley in
the quarterfinals, before Mekhi
Williams of Vernonia scored a
fall (3:31) over Goozee in the
semifinals.
Goozee bounced back with
consolation wins (by fall) over
Vernonia’s Isaiah Bozied (1:28)
and Nestucca’s Gabe Garcia
(2:32) in the third-place match.
In the second-place match, Goo-
zee lost by fall to Monroe’s Alec
Avery (3:44).
Spencer Fulton added points
for Knappa with a third-place
finish at 138, where Fulton
rebounded from a loss in the
quarterfinals with three straight
consolation wins, including a fall
(3:26) over Nestucca’s Corbin
Nelson in the third-place match.
Kaleb Roe took third at
170, where he advanced with
two byes before a loss in the
semifinals.
Roe bounced back with a fall
(1:59) over Vernonia’s Chris-
topher Lloyd in the third-place
match, then lost the second-place
match by fall to Neah-Kah-Nie’s
Dylan Dunlap.
Knappa’s David Patterson
took third at 220.
The runner-up at 195 last sea-
son, Patterson received two byes
to start, then scored a victory by
pin (2:49) over Neah-Kah-Nie’s
Jonathan Lommen.
In the championship bout,
Patterson lost to Neah-Kah-Nie’s
Tristan Bennett, who scored a
46-second pin.
Knappa’s Justin Perdew fin-
ished third at 285.
He lost his first match on the
mat, a semifinal pin by Neah-
Kah-Nie’s Travis Jonsson. Per-
dew had two byes in the consola-
tion, then lost by rule to Jonsson
in the second-place match.
Team Scores: Vernonia 295,
Neah-Kah-Nie 228, Knappa 123,
Nestucca 122, Monroe 103.5,
Siletz Valley 85, Triangle Lake
48, Waldport 23, Toledo 22.
The Daily Astorian
RAINIER — The Warrenton wrestling
team racked up 83.5 points Saturday, to
take sixth in the team standings of the Dis-
trict 1/3A championship tournament.
Willamina/Falls City scored a whop-
ping 372 points to win the meet, hosted by
Rainier. Dayton was a distant second with
295.5, followed by Rainier (178).
The Warriors had 12 wrestlers compet-
ing, with six placers.
“We’re thrilled for our six district plac-
ers,” said Warrenton coach Corey Conant.
“They battled and earned their spots on the
podium. They all return next year and we’ll
carry our momentum over to next season.”
The highest finish went to Beau Reyn-
olds, who took third at 285 pounds.
The junior opened with a quarterfi-
nal pin (1 minute, 30 seconds) over Ganin
Bean of Taft.
Willamina’s Keegan Cook scored a
22-second pin over Reynolds in the semi-
finals, but Reynolds bounced back with
a consolation victory by fall (1:10) over
Taft’s Josue Jimenez.
Other placers for the Warriors:
Fourth: Armin Rodriguez, 126; Caden
Hans, 160; Timothy Warren, 182;
Fifth: Giovanni Martinez, 145;
Sixth: Brandon Williamson, 126;
Eighth: Michael Verley, 132;
Morgan Buoy, 160; Devon Gru-
baugh, 170; Leonard Thompson, 170.
District 1/3A Wrestling
Team Scores: Willamina/Falls City
372, Dayton 295.5, Rainier 178, Clats-
kanie 114, Taft 107, Warrenton 83.5,
Amity 64, De La Salle 64, Sheridan 12.
Ilwaco girls defeat Adna, again
The Daily Astorian
CHEHALIS, Wash. — A long
post-season continued for the Ilwaco
girls basketball team Saturday in Che-
halis, Wash., where the Lady Fishermen
were playing Adna in the third-place
game of the Southwest 2B tournament.
And Ilwaco improved to 2-0 in the
playoffs against Adna, with a 48-41 win
over the Pirates. They could play Adna a
third time at the state tournament.
Ilwaco is now 4-1 in the post-season,
and the Fishermen aren’t close to being
done, as they advance to regionals, fol-
lowed by the state in Spokane, where
they could play up to five games.
The Lady Fishermen play Raymond
at noon Saturday, at W.F. West High
School in Chehalis.
Boys Basketball
Taholah 63, Naselle 54
MONTESANO, Wash. — The
Naselle boys basketball team advanced
to regionals with a 63-54 loss to Taholah
Saturday, in the championship game of
the Southwest District 1B tournament in
Montesano.
Naselle drops to 14-9 overall, and
will play Taholah again in the regional
tournament, 8 p.m. Friday at Tumwater.