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Seagull
hitters
fl y past
Elma
Pizazz dance team
fi nishes fi fth at state
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — The Seaside
baseball team opened the 2017
season over the weekend, as the
Gulls hosted their annual pre-
season tournament at Broadway
Field.
In three games, Seaside fi n-
ished with one win, one loss and
a tie.
With a strict time limit, Fort
Vancouver, Wash., and Sea-
side played to a 2-2 tie Satur-
day, although the Gulls had a run-
ner at second with one out when
the action was stopped in the fi fth
inning.
Seaside bounced back Sun-
day morning with a 10-1 win
over Elma, Wash., as senior Brent
Walsh pitched four innings of
no-hit baseball.
Dawson Blanchard highlighted
the offensive attack, going 3-for-4
with two doubles, two runs scored
and four RBI s. Dylan Meyer
added a two-run double and Scotty
Plampin had an RBI single.
The win put Seaside into Sun-
day night’s championship game
against Hockinson, which scored
a 16-3 win over the Gulls.
Walsh had a double, fol-
lowed by a two-run home run by
Blachard.
The Gulls return to action
Tuesday at home vs. Estacada.
SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Brady’s AWOL
Super Bowl
jersey found
Associated Press
NEW YORK — The search for
Tom Brady’s missing Super Bowl
jersey is over.
The NFL says it was in “pos-
session of a credentialed mem-
ber of the international media.”
The league did not elaborate in its
statement on specifi cally who had
it.
The NFL says the jersey was
found through the “cooperation of
the NFL and New England Patri-
ots’ security teams, the FBI and
other law enforcement authori-
ties.” The league referred other
questions to the FBI.
Brady said his jersey went
missing after the Patriots’ 34-28
win last month over the Atlanta
Falcons.
The statement adds that
an ongoing investigation also
resulted in the retrieval of the jer-
sey Brady wore in the Patriots’
2015 Super Bowl win against the
Seattle Seahawks.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TODAY
Baseball — Sandy at Astoria (Tapio-
la), 5 p.m.
Softball — R.A. Long at Astoria
(CMH), 3 p.m.; Knappa at Warrenton,
3:30 p.m.
Boys Golf — Astoria at Molalla, Noon
TUESDAY
Baseball — St. Helens at Astoria
(Tapiola), 4 p.m.; Estacada at Seaside,
5 p.m.
Softball — Yamhill-Carlton at Astoria
(CMH), 5:30 p.m.; Seaside at Estacada,
4:30 p.m.
Boys Golf — Astoria at Scappoose,
1 p.m.
Girls Golf — Tillamook Invitational,
12:30 p.m.
THURSDAY
Softball — Astoria at Mark Morris, 4
p.m.
Track — Warrenton at Ilwaco, 3:30
p.m.; NWL Relays, at Columbia Chris-
tian, 4 p.m.
FRIDAY
Baseball — Astoria at Stayton, 4:30
p.m.; Cascade at Seaside, 4:30 p.m.
SATURDAY
Baseball — Regis at Warrenton (2),
1 p.m.
Softball — Seaside at Warrenton (2),
Noon
Seaside
golfers
fi fth in
season
opener
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Emily Madsen/Submitted Photo
TOP ROW FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Maia Mahoney, Patience Womack, Elizabeth Varner, Julia Jenkins, Daph-
ne Frost and Jackie Everts. BOTTOM ROW FROM LEFT : Liberty Olsen, Ally Berger and Nara Van de Grift.
The Daily Astorian
P
ORTLAND — The Asto-
ria High School dance team,
Pizazz, fi nished fi fth at the
OSAA/U.S. Bank Oregon State
Dance Team Championships at
Memorial Coliseum, Saturday night.
The team of nine students
performed their tate dance to
“Requiem for a Dream,” in black
dresses . The performance was
choreographed by assistant coach
Emily Madsen.
Stayton won the team champi-
onship for the 4A/3A/2A/1A level,
with a fi nal point total of 91.33.
Valley Catholic was second
with a 90.95, followed by Scap-
poose (79.72), Marshfi eld (77.70),
Astoria (76.30), Gladstone (75.62)
and Crook County (72.50).
The choreography was based
on ballet and contemporary dance
styles, and garnered high points for
the dancers’ technique, and inter-
pretation of the of the music.
The dance team competition
season began at Gresham High
School in February, with the team
coming away with a fi rst -place tro-
phy, and qualifying the team to
enter the state competition.
Other competitions were at
Tigard High School and Liberty
High School.
Astoria team members are:
seniors Ally Berger, Patience
Womack and Julia Jenkins; juniors
Maia Mahoney and Daphne Frost;
sophomores Nara Van de Grift and
Jackie Everts; and freshmen Lib-
erty Olsen and Elizabeth Varner.
The head coach is Jeanne Peter-
son, and assistant coaches Madsen
and Kelly Eckstein.
Dance team parents take an
active part in assisting the team,
with Linda Berger and April Olsen
in charge of hair and make up; and
Betsy Mahoney and Lidia Jenkins
in charge of meals, assisted by The-
resa Varner.
Tim and Jeanine Van de Grift,
Meredith Reilly, Julie Frost and
Chris Womack assist with supplies
and trips.
Debbie Barbic provides cos-
tume assistance.
“We are so grateful to so many
people, who have helped support
our fundraisers, sponsors, plus our
school administrators, Lynn Jack-
son (principal), Howard Rub (ath-
letic director) and Kevin Goin
(activities director), who take a
great interest in supporting the
dance team program ” Peterson
said.
THE DALLES — A young
Seaside boys golf team fi nished
seventh out of 10 teams at The
Dalles Invitational Friday, in their
fi rst meet of the season.
The Gulls shot a 397 at The
Dalles Country Club, where soph-
omore Connor Merrell led Sea-
side with a 93, followed by another
sophomore, Samson Sibony, with
a 96.
The Gulls’ oldest player, junior
Jackson Kunde, shot 100 followed
by two more sophomores, Mason
Shamion (108) and Mason Craw-
ford (115).
The Dalles ran away with
the team title with a 316, far
ahead
of
second-place
Pendleton (361), followed by
Hermiston (365), Canby (382),
Goldendale (383), La Grande
(388), Seaside (397) and St. Hel-
ens (401). Hood River and Hori-
zon Christian did not have com-
plete teams.
“This was a good test for our
young guys,” said Seaside coach
Jim Poetsch. “The course was not
in real good condition with the
winter they had, and it is a tough
course to begin with. Besides
the home team, only fi ve play-
ers were able to break 90 today.
“Connor was only a few strokes off
joining that elite group,” he said.
“He has worked hard during the
off season and I expect him to get a
little better each week as the season
progresses. This course points out
any fl aws in your game, and today
it showed us we have some work
to do.
“But for as young as we
are, we only scored a few
higher than last year,” he said.
“I’m hoping this group sees
their potential to be a good team
and works to reach that goal this
year.”
Seaside hosts Valley Catholic
at Gearhart Golf Links Tuesday.
On to Sweet 16: Oregon Beavers back in the
rallies late to beat URI Sweet 16 after win
By JANIE MCCAULEY
Associated Press
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Once
the game ended and Oregon had nar-
rowly advanced with a hard-fought
NCAA Tournament win, Tyler Dorsey
considered his two missed free throws
with 3:36 left and how there might
have been no celebrations at all.
Instead, Dorsey delivered two
clutch 3-pointers to send the Ducks
back to the Sweet Sixteen for a second
straight year and third in fi ve years.
Dorsey hit a contested go-ahead
3-pointer from the top of the arc with
38.4 seconds to play, then E.C. Mat-
thews airballed a long 3 in the waning
moments trying to force overtime, and
third-seeded Oregon rallied in the sec-
ond half to beat upstart No. 11 Rhode
Island 75-72 on Sunday and reach the
Midwest Regional.
“During the game I had to let it go.
There was 2 minutes left, I dropped
them and I had to keep playing, and
we kept playing and kept fi ghting and
hit the glass and got crucial offensive
rebounds,” Dorsey said. “I just hit
some big shots.”
With Oregon’s season on the brink,
Dorsey and Dillon Brooks came
through in the clutch as they have so
many times this season.
Dorsey also tied the game with a 3
with 1:45 remaining on the way to 27
points before Brooks took a charge on
the other end for Oregon (31-5).
Brooks found his shooting stroke
as he typically does and scored 19
points despite a 7-for-20 shooting day.
Dorsey made 9 of 10 shots with four
3-pointers.
Rhode Island nearly scrapped and
CORVALLIS — Sydney Wiese
celebrated her fi nal game at Gill
Coliseum by blowing kisses to the
crowd and dancing to Abba.
She got a win, too, so her senior
season lives on.
Wiese scored 13 points and sec-
ond-seeded Oregon State moved
on in the NCAA Tournament with
a 64-52 second-round victory over
No. 7 seed Creighton on Sunday.
Oregon State (31-4) will go on
to face third-seeded Florida State
in Stockton, California. The Semi-
noles defeated six-seeded Missouri
77-55 earlier Sunday in Tallahassee,
Florida, for their third straight trip to
the Sweet 16.
Fellow senior Gabriella Hanson
also had 13 points for the Beavers,
who are making a fourth consecu-
tive appearance in the tournament.
Last season the Beavers advanced
to the Final Four before falling to
eventual champion UConn.
At center court after the game,
Wiese and her teammates cele-
brated with the home crowd. Wiese
danced to “Dancing Queen.”
“There’s a lot of emotions
because we have poured so much
into that place,” Wiese said. “It will
always have a special place in our
hearts and it will always be home.”
Hanson, who matched her sea-
son high for points, said: “It still
hasn’t hit me yet.” In the postgame
huddle, coach Scott Rueck handed
Hanson the ball.
Sydney Lamberty had 19 for
Creighton (24-8), which trailed by
AP Photo/Steve Yeater
Oregon guard Dylan Ennis cel-
ebrates after the team scored
during the first half against
Rhode Island in a second-round
game of the NCAA men’s college
basketball tournament in Sacra-
mento, Calif., Sunday.
hustled its way into the next round,
with Stanford Robinson matching his
career high of 21 points as the Rams
(25-10) had their nine-game winning
streak snapped to end the season.
Dorsey missed two free throws
with 3:36 left but made up for it.
The Ducks led early behind Dors-
ey’s fast start, but Rhode Island
grabbed momentum late in the fi rst
half.
URI closed the fi rst half on a 14-2
run — including 7-0 over the fi nal
1:30 with Matthews’ three-point play
at 52.6 — in the last 3:23.
Robinson helped the bench con-
tribute 30 points.
AP Photo/ Timothy J. Gonzalez
Creighton’s Jaylyn Agnew (5)
tries to stop Oregon State’s Syd-
ney Wiese (24) from getting to the
basket during the first half of a
second-round game in the wom-
en’s NCAA college basketball
tournament Sunday in Corvallis.
as many as 15 points.
Lamberty’s layup pulled Blue-
jays within 54-48 with 6:42 left,
putting Creighton’s bench on its
feet. Hanson and Mikayla Pivec
each hit jumpers to answer for the
Beavers.
Marissa Janning’s jumper got
Creighton back within single digits,
but Kolbie Orum’s baseline jumper
gave the Beavers a 60-50 lead with
3:04 to go.
After a pair of Creighton free
throws, Marie Gulich made con-
secutive layups for a 64-52 Ore-
gon State lead — and the Bluejays
couldn’t catch up.