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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 2017
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Athletes of the Week
(FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 12-18)
DARIAN
HAGEMAN
Astoria
Astoria’s state champion track athlete is off to a fl ying start in her junior out-
door season.
In the Seaside Ice-Breaker Meet March 15, Hageman won her usual events
(high jump and long jump), but with no triple jump or pole vault competition,
Hageman ran the 100-meter hurdles and threw the javelin.
She won the hurdles in a personal best 17.79 seconds, and was second behind
teammate Taylor Cosner in the javelin, with a throw of 87 feet, 11 inches.
TIM
BARNETT
Astoria
The junior thrower for the Fishermen opened his 2017 season with three wins
on three personal best throws in the Seaside Ice-Breaker Meet, March 15.
Barnett swept the throwing events with career-best throws in the shot put (50
feet, 2 inches), discus (140-0) and javelin (140-11).
He is ranked fi rst in the state (4A level) in the discus and shot put, ninth in the
javelin.
Barnett’s toss of 140-0 in the discus is third on Astoria’s all-time record list, and
his 50-2 in the shot put is fourth on the school’s all-time list.
SPORTS
IN BRIEF
US routs Puerto Rico
8-0 to win fi rst WBC
Lady Loggers
crush Royals
in 32-0 win
By BETH HARRIS
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — The eagle
has landed on top.
The United States routed Puerto
Rico 8-0 to win its fi rst World Base-
ball Classic in four tries on Wednes-
day night behind six hitless innings
from Marcus Stroman.
The Americans planted their
eagle statue mascot on the mound
in celebration, a blue cap jauntily
hanging from one of its large wings.
“It’s a different feeling when the
USA is on your chest,” fi rst base-
man Eric Hosmer said. “We wanted
to get the U.S. back on top of the
baseball world, and we did that.”
For a sport known as Ameri-
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PORTLAND — The Knappa
softball team scored a routine non-
league win Wednesday in Port-
land, 32-0 over Portland Christian.
Madelynn Weaver had a bas-
es-loaded triple to highlight the day
for the Knappa offense, and she
also pitched the fi rst three
innings, allowing one hit with fi ve
strikeouts.
Jaden Miethe, Aiko Miller and
Mikaela Rethati all had two sin-
gles apiece, and the Loggers took
advantage of multiple walks.
Seattle signs
McDougald,
Lunsford
Colorado team tops
Logger batters, 12-2
Associated Press
RENTON, Wash. — The Seat-
tle Seahawks have added depth in
the secondary by signing defen-
sive back Bradley McDougald.
Seattle announced the signing
of McDougald and kicker John
Lunsford on Wednesday night.
McDougald spent the past four
seasons with Tampa Bay. He started
31 of 32 games played the past two
seasons, primarily at free safety.
Last season, McDougald
started all 16 games, recording a
career-high 91 tackles, 10 passes
defensed and two interceptions.
He’s also shifted at times to cor-
nerback and played strong safety
in the past, which made him an
attractive option for Seattle’s sec-
ondary that was seeking versatile
depth upgrades after being thinned
by injury last season.
Lunsford was waived by
Tampa Bay earlier this week and
joins Blair Walsh in the compe-
tition to be Seattle’s kicker after
Steven Hauschka signed with Buf-
falo in free agency.
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Submitted Photo
Seaside’s Mason Shamions tees off during Tuesday’s round at the
Gearhart Golf Links. Shamions scored a 97.
Valiants defeat Gulls
at Gearhart Golf Links
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GEARHART — Valley Catho-
lic and Seaside opened the Cowapa
League boys’ golf season Tuesday at
the Gearhart Golf Links.
Led by Cole Schmidlin’s 78, the
Valiants scored the team win with a
339 team score, to Seaside’s 382.
The Gulls shaved 15 strokes off
their score from The Dalles Invita-
tional the previous Friday, as Jackson
Kunde led Seaside with a 90.
After Schmidlin, Valley Catholic’s
Cole Heinsen scored an 84 and Peter
Boileau fi nished with an 86 for the
top three individual scores.
Other counting scores for Sea-
side came from Samson Sibony (95),
Mason Shamions (97) and Colby
Lupfer (100). Connor Merrell shot
104 as the Gulls’ fi fth player.
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — After
defeating a team from Sitka, Alaska,
their fi rst day in Arizona, the Knappa
Loggers made a big jump in compe-
tition on Day 2, losing a 12-2 deci-
sion to a team from Palisade, Colo-
rado Wednesday.
The Palisade High School
Bulldogs (enrollment 1,021 stu-
dents) built a 9-1 lead through four
innings, then held on for the win
over the Knappa High School Log-
gers (enrollment, 131 students). The
game was played at Desert Edge
High School in Goodyear, Arizona.
The Bulldogs “are a team that
is expecting to go deep into the
state playoffs at the (Colorado)
4A level,” said Knappa coach Jeff
Miller. “They’re a veteran team that
hopes to be a state title contender.”
SCOREBOARD
TODAY
Baseball — Palisades, Colo. vs. Knap-
pa, TBA (at Phoenix, AZ)
THURSDAY
Baseball — Seaside at Corbett, 5 p.m.
Softball — Astoria at Mark Morris, 4 p.m.
Track — Warrenton at Ilwaco, 3:30 p.m.;
NWL Relays, at Columbia Christian, 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
Lady Fish golfers compete
in Tillamook Invitational
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TILLAMOOK — The Astoria
girls golf team opened the 2017 sea-
son Tuesday in the annual Tillamook
Invitational, where the Lady Fisher-
men fi nished with a 487 team score.
Samantha Hemsley led Astoria
with a 112 (54 on the front nine, 58
on the back), followed by Jenna Tra-
vers with a personal best 116 (59-57).
Kristen Travers fi nished at 129
and Sadie Wooldridge closed out the
varsity scoring with a 133.
Other non scoring Astoria golfers
included Sariah Dieffenbach, Anna
Gimre, Sarah Lertora and Jasmine
Mabry.
Still, both teams fi nished with 10
hits in Wednesday’s game.
“The difference was, we
stranded our base runners and they
didn’t,” Miller said. “Kaleb Miller
had another strong game for us, and
Dale Takalo looked good on both
sides of the ball.”
Jason Miller and Eli Takalo had
two hits apiece for the Loggers, who
wrap up their Arizona trip Thursday
against Grand Junction High School
of Central, Colorado, a school with
a 1,500-plus enrollment.
“We’re having a great time, it’s
a great experience for the boys,
and hopefully we’re learning some
things” about baseball, Miller said.
“I was surprised to see that we have
quite a few Knappa fans down here
with us. About half the players on
the team have friends and family
here.”
Warrior girls edge Tigers
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PREP SCHEDULE
ca’s pastime, the U.S. had strug-
gled since the WBC began in 2006.
Twice, the Americans lost in the
second round and they went out in
the semifi nals in 2009.
This time was different.
“These guys were here to do their
best,” Team USA general manager
Joe Torre said. “The thing I mar-
veled at was how quickly they came
together, and Jimmy (Leyland)
deserves a lot of that credit. They’re
just a great group who understood
what this event is all about.”
Accepting the gleaming sil-
ver trophy from baseball Commis-
sioner Rob Manfred, manager Ley-
land told the crowd, “This is for the
men and women who serve our
country.”
LINCOLN CITY — Warrenton
fi nally got the best of Taft in a non-
league softball game, as the War-
riors edged the Tigers 8-5 in their
season opener Wednesday at Taft.
The Tigers had beaten Warren-
ton by a combined 28-0 the last two
years, before the Warriors scored a
JV/Varsity sweep Wednesday, 13-3,
8-5.
“It was a really good start to the
season,” said Warrenton coach Staci
Miethe. “The all-freshman outfi eld
of Melia Kapua, Kenzi Ramsey and
Natalie Duncan all played very solid
and were a huge contribution.”
Kapua had a key bunt and
scored twice; Ramsey was 3-for-4
with three RBI’s and played solid
defense; and Duncan was 2-for-4
with two RBI s.
Warrenton
pitcher
Niqui
Blodgett allowed four hits and two
earned runs with nine strikeouts and
two walks.
“Today gave me a chance to see
what aspects we need to improve
on, and gave the girls a chance to get
the gym dust off of them,” Miethe
said. “I was very impressed with the
maturity of the younger girls and am
very excited for some more games.”
The Warriors host Nestucca at 4
p.m. today.