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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2017 CONTACT US FOLLOW US facebook.com/ DailyAstorianSports Gary Henley | Sports Reporter ghenley@dailyastorian.com Athletes of the Week (FOR THE WEEK OF APRIL 10-15) MADELYNN WEAVER Knappa KAITLYN TRUAX JACKSON KUNDE Seaside ruax the junior catcher and Weaver the freshman pitcher have played big T roles in leading the Lady Loggers to a perfect 4-0 start in league play. In a 14-6, 24-10 sweep over Neah-Kah-Nie April 14, the two combined for 22 runs he junior shot a career-low 80 to lead the boys golf team to a Cowapa T League match win over Banks on April 13, helping the Gulls lower their team score for the fi fth consecutive outing to open the season. “Jackson went batted in. Truax was 6-for-7 with two doubles, a triple and 13 RBIs; Weaver had nine RBIs and had a home run in Game 2. Three days earlier, Weaver was the winning pitcher, allowing just two hits with fi ve strikeouts and no walks, and helped her cause with a two-run homer at the plate. Truax was 2-for-4 with a double. Weaver has been the winning pitcher in all four Logger league victories. the whole round with nothing worse than a bogey and carded 10 pars along the way,” said Seaside coach Jim Poetsch. “He became our fi rst player this year to break 40 on a nine as he shot three-over-par 39 on the back.” Kunde opened the current week with a team-best 85 in a loss to Scappoose, in which Kunde played even with Scappoose golfer Nathan Mapes (also one of the Cowapa’s top golfers) on the back nine. Gulls beat Tillamook at Broadway in 4-0 victory Astoria blanks Valley Catholic The Daily Astorian SEASIDE — Seaside’s Duncan Thompson tossed a three-hit shutout over six innings, with fi ve strikeouts and three walks in a 4-0 win over Tillamook Wednesday in Cowapa League baseball action. The game’s location was changed from Tillamook to Sea- side’s Broadway Field, with the The Daily Astorian Poor weather forced another location change for the Asto- ria baseball team, as Wednes- day’s game at Valley Catholic was moved to CMH Field. And the Fishermen are cer- tainly making good use of their back-up home fi eld, where they’ve now played nine of their 12 total games. Astoria is also looking unbeat- able in their home on the hill, where the Fishermen pounded the Valiants 8-0 to improve to 5-0 in Cowapa League play, 10-2 overall. For the second day in a row, Astoria scored all the runs it would need in the fi rst inning, as Samboy Tuimato belted a two-run homer on an 0-1 count in the fi rst inning. A home run by Fridtjof Frem- stad highlighted a four-run fourth inning, while starting pitcher Jack- son Arnsdorf took care of the rest, allowing just three hits with fi ve strikeouts and one walk. The No. 2-ranked Fishermen have already moved today’s game with winless Tillamook (0-5) to CMH Field, with a 5 p.m. start. SCOREBOARD PREP SCHEDULE TODAY Baseball — Tillamook at Astoria, 5 p.m.; Banks at Seaside, 5 p.m.; Ilwaco at North Beach, 4 p.m. Track — Warrenton at SW Christian In- vitational, 4 p.m.; NWL Meet at Knappa, 3:30 p.m. FRIDAY Baseball — Catlin Gabel at Warrenton (2), 3:30 p.m.; Nestucca at Knappa (2), 3 p.m. Softball — Valley Catholic at Astoria (2), 4 p.m.; Tillamook at Seaside (2), 4 p.m. SATURDAY Baseball — Astoria at Rainier, 1 p.m. Softball — Estacada at Astoria, 1 p.m. Track — Centennial Invitational, 11 a.m. BASEBALL Astoria 8, Valley Catholic 0 V.Catholic 000 000 0—0 3 2 Astoria 200 402 x—8 8 0 Arnsdorf and Gohl; Agnew, Schultheis (6) and Pruitt. W: Arnsdorf. L: Agnew. RBI: Ast, Fremstad 3, Tuimato 2, Mat- thews, Hageman. 2B: Ast, Strange. HR: Ast, Fremstad, Tuimato. HBP: VC, Rapp; Ast, Fremstad, Englund. LOB: Valley Catholic 5, Astoria 7. Seaside 4, Tillamook 0 Seaside 100 102 0—4 9 2 Tillamook 000 000 0—0 3 1 Thompson, McFadden (7), Westerholm (7). Harmon, Brown (7). W: Thompson. L: Harmon. RBI: Sea, Thompson 3. HR: Sea, Thompson. HBP: Sea, Jantes. LOB: Seaside 6, Tillamook 8. Photos by Gary Henley/The Daily Astorian Astoria’s Sam Hemsley rounds the final curve and heads for the finish line in the 400 meters, won by Hemsley. Cowapa tracksters compete at Seaside The Daily Astorian SEASIDE — Seaside hosted a three-way Cowapa League track meet Wednesday, as the Gulls battled with athletes from Astoria and Tillamook in a low-key meet under gray skies, with a little wind and rain mixed in. A few key athletes from both schools took the day off to deal with nagging injuries, including Astoria’s Darian Hageman; while others com- peted in events not usually their own. Seaside’s Jackson Januik and Astoria’s Lucas Caruana — normally battling in the 800 meters — both ran the 400 meters, along with Seaside’s Hunter Thompson. Januik won in 53.22 seconds, just nipping Caruana (53.44) at the tape, with Thompson third. Thompson and Januik fi nished fi rst and second, respectively, in the 200 meters. Elsewhere, Astoria’s Samantha Hemsley blazed her way to a personal best in the 400 (1:07.54), and team- mate McKenzie Burnett had a PR 2:40.66 in the 800. Astoria freshman Taileigh Cole took fi rst in the 1,500 meters, ahead Seaside junior Rafi Sibony got in some good speed work Wednes- day, winning the 800 meters. of Hemsley and Seaside’s Katie Zagata; and Astoria junior Tim Bar- nett had his usual three victories in the shot put, discus and javelin. Seaside’s Chase Januik and Asto- ria’s Alex Burchfi eld both jumped 37 feet, 11 inches in the boys triple jump, while Lady Fisherman freshman Eliz- abeth Barnett sailed 14-1 ½ to win the girls’ long jump. Astoria and Seaside will both have select athletes competing in this week’s Centennial Invitational. Tillamook tops Astoria on the links The Daily Astorian WARRENTON — Tillamook’s Carter Lee shot a 74 to take medal- ist honors, and the Cheesemakers topped Astoria in a Cowapa League boys golf match Monday at the Asto- ria Golf & Country Club. Tillamook fi nished with a 358 team score, to Astoria’s 389. Kirk Fausett led the Fisher- men with an 87, followed by Taylor Palmberg (99), Dylan Altheide-Niel- son (101) and Brian Wilder (102), with a fi fth score from Conner Long (107). Josh Olson led Astoria’s junior varsity scoring with a 108, followed by Trevor Altheide-Nielson (117) and Marcus Soderstrom (139). Tryton Matlock had a 71 and Sergei Davis an 83 over nine holes. Cheesemakers serving as the home team. Thompson helped his cause with a two-run inside-the-park home run, as he drove in three runs on two hits. Payton Westerholm fi nished the game on the mound, and also had two hits at the plate, along with Brent Walsh. Otto Hoekstre scored two of the four runs for Seaside, which hosts Banks today. Warriors take 2-0 series lead on the Trail Blazers By JANIE MCCAULEY Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. — JaVale McGee has made a name for him- self catching lob passes and reli- ably slamming them home to the pure delight of his teammates, and oh did those matter for the short- handed Golden State Warriors as they moved one win closer to another NBA championship. The typically spot-on Splash Brothers weren’t hitting consis- tently. Kevin Durant wasn’t on the court at all, nor Shaun Livingston. McGee shined on a night none of the usual stars found their steady shooting strokes and sparked Golden State off the bench with 15 points, and the Warriors beat the Portland Trail Blazers 110-81 in Game 2 of their fi rst-round playoff series Wednesday night as Durant sat out injured. “That’s my whole thing, I just try to be effi cient out there,” McGee said. The backup big man made all seven of his fi eld-goal attempts and delivered several more of his sig- nature alley-oop dunks as Durant watched with a strained left calf he hurt in the playoff opener Sunday. “Sometimes we get caught up in looking for him too much when he’s not open because we feel he can do something spectacular above the rim,” Stephen Curry said. Draymond Green put together another fantastic all-around game, AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez Golden State Warriors’ JaVale McGee dunks over Portland Trail Blazers’ Meyers Leonard during the first half in Game 2 of a first- round NBA basketball playoff se- ries Wednesday in Oakland, Calif. UP NEXT: GAME 3 • Golden State Warriors (67-15) at Portland Trail Blazers (41-41) • Saturday, 7:30 p.m. TV: ESPN, KGW, NSBA getting 12 rebounds, 10 assists, six points and three more blocked shots after swatting fi ve in Sun- day’s win. Curry went 6 for 18 for 19 points and also had six assists and six rebounds. Arena bans cowbells at hockey game Associated Press ERIE, Pa. — A Pennsylvania arena has decided it really needs less cowbell. The Erie Times-News reports that the operator of the Erie Insurance Arena is banning the noisemakers. Fans clanged cowbells through- out the Erie Otters’ playoff game Tuesday. And some fans threw them onto the ice as the Otters cel- ebrated a win that sent them to the Ontario Hockey League’s Western Conference fi nals. The Otters had provided cow- bells to fans as a giveaway and sold them as part of its merchandise line, but spokesman Aaron Cooney said the team agrees with the ban and will no longer sell the items.