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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.