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12A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017 CONTACT US FOLLOW US facebook.com/ DailyAstorianSports Gary Henley | Sports Reporter ghenley@dailyastorian.com Athletes of the Week (FOR THE WEEK OF APRIL 17-22) DARIAN HAGEMAN Astoria CONOR HARBER Carolina Mudcats espite battling lower leg soreness that has limited her participation in D some meets, the Astoria junior continues to win, and at the highest lev- els. Competing against a fi eld of athletes from (mostly) the 5A and 6A levels in n his second start for the Carolina Mudcats April 22, Astoria High School I strikeouts, graduate Harber pitched four innings and allowed just one run with seven in a 6-2 win over the Buies Creek Astros in Zebulon, N.C., snap- the 53rd annual Centennial Invitational April 22, Hageman won the long jump with a leap of 16-feet, 10 inches, ahead of athletes from Clackamas, Gresham, Centennial, Central Catholic and Skyview; and was fi rst in the triple jump at 37-2, ahead of jumpers from Reynolds, two from Aloha and one from Sunset. At the 4A level, Hageman owns the top mark in the state in the high jump (5-4) and the triple jump (37-8¾), and is second in the long jump (17-2½). Statewide (all classes), she is ranked fourth in the triple jump and fi fth in the high jump. ping a four-game losing skid for the Mudcats. Harber did not get the victory, but threw 91 pitches (61 for strikes) for Carolina, the Class A Advanced minor league affi liate of the Milwaukee Brewers. In his three games with the Mud- cats this season, Harber has pitched 9.2 innings, and owns a 2.79 earned run average with 12 strikeouts, six walks and 11 hits allowed. Gulls ninth in State Preview tournament CLATSOP CLASH SPORTS IN BRIEF Warriors blank the Gulls, 13-0 The Daily Astorian The Daily Astorian CORVALLIS — One day after nearly upsetting Scappoose in the Seaside Invitational, the Seaside boys golf team slipped to ninth place in the State Preview tourna- ment, held Tuesday at Trysting Tree Golf Course in Corvallis. Led by one of the state’s top golf- ers, Craig Ronne, Klamath Union captured the team title with a 318. Cowapa League schools Valley Catholic (320) and Scappoose (323) were second and third, respectively. Ronne won medalist honors with a 67. Will Ackerman of Ore- gon Episcopal and Valley Catholic’s Cole Schmidlin were second with 73, while Seaside’s Jackson Kunde fi nished ninth with an 81. Rounding out the Seaside scores were Mason Shamion (93) and Samson Sibony (96), with Connor Merrell and John Whittle at 97. “(Monday) we showed our potential and today we showed our youth,” said Seaside coach Jim Poetsch. “This was our fi rst back-to-back tournament this year, and we did not come out ready to play. It was miserable conditions out there today, with a cold steady rain and some wind just to make it interesting. “The more experienced play- ers took advantage of the preferred lies and soft conditions rather than let the steady rain get them down,” he said. “Jackson was among them as he posted a 39 on the back nine en route to his 81. He had two good days in a row and hopefully he can continue playing well in the post season.” Team Results: Klamath Union 318, Valley Catholic 320, Scap- poose 323, Marshfi eld 324, Oregon Episcopal 330, Crook County 353, Brookings-Harbor 355, North Bend 359, Seaside 367, Taft 376. SCOREBOARD TODAY Baseball — Clatskanie at Warrenton, 5 p.m.; Wishkah Valley at Ilwaco, 4 p.m. Track — NWL Meet at Nestucca, TBA Boys Golf — Banks at Astoria, 3 p.m. Girls Golf — Astoria Invitational, Noon BASEBALL Astoria 10, Seaside 2 Seaside 000 001 1—2 6 2 Astoria 001 621 x—10 12 1 Englund, Lyngstad (6) and Gohl; Thomp- son, Westerholm (4), McFadden (6) and Walsh, Hoekstre (4). W: Englund. L: Thomp- son. RBI: Sea, McFadden; Ast, Fremstad 2, Lucore 2, Tuimato, Gohl. 2B: Ast, Matthews, Hillard. HR: Ast, Lucore. HBP: Sea, Wester- holm 2; Ast, Gohl, Englund, Arnsdorf. LOB: Seaside 8, Astoria 13. Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian Kyle Strange slides home safe for the Astoria Fishermen during a game Wednesday against Seaside. First-place Astoria now 8-0 in league The Daily Astorian The Cowapa League baseball standings are beginning to look like they’re supposed to look — with the Astoria Fishermen in fi rst, unde- feated in league play. In addition to matching last year’s win total in league, the Fish- ermen are over halfway home to a perfect season in the Cowapa, as they improved to 8-0 with a 10-2 win over Seaside Wednesday night at CMH Field. Playing at CMH for the 10th time in 15 games, the No. 5-ranked Fish- ermen are certainly looking right at home — at least they were after the third inning in Wednesday’s Clatsop Clash. Astoria left the bases loaded in each of the fi rst two innings, and the Gulls trailed just 1-0 entering the bottom of the fourth. That’s when the Fishermen bats fi nally woke up. No. 9 hitter Burke Matthews led off with a double to left, which was followed by a single from Olaf Englund and a line-drive single to deep center by Samboy Tuimato that scored Matthews. A Seaside pitching change didn’t slow the Fishermen, as Fridtjof Fremstad greeted Payton Wester- holm with a double to right fi eld, scoring two runs. Kyle Strange had the fi fth straight hit, and Trey Hageman drew a walk to load the bases. Jasyn Gohl was hit by a pitch to force in the fourth run of the inning, and after two straight outs, the scor- ing continued on a Seaside error and a wild pitch, before Westerholm SEASIDE — The Warrenton and Seaside softball teams both took a break from league play and met for an impromptu game Wednesday at Broadway Field, where the Warriors scored a 13-0 win over the Gulls. Warrenton had eight hits and drew six walks in the victory, while Niqui Blodgett pitched a complete game, a two-hitter with eight strikeouts and two walks. Landree Miethe was 3-for-4 with a double, four steals and four runs scored for the Warriors, who put the game away with six runs in the top of the third. Melia Kapua drove in four runs for Warrenton, while Claire Bus- sert and Madison Kadera had two RBIs apiece. NBA Playoff s Celtics, Wizards take home wins Associated Press CELTICS 108, BULLS 97 Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian Fridtjof Fremstad, right, puts the ball in play for Astoria during Wednes- day’s game against the Seaside Seagulls. struck out the fi nal batter to end the inning. An Astoria game at CMH Field would not be complete without a home run, which the Fishermen took care of in the bottom of the sixth, on a two-run, pinch-hit homer to right fi eld by Jared Lucore for a 9-0 lead. Ebin Hillard added a pinch-hit double for the Fishermen. And Astoria’s pitching staff — already one of the deepest in the state at the 4A level — got a little deeper in the sixth inning, with the return of Tyler Lyngstad, playing for the fi rst time since March 16. The senior left-hander took the mound and fi nished the game, giv- ing up three hits and two walks with two strikeouts in his two innings pitched. Englund and Strange each had two hits as part of Astoria’s 12-hit attack, with Englund (four strike- outs, three hits allowed) picking up the win on the mound. Astoria had 10 stolen bases (three apiece for Strange and Tuimato), but also stranded 13 base runners, while Seaside left eight on base. Wester- holm had two of the Gulls’ six hits. Seaside committed two errors, but the Gulls highlighted their defensive game with two big catches in the outfi eld (Otto Hoekstre in cen- ter fi eld, with the bases loaded in the second), and Dawson Blanchard robbed Tuimato of an extra-base hit with a sliding catch in left to start the bottom of the fi fth. Astoria (8-0) plays at Banks (5-2) Friday at Ron Tonkin Field in Hillsboro, while the Gulls host Scappoose. BOSTON — Isaiah Thomas and Avery Bradley scored 24 points apiece to help the Boston Celtics beat the Chicago Bulls 108-97 on Wednesday night and take a 3-2 lead in their fi rst-round playoff series. After the road team won each of the fi rst four games, the Celtics won at home in Game 5 to earn a chance to eliminate the Bulls on Friday night in Chicago. A Bulls victory would force the series back to Boston for a decisive Game 7 on Sunday. Dwyane Wade had 26 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists for Chicago. WIZARDS 103, HAWKS 99 WASHINGTON — Back at home, and back in charge, Brad- ley Beal scored 27 points, and John Wall added 20 points and 14 assists, leading Washington over Atlanta for a 3-2 lead in the fi rst- round Eastern Conference playoff series. Dennis Schroder led the Hawks with 29 points, making a career high-tying fi ve 3s, and 11 assists. But after his basket from beyond the arc pulled Atlanta within 101- 99 with 70 seconds left, Wall responded with a 21-foot pull-up jumper.