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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017
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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
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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
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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.
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Kyle Strange slides home safe for the Astoria Fishermen during a game Wednesday against Seaside.
First-place Astoria now 8-0 in league
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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
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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.