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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017
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Scappoose
golfers win
Cowapa
League title
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WARRENTON — Scap-
poose carded a 339 team score
to win the team title Monday at
the Astoria Golf & Country Club,
site of the Cowapa League boys
golf championships.
Valley Catholic took second
with a 355, ahead of third-place
Seaside (359). Tillamook was
fourth (365), followed by Astoria
(397) and Banks (421).
Tillamook’s Carter Lee earned
medalist honors with a two-un-
der-par 70, his second league
title after winning as a freshman
two years ago. Nathan Mapes of
Scappoose was the only other
player to break 80, carding a 77.
Scappoose freshman Chase Elliot
took third with an 80.
Seaside junior Jackson Kunde
led the Gulls with an 82 to fin-
ish fourth overall, while Taylor
Palmberg paced Astoria with a
93.
Kunde was joined on the Cow-
apa All-League team by sopho-
more teammate Mason Shamion,
who finished sixth with an 87.
Rounding out the all-league team:
Valley Catholic’s Coe Schmidlin,
Cole Heinsen, Nik Thoma and
Joey Braun; Scappoose’s A.J.
Miltich and Jake Gray; and Tilla-
mook’s Logan Wilks.
“It was nice that Jackson and
Mason were able to shoot well
enough to get on the all-league
team,” said Seaside coach Jim
Poetsch. “Jackson kept battling
and after being 11 over after 14
holes was able to hit back-to-
back birdies and finish strong for
his fourth place finish.
“Mason also did a good job
of competing for a full round
today,” Poetsch said. “He had a
rough patch early but didn’t give
up and came in with his best score
of the year. I also like where we
finished as a team. We were close
to Valley Catholic and edged out
Tillamook for third.”
Rounding out Astoria’s scores
were Brian Wilder (96), Kirk
Fausett (101), Josh Olson (107)
and Dylan Altheide-Nielson
(108).
All Cowapa League schools
will compete in next week’s dis-
trict tournament, which will
decide state qualifying.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TODAY
Baseball — Rainier at Warrenton,
3:30 p.m.
Softball — Scappoose at Astoria, 5
p.m.; Valley Catholic at Seaside, 5 p.m.;
Rainier at Warrenton 3:30 p.m.
Girls Golf — Cowapa League Cham-
pionships, Astoria, 10 a.m.
WEDNESDAY
Baseball — Astoria at Scappoose, 5
p.m.; Seaside at Valley Catholic, 5 p.m.
Track — Scappoose at Astoria, 3:30
p.m.; Seaside at Valley Catholic, 3:30
p.m.; Warrenton at Rainier L&C Meet,
TBA
Photos by Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Trey Hageman, left, applies the tag at third for the Astoria Fishermen during a game Monday against Banks.
Astoria wins big at soggy CMH
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
The Astoria baseball team was hoping that
the new month would bring a fresh start and,
hopefully, the beginning of another win streak.
Which it did, as pitchers Olaf Englund and
Tyler Lyngstad combined on a three-hitter,
helping the Fishermen to a 3-1 victory over
Banks Monday night at CMH Field.
Unfortunately, the new month did not bring
a change in the weather, with the Braves and
the Fishermen having to move the game right
back to Astoria’s home on the hill, where the
teams played the first four innings in a light
rain.
But the Fishermen — now 9-1 in league
play — did manage to score a much better out-
come than their last meeting with Banks, which
drops to 7-3.
After feeling like they “let one get away” in
a 3-2 loss to the Braves last Friday at Hillsboro
Hops Stadium, Astoria stole one back.
The Braves “pitch well, and they play good
defense,” said Astoria coach Dave Gasser.
“They’ve got good team speed and they can
create runs … but we just made some really,
really, really good plays to keep them from
scoring.”
And of course, three “really’s” is kind of a
big deal for Gasser.
“We’re channeling 2010,” said the coach,
who picked up career win No. 744.
While Englund and Lyngstad were busy
shutting down the Banks’ bats, the Fishermen
did just enough at the plate and let their defense
do the rest.
The Braves scored the first run in the top of
the third, Gunnar Partain scoring on an infield
hit by Jake Evans.
But Astoria’s “Win The Inning” philoso-
phy held true in the bottom of the third, when
Englund opened with a base hit to center and
stole second.
After a walk and an out, Kyle Strange
knocked in the tying run on a single up the mid-
dle to score Englund.
Astoria loaded the bases with another walk,
and the Fishermen attempted to grab the lead
with a steal of home. The throw from Banks’
pitcher Dalton Renne beat Samboy Tuimato to
the plate, but a balk call on Renne before the
throw allowed the go-ahead run to stand.
Olaf Englund sends a pitch to the plate
for the Astoria Fishermen during a game
against Banks on Monday.
Astoria tacked on a much-needed run in
the fourth, as Burke Matthews drew a one-out
walk and took second with two outs on a sin-
gle by Tuimato.
Matthews advanced to third on a wild pitch,
then sprinted home on a passed ball.
With Lyngstad on in relief, the Braves were
unable to mount any rallies with the big left-
hander on the mound, as he closed out the
game by retiring the last six batters in order.
It was the most work Lyngstad had seen
since returning from a knee injury last week,
after a month off. He relieved Englund with
two outs in the top of the third.
“Tyler did a great job by keeping a really
good offensive team off-balance,” Gasser said.
“That’s about as much as he can work right
now, but it really wasn’t that many pitches. He
was in the 40s. But that was about the limit. I
put him out there (in the seventh inning), and
said ‘if they get one base runner, you’re done.’
It had to be a fast one, because we’re out of
pitches.”
The Fishermen had six hits and stranded
eight more base runners (after leaving seven
on base in Friday’s loss), but Astoria’s defense
came to the rescue.
After walking the first two Braves in the top
of the third, the Fishermen turned a double play
when outfielder Cade O’Brien caught Hayden
Vandehey’s fly ball to left, then a relay throw
to third caught Kylan Taylor for a double play,
after Taylor had tagged up on the hit.
And the Fishermen were just warming up.
Trevor Thiessen reached on an infield hit
in the fourth, took second on a ground out, but
was picked off by Astoria catcher Jasyn Gohl
to end the inning.
In the fifth, Vandehey drew a leadoff walk,
but Astoria turned a 4-6-3 double play.
Even Astoria’s errors turned into big plays.
Following the double play, Lyngstad walked
Gunnar Partain, and an errant pickoff attempt
by Lyngstad went into right field, where Tuim-
ato fielded the ball and came up throwing, gun-
ning down Partain at third base for a 9-5 out to
end the inning.
One more for good measure?
In the top of the sixth, Trey Hageman
fielded a sharp grounder near third base, and
his long throw across the diamond was dug out
of the turf by first baseman Jackson Arnsdorf to
nip Trask Applegate at first.
As much as the Fishermen want to play at
their No. 1 park (Tapiola), Gasser admits play-
ing at CMH isn’t all bad.
“The bottom line is, this place has become a
real edge for us,” he said. “We are out here ALL
the time in exactly these conditions, and we’ve
just figured out how to play here. There’s a
comfort level that’s going to be hard to give up
when the weather gets good, but at the same
time, we can play on grass, too.
“Nine-to-five outs, double plays when we
have to have them, a pickoff play … it was
everything we needed, and this game was
really, really important for us in the standings.”
And it will be hard to catch Astoria in the
Cowapa League standings, as the Fishermen
now have a two-game lead with five games
remaining.
Banks and Valley Catholic (tied for sec-
ond at 7-3) still have one game left against
each other, while two of Astoria’s five games
are against Seaside and Tillamook (a combined
2-18).
BASEBALL
Astoria 3, Banks 1
Banks
001 000 0—1 3 0
Astoria
002 100 x—3 6 1
Renne, Goble (4), McGough (6) and
Herb; Englund, Lyngstad (3) and Gohl.
W: Lyngstad. L: Renne. RBI: Banks,
Jake Evans; Ast, Strange. 2B: Ast, Gohl.
LOB: Banks 4, Astoria 8. DP: Astoria 2.
Scappoose 7, Seaside 3
Seaside
100 002 0—3 12 3
Scappoose 040 102 x—7 7 2
Thompson and Walsh; Gross, Knight
(7) and Gill. W: Gross. L: Thompson.
RBI: Sea, Thompson 2, Blanchard; Scp,
Rieman 2, Holmason, Teeter, Mizee. 2B:
Scp, Holmason. HBP: Scp, Teeter. LOB:
Seaside 8, Scappoose 3. DP: Scap-
poose.
BOYS GOLF
Cowapa League Championships
at Astoria G&CC
Team: Scappoose 339, Valley Catholic
355, Seaside 359, Tillamook 365, Asto-
ria 397, Banks 421.
Medalist: Carter Lee, Tillamook (70)
Seaside (359)
Jackson Kunde, 43-39—82
Mason Shamion, 45-42—87
Samson Sibony, 48-46—94
Connor Merrell, 46-50—96
Colby Lupfer, 49-51—100
Astoria (397)
Taylor Palmberg, 48-45—93
Brian Wilder, 44-52—96
Kirk Fausett, 51-50—101
Josh Olson, 53-54—107
Dylan Altheide-Nielson, 57-51—108
NBA PLAYOFFS
Indians rally
Cavs, Rockets take home wins past Gulls
Associated Press
CAVALIERS 116,
RAPTORS 105
CLEVELAND — LeBron
James considered swigging a beer
while scoring 35 points, Kyrie
Irving added 24 and the Cleve-
land Cavaliers picked up where
they left off following a long lay-
off and throttled the Toronto Rap-
tors 116-105 on Monday night in
the opener of their Eastern Confer-
ence semifinal.
The Cavs hadn’t played
since April 23, when they com-
pleted a four-game sweep of Indi-
ana. But the defending champi-
ons didn’t show signs of rust and
were well-prepared to face the
revenge-seeking Raptors, who lost
to Cleveland in last year’s confer-
ence finals.
Toronto dropped to 1-12 in
playoff openers.
Game 2 is Wednesday night.
Kyle Lowry scored 20 and
DeMar DeRozan 19 for the Rap-
tors, who were within seven in the
third quarter before James dropped
a 3-pointer, converted a three-point
play, drained another 3 and then
considered washing down a brew.
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ROCKETS 126, SPURS 99
SAN ANTONIO (AP) —
Trevor Ariza scored 23 points,
James Harden added 20 points and
14 rebounds, and Houston stormed
past San Antonio in Game 1 of the
Western Conference semifinals, the
Spurs’ worst loss in a series opener
under Gregg Popovich.
The Rockets were 22 for 50 on
3-pointers, the most 3s attempted
and made against the Spurs in their
long postseason history.
Houston had six players in dou-
ble figures, including 20 points and
13 rebounds from Clint Capela.
Game 2 is Wednesday in San
Antonio.
AP Photo/Tony Dejak
Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron
James dunks against the Toron-
to Raptors in the second half
in Game 1 of a second-round
NBA basketball playoff se-
ries, Monday in Cleveland.
The Cavaliers won 116-105.
SCAPPOOSE — Seaside scored first and
had more hits, but Scappoose rallied for a 7-3
win Monday, in Cowapa League baseball
action.
The Gulls collected 12 hits, including
two apiece for Duncan Thompson, Dawson
Blanchard, Otto Hoekstre, Dylan Meyer and
Ashton Boyd.
Seaside also led 1-0, as Blanchard drove
in Payton Westerholm with a single in the top
of the first.
The Indians responded with four runs in
the bottom of the second, highlighted by a
two-run single from Nate Rieman.
The Gulls narrowed the deficit to 5-3 with
two runs in the top of the sixth, but Scappoose
answered with two in the bottom half of the
inning to secure the win.
Thompson went the distance on the
mound for Seaside, allowing seven hits with
one strikeout and three walks. Scappoose
junior J.C. Gross picked up the win, with
Zach Knight earning the save.