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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017
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NBA PLAYOFFS
After a week off,
Curry, Warriors
roll past Jazz
By JANIE MCCAULEY
Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif — Stephen
Curry pulled off a razzle-dazzle
spin move right around big Rudy
Gobert at the perimeter, went in
for a layup and raised his hands,
begging the sellout crowd to do its
thing.
The Golden State Warriors sure
did theirs, using that up-tempo,
pass-happy style to run right by
the Utah Jazz in Game 1 of the
Western Conference semifinals.
Curry scored 22 points in three
quarters of work and the top-
seeded Warriors warmed up in
a hurry after a weeklong layoff
between playoff games, beating
the Jazz 106-94 on Tuesday night.
“I’ll keep enjoying it. I feel like
I have one of the better seats in the
house and I’m not even paying
for it,” fill-in Warriors head coach
Mike Brown said when asked
about Curry’s slick moves.
Draymond Green scored
Golden State’s first six points of
the fourth quarter and wound up
with 17 points, eight rebounds,
six assists and two more blocks
to bring his remarkable five-game
playoff swat total to 19.
Thomas scores
53, Celtics beat
Wizards in OT
By JIMMY GOLEN
Associated Press
BOSTON — It was his sister’s
birthday.
She would have been 23.
Isaiah Thomas spent four or
five hours in the dentist’s chair
having work done on the tooth
that was knocked out in Game 1, a
day after he was in oral surgery for
six hours having it repositioned in
his mouth. His mouth was swol-
len, and he could barely talk. Still,
he never considered not playing
Tuesday night.
“The least I can do is go out
there and play for her,” Thomas
said after scoring 53 points —
the second-highest total in Celt-
ics playoff history — to lead Bos-
ton to a 129-119 overtime victory
over the Washington Wizards.
“I knew once game-time came,
my guys would get me going, get
me the energy to go out and win
a game,” Thomas said, duck-
ing his face into his hands as he
mentioned his sister, Chyna, who
died in a car crash on the eve of
the playoffs. “There was no way I
was sitting out.”
Fiddling with his new mouth
guard throughout the game,
Thomas scored 20 points in the
fourth quarter and nine in over-
time to help the Celtics take a 2-0
lead in the best-of-seven Eastern
Conference semifinals. The 53
points were the most in an NBA
playoff game since Allen Iverson
scored 55 in 2003, and just one
shy of John Havlicek’s franchise
postseason record of 54.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TODAY
Baseball — Astoria at Scappoose, 5
p.m.; Seaside at Valley Catholic, 5 p.m.;
Rainier at Warrenton, 3 p.m.; Knappa at
Pleasant Hill, 4:30 p.m.
Softball — Scappoose at Astoria,
5 p.m.; Rainier at Warrenton, 3 p.m.;
Gaston at Knappa, 4:30 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
THURSDAY
Baseball — Knappa at Clatskanie, 4
p.m.
Softball — Seaside at Astoria (2),
5:30 p.m.
GIRLS GOLF
Cowapa League Championships
at Astoria G&CC
Team: Valley Catholic 419, Astoria
464, Scappoose 507; Seaside, Rainier,
Tillamook, inc.
Medalist: Caroline Hobson, Valley
Catholic, 92
Astoria (464)
Jenna Travers, 55-51—106
Sam Hemsley, 61-52—113
Kristen Travers, 63-59—122
Sadie Wooldridge, 63-60—123
Sarah Lertora, 76-63—139
Seaside
Caroline Kotson, 52-54—106
Maddy Brown, 65-60—125
Caitlin Hillman, 69-69—138
Submitted Photo
The Astoria girls golf team, from left to right: Kristen Travers, Sarah Lertora, Jenna Travers, Sadie Wooldridge, Sam Hemsley.
Lady Fishermen shoot
season-best in tourney
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WARRENTON — The Astoria girls golf
team is peaking at the right time, as the Lady
Fishermen shot their season-best score Tues-
day on their home course.
Astoria’s 464 team score was good enough
for second place behind Valley Catholic in the
Cowapa League (District 1) Championship
Tournament at the Astoria Golf and Country
Club.
Valley Catholic carded a 419 to win the
team title, ahead of Astoria and Scappoose
(507) as the three scoring teams. Golfers
from Seaside, Rainier and Tillamook also
competed.
The Valiants’ Caroline Hobson earned
medalist honors, as she was the only golfer to
break 100 with a 92.
Morgan Hall took second with a 100, fol-
lowed by Valley Catholic’s Matti Thurman
(102) and Annmarie Gallardo (104).
Seaside’s Caroline Kotson and Astoria’s
Jenna Travers earned all-league honors, fin-
ishing tied for fifth with a 106.
Astoria golfers Samantha Hemsley (113)
Submitted Photo
The Cowapa All-League girls golf team, from left to right, Kristen Travers, Torrie Webb,
Samantha Hemsley, Kaitlyn Bakkensen, Jenna Travers, Caroline Kotson, Annmarie
Gallardo, Matti Thurman, Morgan Hall and Caroline Hobson.
and Kristen Travers (122) placed eighth and
10th, respectively, to earn honorable mention
all-league.
Teammate Sadie Wooldridge finished one
shot out of the top 10 with a 123, and Sarah
Lertora rounded out the Astoria scoring with a
personal best 139.
Also scoring for the Gulls were Maddy
Brown (125) and Caitlin Hillman (138).
Golf regionals will take place next week at
Quail Valley on Monday and Forest Hills on
Tuesday.
Matt Mariota makes a move with Oregon
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
Oregon tight end Matt Mariota has
a most impressive mentor.
Older brother Marcus is just a
phone call or text away, and in some
cases this offseason, he was just a
short walk away at the Ducks’ athletic
facilities.
“He’s actually really helpful. He
and I, we’ll text each other after every
practice. He wants to see some film;
he’ll criticize me on certain stuff,”
Matt said. “But it’s a blessing to have
him, because, especially at tight end,
they’re really, really, really in tune
with quarterbacks. So having a brother
as a quarterback makes it a lot easier.”
While Matt was busy learning
a new position during spring prac-
tices over the past several weeks, his
older brother was busy working on his
return to the Tennessee Titans.
Marcus broke his right leg at the
end of the last season and he rehabbed
both back home in Hawaii and in
Eugene. The 2014 Heisman Tro-
phy winner worked out — appropri-
ately enough — at the Marcus Mari-
ota Sports Performance Center in the
Casanova Center on campus.
In his second pro season, Marcus
ranked 10th in the NFL with a 95.6
passer rating, third-best in franchise
history. He threw 26 touchdowns with
only nine interceptions, and his 3,426
yards passing were the most for this
team since 2011.
“I hung out with my brother at Ore-
gon,” he told reporters in Tennessee a
couple of weeks ago. “I’d go in every
day to get some treatment and do lit-
tle things that hopefully would help
me through my process. But for the
most part I kind of just took some time
away from the game, reflected a bit
and enjoyed some family time.”
The most decorated player in
Oregon’s history, Marcus set school
records with more than 10,700 pass-
ing yards and 135 total touchdowns,
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Warriors’ razz
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Thomas Boyd/The Oregonian
Former Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota, right, poses for a pic-
ture with his family at the Saint Louis Alumni Clubhouse on NFL Draft
Day in Honolulu in 2015. His brother Matt Mariota, left, Toa Mariota, his
father, left center, and his mother Alana Deppe-Mariota, center right.
Matt Mariota has an impressive mentor. As he navigates his career at
Oregon, he’s got older brother Marcus to consult.
including 105 passing, 29 rushing and
two receiving. He rushed for more than
2,200 yards over his Oregon career,
which ended early when he decided
to go pro. He was the second-overall
pick in the 2015 NFL draft.
Matt followed his older brother’s
footsteps to Eugene and in the upcom-
ing season he’ll be a redshirt sopho-
more shifting from linebacker to tight
end. He’ll help shore up a position that
saw the departure of Pharaoh Brown,
Johnny Mundt and Evan Baylis.
So, no, he’s not a quarterback.
Marcus’ records at Oregon are safe.
“Obviously, my brother, it’s a huge
offensive influence,” Matt said about
the switch. “Watching him through-
out the years, I kind of pick up on the
offense, I pick up on different stuff. I
think it was just easy for me to come
over. And it was something I wanted
to do.”
Matt has just wrapped up spring
practices. He had a reception for 11
yards in the annual spring game on
Saturday, which earned him a loud
ovation from the nearly 37,000 fans at
Autzen Stadium.
“To be honest, I didn’t even hear
it,” Matt said. “I was just locked in and
when I get off the field my teammates
and everybody was like, ‘Everybody’s
cheering for you’ and I was like, ‘Well,
I didn’t really hear it.’ I guess I’ll have
to go and watch it on TV because my
parents recorded it.”
Like his older brother, Matt Mar-
iota hails from Hawaii and was a
walk-on for the Ducks when he
arrived in 2015.
Matt and the Ducks are embarking
on their first season under coach Willie
Taggart, who replaced Mark Helfrich
after Oregon finished 4-8 overall last
season and 2-7 in the Pac-12.
“I think we’re all bonding a lot
more. It’s like a family atmosphere”
Matt said. “We never used to really
hang out but now it’s like all the kids
want to hang out, they want to do stuff
together. It’s really, really nice.”
SALT LAKE CITY — Salt
Lake City leaders and tourism
officials playfully jabbed back
at Golden State Warriors players
who bemoaned the lack of night-
life in Utah, hoping to combat the
predominantly Mormon state’s
reputation as a boring place where
it’s tough to get a drink.
The tourism agency in the
state capital launched a new web-
site and video Monday titled,
“There’s nothing to do in Salt
Lake” that features people enjoy-
ing drinks and food at popular
breweries, bars, restaurants and
sporting venues. The words “no
fun” and “no drinking” sarcasti-
cally flash across images in the
video.
Scott Beck, president of Visit
Salt Lake, sent a letter to the War-
riors to accompany the video,
saying the city can’t wait to host
the 2015 NBA champions as they
face the Utah Jazz in the West-
ern Conference semifinals this
weekend.
“In case you do stumble across
something to do while here in Salt
Lake, all of our bartenders and
servers are on notice to keep you
up late!” Beck wrote.
Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie
Biskupski tweeted at the Warriors
Monday that they seem “con-
cerned about where to cry in your
beer. Plenty of places. 1st drink’s
on me.”
The campaign comes after
some of the Warriors players
talked about wishing they were
playing the Clippers instead of
the Jazz, mostly for the chance to
have some time off in Los Ange-
les rather than Salt Lake City.