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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 2017
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Tigers
sweep
Warrior
girls
A’s rally
with five
in ninth
to beat
Mariners
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HILLSBORO — Clatskanie’s
Olivia Warren had three dou-
bles and two home runs on the
day, and teammate Maris Jackson
drove in four runs with a double
and a triple in Game 2, helping the
Tigers score a 7-2, 9-6 sweep over
Warrenton.
The Lewis & Clark League
softball doubleheader was played
at Hillsboro Stadium.
Clatskanie’s two wins forced a
three-way tie in the league stand-
ings (Clatskanie, Portland Adven-
tist and Warrenton, all 6-6), so the
three teams held a drawing, with
Portland Adventist drawing the
No. 2 slot, Warrenton No. 3 and
Clatskanie No. 4.
Clatskanie will play Warrenton
again Thursday (3:30 p.m., Hills-
boro Stadium), with the winner to
play Portland Adventist immedi-
ately following for the No. 2 seed
to state.
Clatskanie jumped on the
scoreboard early in Tuesday’s
opener, scoring a run in the first
and three in the second.
The Tigers tacked on three
runs in the fifth before the War-
riors scored their lone two runs in
the sixth.
Clatskanie pitcher MacKenzie
Mitchell scattered four hits, with
six strikeouts and
two walks. She fin-
ished the game in
just 87 pitches.
Clatskanie had
seven hits off War-
renton pitcher Niqui Blodgett in
Game 1, which included a 4-for-4
effort by Warren, who had two
doubles and a home run, scored
three times and drove in three
runs.
The Warriors bounced back
and held a 3-0 lead after a half-in-
ning of Game 2, and added runs in
each of the next two innings for a
6-3 lead.
But Clatskanie answered with
one run each in the third and
fourth, then scored two in the fifth
and two in the sixth.
Seven different players had
hits for the Tigers in Game 2, with
Jackson (4-for-4, four RBIs) lead-
ing the way. Warren was 3-for-3
with a home run and three runs
scored.
Blodgett pitched both games,
finishing with 13 strikeouts and
seven walks on the day.
Landree Miethe had two tri-
ples in Game 1, with a double, two
runs scored and four stolen bases
in the second game.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TODAY
Softball — NWL Playoff: Neah-Kah-
Nie vs. Knappa, 3 p.m.; Knappa vs.
Gaston, TBA
THURSDAY
Softball — 4A Regional Play-in: Asto-
ria at North Bend, 4 p.m.; Lewis & Clark
Playoff: Clatskanie vs. Warrenton (at
Hillsboro Stadium), 3:30 p.m.
Track — 3A/2A/1A OSAA State Meet,
Eugene, TBA
FRIDAY
Baseball — 4A Regional Play-in:
Gladstone at Astoria, 5 p.m.
Track — 6A-1A OSAA State Meet, Eu-
gene, TBA
SATURDAY
Track — 6A/5A/4A OSAA State Meet,
Eugene, TBA
SOFTBALL
Game 1
Tigers 7, Warriors 2
Warrenton 000 002 0—2 4 2
Clatskanie 130 030 x—7 7 0
WP: MacKenzie Mitchell (5 K’s, 2
walks). LP: Niqui Blodgett (7 K’s, 5
walks). RBI: War, Miethe, Bue; Cla, War-
ren 3, Hamm, Jackson, Lindblom. 2B:
Cla, Warren 2, Hamm. 3B: War, Miethe
2. HR: Cla, Warren. HBP: Cla, Hamm.
LOB: Warrenton 3, Clatskanie 8.
Game 2
Tigers 9, Warriors 6
Warrenton 312 000 0—6 3 1
Clatskanie 301 122 x—9 15 2
WP: MacKenzie Mitchell (2 K’s, 1
walk). LP: Niqui Blodgett (5 K’s, 2
walks). RBI: War, Duncan 2, Dyer, Mi-
ethe; Cla, Jackson 4, Hamm, Warren,
Lindblom, Schwartz. 2B: War, Miethe;
Cla, Hamm, Jackson, Warren. 3B: Cla,
Jackson, Lindblom. HR: Cla, Warren.
LOB: Warrenton 5, Clatskanie 7. DP:
Warrenton.
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
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Jewell’s Sean Hinson took fifth in the javelin, and won the discus event in last week’s Casco/Valley
10 district track meet. Jewell qualified three athletes for the 1A state meet in Eugene.
Jewell tracksters qualify
for 1A state track meet
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The Jewell girls finished fifth and the Blue Jay
boys took sixth in the team standings, in last week’s
Casco League/Valley 10 district track champion-
ships at Portland Christian.
Jewell qualified three athletes for the 1A state
meet, which begins Thursday at Historic Hayward
Field in Eugene.
In a district dominated by private schools, Damas-
cus Christian won the girls’ team title for the Casco/
Valley 10 district, ahead of St. Stephen’s Academy,
Falls City, Southwest Christian and Jewell.
Southwest Christian won the boys’ team cham-
pionship, in front of Damascus Christian, North
Clackamas Christian, Falls City, Oregon School for
the Deaf and Jewell.
The Jewell boys had one individual champion,
as senior Sean Hinson won the discus with a toss
of 120 feet, 7 inches. He took fifth in the javelin
(138-6).
Junior Ben Stahly added points by taking third in
UP NEXT: JEWELL
What: OSAA Track and Field State Championships
Where: Hayward Field in Eugene
When : Thursday-Friday
the 100 meters, fourth in the 200 meters and third in
the pole vault (a personal best 9-6); junior Thomas
Meehan placed fourth in the 1,500 meters and fourth
in the 3,000 meters, in a career-best time of 10 min-
utes, 15.19 seconds.
On the girls’ side, Jewell’s Gabi Morales was a
state qualifier in two events, as the junior won the
300-meter hurdles in 50.49, and ran a personal best
17.48 for second in the 100-meter hurdles.
Jewell sophomore Lily Kaczenski was one of
just two competitors in the pole vault, and qualified
for state by clearing 7-0 for second-place.
Junior Emma Guillen was fourth in the discus
(77-8), fifth in the shot put (26-11½) and fifth in the
javelin (76-0).
Favorite Cavs open East finals
on road vs. underdog Celtics
SEATTLE — Matt Joyce hit a
two-run homer and Mark Canha
added a three-run shot in a five-run
ninth inning that rallied the Oak-
land Athletics to a 9-6 victory over
the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday
night.
Oakland squandered a 4-1 lead
thanks to a key two-run error in
the seventh and Kyle Seager’s solo
home run in the eighth that gave
Seattle a 5-4 lead. But with a strug-
gling Edwin Diaz removed from
the closer role earlier in the day,
Steve Cishek was asked to get the
final three outs for the Mariners in
just his second appearance of the
season.
Cishek (0-1) was unable to fin-
ish the job, giving up a leadoff
single to Rajai Davis and watch-
ing Joyce hit his fifth homer of
the year to give Oakland the lead.
Mark Rzepczynski took over and
allowed Canha’s first homer on a
3-2 pitch.
The decision to let Cishek
face the left-handed-hitting Joyce
was debatable, with Rzepczynski
warming up in the bullpen. Left-
ies began the day 1 for 24 against
Rzepczynski this season, but it was
the right-handed-hitting Canha that
provided the knockout blow with a
drive to left-center that bounced off
the top of the wall and over.
Ryan Madson (1-3) got the win
despite giving up Seager’s homer.
Seattle’s rally started an inning
earlier when third baseman Ryon
Healy’s error on a potential
inning-ending double play allowed
two runs to score. Seattle loaded
the bases with one out and Car-
los Ruiz chopped a slow grounder
to third. Healy shuffled to his left,
but the grounder slid past his glove,
between his legs and into left field
to score a pair.
Jean Segura followed with a
grounder to shortstop, and Oak-
land appeared to turn a double play
that time. But after a replay review,
Segura was ruled safe at first and
Jarrod Dyson scored to make it
4-all.
Healy hit a 443-foot home run
into the second deck in left field
off Seattle starter Chase De Jong to
give Oakland an early 2-1 lead, and
the A’s led 4-1 going to the seventh
thanks largely to starter Andrew
Triggs, who permitted only four
hits.
UP NEXT: MARINERS
• Oakland Athletics (17-22)
at Seattle Mariners (18-22)
• Today, 7:10 p.m.
TV: RTNW, NSCA
By KYLE HIGHTOWER
Associated Press
BOSTON — The Celtics are head-
ing to the Eastern Conference finals
with the No. 1 seed and home court
advantage. But they are still very much
underdogs to the defending champion
Cleveland Cavaliers.
That’s because throughout this sea-
son the conversation hasn’t so much
been about which team would come
out of the East, as much as how much
resistance any team could offer the
Cavs.
So far it hasn’t been much, with
Cleveland posting back-to-back
sweeps in the first two rounds.
After waiting more than a week for
an opponent, the Cavs have their lat-
est challenger. It’s a Boston team that
many wrote off after the Celtics fell into
a 0-2, first-round hole against the Bulls.
Now, fresh off a Game 7 semifinal
win over the Washington Wizards , the
Celtics in many ways find themselves
playing with house money as they pre-
pare to host a LeBron James-led Cleve-
land team carrying all the expectations
into today’s Game 1 in Boston.
“We’ve been counted out since I’ve
been here, so it’s nothing new,” Celtics
guard Isaiah Thomas said. “We’re not
really focused on the outside noise and
what they think we’re going to...We’re
just going to take care of business as we
go.”
That’s easier said than done.
Mowins to be
first woman
to call NFL
since 1987
Associated Press
AP Photo/Tony Dejak
Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James (23) drives past Boston Celtics’
Jae Crowder (99) in the second half of an NBA basketball game, in
Cleveland on March 5. Crowder is expected to be the primary defender
on James in the Eastern Conference Finals.
Boston has yet to beat the Cavs this
season with Cleveland at full strength.
The Celtics’ lone victory came on
March 1, with Kevin Love out after
minor left knee surgery. Cleveland
won the other games by a combined
35 points, including a 114-91 romp on
April 5.
Still, James respects not only the
Celtics, but also their hallowed history.
“There’s only two winningest fran-
chises in the history of the game, the
Lakers and the Celtics,” James said.
“Just respect that and look out up in the
stands and see the banners, see the jer-
seys retired and things of that nature.
You respect what the history has cre-
ated at that point.”
BRISTOL, Conn. — ESPN has
tapped Beth Mowins to call the
second part of a season-opening
“Monday Night Football” double-
header in September, making her
the first woman
do play-by-play
duties on an NFL
game in 30 years.
The network
says Mowins will
team with for-
mer NFL Coach
Beth
Rex Ryan when
Mowins
the Los Angeles
Chargers visit the
Denver Broncos on Sept. 11.
Mowins joined ESPN in 1994
and has called college football for
the network since 2005. She has
also done play-by-play for locally
broadcast preseason Oakland
Raiders games.