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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017
SPORTS
7A
Dynasty: Astoria girls win with 57 points
Continued from Page 1A
Suddenly, the Pirates were
leading the team chase by
eight points.
But while Phoenix was
piling up points on the track,
Astoria junior Darian Hage-
man was wrapping up a stellar
performance on the runways.
She was the start-to-finish win-
ner of the triple jump, putting
in her best mark of 38-feet-
5.5-inches on her final attempt
to score 10 points and put the
Fishermen on top to stay.
“It was a full team effort,
and we had a lot of stuff line
up for us today, the triple
jump just happened to be the
last straw that put us over the
top,” Hageman said. “I hadn’t
jumped 38 all year, and it was
the end of the meet where you
usually have tired legs, but I
felt really good. That last jump
was great — going 38 has been
my goal all year.”
Hageman had six of
the top seven marks of the
competition.
She finished the meet with
31 team points, clearing 5-4
on her first try to win the high
jump on Friday. Hageman also
took second in the long jump
(17-4.5) on Friday and was
sixth in the pole vault during
early action Saturday.
Astoria secured the team
championship about 15 min-
utes later when the Cummings
sisters returned to the podium
in the 200 where Natalie came
in third and Gracie took eighth.
Astoria won the meet with
57 points, while Phoenix and
Molalla tied for second with
48 apiece.
Caruana takes second
place in 1,500
On the boys side, Asto-
ria senior Lucas Caruana
was the pacesetter the entire
way in the 1,500-meter final
with a revolving door of con-
tenders taking turns chasing
his heels. He broke to front
off the gun and found him-
self a stride ahead of a tightly
bunched pack after the first
lap. By the halfway point of
the race, North Bend team-
mates Michael Brown and
George LaGesse were working
Beavers set
Pac-12 record
CORVALLIS — Top-
ranked Oregon State defeated
Washington State 14-3 on Sun-
day to set the Pac-12 record for
most baseball league wins in a
season with 27.
The Beavers (45-4, 27-3)
topped the mark of 26 confer-
ence victories set by Arizona
State in 1981.
Drew Rasmussen made his
second start and fourth appear-
ance since having Tommy John
surgery, allowing three hits in
5 2/3 for the win. Rasmussen
has allowed one earned run in
his 11 2/3 innings.
Triple Crown
not in play
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Photos by David Ball/For The Daily Astorian
Astoria’s Gracie Cummings gets the baton away to Andrea Harris on the first exchange during the Fishermen’s win
in the 400-meter relay to start the racing finals Saturday.
in tandem in his shadow, and
by the bell Caruana was two
strides ahead of John Kavulich
of Scappoose.
“I wanted to stay at the
front and try to spread out the
pack in that second lap,” Caru-
ana said. “I felt pretty com-
fortable most of the way, then
that last lap got a lot faster and
that’s where it got tough.”
Caruana matched a surge
by Kavulich on the corner
to maintain his lead heading
down the backstretch. The
Scappoose runner faded back
into the pack — one chal-
lenged fended off.
Up next was Brown out of
North Bend, who pulled up
onto his shoulder to start the
final corner. Caruana shifted
gears once more to maintain
inside position on the turn.
Coming off the corner, he
took a quick glance over his
shoulder.
“I saw Michael coming up
on me, and I tried to pick it
up — I wanted to win it really
bad,” Caruana said.
Brown pulled up along-
side in lane 2, and the racers
sprinted side-by-side the final
100 meters to the finish line.
“We hit the line and I knew
I didn’t have it,” Caruana said.
Brown squeezed in front
and leaned through the line in
4:06.87 — 0.05 hundredths
ahead of Caruana.
Astoria also got points from
Tim Barnett, who was third in
the shot put and discus.
Baseball: Astoria gears up
for the 4A state tournament
Continued from Page 10A
you know they’re going to do
well. And one of those things
is that they’re going to have a
really good pitcher with a great
breaking ball.
“And their kid (senior
Logan Saltares) was hard for
our kids to pick up,” Gasser
said. “He was changing speeds
really well, and he was just
wild enough not to get com-
fortable against.”
Saltares allowed seven hits,
with four strikeouts and four
walks.
Gladstone scored first, Mat-
thew Lehrbach sprinting home
on a ground-out RBI by Derek
Lee in the top of the first.
Later in the first, Saltares
had an infield single, but was
stranded at second.
After that, Arnsdorf was
virtually untouchable over the
next four innings, retiring 13
in a row.
But with Astoria unable to
score, Gladstone’s Tyler Mey-
ers reached on an error to start
the sixth, and scored on a sin-
gle by Lee for a 2-1 lead.
With the Fishermen facing
the end of their season — and
Gasser facing the end of his
career — Olaf Englund reached
on a line drive off the first base-
man’s glove with one out in the
bottom of the seventh.
And with Astoria down
to its final out, Kyle Strange
delivered a first-pitch single
to right field, scoring Englund
with the game-tying run.
The Gladiators were able
work their way out of the sev-
enth, as the game went to the
eighth inning, tied 2-2.
But the writing was on the
wall for Gladstone — there
was no way the Fishermen
were going to let this one get
off the hook. Astoria outhit,
outpitched and outplayed the
Gladiators in just about every
phase of the game.
So, in the bottom of the
SPORTS
IN BRIEF
BALTIMORE — Cloud
Computing stole the Preak-
ness, and any hope of a Triple
Crown in the Belmont Stakes.
The 13-1 shot did it on six
weeks’ rest, having skipped
the 20-horse roughhouse that
is the Kentucky Derby even
though he had enough points
to get in that race. With another
three weeks until the Belmont
in New York, Cloud Comput-
ing could return to run on his
home track.
Bradley, Celtics
stun Cavaliers
Associated Press
Astoria’s Lucas Caruana led through most of the
1,500-meter race before being edged down the stretch
and coming in second 0.05 hundredths off the lead.
CLEVELAND — Lepre-
chauns are imaginary. Celtic
pride is very real.
Avery Bradley’s 3-pointer
danced on the rim and dropped
with less than a second left and
Boston, blown out in the first
two games of the Eastern Con-
ference finals and playing with-
out star Isaiah Thomas, stunned
the Cleveland Cavaliers 111-
108 on Sunday night in Game 3
to end the champions’ 13-game
postseason winning streak.
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Astoria irst-basemen Burke Mathews gets the out for the
Fishermen during Friday’s game against Gladstone.
eighth, Astoria’s Tristin Wal-
lace was hit by a pitch, took
second on a sacrifice bunt,
then scored the game-win-
ner on a walk-off error, as the
Gladiators threw the ball away
on a bunt by Cade O’Brien
with two outs.
Astoria had seven hits (to
Gladstone’s three), and the
Fishermen stranded 10 base
runners (to Gladstone’s three).
But four big errors by the
Gladiators ultimately proved
to be the difference, leading
to two unearned runs for the
Fishermen.
“I love the way we com-
peted,” Gasser said. “We’re
down to our last out, and Kyle
coming through is not strange.
No pun intended. He’s been
doing that all year, knocking
in runs and hitting line drives
when we need ’em.”
Arnsdorf picked up the
well-earned victory, as the
senior tossed a three-hitter and
threw just 88 pitches over his
eight innings. He struck out
four, with no walks.
“The first inning was a lit-
tle rough, and coach (Ralph)
Steinback told me a couple
things, that I needed to focus
on the team, and reminded
me ‘what’s important now,’”
Arnsdorf said. “I knew we
were going to get some runs. I
kept thinking, ‘it’s gonna hap-
pen, it’s gonna happen.’ We
finally got one, and that just
gave me more motivation.”
After throwing 20 pitches
in the first inning, Arnsdorf
averaged just over nine pitches
per inning after that.
“That was super-key,” he
said. “I think I had quite a bit
left in the tank.”
And the pitch that was
working best for Arnsdorf was
“the fastball,” he said. “We
were playing good ol’ country
hardball today.”
Gasser added, “I love the
way Jackson settled down, and
the way we played defense.
That we could struggle at the
plate and all that stuff, focus-
ing on what we did to win it,
we played top-notch defensive
baseball, and had a pitcher who
settled down and threw beau-
tifully. We had five three-up,
three-down innings.”
The Gladiators had the
leadoff runner on base just
twice over eight innings, while
the Fishermen had the leadoff
runner reach base six out of
eight times.
Astoria also loaded the
bases with no outs in the bot-
tom of the fourth, but failed to
score.
“We’re going to bring a
voodoo doll or something, and
bring it out when we have the
bases loaded,” Gasser said.
“We need to figure out what
to do.”
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