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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MAY 25, 2017 CONTACT US FOLLOW US facebook.com/ DailyAstorianSports Gary Henley | Sports Reporter ghenley@dailyastorian.com Athletes of the Week (FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 15-20) 400-METER RELAY TEAM Astoria JACKSON JANUIK Seaside David Ball/For The Daily Astorian David Ball/For The Daily Astorian Astoria’s Gracie Cummings, right, gets the baton away to Andrea Harris on the first exchange during the Fishermen’s win in the 400-meter relay last Saturday. Seaside senior Jackson Januik celebrates coming through the finish line first with a three-peat win in 800-meter final. he Lady Fishermen won their third straight state championship last Sat- T urday in Eugene, with a big victory in the 400-meter relay to thank for it. The foursome of Gracie Cummings, Andrea Harris, Nara van De Grift and he senior Gull went out the only way a champion should — with a state T title in the 800 meters at the OSAA state meet, Saturday at Historic Hay- ward Field in Eugene. Months after leading the Seaside boys basketball team Natalie Cummings not only won the event in 49.77 seconds — leading to 10 big points for Astoria — they set a school record that had stood since the 1980s. The previous record of 49.80 was held by Astoria High School Hall of Famers Carla Bailey, Sue Glacken, Brenda Orand and Lee Boyd. to a state championship, Januik came from behind to win the 800 fi nal in 1 minute, 55.86 seconds — a personal best and his third straight championship in the 800. It was also the fourth time in fi ve years that a Seaside runner won the event (Brett Willyard placed fi rst in 2013). 2A/1A STATE PLAYOFFS 4A STATE PLAYOFFS Astoria takes down Rangers, moves ahead By MIKE WEBER For The Daily Astorian Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian Andrew Goozee tees off on a pitch for the Knappa Loggers during Wednesday’s game against Lost River. Loggers hammer the Raiders, again By GARY HENLEY The Daily Astorian KNAPPA — Wednesday’s fi nal score from Teevin Field: Knappa 15, Lost River 1. And if it seems like you’ve seen this before, you’re right. Four times in the last seven years: Lost River at Knappa in the fi rst round of the 2A/1A baseball state playoffs, and a lop sided win for the Loggers. Three Knappa pitchers combined on a no-hitter in Wednesday’s victory, and the Loggers secured their spot in the quarterfi nals for the 10th year in a row. No. 2-ranked Knappa will host seventh-ranked Sherman-Arling- ton Friday at Teevin Field (time to be announced). Meanwhile, the season comes to a close for Lost River, the same way it ends all too often for the Raiders — another fi rst-round loss at Knappa. The Loggers have now outscored Lost River by a combined 74-7 in those four fi rst-round state playoff games, all at Teevin Field (15-3 in 2011, 25-1 in 2014, 19-2 in 2015, and Wednesday’s 15-1). “Fortunately it’s never been down there yet, so they’ve had to make that long journey,” Knappa coach Jeff Miller said of the Raiders (Lost River High School is just north of Tulelake, Calif., on the Oregon-California bor- der). “In that sense, I feel for them. But I’m glad that we’re able to host, and our kids have put themselves in a posi- tion to host those games.” And, despite the previous results and a 12-day layoff, the Loggers were fi red up for Wednesday’s fi rst -rounder. “Yeah, they were chomping at the Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian Kaleb Miller slides home safe for Knappa during Wednesday’s game at home against Lost River. bit to get out and play,” Miller said of his players. “Some teams like to go out and play games. And that’s fi ne, that works for them. This has become kind of our routine in recent years. We use the week and a half off to get healthy and work on specifi c things in practice. “And we like the preparation that we came in with today. The kids came out and had good energy early, and were ready to play.” Off and running Knappa was off and running, right from the start. On the fi rst pitch in the bottom of the fi rst, Logger lead-off batter Jason Miller laid down a perfect bunt and beat the throw to fi rst, for the fi rst of Knappa’s 12 hits. From there, Kaleb Miller drew a walk and Reuben Cruz had an infi eld hit to load the bases with no outs. And all three runners scored, via a See LOGGERS, Page 7A SCOREBOARD ESTACADA — Astoria High senior pitcher Jackson Arnsdorf threw a one-hitter with 12 strike- outs to help lead the Fishermen to a 3-0 win over the Estacada Rangers in an OSAA/U.S. Bank/Les Schwab Tires Class 4A baseball fi rst-round state playoff game Wednesday at Estacada High School. The No. 8 ranked Cowapa League Champion Fishermen (19- 5), guided by coach Dave Gasser, advance to the next round and will travel to Grants Pass to face No. 1 ranked Hidden Valley (22-3) in the quarterfi nals Friday. “We’re the road warriors and we’re going to have to do it again one more time,” said Gasser. “Jack- son has been very good all year, but I think he pitched his best game today. He defi nitely has a chance to earn a fi rst -team all -state award. He got the leadoff batter out in every inning and fi ve times, Estacada went three up, three down. He just did a really great job.” It was scoreless pitcher’s duel in the fi rst four innings between Arns- dorf and Estacada senior Andrew Avants. Estacada, the Tri-Valley Conference Champions, got its only hit in the second by Avants (1-for- 3), who hit a line -drive double that rolled all the way to the 305-foot right -fi eld wall. “It seemed like (Estacada) had some really good hitters, but I just had to bring my ‘A ’ game today and I just tried to keep throwing in the strike zone,” Arnsdorf said. Estacada (16-7) didn’t get another hit as Astoria’s No. 1 ranked defense (2.58 runs allowed per game average) shut down the Rangers throughout the contest. Arnsdorf threw a solid curveball/fastball com- bination that had Ranger hitters off balance the entire game. Estacada went down one, two, three in the fi ve of seven innings as their offense was basically nonexistent against Astoria. Astoria got off track offensively in the fi fth until senior Lyle Strange (1-for-3) helped ignite a rally with a leadoff single as he drilled a line drive into center fi eld. Senior Sam- boy Tiumato (1-for-2) then drew a walk, giving Astoria a golden opportunity to score with two base runners. Both runners then advanced one base on wild pitch by Avants, with Strange going to third base and Tiu- mato running to second. Senior catcher Jason Gohl (1-for-3) then hammered a ball to right fi eld for an RBI single, driving home Strange for the fi rst Fishermen run. Tiumato then scored on a sacrifi ce fl y RBI by junior Trey Hageman to give Astoria a 2-0 advantage. “It felt good to get a key hit to help our team win,” Gohl said. “Our defense has been the key part of our team all year and it will con- tinue to be the key for us throughout the playoffs. We have strong pitch- ing, we have the best infi elders in the state and our outfi elders cover all the ground with outstanding plays. We’re road warriors and we love playing on the road.” Arnsdorf struck out Estacada’s leadoff batter and then the outstand- ing Fishermen defense got the next two Ranger batters out on consecu- tive infi eld groundouts at fi rst base as Astoria held onto a 2-0 lead after fi ve. See ASTORIA, Page 7A PREP SCHEDULE FRIDAY Baseball — 4A Quarterfinal: As- toria at Hidden Valley, TBA; 2A/1A Quarterfinal: Sherman-Arlington at Knappa, 4:30 p.m. BASEBALL Knappa 15, Lost River 1 Lost River 001 000 0—1 0 9 Knappa 441 024 x—15 12 1 Goodman, E.Takalo (6), Hoover (7) and K.Miller; Moore, Girtman (3), A.McAuliffe (7) and Britton. W: Good- man. L: Moore. RBI: Kna, D.Takalo 2, Hoover 2, Goozee, J.Miller, K.Miller, Cruz. 2B: Kna, Hoover. 3B: Kna, Cruz. LOB: Lost River 4, Knappa 6. Astoria 3, Estacada 0 Astoria 000 021 0—3 5 1 Estacada 000 000 0—0 1 2 W: Arnsdorf. L: Avants. RBI: Ast, Fremstad, Hageman, Gohl. 2B: Ast, Fremstad; Est, Avants. LOB: Astoria 3, Estacada 2. Mike Weber/For The Daily Astorian Astoria’s Kyle Strange scores a run in the fifth inning.
