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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MAY 25, 2017
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Athletes of the Week
(FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 15-20)
400-METER
RELAY TEAM
Astoria
JACKSON
JANUIK
Seaside
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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-
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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
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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.