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SPORTS THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MAY 25, 2017 7A Loggers: Next opponent is Sherman-Arlington Astoria: ‘We can win it all this year’ Continued from Page 10A bases-loaded walk, a passed ball and a wild pitch. After giving up four runs in the first inning, Lost River commit- ted five errors in the second. Cou- pled with infield hits by Colton Wei- rup, Jason Miller and Kaleb Miller, Knappa scored four more runs and led 8-0. Kaleb Miller had three hits on the day, including a single to cen- ter field in the third to score Jason Miller. After a scoreless fourth inning, Kaleb Miller singled up the mid- dle in the fifth, and Dale Takalo fol- lowed with a two-out single to right, scoring Miller, and Mason Hoover had Knappa’s first extra-base hit of the game, a double to score Takalo for an 11-1 lead. With no 10-run mercy rule in the state playoffs, the Loggers were free to tack on runs in the bottom of the sixth. With two outs and two on, the Raiders dropped a fly ball to left, scoring Weirup and Jason Miller. Cruz followed with Knappa’s Big Blast of the Day, a triple to deep right center field. And the Raiders’ throw to third to get Cruz got away, allowing Cruz to score on Lost Riv- er’s ninth error of the day. Michal Goodman pitched the first five innings for Knappa, strik- ing out six with five walks and no Continued from Page 10A Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian Dale Takalo takes a pick-off attempt from the mound for Knappa during a game against Lost River. hits allowed. Eli Takalo took over in the sixth, striking out the side, and Hoover pitched the seventh inning to finish up the no-hitter, Knappa’s third of the season. “I’m a pitch-by-pitch guy — I don’t keep track of those things, to be honest,” said coach Miller, who was unaware of the no-hitter. “Eli came in and did a great job, real efficient in the sixth; Michal started out real strong and got the yips for a couple batters in the one inning (four walks in the third), but overall he got us off to the strong start that we needed from our senior thrower. “And the other guys got some experience — neither Eli or Mason had ever thrown in a playoff game, so it was nice to get them out here with a little less pressure.” Next up for the Loggers, the Sherman-Arlington Huskies, the second-place team out of District 6, behind Dufur. “If you’ve seen their football and basketball results this year, Sherman has got great athletes up and down the order,” coach Miller said. “And lots of arms. It should be that way in a quarterfinal. We’re going to have to be ready and play our very best.” “It felt great to get another big win against a good team like Estacada and it would’ve been nice to end the game with a double play, which is what we tried to do,” said Hageman. Astoria then extended its lead in the sixth inning. Zach Patterson hit a leadoff single and then senior shortstop Fridtjof Fremstad (1-for-3) drilled a line drive to center field for an RBI double. Patterson (1-for-3) scored to give Astoria a 3-0 advantage. “I knew that it would be a low-scoring game and we would have to tough it out at the end,” said Fremstad. “Jackson Arnsdorf had the best performance that I’ve ever seen him do on the mound. I think he pitched the best game of his career today. Hopefully, we can get it done again at Hidden Valley.” “We can win it all this year,” Gasser said. “We were in the semis last year and we’re a better team than we were last year, because we have so many more experienced kids. Nobody has more experience that us. We play catch real well, our pitching is good and our hitting is very good.” Astoria is seeking to reach the 4A state championship game June 3 at Volcanoes Sta- dium in Keizer for the fifth time in the last 10 years. Astoria, which won the championship in 2009 and 2011, is hoping to win its third state title in the last nine years. Project: Tribe’s goal is to improve resources important to culture ensure the towers on raised access pads within the wet- lands can still be serviced, BPA engineered a low-water access road made from con- crete blocks held together by cables. The roadway is built 12 to 18 inches above the flood plain and designed to withstand daily inundation. Continued from Page 1A The project, estimated at approximately $10 million, is funded by Bonneville Power Administration customers. The federal agency is required by law to finance habitat res- toration projects that offset the impact of the hydroelec- tric dams it operates along the Columbia and Snake rivers on 13 federally listed species of salmon and steelhead. Future use Returning wetland Two summers ago, Big River Construction dug out five main tidal chan- nels throughout the property, starting at the dike and head- ing inland. Crews have been building concrete walls along Highway 202 to protect por- tions of the roadway near the restoration site from incom- ing tides and wave action. Sometime between June and September, the dike will be lowered to the mean high-water level, and the dike breached near the base of each tidal channel. “Pulling the levee down kind of helps the site deform on its own, rather than hold it to some pattern that may or may not be natural,” said Rudy Salakory, an aquatic restoration manager with the Cowlitz Tribe overseeing the project. Salakory said the idea is that when those five tidal channels are connected to the Youngs and Wallooskee riv- ers, the site will start flood- ing twice a day, and the native plant seeds that are still pres- ent in the soil will slowly Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian Tidal channels will allow fish to move freely in and out of the Wallooskee-Youngs Confluence Restoration Project. An access road will allow Bonneville Power Administration to maintain at low tide a major transmission line running through the property. Find more photos of the work on the project online at DailyAstorian.com replace the pasture grass as the site becomes a wet- land. The newly created wet- lands will provide valuable off-channel areas for fish transitioning from fresh to saltwater, and by extension habitat for mammals, raptors, waterfowl, shorebirds and amphibians. “We’re rebuilding that grocery store, that food web, for everyone,” Salakory said. Lee Dairy Farm The site was originally diked off from the Youngs and Wallooskee rivers in the early 1900s and made into a Lee Dairy Farm in the 1970s. Salakory said maintenance of the dike surrounding the dairy was getting more dif- ficult for the previous prop- erty owner ,Richard Lee, who in 2012 sold the land to Vir- ginia-based environmental resources company Astoria Wetlands LLC. The Cowlitz Indian Tribe, which has performed more than 30 restoration projects throughout the region, part- nered with Astoria Wetlands and sought funding from BPA, which has financed about 45 wetland restoration sites throughout the Colum- bia River estuary over the past decade. David Wilson, a spokes- man for BPA, said the proj- ect is one of the largest the agency has ever funded. “Bonneville ratepayers pay for this stuff, and we want to make sure they understand that their money is going to good use,” he said. Running through the mid- dle of the property is BPA’s Allston-Clatsop 230-kilo- volt transmission line, which goes from Longview, Wash- ington, to provide power to much of the North Coast. To Once the project is com- pleted sometime this sum- mer, the Cowlitz Tribe will take possession of and man- age the property in perpe- tuity for conservation. Sal- akory said the next step is a long-term management plan incorporating public access, such as hunting, a concern raised by residents comment- ing during the project’s plan- ning stage. “We need to balance that with good stewardship of the land,” Salakory said, add- ing he’ll start working on the management plan once the project is complete. The site includes 17 acres of upland conservation area outside of the flood plain, which Salakory said could be used for a youth camp or space for powwows. The site could also grow to include native plant species used by tribes, he said, and even a potential launching spot for the annual canoe journey by Pacific Northwest tribes. The Cowlitz Tribe’s goal in the project is to improve the resources such as fish and plants that are important to the culture of indigenous groups. “The work we do is important to all the tribes.” Arch Cape: ‘I think you Port: Overall employment expected to decrease wasted a lot of good will Continued from Page 1A interest Isom said the Port will pay in the coming year on the Isom said the Port thinks loan to finance construction with our community’ FEMA’s contributions could of the state-mandated Pier 3 Continued from Page 1A County Counsel Chris Crean pointed out Wednes- day that, while the commit- tee will no longer serve as a quasi-judicial board through the county, the independence will allow committee mem- bers to advocate more openly for or against projects as res- idents of Arch Cape. County staff and commissioners also have accused members of the committee of not fol- lowing procedural or public meetings rules and intimi- dating residents with whom they disagree. Opponents of the ordi- nance, meanwhile, have rejected the accusations and voiced concerns about Arch Cape’s loss of power to review projects. Resi- dents who support the design review committee, which was formed in the 1970s, presented a petition with 216 signatures and 94 comments at the public hearing earlier this month. “We lost a good rela- tionship between the com- missioners and the resi- dents because of the way this was handled,” said Jim Jensvold, an Arch Cape res- ident. “I think the county could’ve gotten pretty much everything they wanted if they were to come to us respectfully and said, ‘Let’s work this out together.’ I think you wasted a lot of good will with our community.” Committee member Tod Lundy said after the hear- ing that the decision is final, though Michael Manzulli, a former committee mem- ber who has been actively involved in trying to save it, added they will look into all available options. go up based on KPFF’s esti- mates, but that staff took a conservative approach. stormwater treatment system. More with less Revenues and expenses The Port has estimated $2.3 million in leases and rentals, the agency’s largest single rev- enue source. The Port’s piers, the agen- cy’s second-biggest source of revenue, are projected to earn less than $1.7 million in the coming fiscal year, a decrease of more than $250,000 from this year. Isom said the Port has budgeted 11 log ships in the coming fiscal year. While the pier revenues go down, the cost of employing longshoremen is expected to increase by nearly $200,000. After jurisdictional conflicts between log exporter Asto- ria Forest Products and the local longshore union, the Port worked out an agreement to lease trucks and have long- Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian The Port of Astoria has struggled with aging infrastructure. shoremen drive logs from a processing yard on Pier 3 to Pier 1 for export. Isom said the agreement results in two addi- tional longshore positions. Much of the longshore labor costs are rebilled to the Port’s customers needing ship-tend- ing and log-loading services. The agency’s debt expenses will increase more than $88,000 from the previous fiscal year, largely driven by the $100,000 in principal and The Port’s overall employ- ment is expected to decrease by an equivalent of one full- time position to 33.8 agen- cywide. Knight said that despite rising wage and bene- fit rates, the Port will decrease its overall salaries and wages by $4,000 and benefits by $11,000 in the coming fiscal year. One recurring issue has been the need to hire a grant writer, which was not included in the proposed budget. Of the staff the Port has recently hired, Knight said, they have identified about 200 potential sources of grant revenue. “We need to pursue as much as we can with our staff wearing multiple hats to the best of our ability … until we can get into a much better financial condition,” he said.
