SPORTS
THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MAY 25, 2017
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Loggers: Next opponent is Sherman-Arlington Astoria: ‘We
can win it all
this year’
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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.