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Schauermann’s boot wins it
SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Astoria tops
Cottage Grove
McMINNVILLE — The Asto-
ria and Cottage Grove girls soc-
cer teams met at McMinnville Sat-
urday for a nonleague game, and
the Lady Fishermen improved to
2-1 overall with a 2-0 win over the
Lions.
After a scoreless fi rst half,
Astoria freshman Haley Kelley
scored off a corner kick; and the
fi rst-year player struck again later,
converting a penalty kick after the
Fishermen were fouled in the pen-
alty area.
With a few injured players cur-
rently out of the lineup, the Fish-
ermen have seven days off before
hosting Estacada Saturday.
Tigers blank
the Gulls, 14-0
Photos by Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
CLATSKANIE — The Clats-
kanie Tigers scored a big victory
Friday night on their home fi eld,
where the Class 3A team earned a
14-0 win over Seaside.
Clatskanie’s J’Kari Combs
caught a pair of touchdown passes
in the second quarter for all the
scoring, while the Tiger defense
tossed a shutout at the Gulls, who
were coming off a 47-13 win over
Newport the week before.
Combs scored his fi rst touch-
down on a 68-yard toss from Coo-
per Blodgett, then caught a 5-yard
TD pass from Blodgett before
halftime.
Seaside’s Alex Teubner rushed
for 145 yards on 15 carries, and
led the Gulls with seven tackles
on defense. Quarterback Payton
Westerholm was 5-for-12 passing
for 61 yards, while Clatskanie run-
ning back James Helmen rushed
for 71 yards on 16 carries.
The Gulls host Yamhill-Carl-
ton Friday in Seaside’s home
opener at Broadway Field.
Naselle scores
fi rst win
NASELLE, Wash. — Naselle
was scoring at will Friday night at
home in a 50-8 win over Rainier
Christian.
The Comets led 38-0 by half-
time, scoring on runs, passes and
a punt return.
Erik Lund scored on a 15-yard
run and later caught one of three
touchdown passes from quarter-
back Cole Dorman, while Fa’aoso
Tutu’u sprinted 51 yards for a
touchdown and Donny Edwards
returned a punt 51 yards for
another score.
The Comets improve to 1-1.
Toledo downs
Ilwaco, 35-7
ILWACO, Wash. — One week
after rolling up 466 yards in total
offense, Ilwaco was held to just
150 Friday night at home, as
Toledo built a 28-0 fi rst half lead
on its way to a 35-7 win over the
Fishermen.
Ilwaco’s lone score came with
one second left in the second quar-
ter, a 4-yard pass from Ethan Per-
sonius to Trent Ramsey.
It was Toledo’s fi fth win over
Ilwaco in the last two years.
Vernonia defeats
Warriors
VERNONIA — After seven
straight Warrenton wins over Ver-
nonia from 2008 to 2014, the Log-
gers have now won three in a row
against the Warriors.
Vernonia defeated Warrenton
Friday night 26-8 in a nonleague
football game at Vernonia.
The Warriors return home to
face Neah-Kah-Nie Friday.
— The Daily Astorian
Andrew Schauermann takes the game-winning field goal kick for the Astoria Fishermen during Friday’s home opener versus Glad-
stone with no time left on the clock.
Astoria grabs 3-0 victory from Gladstone
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
T
UP NEXT: FISHERMEN
• Philomath Warriors (1-1)
at Astoria Fishermen (1-1)
• Friday, 7 p.m.
he scoring summary for Friday night’s
football game at CMH Field was short
and simple: “Andrew Schauermann 20
FG.”
And that was it.
The Astoria Fishermen put the game into
the hands (and foot) of their all-league senior
place kicker, and — despite two earlier misses
— Schauermann came through on the very
fi nal play of regulation.
The senior, whose last name is more synon-
ymous with Astoria soccer, booted a 20-yard
fi eld goal to give the Fishermen a 3-0 win over
Gladstone.
Schauermann’s kick sailed through the
uprights as time expired, and Astoria celebrated
its third win over Gladstone in two years.
The game was a far cry from last year’s
pre season game vs. the Gladiators, won by the
Fishermen 49-42. And Astoria had no trouble
in defeating Gladstone in a fi rst round state
playoff game Nov. 5 at CMH, 48-14.
The points were just hard to come by in Fri-
day’s rematch.
“That’s what happens when two teams play
each other three times in 12 months,” said
Astoria coach Howard Rub. “We’ve felt from
the beginning that (Schauermann) is going to
be a difference-maker for us.”
In addition, “I was really pleased with how
our defense played against a tough, physical
offense,” he said. “It was more of the solid job
we did with our red zone defense, as opposed
to not scoring in our red zone offense. It felt
like we only ran fi ve offensive plays the fi rst
quarter and a half.”
Gladstone was also not without scor-
ing opportunities. The Gladiators had forced
two turnovers the fi rst two times the Fisher-
men even touched the ball, on a fumbled punt
and later an interception on the fi rst play from
scrimmage for the Astoria offense.
The Gladiators began their second drive at
the Fishermen 16, but Astoria stuffed a running
Tristin Wallace tosses a pass for the As-
toria Fishermen during Friday’s game
versus Gladstone.
play on fourth-and-one to end the drive.
An interception on the very next play gave
Gladstone the ball at the Astoria 34, but that
drive ended when Astoria’s Ian Hunt inter-
cepted a pass in the end zone.
Late in the second quarter, Gladstone’s
Damian Alvarado broke away for a 25-yard
run before he was tackled by Justin Villa at the
Fishermen 4-yard line. Villa’s touchdown-sav-
ing tackle was the play of the night, because on
the very next play, Astoria recovered the fi rst of
two fumbles by the Gladiators.
Even more surprising was Astoria’s score-
less game through three quarters.
The Fishermen lost two fumbles, failed on a
couple of fourth down conversions, and Schau-
ermann missed on fi eld goal attempts of 48 and
32 yards in the second half. Gladstone’s Josiah
Wachlin missed a 33-yard attempt in the third
quarter.
The numbers across the board were fairly
even, in total offense (Gladstone 246, Astoria
243); fi rst downs (Gladstone 14, Astoria 13);
and turnovers (three apiece).
The big difference? Penalty fl ags.
When the Fishermen weren’t helping them-
selves with big defensive plays, the Gladiators
were helping the Fishermen. Gladstone was
penalized nine times for 102 yards.
That included three crucial roughing the
Another shutout win for Knappa Loggers
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TOLEDO — Two games, 93 points, two shut-
out victories.
The Knappa Loggers are right on pace, two
weeks into the 2017 football season.
Knappa scored another easy nonleague win
Friday night, this time by a 52-0 count at Toledo.
The Loggers are now 2-0 overall, and their
defense has still not given up a point.
It all adds up to a No. 10 rating in the latest
OSAA rankings, as Knappa continues its climb
towards the No. 1 spot.
“We’re playing good team football,” said
Knappa coach Aaron Barendse. “The kids have
really bought in to our ‘All In’ motto. Our seniors
are doing a great job teaching the young guys and
building their confi dence.
“It’s become a family,” he added. “I couldn’t
be prouder of this group. Our O- and D-line
played fantastic and our corners were very phys-
ical, which took away their short passing game
and outside run. We have some things to work on,
but I’m confi dent the kids will continue to work
to try and reach the goals they’ve set this season.”
passer calls, the fi nal coming on Astoria’s big-
gest offensive play of the game.
Facing a third-and-21 from their own 30
with just under three minutes left, Astoria quar-
terback Tristin Wallace found Trey Hageman
down the left sideline for 29 yards and a fi rst
down. The offi cials tacked on 15 for a rough-
ing the passer penalty, moving the ball to the
26.
The Fishermen ran six straight running
plays to the Gladstone 3, where — after Asto-
ria’s fi nal time out and two more time outs by
the Gladiators with four seconds left — Schau-
ermann kicked the 20-yard fi eld goal from the
left hash mark as time ran out.
“It was about as exciting as a 3-0 game
can be, from a fan’s standpoint. I can’t recall
a game like that in my time here,” said Rub,
Astoria’s coach since 1999.
“(The Gladiators) had a few big plays, and
that’s on us (the coaching staff) to establish
some depth. Tyler Ranta, Justin Villa and Trey
Hageman barely came off the fi eld.
“Justin’s saving touchdown tackle was
huge,” he said. “Those kind of plays make the
difference. And then the 3rd-and-21 was a play
that we had to make, a great timing throw from
Tristin to Trey, and of course the late hit adding
yards was big, too.”
And the win only bodes well for Astoria’s
near future, as the Fishermen started 10 juniors
on offense Friday.
In looking at the big picture, Rub said, “it’s
a healthy thing to be involved in a game like
this. Our games with North Bend and Glad-
stone are against teams that will probably fi n-
ish fi rst or second in their league, so it’s helping
us prepare for league play.”
Astoria hosts Philomath Friday at CMH
Field.
TODAY
Volleyball — Rainier at
Warrenton, 6 p.m.
Boys Soccer — Astoria at
Catlin Gabel, 4:15 p.m.
TUESDAY
Volleyball — Valley Cath-
olic at Astoria, 7 p.m.; Scap-
poose at Seaside, 7 p.m.;
Nestucca at Knappa, 5:30
p.m.
Girls Soccer — Seaside at
Molalla, 6 p.m.
Boys Soccer — Molalla at
Seaside, 7 p.m.
FOOTBALL
Krissy Barendse-Goodman/For T he Daily Astorian
Knappa quarterback Kaleb Miller picks up
yardage on a scramble in the Loggers’ win
Friday.
Astoria 3, Gladstone 0
Gladstone 0 0 0 0—0
Astoria
0 0 0 3—3
Fourth Quarter
Ast: Andrew Schauermann
20 FG (0:00)
Gladstone Statistics
Rushing: Alvarado 12-74,
Farris 16-54, Hill 1-29, Boyd
4-16, Kuhn 6-15, Meyer 3-5.
Passing: Meyer 5-8-53-1.
Receiving: Penn 3-34, Farris
1-12, Hill 1-7.
Astoria Statistics
Rushing: Ranta 17-103,
Wallace 16-69, Long 1-(-1),
Villa 1-(-5). Passing: Wallace
6-13-77-1. Receiving: Hage-
man 2-28, Villa 2-23, John-
son 1-20, Matteucci 1-6.
Clatskanie 14, Seaside 0
Seaside
0 0 0 0—0
Clatskanie 0 14 0 0—14
Second Quarter
Cla: J’kari Combs 68 pass
from Cooper Blodgett (kick
failed)
Cla: Combs 5 pass from
Blodgett (Blodgett run)
Seaside Statistics
Rushing: Teubner 15-
145, Ramirez 5-17, Thomp-
son 4-11, Landwehr 2-2,
Westerholm 1-(-12). Pass-
ing: Westerholm 5-12-61-1.
Receiving: Johnson 2-4,
Landwehr 1-27, Card 1-17,
Blanchard 1-13.
Clatskanie Leaders
Rushing: Helmen 16-71.
Passing: Co.Blodgett 5-9-86-
0. Receiving: Combs 2-75.