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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2017 CONTACT US FOLLOW US facebook.com/ DailyAstorianSports Gary Henley | Sports Reporter ghenley@dailyastorian.com Athletes of the Week (FOR THE WEEK OF SEPT. 4-10) MADI LANDWEHR Astoria JORDAN POYER Buffalo Bills The Daily Astorian/File Photo Buffalo Bills hey’re just seven matches into the 2017 season, but the Astoria volleyball T team has already equaled last year’s win total. A big reason is the senior leadership, with setter Madi Landwehr directing much of the off ense, along with he Astoria High School graduate was a hit — literally — in his debut with T the Buff alo Bills Sunday vs. the New York Jets. Starting at safety for his new team, Poyer made three tackles, with one quarterback sack (the Bills’ lone sophomore setter Julia Norris. In a tournament at Cascade Sept. 9, Astoria coach Jessie Todd said, “My setters, Madi and Julia, did a great job and made good decisions all day,” as the Lady Fishermen won the Silver Bracket of the tourna- ment. Two days earlier, Landwehr had 12 kills in a four-game loss at Cascade. sack of the day), and a key interception off the Jets’ Josh McCown, a former teammate in Cleveland. It was the fi rst time in his NFL career that Poyer had a sack and an interception in the same game. The 6-0, 191-pound Poyer and the Bills will face the Carolina Panthers and Cam Newton on Sunday. Warriors sweep the Knights The Daily Astorian WARRENTON — The War- renton volleyball team bounced back from a loss to Rainier Mon- day with a three-game sweep over De La Salle on Wednesday, 25-11, 25-10, 25-16. Warrenton improves to 2-2 in Lewis & Clark League volleyball, 4-5 overall. The Knights are still winless (0-7). The Warriors missed seven serves over the fi rst two games, “but we had a varied offensive attack, with fi ve of our six players getting multiple kills in the fi rst two games,” said Warrenton coach Staci Miethe. Claire Bussert served 12 of the 25 points in Game 2, including nine in a row, with four aces. Bussert reeled off seven in a row to help Warrenton to an 11-1 lead in Game 3. De La Salle ral- lied and actually took a 16-15 lead, before Michelle Arney took the service line for the Warriors and served out the match for an 11-0 run, with six aces. The Warriors take part in the Vernonia Tournament on Satur- day, then return to league action Tuesday at Catlin Gabel. Zunino homers twice in Mariners’ 8-1 win at Texas ARLINGTON, Texas — Mike Zunino hit the longest homer of his career, and then went deep again. Those two home runs helped the Seattle Mariners jump over two teams in AL wild-card chase. Zunino broke a scoreless tie in the fi fth with a rare shot into the second-level club deck in left fi eld, and the Mariners went on to an 8-1 victory over the Texas Rangers on Wednesday night to hand Martin Perez his fi rst loss in eight starts. Seattle remained 3 1/2 games behind the second wild card spot held by Minnesota with the only team between them the Los Ange- les Angels, who the Mariners play on the fi nal weekend of the regu- lar season. SCOREBOARD PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE TODAY Volleyball — Seaside at Astoria, 7 p.m. Girls Soccer — Stayton at Seaside, 6 p.m. Boys Soccer — Seaside at Stayton, 6 p.m. Fishermen greats enter the Hall and was a member of the state-quali- fying 1,600 relay team. As a junior in 1991, she returned to cross country, won the district title again and helped Astoria win its third consecutive district title. Hunter would be sidelined by inju- ries for the rest of her high school career . By GARY HENLEY The Daily Astorian It’s Hall of Fame induction week at Astoria High School, and it will be a crowded fi eld at Friday night’s foot- ball game, where six individuals and six teams/groups will be recognized as they prepare to take their places on the school’s Wall of Fame. The inductees will be honored at halftime at CMH Field, where Astoria will host Philomath for a nonleague football game, kickoff at 7 p.m. Following the game, there will be a ‘no host social’ at Buoy Beer, No 1 8th street, Astoria. The induction ceremony is sched- uled for 1 p.m. Saturday at the Elks Lodge, 453 11th street. Doors open at noon, with a lunch at 12:30 p.m., fol- lowed by the ceremony. This year’s inductees include stu- dent-athletes from the classes of 1954 to 1995, with teams and groups from 1928 to 1991. The individuals: Amy Goin, 1995 Submitted Photos Astoria High School’s 1972 football linemen, from left to right: Dave Paschall, Arnie Takko, Jim Forrester, John Gjovik, Davis Kauppi and Alan Richardson. Bob Reiter, 1954 A standout in football, basketball and baseball, Reiter collected 10 var- sity letters on his way to becoming one of the most decorated AHS ath- letes of the 1950 s. His top sport was football. The 1951 team went undefeated in the regular season, and played in the state semifi nals . In Reiter’s senior year, he was team captain and named to the Loop Valley-Coast league fi rst team. He settled in Astoria, raised his family and worked as a longshore- man for 44 years. LEFT: Amy Goin delivers a kill during a volleyball match in her playing days with the Lady Fishermen. RIGHT: Astoria star three-sport athlete Brian Babbitt . Brian Babbitt, 1985 He began as a freshman football player in the fall of 1981, and four years later graduated as one of Astoria High’s premier three-sport athletes. In football, he was a fi rst-team all- league receiver as a senior (and also earned a cameo appearance in the “The Goonies,” during a scene fi lmed at John Warren Field). Babbitt’s basketball career included a fi rst-team all-league honor, and he was voted team MVP. He earned another all-league honor in baseball, was named team MVP and selected fi rst-team all-state. He played basketball and baseball at Pacifi c University. He began coaching at Astoria High School in 2004, serving as the offensive line coach for the 2008 state championship football team. He was head coach for the 2011 and 2012 baseball seasons, leading the Fishermen to the 2011 4A state title (and earning state Coach of the Year honors). Babbitt has coached 65 sport sea- sons in his career with the Astoria School District. Jeff Canessa, 1990 In Canessa’s four years on the Astoria boys golf team, the Fisher- men placed at state every year (1987, Goin played on three consecutive state qualifying basketball teams at Astoria. In her junior year, the Lady Fishermen were 23-2, league champi- ons, and brought home the state con- solation championship trophy. Asto- ria also won the league title her senior year, and advanced to the state semi- fi nals. Goin was fi rst team all-league both years. On the volleyball court, she helped Astoria to a league championship her senior year. She was the Cowapa League MVP and all-state honorable mention. After high school, she played vol- leyball at Pacifi c Lutheran, where she was a three-year starter and second team all-conference in 1997 and ‘98. She is still the career leader in solo blocks and blocks per set average in PLU history. Teams: 1928 football Under fi rst-year coach John War- ren, the 1928 Fishermen — the “Pur- ple and Gold Gridiron Boys” — claimed the mythical “state title” based on their 6-0-1 record. (Med- ford High also claimed the state title — offi cials from both schools tried to schedule a game with each other, but an agreement could not be reached.) The Fishermen outscored their opponents 133-6 that season, play- ing what was considered the toughest schedule in the state. 1972 football linemen The 1990 Astoria boys golf team, from left to right: Jason Palmberg, Timber Stevens, Jeff Canessa, Darren Palmberg, Steve Davis and coach Miles Brenden. fourth; 1988, fourth; 1989, fourth; 1990, second). Individually, Canessa competed at state every year and earned an All-State award as a junior, fi nish- ing fourth. He was the District 1-4A champion his senior year, and team MVP in 1989 and 1990. He competed collegiately at Ore- gon State, where he played two years for the Beavers. He has won the pres- tigious Oregon Coast Invitational twice (2007, ‘09). Darren Palmberg, 1990 A three-sport athlete in golf, bas- ketball and soccer, Palmberg was at his best on the links, helping the boys’ golf team to top four fi nishes in 1988, ‘89 and ‘90. They were the district champions each of those years, and as a team, they only lost one Cowapa League match over that span. Palmberg was all-state as a junior and senior, fi nishing fi fth as an indi- vidual in 1990. He was honorable mention all- league in basketball, and when soc- cer made its debut as a varsity sport at Astoria, Palmberg played his junior and senior years. Kammy Hunter, 1993 In her freshman cross-country sea- son, Hunter won the district individ- ual title and led the Lady Fishermen to their fi rst of three consecutive dis- trict titles. In the spring of 1990, she won the 1,500 meters at the district track meet, The fi rst group of position players to enter the Hall, the 1972 line domi- nated the trenches on both sides of the ball. Dave Paschall, Arnie Takko, Jim Forrester, John Gjovik, Davis Kauppi and Al Richardson all collected all- league honors. Gjovik is also a mem- ber of the OCE (Western Oregon) Hall of Fame. 1990 boys golf Coached by Miles Brenden, the team of Jeff Canessa, Steve Davis, Darren Palmberg, Timber Stevens and Jason Palmberg placed second at state in the spring of 1990. The four seniors on the team lost just one match in Cowapa League play. 1989-91 girls cross country Coach Joe Dominey had success with previous teams at the district level, but his three teams of 1989, ‘90 and ‘91 raised the bar. The Lady Fishermen dominated the district meets, and highlighted their state meet appearances by fi n- ishing sixth in 1990 and seventh in 1991.