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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
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Athletes of the Week
(FOR THE WEEK OF SEPT. 4-10)
MADI
LANDWEHR
Astoria
JORDAN
POYER
Buffalo Bills
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Buffalo Bills
hey’re just seven matches into the 2017 season, but the Astoria volleyball
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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
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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.