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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2017
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SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Corbett escapes
Warrenton with
win, 28-7
WARRENTON — Coming
off a big win the week before, the
Warrenton Warriors were unable
to keep the momentum going Fri-
day against Corbett, as the Cardi-
nals picked up their fi rst win of the
season with a 28-7 victory over
the Warriors.
Warrenton opened Homecom-
ing night with a touchdown on the
opening drive, as Jacob Morrow
tossed a 15-yard scoring pass to
Devin Jackson.
The Warriors drop to 1-4,
while Corbett (an independent 4A
school), is 1-3.
Warrenton continues non-
league action Friday at Blanchet
Catholic.
Knappa pounds Nestucca Bobcats, 52-7
The Daily Astorian
CLOVERDALE — Not much
has changed in the Northwest
League football since last year, as
the Knappa Loggers opened league
play with a 52-7 win at Nestucca
Friday.
The fi fth-ranked Loggers improve
to 4-0 overall, while Nestucca drops
to 0-5.
“The kids did a great job exe-
cuting the game plan,” said Knappa
coach Aaron Barendse. “Our O- and
D-line played well. Kaleb (Miller)
made some big plays on his feet and
with his arm. The receivers made
plays and did a great job after the
catch as well.”
In addition, the Knappa defense
kept the Bobcats scoreless, with
Nestucca’s only points coming on a
kick return.
“We gave up a kickoff return
and that was it,” Barendse said.
“I’m proud of the kids for com-
ing out, playing hard and taking
care of business. That’s a long bus
ride, and our kids got off the bus
ready.”
The Loggers head back down the
coast this week for a game Friday at
Neah-Kah-Nie.
“We have a big test in Neah-Kah-
Nie,” Barendse said. “We’ll need to
be extra dialed in this week.”
South Bend
defeats Ilwaco
ILWACO, Wash. — South
Bend stunned Ilwaco in a Pacifi c
2B League football opener Friday,
28-0.
Brandon Duke led Ilwaco with
82 yards rushing, while Brandon
McMullen and Alex Kaino each
caught fi ve passes for the Fisher-
men, now 2-3 overall.
Naselle Comets
score easy win
over Taholah
NASELLE, Wash. — Naselle
scored another easy win Friday
at home, a 60-14 victory over
Taholah in a Coastal 1B football
contest.
The Comets were scoring
on offense, defense and special
teams, racking up over 60 points
for the second week in a row.
— The Daily Astorian
CLATSOP CRUSH
Photos by Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TUESDAY
Volleyball — Astoria at Seaside, 7
p.m.; Portland Adventist at Warrenton,
6 p.m.; Knappa at Columbia Christian,
5:30 p.m.
Girls Soccer — Astoria at Scappoose,
4:15 p.m.; Seaside at Banks, 4:15 p.m.
Boys Soccer — Scappoose at Asto-
ria, 7:15 p.m.; Banks at Seaside, 6:30
p.m.
FOOTBALL
Seaside 40, Astoria 0
Astoria
0 0 0
0—0
Seaside
14 7 7 12—40
First Quarter
Sea: Dawson Blanchard 6 pass from
Payton Westerholm (Gio Ramirez kick)
2:20
Sea: Brayden Johnson 56 pass from
Westerholm (Ramirez kick) 0:00
Second Quarter
Sea: Johnson 10 pass from Wester-
holm (Ramirez kick) :02
Third Quarter
Sea: Alex Teubner 1 run (Ramirez
kick) :49
Fourth Quarter
Sea: Teubner 5 run (pass failed) 5:15
Sea: Teubner 16 run (pass failed) 3:51
Team Statistics
Astoria Seaside
Total offense 253
411
First downs
12
20
Rushes-yards 16-65 48-259
Passing yards 188
152
Comp-Att-Int 17-37-2 10-15-0
Turnovers
2
2
Penalties
5-58 4-25
Astoria Statistics
Rushing: R.Stutznegger 4-37, Sten-
blom 1-11, Wallace 2-8, Ranta 8-7,
Hageman 1-2. Passing: K.Johnson 12-
30-108-2, Wallace 2-4-60-0, Stenblom
3-3-20-0. Receiving: Hageman 5-73,
Matteucci 3-20, Patterson 3-18, D.John-
son 2-11, Kaonohi 1-29, Villa 1-9, Hunt
1-9, Schumacher 1-9.
Seaside Statistics
Rushing: Teubner 23-155, Wester-
holm 7-33, Thompson 5-30, Ramirez
10-29, Landwehr 3-12. Passing:
Westerholm 10-15-152-0. Receiving: B.
Johnson 3-78, Teubner 3-35, Landwehr
1-16, Thompson 1-11, Ramirez 1-7,
Blanchard 1-6.
South Bend 28, Ilwaco 0
South Bend
6 8 0 14—28
Ilwaco
0 0 0
0—0
SB: Ben Byington 13 run (kick failed)
SB: Drew Rose 2 run (Byington run)
SB: Byington 2 run (Raul Mora kick)
SB: Chase Flynn 4 pass from Rose
(Mora kick)
Ilwaco Statistics
Rushing: Duke 12-82, McMullen 12-
72, Personius 1-3, Cox 2-0, Kaino 1-(-
10), Kaech 5-(-27). Passing: Personius
7-13-90-1, Kaech 5-9-39-1. Receiving:
McMullen 5-69, Kaino 5-38, Cox 1-15,
Duke 1-15.
A rusher for Seaside is tackled by the Astoria Fishermen defense during Friday’s Clatsop Clash.
Seaside tops Astoria, 40-0
Painful game for
the Fishermen
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — As they like to say in Sea-
side, “it’s a great day to be a Gull!”
And Friday was even better than the best
days for the Seaside football program — great
football weather, fi rst home league game of
the season, a halftime Hall of Fame ceremony
… and to cap off a perfect day, the Gulls
scored a 40-0 win over Astoria at Broadway
Field.
“This is defi nitely up there,” said Seaside
junior quarterback Payton Westerholm, who
threw for 141 yards and three touchdowns
in the fi rst half alone. “I’ll defi nitely remem-
ber this one for years to come. The rest of my
life.”
Meanwhile, the game was a forgettable,
painful one for Astoria. The last time the Fish-
ermen suffered a loss that bad in the Clatsop
Clash was 1985 (42-0).
Seaside’s win over Astoria was not totally
unexpected; it was how the Gulls achieved
the victory that provided the Shocker of the
Night in Oregon 4A football.
The Gulls were dominant on both sides of
the ball against the defending league cham-
pion Fishermen, who were ranked seventh in
the latest state media poll.
Seaside rolled up 411 yards in total offense,
while the Gulls’ defense limited Astoria to just
12 yards rushing in the fi rst half, 65 yards for
the game (most of it on Astoria’s fi nal drive).
And for one night only, the “Seaside Turn-
around” was at the east end of Broadway
instead of the west.
The Gulls were on the losing end of a
50-12 score in last year’s Clash, and lost 36-3
the year before that. Needless to say, Friday’s
78-point turnaround was unexpected. At least
for the fans.
For the players, “we had a good game plan
on what they were going to do offensively,
and we knew they were going to struggle
against our defense,” said Westerholm, who
did not want to experience another blowout
loss to the Fishermen. “The last two years
The Astoria Fishermen defense wraps up
a player for Seaside during the Clatsop
Clash on Friday. Seaside would go on to
win the game 40-0.
didn’t sit well with us, and we just wanted to
make a change.”
It turned out to be a nightmare of a game
for the Fishermen, who had injured players
walking or being helped off the fi eld for much
of the night.
With 1:35 left in the fi rst quarter and the
Gulls already leading 7-0 on a Westerholm
TD pass to Dawson Blanchard, Astoria quar-
terback Tristin Wallace was hit near midfi eld
following a scramble and had to be helped to
the sideline.
With Karsten Johnson in for Wallace, Sea-
side stopped the Fishermen on a fourth down
pass, and the Gulls needed just one play to
score, a quick 56-yard strike from Wester-
holm to Brayden Johnson.
Wallace was right back on the fi eld on
Astoria’s next offensive series, even hooking
up with Trey Hageman on a shovel pass that
gained 54 yards to the Seaside 26.
The Fishermen lost fi ve yards on the next
play, which was followed by an incomplete
pass from Wallace, who went down a second
time with an injury (possible torn meniscus)
to the same leg and did not return.
After fi ve straight scoreless possessions to
start the second quarter, the Gulls (with 1:11
left in the fi rst half) put together an eight-play,
70-yard drive directed by Westerholm, who
connected with Alex Teubner for gains of 14
and 13 yards to the Astoria 10-yard line.
And with six seconds on the clock, Wester-
holm found Johnson on a short crossing route
at the goal line for a touchdown.
With a 21-0 lead at the break, “we were
right where we wanted to be,” Westerholm
said.
“I think what really got us going was the
long throw from me to Brayden,” he added.
“We knew we were on the verge of ending
the game when we went on that last drive
of the fi rst half. To get that last touchdown
with Brayden making a great catch, it started
breaking their spirit going into the second
half.”
The Gulls turned back to their run game
for the fi nal 24 minutes, and Teubner (who
had 64 yards rushing in the fi rst half) added
91 to his total and scored on runs of 1, 5 and
16 yards to help Seaside pull away. He fi n-
ished with 155 yards on 23 carries, while the
Gulls had 259 rushing yards total.
Westerholm was 10-for-15 passing for
152 yards, with completions to six different
receivers.
The Gulls do not usually look to throw that
often, Westerholm said.
“That wasn’t the plan coming in, but we
saw that (the Fishermen) were giving us
some open holes on some of the routes, so we
decided to start airing it out,” he said. “And
that helped open the run game for us in the
second half.”
The Gulls lost two fumbles, but also had
interceptions by Duncan Thompson and
Johnson on defense.
Ryan Stutznegger was Astoria’s leading
ground-gainer, rushing for 37 yards on four
carries, all on the fi nal drive.
Wallace, Johnson and Ryan Stenblom
combined for 188 yards passing for the Fish-
ermen, who host Tillamook Friday, while
Seaside hosts Valley Catholic.
At 1-1, the Gulls are in the driver’s seat for
the No. 2 state playoff spot out of the Cowapa
League. Seaside hosts Banks the fi nal week.
Friday’s victory “gives us confi dence,”
Westerholm said. “We’re looking to get the
next three wins, and get that home playoff
game.”