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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2017
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SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Oregon State
head coach
Gary Andersen
watches from the
sidelines against
Washington in
Corvallis.
FOOTBALL
Blanchet
Catholic tops
Warrenton
AP Photo
Timothy J.
Gonzalez
The Daily Astorian
SALEM — Blanchet Catholic
remained unbeaten with a 41-10
win Friday night over Warren-
ton, in a nonleague football game
played at Willamette University’s
McCulloch Stadium.
The Cavaliers led 27-0 at half-
time, and opened up a 41-0 lead
in the third quarter with the help
of an 82-yard interception return.
Warrenton scored twice in the
fourth quarter — a 79-yard touch-
down pass from Jacob Morrow to
Giovanni Martinez, and a 36-yard
fi eld goal by Gabe Breitmeyer.
Morrow completed 7-of-18
passes for 133 yards, with Marti-
nez catching three for 91 yards.
The Warriors had 16 fi rst
downs to Blanchet’s 12, but War-
renton was penalized 13 times for
93 yards.
The No. 10-ranked Cavaliers
improved to 6-0, while Warren-
ton fi nishes its nonleague season
at 1-5. The Warriors open their
three-game league season Friday
vs. Rainier.
VOLLEYBALL
Portland
Christian sweeps
Warrenton
The Daily Astorian
PORTLAND — Warren-
ton hit the road for a little Mon-
day Night Volleyball, in a Lewis
& Clark League match at Portland
Christian.
And the No. 10-ranked Royals
scored a 25-12, 25-13, 25-9 sweep
over the Warriors, who drop to 5-5
in league play.
Warrenton closes out the reg-
ular season Thursday at Rainier,
before beginning the league play-
offs, with times and locations to
be announced.
SOCCER
Rain-soaked
fi eld obstacle
for US reaching
World Cup
OREGON STATE AND
COACH ANDERSEN
AGREE TO PART WAYS
By RALPH D. RUSSO
Associated Press
O
regon State and coach Gary Andersen
have mutually agreed to part ways,
effective immediately, with the Bea-
vers off to a 1-5 start.
The school announced the split in a news
release Monday, two days after a 38-10 loss
at Southern California. Oregon State did
not have a victory against an FBS team this
season.
“This was something that evolved between
the both of us,” athletic director Scott Barnes
said.
He said the conversation with Andersen
got to a point Sunday “where we made a fi nal
decision.”
Cornerbacks coach Cory Hall was named
interim coach. The Beavers face Colorado at
home on Saturday.
“I’m going to give it my best, because in
the end that’s what the kids deserve,” Hall
said.
Oregon State says Andersen, 53, and the
school “agreed to release each other from all
future contract obligations and payments.”
Andersen’s contract had been extended after
last season and ran through the 2021 season.
He was due to make $2.65 million this season
and had he been fi red without cause he would
have been due about $12 million.
UP NEXT: BEAVERS
• Colorado Buffaloes (3-3)
at Oregon State Beavers (1-5)
• Saturday, 1 p.m. TV: PACN
“After many discussions with Scott, waiv-
ing my contract is the correct decision and
enables the young men and the program to
move forward and concentrate on the rest of
this season,” Andersen said in a statement.
“Coaching is not about the mighty dollar. It
is about teaching and putting young men in a
position to succeed on and off the fi eld. Suc-
cess comes when all parties involved are mov-
ing in the same direction.”
Barnes said the fact that Andersen waived
his contract was testament to his character.
“That’s just who Gary is. That’s a state-
ment of who the man is and his integrity and
the honor with which he conducts his busi-
ness,” Barnes said. “At the end of the day, he
felt that was an important piece to this, and
obviously it creates a clear path.”
Barnes said that there were no issues with
health or anything that would warrant fi ring
Andersen for cause.
Andersen was in his third season with the
Beavers and the team appeared to be slid-
ing backward this season after showing some
progress in winning four games last year,
MLB PLAYOFFS
Toppling troubling opponent
has Seahawks fl ying into bye
Associated Press
COUVA, Trinidad — The fi nal
path to the World Cup involved
an unexpected water crossing for
the United States.
Heavy rain on this Caribbean
island 7½ miles off the coast of
Venezuela left the center of Ato
Boldon Stadium’s fi eld soggy,
the fl anks submerged and the
encircling running track fl ooded.
While the team’s 10,000 pounds
of equipment included 200
boots, 65 balls, 60 rain jack-
ets and 30 cases of Powerade, a
Bailey bridge was not in the
inventory, so many American
players were carried onto the
fi eld in an attempt to keep their
feet somewhat dry for the fi nal
training session before today’s
match against Trinidad and
Tobago.
“I saw the fi eld and I just kind
of giggled,” star American mid-
fi elder Christian Pulisic said.
The Trinidad and Tobago
Football Association said in
a statement that water will be
pumped off the track and “all par-
ties are confi dent the game will
be contested.” It said the decision
whether to use the fi eld is up to
the match commissioner, Hector
Canchola of Mexico.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
TODAY
Volleyball — Knappa at Neah-Kah-
Nie, 5:30 p.m.
Boys Soccer — Seaside at Astoria,
5:30 p.m.
Girls Soccer — Seaside at Astoria,
7:15 p.m.
Cross Country — Bigfoot (NKN) Invi-
tational, 4 p.m.
including a victory against rival Oregon that
snapped an eight-game losing streak in the
Civil War series for the Beavers.
Players reacted on social media, among
them freshman receiver Isaiah Hodgins, who
tweeted: “This one hurts.”
During his tenure Andersen struggled
to fi nd a starting quarterback in the face of
numerous injuries.
Darell Garretson started at the beginning of
last season but he was knocked out by a bro-
ken ankle. Backup Conor Blount injured his
knee, essentially thrusting Marcus McMary-
ion into the starting role for the Beavers’ fi nal
six games.
The Beavers brought in community col-
lege transfer Jake Luton this season and he
started before he sustained a thoracic spine
fracture in a loss to Washington State.
Andersen fi nished 7-23 at Oregon State.
“No better leader of young men... gave
me the opportunity nobody else in the coun-
try would! Forever grateful for him!” Blount
posted to Twitter.
Andersen came to Oregon State under
unusual circumstances after he abruptly
resigned as Wisconsin coach in December
2014 after two seasons in Madison. He went
19-7 with the Badgers, but parted ways with
the program after becoming frustrated with
some of Wisconsin’s academic admissions
policies and standards.
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh
Fans celebrate after Game 3 of the National League Division Series
baseball game against the Washington Nationals in Chicago. The
Cubs won 2-1 to take a 2-1 lead in the series.
Cubs try to oust Nationals
in Game 4 of NLDS
Associated Press
A look at what’s happening all
around the majors today:
WRIGLEY WREADY: Cubs fans
are hoping to go wild as the World
Series champions try to close out
Washington in Game 4 of the NLDS.
Rain is in the forecast and Jake Arri-
eta is set to start for Chicago — he
hasn’t pitched since lasting just three
innings Sept. 26 after tweaking his
hamstring three weeks earlier.
Tanner Roark starts for the Nation-
als with his team trailing 2-1. He is
from Wilmington, Illinois, about 60
miles south of Chicago, and grew up
rooting for the Cubs. He is 3-1 with
a 3.24 ERA in fi ve career games at
Wrigley Field.
REST UP: Justin Verlander and
the Astros earned a little extra rest by
beating Boston in four games of the
AL Division Series. They’ll now wait
to see where they open the AL Cham-
pionship Series on Friday, either at
Cleveland or at home vs. the Yankees.
Dallas Keuchel is lined up to start the
opener for Houston. Verlander threw
40 pitches Monday in his fi rst pro
relief appearance, helping win Game
4 at Fenway Park.
CONFIDENT FARRELL: After
a second straight early playoff exit,
Red Sox manager John Farrell enters
the offseason facing questions about
his job security. Boston has won con-
secutive AL East titles — a fi rst for
the franchise — but hasn’t been past
the ALDS since winning the World
Series in 2013, Farrell’s fi rst season.
Farrell insisted Monday that he’s the
right man to get the Red Sox over this
current postseason stumbling block.
RENTON, Wash. — By toppling
one of their more troubling oppo-
nents, the Seattle Seahawks went into
their bye week on Monday back in
control of the NFC West.
Yes, the Seahawks continue to
have their own issues. But the 16-10
win over the Los Angeles Rams on
Sunday followed what’s been Seat-
tle’s blueprint early in this season —
relying on a stifl ing defense that held
the Rams 25 points below their sea-
son average while doing just enough
on offense to get out of Los Angeles
with a victory.
It was a signifi cant early win.
A loss to the Rams would have left
Seattle (3-2) two games behind and
with Los Angeles holding the tie-
breaker. Instead, the Seahawks are
tied for the division lead headed into
their break.
“We were able to keep them from
being effective in the ways they had
been effective and we’ll see how
many times people hold them to 10
points,” Seattle coach Pete Carroll
said. “They started fast and got off to
a real good roll and our guys rallied
and came back and played three quar-
ters of really great football and kept
them down. They’re good. They’re
doing a lot of really good stuff. It
took us some special plays and good
fortune.”
Seattle slowed down the Rams by
containing Todd Gurley. The do-ev-
erything running back for Los Ange-
les was held to 43 yards rushing and
had just two catches for 7 yards.
Gurley was also at the center of
one of the biggest plays for Seattle
when safety Earl Thomas chopped
Gurley’s arm just short of the goal
line and forced a fumble that went off
the pylon and became a touchback
for Seattle. It happened on the fi rst
drive of the game and by the end was
a massively important play.
Thomas made a similar play in
a 2014 game against the Rams. The
Seahawks have held four of their
fi rst fi ve opponents under 20 points,
the one outlier being a 33-27 loss at
Tennessee.
“It’s a phenomenal play. And
what’s really exciting is he’s done it
before. The picture is on the wall in
the hallway down there,” Carroll said,
pointing toward the Seahawks locker
room. “To watch the play and watch
the absolute maximum intensity from
the fi rst step he took in chasing the
football to making that play and to
get it done with just a fraction of an
inch ... it was because of his phenom-
enal will to stop that play.”
Seattle will need to make changes
on the offensive line when it returns
from the bye. Starting left guard
Luke Joeckel is scheduled to undergo
arthroscopic surgery on his left knee
later this week to clean up a linger-
ing issue. Carroll said Joeckel has
been able to play through the discom-
fort for the fi rst fi ve weeks but needs
the surgery. Carroll said it’s unlikely
Joeckel would be able to return in
time for the Oct. 22 game at the New
York Giants.