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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2017
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SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Vernonia defeats
Knappa to win
Logger Clash
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KNAPPA — On Senior Night
at Knappa, the visiting Vernonia
Loggers topped the home Log-
gers in three games, 25-17, 25-23,
25-6, in Northwest League volley-
ball action.
Knappa falls to 2-8 in league
play, with one match remaining,
Saturday at City Christian (1-8). A
Knappa win would put the Log-
gers into the league playoffs, which
begin Oct. 20 at Vernonia. A City
Christian win would force a sixth-
place tie-breaker with Knappa,
Tuesday at a neutral site.
In Thursday night’s match,
Knappa lost senior Kaitlyn Truax
to an ankle injury in Game 1, but
Knappa still held a lead throughout
Game 2 before Vernonia rallied.
Knappa pushed its lead to
22-17, but Vernonia bounced back
to tie at 23-23, then scored the next
two points for the win.
Jaden Miethe had 25 digs to
lead Knappa, and teammates Ressa
Inman and Kourtney Tischer had
four blocks apiece to spark the
defense. Paris Vanderburg had
three ace serves and five assists, and
Sophia Carlson added four kills.
Gulls score victory at Tillamook
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TILLAMOOK — One week to
play, and the Seaside Gulls are still
alive for at least a share of the Cow-
apa League football title.
The Gulls locked up a state play-
off spot with a routine 54-23 win at
Tillamook Thursday, as ninth-ranked
Seaside improves to 3-1 in league
play, tied with Banks for second
behind Scappoose (4-0). The Gulls
host the Braves next Friday, while
Scappoose finishes at Astoria. Wins
by Seaside and Astoria would put
the Gulls into a first-place tie with
Scappoose.
Seaside built a quick 14-0 lead in
Thursday’s game, on a 15-yard run
by Gio Ramirez and a 28-yard pass
from Payton Westerholm to Dawson
Blanchard.
The Gulls gave up their first points
in three weeks, when Tillamook’s
Austin Weeks scored on a 1-yard run
late in the first quarter.
Seaside broke the game open in
the second period, which included
two touchdown runs by Alex Teub-
ner, and a 54-yard scoring pass from
Westerholm to Brayden Johnson.
Teubner scored his third touch-
down in the third quarter, following
by scoring runs from Duncan Thomp-
son and Jake Black to cap Seaside’s
night.
After a 2-0 start to the season, the
Cheesemakers (0-4 in league) have
lost five straight, and close the season
next Friday at Valley Catholic.
Trail Blazers radio
announcer taking
leave of absence
Associated Press
PORTLAND
—
Brian
Wheeler, the longtime play-by-
play radio voice of the Portland
Trail Blazers, is taking a leave of
absence effective immediately for
undisclosed health reasons.
There is no timetable for
Wheeler’s return. He has been
a radio announcer for the team
for the past 19 seasons and last
month signed a multi-year con-
tract extension.
Taking over for Wheeler at the
start of the NBA season will be
Scott Lynn, a longtime fixture on
Portland-area radio and television
who relocated to Florida in 2014
and called games for the Univer-
sity of Tampa and Eckerd College.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
TODAY
Football — Rainier at Warrenton, 7
p.m.; Vernonia at Knappa, 7 p.m.; Willapa
Valley at Ilwaco, 7 p.m.; Mary M. Knight
at Naselle, 7 p.m.
Girls Soccer — Tillamook at Astoria,
7:15 p.m.; Valley Catholic at Seaside, 7
p.m.
Boys Soccer — Astoria at Tillamook,
7:15 p.m.; Seaside at Valley Catholic, 6
p.m.
SATURDAY
Volleyball — Seaside Tournament, 9
a.m.; Knappa at City Christian, 3:30 p.m.
Cross Country — George Fox Clas-
sic, 10 a.m.
FOOTBALL
Banks 41, Astoria 0
0 0 0
0—0
21 7 6 7—41
First Quarter
B: Gunnar Partain 55 pass from Hayden
Vandehey (Zachary Streblow kick)
B: Blaine Herb 54 pass from Vandehey
(Streblow kick)
B: Josiah Ochoa 1 run (Streblow kick)
Second Quarter
B: Blake Gobel 10 pass from Vandehey
(Streblow kick)
Third Quarter
B: Bennett Turner 2 pass from Vande-
hey (run failed)
Fourth Quarter
B: Tanner Shook 4 run (Streblow kick)
Astoria
Banks
Seaside 54, Tillamook 23
Seaside
14 21 13 6—54
Tillamook
6 11 0 6—23
First Quarter
Sea: Gio Ramirez 15 run (Ramirez kick)
Sea: Dawson Blanchard 27 pass from
Payton Westerholm (Ramirez kick)
Til: Austin Weeks 1 run (pass failed)
Second Quarter
Sea: Alex Teubner 5 run (Ramirez kick)
Til: Tanner Richardson FG
Sea: Brayden Johnson 54 pass from
Westerholm (kick failed)
Sea: Teubner 2 run (Johnson from
Westerholm)
Til: Chris Silveira 60 pass from Chad
Werner (2-point conversion good)
Third Quarter
Sea: Teubner 9 run (Ramirez kick)
Sea: Duncan Thompson run (kick
failed)
Fourth Quarter
Sea: Jake Black run (run failed)
Til: Weeks run (run failed)
Wade Evanson/News-Times
Astoria’s Dylan Matteucci is tackled by a Banks player during Thursday’s loss.
Banks blanks Astoria, 41-0
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UP NEXT: FISHERMEN
BANKS — The Banks Braves scored two
touchdowns on their first three plays from
scrimmage Thursday night, on their way to a
41-0 Cowapa League football win over Asto-
ria at Kelly Field.
Coming off a 7-0 win over Tillamook, the
Fishermen trailed 21-0 less than eight minutes
into the game, and never recovered against the
sixth-ranked Braves.
Junior quarterback Hayden Vandehey
threw four touchdown passes, and the Braves
kept the Fishermen out of the end zone, result-
• Scappoose Indians (6-1)
at Astoria Fishermen (4-3)
• Friday, Oct. 20, 7 p.m.
ing in Astoria’s second shutout loss in league
play.
Astoria wraps up the regular season next
Friday at home vs. Scappoose, before the
postseason regional play-in action begins.
Banks was on the scoreboard just seconds
into Thursday’s game, as Vandehey launched
Hall prepares to make his
debut as head coach of Beavers
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
When Gary Andersen abruptly
left Oregon State earlier this week,
he offered some advice to his interim
successor.
“Be yourself,” Andersen told Bea-
vers cornerbacks coach Cory Hall.
And with that, Hall took over at
Oregon State. The 40-year-old former
assistant will make his head coaching
debut on Saturday when the Beavers
(1-5, 0-3) host Colorado (3-3, 0-3) at
Reser Stadium.
“Just ‘Be yourself,’ that’s exactly
what he told me,” Hall said. “’Be
yourself and everything else will take
care of itself.’ He left me in good
hands, he really did, and I have a lot
to thank him for.”
Oregon State announced Mon-
day that the university and Andersen
had agreed to part ways after a disap-
pointing first half of the season. The
Beavers did not have a victory over
an FBS-level opponent.
Andersen 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 fired without cause
he would have been due about $12
million.
“After many discussions with
a 55-yard touchdown pass to Gunnar Partain
on a second down play.
The Fishermen went three-and-out on their
first series, and the Braves struck quickly
on their very next play from scrimmage, a
54-yard TD toss from Vandehey to Blaine
Herb.
Banks scored again on its third series, a
1-yard run by Josiah Ochoa.
Astoria’s defense toughened from there,
allowing just a pair of scores in the second
half. Fishermen senior Zac Patterson inter-
cepted a pass in the end zone to stop one
Banks drive.
MLB PLAYOFFS
Yankees-Astros open ALCS,
Cubs-Dodgers in NLCS
Associated Press
Andy Cripe/The Corvallis Gazette-Times
Oregon State interim football
coach Cory Hall speaks at a news
conference.
Scott (Barnes, athletic director),
waiving my contract is the correct
decision and enables the young men
and the program to move forward and
concentrate on the rest of this sea-
son,” Andersen said in a statement
released by the university.
Hall emphasized family in his first
address to the team as head coach.
“We’re a family. We are one big
family and we’re going to stay tight
no matter what happens,” Hall said he
told the Beavers. “We’re going to be
competitive. We’re going to do this
for coach Andersen. We’re going to
do this for each other.”
A look at what’s happening all
around the majors today:
WILD REMATCH: Astros
ace Dallas Keuchel opposes Yan-
kees
right-hander
Masahiro
Tanaka in the opener of their AL
Championship Series at Min-
ute Maid Park. It’s a rematch of
the 2015 wild-card game, when
Keuchel dominated a lineup that
included current New York regu-
lars Brett Gardner, Chase Headley,
Greg Bird and Didi Gregorius —
that group was 2 for 9 with four
strikeouts against Keuchel in a 3-0
loss. Keuchel also stumped the
Yankees in a start this May, strik-
ing out nine with just an unearned
run over six innings.
Tanaka had an up-and-down
season but has been riding high
of late. After finishing the regular
season with a 15-strikeout game
against Toronto, Tanaka pitched
three-hit ball over seven innings in
a 1-0 Game 3 win against Cleve-
land during the ALDS. The Japa-
nese hurler with the nasty split-fin-
ger fastball has a 1.50 ERA over
two career playoff starts.
DON’T JUDGE HIM: Yan-
kees slugger Aaron Judge was
out of whack in the AL Division
Series, going 1 for 20 and strik-
ing out a whopping 16 times vs.
Cleveland. The rookie led the AL
with 52 home runs this season and
also topped the majors with 208
strikeouts.
Judge’s slump brought to mind
other severe playoff skids. Yan-
kees star Robinson Cano went 3
for 40 in the 2012 postseason and
was hitless in 29 straight at-bats.
In 1995, big-hitting Reds out-
fielder Reggie Sanders struck out
19 times while going 4 for 29.
Reigning NL MVP Kris Bryant
fanned in six straight at-bats for
the Cubs this week in the NLDS
vs. Washington.
TAKE YOUR TIME: Dodg-
ers star shortstop Corey Seager
is getting over a sore back. He
didn’t practice during a workout at
Dodger Stadium, two days before
the NL Championship Series
opener at home against the Chi-
cago Cubs. The 23-year-old aggra-
vated his back during the NLDS
win over Arizona earlier this
week. He’s expected to be OK for
Los Angeles in Game 1.
The Cubs beat Washington
9-8 in the deciding Game 5 of the
NLDS late Thursday night. Chi-
cago topped the Dodgers in six
games last year in the NLCS.