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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2017 CONTACT US FOLLOW US facebook.com/ DailyAstorianSports Gary Henley | Sports Reporter ghenley@dailyastorian.com SPORTS IN BRIEF COLLEGE FOOTBALL Oregon State WR Seth Collins out indefinitely CORVALLIS — Oregon State receiver Seth Collins is out indef- initely with an undisclosed health issue. Collins did not play in Ore- gon State’s 36-33 loss at home to Colorado this past Saturday. The junior also missed the first three games of the season with a bro- ken finger. The issue was not related to the illness that hospitalized Collins and kept him out of Oregon State’s final two games last season. A dynamic playmaker, Collins was a quarterback for the Beavers his freshman year. This season he has 12 catches for 130 yards and one touchdown. His best game came on Oct. 7 against USC, when he caught five passes for 91 yards. Because of his limited play this season, Collins could obtain a medical redshirt. NBA Celtics star Hayward suffers gruesome injury in opener CLEVELAND — Just five minutes into his Boston career, new Celtics star forward Gordon Hayward gruesomely broke his left ankle, an injury that may end his season. Hayward, who signed a four- year, $128 million free agent con- tract this summer, went up for an alley-oop pass midway through the first quarter and collided with LeBron James. Hayward’s leg twisted underneath him as he came back to the floor. The 27-year-old collapsed under the basket and looked in horror as his left foot was pointing outward. He put his hands to his face and dropped back to the floor as a hush fell over the charged sell- out crowd inside Quicken Loans Arena, which had come to boo Kyrie Irving in his return to Cleve- land after being traded to Boston this summer. — Associated Press SCOREBOARD Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian Chloe Magranahan blocks a shot for Astoria. Astoria closes league season with win, prepares for playoffs By GARY HENLEY The Daily Astorian From no league victories last year, to a pos- sible spot in the state tournament in 2017. Now ranked seventh in the state, the Astoria Lady Fishermen no longer have just a chance get to the eight-team state tournament — they’re currently one of the favorites to get there. Astoria clinched third place in the Cowapa League standings Tuesday night at the Brick House, with an impressive three-game sweep over Scappoose, 25-13, 25-10, 25-22. Both teams will play in the regional play-in round. Astoria (6-4 in league) will host North Valley (ranked 29th, 6-12 overall), date and time to be announced. Scappoose will travel to La Grande. “We’re just glad to close out the ‘first sea- son’ with a win,” said Astoria coach Jessie Todd. “And now it’s time to focus on the sec- ond season. The play-in is our first focus, then hopefully the first round of the state playoffs.” It was Senior Night for the Lady Fishermen, who came out energized and led 11-3 in Game 1, and 13-6 in the second game. “My seniors had a great night — they really played well,” Todd said. “Sometimes it’s a dis- traction, but they were able to harness that emo- tion, those butterflies and the nervousness that come with (Senior Night). I know they wanted it bad.” Senior Madi Landwehr celebrated her night with a team-high 10 kills; fellow seniors Chel- sea Christensen and Darian Hageman had five kills apiece; and Corrin Howard led Astoria with 22 digs. And even Chloe Magranahan had a mem- orable moment, when one of her digs in Game 2 went up into the rafters of the Brick House, and didn’t come down, landing perfectly on a wooden beam (unofficially the first time in the history of Brick House). The future of Astoria volleyball — soph- Glowinski, Pocic get chance to replace injured Joeckel PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE By CURTIS CRABTREE Associated Press TODAY Girls Soccer — Astoria at Banks, 4:15 p.m. — Seaside at Tillamook, 7:15 p.m. Boys Soccer — Banks at Astoria, 6:30 p.m.; Tillamook at Seaside, 7:15 p.m. THURSDAY Cross Country — Cullaby Lake 3K, TBA FRIDAY Football — Scappoose at Astoria, 7 p.m.; Banks at Seaside, 7 p.m.; Warren- ton at Portland Christian, 7 p.m.; Central Linn at Knappa, 7 p.m.; Ilwaco at Ocos- ta, 7 p.m.; Naselle at Taholah, 7 p.m. RENTON, Wash. — Seahawks guard Luke Joeckel is expected to miss at least four to five weeks after having surgery on his knee. Joeckel started the first five games of the season for Seattle while work- ing back from a torn ACL sustained last season with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Joeckel signed a one-year deal with the Seahawks in March and was eased back into a full work- load during the offseason. “We’re going to be optimis- tic that he can make it back in four-five weeks. We’ll see what happens. Maybe that’s possible, maybe it isn’t. We’ve got to see how he heals and how he comes back around,” head coach Pete Carroll said. “He definitely needed to get some things cleaned up and that was taken care of and everything went beautifully. He’s very optimistic as well so we need to see what happens here.” Carroll said Joeckel wasn’t lim- ited in what he could do direction- Trail Blazers opening season without CJ McCollum ally during games but that it would just take him several days to recover after each game played. “It just got to the point where it wasn’t getting any better and we needed to do something for the long haul,” Carroll said. Joeckel is expected to be back to full strength when he returns from the surgery. The team won’t know exactly what his timeframe will be for three weeks or so. Meanwhile, Mark Glowinski and second-round pick Ethan Pocic will get the opportunity to take over for Joeckel in the interim. “It’s a great opportunity. I’m looking forward to it, looking for- ward to the challenge and just going to have some fun,” Pocic said. Glowinski started all 16 games at left guard for Seattle last sea- son before being shifted to the right side this offseason. He started the first two games of the year at right guard before being replaced by Oday Aboushi. Pocic has been active for all five games as a reserve but hasn’t played on the offensive line. MLB PLAYOFFS Dodgers seek sweep; Yanks try to solve Keuchel By ANNE M. PETERSON Associated Press PORTLAND — The season opener for the Portland Trail Blazers has come with an unexpected twist: The absence of starter CJ McCollum, who is suspended for tonight’s game at Phoenix. The suspension was handed down Saturday. McCollum was disciplined for leaving the bench when Portland’s Caleb Swanigan and the Suns’ Alex Len tussled in the fourth quarter of a preseason game last Wednesday night — coincidentally in Phoenix. McCollum didn’t engage anyone after taking a few steps onto the floor, but leaving the bench area merited the penalty under NBA rules. So he will be a spectator when the Blazers open the season against the Suns. He’ll also lose some $164,000 in salary. Some — including McCollum — questioned the suspension, given that he isn’t a brawler at all, it was a pre- season game, and the action wasn’t menacing. Nonetheless, he took full responsi- bility for his actions. omore Julia Norris — also had five kills, and saved her best setting for last, dishing up two sets to Landwehr for kills late in Game 3, when Astoria needed it. After easy wins in the first two games, Game 3 was tied at 15, 17 and 19, before the Lady Fishermen went on a 6-3 run to finish the match. Astoria’s biggest deficit over the first two games was 2-0 in Game 2; Astoria trailed 17-15 in the third game. “I’m really proud of this team, and what they’ve accomplished,” Todd said. In other Cowapa League volleyball action Tuesday, Seaside tuned up for the regional play-in round — and avoided a winless league season — with a five-game victory over Banks, 7-25, 25-23, 25-20, 22-25, 15-11. The Gulls finish 1-9 in the league standings, and will travel to Sweet Home Oct. 21 for a regional play-in match, as Seaside looks for a return to the Sweet 16. Associated Press AP Photo/Steve Yeater Portland Trail Blazers guard CJ McCollum is fouled by Sacramento Kings defender Matt Jones in a preseason game. UP NEXT: BLAZERS • Portland Trail Blazers (0-0) at Phoenix Suns (0-0) • Tonight, 7 p.m. TV: NSNW “You never want to miss games, especially like that to start the season. You work so hard to prepare for the season, you go through a lot of pre- season games that don’t mean any- thing and then you miss a regular-sea- son game because of an incident that you weren’t even involved in,” he told reporters following practice Monday. “There’s nothing I can do about it now but more forward and learn from it.” A look at what’s happening all around the majors BRING OUT THE BROOMS: One win from their first World Series appearance in 29 years, the Los Angeles Dodgers go for a four- game sweep of the Chicago Cubs in the NL Championship Series at Wrig- ley Field (6:08 p.m. PDT). Los Ange- les is 6-0 in this postseason, setting a franchise record for consecutive play- off victories. Another one would give the storied franchise its 22nd pen- nant. The Dodgers’ only four-game postseason sweep came in the 1963 World Series against the New York Yankees. HISTORY ON HIS SIDE: With the AL Championship Series tied at two games apiece, Dallas Keuchel pitches for the Houston Astros against Masahiro Tanaka and the New York Yankees (2:08 p.m. PDT). Keuchel is 6-2 with a 1.09 ERA in eight career starts vs. the Yankees, including a pair of scoreless playoff outings. The 2015 AL Cy Young Award winner tossed seven shutout innings and struck out 10 to beat Tanaka 2-1 in Game 1 at Houston. The left-hander has never given up a home run in 57 2/3 innings against the Yankees. “Hopefully, see- ing him twice in one series, our guys are able to adjust a little quicker,” New York manager Joe Girardi said. FRESH ARMS: It’s a matchup of well-rested pitchers when Dodg- ers left-hander Alex Wood and Cubs righty Jake Arrieta square off in Game 4 of the NLCS. Wood, who had a career-high 16 wins this season, will make his first appearance since Sept. 26. He was lined up for Game 4 of the Division Series, but the Dodg- ers swept the Diamondbacks in three straight.
