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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2017
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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.