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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2017
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SPORTS
IN BRIEF
CROSS COUNTRY
Submitted Photo
McKenzie Burnett, right, won
Thursday’s 3,000-meter race
at Cullaby Lake, just ahead of
teammate Sophie Long.
Astoria,
Seaside tune
up for league
championships
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WARRENTON — The Astoria
and Seaside cross country teams
met for one last tune-up before
next week’s league championship
meet, at Cullaby Lake for a 3,000-
meter race Thursday.
The Lady Fishermen, who will
seek a Cowapa League title next
week, had runners in the top six
places in Thursday’s race, won
by senior McKenzie Burnett in 12
minutes, 26 seconds. Freshman
Sophie Long finished just behind
Burnett in 12:27.
Seaside senior Rafi Sibony
— who scored a goal in the Sea-
side boys’ soccer win less than
24 hours earlier — won the boys’
race in 10:03, ahead of Asto-
ria freshman Cameron VanRaden
(10:34). Seaside sophomore Beau
Johnson was third (10:52).
Tillamook hosts the league
championship next Thursday at
Alderbrook Golf Course.
VOLLEYBALL
Delphian tops
Knappa Loggers
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PORTLAND — Delphian
defeated Knappa in the regular
season, and the Dragons took out
the Lady Loggers in a Northwest
League playoff Thursday, 25-14,
25-12, 25-16.
The 15th-ranked Dragons won
their sixth in a row, and advance
to play Columbia Christian in a
league playoff Saturday.
Knappa finishes 4-12 overall.
BOYS SOCCER
Astoria blanks
Banks, 5-0
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The Astoria boys soccer team
climbed to 16th in the latest
OSAA rankings, with a 5-0 win
over Banks Thursday night, in a
Cowapa League match at CMH
Field.
Astoria improves to 4-3-2 and
can lock up third place in the
league standings with a win next
Tuesday at Scappoose.
Astoria was celebrating Senior
Night, while the Braves played
with just nine players.
Astoria’s Cole Beeson had
three goals 25 minutes into the
match, and teammate Trevor Byrd
added a goal for a 4-0 lead by
halftime.
Aldo Cruz capped the scoring
in the second half.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
TODAY
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.
SATURDAY
Volleyball — 4A regional play-in
round: North Valley at Astoria, 3 p.m.;
Seaside at Sweet Home, 4 p.m.
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The Astoria Fishermen and the Scappoose Indians will go head-to-head for one last time as members of the Cowapa League. Scap-
poose moves to the 5A level next year.
Astoria, Scappoose play last
Cowapa League football game
Schools plan to continue
rivalry in nonleague play
By GARY HENLEY
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T
onight’s football game between the
Astoria Fishermen and the Scappoose
Indians at CMH Field will be the last
league meeting between the two rivals — at
least for now.
Starting with the 2018-19 school year, Scap-
poose, the Cowapa League’s largest school, is
on its way to the Class 5A level, along with a
few other large 4A schools around the state.
They will be a member of the 5A North-
west Oregon Conference, along with Hills-
boro, Milwaukie, Parkrose and Wilsonville,
among others.
The Indians and Fishermen plan on continu-
ing the rivalry with nonleague games in foot-
ball, baseball and soccer, Scappoose Athletic
Director Robert Medley said.
If student enrollment changes and Scap-
UP NEXT: FISHERMEN
• Scappoose Indians (6-1)
at Astoria Fishermen (4-3)
• Tonight, 7 p.m.
poose returns to the 4A level in a few years,
the departure from the Cowapa could be just
temporary.
But for now, the days of football league
titles coming down to Scappoose and Astoria
are over.
There aren’t many 4A leagues around the
state that can boast of having three of its former
players in one NFL game. That’s what hap-
pened in Week 2 of the current season, when
the Carolina Panthers — with Scappoose grad-
uates Derek Anderson and David Mayo —
faced Astoria’s Jordan Poyer and the Buffalo
Bills. Poyer had a game-high seven tackles, but
the Panthers got the win, 9-3.
“It’s really sad to see them leave,” said
Astoria head coach Howard Rub, who has
gone up against Scappoose head coach Sean
McNabb since 2000. “Through the years,
we’ve earned a lot of respect for each other,
and there’s some pretty competitive stories
between us.”
Enough to write a book.
“I actually plan on writing a little book
about the rivalry, before my time is done,” Rub
said. “It’s been a good little rivalry.”
And what games stand out for Rub?
“Obviously the ones we’ve won,” he said.
“In my first year, we finished 1-2 in the league,
then it took a few years for us to get it rolling
and be a big part of the mix (Scappoose won
state titles in 2000, ’01 and ’02). From ’06 on,
it’s been a competitive game, year in and year
out. We’ve been fortunate to win a couple of
them.”
Anything special planned for tonight’s
game at CMH Field?
“It’s Senior Night and Youth Football Night,
but I don’t have a birthday present for coach
McNabb or anything,” Rub said.
Coming into the game, McNabb has a
career record of 160-75 with the Indians; Rub
is 106-75 at Astoria.
MLB PLAYOFFS
Oregon
Astros try to force Game 7 vs Yanks Episcopal
slips past
Warrenton
Associated Press
A look at what’s happening all
around the majors today.
TRUST IN JUSTIN: Justin Ver-
lander and the Astros try to stave
off elimination and force a deci-
sive Game 7 in the AL Champi-
onship Series when they host the
New York Yankees at Minute Maid
Park (5:08 p.m. PDT). Verlander
has won all eight outings with
Houston since arriving in an Aug.
31 trade, including his first career
relief appearance during the Divi-
sion Series clincher at Boston. The
2011 AL MVP is 10-5 with a 3.18
ERA in his postseason career, and
an 11th win would tie him with
Greg Maddux and Curt Schilling
for fifth place all-time. Young ace
Luis Severino starts for New York
in a rematch of Game 2, when Ver-
lander struck out 13 in a complete
game and threw a season-high 124
pitches for a 2-1 victory. The Yan-
kees have shown they can adjust,
though. Houston’s other Cy Young
Award winner, Dallas Keuchel,
dominated Game 1 before taking a
5-0 loss in Game 5.
ROAD TO PARADISE: The
wild-card Yankees have two
chances to win one game in Hous-
ton for their record 41st trip to the
World Series and first since 2009.
After going 51-30 at home during
the regular season, the AL’s best
mark, New York is 6-0 at Yankee
Stadium in these playoffs but only
1-4 on the road. Didi Gregorius
and the Yankees did win a decisive
Game 5 in Cleveland to take that
Division Series, but the home team
has won all five games in the ALCS
so far. New York just outscored the
Astros 19-5 in three straight victo-
ries at home but was beaten 2-1 in
each of the first two games at Min-
ute Maid Park.
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AP Photo/Matt Slocum
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw throws Thursday
against the Chicago Cubs.
RIGHT BACK TO WORK:
Clayton Kershaw is already sched-
uled to pitch the World Series
opener on regular rest Tuesday
night, which means he has work
to do. The Dodgers’ ace will begin
prepping for the Yankees or Astros
a day after Los Angeles eliminated
the defending champion Cubs in
Game 5 of the NL Championship
Series for its first pennant since
1988. Kershaw tossed six smooth
innings in the 11-1 win and is
excited for his first World Series.
“It’s been a long time coming for
this team,” he said before entering
a booze-soaked clubhouse at Wrig-
ley Field.
GETTING HEALTHY: All-Star
shortstop Corey Seager is expected
to return for the Los Angeles Dodg-
ers in the World Series after miss-
ing the NLCS because of back pain.
Seager watched from home as the
Dodgers eliminated the defending
champion Chicago Cubs in Game
5 on Thursday night. Los Angeles
manager Dave Roberts said Seager
is “doing everything he can to get
healthy” and the Dodgers “expect
him back for Game 1.”
JUDGEMENT DAY: The Yan-
kees’ top hitters are heating up as
October wears on. Once mired in
a postseason slump, Aaron Judge
is batting .313 with two homers
in the ALCS. Gary Sanchez and
Didi Gregorius each had two hits in
Game 5. Sanchez was hitless in the
series before ripping a go-ahead,
two-run double in the eighth inning
of a 6-4 win in Game 4. On the flip
side, Judge has 24 strikeouts, two
shy of the Yankees’ Alfonso Sori-
ano in 2003 for the most in a single
postseason.
NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN?
The Detroit Tigers could be close
to hiring a manager. The team was
in talks Thursday with former Min-
nesota skipper Ron Gardenhire,
according to a person with knowl-
edge of the discussions. The per-
son spoke on condition of anonym-
ity because no announcement had
been made.
PORTLAND — It took three close games,
but Oregon Episcopal held off Warrenton
Thursday night in a Lewis & Clark League
playoff, 25-23, 25-21, 25-23.
“The games were all close and very com-
petitive,” said Warrenton coach Staci Miethe.
“We played outstanding defense, both at
the net blocking and on the floor. We essen-
tially were able to alter their big girl’s offen-
sive attack by putting up some big blocks. We
didn’t let them get into a good serving rhythm
either, which was our downfall last time.”
In other L&C playoff action Thursday,
Rainier swept Portland Christian, 25-22,
25-19, 25-18. OES advances to play Portland
Christian in a seeding match.
Miethe added, “We had been working all
week on being smart offensively and making
them move, instead of going head-to-head at
the net, and this was the right strategy. I was
very proud of how they played, and a few
more serves in and over the net, and a couple
of calls to go our way and the outcome could
have been much different.”
Warrenton finishes 8-12 overall under
Miethe in her first year as coach.
“It’s never easy to lose your final game,
but we didn’t quit, rollover or make it easy for
them,” she said. “So if we have to be done,
this is probably the best possible way to end
it. It was a fun season and I can’t be more
proud of the girls’ growth, both as volleyball
players but also as teammates and people.”
Two-thirds of the Warriors were junior
varsity players last season, “so to end the sea-
son being competitive with every team in our
league shows how hard they have worked
and far they have come. I think they exceeded
their own personal expectations and that as a
coach is a successful season.”