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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2017
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Athletes of the Week
ALEX
TEUBNER
Seaside
KES
SANDSTROM
Astoria
The Daily Astorian/File Photo
he Gulls’ junior running back has Seaside in the running for its fi rst state
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championship since 1994. In their latest win (19-14 over Banks last Fri-
day), Teubner rushed for 279 yards on 29 carries, scored two touchdowns, and
he junior outside hitter helped the Lady Fishermen score an easy three-
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game victory over North Valley last Saturday, 25-11, 25-13, 25-7. A 5-foot-
10 transfer from Scappoose last year, Sandstrom had 11 kills and a block in
led the Seaside defense with nine tackles and a fumble recovery.
helping Astoria secure a spot in the Sweet 16 for the fi rst time since 2014. The
Fishermen travel to Baker Saturday.
Will he or won’t
he? Stanford’s
Love is up in the
air for tonight
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
Fred Thornhill/The Canadian Press
New York Yankees manager
Joe Girardi reacts during the
sixth inning of their baseball
game against the Toronto Blue
Jays, in Toronto in August.
Girardi pushed
out by Yankees
after 10 seasons
as manager
Associated Press
The Daily Astorian/File Photo
Joe Girardi’s tenure as New
York Yankees manager ended
today after a decade that produced
just one World Series title for a
team that expects to win every year.
Yankees general manager Brian
Cashman made the announcement
fi ve days after the Yankees lost
to Houston in Game 7 of the AL
Championship Series.
“Everything this organization
does is done with careful and thor-
ough consideration, and we’ve
decided to pursue alternatives for
the managerial position,” Cashman
said in a statement.
New York does not have an
obvious candidate to replace him.
The Yankees are the third of the
10 postseason teams to remove
managers, joining Boston and
Washington.
A former All-Star catcher for
the Yankees, Girardi was at the end
of his contract and said last week-
end he had to speak with his family
before deciding whether he wanted
to return. New York made the deci-
sion for him.
“He has a tireless work ethic,
and put his heart into every game
he managed over the last decade,”
Cashman said. “He should take
great pride in our accomplishments
during his tenure.”
A three-time World Series
champion as a player with the Yan-
kees, Girardi succeeded Joe Torre
as manager after the 2007 season
and led New York to its 27th World
Series title in 2009 but has fallen
short each year since.
Warrenton coach Lennie Wolfe talks with his players during a 2011 “Turn back the clock” game at Warrenton.
Hall of Fame comes calling
for Warrenton’s Wolfe
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
After 30 years (and counting) as a
high school baseball coach, with eight
state trophies, 14 league titles and 501
career victories — Warrenton base-
ball coach Lennie Wolfe is being
inducted into the Oregon High School
Baseball Coaches Association’s Hall
of Fame.
Wolfe will be honored at an OHS-
BCA banquet Nov. 4 in Wilsonville,
where the association’s Class of 2017
inductees will be formally recognized.
In addition to Wolfe, this year’s
Hall of Fame class includes the late
Eugene Dockter (coached at Ione
and Adrian high schools), and former
McKay coach Dan Gordon.
The coaches association is also
honoring Warrenton High School
employee Doug Calvert for his contri-
butions to Oregon baseball. A metic-
ulous keeper of Oregon high school
sports records, Calvert will receive a
Merit Award for his work.
Wolfe is currently 11th on the list
of all-time career coaching victories
among Oregon high school baseball
coaches, with a record of 501 wins,
264 losses.
“One of the most gratifying
things will be, being able to thank so
many people in such a public way,”
Wolfe said of the upcoming banquet.
“Thanking people in a face-to-face
setting is one thing, but it’s diffi cult to
put into words how thankful I am to
be able to express it in a grander set-
ting. And the honor means a lot to me,
if anything, being able to follow some
of the coaches who are there, and guys
I looked up to and learned from,” such
as former Warrenton coach Dwayne
Huddleston and former Seaside coach
Jim Auld.
Wolfe spent four years (1988-91)
at Glide before coming to Warrenton
in 1992. He has coached the Warriors
ever since, compiling a record of 470-
207. His teams have made the state
playoff 18 times, with 14 league titles,
eight state trophies, three state fi nalists
and one state title, in 1994.
Wolfe’s Oregon Junior Baseball
summer teams at Warrenton have
made 14 trips to the Junior Baseball
state tournament, with championships
in 1999 and 2003.
In his career as a player, Wolfe
played four years at Pacifi c University
in Forest Grove.
He began a teaching career in
1984 at Colton High School, where he
coached football, wrestling and base-
ball; he took over as head coach at
Glide in 1988.
Wolfe was hired at Warrenton
High School in 1991, where he helped
coach wrestling through 2007 and
football through 2011. He will begin
his 27th year as the Warriors’ baseball
coach next spring.
The Nov. 4 banquet “also gives
me a venue to thank all the Warren-
ton players and their families for the
huge part they have played in my life,”
Wolfe said. “Our successes are shared,
and refl ect much more than just tro-
phies. I’m so proud of what my former
players have become.
“Every year at our Alumni Game
I’m overwhelmed by how much the
guys and their families care for each
other. What we have created here in
Warrenton is special.”
Retired from full-time teaching in
2015, Wolfe has been married to wife
Michelle since 1983. His son Dan (also
a former player at Pacifi c) is an assis-
tant coach at Monroe High School.
Established in 1997 by Pete Ness
and Ross Peterson, the coaches associ-
ation’s Hall of Fame held its inaugural
induction in 1997-98.
CORVALLIS — In the midst
of his Heisman campaign Bryce
Love may — or may not — sit
this one out.
Stanford’s running back
tweaked an ankle against Ore-
gon on Oct. 14 and is a game-time
decision for the No. 20 Cardinal
tonight at Oregon State.
Love is the nation’s top run-
ning back, averaging 198.1 yards
per game. He has 1,387 total
yards this season and is averaging
10.27 yards per carry — both also
national bests.
The junior human biology
major has nine carries of at least
50 yards, more than anyone for an
entire season since Melvin Gor-
don had 10 for Wisconsin in 2014.
Love was picked as a midseason
AP All-American.
Love ran for 147 yards and two
touchdowns in Stanford’s 49-7
victory at home over the Ducks. A
few days later, Stanford formally
launched his Heisman campaign
with the hashtag HeismanLove.
So it’s really no surprise that
coach David Shaw is unconcerned
about the lack of practice time
Love has put in leading up to the
game.
“If he can’t go, fi ne, he’ll go
next week. When he’s out there,
he’s going to get the ball,” Shaw
said. “He’s played a lot of foot-
ball for us the past 2 1/2 years. If it
takes until game time for him to be
ready to go, he’ll go out and play.”
AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez
Stanford running back Bryce
Love, right, celebrate his rush-
ing touchdown with teammate
K.J. Costello during the third
quarter of an NCAA college foot-
ball game against Arizona State
in Stanford, Calif., in September.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
TODAY
Cross Country — Cowapa Cham-
pionships, at Tillamook, TBA; District
1/3A/2A/1A Championships, 3:30 p.m.
Football — North Beach at Ilwaco, 7
p.m.
FRIDAY
Football — 4A Regional Play-in: As-
toria at Estacada, 7 p.m.; Clatskanie at
Warrenton, 7 p.m.; Gaston at Knappa,
7 p.m.; Naselle at Sunnyside Christian,
5 p.m.
SATURDAY
Volleyball — 4A Regional Play-in: As-
toria at Baker, 1 p.m.
Girls Soccer — 4A Regional Play-in:
Astoria at Philomath, 1:30 p.m.
Boys Soccer — 4A Regional Play-in:
Astoria at Gladstone, 4 p.m.
Springer’s home run in 11th gives Astros 7-6 win over Dodgers
World Series tied 1-1
By RONALD BLUM
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — George
Springer screamed with joy as he cir-
cled the bases after hitting a two-run
homer in the 11th inning.
Would it be enough? Was this the
fi nal plot twist on one of the wildest
nights in postseason history?
Yes, it was — barely — and the
Houston Astros won a World Series
game for the fi rst time in their 56
seasons.
Charlie Culberson hit a two-out
homer in the bottom half off Chris
Devenski, who then struck out Yasiel
Puig in a tense, nine-pitch at-bat for
the win. The Astros outlasted the Los
Angeles Dodgers 7-6 in a Hollywood
thriller Wednesday to tie the Series at
one game apiece.
“Wasn’t that the best game ever!?”
Alex Bregman proclaimed to no one in
particular in the Astros clubhouse.
On a night of dramatic swings and
a World Series-record eight home
runs, Marwin Gonzalez stunned the
Dodger Stadium crowd with a solo
shot off dominant Los Angeles closer
Kenley Jansen on an 0-2 pitch in the
ninth that made it 3-all.
Jose Altuve and Carlos Correa hit
consecutive home runs against Josh
Fields in the 10th to build a 5-3 Astros
lead, with Correa fl ipping his bat to
celebrate.
But there was more. Much, much
more.
“This is an instant classic and to
be part of it is pretty special,” Astros
starter Justin Verlander said.
Puig homered off Ken Giles start-
ing the bottom of the 10th and Enrique
Hernandez knotted the score 5-5 with
a two-out RBI single .
Devenski entered and, with Her-
nandez at second, made a wild pick-
off throw that appeared headed toward
left-center fi eld before it struck sec-
ond base umpire Laz Diaz. An incred-
ulous Hernandez put both hands on his
helmet, unable to advance, and was
stranded when Chris Taylor fl ied out.