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12A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2017 CONTACT US FOLLOW US facebook.com/ DailyAstorianSports Gary Henley | Sports Reporter ghenley@dailyastorian.com State playoffs begin Wednesday The Daily Astorian State playoff football and soc- cer games are set to begin this week, with four local teams in the state title hunt. The action begins Wednesday in Class 4A boys soccer. No. 15 seed Astoria takes to the road to play No. 2 Stayton at 5 p.m.; and the No. 1-ranked Seaside Gulls open at home vs. No. 16 seed Philomath, 6:30 p.m. at Broadway Field. Winners of both games will play Saturday, times and opponents to be determined. In Class 4A football, Seaside holds down the No. 5 seed and will host the Henley Hornets, 7 p.m. Fri- day at Broadway Field. The winner will play South Umpqua or Mazama in the quarterfinals. At the Class 2A level, 16 of the 27 schools are still in the title hunt, as the Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian Clatsop County high school sports teams begin playoff games this week, including the Seaside Seagulls’ No. 1-ranked boys soccer team. state playoffs begin. The No. 3-seed Knappa Loggers host Bandon, 1 p.m. Saturday at CMH Field. The winner will take on either Oakland or Gold Beach in the quarterfinals. Tickets to state playoff contests (first round through quarterfinals) are $6 for adults, $4 for students. Across the Columbia River, the Ilwaco football team will host Toledo in a cross-over play-in game, 7 p.m. Friday. The two teams finished in ties with Raymond and South Bend. Despite a head-to-head loss to Toledo earlier in the season, Ilwaco won a coin toss and will host as the No. 2 seed. In 2B volleyball, Ilwaco plays Wednesday at Willapa Valley. Six teams from District 4 will play at the state tournament, Nov. 9-10 at the Yakima Sun Dome. Local cross country runners will be in action at state meets Saturday. Timbers play Dynamo to 0-0 draw in West semifinals Seahawks land needed LT, getting Brown from Texans RENTON, Wash. — The Seat- tle Seahawks solidified a big area of concern by reaching agree- ment to acquire veteran left tackle Duane Brown from the Houston Texans on Monday for cornerback Jeremy Lane and two draft picks. Seattle general manager John Schneider confirmed the sides reached agreement on the deal, but it had not been fully finalized yet. The agreement happened a day before the NFL trading deadline. Brown made his season debut for the Texans on Sunday against the Seahawks after a lengthy hold- out in search of a new contract. He was also at the center of the Tex- ans’ decision where the majority of the active roster knelt during the national anthem in protest of com- ments made by Houston owner Bob McNair. Brown played 68 of 71 snaps for the Texans in Sun- day’s 41-38 loss to Seattle. Toronto downs Portland 99-85 PORTLAND — DeMar DeRozan credited Toronto’s sec- ond unit for Portland’s ugly sec- ond quarter. The Trail Blazers were held to just six total points — Evan Turn- er’s layup and four free throws — in the period and Toronto went on to win 99-85 on Monday night. DeRozan had 25 points to lead the Raptors, who were up by as many as 26 points. Kyle Lowry added a season-high 19 points and added 10 rebounds. — Associated Press SCOREBOARD PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE Wednesday Boys Soccer — Class 4A First Round: Astoria at Stayton, 5 p.m.; Philomath at Seaside, 6:30 p.m. Jim Poetsch/For The Daily Astorian Seaside High School graduate Sam Hinton, following his vic- tory earlier this month in the George Fox Invitational, which was held at Gearhart Golf Links. Hinton having big year on the golf course SPORTS IN BRIEF HOUSTON — Jeff Attinella had two saves to help the Port- land Timbers to a 0-0 draw with the Houston Dynamo on Monday night in the opener of their Western Conference semifinal. The second leg of the two-game aggregate series is Sunday in Port- land. The fourth-seeded Dynamo had just one road win in the regu- lar season. Attinella posted his 10th career shutout in his first playoff action — including a sliding 1-on-1 save against Alberth Elis in the 51st min- ute and a leaping stop of a header by Philippe Senderos in the 56th. Houston is unbeaten in its last eight matches, including a 1-0 win over Sporting Kansas City in Thursday’s single-elimination knockout round. HOMETOWN REPORT By GARY HENLEY The Daily Astorian AP Photos/Matt Slocum The Houston Astros celebrate after Alex Bregman’s game-winning single during Game 5 of baseball’s World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers Sunday in Houston. Astros won 13-12. Dodgers on brink of wipeout By BETH HARRIS Associated Press LOS ANGELES — The Dodg- ers were baseball’s best team during the regular season, piling up 104 wins, blasting 53 homers in June and finishing up a 43-7 run in August. Now, they’re one loss away from being eliminated in their first World Series appearance since 1988. Riding high in summer, poten- tially knocked out in fall. All that early success could be wiped out with four defeats in October, leaving the Dodgers without the title they so desper- ately crave and last won 29 years ago. “It would certainly be disheart- ening and disappointing,” man- ager Dave Roberts said Monday. “At the outset, our goal was to be the last team standing and we still have that opportunity.” Los Angeles trails the Astros 3-2 heading into Game 6 on Tues- day night at Dodger Stadium. “Right now, we’re not thinking of the alternative,” Roberts said. The Dodgers won their record fifth consecutive NL West title before rolling past Arizona in the NL Division Series and the defending World Series cham- pion Cubs in the NL Champion- ship Series. But that’s nothing to hang their hat on. “At the end of the year, if all you’ve won is the NL West and you still didn’t reach the World Series or win the World Series, you didn’t reach your goal,” out- fielder Andre Ethier, the lon- gest-tenured Dodgers player, said on the eve of Game 1. Ethier cautioned his team- mates: “We haven’t achieved any- thing, we haven’t won anything. All we did was won the NL West and that doesn’t mean anything.” Winning 100-plus games doesn’t guarantee anything, either. Heading into opening day this Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw sits in the dugout after Houston Astros’ Yuli Gurriel hit a three-run home run during the fourth inning of Game 5 of baseball’s World Se- ries Sunday in Houston. WORLD SERIES: GAME 6 • Houston Astros at Los Angeles Dodgers (Astros lead the series 3-2) • Today, 5:20 p.m. TV: FOX season, 16 teams had posted that many wins since the 21st century began. Just two went on to win the World Series: the Cubs last year and the Yankees in 2009. As for the others, they’re bet- ter remembered for losing than winning. The Mariners tied a major league record by winning 116 games in 2001. But Ichiro Suzuki and his teammates didn’t get past the ALCS, bowing in five games to the Yankees. The great Orioles teams of the late 1960s and early ‘70s had dominant pitching to go with an offense powered by Frank Robin- son, Brooks Robinson and Boog Powell. They won 109 games in 1969 only to lose to the Miracle Mets in the World Series. They followed up with 108 victories in 1970 and beat Cincinnati for the title. But in 1971, despite notching 101 wins and having four 20-game winners on the mound, the O’s failed to defend their title, losing to Pittsburgh in seven games. Bash Brothers Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire powered Oakland to 104 wins in 1988, only to lose to the Dodgers in the World Series. The Athletics rebounded the following year with 99 wins and beat the Giants in the earth- quake-interrupted Series before racking up 103 wins in 1990 and getting swept by the Reds in defense of their title. The Dodgers had many mile- stone moments during the regular season. Alex Wood began the sea- son 10-0, the first Dodgers starter to do so since Don Newcombe in 1955. Cody Bellinger, a favor- ite for NL Rookie of the Year, hit for the cycle on July 19, the ninth player in franchise history to accomplish the feat. Closer Ken- ley Jansen was undefeated. By early August, the Dodg- ers had gone 43-7 for the best 50-game run by a major league team since the 1912 Giants. They coasted for much of the season, with their lead stretching to a whopping 21 games on Aug. 23. It was enough for them to sur- vive a woeful September stretch in which they dropped 16 of 17, including a major league-worst 11 in a row. But the turning of the calendar has brought mixed results. Jansen has a blown save and a loss in this World Series. Ace Clayton Kershaw, so outstand- ing in a Game 1 victory, couldn’t hold a four-run lead in Game 5 and allowed the Astros to tie the score on a walk, two hits and a three-run homer. Houston even- tually won 13-12 in 10 innings to move within a victory of its first championship. This year, with a pair of 100- win teams in the World Series for the first time since 1970, some- one is likely to end up being forgettable. Seaside High School graduate Sam Hinton is scoring some big victories on the links recently, as the junior at Willamette University has earned medalist honors twice this fall. In his third year with the Bear- cats, Hinton has Willamette ranked 17th in the country in the latest NCAA Division III coaches poll. The Bearcats have won all four tournaments they have entered over the fall season, including the 2017 Northwest Conference Fall Classic, which counts for one- fourth of the overall 2017-18 NWC championship. Willamette golfers have also won three individual titles this fall, two by Hinton. He won the George Fox Invita- tional Oct. 7-8, carding an even-par 144 (73-71) on his home course, as the tournament took place at Gear- hart Golf Links. Before that, Hin- ton took first place at the Whitworth Invitational, Oct. 1-2 at Kalispell Country Club in Spokane, Wash., with a 3-under par 141 (71-70). A list of other local and regional athletes competing at the profes- sional and collegiate levels this fall: ASTORIA Lucas Caruana, Fr., Western Oregon cross country Chloee Hunt, So., Evergreen volleyball Keldon Littell, Fr., Western Oregon football Jordan Poyer, Buffalo Bills SEASIDE Lizzy Barnes, Fr., Guilford soccer Danielle Willyard, Jr., Northwest Christian volleyball ILWACO Alec Bell, Fr., Puget Sound football Kenneth Sheldon, Jr., Willamette golf BANKS Grace Buchanan, Fr., Mt. Hood volleyball Megan Bunn, So., Eastern Oregon volleyball Nikayla Doane, So., Clark volleyball Twister McComas, Fr., Western Oregon football Samantha Pestner, Fr., Lower Columbia soccer Trevor Thiessen, Fr., George Fox football RAINIER Johnathan Guisinger, Fr., George Fox cross country Monica Guisinger, So., Lower Columbia soccer SCAPPOOSE Derek Anderson, Carolina Panthers Dan Carrier, Jr., Northwest Christian cross country Lucy Davidson, So., U. Portland soccer David Mayo, Carolina Panthers Asa Flanagan, Corban soccer Eleanor Jones, So., Western Oregon soccer David Krupsky, Fr., Western Oregon football Natalie Muth, So., U. Portland soccer Paul Revis, Sr., Western Oregon football Ariel Viera, Sr., U. Portland soccer TILLAMOOK Colin Atchison, Sr., George Fox cross country Andrew Jenck, So., U. Portland cross country Jaxsen Johnson, Fr., Western Oregon football Zachary Macias, So., Pacific football Seth Martin, Fr., Clackamas cross country Kaler Moore, Fr., Eastern Oregon football Damara Morales, So., Blue Mountain soccer Lexie Zuercher, Fr., George Fox volleyball Jordan Zweifel, Fr., Pacific volleyball
