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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2017
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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
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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