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BOYS SOCCER
SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Newport
scores
dramatic
win at
Seaside
Toledo blanks
Ilwaco, 34-0
The Daily Astorian
ILWACO, Wash. — Toledo
defeated Ilwaco for the second
time this season, a 34-0 shutout
Friday night at Ilwaco, in a post-
season cross-over game.
Toledo built a 21-0 halftime
lead, highlighted by first-quar-
ter touchdown runs from Ethan
Buck (43 yards) and Coleby Cher-
rington (67 yards).
The Fishermen were held to
just 91 yards rushing, and 139
yards of total offense. Brandon
McMullen ran 27 times for 82
yards for Ilwaco, which falls to
5-5 overall.
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
Knappa runner
finishes 20th
at state meet
The Daily Astorian
EUGENE — The only runner
from Clatsop County in the OSAA
state cross country meet scored
a top 20 finish Saturday at Lane
Community College in Eugene.
Knappa sophomore Robert
Piña-Morton finished 20th in the
Class 3A/2A/1A boys’ race, out of
114 runners. He covered the 5,000-
meter course in a personal best
time of 17 minutes, 35 seconds.
Cowapa League schools Tilla-
mook and Scappoose took first and
second, respectively, in the team
standings for the Class 4A girls.
SCOREBOARD
FOOTBALL
Henley 43, Seaside 39
Henley
7 14 8 14—43
Seaside
14 12 0 13—39
First Quarter
Sea: Alex Teubner 75 run (Gio Ramirez
kick) 11:01
Hen: Kyle Hadwick 48 run (Josh Led-
gerwood kick) 9:17
Sea: Dawson Blanchard 39 pass from
Payton Westerholm (Ramirez kick) 3:58
Second Quarter
Sea: Teubner 3 run (kick failed) 9:00
Hen: Hadwick 5 run (Ledgerwood kick)
6:21
Sea: Brayden Johnson 76 pass from
Westerholm (pass failed) 6:03
Hen: Will Conrad 50 pass from Hadwick
(Ledgerwood kick) :10
Third Quarter
Hen: Hadwick 16 run (John O’Connor
from Alex Davenport) 4:10
Fourth Quarter
Sea: Teubner 1 run (Ramirez kick)
10:41
Hen: Hadwick 27 run (Ledgerwood
kick) 9:42
Sea: Teubner 2 run (kick failed) 5:32
Hen: Gabe Young 15 pass from Had-
wick (Ledgerwood kick) :20
Henley Statistics
Rushing: Hadwick 24-208, Conrad 22-
113, J.O’Connor 5-23. Passing: Hadwick
12-20-209-0. Receiving: Conrad 3-57,
Overstreet 3-56, Young 3-51, J.O’Connor
3-45.
Seaside Statistics
Rushing: Teubner 25-231, Ramirez
4-31, Westerholm 5-24, Thompson 1-7,
Landwehr 4-(-1). Passing: Westerholm
9-13-234-0, Johnson 0-1-0-1. Receiving:
Johnson 3-94, Blanchard 2-76, Thomp-
son 2-34, Landwehr 1-19, Teubner 1-11.
Team Statistics
Henley
Seaside
Total offense 553
527
Rushes-yards 51-344
39-292
Comp-Att-Int 12-20-0
9-14-1
Passing yards 209
234
First downs
27
20
Fumbles-lost 2-0
1-1
Turnovers
0
2
Penalties
7-52
4-25
Knappa 62, Bandon 32
Bandon
6 14 0 12—32
Knappa
8 20 20 14—62
First Quarter
Ban: Donavin Phommaphat 55 run (run
failed) 4:49
Kna: Luke Goozee 4 run (Goozee run)
4:28
Second Quarter
Kna: Kaleb Miller 3 run (pass failed)
9:10
Ban: Do.Phommaphat 8 run (pass
failed) 7:20
Kna: K.Miller 8 run (run failed) 2:26
Kna: L.Goozee recover fumble in end
zone (Cruz from K.Miller) 2:12
Ban: Coby Smith 15 pass from Braydon
Freitag (Freitag run) :30
Third Quarter
Kna: K.Miller 1 run (pass failed) 7:33
Kna: Cruz 14 pass from K.Miller (Brae-
don Eltagonde from K.Miller) 6:11
Kna: Spencer Teague 45 int. return
(pass failed) 3:51
Fourth Quarter
Ban: Freitag 4 run (pass failed) 11:55
Kna: K.Miller 5 run (K.Miller run) 10:55
Kna: Eltagonde 6 pass from Eli Takalo
(run failed) 4:18
Ban: Freitag 1 run (pass failed) :07
Knappa Statistics
Rushing: Miller 16-172, L.Goozee
9-61, M.Hoover 4-52. Passing: Miller
8-21-149-0, Takalo 1-1-6-0. Receiving:
Cruz 5-46, Phillip 3-103, Eltagonde 1-6.
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Reuben Acosta-Cruz makes a diving defensive play for the Knappa Loggers.
Knappa piles up points
in 62-32 win over Bandon
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The Knappa Loggers are back in the Class 2A foot-
ball state quarterfinals, scoring lots of points and look-
ing like state title contenders in their home away from
home, Astoria’s CMH Field.
That’s where the Loggers demolished Bandon Sat-
urday afternoon, scoring a season high in points in a
62-32 win over the Tigers in a first-round playoff.
Knappa (9-0 overall) will face a familiar play-
off foe later this week, as the Loggers will host Oak-
land (6-3), 4 p.m. Saturday at CMH Field. The Oak-
ers are ranked 11th in the state, despite a 1-3 record in
the Mountain View Conference. Bandon finishes 4-6
overall.
Coming into Saturday’s game having given up a
total of just 53 points in eight games, the Loggers gave
up more than half of that to the upstart Tigers, who
trailed heavily-favored Knappa just 28-20 at halftime.
But the Loggers looked more like the Loggers in
the second half, running at will and stuffing the Ban-
don run game.
Knappa scored three unanswered touchdowns in
the third quarter — a run by Kaleb Miller, a 14-yard
Miller-to-Reuben Cruz touchdown pass, and Spencer
Teague’s 45-yard interception return.
Miller scored on runs of three and eight yards in
the first half.
After his second score, the Tigers attempted a
reverse on the ensuing kickoff, ran backwards into
the end zone, fumbled, and the ball was recovered by
Knappa for a touchdown.
Knappa sophomore Jaxson Goodman recovered
two fumbles for the Loggers, Kanai Phillip caught
three passes for 103 yards, and Miller completed 8-of-
21 passes for 149 yards.
Seaside ousted from football playoffs
Five lead changes
took place in the
fourth quarter
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — After a combined
1,080(!) yards in total offense, 47 first
downs and five lead changes … the
final difference on the scoreboard was
just four points Friday night at Broad-
way Field: Henley 43, Seaside 39.
In a game that fans and players on
both sides will not soon forget, the
Hornets drove 98 yards in the final
three minutes and scored on a 15-yard
pass from Kyle Hadwick to Gabe
Young with 20 seconds left for the
winning points.
The players were spent physically
after 48 hard-fought minutes, and the
fans were equally exhausted after one
of the craziest games in Broadway
Field history.
Long after the final touchdown, one
fact remained on the artificial turf at
Broadway: Both teams had a tremen-
dous amount of respect for the other.
“We ran into a good team tonight,”
said Seaside coach Jeff Roberts, whose
team finishes 6-3, and second place in
the Cowapa League.
“This really stings,” he said of the
loss. “But Henley’s a good football
team. I thought we would do a lit-
tle better defensively, especially hav-
ing defended Banks so well, but (the
Hornets’) kids up front are really good,
and we got beat up a little up front.”
Henley coach Alex Stork stated, “I
have to give a lot of credit to Seaside.
That is a talented ball club, and they
have some guys with character and
heart. Absolutely first class. The whole
program — coaching staff and every
single player.”
As always, Roberts delivered a
good message to his players following
the game.
“I told them (the loss) isn’t going to
define who they are for the rest of their
lives,” he said. “You can work your tail
off and do everything right, but some-
times you just don’t come out ahead.”
As for the game itself, there were
five touchdowns of 39 yards or more,
and all five lead changes took place in
the fourth quarter.
Seaside opened the fireworks on
just the second play of the game, a
75-yard run by Alex Teubner. And that
set the tone for the night.
Hadwick reeled off a 48-yard
touchdown run five plays later; Sea-
side answered with a 39-yard Payton
Westerholm-to-Dawson Blanchard
TD toss; and Teubner’s 3-yard scoring
run gave the Gulls a 20-7 lead early in
the second quarter.
And the highlight show was far
from over.
Hadwick had a 5-yard scoring run
with 6:21 left in the first half; the Gulls
responded with a one-play drive, a
76-yard touchdown pass from Wester-
holm to Brayden Johnson; and Henley
capped the first half with a screen pass
from Hadwick to Will Conrad, that the
5-foot-10, 220-pound running back
took 50 yards for a touchdown with
just 10 seconds left before halftime.
If there was one key score, that was it.
“That’s the first time we’ve run that
play all year,” Stork said. “I was ask-
ing our offensive coordinator, ‘what
are you doing?! No! You’re running a
jet screen to our running back?’ And he
made a big-time play.
“I really wanted to get a score
before halftime,” he said. “I knew if
we could get in, then make some half-
time adjustments, we’d come out and
make some stops.”
In a much more down-to-earth
third period, the Hornets took their
first lead on a 16-yard run by Hadwick
with 4:10 left in the third quarter, the
only score of the quarter.
The scoring heated up again in the
final period, with Teubner barging in
from 1-yard out to put Seaside back in
front, 33-29.
Hadwick scored on a 27-yard run,
capping a 77-yard drive to put Henley
in front, 36-33; but Seaside marched
right back with a six-play drive, high-
lighted by a 37-yard Westerholm-to-
Blanchard pass. Teubner scored on a
2-yard run with 5:32 remaining for a
39-36 Seaside lead.
From there, the Hornets failed on a
fourth down play to give the ball back
to Seaside, but the Gulls were forced to
punt — a 41-yard boot by Blanchard
that the Gulls downed at the Hornet
3-yard line with 3:22 left.
A false start on second down
moved the ball back to the 2-yard line,
and the Hornets were 98 yards away.
Gains of 25 and 29 yards moved
the ball into Seaside territory with 51
seconds remaining, and — out of tim-
eouts — Hadwick rolled right and
found Young in the right corner of the
end zone for a 15-yard touchdown.
The point-after kick gave the Hor-
nets a 43-39 lead with just 20 seconds
left.
“I said on the sideline before we
started — this is going to be called
‘The Drive,’ in about 20 years,” Stork
said. “We went 98 yards. We had to
mix it up. Seaside was giving us some
different looks and taking some stuff
away that we like to do.”
The Gulls still had one final pos-
session. Seaside moved the ball to its
own 42 with seven seconds remain-
ing, but a desperation pass on the final
play was intercepted by Henley’s John
O’Connor.
“There was a couple of stops in the
game by both sides, but that was it,”
Stork said. “It was, ‘who’s going to
have it last?’ It really showed our grit
and character. Our character has got-
ten us here, and that’s what’s kept us
going. An eight-hour road trip, and we
made the best of it.”
Teubner rushed for 231 yards on 25
carries and scored four touchdowns;
and Westerholm completed 9-of-13
passes for 234 yards and two touch-
downs. Brayden Johnson caught three
passes for 94 yards.
For the Hornets, Hadwick carried
24 times for 208 yards and four scores,
and passed for 209 yards (12-for-20)
and two touchdowns.
“Football’s a vehicle that turns
young men into great people,” said
Roberts, who returned to coach this
season, in addition to his role as the
school’s principal. “Whatever my role
in this program is as I move forward,
that will never change.”
With many of their key players
returning next season, Roberts said,
“we’ve put ourselves in a good posi-
tion to be a contender for the Cowapa
League title next year.”
SEASIDE — The 2017 Seaside
boys soccer team spent most of the
season ranked in the top three at
the 4A level, and opened the state
playoffs as the No. 1-ranked team
in the state.
But the No. 1 seed didn’t help
Seaside Saturday night at Broad-
way Field, where Newport’s Rom-
ario Mendoza scored with just 41
seconds remaining in regulation,
giving the Cubs a 2-1 win over
the Gulls in the state quarterfinal
contest.
Even more impressive for
Newport — the Cubs played
the final 18 minutes with just 10
players.
The loss snapped a 10-game
win streak for the Gulls, who had
given up just two goals since Sept.
26.
“I’m disappointed, yes, but
what a tremendous year we’ve
had,” said Seaside coach John
Chapman. “We win league, we
had nine shutouts this year. We
played and competed against 5A
teams, beating Hillsboro (4-1) and
played to a 0-0 tie with Corvallis
until the last minute of an overtime
game.
“So the boys played well. Soc-
cer’s a funny old game. You just
don’t know how the ball’s going
to bounce, and tonight it bounced
with the weather for Newport.
Best of luck to them.”
The Cubs had the wind and rain
at their back in the second half, but
Seaside had the weather in the first
half, and led 1-0 at halftime.
After 39 scoreless minutes,
Seaside’s Irving Contreras ham-
mered a shot past Newport goal-
keeper Luis Reyes from 20 yards
out, with just 49 seconds left in the
first half.
Newport senior Ricardo Gon-
zalez-Vazquez scored the equal-
izer in the 50th minute (29:34
remaining in the second half),
after Seaside keeper James Petie
was issued a yellow card, result-
ing in a close-range free kick for
the Cubs.
And Gonzalez-Vazquez con-
verted to tie the game.
The next major play was a
yellow card assessed to New-
port’s Julian Elizalde with 17:42
remaining.
It was the second yellow card
issued to Elizalde, who argued
the point with an official and was
given a red card, forcing Newport
to play the rest of the match with
just 10 players.
But the Cubs’ 11th man was the
wind, and the two teams battled
evenly for most of the second half.
With under a minute remain-
ing, Newport worked the ball into
the left corner, centered a pass for
Mendoza, who drilled a shot past
a diving Petie with just 41 seconds
left.
“We knew that if we got to see
Newport, it was going to be tooth
and nail,” Chapman said of the
defending 4A state champions.
“The weather, obviously, came on
in the second half, which was a bit
of an advantage for Newport.
“We defended well, we were
scrappy, and that last free kick by
Newport — if you look back —
that’s when they score. They often
find that lucky one in the net, near
the end of the game.”
The Gulls finish 13-2-1, one
of the best seasons in school his-
tory. The 13 wins surpassed the 11
victories Seaside had in 2000, ‘03,
‘09 and ‘15.
“Our boys should be very
proud of a very successful season,”
Chapman said. “We’re losing three
guys from the field (seniors Colton
Carter, Henry Chapman and Rafi
Sibony), so we have a lot of young
guys coming back. I can’t see any-
thing but another successful year
for Seaside.”