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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2017
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Athletes of the Week
JAZZY
KING
Astoria
JOSH
SHIPLEY
Seaside
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ne of the newest additions to Astoria swimming is making a big splash in
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the pool. In last Saturday’s Nygaard Invitational, King won two individual
events and swam legs on two winning relays, helping the Astoria girls to the
he junior had personal best times in winning two events at the Nygaard
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Invitational — 2:15.34 in the 200 individual medley (a three-second drop
from his best time, and would have qualified him for last year’s state meet);
team win. Her time of 28.0 seconds was the best out of 27 entries in the 50
freestyle, and she won the 100 freestyle in 1:05.05, 12 seconds ahead of the
second-place finisher. King is a senior transfer from Roseburg High School.
and 51.62 in the 100 freestyle, which would have placed him third in last
year’s district meet. Shipley also swam a leg on Seaside’s winning 200 medley
relay team.
McCowan leads
No. 5 Mississippi
St. women over
No. 9 Oregon
By DAVID BRANDT
Associated Press
STARKVILLE, Miss. —
Teaira McCowan completely
dominated the first half. After the
break, Victoria Vivians took over.
Mississippi State might not be
quite as deep as it was last sea-
son during its run to the NCAA
championship game. But the Bull-
dogs’ stars proved they’re more
than capable of carrying the team
during a marquee matchup.
McCowan scored a career-high
35 points and Vivians added 30 to
lead No. 5 Mississippi State over
No. 9 Oregon 90-79 on Wednes-
day night.
“Tonight we were pretty good,
especially offensively,” Missis-
sippi State coach Vic Schaefer
said. “I just think we’re hard to
deal with offensively. I think peo-
ple are having a hard time guard-
ing us right now.”
SCOREBOARD
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
TODAY
Girls basketball — Clatskanie at
Warrenton, 6 p.m.; Vernonia at Knap-
pa, 6 p.m.; Jewell at Oregon School
for the Deaf, 5:30 p.m.; Ilwaco at Ray-
mond, 7 p.m.
Boys basketball — Clatskanie at
Warrenton, 7:45 p.m.; Vernonia at
Knappa, 7:45 p.m.
SEASIDE HOLIDAY CLASSIC
Today’s schedule
(Game times are approximate)
Girls
1-Sisters vs. Newport
4-Elma vs. Cottage Grove
7-Crook County vs. Seaside
Boys
11:30 am-Montesano vs. Astoria
2:30-Sisters vs. Newport
5:30-Elma vs. Cottage Grove
8:30-Madras vs. Seaside
FRIDAY
Girls basketball — Ilwaco at Life
Christian, 5:45 p.m.
Boys basketball — Ilwaco at Life
Christian, 7 p.m.
SATURDAY
Girls basketball — Western Menno-
nite at Knappa, 2:30 p.m.
Boys basketball — Western Menno-
nite at Knappa, 4:15 p.m.; Naselle at
Winlock, 6 p.m.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Jewell 53, Portland Waldorf 12
P.Waldorf
0 7 3 2—12
Jewell
22 10 15 6—53
PW (12): Grace Cromie 4, Emma
Strader 4, Jack-Goulart 2, DeSentis 1,
Davis 1.
JWL (53): Emma Guillen 19,
Norman 9, G.Morales 8, Kaczenski 7,
Shaw 6, A.Wammack 2, Park 2, N.Mo-
rales, R.Wammack, DeWees, Had-
dock.
BOYS BASKETBALL
Jewell 27, Portland Waldorf 18
P.Waldorf
6 4 3 5—18
Jewell
4 9 12 2—27
PW (18): Keali McCarter 7, DeSantis
5, Bergroth 4, Strader 2.
JWL (27): Ben Stahly 14, R.Kane 6,
Lyon 4, N.Kane 2, Meehan 1, Chronis-
ter, Lilley, Berg, Nelson.
Lillard leads Portland
comeback past Miami
By STEVEN WINE
Associated Press
• Portland Trail Blazers (14-13)
at Orlando Magic (11-18)
• Friday, 4 p.m. TV: NSNW
AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee
Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard goes up for a shot against
Miami Heat forward James Johnson and guard Wayne Ellington during
Wednesday’s game. Lillard scored seven of his 18 points in the final
3:16 as the Trail Blazers defeated the Heat 102-95.
Seahawks fortunate they’re not missing more from defense
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
RENTON, Wash. — The good
news for the Seattle Seahawks is
that no one on their defense was sus-
pended for the chaos that ensued
at the conclusion of their trip to
Jacksonville.
They still could be significantly
undermanned heading into the most
important game of the regular season
to date.
The Seahawks might be down as
many as five starters on defense from
the start of the season going into Sun-
day’s NFC West showdown with the
first-place Los Angeles Rams. Seat-
tle has learned how to play without
defensive end Cliff Avril, cornerback
Richard Sherman and safety Kam
Chancellor as all three have been out
for more than a month.
But last Sunday’s loss at Jackson-
ville cost the Seahawks two of the
more important remaining pieces.
Linebackers Bobby Wagner (ham-
string) and K.J. Wright (concussion)
are both in question for the matchup
with the Rams.
Seattle coach Pete Carroll said
Wright is still going through concus-
sion protocol, while Wagner wants
to play but won’t test the injury until
later in the week.
It’s a challenging scenario for
Jewell boys rally
for victory over
Portland Waldorf
JEWELL — The Jewell Blue
Jays scored their first win of the
season Wednesday night, a 27-18
nonleague victory over Portland
Waldorf.
T h e
Wo l f p a c k
led 6-4 after
one quarter,
but Jewell
outscored
the
visi-
tors 23-12
over
the
final three
quarters.
Ben Stahly paced Jewell
with 14 points, 12 rebounds
and six steals, while Ryan
Kane added six points and four
assists.
Jewell lost a 60-31 decision
to C.S. Lewis the night before, as
Micah Grobey and Jacob More
scored 21 points apiece for the
Watchmen.
Stahly led the Jays with 20
points and nine rebounds.
MIAMI — The Trail Blazers and
Heat began the night with identical
records of 13-13, so a close game was
to be expected.
For Damian Lillard to take over
down the stretch was also no surprise.
The two-time All-Star guard
scored seven of his 18 points in the
final 3:16, and the Trail Blazers over-
came a 16-point second-half deficit to
break their five-game losing streak,
beating Miami 102-95 on Wednes-
day night.
Lillard, who came into the game
averaging 26.6 points, had only one
field goal in the first 31 minutes
because the Heat ganged up on him
defensively.
“They were trying to show me a
lot of attention, so I was just trying to
make the right plays,” he said. “But
down the stretch I knew I would have
to get aggressive.”
Lillard converted a three-point
play to put the Trail Blazers ahead to
stay, 98-95, and sank two free throws
on their next possession for a five-
point lead.
UP NEXT: BLAZERS
SPORTS
IN BRIEF
AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton
A Seattle Seahawks staff member
tries to remove Seahawks defen-
sive tackle Quinton Jefferson,
left, from the field as an object
thrown from the stands hits them
during the closing moments of
Sunday’s game against the Jack-
sonville Jaguars in Jacksonville,
Fla. Jacksonville won 30-24.
Seattle to be facing going against the
No. 2 scoring offense in the NFL.
“We’ve been under it before many
times. This doesn’t seem that much
different. We’re not taking it any dif-
ferent. Our approach isn’t any differ-
ent. Next guy up and away we go,”
Carroll said Wednesday. “The guys
have to rally around those guys as
they step in and that’s part of what
you’re calling for. Everyone has to
rally.”
It could have been far worse.
Seattle escaped potential major
punishment against defensive line-
men Michael Bennett, Sheldon Rich-
ardson and Quinton Jefferson for
their actions at the conclusion of last
Sunday’s loss to the Jaguars. Rich-
ardson and Jefferson were ejected,
while Bennett’s personal foul insti-
gated the mayhem. The trio will
likely be receiving large fines from
the league but avoiding suspensions
was a major boost for the Seahawks.
Jefferson’s actions drew the most
attention because of his brief attempt
to climb a wall to go after fans who
had thrown bottles at him as he was
leaving the field following his ejec-
tion. Jefferson said Wednesday that
the bottles plus a specific comment
he heard about his mother set him
off.
“It was even worse because my
kids have seen it, my wife has seen
it,” Jefferson said. “She was upset
about it and I felt even more upset
for them because they had to watch
that.”
Jefferson met with Carroll on
Monday and said it was difficult to
watch the video of the incident.
“We talked some about it,” Jeffer-
son said. “It’s just one of them things.
It’s unfortunate. You know you wish
it didn’t get that far, wish it didn’t
happen. But it’s one of those things
that happened. We’ve got to learn
from it and we’ve got to move on
from it, getting ready for LA.”
Jewell girls
pound Portland
Waldorf, 53-12
JEWELL — The Jewell girls
basketball team took a break
from league play by hosting a
nonleague contest Wednesday
night with Portland Waldorf.
And the Lady Jays continued
their winning ways, with an easy
53-12 win over the Wolfpack.
Jewell (5-1 overall) had more
than enough points after just one
quarter, leading 22-0 after eight
minutes.
Portland Waldorf scored
seven points in the second quar-
ter, before the Jays answered
with a 21-5 run in the second
half.
Emma Guillen outscored
the Wolfpack by herself, finish-
ing with 19 points. Haley Nor-
man added nine points and Gabi
Morales scored eight, with eight
rebounds.
The Jays spent much of the
night taking the ball from the
Wolfpack — Lilly Kaczenski
had eight steals, while Morales
and Norman each had six steals.
The Jays were coming off a
league win over C.S. Lewis the
night before, 39-17.
Guillen scored 20 points with
10 rebounds and four steals, and
Morales added 13 points, eight
boards and five steals. The two
players played slightly more than
one half, as Jewell led 27-8 at
halftime.
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