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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2017
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Athletes of the Week
ALMA
BOLAÑOS
Warrenton
DALE
TAKALO
Knappa
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ompeting against a field of mostly 5A and 6A schools, the 3A Warren-
C
ton girls wrestling team took third (the only non-5A/6A school in the top
10) at the Liberty Invitational, Dec. 16 in Hillsboro. Bolaños highlighted War-
o boys basketball team was better at the Class 2A level last week than
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the Knappa Loggers. And Takalo played a big role in leading Knappa to
three straight wins. In a 77-55 win at Gaston Dec. 12, Takalo scored a team-
renton’s day by going 3-0 to take first place in the 124-129-pound bracket. A
senior who is only in her second year of wrestling, Bolaños pinned her final
opponent in the last seconds of the third round.
high 23 points; he had his second 30-point game of the season in a 69-48 win
over Vernonia Dec. 14; and on Dec. 16 against top-ranked Western Menno-
nite, the Knappa senior scored 14 of his game-high 19 points in the second
half, including two big 3-pointers in the third quarter.
Amity defeats
Warrenton in
Battle of the
Warriors
Reliever Nicasio,
Mariners finalize
$17M, 2-year deal
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AMITY — A 19-6 run by the
Amity Warriors helped them to a
59-55 win Wednesday night over
the Warrenton Warriors in a non-
league girls basketball game.
Warrenton’s Tyla Little had 25
points through three quarters (and
finished with 26), and the visiting
Warriors held a 49-40 lead head-
ing into the fourth period.
That’s when Amity “threw
a 1-3-1 zone at us, and we just
weren’t really prepared for it,”
said Warrenton coach Robert
Hoepfl. “Claire (Bussert) still did
a great job in handling it, but we
had some turnovers, missed some
shots and some free throws that
cost us.
“It’s a game that we wanted to
win, but it’s nonleague, and we’ll
learn from it,” he said.
Sophomore Maylin Williams
led Amity with 22 points, fol-
lowed by junior Keeley Graham
with 19.
Little moved into 11th on the
all-time Warrenton career scoring
list.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
TODAY
Girls basketball — Marshfield at Sea-
side, 6 p.m.
Boys basketball — Marshfield at
Seaside, 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY
Girls basketball — Ilwaco at Monte-
sano, 5:30 p.m.
Boys basketball — Ilwaco at Mon-
tesano, 7 p.m.; Firm Foundation at
Naselle, 3:30 p.m.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Amity 59, Warrenton 55
Warrenton
9 21 19 6—55
Amity
17 12 11 19—59
WAR (55): Tyla Little 26, Alvarez 14,
Bussert 9, Ramsey 6, M.Blodgett, Hey-
en, Diego.
AMI (59): Maylin Williams 22, Graham
19, Croxford 11, Plummer 8, Hatch 4,
Huskey 4, Knuth 2.
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Krissy Barendse-Goodman/For The Daily Astorian
Knappa senior Kaleb “Bubba” Miller was the
lone quarterback on the Class 2A all-state foot-
ball team.
Knappa senior linebacker Mason Hoover was
second in the voting for Defensive Player of the
Year.
LOGGERS GAIN
ALL-STATE HONORS
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T
he Knappa Loggers continued to reap the
rewards from their 2017 football season, with
nine players selected to the Class 2A all-state
squad, released this week.
Knappa had eight members of its starting offense
selected all-state — senior quarterback Kaleb “Bubba”
Miller (the only quarterback on the first-team offense),
running back Luke Goozee, wide receivers Reu-
ben Cruz and Kanai Phillip, and offensive linemen
Reece Hunt, David Patterson, Jacob Ford and Jaxson
Goodman.
Additionally, five defensive starters made all-state
— Hunt and Goodman on the line, linebacker Mason
Hoover, and defensive backs Cruz and Phillip.
Miller was runner-up as the state’s Offensive
Player of the Year, and Hoover was second in voting
for Defensive Player of the Year.
“I really felt like Kaleb was the Offensive Player
of the Year,” said Knappa coach Aaron Barendse. “He
was the best player in the state on that side of the ball.”
The award went to Monroe sophomore running back
Zach Young.
The Defensive Player of the Year was St. Paul
junior Justin Herberger, and Bill Crowson of state
champion Monroe was Coach of the Year.
“Our program was really well-represented and
I couldn’t be prouder of our young men,” Barendse
said. “We had a great season (10-1 overall, semifinals)
that we should be proud of here in Knappa. Losing to
the state champs with a chance to win that game finish-
ing in the Final Four is pretty remarkable.
“We are losing some great kids but have a lot of
great ball players returning,” he said. “I’m excited for
the future. We’ve created a good culture at Knappa and
our kids expect to be successful through the work they
put in. I’m proud to be a Logger.”
Seahawks’ Wagner regrets Twitter reaction after loss
Associated Press
RENTON, Wash. — Seahawks
linebacker Bobby Wagner expressed
regret Wednesday for taking to social
media to vent his frustrations about
comments made by teammate Earl
Thomas after Seattle’s blowout loss
to the Los Angeles Rams.
Whether all is settled between
Seattle’s star linebacker and its stand-
out free safety is left to interpretation.
“Do I feel like I mishandled the sit-
uation? Yeah, there was a better way
of going about the situation. I could
have (done) better. It’s one of those
things where you live and you learn
and that’s kind of what it is,” Wagner
said. “It’s just one of those things, it
was a frustrating game, it was a frus-
trating situation, the game didn’t go
as well as we planned and emotions
get high and things of that nature. ...
I’m man enough to admit I handled
the situation wrong.”
Wagner played in the 42-7 loss
Sunday despite being limited by a
hamstring injury that’s been bother-
ing him for nearly two months. Wag-
ner was clearly not at his normal level
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and Thomas questioned after the
game whether Wagner should have
been playing in the first place.
“To be totally honest, I think the
guys that played, you’ve got to give
your hats off to (Wagner) and a cou-
ple guys that played,” Thomas said
after the loss. “But my personal opin-
ion, I don’t think they should have
played. The backups would have did
just as good.”
Wagner sent two tweets that were
later deleted. In one, he told Thomas
to keep his name out of his mouth and
to “stop being jealous” of other peo-
ple’s success.
Both Wagner and coach Pete Car-
roll indicated Wednesday that the
issue was settled and had been worked
out between the pair at the beginning
of the week. But Thomas indicated
there hadn’t been a conversation to
quell any lingering problems.
SEATTLE — Reliever Juan
Nicasio has finalized a $17 mil-
lion, two-year contract with the
Mariners that gives Seattle another
hard-throwing arm out of its bullpen.
Nicasio gets a $500,000 signing
bonus and salaries of $7.5 million
next year and $9 million in 2019.
He can earn an additional $3.5
million annually in performance
bonuses for games finished.
Seattle announced the deal
Tuesday after Nicasio successfully
completed a physical. The deal was
agreed to during the winter meet-
ings last week in Florida.
A 31-year-old right-hander,
Nicasio had a 2.61 ERA in 76
games last season, when he set a
career high for appearances and
tied for the NL lead.
He spent most of the season
with Pittsburgh before two games
with Philadelphia and nine with
St. Louis. Nicasio was 2-0 with a
1.64 ERA and four saves with the
Cardinals.
Indians agree to
$16M, 2-year deal
with 1B Alonso
CLEVELAND — The Indi-
ans didn’t take long to cover their
opening at first base. After losing
Carlos Santana to Philadelphia in
free agency, Cleveland agreed to
a $16 million, two-year contract
with first baseman Yonder Alonso,
a person familiar with the negotia-
tions told the Associated Press.
The 30-year-old will take a
physical on Thursday to final-
ize the deal, said the person,
who spoke on condition of ano-
nymity because the team has not
announced the agreement.
Alonso hit a career-high 28
homers last season and became a
first-time All-Star. He batted .266
with 67 RBIs in stints with Oak-
land and Seattle.
Semi plunges
into home pool of
Blazers’ Turner
PORTLAND — A semi-truck
hauling a large trash bin crashed
and plunged into a Portland Trail
Blazer’s guard Evan Turner’s
swimming pool in Southwest
Portland.
Turner was home in bed at
the time. The driver was taken to
Oregon Health and Science Uni-
versity Medical Center with seri-
ous injuries
Authorities say the truck’s
driver lost control on a hairpin
curve and wound up down a hill
and in the pool. The driver was
extricated but his condition is
unknown.
—Associated Press