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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2017
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SPORTS
IN BRIEF
No. 10 Oregon
defeats No. 19
Texas A&M 84-62
LAS VEGAS — For the sec-
ond time in a little more than a
month, Oregon had no problem
handling Texas A&M.
Maite Cazorla scored 26
points, Sabrina Ionescu added
25, and the 10th-ranked Ducks
beat the No. 19 Aggies 84-62
on Thursday in the Duel in the
Desert.
Oregon won at Texas A&M
83-68 on Nov. 16 in the semifi-
nals of the Preseason Women’s
NIT.
Oregon coach Kelly Graves
told his players the Aggies would
be looking for revenge, and he
emphasized attacking the basket
from the opening tip. Texas A&M
took its only lead at 2-0 before
Oregon went on a 10-0 run in less
than two minutes, getting seven
points from Satou Sabally.
“We were as good as we
could’ve been, certainly offen-
sively,” said Graves, whose
Ducks hit 14 of 17 (82.4 per-
cent) from the floor in the first
quarter to take a 34-17 lead. “We
talked about having a quick start.
And since we’ve inserted Satou
Sabally into the starting lineup,
we’ve actually started better, so I
think that’s helped. Defensively,
we had a little bit to be desired.
But offensively everything was
clicking. We spaced the floor
well, we made shots. We played
well, but could even maybe do it
a little bit better.”
Sportscaster
Enberg found
dead at home at 82
SAN DIEGO — Dick Enberg,
a Hall of Fame broadcaster
known as much for his excited
calls of “Oh
my!” as the big
events he cov-
ered during a
60-year career,
has died. He was
82.
Enberg’s
daughter, Nicole
Dick
Enberg
Vaz,
Enberg
confirmed the
death to The Associated Press.
She said the family became con-
cerned when her father didn’t
arrive Thursday on his flight to
Boston, and he was found dead
at his home in La Jolla, a San
Diego neighborhood, with his
bags packed.
His daughter said the family
believes Enberg died of a heart
attack but was awaiting official
word.
“It’s very, very, very shock-
ing,” said Vaz, who lives in Bos-
ton. “He’d been busy with two
podcasts and was full of energy.”
Enberg’s wife, Barbara,
already was in Boston and was
expecting his arrival.
The family “is grateful for the
kind thoughts and prayers of all
of Dick’s countless fans and dear
friends,” according to a statement
released by Enberg’s attorney,
Dennis Coleman.
— Associated Press
SCOREBOARD
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
TODAY
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.
BOYS BASKETBALL
Seaside 51, Marshfield 37
Marshfield
7 5 16 9—37
Seaside
7 18 10 16—51
MAR (37): Grant Webster 16, Miles 9,
Stover 8, Carpenter 4, Woolsey.
SEA (51): Chase Januik 18, Wester-
holm 12, Thompson 8, Br.Johnson 7, Si-
bony 2, Be.Johnson 2, Carter 2, Meyer.
JV: Marshfield 57, Seaside 43
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Marshfield 63, Seaside 29
Marshfield
15 19 19 10—63
Seaside
5 7 11 6—29
MAR (63): Tess Garrett 22, Myrand 11,
Locati 6, Dea 6, Browning 5, Erickson 5,
Chavez 4, Brugnoli 4.
SEA (29): Anesha Smart 9, Hoekstre
8, Ideue 7, Garhofer 2, Angulo-Joli 2,
Babbitt 1, Davis.
Photos by Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Seaside’s Chase Januik drives to the basket against Marshfield.
Seaside romps over Marshfield
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — The Marshfield boys basket-
ball team was playing its first road game of the
season Thursday night. And the Pirates could
not have picked a more challenging place and
opponent.
The place was Seaside High School, and
the opponent was the Class 4A defending state
champion Seaside Gulls. The No. 5-ranked
Gulls showed the No. 3-ranked Pirates a thing
or two, as Seaside scored a 51-37 win.
After battling to a 7-7 tie after one quar-
ter, the rest of the night belonged to the Gulls,
who turned a 10-9 lead early in the second
period into a 25-9 advantage in the closing
minute of the first half.
The Gulls won the game, as well as the
free throw fest it turned into. Seaside finished
23-of-33 at the line, to Marshfield’s 16-for-23.
The Pirates scored just five points in the sec-
ond quarter, all from the free throw line.
Marshfield made a run in the third quarter,
when 6-foot-7 junior Grant Webster scored
eight of his team-high 16 points to bring
the Pirates to within 35-28 by the end of the
period.
Corey Stover highlighted a 6-0 run with
a dunk, and Webster’s 3-pointer capped the
quarter.
Marshfield’s Jordy Miles opened the
fourth with a layup that brought the Pirates to
within 35-30, but that’s as close as the visitors
would get.
The Gulls scored the next eight points on
baskets by Chase Januik, Brayden Johnson,
Beau Johnson, and Rafi Sibony, which gave
The Seaside Seagulls defense tries to
block a shot.
Seaside a 43-30 lead.
The rest of the points were scored from
the free throw line, the Gulls making 8-of-
13 to Marshfield’s 7-of-8 over the final four
minutes.
Januik (18 points) and Payton Westerholm
(12) combined to score 30 for the Gulls, who
improve to 8-1 for the most wins at the 4A
level. Marshfield falls to 4-3, with a game
today at Tillamook. The Gulls have games
next week at St. Helens and Newport.
SEASIDE GIRLS
No. 1 Marshfield gets
even with Gulls, 63-29
SEASIDE — Seaside girls basketball
coach Mike Hawes said before the season
started that there would be teams looking to
“get even” for recent losses to the Gulls.
The No. 1-ranked Marshfield Pirates were
definitely among those teams.
After losing to Seaside in the third-place
game of the state tournament last season,
Marshfield went looking for a measure of
revenge Thursday.
And they got it, as the Pirates scored a
63-29 nonleague win at the Gulls’ Nest.
“We ran into a pretty good squad in Marsh-
field,” said Hawes, whose team defeated
Marshfield 53-40 in the state tournament.
“We’re still trying to figure out how not to
turn the ball over against decent length and
pressure, but again feel like we’re making
progress in some areas.”
Seaside’s Jetta Ideue hit a 3-pointer for
the first points of the game, but Marshfield
answered with the next 15, highlighted by a
pair of 3-pointers from junior Tess Garrett.
Garrett drained two more threes early
in the second quarter, and the Pirates held a
34-12 lead by halftime.
Garrett scored 16 of her game-high
22 points in the first half, finishing with
six 3-pointers. Junior teammate McKayla
Myrand added 11 points for the top-ranked
Pirates, who have just one senior in the start-
ing lineup.
Anesha Smart had nine points and
Gretchen Hoekstre scored eight for Seaside.
“We’re still trying to make sure we have
five girls on the court knowing what and when
to do things, but that’s what this non-league
schedule is for,” Hawes said. “Our posts are
starting to figure some things out, and Anesha
Smart and Gretchen Hoekstre gave us good
activity and some points.”
Seahawks, Cowboys face simple playoff scenario: win or else
By SCHUYLER DIXON
Associated Press
ARLINGTON, Texas — Dak
Prescott knows about the stack of
scenarios required to get the Dallas
Cowboys in the playoffs.
There’s no point in looking past
the first one, especially since it
applies to both teams when Seat-
tle visits Sunday in the return of star
Dallas running back Ezekiel Elliott
from a six-game suspension over
domestic violence allegations.
The winning team is still in the
NFC wild-card race. The loser isn’t.
“None of those scenarios mean
anything if we don’t win,” Prescott
said. “So we can talk about them
all we want, but the most important
thing for us to do is win this game
and then we’ll worry about it. Cross
our fingers and hope on those scenar-
ios, but all we can do is control this
game against Seattle.”
The Cowboys (8-6) lost their first
three games without Elliott, forc-
ing them into what they figured was
must-win mode with five games
remaining.
They were right, and now Dal-
UP NEXT: SEAHAWKS
• Seattle Seahawks (8-6)
at Dallas Cowboys (8-6)
• Sunday, 1:25 p.m. TV: FOX
AP Photo/Ben Margot
AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack
Cowboys QB Dak Prescott
Seahawks QB Russell Wilson
las has matched the three-game win-
ning streak from before Elliott finally
started serving his suspension after
weeks of legal battles.
Seattle (8-6) is coming off the
most lopsided loss in eight seasons
under Pete Carroll, a 42-7 defeat to
the Rams that put Los Angeles on
the brink of the NFC West title. The
Seahawks, who have dropped two
straight, haven’t lost three in a row
in December since 2010, when they
made the playoffs at 7-9.
That won’t work this time for Seat-
tle and its injury-depleted defense,
most notably stars Kam Chan-
cellor and Richard Sherman. The
Seahawks have made the playoffs
five straight years.
“We have never really had to face
adversity in the season like this,”
receiver Doug Baldwin said. “We’ve
endured some pretty devastating
losses before, but I think just the time
frame in which we are in, the situa-
tion which we are in, the state of our
roster, age-wise, so many different
factors play into it. I think it’s a dif-
ferent place for us.”
Things to consider with the Cow-
boys seeking consecutive win-
ning seasons for the first time since
2008-09:
ELLIOTT’S RETURN: Last
year’s NFL rushing leader was terse
in his first media session, abruptly
ending it after a series of questions
about his time in Cabo San Lucas,
Mexico, during the suspension after
saying he didn’t want to talk about
the saga any longer. The Cowboys
say he’s still the same fun-loving
locker room presence from before
the hiatus, and a motivated one at
that.
“The fact that he probably never
let his team down, never been in this
position or situation, so to experi-
ence that, I know what it lit inside
of him and, yeah, you’ll see it,” said
Prescott, who was the NFL Offensive
Rookie of the Year with his backfield
mate a year ago when the Cowboys
had an NFC-best 13 wins.
RUN OVER: At one time this sea-
son, Seattle had one of the best run
defenses in the NFL. Not so much
the past two weeks. Led by rookie
Leonard Fournette (101 yards), Jack-
sonville had 156 yards rushing.