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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2018
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GIRLS WRESTLING
BOYS WRESTLING
Warriors Castle Rock wins Ilwaco Beach Brawl
take 10th
in state
meet
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
SPRINGFIELD — The War-
renton girls wrestling team took
a trip to Springfield last Friday
and Saturday, to compete in the
Oregon Girls Wrestling State
Championships at Thurston High
School.
And out of the 91 teams with
wrestlers competing, Warrenton
tied Sweet Home for 10th in the
team standings. Host Thurston
won the team title, ahead of Cen-
tury and Hood River Valley.
A total of 277 girls were reg-
istered, and due to large bracket
sizes, the first day of competition
went past 10 p.m.
Sophomore Jade Freniere
became Warrenton’s first female
placer at state, as she took fourth
place in the 220-pound weight
bracket. As a result, she qual-
ified for a trip to Portland to
compete at Memorial Coliseum
in the upcoming OSAA state
championships.
“We are so proud of Jade,”
said Warrenton coach Corey
Conant. “She is really light for
the weight class and had to wres-
tle back to earn true fourth. She is
such a tough kid and has come a
long way as a wrestler.”
The Warriors did not have any
other placers, but used their depth
to score points.
Warrenton junior Sahanna
Rodriguez fought off a 7-0 defi-
cit to win 11-10 in the final sec-
onds of her consolation match at
100 pounds.
At 125, junior Anna Schen-
beck bounced back from a loss
with a pin in her consolation
match.
Warrenton’s other wrestler
at 125, senior Alma Bolanos,
won two championship bracket
matches before heart-breaking
losses in the quarterfinals and the
consolation round knocked her
from the tournament.
Warrior sophomore Isabella
Carr was 2-2 at 135, scoring two
falls to help with team points.
At 160, Warrenton junior
Noel O’Bryan suffered a first
round loss, then bounced back
with three straight falls. She was
one round from placing before a
tough loss in consolation Round
5.
Elsewhere, Dom Verley and
Libby Rehnert both went 1-2,
each contributing bonus fall
points at 180.
“Getting knocked from the
championship bracket meant a
long trip through the consolation
side, which is one of the toughest
things to do in wrestling,” Conant
said. “Our girls were true conso-
lation warriors and scrapped for
points wherever they could score
them.”
There were nearly 45 wres-
tlers in each bracket at 125 and
135, “which is great for girls
wrestling in Oregon, but makes
for a tough-as-nails tournament,”
he said.
“This year’s state team was
the biggest Warrenton has ever
had, and has set the bar for next
year,” Conant said. “The girls
should feel proud of themselves
and their accomplishments.”
SCOREBOARD
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
TODAY
Boys basketball — Astoria at Scap-
poose, 6 p.m.; Seaside at Banks, 6 p.m.;
Warrenton at Oregon Episcopal, 6 p.m.;
City Christian at Knappa, 7:45 p.m.;
Jewell at Perrydale, 7 p.m.; Washington
School for the Deaf at Naselle, 7 p.m.
Girls basketball — Astoria at Scap-
poose, 7:45 p.m.; Seaside at Banks,
7:45 p.m.; Warrenton at Oregon Episco-
pal, 7:30 p.m.; City Christian at Knappa,
6 p.m.; Jewell at Perrydale, 5:30 p.m.;
Washington School for the Deaf at
Naselle, 5:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Girls basketball — Naselle at Willapa
Valley, 6:15 p.m.
Boys basketball — Naselle at Willapa
Valley, 7:30 p.m.
ILWACO, Wash. — Castle Rock
knocked Ilwaco off the top spot, and
made off with the team title in this
year’s “Beach Brawl,” last Friday and
Saturday at Ilwaco High School.
The Rockets had four individ-
ual champions and scored 189 points
to finish first ahead of Ilwaco. The
defending champion Fishermen racked
up 155 points for second. Rainier was
the top Oregon school, placing third.
Other local schools compet-
ing included Knappa (10th), Seaside
(11th), Warrenton (15th) and Astoria
(17th).
Ilwaco had three wrestlers reach
the championship finals, with Kee-
gan Kemmer (113 pounds), Ghannon
Whelden (126) and Brandon Duke
(152) all placing second. Joe Thomp-
son finished third at 120.
Knappa had two wrestlers place
third — Jade Somoza at 106 and Isaac
Goozee at 182. Somoza was 3-1 for the
day, while Goozee finished 2-1.
“The team came through again,
doing well with small numbers,” said
Knappa coach Dan Owings. “Jade
Somoza did remarkably well, since she
wrestled in the boys bracket.
“Luke (Goozee, who went 3-2
to place fifth at 132) had to wrestle a
tough Rainier wrestler and lost to him
once in the championship side and
again in consolation,” Owings said.
“He lost the second time by a 5-4
decision.”
For Astoria, senior Juan Jimenez
won the individual title at 106.
In the semifinals, he defeated
Somoza by technical fall, 19-3.
Jimenez faced R.A. Long’s Ivan Men-
doza in the championship bout, and
trailed 2-0 after the first two rounds.
In the third round, Mendoza chose
the neutral position which led to
Jimenez scoring a takedown and put-
ting Mendoza on his back, resulting in
a 5-2 victory for Jimenez.
Fishermen senior Trey Hageman
was 3-1 at 160, the most competitive
weight class of the tournament. Hage-
man opened with pins over Woodroe
Kiser of Adna and Noah Martin of
Ocosta.
In the semifinals, he faced Wayne
Baker of Castle Rock and lost by fall.
Hageman bounced back in the third-
place tie match, pinning Greg Petit of
Ilwaco in the first round.
Team results: Castle Rock 189,
Ilwaco 155, Rainier (OR.) 122.5, Adna
119, Mark Morris 99.5, RA Long 97.5,
Kelso 95, Neah-Kah-Nie 85, Willapa
Harbor 80, Knappa 72, Seaside 70,
Lincoln 67, Ocosta 64.5, Toledo/Win-
lock 62.5, Warrenton 54, Clatskanie
45, Astoria 44.5, Nestucca 26, Life
Christian 18.
SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Ilwaco boys hold
off North Beach
OCEAN SHORES, Wash. —
Ilwaco jumped out to a 17-7 lead
after one quarter, then had to with-
stand a big North Beach rally to
score a 60-54 win over the Hyaks
in a Pacific 2B League boys bas-
ketball game Friday.
Daniel Whiting scored 14
points and teammate Reese Tyn-
kila added 12 for the Fishermen,
who improve to 10-5 in league
play.
AP Photo/Luca Bruno
Lindsey Vonn of the United States shows the gold medal she won in the women’s downhill at the
Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia.
Vonn eyes some unfinished
business at 2018 Olympics
By HOWARD FENDRICH
and PAT GRAHAM
Associated Press
L
indsey Vonn couldn’t wiggle
her fingers or move her wrist.
Understandably, she wanted
to be reassured everything would
be OK.
A crash during training had left
her screaming, then passing out
from the pain, on the side of a Col-
orado mountain, 15 months ahead
of the Pyeongchang Olympics.
Just one of a series of serious inju-
ries that has interrupted the Amer-
ican’s illustrious ski career, this
required delicate surgery to insert a
plate and more than a dozen screws
into her broken right arm while try-
ing to avoid nerve damage.
“She looked up at me: ‘Buddy,
you’re going to fix this, right?
You’ve got this?’” her longtime
sports physical therapist, Lindsay
Winninger, recalled in a recent tele-
phone interview with The Asso-
ciated Press. “I confidently said,
‘Yes.’ But at that point in time, I
didn’t know if I (could). That was
hard from Day One. ... We were
putting in almost eight hours a
day on that arm, to try and revive
the nerve a little bit and get things
done as fast as possible. That was
a big one.”
There have been several big
ones for Vonn along the way, no
real surprise given that she spends
day after day hurtling herself down
icy slopes at speeds that can top 75
mph.
“The thing is, everyone asks me
if I’m afraid after so many crashes.
Do I take my foot off the gas
pedal? ... You try to manage risk as
much as you want,” she said. “But
at the end of the day, it’s a danger-
ous sport.”
Concussions. Broken fingers.
Torn ligaments. A fractured ankle.
The lengthy list includes the
ripped-up right knee that held her
out of the 2014 Sochi Games and
prevented her from defending her
downhill gold medal from four
years earlier, when she also col-
lected a bronze in the super-G.
“Eight years has been a very
long time. Obviously, I was very
... disappointed and devastated and
frustrated that I missed Sochi,” the
33-year-old Vonn said. “I’ve been
waiting for this for a long time. I’m
ready.”
So it’s only natural that as she
looked ahead to the 2018 Win-
ter Games, which open in South
Korea on Feb. 9, Vonn voiced one
primary concern — and it was not
related to making sure her racing
would be at its best.
Indians to remove Wahoo logo from uniforms
By TOM WITHERS
Associated Press
CLEVELAND — A smiling
reminder of lazy summer days. An
ugly depiction of racism.
Beloved by some, reviled by
others.
Chief Wahoo — the grinning,
wide-eyed, feather-wearing logo that
has divided baseball fans and even
families in Cleveland — is being
tossed from the game.
Major League Baseball announced
Monday that starting in the 2019 sea-
son, the Indians will no longer have
the polarizing Wahoo logo — used by
the club since 1947 — on their jersey
sleeves or caps.
Following discussions over the
past year between Commissioner Rob
Manfred and team owner Paul Dolan,
the sides agreed that the cartoonish
caricature is “no longer appropriate
for on-field use.”
It’s being applauded as a signifi-
cant step by some Native American
groups, who hope the move pushes
other major league franchises, like
the NFL’s Washington Redskins, to
abolish logos or change nicknames
deemed offensive.
“It’s a step in the right direction,”
Ilwaco girls
cruise to win at
North Beach
OCEAN SHORES, Wash. —
Makenzie Kaech scored 27 points,
and the Ilwaco girls basketball
team had all the points it would
need after just one quarter Friday,
in a 67-16 win at North Beach.
— The Daily Astorian
Oregon
reaches No. 6
in AP women’s
basketball poll
NEW YORK — UConn con-
tinues to lead the way in The Asso-
ciated Press women’s basketball
poll.
The Huskies (20-0) are once
again the unanimous No. 1 team,
receiving all 32 votes from the
national media panel Monday.
UConn cruised to easy wins over
Memphis and Tulane. Next up is
a trip to South Carolina on Thurs-
day to face the No. 7 Gamecocks.
The top five remained
unchanged this week with Missis-
sippi State, Baylor, Louisville and
Notre Dame following UConn.
DUCKS FLY TOGETHER:
Oregon’s climb up the poll has
reached new heights as the Ducks
are No. 6. Oregon has never been
ranked that high. Before this sea-
son, ninth was the best the team
had ever achieved. Oregon hosts
Stanford and Cal this weekend in
games that could put more room
between the Ducks and the rest of
the Pac-12.
Pistons land
Griffin from
Clippers in
blockbuster deal
AP Photo/Tony Dejak
A Chief Wahoo logo is shown on a baseball at the Cleveland Indians
team shop in Cleveland.
said Philip Yenyo, executive director
of the American Indian Movement of
Ohio.
While Yenyo was elated when the
AP informed him of Wahoo’s dimin-
ishing status, he also expressed deep
disappointment that the Indians will
continue to wear the logo during the
upcoming season and sell merchan-
dise featuring the big-toothed emblem.
“I don’t understand why they’re
drawing this out,” Yenyo said. “It
doesn’t make any sense to me, unless
they want to continue to make what’s
basically blood money. Just make the
leap already.”
It may be more complicated than
that in Cleveland. Although the club
won’t acknowledge it publicly, there
were financial reasons to consider in
banning Wahoo. The team will still
profit from its use by selling caps,
T-shirts and others products featuring
Wahoo in the Cleveland area.
The
Detroit
Pistons
dramatically shook their strug-
gling roster by acquiring one of
the NBA’s top players in Blake
Griffin in a trade with the Los
Angeles Clippers.
The deal for the five-time All-
Star forward was announced early
Tuesday, giving Detroit a player
who has been the face of the Clip-
pers but whose career has been
undercut by injuries.
Detroit
sent
forward
Tobias Harris, guard Avery
Bradley and center Boban Mar-
janovic to Los Angeles, with
the Clippers also receiving draft
picks. Detroit also acquired for-
ward Brice Johnson and center
Willie Reed.
— Associated Press