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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2018
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Athletes of the Week
CLAIRE
BUSSERT
Warrenton
PAYTON
WESTERHOLM
Seaside
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Claire Bussert
n a 42-37 win over Portland Adventist Jan. 23, Bussert made two free
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throws with 2:29 left for the eventual winning points. The junior guard
a team-high 18 points. In the next game, she scored 18 points with five
ith his backcourt teammate (Chase Januik) out with a fractured wrist,
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Westerholm stepped up and scored 29 points, to go with 11 rebounds
and 10 assists, in an 87-84 overtime win against Tillamook Jan. 26. The junior
assists in a 53-27 win vs. Catlin Gabel. Bussert recently tied the school record
for most assists in a game (11), equaling marks by Brooke Bridgens (1995)
and Meredith Claterbos (2003). She also tied the school record for steals in a
game, with 12 against Waldport (tying Jordane Marxer, 2008).
guard was 10-for-15 from the field and 9-of-12 at the free throw line. He
recorded the triple-double even after finishing the first half with four fouls.
Astoria
girls score
road win at
Scappoose
McCollum
scores 50 in
3 quarters,
Blazers beat
Bulls 124-108
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By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
SCAPPOOSE — The Astoria
girls basketball team completed
the first half of the league season
with a win Wednesday night, a
38-25 decision at Scappoose.
Sam Hemsley and Brooklynn
Hankwitz scored seven points
apiece for the Lady Fishermen,
who made their final Cowapa
League visit to Scappoose.
Astoria overcame a rough night
from the field to improve to 3-2,
alone in third place in the league
standings behind Banks and Val-
ley Catholic. The Lady Fish begin
the second half of league play
Friday with a big game at Val-
ley Catholic, the second of three
straight road trips for Astoria.
The Fishermen outscored
Scappoose 21-10 over the second
and third quarters in Wednesday’s
game.
Scappoose
rallies to top
Astoria boys
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SCAPPOOSE — Two teams
looking for their first league win
of the season met on the court
Wednesday night at Scappoose,
where the Indians hosted Astoria
for the last time as members of the
same league.
Scappoose — which will be
competing at the Class 5A level
next year — scored their first
league victory of the season, 55-47
over the Fishermen.
Karsten Johnson scored 18
points to pace Astoria, which held
a 14-6 lead after one quarter.
“We played well again — we
just didn’t take care of some of the
little things down the stretch,” said
Astoria coach Kevin Goin. “And
we had to foul, and (the Indians)
made their free throws.”
Scappoose finished 16-of-24 at
the line, to Astoria’s 5-for-6.
Isaac Brockman was in foul
trouble early, but still had 10 points
for the Fishermen, who were out-
scored 19-9 in the second quarter.
Astoria won the third period scor-
ing, 11-10, to take a 36-35 lead
going into the final quarter.
Chris Bendle led Scappoose
with 21 points.
It’s a short break for the Fish-
ermen, who travel Friday to Val-
ley Catholic.
AP Photo/Felipe Dana
Matthieu Reeb, Secretary General of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, speaks during a press conference
about Russian athletes who are challenging the decisions taken by the International Olympic Committee.
28 Russian athletes have
Olympic doping bans lifted
By JAMES ELLINGWORTH
Associated Press
M
OSCOW — Twenty-eight
Russian athletes had their
Olympic doping bans over-
turned Thursday, throwing the Inter-
national Olympic Committee’s pol-
icy on the country into turmoil.
The Court of Arbitration for
Sport ruling was set to reinstate
seven Russian medals from the 2014
Sochi Olympics, including gold in
men’s skeleton and men’s 50-kilo-
meter cross-country skiing.
“This does not mean that these
28 athletes are declared innocent,
but in their case, due to insufficient
evidence, the appeals are upheld, the
sanctions annulled and their indi-
vidual results achieved in Sochi are
reinstated,” CAS secretary general
Matthieu Reeb said in Pyeongchang.
The IOC said it had taken note of
the CAS decision “with satisfaction
on the one hand and disappointment
on the other,” adding the decision
“may have a serious impact on the
future fight against doping.”
The 28 who had their bans lifted
could now seek late entry into the
Pyeongchang Olympics, but the IOC
said “not being sanctioned does not
automatically confer the privilege of
an invitation.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin
said the ruling “can’t fail to please
us, and it confirms our position that
the overwhelming majority of our
athletes are clean athletes.”
However, Putin also called for
respect for the IOC, saying in com-
ments reported by state news agency
RIA Novosti that “there should not
be any euphoria from our side and
we need to be calm about this.”
Russian Deputy Prime Minis-
ter Vitaly Mutko said at a televised
cabinet meeting that the govern-
ment would back further legal action
to allow the athletes to compete in
Pyeongchang “if the IOC does not
accept them.”
Eleven more Russians were ruled
to have been guilty of doping but
had lifetime bans imposed by an
IOC disciplinary panel two months
ago cut to a ban only from the Pyeo-
ngchang Games, which open next
week.
In the urgent verdicts announced
Thursday, the two CAS judging pan-
els who heard 39 appeal cases last
week in Geneva — and took testi-
mony from Russian whistleblower
Grigory Rodchenkov — did not give
detailed reasons.
“In 28 cases, the evidence col-
lected was found to be insufficient
to establish that an anti-doping rule
violation (ADRV) was commit-
ted by the athletes concerned,” the
sports court said in a statement.
CAS said it “unanimously found
that the evidence put forward by the
IOC in relation to this matter did not
have the same weight in each indi-
vidual case.”
The 11 whose appeals were
rejected came from men’s bobsled,
women’s cross-country skiing and
women’s hockey.
They included two-time bobsled
gold medalist Alexander Zubkov.
His re-tested samples had abnormal
levels of salt, suggesting his tainted
urine was swapped in the Sochi test-
ing laboratory with previously stored
clean urine, as Rodchenkov said.
Still, the CAS rulings will be
seen as a victory for Russia, which
has long denied it ran a state-backed
doping program.
“It’s a big victory for them and
I’m relieved that justice has finally
been done,” Philippe Baertsch, a
lawyer for the athletes, told The
Associated Press. “This confirms
what they’ve been saying since Day
1, namely that they are and they’ve
always been clean athletes, and that
they were wrongly sanctioned with-
out any evidence.”
The IOC has already invited 169
Russians to the Pyeonchang Olym-
pics to compete under a neutral flag,
but may now be forced to allow in
athletes it deems dopers, eight days
before the games begin.
“We do hope that the IOC will
grant them the right to participate
in Pyeongchang,” Baertsch said in a
telephone interview. “I think that the
least the IOC could do is allow them
to participate, so we will request that
they are allowed to participate, and
depending on the answer of the IOC,
we will take the measures that are
necessary.”
PORTLAND — CJ McCollum
had inspiration for his 50-point
game: His 92-year-old great aunt
was visiting Portland for the first
time.
He gave her quite a show.
McCollum scored a fran-
chise-record 28 points in the first
quarter before finishing with a
career-high 50 through three, and
the Portland Trail Blazers took
advantage of the short-handed
Chicago Bulls for a 124-108 vic-
tory Wednesday night.
“During the game I was think-
ing, she probably thinks this is a
really good game to come to,” he
said, laughing.
McCollum’s 28 points in the
opening quarter were the most by
an NBA player this season. His
final tally was nine points shy of
the team record set by Damian
Lillard last season.
“I’m not into chasing records,
man. I just want to win,” McCo-
llum said. “Even throughout the
game, I looked up and I was like,
I can get 40. And then Ed (Davis)
was like, ‘No, you need 50.’ And
Dame was like, ‘Get 50.’ So I was
like, ‘OK, I’ll get 50 if you guys
want me to.’”
Lillard also sat out the final
period after adding 13 points and
seven assists for the Blazers, who
led by as many as 29. It was Port-
land’s fourth straight win over-
all, a season high, and the club’s
eighth in a row at home.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
TODAY
Girls basketball — Knappa at Faith
Bible, 6 p.m.; Livingstone Adventist at
Jewell, 5:30 p.m.
Boys basketball — Knappa at Faith
Bible, 7:45 p.m.; Livingstone Adventist
at Jewell, 7 p.m.
BOYS BASKETBALL
Scappoose 55, Astoria 47
Astoria
14 9 11 11—47
Scappoose
6 19 10 20—55
AST (47): Karsten Johnson 18, Brock-
man 10, Hunt 9, Olson 8, Tice 2, Long,
Stenblom.
SCP (55): Chris Bendle 21, Toman 11,
Wagenknecht 8, McNabb 6, Verbout 5,
Logan 2, McKedy 2, Maller.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Astoria 38, Scappoose 25
Astoria
9 9 12 8—38
Scappoose
7 4 6 8—25
AST (38): Sam Hemsley 7, Brooklynn
Hankwitz 7, Rogers 5, Norris 5, Jackson
4, Cummings 3, Fausett 3, Helmersen 2,
O’Brien 2, Long.
SCP (25): Kaylee Wegner 10, Kopra 4,
Wills 4, Brodala 3, Fisher 2, Stafford 2.