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SCOREBOARD
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
TODAY
Girls basketball — Astoria at Banks,
6 p.m.; Seaside at Tillamook, 6 p.m.;
Lewis & Clark League playoff: Warren-
ton at Clatskanie, 7 p.m.
Boys basketball — Astoria at Banks,
7:45 p.m.; Seaside at Tillamook, 7:45
p.m.; Raymond or Life Christian vs. Ilwa-
co, 6 p.m., at Castle Rock HS
WEDNESDAY
Girls basketball — SW 2B Semifi-
nals: Wahkiakum vs. Ilwaco, 7:30 p.m.,
at Kelso HS
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Knappa 33, Gaston 32
Knappa
6 8 12 7—33
Gaston
6 13 6 7—32
KNA (33): Madelynn Weaver 9, Van-
derburg 8, Carlson 6, Miller 5, Ramvick
3, Inman 2, Taggart, Tischer, Strain.
GAS (32): Brooke Jordan 12, Hall 7,
Lewis 4, Clark 3, Bassel 3, Johnson 3.
SWIMMING
District 1/4A Championships
at Astoria Aquatic Center
Girls team: Tillamook 311, Newport
252, Taft 147, Astoria 136, Valley Cath-
olic 124, Scappoose 103, Seaside 75,
Rainier 55, Toledo 49, Nestucca 10.
(Top 3 placers)
200 Medley Relay: 1, Tillamook,
1:57.82. 2, Astoria, 2:01.83. 3, Newport,
2:07.02.
200 Freestyle: 1, Lauren Bobo-Shis-
ler, New, 2:00.19. 2, Grace Peeler,
Ast, 2:11.91. 3, Ellie McMasters, New,
2:13.13.
200 Individual Medley: 1, Tori Smith,
Ast, 2:21.67. 2, Chyanna Blackburn,
New, 2:28.93. 3, Allison Wilkes, Til,
2:34.70.
50 Freestyle: 1, Whitney Averill, Til,
25.95. 2, Sophie Dziak, New, 26.22. 3,
Chloe Buck, Rai, 26.89.
100 Butterfly: 1, Maicee Malcom,
Til, 1:07.15. 2, Rayanna Fernandez, Til,
1:11.95. 3, Shannon Blackburn, New,
1:12.21.
100 Freestyle: 1, Nina Zweifel, Til,
55.38. 2, Emily Mendyke, VC, 56.84. 3,
Sophie Dziak, New, 57.23.
500 Freestyle: 1, Ellie McMasters,
New, 5:44.34. 2, Shannon Blackburn,
New, 5:48.71. 3, Nhu Phan, VC, 6:37.97.
200 Freestyle Relay: 1, Tillamook,
1:46.76. 2, Newport, 1:46.90. 3, Astoria,
1:49.13.
100 Backstroke: 1, Nina Zweifel, Til,
58.97. 2, Lauren Bobo-Shisler, New,
1:02.94. 3, Tori Smith, Ast, 1:04.13.
100 Breaststroke: 1, Whitney Averill,
Til, 1:10.63. 2, Kara Putman, Til, 1:12.54.
3, Emily Mendyke, VC, 1:14.47.
400 Freestyle Relay: 1, Tillamook,
3:52.25. 2, Newport, 3:57.91. 3, Taft,
4:21.08.
Boys team: Newport 409, Scappoose
234, Astoria 169, Taft 159, Seaside 68,
Rainier 62, Valley Catholic 60, Tillamook
28, Toledo 20.
200 Medley Relay: 1, Newport,
1:45.17. 2, Scappoose, 1:52.01. 3, Taft,
1:54.52.
200 Freestyle: 1, Sean O’Meara, New,
1:49.78. 2, Luke Bachart, New, 1:54.75.
3, Tristan Scarborough, New, 1:58.75.
200 Individual Medley: 1, Lucas El-
lingson-Cosenza, New, 2:03.01. 2, Arath
Hernandez, New, 2:12.50. 3, Davis
Wingard, Ast, 2:18.35.
50 Freestyle: 1, Josh Shipley, Sea,
22.77. 2, Gabriel Arce-Torres, Taf, 23.52.
3, Will Blair, Sca, 23.66.
100 Butterfly: 1, Nick Topar, New,
56.80. 2, Brannigan Vogt, Sca, 1:01.64.
3, Arath Hernandez, New, 1:02.53.
100 Freestyle: 1, Sean O’Meara, New,
50.10. 2, Caden Shanks, New, 53.25. 3,
Will Blair, Sca, 54.43.
500 Freestyle: 1, Lucas Elling-
son-Cosenza, New, 4:53.23. 2, Luke
Bachart, New, 5:04.39. 3, Tristan Scar-
borough, New, 5:19.82.
200 Freestyle Relay: 1, Newport,
1:34.22. 2, Scappoose, 1:37.37. 3, Sea-
side, 1:40.12.
100 Backstroke: 1, Caden Shanks,
New, 57.99. 2, Nick Topar, New, 1:01.12.
3, Nash Wilson, Sca, 1:02.09.
100 Breaststroke: 1, Josh Shipley,
Sea, 1:02.31. 2, Ronan Krutzikows-
ky, New, 1:04.99. 3, Kai Daniels, New,
1:05.26.
400 Freestyle Relay: 1, Scappoose,
3:29.77. 2, Newport, 3:30.24. 3, Taft,
3:39.57.
KIM DOMINATES FOR
1ST OLYMPIC GOLD
By DENNIS WASZAK JR.
Associated Press
P
UP NEXT: WINTER OLYMPICS
YEONGCHANG, South Korea — It was
a day for all ages at the Winter Olympics.
A few hours after 17-year-old Chloe
Kim dominated the women’s halfpipe snow-
boarding final on Tuesday, 28-year-old Marcel
Hirscher, a six-time overall World Cup cham-
pion, won the men’s combined at the Pyeong-
chang Games.
Four years after being too young to make the
Olympic team in Sochi despite having the talent
and scores to do so, Kim performed like a sea-
soned veteran in South Korea.
Kim put up a score of 93.75 on the first of
her three finals runs and then topped that with
a near-perfect 98.75 on her last run — having
already wrapped up her first Olympic gold.
“I knew that I did put down a really good
first run,” Kim said, “but I was also like, ‘I can
do better than that. I can one up myself.’”
Kim’s parents both migrated to the United
States from South Korea, where their daughter
made her Olympic debut in a cause for celebra-
tion in both countries.
Liu Jiayu finished second with 89.75 to
become the first Chinese snowboarder to medal
at the Olympics. Kim’s teammate, Arielle Gold,
overcame a dislocated shoulder during training
to earn a bronze.
In a first for the Olympics, Canadian curlers
Kaitlyn Lawes and John Morris won gold in the
debut of mixed doubles with a 10-3 victory over
the Swiss pair of Jenny Perret and Martin Rios.
In a rush of night-time finishes, Kjeld Nuis
led a Dutch double in the men’s 1,500-meter
speedskating final, Natalie Geisenberger suc-
cessfully defended her women’s luge title in
a 1-2 finish for Germany, the cross-country
classic sprint titles went to Johannes Hoesflot
Klaebo of Norway and Stina Nilsson of Swe-
den, and Italian short-track speedskater Arianna
Fontana won the women’s 500 meters.
In Jeongseon, Hirscher’s combined two-run
time was 0.23 seconds faster than silver med-
alist Alexis Pinturault of France. The Austrian
is a three-time Olympian who had previously
won only a silver medal despite never finishing
below fifth in any race.
“I’m super happy because now this stupid
question has gone away, if I’m thinking that my
career is perfect without a gold medal,” Hirscher
said. “Now the question is zzzzzzit — deleted.”
• Men’s halfpipe finals
• Today, 5:30 p.m. TV: NBC
IN THE MIX
Lawes and Morris were too good in the
mixed doubles curling final, with Switzerland
conceding in the sixth end of the match after
missing an opportunity for a takeout with its
last shot of the end. That gave Canada another
two points. Seeing no way to come back from
the deficit, the Swiss ended the game.
The team from Russia picked up bronze
with Anastasia Bryzgalova tumbling onto
the ice but bouncing back with teammate —
and husband — Aleksandr Krushelnitckii for
an 8-4 victory over Norway. Bryzgalova was
shuffling backward in the third end when she
stumbled over a stone and had her legs fly
out from under her and she crashed hard onto
her backside. The spill drew gasps from the
stunned crowd and left a stunned Bryzgalova
embarrassed for a moment.
DUTCH DOUBLE
Kjeld Nuis led teammate Patrick Roest in a
1-2 finish in the 1,500 meters to give Nether-
lands four wins from four finals in speedskat-
ing at the Olympic Oval.
The Dutch have now won eight of 12 med-
als at the Pyeongchang Games, keeping them
on the stunning medal pace set at the 2014
Sochi Games when they finished with 23 out
of 36.
CROSS-COUNTRY
Klaebo won gold in the men’s cross-coun-
try sprint, with Frederico Pellegrino of Italy
getting the better of a photo finish to take sil-
ver ahead of Russian competitor Alexander
Bolshunov.
Stina Nilsson of Sweden won the wom-
en’s cross-country sprint. Maiken Caspersen
of Norway was second and Russian skier Yulia
Belorukova took bronze.
Yet again, there was no medal for the United
States. Jessica Diggins placed sixth, failing in
her quest to become the first American woman
to win an Olympic medal in cross-country
skiing.
GEISENBERGER’S GOLD
Geisenberger is the third woman to win
consecutive Olympic luge golds, joining fel-
low German greats Steffi Martin Walter and
Sylke Otto.
She beat German teammate Dajana Eit-
berger and Alex Gough, who took bronze to
give Canada its first Olympic luge medal.
Erin Hamlin of the United States was sixth
and Emily Sweeney crashed out midway
through her final run.
HOT WATER
Japanese short-track speedskater Kei Saito
tested positive for the banned diuretic Acetalo-
zamide in the first doping case of the Pyeong-
chang Games.
Saito, a reserve on the 5,000-meter relay
team, said in a statement that he was “extremely
shocked” by the results and has “never used
anabolic steroids.” He did not race in any event
before the test result from a pre-competition
sample was confirmed.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Saito
“accepted on a voluntary basis to be provision-
ally suspended and to leave the Olympic Vil-
lage.” Yasuo Saito, vice president of the Japa-
nese Olympic Committee, said the JOC would
work to help the 21-year-old skater clear his
name after the Olympics.
WHITE HOT
Chloe Kim of the United States
celebrates winning gold in
the women’s halfpipe.
AP Photo/Gregory Bull
Shaun White was best in halfpipe quali-
fying, scoring a 98.5 to edge Australian rival
Scotty James for the prime spot in Wednes-
day’s three-run final.
The two-time gold medalist will be in a
12-man final that includes Sochi silver medal-
ist Ayumu Hirano of Japan, who finished third,
and American teammates Ben Ferguson, from
Bend, Jake Pates and Chase Josey. Kent Callis-
ter, also from Bend and competing for Austra-
lia, qualified 12th.
GIRLS BASKETBALL STATE PLAYOFFS
Lady Loggers beat
Gaston, advance
The Daily Astorian
Emily Rose/For The Daily Astorian
Astoria seniors Madi Landwehr, left, and Darian Hageman sign let-
ters-of-intent during a ceremony Friday at Astoria High School.
Local star athletes sign
their letters-of-intent
The Daily Astorian
National letter-of-intent sign-
ing day took place last Friday, with
athletes across the nation pledging
continue playing their sports at the
collegiate level.
Locally, Jewell senior Niqui
Blodgett (who plays softball for
Warrenton High School) signed a
letter-of-intent Wednesday to play
softball at George Fox University.
Astoria athletes Darian Hage-
man and Madi Landwehr had
already signed letters to attend Ore-
gon State and Clackamas Commu-
nity College, respectively, but they
had the chance to sign in a cere-
mony at a school assembly Friday.
Staci Miethe/For The Daily Astorian
Jewell’s Niqui Blodgett will
take softball pitching talent
to George Fox University next
school year.
Hageman will compete in track
and field for the Beavers, while
Landwehr will play volleyball at
Clackamas.
GASTON — The state playoff
hopes are still alive for the Knappa
girls basketball team, which won its
fourth game of the season Monday
night, a 33-32 decision at Gaston in
a first-round game of the Northwest
League playoffs.
And now it’s on to Neah-Kah-Nie
for the Lady Loggers, who improve
to 4-19 overall. Knappa is just two
wins from qualifying for the Sweet
16.
The Loggers came into Mon-
day’s game as the sixth-place team in
the NWL with a 3-11 league record,
behind Gaston’s 6-8 mark. The Log-
gers can now set their sights on
fourth-place Neah-Kah-Nie (7-7).
Knappa plays the Pirates at 6 p.m.
Thursday in Rockaway Beach, with
the winner advancing to play the
loser of the second vs. third-place
loser (Saturday in Forest Grove), for
a spot in the Sweet 16.
Madelynn Weaver scored a game-
high nine points for the Loggers, in
one of their highest-scoring games
of the season. It’s only the third time
Knappa has scored 33 points or more
in the last 13 games.
Weaver also had eight of Knap-
pa’s 17 steals.
The Loggers trailed 19-14 at half-
time, but then outscored the Grey-
hounds 12-6 in the third quarter.
Knappa held a 31-27 lead midway
through the fourth quarter, when Gas-
ton rallied and took a 32-31 lead with
three minutes remaining.
The Loggers responded with
a steal and score by Weaver for a
33-32 lead. And that’s how the score
remained for the final two-and-a-half
minutes, with the Loggers missing a
pair of free throws.
Knappa had to make several stops
on defense to secure the win.
“It was just a fun, exciting game
to watch and to coach,” said Knappa
coach Marie Green. “We just fed off
the energy of their crowd.”
She added, “we came out and had
a super-strong third quarter. That’s
something we’ve struggled with all
year. But we got hot, Madelynn had
two big threes, and we made the
defensive stops that we had to make.”
Paris Vanderburg added eight
points and eight rebounds for
Knappa. Sophia Carlson had five
steals and Aiko Miller finished with
nine rebounds for the Loggers.
“The 17 steals was good, and we
out-rebounded them 31-23,” Green
said. “It’s the first time we’ve won at
Gaston in a long time.”