SPORTS
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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2018
Softball: Knappa opens
play in Riverside Tourney
The Daily Astorian
IRRIGON — The Knappa
Lady Loggers went 0-for-2 on
their first day of action in the
Riverside Softball Tournament
in Irrigon.
Actions resumes Wednes-
day, with Knappa facing host
Riverside at 1 p.m., followed
by a 3:30 p.m. contest against
Irrigon.
The Loggers will remain
on their annual eastern road
trip with a game Thursday at
Heppner.
After a loss to Echo to start
the day, Knappa faced a tough
Grant Union team in Game 2.
And
the
Prospectors
showed that they will be one of
the contenders at the 3A level,
defeating Knappa 22-1 in five
innings.
Grant Union entered the
game ranked No. 2 in the state
with a 4-0 record, having out-
scored their four opponents
by a combined 76-10 (now
98-11).
Sophomore Emily Nichol-
son pitched for Knappa, and
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gave up nine hits with a strike- Knappa pitcher Madelynn Weaver, pitching last week at Seaside, tossed a no-hitter Tues-
out. Offensively, Laicee Hen- day in a 4-3 loss to Echo.
drickson and Kaitlyn Truax
The sophomore struck out 10, gave up Truax had a double for the Loggers, who
each had two hits for the Loggers.
three walks and did not allow a hit over held an early 1-0 lead.
Echo 4, Knappa 3
seven innings, but Echo took advantage
Echo scored twice in the bottom of the
IRRIGON — Knappa’s Madelynn of three Knappa errors for a 4-3 victory first and tacked on two runs in the fourth.
Weaver pitched a rare no-hit loss Tuesday over the Loggers.
Cougar pitcher Alyssa Ray did the
afternoon,in the Loggers’ first game of the
Knappa had five hits, including 2-for-4 rest, as the senior struck out 12 Loggers
Riverside Tournament.
efforts by Kaitlyn Truax and Weaver. and gave up just two walks.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
TODAY
Baseball — Naselle at Astoria, 4
p.m., CMH Field
Softball — Knappa at Riverside
Tournament (vs. Riverside, 1 p.m.;
vs. Irrigon, 3:30 p.m.)
THURSDAY
Baseball — Seaside at Madras
Tournament, TBA; Amity at Warren-
ton, 4 p.m.
Softball — Amity at Warrenton, 4
p.m.; Knappa at Heppner, 10 a.m.
Harrisburg tops Seaside, 9-2
SOFTBALL
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Echo 4, Knappa 3
Knappa
101 010 0—3 5 3
Echo
200 200 x—4 0 3
W: Alyssa Ray (12 Ks, 2 walks). L:
Madelynn Weaver (10 Ks, 3 walks).
RBI: Kna, Miller, Weaver, Truax;
Echo, Keltz, MacPherson, Putman,
Weems. 2B: Kna, Truax. HBP: Echo,
Ray. LOB: Knappa 7, Echo 4.
SEASIDE — The Sea-
side softball team tasted
defeat for the first time
this season, as Harrisburg
scored a 9-2 win over the
Gulls at Broadway Field on
Day 2 of the Seaside Spring
Break Tournament.
Seaside falls to 5-1
overall.
Seaside’s next scheduled
game is April 3 at Valley
Catholic, the Cowapa League
opener for both teams.
AP Photo/Gerald Herbert
Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard goes to the
basket against New Orleans Pelicans forward Solomon
Hill in the second half.
Lillard’s 41 points lift
Blazers past Pelicans
By BRETT MARTEL
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS —
Damian Lillard couldn’t
get out of New Orleans fast
enough. The Pelicans could
only wish the Portland All-
Star had been in even more
of hurry.
Lillard scored 20 of his 41
points in the fourth quarter
to lift the Trail Blazers to a
107-103 victory on Tuesday
night, then booked a flight
straight home in hopes of
arriving in time for the birth
of his first child.
Lillard, who’s been
expecting a son, said he
found out when he got back
to the locker room after the
game that his girlfriend had
gone into labor. He said the
message was along the lines
of: “Get home.”
He said he’d head straight
to the hospital as soon as he
landed.
“I’m excited. I’ve been
waiting,” Lillard said.
He’d stuck with his team
as long as he could because
the Blazers are in a tight
playoff race, and the two
teams closest behind them in
the standings — Oklahoma
City and New Orleans — are
the past two they’ve played.
They beat both to strengthen
their hold on third place,
moving 2 ½ games ahead of
the Thunder and 3 ½ ahead
of New Orleans with eight
games left.
Portland coach Terry
Stotts said he planned to rest
Lillard to start the fourth
quarter, when the Pelicans led
by four. Lillard asked to stay
in the game. “We were just
fighting, fighting, fighting,
and I was like, ‘Man, we’ve
got to roll,”’ Lillard said.
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