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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2018
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BASEBALL
SOFTBALL
Astoria defeats
Tillamook, 6-1
Astoria pounds
out 20 hits at
Tillamook
Astoria’s Trey Hageman
and Ebin Hillard both hit
home runs, and Dylan Rush
pitched a complete game for
the Fishermen, in a 6-1 vic-
tory Tuesday over Tillamook
at CMH Field.
Hageman had three of
Astoria’s eight hits and drove
in three runs, while Rush gave
up eight hits with eight strike-
outs and a walk on the mound.
Tied 1-1 going into the
bottom of the fifth, the Fish-
ermen scored five runs to
pull away for the win. Asto-
ria (4-1) remains one game
behind Banks (5-0) in league
play.
The struggling Cheese-
makers fall to 1-4 in league,
and will host Astoria for a sin-
gle game Thursday.
Warrenton slips
past Royals, 9-6
WARRENTON — The
Warrenton Warriors tuned
up for a big doubleheader
Wednesday with a 9-6 win
over Portland Christian, in
Lewis & Clark League base-
ball action at Huddleston
Field.
In a back-and-forth con-
test, Warrenton held a 4-0
lead after one inning, before
the Royals rallied and took
a 6-5 lead in the top of the
fourth.
The Warriors answered
with a run in the bottom of the
fourth, then scored three in the
sixth to secure the win.
Warrenton had 10 hits,
while four Warrior pitchers
(Devin Jackson, Austin Lit-
tle Gabe Breitmeyer and Dal-
ton Knight) gave up 11 hits,
with seven strikeouts and two
walks. Warrenton committed
four errors, having not played
outside much in the last week.
The win sets up a big
twinbill at home Wednesday
against Rainier.
“We had not played since
the eighth (of April), so I
guess I don’t feel too bad
about how we performed, hav-
ing been off for nine days,”
said Warrenton coach Lennie
Wolfe. “The frustrating thing
with the rainouts, was that
we didn’t want to burn arms
(with two doubleheaders over
the next three days), and we
burned one arm today, so Bre-
itmeyer won’t be available.
But we did what we had to do
on the hill.
“Devin was fantastic, and
we really got after it offen-
sively in the sixth inning,” he
said. “It was fun. We really
played some ‘old’ Warrenton
baseball, hitting and running
the bases aggressively.”
— The Daily Astorian
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Hayden Vandehey of Banks slides safely into home plate, under the tag of Seaside catcher Alex Teubner.
Banks outlasts Seaside
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SEASIDE — It took eight innings
and three different sports, but the Banks
Braves finally got a win in Seaside.
Earlier this school year, the Braves
brought top-ranked teams to the coast
in football and boys basketball, only
to come up short to the Gulls in both
sports.
The third sport was the charm for
Banks, which scored five runs in the
top of the eighth inning for an 8-3 vic-
tory over Seaside, in a Cowapa League
baseball game Tuesday at Broadway
Field.
Still, it was nearly another
heart-breaking defeat for the Braves.
Leading 3-1, Banks pitcher Hayden
Vandehey took a no-hitter into the fifth
inning, when Seaside’s Payton Wester-
holm reached on an error with one out.
Duncan Thompson broke up the
no-hitter with an infield single, and
Isaias Jantes drew a walk to load the
bases.
Seaside’s player of the game was
definitely Astor Landwehr.
The senior had driven in the Gulls’
first run in the first inning with a sac-
rifice fly.
And he drove in the tying runs in
the bottom of the fifth. Following the
walk to Jantes, Landwehr singled to
left to score Westerholm and Thomp-
son to knot the game at 3-3.
Landwehr came up big again in the
top of the sixth. With two outs and a
Banks runner at second, Blake Gobel’s
fly ball to shallow right was caught
by a diving Landwehr to end the
inning.
The Gulls had a golden opportunity
to end it in the bottom of the seventh,
Pelicans beat the Blazers to go up 2-0
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
PORTLAND — Removed from
the turbulence that marked his pre-
vious seasons in New Orleans, Jrue
Holiday is in a good place — and it
shows.
Holiday had a career playoff-high
33 points as the Pelicans took a 2-0
lead in their first-round playoff series
against the Portland Trail Blazers
with a 111-102 victory on Tuesday
night. The series shifts to New Orle-
ans on Thursday.
Holiday struggled at times with
injuries after coming to the Pelicans
in 2013. Then in early 2016 he took
a leave of absence when doctors dis-
covered that his wife, former U.S.
national soccer team player Lauren
Holiday, had a brain tumor while she
was pregnant with the couple’s first
child.
“He’s been through some tough
times, the first year he’s injured, he’s
on minute restrictions through the
greater part of the season, and then
everybody’s familiar with the situa-
tion with his wife and what they had
to go through there,” coach Alvin
Gentry said. “Everybody’s healthy
and in a good place now so I think
mentally he’s in a good place.”
Holiday played Tuesday night
with emotion he did not often show
earlier in his career. He agreed that it
felt a weight has been lifted.
“My family’s the most important
thing to me, and with them being OK
I can come back to the team freely
and be able to help them out now,”
Holiday said. “It’s been fun. I feel like
my teammates and the organization
definitely helped me out coming back
from things with my family, and even
the injuries, with being able to play
and being able to perform at the peak
I’m performing.”
Holiday also had nine assists for
the Pelicans, while Rajon Rondo
came close to his 11th postseason tri-
ple-double with had 16 points, 10
rebounds and nine assists.
GOLF
GEARHART — In a
match between two teams that
have won the last 14 Cow-
apa League championships
and three of the past four state
titles in 4A boys golf, Seaside
once again has the upper hand
on Scappoose.
Rapidly rising up the list of
state title favorites, the Gulls
knocked off the defending
state champions in a league
dual match Monday afternoon
at Gearhart Golf Links.
Several career-low scores
helped Seaside card a 334
team score to 345 for Scap-
poose, in the final dual match
between the two teams. The
Indians will make the jump to
the 5A level next year.
“It was another great
match in the long history of
this friendly rivalry,” said Sea-
side coach Jim Poetsch, whose
team has won nine league
titles to five for Scappoose.
The Indians’ Chase Elliott
came in with an 80, which
earned him medalist honors. It
also gave Scappoose an eight-
NBA PLAYOFFS: RND 1
No. 3 seed
No. 6 seed
PORTLAND
NEW
TRAIL
ORLEANS vs
BLAZERS
PELICANS
(49-33)
(48-34)
Game 3: New Orleans leads 2-0
Thursday, 6 p.m.
At New Orleans,
Smoothie King Center
TV: NBATV
Knappa cruises
past Neah-Kah-
Nie, 14-3
ROCKAWAY BEACH —
Knappa
pitchers
Madelynn
Weaver and Emily Nicholson
combined on a five-inning two-hit-
ter Tuesday, helping the Loggers
to an easy 14-3 win at Neah-Kah-
Nie in Northwest League softball
action.
Weaver pitched the first three
innings and struck out three with
three walks.
Sophia Carlson had a two-
run double and Laicee Hendrick-
son added a two-run single for
Knappa, which held a 14-2 lead
after three innings. The Loggers
had seven hits and took advantage
of 13 walks and two hit batters by
two Neah-Kah-Nie pitchers. The
Pirates also had four errors.
Warrenton tunes
up for Rainier
with win
WARRENTON — Warrenton
scored early and often in an easy
victory over Portland Christian,
11-1, in Lewis & Clark League
softball action Tuesday.
The Royals scored their lone
run in the first, but that was it, as
Warrior pitcher Niqui Blodgett
shut down Portland Christian
from there, allowing just one hit
with 12 strikeouts and four walks.
She became Warrenton’s all-time
leader in strikeouts in the process.
The Warriors scored two runs in
their first at-bat, and six in the sec-
ond inning. Warrenton had seven
hits, two by Claire Bussert. Mad-
ison Kadera and Blodgett scored
two runs apiece, while the War-
riors stole 10 bases, drew seven
walks and four hit batters. The
Royals have given up a state-high
218 runs through 11 games.
Warrenton hosts Rainier for a
doubleheader Wednesday.
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SCOREBOARD
Seaside defeats defending state champ
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loading the bases with two outs, before
Thomas Cook struck out the final bat-
ter to end the inning.
The Braves took advantage of their
new life in the top of the eighth.
Vandehey led off with a single,
Tyler Lilly reached on a bunt and
Blaine Herb walked to load the bases
with no outs.
And that’s when the floodgates
opened. Vandehey scored on a wild
pitch, pinch-hitter Dalton Renne drove
in Lilly, an infield single by Hayden
Gobel brought in Herb, and a bas-
es-loaded walk forced in another run.
The Braves tacked on one more for
good measure, and Cook retired the
side in order in the bottom of the eighth
for the victory.
Vandehey had three hits and drove
in two runs for Banks, while Seaside
stranded nine base runners.
TILLAMOOK — Astoria soft-
ball is tearing up Cowapa League
pitching over the last week, scor-
ing a combined 46 runs in three
games.
The Lady Fishermen ham-
mered out 20 hits at Tillamook,
on their way to a 15-1 win over
the Cheesemakers in a Cowapa
League game Tuesday.
Astoria had hits from 10 dif-
ferent players, while nine players
scored runs and 10 had at least one
RBI. Lexxis Lyngstad, Julia Norris
and Hailey O’Brien had three hits
apiece and Brooklynn Hankwitz
drove in a team-high three runs for
the Fishermen, who scored 10 runs
in the second inning.
Norris pitched a six-hitter with
six strikeouts and a walk.
stroke lead, as Seaside’s No. 1,
Connor Merrell, shot 88.
Seaside’s Jackson Kunde
came in with an 83, cutting
the Scappoose lead to four.
The Gulls followed with
career low scores from Sam-
son Sibony (84), Curtis Kunde
(84) and Mason Shamion (83)
to secure the victory.
“It is a good day when you
can throw out your No. 1 play-
er’s score and beat the defend-
ing state champions,” Poetsch
said. “We haven’t had a lot
of scores in the 70s this year,
although that is coming soon,
but we are very good from
one to five and that showed
today.”
Shamion “finally had that
breakthough that I’ve been
expecting and beat all but
one Scappoose player out of
the five spot,” he said. “He
only had one score above
bogey all day long. Some
of our matches this year
have had too many blowup
holes and Mason did a great
job of controlling his game
today.
In fact all of them did a
good job of limiting damage
today.”
The Gulls had two sevens,
but nothing worse. Scappoose
had seven scores of seven or
above, “and that was the dif-
ference in today’s match,”
Poetsch said. “The other guys
all played well. Connor scored
only three above his average
and we didn’t even use his
score today. Jackson played
well enough to move back
into the No. 1 spot, but Curtis,
Samson and Mason were all
right there challenging him for
it. Nine of our 11 players had
season lows today, as all six
JV players tied or set new sea-
son lows. We keep getting bet-
ter and hopefully we will peak
about a month from now.”
The Seaside junior var-
sity team continued its unde-
feated season with a 425-435
victory over the Indians. John
Whittle was medalist for the
fourth time in as many out-
ings with a 94. The Gulls will
be the host team in the Sea-
side Invitational, next Mon-
day at the Astoria Golf &
Country Club.
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
SOFTBALL
TODAY
Baseball — Rainier at Warrenton (2), 3:30 p.m.
Softball — Seaside at Tillamook, TBA; Rainier at War-
renton (2), 3:30 p.m.; Knappa at Vernonia (2), 3 p.m.
Track — Astoria/Seaside at Tillamook, 3:30 p.m.
Boys golf — Banks Invitational, Noon
THURSDAY
Baseball — Astoria at Tillamook, 5 p.m.; Seaside at
Banks, 5 p.m.
Softball — Tillamook at Astoria, 5 p.m.; Banks at Sea-
side, 5 p.m.; Warrenton at Portland Adventist (2), 3:30
p.m.
Track — NWL meet, Knappa, 3:30 p.m.
Boys golf — Astoria at Tillamook, 1 p.m.
Astoria 15, Tillamook 1
Astoria
0(10)2 03—15 20 0
Tillamook
001 00—1 6 4
W: Julia Norris (6 Ks, 1 walk). L: Lili Vogel (0 Ks, 1 walk).
RBI: Ast, Hankwitz 3, Barendse 2, Norris 2, Ranta, Lyngs-
tad, Both, O’Brien, Helligso, Pritchard, Helmersen; Til,
Knutsen. 2B: Ast, Barendse, Ranta, Hankwitz; Til, Nelson.
LOB: Astoria 7, Tillamook 5.
BASEBALL
Banks 8, Seaside 3
Banks
200 010 05—8 9 2
Seaside
100 020 00—3 2 1
Vandehey, Cook (7) and Herb; Westerholm, Thomp-
son (8) and Teubner. W: Cook. L: Thompson. RBI: Ban,
Vandehey 2, Herb, Renne, H.Gobel, Partain, Bunn; Sea,
Landwehr 3. 2B: Ban, H.Gobel. HBP: Ban, Herb; Sea,
Westerholm, Blanchard. LOB: Banks 7, Seaside 9.
Astoria 6, Tillamook 1
Tillamook 000 100 0—1 8 0
Astoria
010 500 x—6 8 0
Harmon, Richardson (4); Rush and Hillard. W: Rush. L:
Harmon. RBI: Til, Brown; Ast, Hageman 3, Hillard, Kolee,
Rush. HR: Ast, Hageman, Hillard. HBP: Ast, Hillard. LOB:
Tillamook 6, Astoria 7.
Warrenton 9, Portland Chr. 6
Portland C. 013 200 0—6 11 4
Warrenton 410 103 x—9 10 6
Dailey, Osborne (3), Marshall (6) and Siegel; Jackson,
Little (2), Breitmeyer (3), Knight (7) and Morrow. W: Breit-
meyer. L: Osborne. RBI: PC, Chinchilla, Dailey, Mihalak,
Osborne; War, Breitmeyer 2, Morrow 2, Little, Kapua. 2B:
PC, Chinchilla; War, Breitmeyer. HBP: PC, Mihalak. LOB:
Portland Christian 10, Warrenton 5.
Warrenton 11, Portland Chr. 1
Portland C. 100 00—1 1 3
Warrenton
261 2x—11 7 0
W: Niqui Blodgett (12 Ks, 4 walks). L: Olivia Stumetz (2
Ks, 7 walks). RBI: PC, Antonov; War, Duncan 2, Kadera 2,
Baker, Bussert, Mossman, Ramsey. HBP: War, Blodgett,
McFadden, Ramsey, Thomas. LOB: Portland Christian 4,
Warrenton 9.
Knappa 14, Neah-Kah-Nie 3
Knappa
554 00—14 7 3
Neah-Kah-Nie 020 10—3 2 4
W: Madelynn Weaver (3 Ks, 3 walks). L: Hannah Grid-
er (0 Ks, 6 walks). RBI: Kna, Carlson 4, Hendrickson 2,
Rethati 2, Patterson; NKN, Ramirez 2. 2B: Kna, Carlson.
HBP: Kna Patterson 2. LOB: Knappa 8, Neah-Kah-Nie 5.
DP: Neah-Kah-Nie.
BOYS GOLF
Seaside 334, Scappoose 345
at Gearhart Golf Links
Seaside (334)
Jackson Kunde, 40-43—83
Mason Shamion, 43-40—83
Samson Sibony, 41-43—84
Curtis Kunde, 41-43—84
Connor Merrell, 46-42—88
Scappoose (345)
Chase Elliott, 42-38—80
Jake Gray, 45-42—87
Jack Eggers, 41-48—89
Jaden Holmanson, 46-43—89
Lucas Elliott, 46-46—92