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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2018
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Athletes of the Week
MADELYNN
WEAVER
Knappa
PAYTON
WESTERHOLM
Seaside
Photos by Gary Henley/The Daily Astorian
he sophomore pitched Knappa into first place in the Northwest League
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standings last week, with three wins over Nestucca (10-4, 17-6 and 17-9).
Weaver earned the pitching victory in all three wins. In 19 innings pitched,
a four-game span, the Gulls defeated the top three teams in the league
I plate n standings.
In a 7-3 win at Astoria (April 25), Westerholm was 4-for-5 at the
with two doubles, scored twice and drove in two runs. Two days later, he
she gave up a total of just 13 hits, with 25 strikeouts. At the plate, she was
2-for-5 in the second game, with two RBIs and two runs scored.
was the winning pitcher in a 7-6 victory at Scappoose. He scattered four hits
over 5.1 innings, with seven strikeouts and two walks.
Astoria baseball
scores big road
win at Scappoose
Seaside
wins with
late rally
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SEASIDE — The seventh
inning of a Seaside baseball game
is always exciting, as it was again
Wednesday night at Broadway
Field.
After Valley Catholic scored
three runs in the top of the seventh
to tie the game, the Gulls scored
one in the bottom of the seventh
to win, 6-5.
Seaside improves to 5-6 in
league. The Gulls play Friday
at Tillamook, and can pull into a
third-place tie with a win and a
Scappoose loss at Banks.
In their final at-bat Wednes-
day, Seaside’s Gage McFadden
reached on an error, and took sec-
ond when the Valiants committed
another error on a bunt by Payton
Westerholm.
A third error allowed both
runners to advance, and Duncan
Thompson was walked intention-
ally to load the bases. Alex Teub-
ner drew another walk to force in
McFadden with the game-winning
run.
Thompson got the victory on
the mound. Seaside had four hits
from four different players, with
Astor Landwehr driving in two
runs with a double. He also scored
twice.
Valley Catholic’s Daniel Pruitt
was 2-for-4 with a double and
three RBIs.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
TODAY
Track — Seaside at Banks, 3:30 p.m.
BASEBALL
Astoria 16, Scappoose 8
Astoria
223 252 0—16 13 3
Scappoose 000 332 0—8 8 5
Hageman and Hillard; Lewis, Anicker
(2), Buchanon (5), Toman (7) and Gill.
W: Hageman. L: Buchanon. RBI: Ast,
Johnson 2, Matteucci 2, Stutznegger
2, Hageman, Kolee, Reed; Scp, Toman,
Gross, Travis, Verbout, Lewis. 2B: Ast,
Hageman, Matthews, Reed, Stutzneg-
ger; Scp, Lewis. 3B: Ast, Johnson. HR:
Scp, Toman. HBP: Ast, Kolee; Scp, To-
man, Travis, Larson. LOB: Astoria 9,
Scappoose 5.
Seaside 6, Valley Catholic 5
V.Catholic 200 000 3—5 5 6
Seaside
010 130 1—6 4 4
Pruitt, Agnew (5); Westerholm, Thomp-
son (7) and Teubner. W: Thompson. L:
Agnew. RBI: VC, Pruitt 3, Schultheis,
M.Weber; Sea, Landwehr 2, Teubner 2,
Jantes. 2B: VC, Pruitt; Sea, Landwehr.
HBP: VC, Eisenhardt, Elston, W.Weber.
LOB: Valley Catholic 8, Seaside 4. DP:
Seaside.
SOFTBALL
Scappoose 10, Astoria 0
Astoria
000 000—0 2 4
Scappoose 135 001—11 10 3
W: Nina Macedo (3 Ks, 2 walks). L: Ju-
lie Norris (3 Ks, 4 walks). RBI: Krueger
2, Galey 2, Mills, Erhardt. LOB: Astoria
5, Scappoose 6. DP: Scappoose.
AP Photo/Elaine Thompson
Seattle Mariners starting pitcher James Paxton gets ready for the next batter after striking out an Oakland
Athletics player as a line of “eh’s,” a nod to Paxton’s Canadian heritage and his strikeout count, appears on
a scoreboard during the seventh inning of Wednesday’s game in Seattle.
Paxton strikes out MLB-high
16, but A’s beat Mariners 3-2
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
S
EATTLE — Among his variety
of pitches, James Paxton discov-
ered quickly he needed only one.
His fastball was so overpowering that
even though Oakland Athletics bat-
ters knew it was coming, they couldn’t
catch up.
That fastball led to the finest per-
formance of Paxton’s career with a
major league-high 16 strikeouts on
Wednesday night. And yet it ended up
coming in a Seattle loss after the Mar-
iners’ bullpen blew a late lead and saw
the A’s rally for a 3-2 win.
It left the Mariners clubhouse filled
with mixed feelings — thrilled about
what Paxton did, and frustrated about
blowing a game it should have won.
Paxton departed after seven innings
with a 2-0 lead, then watched Jed
Lowrie hit a two-run homer off Juan
Nicasio in the eighth inning and Mark
Canha opened the ninth with a home
run against Edwin Diaz (0-1). Diaz
had allowed just one earned run in 15
appearances this season.
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“Paxton was just gross today. I
haven’t faced him in a couple years
and just trying to hit that heater was
tough,” Canha said. “It was kind of
like a sigh of relief in the dugout when
he finally got out of there, because he
was rolling.”
The bullpen collapse muted Pax-
ton’s accomplishment. He posted the
highest strikeout total by a Seattle
pitcher since Randy Johnson fanned
19 on Aug. 8, 1997. He got 14 A’s on
swinging strikeouts.
“I probably had the best fastball
of my career,” Paxton said. “It was
jumping.”
The left-handed Paxton was the
fourth different pitcher in Mariners
history to strike out at least 16 in a
game, joining Johnson, Mike Moore
and Mark Langston. Johnson struck
out 19 twice, 18 once, and 16 twice in
his Mariners career, while Moore and
Langston reached the mark once.
But none of those other perfor-
mances were as efficient as Paxton.
He threw 80 strikes among his 105
pitches, gave up five hits and walked
one. Consider when Johnson struck
out 16 in 1997, he threw 155 pitches
and he threw 160 in 1992 when he
struck out 18.
While it’s a different era, it also
made the efficiency of Paxton’s per-
formance stand out more.
“There were no secrets. They knew
what he was going to throw, he knew
what he was going to throw and he
just overpowered them, which doesn’t
happen very often in this league,”
Seattle manager Scott Servais said.
Seattle went to Nicasio in the eighth
and trouble arrived quickly. Pinch-hit-
ter Matt Joyce lined a ground-rule
double with one out and three pitches
later Lowrie’s shot to nearly the same
part of the yard had a little more eleva-
tion, clipping the top of the fence and
bounding over. Canha’s homer was
his fifth of the season and came on the
second pitch of the ninth inning.
Astoria girls running strong, win again
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SCAPPOOSE — The only team
expected to challenge Astoria for the
Cowapa League girls track title came
up far short in a three-way meet
Wednesday, as Scappoose hosted the
Fishermen and Cascade.
The Astoria girls scored an easy
win, compiling 262 points, fol-
lowed by Cascade (174) and Scap-
poose (173). The Astoria boys came
up nine points short of Scappoose,
which finished with 246 points ahead
of Astoria’s 237. Cascade was a dis-
tant third.
The rest of the Cowapa League
will be chasing the Astoria girls in
the upcoming league meet, next
Thursday and Friday at St. Helens.
For the Lady Fishermen, Darian
Hageman skipped the high jump and
pole vault, but teammate Elizabeth
Barnett stepped in and won both,
clearing 4-6 in the high jump and 9-0
in the pole vault.
Hageman had victories in the
long jump (16-8 1/2) and triple jump
(36-8 1/2).
Other winners for Astoria
included freshman Sophie Long in
the 400 meters (with a personal best
1 minute, 2.18 seconds). She also had
a personal record time of 12:12.51
for second in the 3,000 meters. McK-
enzie Burnett ran a career-best time
2:36.15 to win the 800 meters.
Astoria’s Kes Sandstrom had a
personal record toss of 131 feet, 5
inches for first the discus.
Highlights for the Astoria boys
included a career-best time (4:47.12)
for freshman Josh Condit in winning
the 1,500 meters. Senior Tim Barnett
won the shot put (51-10 ½) and dis-
cus (158-0 ½) and placed second in
the javelin.
Karsten Johnson scored victories
in the high jump (5-8) and long jump
(personal best 20-6), and took sec-
ond in the triple jump.
SCAPPOOSE — Cowapa
League baseball rivals Scappoose
and Astoria have played some
great games over the years.
The two teams met for the final
time Wednesday as members of
the same league, before Scappoose
moves to the 5A level next season.
And Astoria had the last
laugh, scoring a 16-8 decision at
Scappoose.
While the Indians continue
to battle for a top three finish in
league, the Fishermen are closing
in on another league title, as they
improve to 9-2 atop the Cowapa
standings.
Trey Hageman threw a com-
plete game for Astoria, allowing
eight hits with five strikeouts and
one walk.
Astoria led 14-3 after scor-
ing five runs in the top of the fifth,
before Scappoose rallied with
eight runs in its final three at-bats.
The top four batters in Astoria’s
lineup combined for seven hits,
and scored 10 runs.
Hageman, Burke Matthews,
Will Reed and Ryan Stutzneg-
ger each had a double, and Danny
Johnson had a two-run triple for
the Fishermen.
Four Scappoose pitchers gave
up 13 hits and walked eight, while
the Indians committed five errors
in the field.
Astoria plays Friday at Valley
Catholic, with road games next
week at Seaside and Banks.
Scappoose blanks
Astoria softball
SCAPPOOSE — It’s been
a rough two-day stretch for the
Astoria softball team, which was
outscored by a combined 37-3
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Following a Tuesday loss at
Banks, the Lady Fishermen hit the
road again Wednesday, and lost a
10-0 decision at Scappoose.
The Indians built a 9-0 lead
through three innings, then ended
the game with a run in the sixth.
Scappoose
pitcher
Nina
Macedo tossed a two-hit shut-
out, with three strikeouts and two
walks. McKailyn Rogers had one
of two hits for the Fishermen.
Astoria plays Friday at CMH
Field vs. Valley Catholic.
Valiants edge
Seaside softball
BEAVERTON — Two teams
looking to snap long losing skids
met on the field Wednesday at Val-
ley Catholic.
And the Valiants managed to
win for the first time in 13 games,
with a 9-8 win over Seaside.
With eight straight losses, the
Gulls hope to snap their losing skid
Thursday at home vs. Tillamook.
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