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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, MAY 7, 2018
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SOFTBALL
SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Astoria back
on track in
win over
Valiants
BASEBALL
Valiants upset
Astoria, 13-3
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The Astoria softball team
snapped a three-game losing skid
Friday with an 11-7 win over Val-
ley Catholic in Cowapa League
action at CMH Field.
Despite their 1-3 record over
the last four games, the Lady Fish-
ermen have a solid hold on third
place in the league standings at 7-5.
Tillamook (4-8) is fourth, while
Scappoose (11-1) and Banks (10-
2) hold down the top two spots.
Astoria will tune up for the
state playoffs this week in games
Tuesday at Tillamook, followed
by home contests against Seaside
(Thursday) and Banks (Friday).
SCOREBOARD
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
TODAY
Baseball — Tillamook at Astoria, 5
p.m.; Banks at Seaside, 5 p.m.
Girls golf — District 1/4A Regionals,
Quail Valley, Noon
Boys golf — District 1/4A Regionals,
Quail Valley, 10 a.m.
TUESDAY
Baseball — Astoria at Seaside, 5 p.m.;
Catlin Gabel at Warrenton, 4:30 p.m.
Softball — Astoria at Tillamook, 5 p.m.;
Seaside at Banks, 5 p.m.; Knappa at Del-
phian, 4:30 p.m.
Girls Golf — District 1/4A Regionals,
Quail Valley, Noon
Boys golf — District 1/4A Regionals,
Quail Valley, 10 a.m.
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Dale Takalo prepares to deliver a pitch for the Loggers.
Knappa sweeps Gaston,
team’s record still perfect
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K
NAPPA — The No. 1-ranked
Knappa Loggers celebrated
Senior Day with a 21-0, 10-0
Northwest League doubleheader
sweep Friday over Gaston.
The Loggers still have plenty
of home games left, including a
nonleague contest with Kennedy
on May 14, and up to three home
state playoff games.
In Friday’s wins, Knappa pitch-
ers Dale Takalo and Eli Takalo are
warming up for the state champi-
onship run, as Dale tossed a per-
fect game in the opener, and Eli
gave up one hit with 13 strikeouts
in Game 2.
Offensively, Kaleb Miller
had three doubles in Game 1,
in which Knappa led 19-0 after
three innings. The Greyhounds
(0-9 in league) committed seven
errors.
Knappa had seven extra base
hits in Game 2, with home runs
by Logan Bartlett and Mason
Hoover.
The Loggers finish 12-0 in
league, and are chasing their sec-
ond undefeated season (currently
at 17-0) in three years.
BASEBALL
Valley Catholic 13, Astoria 3
Astoria
000 111—3 8 4
V.Catholic
200 056—13 15 2
Rush, Junes (6), Reed (6) and Feld-
man; Eisenhardt and Pruitt. W: Eisen-
hardt. L: Rush. RBI: Matthews 2; VC, Ag-
new 2, Baglai 2, Elston 2, Pruitt 2, Melilo,
Schultheis, M.Weber. 2B: Ast, Johnson,
Patterson; VC, Elston, W.Weber. HR: Ast,
Matthews; VC, Agnew, Pruitt. HBP: VC,
Melilo, M.Weber. LOB: Astoria 5, Valley
Catholic 6. DP: Valley Catholic.
Seaside 7, Tillamook 2
Seaside
040 003 0—7 8 3
Tillamook 101 000 0—2 5 2
Johnson, McFadden (7) and Teubner;
Wilthott, Harmon (6). W: Johnson. L:
Wilthott. RBI: Sea, Westerholm 4, McFad-
den 2, Boyd; Til, Wagner, Weber. 2B: Sea,
Westerholm 2, Blanchard; Til, Richard-
son, Weber. HBP: Sea, Fenton 2, Boyd,
Teubner. LOB: Seaside 6, Tillamook 6.
Game 1
Warrenton 10, Portland C. 3
Warrenton 004 302 1—10 13 1
P.Christian 003 000 0—3 10 3
Jackson, Breitmeyer (7) and Morrow;
Dailey, Perry (7) and Siegel. W: Jackson.
L: Dailey. 2B: War, Knight, Little, Breitmey-
er; PC, Chinchilla, Dailey.
Game 2
Warrenton 8, Portland C. 2
Warrenton
220 112—8 9 3
P.Christian
100 100—2 4 4
Knight and Morrow; Helgerson, Os-
borne (3) and Siegel. W: Knight. L: Hel-
gerson. 2B: War, Falls. 3B: War, Little. HR:
PC, Osborne.
Game 1
Knappa 21, Gaston 0
Gaston
000 00—0 0 7
Knappa
478 2x—21 11 0
Marshall, C.Tallent (3), J.Tallent (3); D.
Takalo and Stuhr. W: D.Takalo. L: Marshall.
RBI: Kna, E.Takalo 4, D.Takalo 2, Cruz 2,
Coffey 2, Miller 2. 2B: Kna, Miller 3. HBP:
Kna, Ford, Miethe. LOB: Knappa 8.
Game 2
Knappa 10, Gaston 0
Gaston
000 00—0 1 1
Knappa
910 0x—10 9 0
W: E.Takalo. L: Clark. RBI: Kna, Bartlett
3, Coffey, M.Hoover, Miethe, Miller, D.
Takalo. 2B: Kna, M.Hoover 2, Coffey, Mi-
ethe, Miller. HR: Kna, Bartlett, M.Hoover.
HBP: Gas, Rasmussen, Clark; Kna, Mill-
er. LOB: Gaston 4, Knappa 2.
SOFTBALL
Game 1
Warrenton 19, Portland C. 2
Warrenton
042 (10)3—19 10 1
P.Christian 000 02—2 4 11
Game 2
Warrenton 33, Portland C. 3
Warrenton 87(13) 41—33 16 3
P.Christian 003 00—3 4 6
Game 1
Knappa 4, Gaston 3
Gaston
003 000 0—3 6 4
Knappa
211 000 x—4 8 5
W: Madelynn Weaver (11 Ks, 3 walks).
L: Charity Hall (1 K, 1 walk). RBI: Gas,
D.Clark, Bassel; Kna, Truax, Rethati.
2B: Gas, D.Clark, Farmer; Kna, Miller,
Carlson. 3B: Kna, Truax. LOB: Gaston 9,
Knappa 5. DP: Gaston 2.
Game 2
Knappa 6, Gaston 4
Gaston
010 102 0—4 5 2
Knappa
011 130 x—6 6 3
W: Madelynn Weaver (6 Ks, 1 walk). L:
Charity Hall (0 Ks, 2 walks). RBI: Gas,
Hall 3; Kna, Rethati 2, Hendrickson, Mi-
ethe, Patterson. 2B: Gas, Bassel. 3B:
Gas, Hall; Kna, Hellberg, Rethati. LOB:
Gaston 4, Knappa 2.
Knappa sweeps Gaston
for potential league title
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
KNAPPA — With one dou-
bleheader sweep Friday after-
noon, the balance of power in
Northwest League softball has
shifted to the Knappa Loggers.
And it could be a few years
before the Loggers give up that
top spot in the standings.
Knappa’s 4-3, 6-4 sweep over
Gaston puts both teams at 10-2 in
league play, with the tie-breaker
going to the Loggers. Knappa
will be heavily favored in three
games this week vs. winless Del-
phian (ranked last in the state
with an 0-13 record), then will
get a home game to begin the
state playoffs.
“We knew we had to win both
games today,” said Knappa coach
James Nichols, whose team is
now ranked 10th in the latest
OSAA rankings. “So the girls
were a little nervous in the first
game, and we did make some
errors (five).
“But we stuck with it,” he
said. “Madelynn (Weaver)
pitched great in both games.
She was reminding me a little of
Kacie (Cameron) today,” refer-
ring to the hard-throwing former
Knappa pitcher.
While the Loggers return
most of their starters next year,
the Greyhounds will graduate
several seniors, including pitcher
Charity Hall.
“I think she beat us four times
PORTLAND — At this time last
year, the Warrenton baseball team
had just picked up its first and only
win of the season.
This season, the Warriors have 14
victories and they’re ranked 10th in
the state with an outside chance at a
league title. Warrenton’s two latest
wins came Friday in Portland, where
the Warriors swept a doubleheader
with Portland Christian, 10-3 and 8-2.
Warrenton improves to 7-2 in
league play, behind first-place Rain-
ier (9-2). The Columbians have one
Naselle on a roll
NASELLE, Wash. — The
Naselle baseball team is 6-0 in
league play, with their six wins
coming by scores of 11-1, 10-0,
10-0, 10-0, 10-0 and 10-0.
The Comets took a break from
league play Friday and scored
a 10-0 win over Clatskanie, as
Naselle’s Cole Dorman pitched a
complete-game, one-hitter against
the Tigers.
No team has scored on the
Comets since April 6.
In Friday’s win, Naselle broke
a scoreless tie with two runs in the
fourth, then scored eight (all with
two outs) in the sixth.
Joe Strange started Naselle’s
sixth-inning rally with a two-out
single, and after three straight
walks, Dorman ripped a two-run
single to make it 5-0.
Seaside defeats
Tillamook, tied
for third place
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Mikayla Rethati keeps her eyes on the ball as a pitch sails high
over the plate.
last year,” said Nichols, whose
team pounded out 14 hits off Hall
in Friday’s sweep, while the Gas-
ton pitcher finished with just one
strikeout.
Meanwhile, Weaver and the
Loggers showed that they should
own the league for the next two
years, as Weaver — only a soph-
omore — is the best pitcher in the
Northwest League. In Friday’s
sweep, she scattered 11 hits, with
17 strikeouts and just four walks.
The Northwest League’s lead-
ing candidate for Player of the
Year (for the second year in a
row), Knappa catcher Kaitlyn
Truax had three singles and a tri-
ple on the day, with three steals.
She also threw one runner out at
second base, and chased down
another in a rundown.
Knappa’s Mikayla Rethati
had a run-scoring single in the
third inning of Game 1. It was
the final run of the game, which
was scoreless over the last four
innings.
Numerous mental and fielding
errors by Gaston finally caught
up with the Greyhounds in Game
2.
The Greyhounds dropped an
easy pop fly by Truax in the fifth
inning, which would have been
the third out. Rethati followed
with a two-run triple that gave
Knappa a 6-2 lead.
Warrenton baseball scores a Royal sweep
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BEAVERTON — Valley Cath-
olic held a 2-1 lead through four
innings, then scored 11 runs over
the fifth and sixth innings, on its
way to a shocking 13-3 win over
first-place Astoria in a Cowapa
League baseball game Friday.
“They swung the bats and hit
the ball, and we didn’t,” said Asto-
ria coach Glen Fromwiller, whose
team is still tied for first in the
standings. “We didn’t make a ton
of errors (four), but we misplayed
it a few times, and they just hit our
pitching.”
Three Astoria pitchers gave up
15 hits, with four strikeouts and
three walks.
The Valiants countered with
George Eisenhardt, who scattered
eight hits with six strikeouts and no
walks.
Danny Johnson and Zac Patter-
son had doubles for the Fishermen,
while Burke Matthews had a home
run. The Valiants also had a pair of
doubles, while Porter Agnew and
Daniel Pruitt belted home runs.
Pruitt was 3-for-4, with two
RBIs and two runs scored.
Astoria hosts Tillamook Mon-
day (scheduled for Tapiola Park).
The Fishermen play Tuesday at
Seaside and finish the regular sea-
son Friday at Banks.
league game remaining (Tuesday vs.
Clatskanie), while the Warriors have
three, all at home (Tuesday vs. Cat-
lin Gabel, doubleheader Friday vs.
Clatskanie).
A Rainier loss and three Warren-
ton wins would put the Warriors in
first. And it’s entirely possible, as
Warrenton extended its win streak to
eight in a row, while Rainier is 2-2
over its last four games.
“The biggest thing right now is
how selfless we’ve been at the plate.
Our players are willing to do what-
ever it takes,” said Warrenton coach
Lennie Wolfe, whose team collected
22 hits in Friday’s wins. Warrenton
played “Warrior ball,” finishing with
12 stolen bases on the day.
Warrenton pitchers Devin Jack-
son and Gabe Breitmeyer allowed 10
hits in Game 1, with Jackson (six hits
allowed, eight strikeouts, one walk)
picking up the win.
Offensively, Dalton Knight had
three hits, and Maverick Pedraza was
one of several with two hits.
Knight tossed a complete-game,
four-hitter in Game 2, throwing just
75 pitches with six strikeouts and a
walk. Duane Falls had a double and
Austin Little added a triple.
TILLAMOOK — Four runs
in the second inning was all Sea-
side needed Friday night, in a 7-2
Cowapa League baseball win at
Tillamook.
Pitchers Brayden Johnson and
Gage McFadden allowed just five
hits, with Johnson pitching six
innings to pick up the win.
The Gulls had eight hits,
including a 3-for-4 effort for Pay-
ton Westerholm, who had two
doubles and four RBIs. Dawson
Blanchard was 2-for-4 with a dou-
ble, while the Gulls were hit by
pitches four times.
Seaside and Scappoose are tied
for third in the Cowapa League
standings at 6-6.
SOFTBALL
Warrenton
hammers Royals,
19-2, 33-3
PORTLAND — Fifty-two
runs in 10 at-bats … not a bad day
for the Warrenton softball team,
which swept a doubleheader Fri-
day at Portland Christian, 19-2
and 33-3.
The Warriors have just two
league games remaining, a Fri-
day doubleheader at home vs.
Clatskanie.
Warrenton can catch the sec-
ond-place Tigers in the league
standings with a sweep and a
Clatskanie loss at Rainier.
Warrenton had 10 hits in Fri-
day’s Game 1, while the Roy-
als had 11 errors. The Warriors
scored 13 runs in the third inning
of Game 2, and drew 16 walks.
— The Daily Astorian