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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JULY 16, 2018
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Warrenton
shuts down
Hood River
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SEASIDE — Devin Jackson
threw a complete-game four-hit-
ter, with seven strikeouts and three
walks, in leading Warrenton to a
9-4 win over Hood River in the
consolation finale of the Wood Bat
tournament Saturday afternoon at
Broadway Field.
“It was a good tournament,”
said Warrenton coach Lennie
Wolfe. “I was pleased with the
way we played after the first day
(a 10-0 loss to Valley Catholic).
Especially, facing a school that
has six times as many students as
us.
“I thought we did an awfully
good job. It was a good outing,
one the guys can feel good about,”
he said, as the Warriors tuned up
for the junior baseball state tour-
nament, which begins Thursday in
Corvallis. Warrenton will play the
host team from Crescent Valley at
5 p.m. Thursday.
“It’s just another opportunity
to play a bigger school, and I’m
looking forward to it,” Wolfe said.
“It’s good to be back in state tour-
naments and playing meaningful
ball.”
Meanwhile, Jackson “didn’t
have his best stuff,” said the coach.
“He gave up three hits and three
runs in the third inning, but after
that he really settled in and did a
great job of locating and shutting
them down.”
The Warriors gradually built a
safe lead, scoring their final run in
the seventh inning, when Kala’o
Kapua tripled, then scored on a
wild pitch.
Hood River had the makings of
a rally in the fifth, but Warrenton
turned a 4-3-6 double play to end
the threat.
Kapua and Jake Morrow had
two hits apiece for Warrenton, and
Jackson added a double for the
Warriors, who finished with nine
hits.
Warriors 17, Madison 2
SEASIDE — Warrenton
bounced back from a 10-0 loss to
Valley Catholic in the first round
with a 17-2 win over Madison in a
consolation game of the Wood Bat
tournament Friday morning.
The 25-run turnaround was
highlighted by a 10-run second
inning for the Warriors, and a sev-
en-run fourth.
Gabe Breitmeyer did the rest,
as the Warrenton pitcher allowed
just three hits over five innings,
with seven strikeouts and two
walks.
Breitmeyer, Duane Falls and
Austin Little had two hits apiece
for Warrenton.
Young, joyful
France beats
Croatia to win
2nd World Cup
Associated Press
MOSCOW — Taking turns
sliding across the rain-soaked turf
holding the World Cup trophy
tight, teenager Kylian Mbappe
and the rest of France’s players
acted like the youthful bunch they
are.
Nothing, not a Pussy Riot pro-
test nor a postgame downpour that
soaked Russian President Vlad-
imir Putin, was going to stop the
party.
It carried on long after a
thrilling 4-2 win over Croatia
on Sunday. In the locker room
with French President Emman-
uel Macron striking poses with
players.
SCOREBOARD
LOCAL SPORTS RESULTS
BASEBALL
Churchill 7, Seaside 3
Churchill 320 000 2—7 11 0
Seaside
100 110 0—3 3 6
Lydon, Burnett (5) and Jones; Thomp-
son and Teubner. W: Lydon. L: Thomp-
son. S: Burnett. RBI: Chu, Burnett 2,
Jones 2, Townsend; Sea, Johnson, Fen-
ton, Westerholm. 2B: Chu, Peterson 2,
Burnett, Townsend. 3B: Sea, Johnson.
HBP: Chu, Carson; Sea, Thompson,
Derby. LOB: Churchill 5, Seaside 5. DP:
Seaside 2.
Photos by Gary Henley/The Daily Astorian
Poyer was interactive with the young players in his annual camp, lining up here against a Duck fan, who took a little kidding from
Poyer, the former Oregon State All-American.
Poyer camp brings out the kids
The Daily Astorian
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inety kids, ranging from kindergartners
through the eighth grade, participated in
Jordan Poyer’s football camp, held Sat-
urday morning at CMH Field.
After missing last year’s camp, Poyer
returned and, with the help of the Astoria foot-
ball coaching staff and players, ran a three-
hour clinic to teach the basics of football to
the youth.
Oregon State linebackers coach Trent Bray
was a guest coach.
Proceeds from the camp earned money for
Astoria Youth Athletics.
Astoria Youth Football stated on its Face-
book page, “A huge thank you to Jordan
Poyer for putting on a great camp today with
the help of the Astoria High School football
program. It was incredible to see kids from
Astoria, Knappa, Seaside and Nestucca all out
on the field together.”
LEFT: Jordan Poyer reunites with former Astoria baseball coach Dave Gasser, who
also coached the defense for Astoria football in 2008, when Poyer led the Fishermen
to a state title. RIGHT: The Jordan Poyer football camp was an uplifting experience for
many young players, in more ways than one.
There were fans of many NFL teams
among the campers, but all were fans of
Jordan Poyer.
At the end of the day, Jordan Poyer had more inspirational words for the young players.
Churchill tops Seaside in tournament finale
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — The Seaside junior
summer baseball team made it inter-
esting Saturday evening at Broadway
Field, but asking for a win against a
highly successful Class 5A program
was a bit much.
Churchill — a semifinalist in the
state playoffs last spring — had some
anxious moments late in the game,
but held off Seaside for a 7-3 win in
the championship of Seaside’s annual
Wood Bat tournament.
Seaside trailed Churchill 3-0 just
minutes into the game, but then set-
tled down and played evenly with the
Lancers over the final six innings.
The Gulls outscored Churchill 3-2
after the first half inning, and trailed
5-3 heading into the seventh inning.
But the Lancers tacked on two
insurance runs in the top of the sev-
enth to build a four-run lead. And
after giving up a lead-off walk in
the bottom of the seventh, Churchill
pitcher Beau Burnett retired the next
three Seaside batters in order to help
secure the victory.
The Gulls will likely play bigger
schools later this week in the junior
baseball state tournament, which
begins Thursday at Crescent Valley
High School in Corvallis.
After a first-round bye, Seaside
opens play at 2:30 p.m. Friday against
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Seaside’s Payton Westerholm,
right, leaps to avoid a sliding
Churchill player for a force out at
second base.
the winner of Lebanon and Junction
City.
Saturday’s game could not have
started better for the Lancers, who led
3-0 before the first out was recorded.
Churchill’s C.J. Townsend reached
base on a lead off bunt, the first of six
straight batters to reach safely.
Burnett had a two-run double to
drive in the first runs, and later scored
on a wild pitch.
Seaside’s Duncan Thompson
struck out Dylan Carson for the first
out, and with the bases loaded, he
fielded a ground ball to start a 1-2-5
double play to end the inning.
The Gulls scored a run on a bas-
es-loaded walk in the bottom of the
first (but left the bases loaded to end
the inning), before Townsend and
Connor Jones had RBI hits to help the
Lancers rebuild a 5-1 lead after two
innings.
But that would be all the scor-
ing for Churchill for the next four
innings, as Thompson allowed just
one more hit through the sixth.
Seaside responded in the fourth
inning, when Brayden Johnson had
a one-out triple to right field, then
scored on a Travis Fenton sacrifice
fly.
The Gulls turned a second double
play in the top of the fifth, and Jacob
Derby was hit by a pitch with one out
in the bottom of the inning.
He scored on Payton Wester-
holm’s single, and the Lancer lead
was cut to 5-3.
But that would be the end of Sea-
side’s scoring, as Burnett struck out
the side in the sixth, then held the
Gulls scoreless in the seventh to pick
up the save.
Carson Lydon and Burnett
allowed just three Seaside hits, with
nine strikeouts and three walks. The
Gulls struggled defensively, with six
errors.
Seaside 4, Baker 3
SEASIDE — Seaside won it with
a rally Friday evening at Broadway
Field.
Trailing 3-2 after giving up a run
in the top of the seventh, the Gulls ral-
lied with two runs in the bottom of the
seventh for a 4-3 win over the Bar-
ley Brown/Hodgen Brewers of Baker,
in a semifinal game of the Wood Bat
tournament.
Both teams scored two runs in the
third inning, then went scoreless over
the fourth, fifth and sixth innings.
After their two-run rally in the
third, the Gulls had just one base run-
ner over the next three innings, before
their seventh-inning rally.
Baker was coasting along, as the
Brewers had retired nine of 10 Sea-
side batters heading into the bottom
of the seventh.
But Seaside’s Isaias Jantes reached
on an error to start the inning. Jantes
moved to second on a sacrifice bunt
by Riley Kuhl, and the next three bat-
ters drew walks.
A bases-loaded walk to Alex
Teubner forced in Jantes with the
tying run, and with just one out, Dun-
can Thompson laid down a squeeze
bunt to score Gage McFadden with
the game-winning run.
McFadden went the distance on
the mound for Seaside, allowing
seven hits with two strikeouts and a
walk.