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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JULY 23, 2018
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Seaside tops Summit for third at state
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CORVALLIS — Seaside’s junior
state baseball team made it a perfect
ending to the summer season Sunday
afternoon in Corvallis.
After a tough 6-2 loss Saturday
to West Salem — in which the Gulls
stranded 13 base runners — Seaside
won a closer-than-it-should-have-been
7-6 game over the Summit Storm, on
the final day of the Division 1 state
tournament at Crescent Valley High
School.
The Gulls went 2-1 in the tourna-
ment to finish third.
In Sunday’s championship game,
Churchill rallied from an 8-5 deficit
in the bottom of the seventh to defeat
West Salem, 9-8.
Summit was coming off a 7-6 semi-
final loss to Churchill, a game in which
the Storm led 6-3 going into the bot-
tom of the seventh.
“I truly felt like West Salem was a
game we should have won,” said Sea-
side coach Dan McFadden. “We hit the
ball hard — just everything we hit was
right at ‘em.”
Sunday’s
consolation
game
included a nightmare start for Summit.
In the top of the first inning, Gage
McFadden drew a leadoff walk for the
Gulls, which was followed by Pay-
ton Westerholm’s infield single. Alex
Teubner reached on an error, Dun-
can Thompson drew a bases-loaded
walk to force in the first run, and
Dylan Meyer singled to center to score
Westerholm and Teubner.
Brayden Johnson and Isaias Jantes
drew two more walks, and following
a pitching change, Meyer scored on a
fielder’s choice for a 5-0 lead.
Travis Fenton’s base hit to center
brought in Johnson to make it 6-0 after
one inning.
The Gulls did not score again until
the fifth, when Westerholm had a two-
out single, then scored on a double by
Teubner.
Summit made it interesting in the
bottom of the seventh.
Trailing 7-3, Summit’s Dylan Ruhl
doubled to center to score Brady Scar-
borough to make it 7-4.
One out later, Ben Capozzola’s sin-
gle scored Ruhl, and Joe Cross fol-
lowed with a base hit that brought in
Evan Scalley, cutting Seaside’s lead to
7-6.
A hit up the middle by Zi Lemas
was knocked down by Westerholm at
shortstop, and Capozzola — the tying
run — was gunned down at the plate
on a Westerholm-to-Teubner throw to
end the game.
Johnson got the win for the Gulls,
allowing seven hits with one strikeout
and three walks.
“Brayden threw fantastic,” coach
McFadden said. “I did go out and talk
to him in the seventh, but he just said,
‘I got this.’ The way it was going, it
was just a gut instinct I had to keep
him in.”
Four Summit pitchers allowed 10
hits, with Westerholm and Teubner
collecting three apiece.
“It was a good tournament for us,”
McFadden said. “We played some
good teams, and I really feel like the
guys are starting to turn a corner.
“When we’ve got Brayden or Gage
on the mound, with Payton at short and
Duncan at third … we’re pretty good.”
West Salem 6, Gulls 2
CORVALLIS — Seaside left 13
runners on base in a 6-2 loss to West
Salem, in Saturday’s semifinal game.
West Salem scored three runs in the
first inning, on three hits and a three-
base error.
The Titans scored three more in the
third, highlighted by a two-run double
from Andrew Zellner.
Meanwhile, the Gulls stranded run-
ners at second and third in the second
inning and left the bases loaded in the
third, before manufacturing a run in
the fourth.
Seaside left runners at second and
third again in the fifth, then began a
potentially big comeback in the sixth.
Jacob Derby had a two-out infield
single, Gage McFadden reached on an
error, and Payton Westerholm singled
to center load the bases.
Alex Teubner was hit by a pitch
to force in a run, before relief pitcher
Clayton Friedman struck out the
next batter, as the Gulls left the bases
loaded.
Seaside clinched its spot in the
semifinals with a 6-5 win over Leba-
non Friday afternoon.
Gage McFadden threw four-and-
a-third innings before giving way to
Johnson.
Silverton defeats
Warrenton, 10-0
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Trey Hageman’s big weekend included a double and a home run in Sunday’s win.
Astoria’s Hageman has big
week for Lower Columbia
The Daily Astorian
NEWPORT — The Lower Colum-
bia Baseball Club ended a four-day stay
in Newport with a 15-8 win Sunday over
the Gorge Hustlers (The Dalles) at Frank
Wade Park.
Sponsored by Hilander Dental, the
Lower Columbia club pounded out
15 hits and built a 10-4 lead after two
innings.
Hilander’s Zach Brown was 3-for-4
and scored three runs with six RBIs,
while teammate Trey Hageman was
2-for-2 with four runs scored.
Hageman had a double and a home
run, and also drew two walks. Hilan-
der’s four pitchers (Brown, Kaleb Miller,
Ethan Lindstrom and Taite Hensley)
gave up 12 hits with eight strikeouts.
In Friday’s game against “503 Base-
ball” out of Milwaukie, Hilander gave
up a home run in each of the first two
innings, and trailed 5-2 after two innings
in an 8-5 loss.
The Clatsop County connection still
had a big day for Hilander, as Knappa’s
Dale Takalo and Miller each had two hits.
Miller had a double, then added a home
run in the seventh inning.
Miller was also hit by a pitch and
drove in a run. Hageman pitched four
innings in relief, giving up six hits.
The Corvallis Marketmen defeated
Hilander 14-2 Saturday afternoon, with
Hageman scoring one of the two runs.
Hilander Dental (19-16-1 overall)
returns to action today in a loser-out
game vs. Kirkland at Issaquah (Wash.)
High School. The winner advances to the
AAA state tournament, July 28-Aug. 1 at
Centralia, Washington.
Action underway in 108th Coast Invitational
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WARRENTON — Match
play begins today in the 108th
annual Oregon Coast Invita-
tional, following a weekend of
qualifying at the Astoria Golf &
Country Club.
Adam Harrington of Port-
land Golf began his qualifying
round with a birdie on the first
hole and an eagle on No. 2, and
went on to win medalist honors
Saturday in the grand champi-
ons division.
Harrington shot a 6-under-
par 66 to finish ahead of Avery
Keating (68) and Mike Swin-
gle (69).
In Sunday’s qualifying,
Portland Golf Club’s Gigi Stoll
had a 2-under 71 to win the
women’s medalist award.
Returning champions in
this year’s tournament include
back-to-back winner (2016 and
‘17) Riley Elmes in the grand
champions division. Ten-time
winner Lara Mack Tennant,
who has won two of the last
three women’s titles, returns,
along with Matt Elmes (junior/
seniors), Bret Stevens (seniors)
and Larry Wobbrock (super
seniors).
Other medalists from a
weekend of qualifying included
Columbia Edgewater’s Bill
Winter, who shot a 5-under
par 67 in the junior/seniors
division. Astoria’s Scott Mel-
rose carded a 2-under 70 to
win seniors’ qualifying. And
Michael Healy of Columbia
Edgewater shot a 4-under 68 in
the super seniors.
In the new women’s seniors
division, Terry Matson of
Pumpkin Ridge had the top
score with an 81.
Match play starts today
in the grand champions and
junior/seniors divisions, and
action continues daily through
Saturday at the Astoria Golf &
Country Club.
Healy’s pair of 3-run homers lifts M’s over White Sox 8-2
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Knowing
Robinson Cano will be back
soon, Ryon Healy wants to
show he deserves to keep Seat-
tle’s first base job.
Healy hit a pair of three-
run homers for a career-best
six RBIs, lifting the Mariners
over the Chicago White Sox
8-2 Sunday.
“I want to help this team
win every single day whether
I’m in the lineup or not,”
Healy said. “And I’m going
to find a way to do that. When
Cano comes back or whatever,
I don’t care.”
Cano is eligible to return in
mid-August from an 80-game
suspension for a positive drug
test. Seattle acquired sec-
ond baseman Dee Gordon in
Cano’s absence, and Mariners
general manager Jerry Dipoto
said last week that Cano
will play every day when he
returns, mostly at first.
“Things like that are out of
my control,” Healy said. “I’m
not a guy who needs to try
harder. I think I try too hard at
times. It isn’t the first time this
has happened to me or anyone
else in this game.”
CORVALLIS — The
summer season came to
a close for the Warrenton
junior baseball team Friday
afternoon, in a 10-0 loss to
Silverton in the Division 1
state tournament at Crescent
Valley High School.
Silverton pitcher Hunter
Runion shut down the War-
renton bats, tossing a one-hit-
ter in the five-inning shutout.
Meanwhile, the Foxes
scored in every inning but
the first.
After scoring two in
the second inning, Silver-
ton loaded the bases with no
outs in the third. A single to
right brought in the first run,
before pitcher Dalton Knight
retired the next two batters in
order.
The Warriors almost
made it out of the inning
with no further damage, but a
blooper to shallow right field
brought in two more runs for
a 5-0 lead.
The Foxes had another
three base hits to start the
bottom of the fourth, the big
blast by Jacoby Quintero,
a three-run homer to deep
center.
Silverton finished off the
Warriors in the fifth, as Run-
ion’s single to center scored
the 10th and final run.
A senior-to-be at Silver-
ton, Runion recently signed
a letter-of-intent to play at
Montana State in 2020.
“I feel comfortable in
saying that he was the best
pitcher our boys have ever
faced,” said Warrenton
coach Lennie Wolfe. “He
showed why he’s a Division
1 prospect.”
Knight had the lone hit for
the Warriors, a leadoff single
in the fourth inning.
“We faced a very good
team and a very good
pitcher,” Wolfe said. “But
one game does not define a
season. Your whole season is
defined by the body of work,
and we made the state tour-
nament in both the spring
and the summer, with a com-
bined record of 29-12.
“We got back to play-
ing Warrenton baseball,” he
said. “These kids had never
played in a state tournament,
and now they’ve played in
two (spring and summer).
They’ve never had a winning
season, and now they’ve had
two. I think they have an
awful lot to feel good about,
and we’re looking forward to
having a lot more success in
the future.”
SCOREBOARD
LOCAL SPORTS SCHEDULE
TODAY
Golf — Oregon Coast Invitation-
al, Astoria Golf & Country Club,
all day
BASEBALL
Seaside 7, Summit 6
Seaside
600 010 0—7 10 3
Summit
010 002 3—6 7 2
Johnson and Al.Teubner; Ruhl,
Huebner (1), McIntyre (4), Ka-
lotay (6) and Lemas, Heath (6); W:
Johnson. L: Ruhl. RBI: Sea, Meyer
2, Al.Teubner, Thompson, Jantes,
h, Fenton; Sum, Cross 3, Ruhl,
Lemas, Capozzola. 2B: Sea, Mc-
Fadden, Westerholm, Al.Teubner;
Sum, Ruhl. HBP: Sum, Martin.
LOB: Seaside 10, Summit 7. DP:
Summit.
West Salem 6, Seaside 2
Seaside
000 101 0—2 7 2
West Salem 303 000 0—6 10 5
Thompson and Kuhl; Kronen-
berg, Friedman and Swanson. W:
Kronenberg. L: Thompson. RBI:
Sea, Al.Teubner; WS, Zellner 2,
Bunch, Gratchet, Swanson. 2B:
Sea, Westerholm; WS, Swan-
son 2, Bunch, Mitsuyasu, Zell-
ner. HBP: Sea, Al.Teubner; WS,
Gratchet. LOB: Seaside 13, West
Salem 5. DP: Seaside.
Silverton 10, Warrenton 0
Warrenton 000 00—0 1 3
Silverton 023 32—10 11 1
Knight and Morrow; H.Runion
and Schneider. W: H.Runion. L:
Knight. 2B: Sil, H.Runion. HR: Sil,
Quintero. DP: Warrenton, Silver-
ton.