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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2018
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Culver wins Warrenton tournament, again
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WARRENTON — The favorite
road trip of the season for the Culver
volleyball team resulted in another
successful weekend for the Lady Bull-
dogs, who won the annual Warrenton
preseason tournament Saturday for the
eighth year in a row.
In the championship match (best
two-of-three), Culver bounced back
from a Game 1 loss to defeat Seaside,
18-25, 25-10, 15-5.
SPORTS
IN BRIEF
The Lady Gulls secured their spot
in the final by defeating Vernonia
in a championship semifinal, 25-16,
25-12.
Vernonia topped Toledo in the
third-place match.
Meanwhile, Warrenton bounced
back from a rough morning of pool
play by winning the consolation
bracket.
The Warriors defeated Knappa in
a semifinal, 25-23, 25-19, then swept
Taft in the consolation final, 25-14,
25-15.
Earlier in the day, Warrenton
opened with losses to Vernonia and
Faith Bible in pool play, before defeat-
ing Jewell.
The Warriors have a week off
before playing a nonleague match
Sept. 4 at Seaside.
“We are looking forward to the
Seaside match,” said Warrenton coach
Staci Miethe. “Seaside is a very strong
offensive and blocking team, so the
experience will help a ton getting
ready for league.”
Knappa finished on a winning note
by defeating Clatskanie, 25-19, 25-21.
The Loggers continue to struggle
from the service line, with nearly 40
missed serves on the day, but the Log-
gers also served up 32 aces.
Sophia Carlson sparked Knappa
with 12 solid kills, including “a few
super nice kills from the back row
that shook the building,” said Knappa
coach Jeff Kaul.
Aiko Miller was 19-of-24 serving
with eight aces. Jordan Walter tacked
on four kills for the day, with four ace
serves.
“Overall I was very proud of the
girls today,” Kaul said. “Even though
we struggled quite a bit in pool play,
these players never hung their heads or
got down on each other. This is a team
that I can see going far this season if
we continue to work hard and improve
on the things that we need to.”
The Loggers have a match at home
Tuesday vs. Clatskanie.
FALL SPORTS SCHEDULES FOR ASTORIA, WARRENTON, SEASIDE, JEWELL AND KNAPPA TEAMS ON PAGE 11A
Stewart, Loyd lift
Storm to 91-87
win over Mercury
in Game 1
SEATTLE — On the day Bre-
anna Stewart became the newly
minted WNBA MVP, a key part of
her supporting cast came through
with a couple of big shots the Seat-
tle Storm needed in the closing
minutes.
Stewart scored 19 of her 28
points in the first half, Jewell
Loyd added 23 — including Seat-
tle’s final seven points — and the
Storm held on to beat the Phoe-
nix Mercury 91-87 on Sunday in
Game 1 of their WNBA semifinal
series.
Sounders beat
Timbers 1-0 and
extend win streak
PORTLAND — A seventh
straight win was sweet, but for
the Seattle Sounders, it was even
sweeter because it came against
the rival Timbers — on their home
field.
An own goal in the 76th min-
ute gave Seattle a 1-0 victory
over Cascadia Cup rival Portland
on Sunday night, extending the
Sounders’ club-record winning
streak to seven games.
Vikings top
Seahawks, 21-20
MINNEAPOLIS — Kirk
Cousins was bothered enough by
the throws he missed in Minneso-
ta’s third preseason game that he
brought a piece of paper with a
list of them to the podium for his
interview afterward.
There’s a long way to go, par-
ticularly with an offensive line
that’s not yet set, but Cousins and
the Vikings made some improve-
ments against Seattle.
Cousins passed for 182 yards
without a turnover in the first
half, before third-stringer Kyle
Sloter threw for two fourth-quar-
ter touchdowns in a 21-20 come-
back victory over the Seahawks
on Friday night.
Goldschmidt,
Greinke lead
D’Backs past
Mariners 5-2
PHOENIX — Paul Gold-
schmidt and Zack Greinke
are two of the players Arizona
counts on most, and they came
through when sorely needed on
Sunday.
Goldschmidt hit his 30th
homer, Greinke won for the first
time in almost a month and the
Diamondbacks avoided a three-
game sweep at the hands of Seat-
tle by beating the Mariners 5-2.
— Associated Press
SCOREBOARD
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
TUESDAY
Volleyball — Clatskanie at Knappa,
6 p.m.; Jewell at Neah-Kah-Nie, 5 p.m.
Girls soccer — Seaside at Newport,
6 p.m.
Boys soccer — Newport at Seaside,
7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Volleyball — Catlin Gabel at Astoria, 6
p.m.; Stayton at Seaside, 7 p.m.
Photos by Gary Henley/The Daily Astorian
Seaside’s Alexander Teubner, No. 2, has the hit of the day for the Gulls, as the senior makes a hard tackle on Estacada’s Gabriel
Martinez on a play near the goal line in Friday’s jamboree.
Jamboree football night in Seaside
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Astoria’s Tryton Matlock, right, went high in the air to haul in
a touchdown pass from Justin Villa against St. Helens.
EASIDE — The high school
football season had its last
tune-up before the start of the
regular season, as two local schools
hosted jamborees Friday evening.
While Seaside staged a sev-
en-team gathering at Broadway
Field, a four-team jamboree at
Warrenton ended up as just a two-
team scrimmage.
Because of last week’s invasion
of smoky air from western wild-
fires, Knappa and Portland Chris-
tian had little or no time for out-
door practices, and had to cancel
their appearances at Warrenton.
Ilwaco was a no-show at Sea-
side, but the Gulls still had six
other teams show up for two-plus
hours of scrimmages.
Visiting teams included Astoria,
Clatskanie, Estacada, Mark Morris,
St. Helens and Woodburn.
The games start for real later
this week.
While the Fishermen hit the
road for a nonleague game at Scap-
poose, Seaside’s game vs. Henley
(originally scheduled to be played
at North Eugene High School) has
been switched to a home game
for the Gulls, who will host the
same team that defeated Seaside
at Broadway Field last year in the
state playoffs.
Elsewhere, Grant Union plays
at Knappa, and Warrenton opens
at Yamhill-Carlton. All games will
kick off at 7 p.m. Friday.
Ilwaco has a nonleague game at
Vernonia (7 p.m.), and Naselle has
a 6 p.m. kickoff vs. Odessa at Gol-
dendale, Washington. Both games
Friday.
Hawaii defeats South Korea 3-0 to win Little League title
By PATRICK BURNS
Associated Press
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — It only took
one pitch for Mana Lau Kong to deliver Hawaii its
first Little League World Series title in a decade.
Against a South Korea team that hadn’t surren-
dered a home run in the tournament, Kong drove
the first pitch his team saw over the center field
fence. As he rounded the bases and headed home,
his teammates poured out of the dugout in a pack
led by pitcher Ka’olu Holt and formed a huddle
around home plate.
“It was great,” Holt said, “because we all knew
that pitcher was tough to hit.”
Holt took it from there, throwing a two-hitter to
lead Hawaii to a 3-0 victory in the Little League
World Series championship, the first shutout in a
title game since 2002. It was Holt’s first-ever com-
plete game.
The team from Honolulu allowed just three runs
in the entire tournament, shut out four of its five
opponents and struck out 53 batters in 34 innings.
“Someone asked me, what’s the strength of
the team, and I honestly have to say, it’s that they
play as a team,” Hawaii manager Gerald Oda said.
“Ka’olu pitching, or Aukai (Kea) pitching, Mana
hitting a home run, it’s everybody just doing the
best that they can do. Once they bought in and
once they accepted their roles, it makes my job a
lot easier.”
In the bottom of the second inning, Hawaii had
the bases loaded with no outs, but failed to score.
So Oda took a more aggressive approach on the
basepaths with two runners in scoring position in
the third.
Pinch-runner Zachary Won scored Hawaii’s sec-
ond run on a wild pitch from starter Kim Yeong-hy-
eon. As catcher Kim Gi-jeong chased the ball, Oda
sent Taylin Oana all the way home from second to
give Hawaii its third run.
In the stands, Hawaii’s fans, waving tea leaves
for luck, started to mix their signature “Hon-o-
lu-lu!” chants with “U-S-A!”
The victory marks the first time a Hawaiian
team has won the Little League World Series since
2008. It is now one of seven U.S. states with at least
three LLWS titles. All of Hawaii’s championships
have come in the past 13 years.
Seoul, South Korea, has played in the three of
the last six LLWS title games, but won only once
— in 2014. It lost in 2016 to Maine-Endwell, New
York.
“It was equally the same thing, from 2016 to
2018,” South Korea manager Su Ji-hee, who was
also a member of the coaching staff of the 2016
team, said through a translator. “After the game, the
kids were crying, they feel sorry for themselves.”
At the conclusion of a six-pitch final inning,
Hawaii’s players tossed their gloves and hats as
high as they could, and sprinted to the mound to
form another celebratory huddle.
“It felt really great because barely any Hawaii
teams get to be in this moment and feel what it feels
like meeting other people from around the world,
to playing baseball against them too,” Kong said.
After finally achieving what his team set out to
accomplish at the beginning of the summer, Oda
can’t wait to return home to his family.