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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
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VOLLEYBALL
PREP SOCCER
Gaston holds
off Knappa
Seaside girls
down Rainier, 7-0
KNAPPA — The league season
is underway for Northwest League
volleyball, with two matches Tues-
day night.
At Knappa, the Gaston Grey-
hounds won their 28th straight reg-
ular season league match, 25-10,
26-24, 25-18 over the Lady Loggers.
Gaston has not lost a league
match since a four-game defeat vs.
Delphian on Oct. 13, 2015. Since
then, the fifth-ranked Greyhounds
have recorded back-to-back 12-0
league records in 2016 and ‘17.
After the Game 1 loss, the Lady
Loggers “could have given up at
that point and called it a night, but
the girls decided to play together and
play hard as a team,” Knappa coach
Jeff Kaul said.
And while the Loggers dropped
the next two games, “the girls put on
a show and gave us all a little peek
of what I have always known was
there,” he said.
The Loggers led 5-1 in Game
2 behind strong serving from Aiko
Miller.
Knappa led 15-12, but Gaston
rallied and forced ties at 15, 18 and
22.
The Loggers still led at 24-23, but
a couple of Knappa errors and some
strong serving by Gaston led to three
straight points for the Greyhounds.
Knappa was within 19-18 in
Game 3, before Gaston reeled off
the final six points to win.
Vicki Ramvick led the Log-
gers with five kills, four blocks and
six touch blocks, while Kourtney
Tischer added seven assists.
Sophia Carlson added four kills,
and Miller had nine digs and three
ace serves.
Knappa plays Thursday at
Ilwaco, and takes part Saturday in
the Neah-Kah-Nie Tournament.
Junior varsity: Gaston def.
Knappa, 26-24, 25-27, 15-9.
In the other Northwest League
match, Neah-Kah-Nie swept City
Christian, 25-19, 25-20, 25-10.
RAINIER — After opening
the season with a loss and a tie last
week, the Seaside girls soccer team
scored its first victory of the year
Tuesday, a 7-0 decision at Rainier.
The Columbians (0-2 overall,
with a loss last week at Astoria),
started the game with just 10 play-
ers and were down to eight by the
end of the game.
“Credit to Rainier for just play-
ing,” said Seaside coach Josh Gar-
hofer. “And their girls are tough,
even when they went two players
down.”
Still, it wasn’t enough to keep
up with the Gulls, whose first goal
was scored by freshman Emma
Arden.
“Our midfielders all played
well, Chloe (Bartel), Maddy
(Brown) and Jess (Angulo-Joli),
our striker who started the game on
defense.”
Seaside used three players in
goal, with Taylor Carson playing
the first half, and Kara Spell and
Audrey Kunde in the second.
The Gulls host Estacada at 3
p.m. Saturday.
Seaside wins
marathon match
vs. Rainier, defeats
Warrenton
SEASIDE — It was a long night
for the Seaside volleyball team
Tuesday, as the Gulls hosted two
nonleague matches with teams from
the Coastal Range League.
And the Gulls made it a clean
sweep, with a thrilling five-game,
marathon win over Rainier (21-25,
25-8, 27-29, 25-12, 21-19), followed
by a four-game victory over Warren-
ton, 25-10, 18-25, 25-22, 25-16.
“The girls fought so hard
tonight,” said first-year Seaside
coach Demi Lund. “They showed
some heart and a lot of fight. And
that’s what I was asking for.”
In the first match vs. Rainier,
the Columbians led Game 5 14-10,
needing only one more point to
secure the win and end the match.
“I called a timeout, and just told
my players to show some fight,”
Lund said. “And they did. We tied
it at 14-14, then won it (21-19). At
that point, a lot of it is conditioning.
And we’re big on conditioning, and
I think that’s how we pulled it out.”
Meanwhile, Warrenton came in
ranked third at the 3A level.
“We may have been a little com-
placent, and underestimated them,”
Lund said of the Warriors.
But “Bella (Samuelson) came
through for us,” she said. “She
stayed energetic all night, even when
we were down against Rainier. And
our libero, Maddy (Jensen), was all
over the place, and made a lot of
crazy saves.”
The Gulls return to tournament
action this weekend, Saturday at the
Cascade Invitational.
Jewell tops
Livingstone
JEWELL — Looking to avoid
an 0-2 start in league, the Jewell
volleyball team bounced back from
last week’s loss at Willamette Val-
ley Christian with a three-game win
Tuesday over Livingstone Adven-
tist, 25-19, 25-9, 25-16, in a Casco
League match at Jewell.
In other Casco action, Per-
rydale swept Falls City, and St.
Paul defeated Willamette Valley
Christian.
— The Daily Astorian
Seaside boys
win at Scappoose
Photos by Walt Postlewait/For The Daily Astorian
Bobby Brown of All Star Bass Fishing, center, stands with Astoria fishermen Leo Matthews, left, and
Michael Postlewait.
Astoria’s fishermen
third in latest tourney
By WALT POSTLEWAIT
For The Daily Astorian
OOS BAY — Astoria High School’s bass fish-
ing team of Michael Postlewait and Leo Mat-
thews finished third recently in the high school
bass fishing tournament on Tenmile Lake, north of
Coos Bay.
Teams from Thurston and Banks, newcomers to
the 2018-19 championship competition, finished first
and second, respectively, with five fish bag weights of
11.21 and 10.38 pounds.
Westview, winner of the previous tournament on
Siltcoos Lake, was fourth.
“We got off to a good start,” Postlewait said. “We
hadn’t fished this lake before, but we designed a plan
based on what we saw and researched. We were pretty
excited with a couple early fish in the boat.”
Astoria caught six fish on the day but only weighed
four.
“We had two good fish early and then caught two
really small fish,” he said. “We culled them without
a full box, thinking we were going to catch a lot of
fish on the day. But the wind kicked up and the condi-
tions changed. It got a lot harder to catch fish. It made
our margin over Westview pretty thin, but in the end it
didn’t hurt us.”
Matthews said, “Our next two events in the spring
will be on the Columbia (River), and we have had
good luck with smallies (smallmouth bass). Last year
our best tournament was out of The Dalles,” where the
team secured the 2018 state championship.
“We will need to finish really strong to repeat this
year,” Matthews said. “But for Michael and I, that’s
the goal. Back to back state championships.”
Bobby Brown of All Star Bass Fishing took the
Astoria team out after their boat experienced mechan-
ical problems earlier in the week.
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Mariners get
into clubhouse
brawl, then lose
to Orioles 5-3
Associated Press
Astoria High School students Leo Matthews,
background, and Michael Postlewait, doing what
they love.
This is the second season Astoria has fielded a team
to compete in statewide championship series hosted by
The Bass Federation of Oregon.
There will be a total of four events in the 2018-19
season, with the next tournament held on Celilo Pool
on the Columbia River April 13. The season concludes
May 11 at Cascade Locks.
For more information about the AHS bass fishing
team or high school bass fishing, email ahsbassfish-
ingteam@gmail.com
Storm and Mystics to meet in WNBA Finals
By DOUG FEINBERG
Associated Press
Elena Delle Donne has the Wash-
ington Mystics in the WNBA Finals
for the first time in franchise history,
where they’ll face Sue Bird and the
Seattle Storm.
The star forward came to Washing-
ton last year to try and lead the Mys-
tics to a championship. She has them
one step away.
“D.C.’s become home to me,”
said Delle Donne, who grew up about
two hours north in Delaware. “Now
we need the city to rally behind us
because we’re not finished yet.”
Bird chose to stay in Seattle a few
years ago while the franchise was
rebuilding. Now she’ll get a chance to
win her third WNBA championship.
“It’s been a great run,” said Bird,
who scored 14 of her 22 points in the
final 5:48 of a 94-84 win over Phoe-
nix in the semifinals Tuesday night.
“When the season started I wasn’t
sure what was going to happen and
SCAPPOOSE — Scappoose
has moved up a level to Class 5A,
but that did not change anything
between the Indians and the Sea-
side boys soccer team Tuesday
evening.
The Gulls — expected to chal-
lenge for a 4A state title — showed
that they’ve still got the better team,
with a 3-0 win over Scappoose in a
game between the former Cowapa
League rivals.
Since 2007, Seaside holds a
16-3-5 record over Scappoose.
The Gulls now take an eight-day
break, and return to action Sept. 13
at home vs. Oregon Episcopal.
— The Daily Astorian
AP Photo/Elaine Thompson
Seattle Storm players gather in a
celebratory huddle after a 94-84
win over the Phoenix Mercury.
now we’re in the Finals.”
Game 1 is Friday night in Seattle.
The two stars helped their teams
win decisive Game 5s and advance to
the championship round. Both players
did so while overcoming injuries from
earlier in their series.
Delle Donne sustained a bone
bruise in her left knee during Game 2
that forced her to miss the third game
of the series. Bird broke her nose in
Game 4 and sat out the second half.
Yet with the season on the line, both
stepped up.
They certainly didn’t do it alone.
Washington rookie Ariel Atkins was
instrumental, leading her team with
20 points and seven rebounds Tues-
day in an 86-81 victory over Atlanta.
“My goodness did Ariel Atkins
step up for us. She’s not a rookie,”
Delle Donne said.
League MVP Breanna Stewart
scored 28 points to lead the Storm,
and reserve Sami Whitcomb had 11
crucial points off the bench.
“You have to take your hat off to
the heart that we had down the stretch.
... We really dug in,” Seattle coach
Dan Hughes said. “Watching Sue Bird
have the presence in that moment.
I played Stewie for the first time 40
minutes, and then you get a player like
Sami Whitcomb who trains like no
other and was ready for a big moment.
So a lot of things that we had to dig to
get, and that’s what you’ve got to do
to advance. Advance we will.”
SEATTLE — A rough day for
the Seattle Mariners that began with
a clubhouse brawl ended in rugged
fashion, too.
Long after Mariners shortstop
Jean Segura and second baseman
Dee Gordon apparently tangled,
Baltimore rookie Renato Nunez and
the Orioles rallied late for a 5-3 win
Tuesday night.
The scuffle broke out four hours
before the game at Safeco Field.
Several players got involved, with
catcher Mike Zunino among those
trying to break it up.
Moments after Gordon politely
asked reporters to leave the locker
room, the double doors burst open
with players shoving and shouting.
Most of the Seattle players
weren’t around after the game to talk
about the incident.
“Whatever happens in here, stays
in here,” Seattle star Robinson Cano
said. “It didn’t affect anyone in here.
We let it go. We’re good. Everyone
is good. We left that behind.”
“We’ve been playing hard,” he
said. “It’s a long season. Everyone
here gives everything they’ve got.”
Cano had three hits, including a
home run.
Seattle was 46-25 on June 16 and
11 1/2 games ahead of Oakland in
the wild-card standings. The Mari-
ners are now 77-62 and 5½ games
behind the A’s in the chase for the
second AL wild-card spot.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
THURSDAY
Volleyball — Astoria at Rainier, 6
p.m.; Seaside at North Marion, 7 p.m.;
Knappa at Ilwaco, 6:30 p.m.; St. Paul at
Jewell, 6 p.m.
Girls soccer — Astoria at St. Helens,
7 p.m.
Boys soccer — St. Helens at Astoria,
7:15 p.m.
FRIDAY
Football — Stayton at Astoria, 7 p.m.;
Seaside at Marist, 7 p.m.; Knappa at
Toledo, 7 p.m.; Creswell at Warrenton,
7 p.m.; Powers at Jewell, 5 p.m.; White
Salmon at Ilwaco, 7 p.m.
Volleyball — Jewell at Damascus
Christian, 6 p.m.