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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
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SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Seahawks
trying
to avoid
troubling
0-3 start
VOLLEYBALL
Banks wins
at Astoria
Suffering what may have been
a letdown following a Clatsop
Clash win earlier in the week, the
Astoria volleyball team came up
short against Banks in a Cowapa
League match Thursday night at
the Brick House.
The Braves snapped a three-
match losing streak and scored the
upset win, 25-10, 25-14, 21-25,
25-23.
Astoria (1-1 in league) plays at
Tillamook next Tuesday.
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Whether it was
his first two stops in the NFL, his
time in college at Southern Cali-
fornia or his first eight seasons in
charge in Seattle, Pete Carroll has
never started a season with three
consecutive losses.
That’s 12 seasons in the pros
and nine in college during which
Carroll has been able to avoid a
disastrous start to a new campaign.
And it’s what the Seahawks will be
trying to avoid Sunday when they
host the Dallas Cowboys.
Valiants
sweep Seaside
SEASIDE — The Valley Cath-
olic Valiants — ranked third in
the state and the favorite to win
the Cowapa League — showed
how tough they can be on the road
Thursday night, in a volleyball
match at the Gulls’ Nest in Seaside.
The Valiants posted three
straight wins for the sweep, 25-16,
25-13, 25-16.
Seaside has a bye Tuesday,
before playing at Tillamook next
Thursday.
UP NEXT: SEAHAWKS
• Dallas Cowboys (1-1)
at Seattle Seahawks (0-2)
• Sunday, 1:25 p.m. TV: FOX
Royals sweep
Knappa
PORTLAND — Portland Chris-
tian scored a quick three-game
sweep over the visiting Knappa
Loggers, 25-11, 25-15, 25-10, in
Northwest League volleyball action
Thursday.
The Loggers were trying to
battle “the common cold, Home-
coming week, powder puff foot-
ball, three boxes of doughnuts, and
an away game against the fourth-
ranked team at the 2A level,” coach
Jeff Kaul said.
Knappa “could get absolutely
nothing going on their side of the net
against a very large and experienced
Portland Christian team,” he said.
Sophia Carlson had five kills and
Kourtney Tischer added four assists
for the Loggers.
— The Daily Astorian
SCOREBOARD
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
TODAY
Football — Astoria at Seaside, 7 p.m.;
Warrenton at Knappa, 7 p.m.; Ilwaco
at South Bend, 7 p.m.; Darrington at
Naselle, 7 p.m.
SATURDAY
Cross-country — 3-Course Chal-
lenge, Camp Rilea, 10 a.m.
Browns
beat Jets
for first win
since 2016
Associated Press
CLEVELAND — For the first
time in 635 days, the Cleveland
Browns won.
Baker Mayfield showed them
how.
The No. 1 overall pick
replaced injured starter Tyrod
Taylor and sparked the Browns,
who got two 1-yard touchdown
runs from Carlos Hyde and beat
the New York Jets 21-17 on
Thursday night for their first win
since Dec. 24, 2016.
“I’ve just been waiting for my
moment,” Mayfield said. “I’m
just getting started.”
And so ends Cleveland’s
19-game winless streak, the
NFL’s second-longest since the
1970 AFL-NFL merger.
The Browns (1-1-1) trailed
14-0 in the first half before May-
field came in for Taylor and led
four scoring drives while winning
an unexpected matchup against
Jets rookie quarterback Sam Dar-
nold. Cleveland passed on taking
Darnold in the draft and instead
chose Mayfield, the Heisman
Trophy winner from Oklahoma.
Photos by Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Chase Januik heads the ball toward the goal for Seaside.
Seaside on the mend
in 5-1 win over Astoria
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
EASIDE — Two teams look-
ing to get back on the winning
track met on the artificial pitch
Thursday night, as a short-handed
Astoria team and Seaside opened
Cowapa League play in a boys soc-
cer game at Broadway Field.
And the Gulls showed that they
had the edge in just about every
category over their rivals — speed,
size, strength, experience and
depth.
It was all reflected in the final
score: Seaside 5, Astoria 1.
While the Gulls allowed just
two shots on goal the entire night,
the Seaside offense took tar-
get practice at the Fishermen net,
bouncing shots off the crossbar and
posts.
Astoria goalkeeper Tony Tum-
barello made his share of amazing
saves, but the Seaside attack was
relentless.
The Gulls are rated 12th in the
latest OSAA rankings, but will be
sure to rise as they return to full
strength.
Seaside scored just over seven
minutes into the contest, with soph-
omore Dodger Holmstedt ham-
mering home a pass from Chase
Januik.
Holmstedt returned the favor
in the 19th minute, sending a long
pass down the middle to Januik,
who beat an Astoria defender to the
ball to create a one-on-one oppor-
tunity against Tumbarello, won by
Januik for a 2-0 lead.
The Gulls had additional shots
on goal from Bryce DeWinter,
Natanael Conrad, Irving Contreras,
Josue Sanchez and Diego Angu-
lo-Joli, all saved by Tumbarello.
Another hard attempt by Ryan
Hague glanced off the crossbar
from 30 yards out.
Seaside tacked on three goals
in the first eighteen minutes of
the second half — the first two by
Januik from close range, and the
final from sophomore Westin Car-
ter, making his first appearance of
the season after a preseason injury.
It took Carter only about five
minutes to tally his first goal, as he
collected a free ball near the top of
the penalty area and drilled a shot
past Tumbarello.
Astoria’s lone goal came in
the 68th minute. A long free kick
S
Jessica Angulo-Joli keeps her
eyes on the ball for Seaside
during the Clatsop Clash.
by Jonathan Jimenez was stopped
initially by Seaside keeper Diego
Silva, but Christian Medina-Perez
gathered in the rebound and scored.
Despite the loss, Astoria coach
Lee Cain said, “I was very happy
with our play tonight. The guys
executed the game plan very well,
despite being down four regu-
lar starters, and four or five of the
squad played tonight even though
they had a cold.”
He added, “Seaside is a very
good team this year, so I thought
the boys did very well considering
everything. We’re looking forward
to getting the full squad back. We
will win games if we keep playing
like that.”
The Gulls — coming off a loss
to Catlin Gabel earlier in the week
— host games with Valley Cath-
olic and Tillamook over the next
week, followed by four straight
road games.
Astoria has lost four straight,
and will host Banks next Tuesday.
Late scores lift
Astoria girls past
Seaside in 2-1 win
SEASIDE — Trailing 1-0
through 77 minutes of an 80-min-
ute game, the Astoria girls soc-
cer team scored twice in the final
three minutes Thursday night, for
a dramatic 2-1 win over Seaside at
Broadway Field.
Both teams played hard, but
those are the breaks of the game,
as the Fishermen and Gulls literally
experienced the thrill of victory and
the agony of da-feet, respectively.
“We got lucky. We were for-
tunate,” said Astoria coach Tim
Fastabend, whose team won for
the first time in four games. The
Fishermen started the season 2-1,
which was followed by two ties
and a loss.
“It was nice to see how we hung
in there,” Fastabend said. “The
girls have played hard. It’s just
the final third (of the field) where
we have trouble finishing. Seaside
plugged up the middle tonight and
it took us awhile.”
The Gulls scored in the ninth
minute, when Katie Zagata took a
shot from 20 yards out at the right
post, crossing a shot that banged off
the left post and into the net.
That was the only goal of the
first half, which featured just four
shots on goal.
The first 37 minutes of the
second half was similar — good
defense, and not much offense.
Astoria’s Nara Van De Grift, Mad-
die Sisley and Andrea Harris were
busy on the defensive end for the
Fishermen, while Seaside’s Maddy
Brown, Audrey Kunde, Jessica
Angulo-Joli, Annaka Garhofer and
Suzy Velasquez were all stopping
Fishermen attacks.
At 77:02 into the game, Asto-
ria scored on a goal from Meghan
O’Meara, off a pass from Taileigh
Cole, with the ball going through
Elle Espelien.
And just over a minute later, the
Fishermen struck again with the
game-winner, as a corner kick from
O’Meara was headed into the net
by Espelien.
“Meghan had the nice corner,”
Fastabend said. “And the first goal
was impressive. We sent the ball
deep to Elle, who worked it to Tai
(Cole) who got it to Meghan. It was
great to see three players working
together to get a goal.”
It was also a rare final score
between the two rivals.
For the first time in 11 meetings
since 2012, both teams scored in
the Clatsop Clash clash. The three
combined goals was also the most
in the series since a 4-1 win for the
Gulls in 2012.
“I just hope we can continue
it,” Fastabend said. “We’ve still got
two people on the bench, with a
concussion and an ankle injury. So
it’s been a grind for the girls. We’ve
had six games in the last two weeks
and 1,200 miles of travel. It’s been
a tough stretch.”
“There’s only a couple of unde-
feated teams in the NFC right now
and let’s hang with that. Let’s hang
with them,” Carroll said. “I don’t
want to get behind that number
right now, so we’ve got to get a
win.”
What’s been called a roster
reset multiple times by Carroll and
other Seahawks has struggled to
get started. Seattle’s offense has
looked inept at times, its quarter-
back confused and its defense vul-
nerable. The Seahawks understand
the rarity of dropping to 0-3 and
still being able to turn around the
trajectory of the season.
“I’m not going to give you a
cliche. You don’t want to be 0-3,”
Seattle linebacker Bobby Wagner
said.
Dallas is still trying to solve all
of its issues, but at least has a vic-
tory after knocking off the New
York Giants at home last week.
The Cowboys’ defense was excep-
tional against the Giants, holding
rookie Saquon Barkley and New
York’s run game to 35 yards on the
ground, and sacked quarterback
Eli Manning six times. The Cow-
boys are second in the NFL with
nine sacks through two weeks, and
now face the offense that’s surren-
dered a league-high 12 sacks so
far, six in each game.
“We’ve continued to try to
build the talent level on our front
seven and try to create competitive
situations where guys are fighting
for roster spots and fighting for
playing time and hopefully when
they get out there that competition
brings out the best in them,” Dallas
coach Jason Garrett said. “Obvi-
ously, those can be very impactful
plays.”
The Cowboys are 5-2 in Sep-
tember road games since 2014,
one of those losses coming in the
opener against Carolina. Seattle
hasn’t lost a home game in Sep-
tember under Carroll, going 13-0
since 2010.
RUN AROUND: For two
weeks, the Seahawks have failed
to follow through on one of
their major offseason priorities
of returning to being a run-first
offense. The Seahawks had just 16
carries for 64 yards in the opener.
After committing to running more
in Week 2, they ended up man-
aging only 74 yards on 22 carries
against the Bears. There was also
Carroll’s confusion about the con-
ditioning of starter Chris Carson,
who didn’t have a carry in the sec-
ond half against the Bears.
SILENT ON SEATTLE:
New Dallas secondary coach and
passing game coordinator Kris
Richard turned down interview
requests before his reunion with
the Seahawks. Richard spent the
first eight years of his pro coach-
ing career in Seattle, the past two
as defensive coordinator. He was
fired in a retooling of Carroll’s
defensive staff.
The Cowboys have blitzed
more the first two weeks than in
the past under defensive coordina-
tor Rod Marinelli. From the start,
Richard has said the Cowboys
embraced the idea of him bringing
new concepts.