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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2018 CONTACT US FOLLOW US facebook.com/ DailyAstorianSports Gary Henley | Sports Reporter ghenley@dailyastorian.com No time for Seahawks to recover from loss to Rams SPORTS IN BRIEF Mariners deny fired exec’s claims of racism against Latinos SEATTLE — The Seattle Mar- iners are denying claims made by the club’s recently fired train- ing and conditioning director, who said team management had dis- paraged Latino players. The Mariners issued a state- ment on Monday following the social media postings from Lorena Martin in which she claimed gen- eral manager Jerry Dipoto, man- ager Scott Servais and director of player development Andy McKay had called Latino players “lazy, dumb and stupid, especially the Dominicans.” Martin, whose title with the team was director of high performance, posted her message on Instagram and Twitter . The Mariners said Martin, who was hired with much fanfare last year, was relieved of her duties on Oct. 10. Ohtani wins AL Rookie of the Year; Acuna takes NL honor NEW YORK — Shohei Ohtani was rewarded for a Ruth- ian season at the plate — and on the mound. Baseball’s best two-way player since the Babe at the dawn of the live-ball era a century ago, Ohtani was an overwhelming pick for American League Rookie of the Year on Monday despite an elbow injury that stymied his switch from Japan to the major leagues and likely will prevent him from pitching next year. “I was just kind of disap- pointed I wasn’t able to play a full season,” he said through a transla- tor. “I feel like every player should be able to play a full year and help out the team. So that’s something I need to work on, and that’s going to be one of my goals, to stay healthy for a long full season and be able to the team win from day one.” Atlanta Braves outfielder Ron- ald Acuna Jr. was a runaway choice for the NL honor over Washington outfielder Juan Soto in a contest between 20-year-olds. A singular sensation who earned a chorus of praise for his dual success, Ohtani became the first player since Ruth in 1919 with 10 homers and four pitching wins in the same season. He didn’t play between June 4 and July 3 because of a sprained ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow, an injury the Angels were aware of when they signed him for a $2,315,000 bonus last winter. — Associated Press By TIM BOOTH Associated Press RENTON, Wash. — The idea the Seattle Seahawks would score 31 points and lose used to be unfath- omable with Pete Carroll in charge. It’s happened now twice this sea- son, both times to the division-lead- ing Los Angeles Rams. And by the end of the season those two games of being unable to slow down the Rams could end up being the dif- ference between Seattle finding its way into the playoffs and being left home for the second straight year. Krissy Barendse-Goodman/For The Daily Astorian North Coast official Tal Gohl signals a 3-point shot for the Loggers. Referees and officials needed cials over the last nine years. “We’ve lost 18 percent of our officials. And the number of con- training clinic for basketball tests hasn’t gone down,” he said. officials will be held Sunday Plus, the current officials are at Clatsop Community Col- aging — the average age is 48. lege, 16th and Lexington in Astoria. “If an official has been offici- ating for three years, you can nor- The clinic is hosted by the Ore- gon Athletic Officials Association mally keep them for much longer,” (OAOA), and is for training and Toyas said. “But those first three playoff certification for the Offi- years are the key. The training, cials’ Certification and Education mentoring, the good experiences Program (OCEP). … that kind of thing.” It’s also for anyone interested Not only is it difficult to keep in officiating local games, from the officials interested, but high school youth Pacific Basketball League basketball associations now need to middle school to high more officials per game, school. with leagues across the The North Coast Offi- state moving to three-of- cials’ Association — like ficial crews, from the old associations throughout the two-person crews. state — is in desperate need With basketball season of referees. There’s a defi- right around the corner, the nite shortage of officials in North Coast association youth athletics, says local Teena Toyas is just trying to stay afloat, multi-sport official Teena Toyas said. Toyas. “Obviously we’ve lost one offi- cial (the recent death of longtime While the pay isn’t great and official/umpire Brad Campbell), there’s lot of travel, Toyas says and there’s a couple others who the main reason for the shortage won’t be officiating this year,” she of officials is “fan behavior. (Offi- cials) just don’t like getting yelled said. “We do have some new peo- ple coming in, but they are going to and screamed at, and blamed for be brand-new rookies.” their kid failing and everything The shortage of officials has else.” affected all sports, at all levels. Toyas has officiated multiple “There’s all kinds of research sports locally for years, and is the being done on it, and campaigns to current commissioner for the North try and recruit,” Toyas said. Coast association for basketball, As a result, in recent years local soccer and volleyball officials. schools have had to bring in offi- A shortage of officials is not just cials from the Longview, Wash- a local problem — it’s a national ington area for football games, and trend. the lack of referees in basketball is Jack Folliard, executive direc- tor of the Oregon Athletic Officials one reason why there’s a decline Association, said the shortage is a or complete cancellation of city widespread problem. league games, Toyas said. “It’s a huge issue across the “That’s why the city league had state in all sports, and an issue to cancel their program, because across the nation,” said Folliard, we (the North Coast association) who has tracked a decline of offi- had too many games and couldn’t By GARY HENLEY The Daily Astorian A service them. They had to get their own officials, and that didn’t work because they were untrained and out of shape.” The recently completed fall sports season “was actually good,” she said. “We had some younger, new officials in soccer. We don’t get a lot of new officials in volleyball, but my volleyball group is always there. They’re very committed, they always take their assignments and it’s never a huge burden, unless we have the big tournaments, like in Seaside, where we have to ask for help from Portland.” The North Coast Officials Association covers seven mid- dle schools (including Ilwaco) and six area high schools — Asto- ria, Seaside, Warrenton, Knappa, Neah-Kah-Nie and Jewell. There are some nights when all six high schools host games — with most schools holding freshman and junior varsity games before the var- sity doubleheaders. While basketball practices began Monday for the local high school players, referees and offi- cials also need to gear up for the upcoming season, rookies included. Sunday’s clinic is needed, Toyas said, because “you have to have this training in order to be qualified to do any state playoff or champi- onship games. It’s required every five years, so we do a training class at the college, and this will be part of the regular training.” The clinic will include class- room instruction and on-floor train- ing, and is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Focus will be on three-per- son mechanics, with presentations from visiting officials. Lunch is provided by the OAOA. For more information, contact Toyas at officiallyteena13@msn. com, ttoyas@clatsopcc.edu, or 503-440-0221. UP NEXT: SEAHAWKS • Green Bay Packers (4-4-1) at Seattle Seahawks (4-5) • Thursday, 5:20 p.m. TV: FOX “I’m not a moral victories guy. A loss is a loss,” Seattle linebacker Bobby Wagner said. “We need to grow from it. It’s only good if we learn something from it and do bet- ter. We’ve got to do that. We have to apply that to the rest of the season.” Seattle has little time to make corrections with Green Bay visit- ing on Thursday night in a matchup with major wild-card implications in the NFC. Seattle has dropped two straight, falling to 4-5 and can’t afford a third straight loss if it wants to remain in the playoff race. Carroll believes there is still time for Seattle to make a playoff run. But its defense must improve starting this week. “We’ve got to go. We’ve got to take these one week at a time and start piling up some wins. I like our style and I like our style in playoff mode. I’d like that opportunity,” Carroll said on Monday. “We’ve got a lot of ball to play, there are a lot of games coming at us, lot of opportunities at home and we should have nothing but the thoughts that we should build on where we are right now and have a chance to get going and get bet- ter. Hopefully we can stay healthy and give us a chance to play with the same guys.” For the second straight week, Seattle was terrible at stopping the run, especially in the first half. A week earlier against the Chargers, it was Melvin Gordon running wild as that Los Angeles franchise rolled up 160 yards rushing and averaged more than 7 yards per carry. It didn’t get better against Todd Gurley and the Rams. Gur- ley rushed for 120 yards on just 16 carries and the Rams averaged 6.5 yards per carry. It was the third time this season Seattle has allowed its opponent to average more than 6 yards per rush — it happened just seven times in the previous eight seasons.
