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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018
SEASIDE SEAGULLS
SWIMMING • WRESTLING
The Daily Astorian
Seaside’s Kara Spell is one of several returning swimmers with varsity experience.
Seaside swimmers looking
to make a splash in district
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
T
heir state medal-
ist swimmer is gone,
but the Seaside Gulls
still have plenty of swimmers
who can score points as they
enter the 2018-19 season.
Head coach Shane Spell
and the Gulls finished in the
middle of the pack in last
year’s district meet, with one
individual qualifying for state
in two events, along with one
relay team making the trip to
Gresham.
Only one member of the
relay team is back, as Henry
Garvin returns for his soph-
omore season after helping
Seaside’s 200-yard freestyle
relay squad qualify for the
state meet a year ago.
Dawson Blanchard and
Isaiah Collins have gradu-
ated, while Josh Shipley —
who was a junior at Warren-
ton High School last year and
competed for Seaside — is
not on the Gulls’ preseason
roster.
Shipley was the district
champion in the 50-yard free-
style and the 100-yard breast-
stroke, and brought home a
second-place medal in the
freestyle from the state meet.
But, the Gulls still have a
short list of swimmers with
state-qualifying
potential,
especially with Scappoose
out of the district picture.
Heading the list for the
Lady Gulls is senior Kendy
Lin, who took fourth in the
district 200-yard freestyle last
year and just missed out on a
wild-card berth for the state
meet. Lin was also fifth in the
backstroke final at districts.
Also back are Lin’s three
teammates in the 200 free-
style relay, which had the
fifth-best time in the district
preliminaries. Anna Hud-
dleston returns as a senior,
along with Kaisa Liljenwall
(Jr.) and Emily Philbrook
(So.).
Maddy Brown (Sr.) swam
in place of Lin in the finals at
district, and Brown teamed
with two other returners in
the 400-yard freestyle relay
— senior Cailin Bennett and
sophomore Brooke Blanken-
horn, along with Liljenwall.
Also back for her senior
season is Yaneli Aguilera.
The Seaside boys also
have returners with varsity
experience: seniors Nick
Konyha and Chris Quash-
nick, and sophomores Shawn
Collins and Leif DeWinter.
THE SWIMMERS
Girls
Yaneli Aguilera
Emma Arden
Chloe Bartel
Xcaret Bello
Cailin Bennett
Brooke Blankenhorn
Nicole Blankenhorn
Maddy Brown
Ashley Conrad
Ella Eronen
Angela Flores-Reyes
Anna Huddleston
Audrey Kunde
Kaisa Liljenwall
Kendy Lin
Tyler Miller
Esmerelda Perez
Emily Philbrook
Bella Samuelson
Karla Saucedo
Taryn Shay
Abby Sills
Sarah Sills
Kara Spell
Boys
Shawn Collins
Leif DeWinter
Adrian Fisner
Henry Garvin
Justin Hallocks
Sam Heroux
Nick Konyha
Cameron Lippert
Liam Matlock
Sean Olea
Aiden Ousley
Elliot Ousley
Chris Quashnick
Leif Rehnert
Francisco Rojas
Kaden Samson
Nelson returns for
Seaside wrestling
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
Some promising returners will
give the Seaside wrestling program
hopes of a higher finish this season,
in a district that last year was won
by the eventual state champion.
The good news is that Crook
County has moved out of the Dis-
trict 1/4A, and will now compete
at the 5A level, as will Scappoose.
But while those two wrestling
powerhouses leave the district,
Woodburn comes in, dropping
from 5A to 4A.
Either way, it’s usually tough
for everyone else in the district. As
it was for Seaside last season, as
the Gulls finished fourth out of five
teams in the Cowapa League meet,
then took ninth out of 11 in the dis-
trict meet.
Coached by Dan Taylor, Sea-
side failed to qualify any individu-
als for the state meet, but the Gulls
did have a second-place finisher —
Luke Nelson — in the league meet.
After advancing to the cham-
pionship match in the Cowapa
League tournament as a sopho-
more, Nelson is back for his junior
season, and is slated to wrestle at
220 pounds.
Andrew Gastelum returns as
a junior and will wrestle at 126, a
year after taking third at 113 in the
league meet.
The Gulls have five seniors on
the roster, including three listed at
160 — Alfonso Alcantar, Gavin
Meyer and Gio Ramirez. Tyler
Shell will compete at 170, and Tra-
vis Fenton is set to wrestle at 285.
THE WRESTLERS
106-Johnathon Kenenounis, Fr.
120-Axel Garcia, So.
126-Andrew Gastelum, Jr.
126-Kaden Samson, Fr.
145-Aidan Tice, So.
152-Everett Rollins, Fr.
160-Alfonso Alcantar, Jr., Sr.
160-Gavin Meyer, Sr.
160-Gio Ramirez, Sr.
160-Jeremiah Stanley, So.
160-Lawson Talamantez, Fr.
170-Tyler Shell, Sr.
170-Forest Tice, Jr.
182-David Cruz, Jr.
182-Logan McCaulley, Fr.
182-David Toyooka, Jr.
195-Tyler Tackitt, Jr.
220-Brennan Loveridge, So.
220-Luke Nelson, Jr.
285-Travis Fenton, Sr.
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