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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2018
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Athletes of the Week
EMY
KISER
Seaside
JACKSON
JANUIK
George Fox
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Emy Kiser, Seaside
George Fox University
Jackson Januik, George Fox
K
iser was Seaside’s second-leading scorer and one of two all-tournament play-
ers for the Lady Gulls in last week’s Seaside Holiday Classic, won by Elma. The
senior guard scored 10 points and had four steals in a fi rst round 44-20 win over
Crook County, followed by eight points and eight rebounds in a 38-28 victory over
Cottage Grove. She fi nished with fi ve points, four rebounds and three steals in the
championship game loss to Elma. Kiser was joined on the all-tournament team by
Seaside freshman Lilli Taylor.
Lillard’s 3-pointer
in OT lifts Blazers
over the Warriors
T
he Seaside High graduate had his biggest week at the collegiate level. A
sophomore guard at George Fox University, Januik opened his week with a
career-high 20 points in a 92-81 loss to the nation’s No. 1-ranked Division III team
from Nebraska Wesleyan. He was 8-for-12 from the fi eld (4-5 from the 3-point line),
with six assists and two steals. Two nights later, he had a team-high 19 points in a
78-68 win over Chapman. He was 5-for-6 from the 3-point line. Less than 24 hours
later, he had six assists in a 107-68 victory at La Verne.
HOOPS ROUNDUP
Astoria gets defensive
in win over Elma
By JANIE McCAULEY
Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — Damian
Lillard certainly left his mark over
the years at Oracle Arena, and
again in perhaps his fi nal visit to a
building he frequented as an NBA-
crazed boy.
Lillard hit a go-ahead
3-pointer with 6.3 seconds
left in overtime and scored
21 points back home in Oak-
land, sending the Portland Trail
Blazers past the Golden State
Warriors 110-109 in a wild one
Thursday night.
Lillard shot 7 for 20 with
friends and family cheering
him in the Blazers’ fi nal sched-
uled trip to Oracle Arena before
the Warriors move to San Fran-
cisco next season.
“That’s a hell of a way to go
out,” Lillard said. “We needed
this win. It was a big game for
us, especially having to play
them two times in a row, hav-
ing to play such a solid game.”
Kevin Durant missed a
13-footer off the front rim as
the fi nal buzzer sounded but
fi nished with his second tri-
ple-double of the season:
26 points, 11 assists and 10
rebounds.
“I’ve got to make that shot,
plain and simple,” Durant said.
Jusuf Nurkic had 27 points
and 12 rebounds for the Blaz-
ers, who helped coach Terry
Stotts pass Rick Adelman for
second place on the Blazers’
career wins list with 292 behind
Jack Ramsay’s 453. Stotts
sipped some celebratory bub-
bly afterward.
The Warriors couldn’t over-
come a comedy of errors in los-
ing a second straight at home.
They took a 127-101 beating
from the Lakers on Christmas
night.
Seth Curry largely outplayed
big brother and Golden State
star Stephen — whose poor
pass with the Warriors lead-
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AP Photo/Jeff Chiu
Golden State Warriors guard
Stephen Curry, left, shoots next
to Portland Trail Blazers guard
Damian Lillard during the fi rst
half of Thursday’s game in
Oakland, Calif.
ing by two was stolen on the
sequence that led to Lillard’s
shot.
Stephen Curry made a
3-pointer with 10:46 to play
in regulation, then his little
brother rattled off 11 in a row
with three consecutive 3s.
Klay Thompson’s shooting
struggles continued. He went 6
for 19 and was just 2 of 9 on
3-point tries on the way to 15
points.
Curry’s 33-footer with 8:42
left in the third on a pass from
Draymond Green got Golden
State within two, then Curry
found Green for a tying layup
the next time down to make it
55-all.
A series of silly mistakes fol-
lowed: Thompson made a steal
and threw it toward midcourt
and Green couldn’t keep the
ball from going over the line
for a backcourt violation, as
Portland regained possession.
Then, Green clanked a one-
handed dunk try off the back of
the rim. This after he had ear-
lier thrown a pass off Thomp-
son’s head.
he Elma Eagles couldn’t buy
a basket Thursday night. And
they didn’t come very cheap
for the Astoria Fishermen, either.
Both teams struggled from the
fi eld in the defensive boys basket-
ball matchup that concluded Day 1
of the 50th annual Vince Dulcich
Memorial Tournament at Astoria
High School.
While the Eagles fi nished 9-for-
56 from the fi eld, the Fishermen at
least improved a little in the sec-
ond half and fi nished 15-for-47,
for a low-scoring 37-24 win over
the visitors.
Astoria led just 20-10 at half-
time, then broke the game open in
the third quarter for a 29-13 advan-
tage heading into the fi nal period,
where Elma scored 11 of its 24
points.
Despite the low number of
points, Astoria had a balanced
scoring effort. Xander Marin-
covich led the way with 10 points,
followed by Ian Hunt (nine), Josh
Olson (eight) and Isaac Brockman
(seven).
The Fishermen play the fi nal
game each night for the remain-
der of the tournament. Astoria
faces Rainier tonight (6:45 p.m.),
and fi nish Saturday vs. Ridgefi eld
(6:45 p.m.).
Astoria girls rally in
win over Redmond
A combined 46 turnovers kept
the offensive highlights to a min-
imum in a nonleague girls bas-
ketball matchup Thursday night
between Redmond and Astoria, a
fi rst round game of the Vince Dul-
cich Memorial Tournament.
The Lady Fishermen won
56-46 despite missing 42 shots
from the fi eld, as the Panthers con-
tributed 31 turnovers in the third
girls’ game of the day at the Brick
House.
Action continues today and
Saturday at Astoria High School
in the 50th annual tournament.
Astoria faces Rainier at 5 p.m.
today, then fi nishes the tourna-
ment Saturday vs. Centennial, also
a 5 p.m. tipoff.
The Lady Fishermen struggled
from the free throw line (10-for-
21) in Thursday’s game, while the
Panthers were just 6-of-11.
Redmond also had 19 turnovers
in the fi rst half, but still led 24-22
at halftime, as Astoria missed its
last seven free throw attempts of
the second quarter.
The Fishermen trailed by as
much as 33-28 in the third period,
before Astoria’s Halle Helmersen
connected on two 3-pointers —
back-to-back — that helped Asto-
ria take a 35-33 lead into the fi nal
quarter.
Fisherman
junior
Hailey
O’Brien led all scorers with 17
points, while Kajsa Jackson fi n-
ished with 16, despite spending
much of the night in foul trouble.
Warrenton girls
score big win over
Salem Academy
The Warrenton girls basketball
team was looking more like the
state title contenders they’re hop-
ing to be in a 38-37 win Thurs-
day afternoon over No. 2-ranked
Salem Academy on Day 1 of
the SCTC Holiday Classic at
Stayton.
The win over the Crusad-
ers came exactly two weeks after
Salem Academy defeated Warren-
ton 46-17 in a nonleague game on
the Crusaders’ home fl oor.
Highlighted by a buzzer-beat-
ing shot to end the third quarter,
Warrenton’s Claire Bussert scored
20 points to lead the Warriors in
Thursday’s win, their biggest of
the season.
Warrenton is still missing senior
post Fernanda Alvarez, but held off
Salem Academy down the stretch.
“We just made the plays when
we needed to make them,” said
Warrenton coach Robert Hoepfl .
“It was a great team win, and
everybody contributed. Claire was
just hitting big shot after big shot.
Kenzie (Ramsey) only scored six
points, but they came on two big
3-pointers.”
The Warriors are scheduled
to play host Stayton at 7:30 p.m.
tonight, and the tournament con-
cludes Saturday. Warrenton jumps
to fi fth in the latest OSAA rank-
ings, while Salem Academy drops
to sixth.
Just six days after Seaside
defeated Cottage Grove 38-28 in
the Seaside Holiday Classic, the
Lions completed a 31-point turn-
around Thursday with a 58-37
win over the Gulls in another fi rst
round game of the SCTC Holiday
Classic at Stayton.
Seaside boys fl y past
South Eugene, 68-51
South Eugene managed to keep
it close for a while, but Seaside
eventually pulled away and got
the win Thursday as the Gulls eas-
ily topped the Class 6A Axemen
68-51 in a fi rst round boys basket-
ball game of the Summit Holiday
Tournament in Bend.
South Eugene rallied from a
17-11 defi cit to tie the score in the
second period, but 3-point bas-
kets by Seaside’s Payton Wester-
holm and Chase Januik — coupled
with a few breakaway buckets —
helped the Gulls take command
before halftime, 39-26.
The Axemen couldn’t keep up
with Januik and Westerholm, who
combined for 32 of Seaside’s 39
points in the fi rst half.
Seaside is slated to play either
Bend or Pendleton today in the
second round of the tournament,
which concludes Saturday.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
TODAY
Girls basketball — Seaside, Warrenton at Stayton
Tournament, TBA; Jewell at NKN Tournament, TBA
Boys basketball — Seaside at Summit Holiday Tour-
nament, TBA; Warrenton at NKN Tournament, TBA;
Jewell at NKN Tournament, TBA
SATURDAY
Girls basketball — Seaside, Warrenton at Stayton
Tournament, TBA; Jewell at NKN Tournament, TBA
Boys basketball — Seaside at Summit Holiday Tour-
nament, TBA; Warrenton at NKN Tournament, TBA;
Jewell at NKN Tournament, TBA
Wrestling — Knappa at Clatskanie tournament,
10 a.m.
Dulcich Memorial Tournament
Friday’s schedule
Girls
10 a.m.: Centennial vs Redmond
1:30: Gladstone vs Hood River
5:00: Astoria vs Rainier
Boys
11:45 a.m.: Ridgefi eld vs Redmond
3:15: Elma vs Tillamook
6:45: Rainier vs Astoria
Saturday’s schedule
Girls
10 a.m.: Redmond vs Gladstone
1:30: Hood River vs Rainier
5:00: Centennial vs Astoria
Boys
11:45 a.m.: Tillamook vs Redmond
3:15: Rainier vs Elma
6:45: Astoria vs Ridgefi eld
BOYS BASKETBALL
Astoria 37, Elma 24
ELM (24): Cody Vollan 9, Jacobson 5, Moore 4, John-
ston 3, Schneider 3.
AST (37): Xander Marincovich 10, Hunt 9, Olson 8,
Brockman 7, Long 3, Stenblom.
Elma
7
3
3
11 — 24
Astoria
10
10
9
8 — 37
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Astoria 56, Redmond 46
RED (46): McKaylie Capps 14, Kitchin 11, Fox 8, Cor-
win 8, Heikkila 5.
AST (56): Hailey O’Brien 17, Jackson 16, Helmersen
8, Fausett 6, Norris 5, Long 4, Cole, Lyngstad.
Redmond
14
10
9
13 — 46
Astoria
16
6
13
21 — 56
Warrenton 38, Salem Academy 37
WAR (38): Claire Bussert 20, Ramsey 6, M.Heyen 6,
Diego 4, Kapua 2, Miethe, Dejesus.
SA (37): Kirsten Koehnke 12, Brown 11.
Warrenton
12
8
7
11 — 38
S.Academy
9
4
8
16 — 37