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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2019
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Athletes of the Week
MADDI
UTTI
Fresno State
AIDEN
TICE
Seaside
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he former Seaside Gull — now a sophomore at Fresno State — is among
the statistical leaders in almost every category for the FSU women’s
basketball team. In three wins last week, Utti had 12 rebounds in a win over
Colorado State and scored 16 points on 8-for-10 from the fi eld in a win over
Nevada. Utti leads the Bulldogs in rebounds (6.4 per game) and blocks, is tied
for the lead in steals and is second in scoring (11.0). She is 26-for-28 from the
free throw line, and FSU has won fi ve straight.
ice and teammate Gio Ramirez wrestled their way to individual titles in
Seaside’s Pac Rim tournament Jan. 11-12. At 145 pounds, Tice pinned his
fi rst three opponents — Adrian Hernandez of Tigard (in 32 seconds), Cooper
Ragan of Scappoose (47 seconds) and Elijah McCourtney of Madras (5:42),
then scored a 9-2 decision over Corbett’s Glen Leith-Ross in the championship
match. With titles from Tice and Ramirez, the Gulls had one of their best-ever
team fi nishes in the big tournament.
Nurkic has triple-
double and Blazers
beat Cavaliers 129-112
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
Krissy Barendse-Goodman/For The Daily Astorian
Knappa’s Eli Takalo throws down a slam dunk in Wednesday’s win at Faith Bible.
Knappa shoots down Falcons
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The Knappa boys basketball team
put another opponent away in the
fi rst quarter Wednesday night, on
their way to another easy Northwest
League win, 66-47 at Faith Bible.
The Loggers led 19-8 after
one quarter, and had the game
well in hand by halftime, leading
32-13.
Timber Engblom led Knappa’s
balanced scoring effort with 14
points (12 in the fi rst half), followed
by Ty Vanderburg (12 points), Tris-
tin Wallace (11) and Eli Takalo (10).
Knappa
improves
to
6-2
in league play, while Faith
Bible drops to 1-7. The No.
8-ranked Loggers play Friday at
Gaston.
Falcons fl y over Knappa girls, 42-28
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Faith Bible freshman Ashley
Lohman scored 18 points, and the Fal-
cons managed to pull away down the
stretch for a 42-28 win over Knappa
in a Northwest League girls basketball
game Wednesday night in Hillsboro.
The Loggers were within six points
to start the fi nal quarter, but injuries to
Knappa’s Sophia Carlson (ankle) and
Katie Patterson (knee) in the fi nal fi ve
minutes left the Loggers short-handed,
and the Falcons outscored Knappa
10-2 in the fourth period.
The injuries were key — and the
Loggers may be without Carlson for
a while — but “what hurt us was our
lack of defensive rebounding,” said
Knappa coach Marie Green. “(The
Falcons) were just able to grab the
offensive rebounds over the top of us.”
Madelynn Weaver led the Loggers
with 10 points, while Patterson had 10
rebounds, and Kourtney Tischer added
fi ve points and seven boards.
On the positive side, “we tried a
new defense tonight, and we did a fan-
tastic job with it,” Green said. “Our
whole goal was to limit (Anna) Good-
loe and (Izzy) Steerman, who scored
most of their points the last time we
played. And we held them to a com-
bined 10 points this time, which was
fantastic. What hurt us was the lack of
blocking out on the rebounds.”
Knappa plays Friday at Gaston, fol-
lowed by home games next week vs.
Vernonia and Portland Christian.
PORTLAND — Trail
Blazers big man Jusuf
Nurkic fi nally got his
triple-double.
Less than a week of com-
ing up just two assists shy
of the feat, Nurkic got his
fi rst career fi rst triple-double
with 10 points, 10 rebounds
and 10 assists in Portland’s
129-112 victory over the
Cleveland Cavaliers on
Wednesday night.
Nurkic said he wasn’t
aware he was close until
teammate Damian Lillard let
him know.
“Dame was like, ‘one
more,’ Nurkic said.
Lillard got the ball to
Nurkic, who passed it back
to Lillard, who knocked
down a 3-pointer — giving
Nurkic his fi nal assist.
When told that Lil-
lard celebrated along with
the crowd afterward, Nur-
kic laughed: “He’s my
teammate. My brother. He
should.”
Lillard himself had 33
points to lead all scorers, and
CJ McCollum had 19 points
as Portland snapped a two-
game losing streak. Nurkic
added fi ve blocks and was
treated to a standing ovation
when he left the game with
2:13 left.
Portland fi nished with
16 3-pointers, led by Lillard
with four.
Jordan Clarkson had 22
points off the bench for the
Cavaliers, who were com-
ing off a 101-95 victory over
the Lakers that snapped a
12-game losing streak. The
Astoria and Seaside score wins in the pool
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The Seaside swim team
hosted a double dual meet
Wednesday afternoon, with ath-
letes from Astoria and Taft mak-
ing a visit for District 1 action at
the Sunset Empire pool.
Taft won several events, but
the Fishermen and Gulls scored
points with their team depth to
post team victories.
On the girls’ side, Seaside
defeated Taft (97-70) and Asto-
ria (105-63), and Taft topped
Astoria (91.5 to 75.5).
Taft scored most of the wins
in the boys’ meet, giving the
Tigers wins over Seaside (99-
68) and Astoria (100-66), while
Astoria edged Seaside (86-80).
“We’re a young team, but the
kids have been working hard
and just growing each week,”
Seaside coach Shane Spell said
of his team. “After a meet in a
meter pool over the break, and
then an extra-warm pool at Val-
ley Catholic (87-degree water)
it was nice for them to race at
home.”
Seaside victories Wednesday
included the fi rst event of the
day — the girls’ 200-yard med-
ley relay — as the foursome of
Kendy Lin, Anna Huddleston,
Cailin Bennett and Nicole Blan-
kenhorn fi nished in 2 minutes,
14.93 seconds.
The Lady Gulls also won the
200-yard freestyle relay, with
Lin, Kaisa Liljenwall, Hud-
dleston and Blankenhorn com-
bining for a 1:59.22.
Blankenhorn
won
the
50-yard freestyle in 29.45,
ahead of Huddleston’s 30.01,
and Lin also picked up a third
win by taking fi rst in the 100-
yard backstroke (1:11.44).
Liljenwall had the best time
among 17 entries in the 100-
yard freestyle (1:04.62) to win
that event.
For the Seaside boys, soph-
omore Henry Garvin won the
100 freestyle in 55.90, ahead of
three Astoria swimmers (Ryder
Dopp, Rocky Rub, Nikolai
Boisvert).
Garvin then teamed with
Liam Matlock, Chris Quash-
nick and Nick Konyha to place
fi rst in the 200 freestyle relay
(1:52.46).
Posting wins for Astoria,
Everett Towsey-French was
victorious in the girls’ 200-
yard freestyle in 2:24.49, as she
touched the wall just ahead of
Lin (2:24.63).
Tori Smith was a dou-
ble winner for the Lady Fish,
swimming a 1:11.22 to win the
100-yard butterfl y, then adding
a victory in the 500-yard free-
style (6:25.12). And the Lady
Fishermen won the fi nal event,
swimming a 4:32.32 in the
400-yard freestyle relay.
game against the Blazers
was the fourth of a six-game
trip for the Cavs.
The teams combined for
only seven turnovers, the
fewest in an NBA game
since the league began to
offi cially compile the stat in
1970-71. Portland had four
and Cleveland fi nished with
three.
The Blazers led by as
many as 21 points in the
third quarter, but Cleveland
closed the gap to 112-102
midway through the fourth.
It was as close as the Cavs
could get.
“I just thought we kind
of ran out of gas. They guys
did a good job getting us
back to within 10 but we just
weren’t able to sustain it.
When you get down and you
have to fi ght back against a
team like this it’s tough. On
the road you can’t dig those
types of holes. Not against
a good team,” Cleveland
coach Larry Drew said.
Portland was back at
home after a winless two-
game trip at Denver and
Sacramento. The Blazers
have won 19 at home to lead
in the Western Conference.
Lillard started despite
being listed as question-
able going into the game
with a right hand strain. It
is unknown when he was
injured.
Lillard opened the game
with back-to-back 3-point-
ers and the Blazers had six
3s in the opening quarter
to lead 30-26. Portland fi n-
ished the fi rst half with 11
3-pointers, while the Cava-
liers had just two. Portland
led 62-55 at the break.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
TODAY
Boys basketball — Perrydale at Jewell, 5:30 p.m.
Girls basketball — Perrydale at Jewell, 7 p.m.
FRIDAY
Girls basketball — Astoria at Banks, 7:30 p.m.; Seaside at Valley Cath-
olic, 7:30 p.m.; Warrenton at Willamina, 7:30 p.m.; Knappa at Gaston,
6:30 p.m.
Boys basketball — Astoria at Banks, 6 p.m.; Seaside at Valley Cath-
olic, 6 p.m.; Warrenton at Willamina, 6 p.m.; Knappa at Gaston,
7:30 p.m.; Pe Ell at Ilwaco, 7 p.m.
Wrestling — Knappa at Oregon Classic, TBA
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Faith Bible 42, Knappa 28
KNA (28): Madelynn Weaver 10, Miller 5, Tischer 5, Carlson 4, Dietrichs
2, Corcoran 2, Nicholson, Rilatos, Patterson.
FB (42): Ashley Lohman 18, Bolton 6, Goodloe 5, Steerman 5, Mer-
riam 4, Jackson 4.
Knappa
7
9
10
2—28
F.Bible
8
14
10
10—42
BOYS BASKETBALL
Knappa 66, Faith Bible 47
KNA (66): Timber Engblom 14, Vanderburg 12, Wallace 11, Takalo 10,
Ramvick 8, Phillip 7.
Knappa
19
13
17
17—66
F.Bible
8
5
13
21—47