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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TuESDAY, JANuARY 22, 2019
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HOOPS ROUNDUP
Local wrestlers perform
well in Oregon Classic
Knappa youth win big
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
The North Coast sent a number of wrestlers
to central Oregon over the weekend to com-
pete in the Oregon Classic, a three-day tourna-
ment for all ages at the Deschutes County Fair-
grounds in Redmond.
The boys’ and girls’ teams from Warren-
ton finished tied for seventh in their respective
brackets of the dual meet championships, while
Knappa had three wrestlers score big points for
Knappa Kids Wrestling.
Warrenton competed in Pool 3 of the Class
3A high school round-robin tournament, where
the Warriors scored a 40-37 win over Riverside
in Round 1, lost to Scio 56-18 in the second
round, then defeated South Umpqua 48-24 in
Round 3 to finish second in their pool.
In the championship bracket, Warrenton lost
its opener to Burns (66-18), dropped a 72-9
decision to La Pine, then finished in a tie for
seventh (out of 16 teams) with Rainier.
“Triston Scott (heavyweight) went 4-1, and
his pin in the Riverside dual clinched it for
us,” said Warrenton coach Corey Conant. “He
really turned it on and took care of business.
He is turning a competitive corner and is begin-
ning to expect to win.”
Warrenton has dual meets with Dayton and
Taft (Thursday at Dayton), then takes part in
Ilwaco’s annual “Beach Brawl” on Saturday.
The Warrenton girls placed fourth in Pool A
of the dual meet girls’ tournament, with a 30-18
loss to 5A Thurston, a 42-6 loss to 6A Century,
and a 36-12 loss to 5A Hood River Valley.
The Lady Warriors ultimately finished the
championship bracket in a seventh-place tie
with 5A Hillsboro.
“It was the first time there was a team tour-
nament for the girls, and we were honored to
compete,” Conant said.
The Lady Warriors had to wrestle schools
from the 5A and 6A levels, “and fought hard,”
Conant said. “We even tied second-place Bend,
24-24, but lost on the seventh tiebreaker.”
Still, “it was awesome to see our girls wres-
tle under the big lights,” he said. “Jade Fre-
niere (190 pounds), Brianna Quaschnick (155
pounds) and Isabella Carr (145 pounds) all
scored big wins. We look forward to coming
back next year and improving on our finish.”
For now, the Warriors are “setting our sights
on the girls’ North Regional state qualifier,”
Conant said, Feb. 2-3 at Liberty High School
in Hillsboro.
Overall, “we learned a ton this weekend and
we’re proud of the way we responded when
faced with tall odds,” Conant said. “These are
really great kids and they represented Warren-
ton well.”
Logger wrestlers take fourth
Knappa competed in Pool 1 of the 2A/1A
bracket, taking fourth behind Culver, Lowell
and Monroe.
In Round 2, the Loggers lost to Low-
ell, 48-30. In Round 5, Knappa defeated Illi-
nois Valley, 48-30, followed by a 42-36 loss to
Monroe.
Knappa finished the day in the 2A/1A con-
solation bracket, where the Loggers opened
with a 54-30 win over Neah-Kah-Nie, before
falling in a 54-24 semifinal match to Crane.
Grant Union defeated Knappa 48-30 in the
third-place match.
Culver was the eventual team champion of
the 2A/1A bracket, scoring a 54-24 win over
over Glide in the championship dual.
Knappa also had three wrestlers in the Clas-
sic Kids youth tournament, held Sunday. And
all three — competing for Knappa Kids Wres-
tling — scored points in the 8U (age 8 and
under) Bantam division, with one advancing to
a championship match.
Knappa boys win
Logger showdown
with Vernonia
Ange Barendse/For The Daily Astorian
Wrestlers (from left to right) Axel Barendse,
Easton Bartlett and Cutter Barendse showed the
strength of Knappa wrestling in this weekend’s
Oregon Classic in Redmond.
In the 56-pound weight bracket, Easton
Bartlett scored 23.5 team points, as he opened
with a 32-second fall over Noah White of Team
Bucs Wrestling, followed by a technical fall
(15-0) against Jack Simms of Lakeview.
Bartlett continued his roll with a 12-5 deci-
sion over Uriah Zable of Askeo International in
the quarterfinals, then defeated Jase Whatley of
John Day, 9-5, in the semifinals.
In the championship match, David Gonza-
lez of Yakima Cadet Wrestling topped Bartlett
6-0, giving Bartlett the second-place medal.
Knappa’s Cutter Barendse took fifth place in
the 70-pound division.
After opening with a loss, Barendse went
on a tear, scoring pins over Garrett Lee of Hid-
den Valley (in 1:24), a 50-second pin against
Noah Valencia, and a 22-second pin over Gage
Bergh.
A loss to Blake Panuke of Silverton put Bar-
endse in the fifth-place match, where Barendse
scored a fall (2:31) over Isaac Toomey of Cul-
ver Mat Club, earning Knappa 16 team points.
Elsewhere, Knappa’s Axel Barendse scored
nine points in the 85+pound division.
Martinez, Rivera, Halladay
seem set for Hall election
Associated Press
N
EW YORK — Edgar Martinez
of the Seattle Mariners seems
likely to be elected to the Hall
of Fame in his 10th and final appear-
ance when voting is announced today.
Martinez received 36.2 percent
support in his first ballot appear-
ance in 2010, well short of the 75 per-
cent needed. He rose from 27 percent
in 2015 to 43.4 percent the following
year, to 58.6 percent in 2017 to 70.4
percent last year, when he fell 20 votes
shy of the 317 needed.
“We are trending up, next year may
be the year,” he tweeted after the 2018
vote.
Martinez hit .312 with 309 home
runs in 18 seasons with Seattle. He was
tracking at 90.8 percent support this
year; players’ final totals usually drop
by 5-7 percent from the vote-tracker.
Martinez would join 2014 inductee
Frank Thomas as the only players in
the Hall who played a majority of their
games as a designated hitter. David
Ortiz is likely to make it three when he
becomes eligible in 2022.
New York Yankees relief pitcher
Mariano Rivera figures to make quick
work of his Hall of Fame ballot appear-
ance, just as he did of opposing batters,
and could even set another record: for
highest percentage of ballots.
Rivera set the career saves record
with 652 in 19 seasons plus 42 more in
the postseason. No one has ever been
a unanimous Hall of Fame selection.
Ken Griffey Jr. holds the mark for the
top percentage at 99.32 when he was on
437 of 440 ballots two years ago.
Roy Halladay also appeared headed
to election in his first appearance on the
Baseball Writers’ Association of Amer-
ica ballot. Mike Mussina also could
gain the honor, but Barry Bonds, Roger
Clemens and Curt Schilling probably
Vernonia defeats
Knappa girls, 53-26
Vernonia freshman Brooklynn
Walters scored 21 points and junior
teammate (and sister) Jordan Wal-
ters added 15, helping the Log-
gers of Vernonia to a 53-26 win
Monday night over the Loggers
of Knappa in a Northwest League
girls basketball game at Knappa.
Vernonia remains in second
place in the Northwest League
standings at 8-2, one game behind
Portland Christian, which visits
Knappa on Wednesday.
Madelynn Weaver led Knappa
with 12 points, nine rebounds and
three assists, and Hannah Dietrichs
scored 10 for Knappa, which was
missing three players to injury and
another to vacation.
Vernonia led just 11-5 after
one quarter, but upped the lead to
43-16 after three quarters.
Blanchet cruises by
Warrenton girls, 54-20
AP Photo/Elaine Thompson
Seattle Mariners hitting coach Edgar Martinez in 2017.
will fall short while getting closer.
Halladay’s election will be tinged
with melancholy. The two-time Cy
Young Award winner died in Novem-
ber 2017 at age 40 when the airplane
he was piloting crashed into the Gulf
of Mexico off the coast of Florida.
He went 203-104 with a 3.38 ERA in
12 seasons with Toronto and four for
Philadelphia.
In 2010, he pitched a perfect game
against the Marlins in May, then threw
a no-hitter against Cincinnati in the
NL Division Series opener — only the
second no-hitter in postseason history
after Don Larsen’s perfect game for the
Yankees against Brooklyn in the 1956
World Series.
Six players were inducted last year,
included four voted in by writers —
one shy of the record set in the first year
of balloting in 1936.
Pitcher Lee Smith and designated
hitter/outfielder Harold Baines were
elected last month by the Today’s Game
Era Committee and will be inducted on
July 21. Rivera and Smith will increase
relievers at Cooperstown by 25 percent
to eight, joining Hoyt Wilhelm (1985),
Rollie Fingers (1992), Dennis Eckers-
ley (2004), Bruce Sutter (2006), Rich
Gossage (2008) and Hoffman.
Including Smith and Baines, 25 peo-
ple have been voted in since 2014.
Mussina was 39 when he retired
after going 20-8 in 2008 and becoming
the oldest first-time 20-game winner.
He was 270-153 with 2,813 strikeouts
in 18 seasons for Baltimore and the
Yankees, and had he remained active
he had a chance to reach 300 wins and
3,000 strikeouts.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
TODAY
Girls basketball — Tillamook at Astoria, 7:30 p.m.;
Warrenton at Rainier, 7:30 p.m.; Jewell at Ore-
gon School for the Deaf, 5:30 p.m.; North Beach at
Ilwaco, 7 p.m.
Boys basketball — Tillamook at Astoria, 6 p.m.;
Warrenton at Rainier, 6 p.m.; Jewell at Oregon
School for the Deaf, 7 p.m.
Swimming — Valley Catholic at Astoria, 4 p.m.
Ever since Vernonia scored
its upset win over Knappa in last
year’s state tournament, the Battle
of Loggers has not been much of
a battle.
Knappa won the first meet-
ing this season 88-66 on Dec. 12.
And Knappa completed the season
sweep over Vernonia by winning
game No. 2 Monday night, 74-44,
in a Northwest League boys bas-
ketball game at Knappa.
Knappa has won five in a row
and nine of its last 10 games,
and also has a solid lock on sec-
ond place in the NWL standings.
Knappa improves to 13-5 overall,
8-2 in league.
Timber Engblom led the home
Loggers with 21 points in Mon-
day’s game, followed by Eli
Takalo with 20, as Knappa built a
22-8 lead after one quarter.
It was 36-13 midway through
the second period, and 43-17 by
halftime.
Knappa coach Paul Isom said
his team “came out with a ton of
energy tonight, and were able to
use our athleticism to get some
easy buckets. Timber had 21 and
really led the charge defensively.”
Knappa will be out to avenge
its toughest league loss (at Portland
Christian), when the Loggers host
the Royals on Wednesday.
WEDNESDAY
Girls basketball — Portland Christian at Knappa,
6 p.m.
Boys basketball — Portland Christian at Knappa,
7:30 p.m.
Wrestling — Astoria/Seaside at Estacada, 5:30 p.m.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Blanchet Catholic 54, Warrenton 20
WAR (20): Fernanda Alvarez 9, Dejesus 4, M.Heyen
3, Bussert 2, Marchello 2, Ramsey, Diego.
BC (54): Hailey Ostby 24, Coronado 19, Hittner 4,
Salang 4, Phipps 3.
Warrenton
11
4
1
4 — 20
Blanchet
15
11
15
13 — 54
Vernonia 53, Knappa 26
VER (53): Brooklynn Walters 21, J.Walters 15, Hart-
man 10, Ely 5, Butcher 2.
KNA (26): Madelynn Weaver 12, Dietrichs 10, Miller
3, Corcoran 1, McCall, Nicholson, Rilatos, Hellberg.
Vernonia
Knappa
11
5
18
8
14
3
10 — 53
10 — 26
BOYS BASKETBALL
Knappa 74, Vernonia 44
KNA (74): Timber Engblom 21, Takalo 20, Ramvick 8,
Wallace 6, Vanderburg 6, Hoover 5, Phillip 4, Lackey
2, Westerholm 2.
Vernonia
8
9
17
10 — 44
Knappa
22
21
21
10 — 74
The Warrenton girls basket-
ball team took a tough test Mon-
day morning, to see how they mea-
sured up against Blanchet Catholic,
the No. 1-ranked team in the state
in the latest 3A girls coaches poll.
And the fifth-ranked Warriors
didn’t score too well. In fact, War-
renton was held to just five points
in the second half of a 54-20 loss
to the Cavaliers, who led 26-15
at halftime, then outscored the
Warriors 28-5 over the final two
quarters.
“We rebounded well, we played
good defense … we did every-
thing well for two-and-a-half quar-
ters except score,” said Warrenton
coach Robert Hoepfl. “It was very
much like the first time we played
Salem Academy. But it is what it
is. They’re a very good team, and
we learned some lessons.”
The game was part of the “MLK
Showcase,” a daylong schedule of
high school basketball games at
Corban University and Cheme-
keta Community College, featur-
ing top-10 teams from around the
state.
In the top 3A girls’ games of
the day, Blanchet and Warrenton
squared off in the Monday morn-
ing game at Corban, and Salem
Academy defeated Clatskanie
41-40 in an afternoon contest at
Chemeketa.
The Warriors trailed Blan-
chet by just nine points following
a score by Warrenton’s Fernanda
Alvarez late in the second quarter.
But the Cavaliers outscored the
Warriors 15-1 in the third quarter,
and Blanchet pulled away in the
fourth.
Hailey Ostby scored 24 points
and Ana Coronado added 19 for
Blanchet, while Alvarez led War-
renton with nine points.
The Warriors return to Coastal
Range League action tonight at
Rainier.
— The Daily Astorian