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HOOPS ROUNDUP
Astoria girls roll over Tillamook
A four-game home stand is off to a good start
for the Astoria girls basketball team.
In front of their home fans at the Brick House,
the Lady Fishermen led 22-5 after just one quar-
ter, on their way to a 55-25 victory Tuesday night
over Tillamook.
As the eight-game Cowapa League schedule
reaches the halfway point later this week, Asto-
ria will be looking to make a move in the league
standings with three more home games over the
next two weeks.
Following Tuesday’s win, the No. 9-ranked
Fishermen are 2-1 in league, a half-game ahead of
second place Valley Catholic, which visits Astoria
Friday. Banks (3-0) remains in first place.
Astoria’s Julia Norris scored 14 points and
teammate Brooklynn Hankwitz finished with 11
in Tuesday’s win, equaling Tillamook’s team total.
Kajsa Jackson added eight points for the Fisher-
men, who held an eventual 42-15 lead through
three quarters.
Astoria boys top Tillamook,
end league losing streak
Having lost six of their previous seven games,
the Astoria boys basketball team was in search of
a much-needed win Tuesday night at the Brick
House.
And a win is just what they got, as the Fisher-
men found their scoring touch in the second half
and held off Tillamook for a 44-35 win.
Most importantly, Astoria’s victory snapped
a 17-game losing streak in Cowapa League play,
“which was big,” said Fishermen coach Kevin
Goin. “It’s been a while, so it feels good to win.”
Astoria’s last league win was Jan. 31, 2017
(over Scappoose, 52-46).
“We played a lot better than we did last week,”
Goin said, following lopsided losses at Seaside
and Banks. “Tillamook’s a good matchup for us.
We could have done a better job at the free throw
line — we were only 3-for-12 — and a lot of those
were the front end of one-and-one’s. So we could
have put the game away a little earlier than we
did.”
The Fishermen also had to rally from a 20-17
halftime deficit, and did so by outscoring the
Cheesemakers 13-6 in the third quarter.
Ian Hunt led Astoria’s offensive effort with a
game-high 21 points, which included a pair of
3-pointers.
Astoria (1-2 in league) hosts a team Friday
which is still looking for its first league win of the
year, 10th-ranked Valley Catholic (0-2 in league,
12-6 overall).
Warrenton girls cruise past
Rainier in 41-24 win
After a one-game break from league play, the
Warrenton Lady Warriors are ready to get back to
work. And back to winning.
Coming off a 34-point loss Monday morning at
Blanchet Catholic, the Warrenton girls basketball
team wasted no time in erasing that memory by
topping Rainier, 41-24, in a Coastal Range League
game Tuesday night at Rainier.
The Warriors shut down the Columbians’
offense, allowing just seven points or less in every
quarter.
Meanwhile, a quickly-recovering Fernanda
Alvarez led Warrenton with 14 points (all through
three quarters), to go with 15 rebounds. Claire Bus-
sert had four assists to break Warrenton’s all-time
school record for assists (breaking the mark held
by Jordane Marxer), and also scored 12 points,
highlighted by three 3-pointers in the second half.
Kenzie Ramsey added seven points for the War-
riors, who have a week off before playing at Taft.
Rainier defeats Warrenton
boys in league battle, 51-44
Rainier won a crucial Coastal League Range
boys basketball game Tuesday night, slipping past
visiting Warrenton, 51-44.
The Columbians remain atop the league stand-
ings at 6-1, a half-game ahead of Clatskanie (5-1),
while the Warriors drop to 4-4.
The game was even closer than the score indi-
cated, as Warrenton trailed just 45-44 with 1:20
remaining, when the Columbians were able to
make free throws to secure the win.
A “great game tonight,” said Warrenton coach
Nate McBride. “We led early. (The Columbians)
had a good run in the second quarter. Conner Rea
hit back-to-back 3’s and a tough pull-up jumper to
take a lead 24-19 at half.”
Rainier pushed the lead to seven in the third
quarter, “and then we clawed our way back in,”
he said.
Warrenton’s Dalton Knight hit a half-court shot
to end the third quarter, pulling the Warriors to
within 37-34.
Austin Little added a 3-pointer to actually put
Warrenton in front, 42-39, midway through the
fourth quarter. The Warriors held the lead for sev-
eral minutes before the Columbians grabbed the
lead for good at 45-44.
Devin Jackson scored 14 points for the War-
riors, and shut down Rainier’s Easton Crape, who
finished with just six points.
Warrenton could be the favorite when the two
teams meet for the third time Feb. 8, for Senior
Night at Warrenton.
“It could be a big game standings-wise for both
of us,” McBride said. “We’re working hard to fin-
ish third, and Clatskanie and them will battle it out
for first.”
— The Daily Astorian
Photos by Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Tori Smith swims the 200 yard freestyle for the Fishermen.
Astoria tunes up for postseason
with ‘low energy’ home meet
Fishermen sweep Valiants
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
I
t was a “calm before the storm”
meet Tuesday afternoon at the
Astoria Aquatic Center.
With the postseason meets rapidly
approaching, the Fishermen swim
teams hosted Valley Catholic in the
last Cowapa League dual meet of the
regular season.
And the meet took on a low-key
approach, on Senior Night for the
Fishermen. In addition, the Valiants
showed up with just a partial team,
and Astoria was swimming with an
altered lineup, in preparation for the
upcoming league championship meet.
The Cowapa League meet takes
place Feb. 1 in Astoria’s pool, while
Newport will host the District 1 meet,
Feb. 8 and Feb. 9.
In the meantime, Tuesday’s meet
was more of a relaxed affair to honor
the Astoria seniors.
“I moved a lot of kids around to
some other events that they haven’t
done all season, just to give them
an opportunity to try something dif-
ferent,” said Astoria coach Kathryn
Zacher, “and because I knew Valley
Catholic didn’t have a full roster.
“We actually swam a little slower
than usual,” she said. “It was more
of a low-energy meet. We have some
kids sick, it’s finals week … I felt like
we did a really great job at the relay
meet Saturday (at Tillamook). Our
emphasis right now is just on rac-
ing. We’ve done all the technique and
foundational work, so we’re at a point
Noah Kastengren competes for
Astoria during a meet versus Valley
Catholic.
where we’re just getting them up and
racing, getting them prepared for the
league meet and districts.”
The Fishermen won the team scor-
ing on both sides of Tuesday’s meet,
with the Astoria girls defeating Val-
ley Catholic 106-40, and the Fisher-
men boys posting a 99-43 win over
the Valiants.
One highlight included senior
Samantha Hemsley winning the
50-yard freestyle in 33.50 seconds and
taking third in the 100-yard freestyle.
“For being a first-year swimmer,
that shows a lot of improvement, and
shows her athleticism,” Zacher said of
Hemsley.
“I know she was a starter in basket-
ball, and I kind of took some heat for
her switching sports. I didn’t recruit
her. I literally didn’t know who she
was at the first practice.
“Actually, I think a good shout-
out goes to all of our first-year kids,”
Zacher said. “They have steadily
increased over the season, and includ-
ing today, they continue to drop times.
It shows how hard they’ve been work-
ing, and Sam is a good example of
that.”
Astoria won most of the events,
with a large part of the Valley Catho-
lic team remaining at home. The Val-
iants will still be tough at districts,
Zacher said.
The favorites in the district meet?
“Tillamook girls and Newport
boys,” said Zacher, who’s a pretty
good judge of talent. “Maybe Taft in
second for both girls and boys, and
when Valley Catholic has their whole
team, they’ve been outscoring others.”
Meanwhile, with her own team,
“We’ve got a small percentage of
swimmers at the top, a large percent-
age of beginners, and we’re lacking
a big corps middle group,” she said.
“And I’m finding that to be really
challenging. We’re trying our best to
work our way around it, and the sec-
ond half of the season I feel like we’ve
done better than the first half.
“Right now, I’m trying to get the
kids prepared to travel and race on the
same day (as they will for districts).”
In last Saturday’s Cheese Relays
meet at Tillamook, the Seaside girls
finished second behind Tillamook,
while the Lady Fishermen placed
fourth out of six teams.
On the boys’ side, Taft won the
team title ahead of second-place Asto-
ria, with Seaside fifth.
The Astoria seniors honored in
Tuesday’s meet included Madi Burch-
field, Camille Cottrell, Hemsley,
Cody Meigh Lachica, Mazie Moyer,
Taylor Palmrose and Jenna Travers
off the girls’ team, and boys’ swim-
mers Ryder Dopp, Elias Simmons and
Ethan Sparks.
In his final year, Martinez
gets call from Cooperstown
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
When Edgar Martinez had
the most famous swing of his
career — “The Double” as
it’s known by in the Pacific
Northwest — he was already
32 years old.
His career had a late start.
So waiting all 10 years on
baseball’s Hall of Fame ballot
before his election to Cooper-
stown was just another chap-
ter in the arc of his life.
“I think the wait, I think I’m
more mature right now. I think
I’ve enjoyed it more at this
point with my family, the way
my kids are older now and it
just has a lot of meaning, even
more meaning now,” Marti-
nez said. “The wait, actually it
worked out well for me.”
In his final year on the
Baseball Writers’ Associa-
tion of America ballot, Mar-
tinez was elected on Tuesday
with 85.4 percent of the vote.
His election marked a remark-
able turnaround, climbing in
his final five years of eligibil-
ity from an afterthought to on
the ballot to and inductee.
AP Photo/Elaine Thompson
Seattle Mariners’ Ken Griffey Jr., rear, and Jay Buhner, right,
tease a ticklish Edgar Martinez following a team batting practice
at spring training in Peoria, Ariz., in 1997.
It was a collective effort,
from the Mariners organiza-
tion constantly publicizing his
worthiness, to die-hard fans
who believed in the beloved
Martinez, to voters taking a
new look at the importance of
a player who was primarily a
designated hitter.
“I think it was really big
part of why I’ve been elected,”
Martinez said of the Mariners’
efforts. “They have done an
amazing job sharing informa-
tion about my career for the
last seven years or so. and the
effort and the work they have
done definitely is one of the
big reasons why I am talking
to you today.”
SCOREBOARD
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
TODAY
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.
THURSDAY
Boys basketball — Ilwaco at North Beach,
7 p.m.
Swimming — Tillamook at Seaside, 4 p.m.
Wrestling — Warrenton at Dayton, 5 p.m.;
Knappa at pre-district meet, at Sheridan, 4 p.m.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Astoria 55, Tillamook 25
TIL (25): Maddie Reeves 11, Lourenzo 6, Bodie
4, Crabtree 2, Jenck 2.
AST (55): Julia Norris 14, Hankwitz 11, Jackson
8, Fausett 7, Lyngstad 4, Helmersen 4, Mathews
3, Cole 2, O’Brien 2, Long.
Tillamook
5
4
6
10 — 25
Astoria
22
9
11
13 — 55
Warrenton 41, Rainier 24
WAR (41): Fernanda Alvarez 14, Bussert 12,
Ramsey 7, M.Heyen 4, Miethe 2, Diego 2,
Kapua, Dejesus.
RAI (24): Hannah Farrell 8, Schimmel 5, Biddix
4, Guisinger 4, Gartman 2, Garoutte-Larsen 1.
Warrenton
12
10
11
8 — 41
Rainier
7
6
6
5 — 24
BOYS BASKETBALL
Astoria 44, Tillamook 35
TIL (35): Carter Kunert 9, Jenck 8, Shelley 8,
Miller 8, Werner 2.
AST (44): Ian Hunt 21, Brockman 7, Olson 6,
Soderstrom 4, Johnson 2, Stenblom 2, Marin-
covich 1, Long 1, Ploghoft, Samuelson, Mat-
lock, Palmberg.
Tillamook
7
13
6
9 — 35
Astoria
11
6
13
14 — 44
Rainier 51, Warrenton 44
WAR (44): Devin Jackson 14, Dalton Knight
14, Stephens 8, Little 3, Morrow 2, Maddox 2,
Kapua.
RAI (51): Conner Rea 20, J.Tripp 10, K.Tripp 8,
Crape 6, Cantrell 4, Godfrey 2.
Warrenton
10
9
14
10 — 44
Rainier
10
14
12
14 — 51