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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2019
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Warrenton lands fi ve on all-league squad
The Daily Astorian
The season is set to continue
Saturday for the Warrenton girls
basketball team, when the No.
7-ranked Warrenton Warriors host
the No. 10-ranked Amity Warriors
in a fi rst-round game of the 3A state
playoffs. The winner advances to
the state tournament next week in
Coos Bay/North Bend.
Saturday’s winner will play the
winner of Sutherlin and Salem
Academy in a state quarterfi nal
contest Feb. 28, with an 8:15 p.m.
tipoff at Marshfi eld High School.
Ironically, Warrenton played all
three teams in nonleague regular
season games this year.
Amity defeated Warrenton
55-44 Dec. 21. Warrenton opened
the season in the Bill Spelgatti
Invitational at Sutherlin, where
Warrenton defeated Sutherlin in a
SPORTS
IN BRIEF
Merchants
tryouts
March 9
COASTAL RANGE ALL-LEAGUE TEAM
Player of the Year: Shelby Blodgett, Clatskanie
Coach of the Year: John Blodgett, Clatskanie
FIRST TEAM
Shelby Blodgett, So., Clatskanie
Claire Bussert, Sr., Warrenton
Kaya McLean, So., Willamina
Kenzie Ramsey, Jr., Warrenton
Olivia Sprague, So., Clatskanie
SECOND TEAM
Fernanda Alvarez, Sr., Warrenton
Hannah Hughes, Sr., Willamina
Warrenton Warrior athletics
Warrenton’s fi ve all-league players, left to right: Fernanda Alvarez, Kenzie
Ramsey, Maria Heyen, Adriana Dejesus and Claire Bussert.
second-round game, 59-37.
The Warriors have faced Salem
Academy twice — the fi rst meet-
ing was a 46-17 win Dec. 13 for
Salem Academy, before Warren-
ton bounced back with a 38-37 win
over the Crusaders in a fi rst-round
game of the SCTC Holiday Clas-
sic, Dec. 27 at Stayton.
Warrenton will take the fl oor for
Saturday’s state playoff game with
fi ve players who were selected
to the Coastal Range all-league
squad, announced last weekend.
Shelby Blodgett of league
champion Clatskanie was named
the league’s Player of the Year,
while Clatskanie’s John Blodgett
was Coach of the Year.
As voted on by the league’s
coaches, the fi rst team included
Cloee McLeod, Fr., Clatskanie
Reese Schimmel, So., Rainier
Piper Shrabel, Fr., Willamina
HONORABLE MENTION
Hannah Biddix, Sr., Rainier
Adriana Dejesus, Sr., Warrenton
Autumn Ellis, Jr., Taft
Hannah Farrell, Jr., Rainier
Maria Heyen, Sr., Warrenton
Savannah Russo, Sr., Taft
Kaity Sizemore, So., Clatskanie
Blodgett, along with Clatskanie
teammate Olivia Sprague, Willa-
mina’s Kaya McLean, and War-
renton’s Claire Bussert and Kenzie
Ramsey.
Also earning all-league recog-
nition was Warrenton senior Fer-
nanda Alvarez (second team),
along with seniors Adriana Deje-
sus and Maria Heyen, both honor-
able mention.
CENTER DUO OF NURKIC,
KANTER LEADS BLAZERS
The Daily Astorian
The North Coast Merchants,
a fastpitch club for local softball
players age 8-16, will hold try-
outs Saturday, March 9 at War-
renton High School.
Tryouts will be held rain or
shine, with a tryout fee of $10
per player if registered before
March 4, or $20 day of the
tryouts.
Scheduled times are 9 a.m.
to noon for 8-12 year olds, and
1-4 p.m. for ages 12-plus.
Players should bring gloves,
helmet, bat and shoes for both
indoor and outdoor practice.
For more information, con-
tact coach Ian O’Brien at 253-
720-7970 or obrieni@warren-
tonk12.org. Players can also
message the North Coast Mer-
chant Facebook page or con-
tact coach Morgan Streeter
at 541-226-6535 or morgan.
streeter22@gmail.com.
Tournaments for the Mer-
chants are two-day events, usu-
ally out of town. Player fees
begin at $250 for the season.
The Merchants are a competi-
tion team, and playing time is
not guaranteed.
The goal of the North Coast
Merchants is to develop players
interested in pursuing softball
at the highest levels. Teams are
8U, 10U, 12U, 14U and 16U.
Anglers win
Clatskanie
tournament
The Daily Astorian
The Astoria Anglers, a trav-
eling seventh-grade boys bas-
ketball team coached by James
Olson, took fi rst place at a
tournament in Clatskanie last
weekend.
The Anglers played three
games Saturday and two more
Sunday.
Astoria won all fi ve games to
bring home the fi rst-place tro-
phy for the bracket.
Astoria’s fi fth- and eighth-
grade traveling teams also
took fi rst place in the same
tournament.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
TODAY
Girls basketball — 4A Play-in: Seaside at
Molalla, 6 p.m.; 1B regional: Clallam Bay vs.
Naselle, 6 p.m., at Mark Morris HS
Boys basketball — 2A state playoff : Coquille
at Knappa, 6 p.m.
Wrestling — State meet, Memorial Coli-
seum, Portland
SATURDAY
Girls basketball — 3A state playoff : Amity at
Warrenton, 6:30 p.m.; 2B regional: Davenport
vs. Ilwaco, 4 p.m., at Mark Morris HS
Boys basketball — 1B regional: Naselle vs.
Sunnyside Christian, 2 p.m., at Ellensburg HS
Wrestling — State meet, Memorial Coli-
seum, Portland
AP Photo/Kathy Willens
Trail Blazers center Enes Kanter works against Brooklyn Nets forward Ed Davis.
By BRIAN MAHONEY
Associated Press
EW YORK — Jusuf Nurkic
had 27 points and 12 rebounds,
new backup Enes Kanter added
18 points and nine boards in his Port-
land debut, and the Trail Blazers beat
the Brooklyn Nets 113-99 on Thursday
night.
The center tandem was so good that
the Trail Blazers didn’t even need a big
night from All-Star guard Damian Lil-
lard, who was just 5 for 21 from the
fi eld. He fi nished with 13 points, eight
rebounds and eight assists.
Kanter, who signed last week with
the Blazers after losing his job with
the Knicks, made his fi rst seven shots
and fi nished 8 for 9, missing only a
3-pointer.
CJ McCollum added 21 points in a
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good return from the break for the Blaz-
ers after going into it with a 129-107 vic-
tory over Golden State. They opened a
seven-game road trip and don’t play
their fi rst home game after the All-Star
break until March 7 against Oklahoma
City.
Allen Crabbe had 17 points for the
Nets, who came out of the All-Star break
above .500 for the fi rst time since 2013.
All-Star guard D’Angelo Russell shot
only 4 for 16, fi nishing with 14 points
and eight assists.
Lillard’s 3-pointer midway through
the third — his only one through three
quarters — gave Portland a 69-63 lead
that the Blazers would extend largely
through Kanter’s work inside. He fol-
lowed with four baskets in the period,
including one that gave Portland its larg-
est lead at 82-67.
The lead was 14 after his free throws
Boatwright, Rakocevic lead
USC past Oregon, 66-49
By STEVE DILBECK
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Bennie
Boatwright scored 20 points and
Nick Rakocevic had 17, both add-
ing six rebounds, to lead USC to
a 66-49 victory over Oregon on
Thursday night.
The Trojans (15-12, 8-6 Pac-
12) held the Ducks (15-11, 6-7)
to 33.3 percent shooting from the
fl oor.
The victory reversed an 81-60
USC loss at Oregon last month.
Freshman Louis King led Ore-
gon with 16 points and Victor
Bailey Jr. had 10 points off the
bench.
The Ducks never could track
USC’s zone defense, going
long stretches where they strug-
gled to fi nd the basket. Ore-
gon went 1 for 12 in one stretch
in the second half when the Tro-
jans pushed their lead to 16 points
(60-44).
Oregon went without a
point during a 5:08 stretch to
end the fi rst half and start the
second.
USC shot 62.5 from the fi eld in
the second half and outrebounded
the Ducks 15-8.
Boatwright, who hit 10 3-point-
ers in USC’s last game, went 6
of 9 from the 3-point line against
Oregon.
USC outscored Oregon 9-2 to
close the fi rst half and take a 30-25
at the break, holding the Ducks
to 31.3 percent shooting. Boat-
wright already had 11 points for
the Trojans.
with 10:40 to play before Ed Davis,
Shabazz Napier and Crabbe — all for-
mer Blazers — fueled a 15-2 surge that
trimmed it to 90-89. But Portland pushed
the lead back into double digits, with Lil-
lard contributing a 3-pointer with a little
over 3 minutes to go and Nurkic getting
a three-point play when he was fouled
on a powerful dunk.
TIP-INS
Trail Blazers: Portland has won
four straight in Brooklyn. ... Al-Farouq
Aminu had 11 points and 10 rebounds.
Nets: F Jared Dudley returned after
missing 16 games with a strained left
hamstring. That leaves just sixth man
Spencer Dinwiddie on the Nets’ injured
list, and coach Kenny Atkinson said he
is doing plenty of things on the court as
he recovers from surgery to repair torn
ligaments in his right thumb.
UCLA hangs on after blowing
lead to beat Oregon State 68-67
By BETH HARRIS
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Chris
Smith scored the go-ahead basket
with 21 seconds left on a desper-
ate bank shot after UCLA blew a
12-point second-half lead, and the
Bruins hung on for a 68-67 vic-
tory over Oregon State on Thurs-
day night.
Tres Tinkle airballed a poten-
tial game-winning 3-pointer with
1.8 seconds to go for the Beavers,
who didn’t take their fi rst lead
until 1:26 remaining in the game.
Moses Brown had 14 points
and 11 rebounds for the Bru-
ins (14-13, 7-7 Pac-12), who got
back to .500 in league play with
a handful of regular-season games
remaining.
Jaylen Hands added 12 points,
but missed a pair of free throws in
the fi nal second with UCLA cling-
ing to a one-point lead.
Stephen Thompson Jr. scored
21 points and Tinkle added 19 for
Oregon State (16-9, 8-5), which
fell into a second-place tie with
idle Arizona State and Utah in
the league standings. The Bea-
vers’ two-game winning streak
ended.
After UCLA led by 12 early in
the second half it became a back-
and-forth game over the fi nal 4:19.
The Beavers twice got within
one point before they tied it 65-all
on a 3-pointer by Antoine Vernon,
his fi rst basket of the game.
Thompson’s layup gave Ore-
gon State its fi rst lead of the game,
67-65.
Hands made 1 of 2 free throws
to get UCLA to 67-66.