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Knappa senior shortstop Laicee Hendrickson batted her
way to fi rst team all-league honors in her fi nal year.
Five Knappa players
earn all-league honors
The Astorian
SS: Kenzy Lawrence, Jr.,
Perrydale
The Knappa softball
team placed fi ve players
on this year’s Northwest
all-league team, as voted
on by the league’s coaches
and announced during the
league playoffs.
Senior shortstop Laicee
Hendrickson and junior
pitcher Madelynn Weaver
led the way, as fi rst-team
selections.
Freshman
pitcher/
infi elder Hannah Diet-
richs and junior outfi elder
Sophia Carlson both earned
second-team honors, and
senior Hannah Hellberg at
fi rst base was selected hon-
orable mention.
The complete North-
west all-league softball
team:
OF/1B: Avery Smith, Sr.,
Neah-Kah-Nie
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Warrenton students cheer on the Warriors in the state championship baseball game.
Baseball caps big year
for Warrenton sports
By GARY HENLEY
The Astorian
T
he city of Warrenton does
not have a famous “turn-
around.” Or a “round-
about.” But athletics at War-
renton High School in the
2018-19 school year could cer-
tainly qualify as some sort of
reversal of fortunes, across the
board.
Nearly every sport at the
school made improvements
over the recent past, with a few
sports going where no Warrior
team has gone before — at least
in a long time.
“It was defi nitely the best
year since I’ve been here,” said
Warrenton athletic director
Robert Hoepfl .
Part of it was competing in a
new league, or a different level.
But the biggest factor in the
turnaround has been the athletes
themselves. Warrenton baseball
coach Lennie Wolfe, who has
been connected with athletics at
the school since 1992, called it a
“renaissance,” athletically.
Hoepfl said, “Starting in the
fall, we had volleyball win a
league championship (the fi rst
since 1978) and made state,
football made state, and we had
one of our best years in cross
country.
“So we started the year really
strong, then in the winter our
boys basketball team made dis-
tricts for the fi rst time in a while
(2011). Girls basketball was
playing on the last day of the
year and won a trophy (sixth
place). Boys wrestling, we had
a district champion, with Nic
Pior. And our girls’ wrestling
team placed higher than any 3A
team in the state tournament,
and was great across the board.”
P/1B: Joyce Everett, Sr.,
Vernonia
P: Madelynn Weaver, Jr.,
Knappa
SECAUCUS, N.J. —
Pitchers took a backseat at
the Major League Baseball
draft.
On a night when a record
22 position players and
nine shortstops were cho-
Second Team
P/Inf: Hannah Dietrichs, Fr.,
Knappa
P: Hailey Ernst, Fr., Neah-Kah-
Nie
P: Danny Johnson, Sr.,
Nestucca
P: Rachel Vela, Sr., St. Paul
P/1B/C: Jordan Walters, Jr.,
Vernonia
2B/C: Brooklyn McKillip, Sr.,
Nestucca
2B: Tommi Ota, Jr., Vernonia
SS: Destiny Smith, Jr., St. Paul
OF: Sydney Perkins, Sr.,
Perrydale
U: Alix Heisler, Jr., Gaston
C/SS: Shamilee Chatelain, So.,
Nestucca
U: Hannah Farmer, Jr., Gaston
C/3B: Sydney Lawrence, Jr.,
Perrydale
P/OF: Olivia Leslie, Jr.,
Nestucca
C: Megan Tuck, Sr., St. Paul
1B: Hannah Hellberg, Sr.,
Knappa
C/P/1B: Brooklynn Walters,
Fr., Vernonia
Honorable mention
SS: Nita Cook, Fr., Vernonia
1B: Ryleigh Royster, So.,
Nestucca
SS: Laicee Hendrickson, Sr.,
Knappa
OF: Jayden Hartman, So.,
Vernonia
Amanda Loman
The girls basketball team won Warrenton’s fi rst team trophy of the year
at the state level, placing sixth in the Class 3A state tournament.
A few of Warrenton’s swim-
mers, in their co-op with Sea-
side, also had good years.
“Then obviously the base-
ball team making our fi rst state
title appearance in 21 years was
big,” Hoepfl said, as the War-
riors took home the second
place trophy from Volcanoes
Stadium last week.
In track, “Mark (Warren)
won a state championship and
set a bunch of school records,
and was top four in three differ-
ent events at state,” he added.
“Fernanda (Alvarez) did really
well, and we had three other
kids make it to state. So as a
whole, this was a really great
year in athletics for us.”
And — let’s face it — win-
ning brings more fans on board.
And more fans equals more
community support.
Orioles grab Oregon State’s
Rutschman with top pick
By MIKE FITZPATRICK
Associated Press
U: Haylee Johnston, Fr.,
Gaston
OF: Sophia Carlson, Jr.,
Knappa
First Team
Warrenton’s volleyball team.
OF: Sadie Smith, Sr., St. Paul
sen in the fi rst round, the
rebuilding Baltimore Ori-
oles went for a cornerstone
at catcher, selecting Oregon
State switch-hitter Adley
Rutschman with the top pick
Monday.
Rutschman became the
fi rst catcher to go No. 1
since Minnesota tabbed Joe
Mauer in 2001.
“He’s everything you
want and he plays a pre-
mium defensive position
with athleticism that gives
him versatility to play else-
where, as needed,” fi rst-year
Baltimore general manager
Krissy Barendse-Goodman
See Warrenton, Page A7
Once again, Knappa’s Madelynn Weaver showed that she
was one of the top pitchers in Northwest League softball.
NEW PROGRAM
PARAMEDIC
Medical emergencies don’t wait
until you are at the hospital
Respond to emergency calls,
perform medical services &
transport patients
See Rutschman, Page A7
Hagan Scholarship Recipient
Ms. Julie Foss, a student at Astoria High School, was awarded a Hagan
Scholarship to attend the University of Washington to study Political Science.
The Hagan Scholarship is a need-based merit scholarship, providing up to
$6,000 each semester to help recipients graduate college debt free. Hagan
Scholars from 44 states will attend 325 colleges and universities the fall
semester of 2019.
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“Helping Rural Students Graduate College Debt Free”
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