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THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2019
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Local teams battle in wood bat tourney
By GARY HENLEY
The Astorian
S
EASIDE — War-
renton pitcher Aus-
tin Little needed just
86 pitches to fi nish off the
Tillamook Cheesemakers,
in a fi rst round game of the
Seaside wood bat tourna-
ment Thursday at Broad-
way Field.
Little tossed a two-hit-
ter in a 2-0 win for the War-
riors, who had just three hits
themselves.
“We didn’t do a lot at the
plate, which made me even
more pleased with how our
defense played,” said War-
renton coach Lennie Wolfe.
Specifi cally, “Ethan Cald-
well did a great job behind
the plate,” said Wolfe,
whose regular catcher —
fi rst team all-state selection
Jake Morrow — was out of
town taking part in a show-
case game. “And Ethan did
just what we ask Warrenton
catchers to do: keep every-
thing in front and get hit by
pitches.”
Which Caldwell did, get-
ting hit twice.
The Warriors scored the
game’s fi rst run in the top
of the second, when Ryan
Hoagland had a leadoff sin-
gle to center.
A sacrifi ce bunt from
Devin Jackson put Hoag-
land at second. He stole
third and eventually scored
on a ground ball, coupled
with an errant throw to the
plate.
That was all Little
needed, as the senior-to-be
gave up a hit in the fi rst
inning, then did not allow a
baserunner from the second
to the fi fth innings.
Tillamook loaded the
bases on two walks and an
error with two outs in the
sixth, but Little struck out
the next batter to end the
threat. He gave up a lead-
off single in the seventh, but
Warrenton turned a double
play to help secure the win.
Little struck out nine bat-
ters in the victory.
Warrenton 4, Stayton 1
After winning Thursday’s
game with just three hits, the
Warriors had another three
hits to defeat the American
Legion Post 58 Stayton Ban-
dits on Friday, 4-1.
Warrenton pitcher Devin
Jackson did most of the
work, allowing just three
hits with 13 strikeouts in six
innings. Duane Falls pitched
the seventh.
Jackson had nine strike-
outs through three innings,
including four K’s in the
third inning.
The Warriors had all the
runs they would need in the
fi rst inning, scoring two runs
on three walks and six sto-
len bases, as they ran at will
on Stayton starter Keegan
Jensen.
With the exception of
three errors in the top of
the third, Warrenton played
solid defensively. Jake Mor-
row had two of Warrenton’s
three hits and scored twice.
Photos by Gary Henley/The Astorian
Stayton’s David Kanoff slides into second base, as Leo
Matthews takes the throw for Astoria Ford.
After a scoreless fourth,
the Bandits had back-to-
back singles, followed by
back-to-back doubles, in the
top of the fi fth.
Kanoff had a two-run,
inside-the-park homer in
the seventh to cap Stayton’s
win.
Stayton had 13 hits off
Astoria Ford pitchers Will
Eddy and Tumbarello.
Astoria 11, Tillamook 2
Astoria Ford bounced
back in consolation play
Friday with a victory by
the same score, 11-2, over
Tillamook.
Adam Feldman pitched
six and two-thirds innings,
scattering fi ve hits with six
strikeouts and six walks.
The Fishermen had
run-scoring doubles by Tony
Tumbarello and Dylan Rush
in the second inning, and
took advantage of some
erratic pitching from the
Cheesemakers.
Astoria Ford scored fi ve
runs on wild pitches, includ-
ing two runs on one wild
pitch in the third inning.
Tumbarello drove in three
runs for the game, while
Brooks Fromwiller was hit
by pitch twice. Two Tilla-
mook pitchers combined to
walk six and hit four batters.
Madison 7, Seaside 5
SEASIDE — Madison
capped the fi rst day of the
Seaside wood bat tourna-
ment with a 7-5 win over the
Gulls at Broadway Field.
The game was tied 5-5
in the fi fth, before Madison
took the lead for good.
Seaside’s day was high-
lighted by a two-run homer
run for Riley Kuhl, deep
over the left fi eld fence.
“It was a shot,” said Sea-
side coach Dan McFadden.
“I’ve only seen three home
runs over the fence here.
And even with a wood bat
— that was amazing. I’d
like to know what he ate for
breakfast this morning.”
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Stayton 11, Astoria 2
SEASIDE — Astoria’s
young lineup was no match
Thursday for the American
Legion Post 58 Stayton Ban-
dits, who scored an 11-2 win
over Dane Gouge’s Astoria
Ford in a fi rst round game of
the Seaside wood bat tour-
nament at Broadway Field.
Stayton pitchers Aaron
Nease and David Kanoff
allowed just three hits (by
Hunter Ficken, Tony Tum-
barello and Leo Matthews)
with fi ve strikeouts and no
walks, while the Bandits
broke open a close game
with four runs in the fi fth
inning.
A triple by Colton Gumc
highlighted Stayton’s sec-
ond inning, in which the
Bandits took a 2-0 lead.
Ficken had a leadoff sin-
gle for Astoria in the third
and later scored on an error.
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Astoria Ford pitcher Will Eddy fl ips the ball to fi rst base for an out during Thursday’s loss to Stayton.