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THE ASTORIAN • OCTOBER 26, 2019 • C1 CONTACT US Gary Henley • Sports Reporter • ghenley@dailyastorian.com SATURDAY FOLLOW US facebook.com/DailyAstorianSports SPORTS EXTRA SEASIDE TURNS OUT THE LIGHTS ON TILLAMOOK, 18-0 FRIDAY NIGHT SCORES VALLEY CATHOLIC 32, ASTORIA 29 SEASIDE 18, TILLAMOOK 0 WARRENTON 56, GASTON 6 KNAPPA 66, NESTUCCA 26 Photos by Hailey Hoff man/The Astorian Seaside’s Andrew Teubner stiff -arms Tillamook’s Kaleb Boomer to evade an attempted tackle. By GARY HENLEY The Astorian EASIDE — With a fi ve-game league schedule, every football game is critical in the Cowapa League. And the Seaside Gulls were down to one last critical contest Friday night, with two ways to go in the league standings. A win and a Banks loss would give Seaside a share of the league title. A loss would leave the Gulls in a tie for second with Tillamook. Instead, the Gulls’ 18-0 win over the Cheesemakers (and a Banks victory over Molalla) gave Seaside second place all to itself, while the undefeated Braves secured their second straight Cowapa championship. The fi nal fi nish atop the league stand- ings — with Banks at 5-0 and Seaside at 4-1 — is identical to last year . And that’s one more reason the Gulls are hopeful for a return to the state cham- pionship. It just won’t be as easy to get there as it was a year ago. Seaside will head to the state playoffs with a No. 12 ranking (approximate), as opposed to the No. 3 ranking the Gulls held in 2018. But, just like last year, Seaside will certainly enter the post season with some momentum. With all due credit to the Gulls’ defense, Seaside tossed football’s ver- sion of a perfect game in Friday’s regu- lar season fi nale. Tillamook fi nished the game with no points, two fi rst downs and zero yards in S Seaside quarterback Ledger Pugh steps back as he prepares to throw the fi rst touchdown pass of the game. Tillamook and Seaside players pile up on Brayden Johnson (3). total offense (minus 14 yards rushing, plus 14 passing). A pre game power outage at Broad- way Field, coupled with Senior Night, led to a late start. The power even- tually came back on, just not for the Cheesemakers. Tillamook fi nished the fi rst half with 17 yards in total offense and one fi rst down. It got even darker for the Cheesemak- ers in the second half, as all three Tilla- mook ball carriers fi nished with negative rushing yardage, and quarterback Chad Werner was 5-of-12 passing for just 14 yards. The Gulls didn’t exactly light up the scoreboard, either, but at least Sea- side fi nished with plus yardage and 18 fi rst downs, including eight in the third quarter. The only score of the fi rst half was also the fi rst completion of the night for Seaside quarterback Ledger Pugh, a 32-yard pass and run play to Levi Card down the right sideline early in the sec- ond quarter. Other than that, Tillamook stopped the Gulls on three fourth down plays to stay within striking distance. That is, until Seaside put together its drive of the night. Midway through the third quarter and starting from their own 26, the Gulls ran 14 plays and moved the ball to the Tilla- mook 10-yard line. Seaside only got three points out of the drive, a 27-yard fi eld goal from Kaleb Bartel, but the time-consuming drive left the Cheesemakers with just one posses- sion in the third period, as Bartel’s kick split the uprights with 10:15 left in the fourth. On the very next play from scrim- mage, Werner was sacked in the end zone for a safety, giving the Gulls a 12-0 lead. And four plays after that, Seaside tacked on another six points, as Pugh’s 24-yard toss to Card set up a 26-yard touchdown run by Aedyn Cook. Pugh fi nished 5-of-7 passing for 91 yards, while Brayden Johnson led the ground attack with 96 yards rushing on 12 attempts. Cook added 51 yards rush- ing, Jake Black ran for 48 and Andrew Teubner rushed for 47 in Seaside’s bal- anced running attack. The Gulls were called for 10 penal- ties for 75 yards. Seaside will have a bye next week before beginning their 2019 post season run. ATHLETES OF THE WEEK WARRENTON VOLLEYBALL TEAM STEPHEN SNYDER Seaside Lucy Kapua T he Lady Warriors scored a pair of milestone victories in three days last week. On Oct. 15 , Warrenton clinched its second straight Coastal Range League title with a fi ve-set win at Willamina, only the third time in school histo- ry for back-to-back league championships. Two days later, the Warriors swept Rainier to fi nish undefeated in league for the fi rst time since 1978. Jeff Ter Har I n a 4-1 Clatsop Clash win Oct. 15 over Astoria at Broadway Field, the senior scored three goals and had the hat trick in a span of just over 20 minutes. He scored his fi rst goal just over two minutes into the game off a long pass from Dodger Holmstedt, made it 2-0 by outracing an Astoria defender in the 11th minute, then scored off a teammate’s miss in the 23rd minute for a 4-0 lead.