THE ASTORIAN • OCTOBER 26, 2019 • C1
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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.