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THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2019
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ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
LILLI
TAYLOR
Seaside
NIC
PIOR
Warrenton
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T
he sophomore guard for No. 12-ranked Seaside had a license to drive the
lane, over and over, in a 45-31 nonleague win Dec. 10 over Scappoose.
Taylor scored a career-high 28 points, including 8-of-10 at the free throw line.
She also had 16 rebounds (seven off ensive boards) and fi ve blocks. Taylor had
nine points and nine rebounds in another nonleague win at Corbett Dec. 12,
before fouling out.
Montesano
boys hold off
Astoria, 57-51
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SEASIDE — A bunch of
untimely turnovers by Astoria,
and some timely free throws for
Montesano made the difference
Thursday, in a fi rst round boys
game of the Seaside Holiday
Classic.
The Fishermen fi nished with
27 turnovers, while the Bull-
dogs connected on 17-of-23 free
throws on their way to a 57-51
win over Astoria.
Montesano was on the verge
of breaking the game wide open
midway through the second
quarter, holding a 30-17 lead.
That’s when Astoria’s Dylan
Junes scored on a layup, Xan-
der Marincovich followed with
a 3-pointer and Isaac Brock-
man converted a three-point
play to spark a 19-8 run for the
Fishermen.
A jumper by Marincovich to
open the fourth period had Asto-
ria within 38-36, but that’s as
close as the Fishermen would
get.
Braden Dohrmann connected
on a 3-pointer for the Bulldogs,
while Montesano was 8-for-
12 at the free throw line in the
fourth quarter (6-of-8 in the fi nal
2:51) to help secure the win.
The Fishermen could not take
advantage of numerous offen-
sive rebounds, but still fi nished
20-of-49 from the fi eld. Marin-
covich had 20 points to lead all
scorers, with Brockman adding
12 and Colton McMaster scor-
ing 10 for Astoria.
Wesley Bjornsgard had 12
points for Montesano.
SCOREBOARD
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Astoria 60, Crook County 13
CC (13): Martins25 6, Taylor 4, McKamzap 2,
McCall 1.
AST (60): Hailey O’Brien 18, Jackson 8, Helm-
ersen 6, Norris 6, Rasmussen 6, Hankwitz 5,
Espelien 4, Long 2, Matthews 2, Fausett 2.
Crook County
3
0
9
1—13
Astoria
24
15
11
10—60
BOYS BASKETBALL
Montesano 57, Astoria 51
MON (57): Wesley Bjornsgard 12, Olsen 11,
Tyler 8, Ridgway 8, Daniels 7, Dohrmann 6,
Adams 3, Wills 2.
AST (51): Xander Marincovich 20, Brockman
12, McMaster 10, Junes 5, Altheide-Nielson
3, Moore 1.
Montesano
17
15
6
19—57
Astoria
8
19
7
17—51
Seaside 61, Newport 48
NEW (48): Fredy Hildalgo 24, Tapia 10, Bruns
8, Losier 6.
SEA (61): Stephen Snyder 18, Hague 11, Br.
Johnson 10, Be.Johnson 8, Sibony 8, Langmo
4, Bennett 2.
Newport
11
13
15
9—48
Seaside
17
15
14
15—61
Knappa 63, Vernonia 27
Vernonia
7
14
2
4—27
Knappa
16
16
20
11—63
KNA (67): Eli Takalo 16, Phillip 11, Hoover 10,
Westerholm 6, L.Morrill 6, Ramvick 5, Gale 5,
McMahan 4, C.Morrill, Miller, Jackson, Miethe.
Warrenton 38, Santiam Christian 34
WAR (38): Austin Little 9, Devin Jackson 9,
Hordie Bodden-Bodden 9, Maddox 6, Mor-
row 5.
SC (34): Galceran 12, Bourne 8, Williamson 7,
Villers 7.
Warrenton
4
13
2
10
9—38
Santiam C
15
3
7
4
5—34
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I
n the Warriors’ wrestling invitational Dec. 14, Pior won the championship
at 145 pounds, scoring a 46-second fall over Knappa’s Addison Pietila, a 9-0
major decision against Ilwaco’s Christophe Lake, and a pin (2:30) against Ver-
nonia’s Austin Sicard in the title match. Pior was named the meet’s outstanding
wrestler for the lighter weights, contributing big points to Warrenton’s team
championship.
Seaside boys cruise past Newport
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For the last three years, Newport
vs. Seaside was the boys champi-
onship game of the annual Seaside
Holiday Classic.
This season, the Cubs and the
Gulls met in a fi rst round game of
the Classic, with Seaside posting an
easy 61-48 win over Newport.
The heavy favorites to make the
championship game for the sixth
year in a row, the Gulls snapped a
36-36 tie in the third quarter with a
17-3 run to put the game away.
Ryan Hague, Stephen Snyder and
Everest Sibony all knocked down
3-pointers during the decisive run.
Sndyer led a trio of players in
double fi gures with 18, followed by
Hague with 11 and Brayden John-
son with 10. Sibony and Beau John-
son scored eight points each.
Seaside has won the boys’ cham-
pionship of the Holiday Classic
three times in the last fi ve years.
Photos by Jeff Ter Har
PREP ROUNDUP
Astoria hammers
Crook County, 60-13
The Astoria Lady Fishermen are
already rounding into state champi-
onship form, as they showed in a fi rst
round game Thursday of the South
Coast Les Schwab Tournament, in
Marshfi eld.
Astoria’s Hailey O’Brien scored
13 points in the fi rst quarter — which
equalled Crook County’s total for the
entire game, in a 60-13 win for the
Lady Fishermen.
O’Brien fi nished with 18 and
Kajsa Jackson added eight for Asto-
ria, which led 24-3 after one quarter,
then outscored Crook County 15-0 in
the second.
Ten players made it into the scor-
ing column for Astoria.
Early run lifts Rochester
over Seaside
A 17-0 run in the fi rst half was
enough for the Rochester girls bas-
ketball team to pull away for a late-
night win Thursday, in the fi nal girls
game on Day 1 of the Seaside Holi-
day Classic.
Vernonia
gets past
Knappa,
47-32
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LEFT: Brayden Johnson scored 10 points in the win over Newport. RIGHT: Derrick Bennett contributed to the
scoring in Seaside’s win over Newport.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Tied 4-4 early in the fi rst quarter,
the Warriors scored 17 straight for a
21-4 lead, on their way to a 45-25
win over the host Gulls.
Rochester senior Paige Win-
ter scored 11 of her game-high 17
points in the fi rst half, and the War-
riors drained 3-pointers from Lexi
Sederberg-Jones, Megan Elkins and
Maddix Schneider to pull away in
the third quarter.
Seaside — which lost freshman
Caleigh Peterson to an injury in
the fi rst period — was led by Ruby
Douglas with 10 points and Lilli Tay-
lor with eight.
BOYS BASKETBALL
Knappa pounds
Vernonia, 63-27
The Battle of the Loggers is not
much of a battle any more.
Following Knappa’s four straight
wins over Vernonia in football
(42-17, 62-30, 40-7 and 50-6), the
Knappa boys basketball team contin-
ued the school’s dominance over Ver-
nonia, with a 63-27 victory Wednes-
day night on Knappa’s home court.
Since Vernonia’s huge upset
in the 2017-18 state tournament,
Knappa has won three in a row over
their Logger rivals, 88-66, 74-44,
and Wednesday’s 36-point victory.
And for the second time in three
days, Knappa had a game offi cially
locked up by halftime, leading Ver-
nonia 32-21.
Knappa went on to outscore Ver-
nonia 20-2 in the third quarter and
11-4 in the fourth.
Knappa “Really played with
energy and effort tonight, particu-
larly in the second half,” said coach
Paul Isom. “We held them to six
points in the second half and blew
the game open in the third quarter.”
Knappa’s Mason Westerholm
“really fl ew around, getting a num-
ber of defl ections and steals leading
to easy baskets,” Isom said. “Kanai
Phillip also played well on both ends.
He was really aggressive offensively,
which was great to see.
“And then our bench again
brought energy and intensity that we
really needed,” he said. “Cameron
Miethe and Shane McMahan had
the diffi cult assignments of guard-
ing Vernonia’s two best players, and
both did an outstanding job. All in all
it was a good team effort and another
nice league win.”
Eli Takalo scored 11 points, Phil-
lip added 11 and Devin Hoover
scored 10 for Knappa.
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After allowing a com-
bined 30 points in their pre-
vious two games, the Knappa
girls basketball team gave up
47 Wednesday night to visiting
Vernonia.
And the visiting Log-
gers defeated the home Log-
gers, 47-32, in a key show-
down between two Northwest
League title contenders.
“Our goal was to play
aggressive defense, limit their
top scorer’s touches and force
them to make uncomfortable
passes,” said Knappa coach
Tracie Brockey. “For a major-
ity of the game, our girls were
successful in achieving that.
We forced several turnovers
(multiple fi ve-second viola-
tions and 21 team steals) again
tonight.”
Vernonia’s
top
scorer,
Brooklyn Walters, sat much of
the second quarter, in which
Vernonia scored just three
points.
“She and her sister, Jordan,
are very strong, smooth shoot-
ers with a deep range,” Brockey
said of the sisters, who com-
bined for fi ve 3-pointers.
Meanwhile, “We got open
looks in both halves that we
just have to knock down,”
Brockey said. “Despite our
lack of fi nishing at the rim, it
was only a six-point defi cit at
the half, but we were unable to
close the gap.”
Vernonia took advantage of
Knappa foul trouble and injury
in the fourth.
“I think the score is deceiv-
ing,” Brockey said. “We can
absolutely compete with a team
like Vernonia. We had players
step up defensively in ways I
haven’t seen yet this season,
and it was reassuring that we
are progressing.”
Aiko Miller fi nished with
12 points, fi ve steals and fi ve
rebounds.
Sophia Carlson, Madelynn
Weaver, Katelynn Weaver and
Megan Hellberg each contrib-
uted four steals, while Hellberg
had seven rebounds.
Brooklyn Walters led Verno-
nia with 13 points, followed by
Jordan Walters (11) and Jayden
Hartman (10).
In other NWL girls’ action,
Faith Bible defeated Portland
Christian (49-33), and Colum-
bia Christian topped Gaston
(41-12).