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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2020
Knappa tops Toledo in
Beach Bash tournament
By GARY HENLEY
The Astorian
The Knappa Loggers gave a lesson in
h ow to w in b ig g ames on the r oad Friday
night, with a 78-76 victory over No. 2-ranked
Toledo, on the Boomers’ home fl oor.
The only unbeaten team (10-0) at the 2A
level, Knappa went on to easily win Toledo’s
“Beach Bash” Invitational with an anticli-
mactic 59-26 win over Harrisburg Saturday,
but Friday’s semifi nal was the true champi-
onship game of the tournament.
It was a “big-time win tonight,” said
Knappa coach Paul Isom, following Friday’s
victory. “The guys really played well. Every
guy made some huge plays.”
The No. 3-ranked Loggers — who are
somehow still ranked behind Toledo in the
OSAA rankings — let a 17-point third quar-
ter lead slip away. Knappa even led 71-60
with just over two minutes remaining in the
fourth, as a furious rally helped the Boomers
tie the game at 76-76 with nine seconds left.
But Knappa’s Eli Takalo hit an eight-foot
jumper as time expired to give the Loggers
the victory.
Had Toledo not lost a starter to an injury
in the opening minutes of the game, and if
the Boomers had made just one more of their
attempted 33 3-pointers (instead of miss-
ing 23), the game could have turned out
differently.
The difference in the game came down
to disciplined, patient, offensive basketball.
Which Knappa showed, and Toledo did not.
In addition to knocking down several
big 3-pointers, the Loggers were picking up
most of their points on close-range drives to
the hoop. Knappa fi nished 33-of-56 from the
fi eld, to Toledo’s 25-for-58.
The Boomers, meanwhile, spent the
majority of the night launching NBA-length
3-pointers, and fi nished 10-of-33 from the
3-point line.
Toledo made four 3-point bombs in
the fourth quarter comeback, but Knappa
remained patient on offense, working the
ball into Mason Westerholm and Takalo for
easy scores, with some fastbreak layups for
Kanai Phillip and a pair of clutch scores from
Cameron Miethe late in the game.
Toledo senior Conner Marchant was a
one-man show in the Boomer comeback, fi n-
ishing the night with 35 points.
Trailing 71-60 with just over two min-
utes remaining, Marchant trimmed Knap-
pa’s lead to 75-73 with 20 seconds left, hit-
ting a 3-pointer (with another from Mason
McAlpine), converting a three-point play,
then making three straight free throws after
getting fouled on a 3-point shot with nine
seconds remaining.
After a Logger shot with three seconds
left that was defl ected out of bounds, Devin
Hoover inbounded to Takalo, who hit the
game-winner as time expired.
“Joe Ramvick had some foul trouble,
but was a monster on defense when he was
in,” Isom said. “Then Cameron came in and
played extended minutes, and was tasked
with shutting down one of their best players
and did awesome. He also added some big
time buckets.”
Hoover and Takalo both scored 21 points
to lead the Loggers, with Westerholm tossing
in 16 and Phillip adding 14. Miethe was the
only other Logger to score, with six points.
“Mason, Devin, Eli and Kanai all were
great on both ends,” Isom said. “Devin had
the tough task of guarding Marchant all game
Congress demands answers
from Trump on Soleimani killing
and did a really nice job, making things dif-
fi cult. And then (the Boomers) didn’t really
have an answer for Eli down low. All in all,
just a great win on the road against one of the
best teams in the state.”
The Boomers lost starter Clifton Howard
to an ankle injury in the opening minutes,
while Ramvick and Westerholm both had
four fouls midway through the second half.
Loggers 59, Harrisburg 26
In the tournament fi nale against Harris-
burg, Knappa led just 12-7 after one quarter,
then just 26-17 at halftime.
The second half was all Loggers, who
outscored Harrisburg 20-0 in the third quar-
ter to secure the win.
Knappa “came out pretty sluggish, but
Joe (Ramvick) really got us going in the sec-
ond quarter,” said Logger coach Paul Isom.
“He hit three three’s and ended up leading
us in scoring with 15 for the game. And then
everyone else fi nally got going in the third
quarter.”
It was a “great weekend for the team over-
all,” Isom said. “We still have a lot of work
left to do, but obviously we couldn’t ask for
a better start to the season.”
Knappa’s Eli Takalo was named tourna-
ment Most Valuable Player and was joined
by Devin Hoover on the all-tournament
team.
The Loggers face some much easier com-
petition this week, with a return to Northwest
League play against Neah-Kah-Nie (2-5)
Tuesday and Faith Bible (1-7) Thursday.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Knappa wins one,
loses two at Toledo
After opening the Toledo “Beach Bash”
Invitational with a 49-39 win over Illinois
Valley last Thursday, the Knappa Lady Log-
gers ran into some tougher competition over
the next two rounds.
Union (10-3 overall) knocked off
Knappa 54-19 Friday, and Harrisburg (11-2
and ranked sixth at the 3A level) defeated
the Loggers 61-24 in a consolation game
Saturday.
Knappa scored the fi rst two points against
Union, but the Bobcats went on a 25-4 run
from there, and led 33-12 at halftime, high-
lighted by a 3-pointer from Brianna Kohr at
the buzzer to end the fi rst half.
Sophia Carlson scored 10 points to lead
the Loggers (4-6).
Against Harrisburg, the Eagles jumped
out to a 22-4 lead on their way to the third-
place trophy. Hope Bucher led Harrisburg
with 15 points, followed by Delaney Buz-
zard (11) and Hailee Johnson (10). Katelynn
Weaver led Knappa with 12 points and fi ve
rebounds.
“Our girls came out strong against Illi-
nois Valley to help us get on to the winners
side of the bracket,” said Knappa coach Tra-
cie Brockey. “It set us up for some diffi cult
match-ups on Friday and Saturday, but I was
excited for the girls to play some talented
teams from other parts of the state.”
She added, “as we continue to develop our
program, I’m hoping these tough games help
us learn and grow and provide some addi-
tional motivation to improve. If you want to
compete for championships, you have to beat
the best teams, and there were some high cal-
iber girls programs represented in Toledo.”
By ROBERT BURNS
and JONATHAN LEMIRE
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Donald
Trump insists that Iranian cultural sites are
fair game for the U.S. military, dismiss-
ing concerns within his own administration
that doing so could constitute a war crime
under international law. He also warned
Iraq that he would levy punishing sanctions
if it expelled American troops in retaliation
for a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad that killed a
top Iranian offi cial.
But Congress is pushing back, in what’s
expected to be a pivotal week as lawmakers
return from a holiday recess. On Monday,
two top Senate Democrats called on Trump
to immediately declassify the administra-
tion’s reasoning for the strike on the Ira-
nian offi cial, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, say-
ing there is “no legitimate justifi cation” for
keeping the information from the public.
And House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said
late Sunday the House would introduce
and vote this week on a war powers resolu-
tion to limit the president’s military actions
regarding Iran. In a letter to House Demo-
crats, Pelosi called the airstrike “provoca-
tive and disproportionate” and said it had
“endangered our servicemembers, diplo-
mats and others by risking a serious escala-
tion of tensions with Iran.” A similar reso-
lution was introduced in the Senate.
Congress, which has the sole power to
declare war, has complained that Trump
did not provide advance notice of his air-
strike on Soleimani in Baghdad. Trump did
meet the 48-hour deadline required by the
War Powers Act to notify Congress after
the deadly drone strike, though the docu-
ment was classifi ed and no public version
was released.
The administration is expected to brief
lawmakers on its actions this week.
In their letter to Trump, Senate Minority
Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and
the Senate Foreign Relation Committee’s
Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey
said the White House’s classifi ed notifi ca-
tion sent to Congress late Saturday under
the War Powers Act was insuffi cient and
inappropriate.
“It is critical that national security mat-
ters of such import be shared with the
American people in a timely manner, they
wrote. “An entirely classifi ed notifi cation
is simply not appropriate in a democratic
society.” They asked that the notifi cation be
declassifi ed “in full.”
White House counselor Kellyanne
Conway, speaking Monday on “Fox &
Friends,” dismissed the letter as a “parti-
san action.”
Pelosi said the notifi cation “raises more
questions than it answers. This document
prompts serious and urgent questions about
the timing, manner and justifi cation of the
a dministration’s decision to engage in hos-
tilities against Iran.”
Iran has vowed to retaliate for Trump’s
Alex Brandon/AP Photo
Supporters of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or
the MEK, an Iranian exile group, hold signs
and fl ags during a show of support for a
U.S. airstrike in Iraq that killed Iranian Gen.
Qassem Soleimani, in Lafayette Park across
from the White House on Sunday.
targeted killing of Soleimani, the head of
Iran’s elite Quds force. It has sparked out-
rage in the Middle East, including in Iraq,
where more than 5,000 American troops are
still on the ground 17 years after the U.S.
invasion. Iraq’s parliament voted Sunday in
favor of a nonbinding resolution calling for
the expulsion of the American forces.
Trump fi rst raised the prospect of tar-
geting Iranian cultural sites Saturday in a
tweet. Speaking with reporters Sunday as
he fl ew back to Washington from his hol-
iday in Florida, he refused to back down,
despite international prohibitions.
“They’re allowed to kill our people.
They’re allowed to torture and maim our
people. They’re allowed to use roadside
bombs and blow up our people. And we’re
not allowed to touch their cultural sites? It
doesn’t work that way,” Trump said.
On Iraq, Trump said the U.S. wouldn’t
leave Iraq without being paid for its mil-
itary investments there over the years —
then said if the troops do have to with-
draw, he would hit Baghdad with economic
penalties.
“We will charge them sanctions like
they’ve never seen before ever. It’ll make
Iranian sanctions look somewhat tame,”
he said. “If there’s any hostility, that they
do anything we think is inappropriate, we
are going to put sanctions on Iraq, very big
sanctions on Iraq.”
He added: “We’re not leaving until they
pay us back for it.”
The administration has scrambled to
contend with the backlash to the killing of
Soleimani, which marked a stark escala-
tion in tensions between Washington and
Tehran.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said
the U.S. military may well strike more Ira-
nian leaders if the Islamic Republic retal-
iates. He tip-toed around questions about
Trump’s threat to attack Iranian cultural
sites, a military action that likely would be
illegal under the laws of armed confl ict and
the U.N. charter.
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Moonrise today ............. 2:20 p.m.
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Warrenton
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Knappa
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