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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2020
SPORTS
Tillamook downs Warrenton;
Warriors top Neah-Kah-Nie
in weekend baseball games
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President Barack Obama presents a 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom to U.S. Rep. John
Lewis during a ceremony at the White House.
Leaders and activists mourn
death of congressman Lewis
Lifelong activist
for civil rights
By GENE JOHNSON
Associated Press
Rights activists, politi-
cians from both parties and
many other people touched
by the legacy of John Lewis
mourned the congressman
and pillar of the civil rights
movement Saturday, laud-
ing the strength, courage and
kindness of a man whose
lifelong struggle against
racial discrimination took
him from a bridge in Selma
to the nation’s Capitol.
“As a young man march-
ing for equality in Selma,
Alabama, John answered
brutal violence with coura-
geous hope,” said former
President George W. Bush.
“And throughout his career
as a civil rights leader and
public servant, he worked
to make our country a more
perfect union.”
Former President Barack
Obama, America’s fi rst
Black president, recalled
being sworn in for his fi rst
term: “I hugged him on the
inauguration stand before I
was sworn in and told him
I was only there because of
the sacrifi ces he made.”
Lewis died Friday, sev-
eral months after the Geor-
gia Democrat announced
that he had been diagnosed
with advanced pancreatic
cancer.
On Monday, Georgia
Democrats selected state
Sen. Nikema Williams,
chair of the state party, to
replace Lewis on the ballot
in November.
Williams, 41, was cho-
sen from a list of fi ve fi nal-
ists as the group works to
quickly fi ll the spot in accor-
dance with state law. She is
nearly assured of winning
in November in the heavily
Democratic district.
The seat will remain
empty until Georgia Gov.
Brian Kemp schedules a
special election. The Repub-
lican governor has given no
indication when he will hold
an election with just over six
months left in Lewis’ term.
Lewis was fi rst elected to
represent Georgia’s majority
Black 5th District in 1986.
The U.S. House stood
on Monday for an emo-
tional moment of silence for
Lewis.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi
gaveled the House to order,
calling on “all who loved
John Lewis, wherever you
are, rise in a moment of
silence in remembrance
of the conscience of the
Congress.”
Several people on the dais
wept as the House stood in
silence, heads bowed. When
Pelosi tried to move on,
those gathered interrupted
with sustained applause.
‘AS A YOUNG
MAN MARCHING
FOR EQUALITY
IN SELMA,
ALABAMA, JOHN
ANSWERED
BRUTAL
VIOLENCE WITH
COURAGEOUS
HOPE. AND
THROUGHOUT
HIS CAREER AS A
CIVIL RIGHTS
LEADER
AND PUBLIC
SERVANT, HE
WORKED TO
MAKE OUR
COUNTRY A
MORE PERFECT
UNION.’
Former President
George W. Bush
“Our hero, our colleague,
our brother, our friend
received and answered his
fi nal summons from God
almighty,” said Rep. Sanford
Bishop, the dean of the Geor-
gia delegation.
Lewis, 80, often recalled
his upbringing in the segre-
gated South, including how
he was denied a library card
because the library was for
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“whites only.” He was deter-
mined to destroy segregation,
joining with the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr. as founder
of the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee to
help plan the 1963 March on
Washington.
Two years later, Lewis
helped lead the “Bloody Sun-
day” voting rights march
intended to go from Selma
to Montgomery, Alabama.
White police, state troopers
and thugs blocked their way
on the bridge out of Selma,
attacking the peaceful march-
ers with clubs, bullwhips and
tear gas. Lewis suffered a
cracked skull.
He went on to make a
career in politics, represent-
ing Atlanta in Congress for
more than 30 years, and all
the while imploring people to
press for justice — to make
what he came to call “good
trouble, necessary trouble.”
Atlanta Mayor Keisha
Lance Bottoms described that
call as “a generational rally-
ing cry for nonviolent activ-
ism in the pursuit of social
justice and human rights.”
“He fought harder and
longer than anyone in our
nation’s continuing battle for
civil rights and equal justice,”
the NAACP said in a written
statement.
He also scrapped with
President Donald Trump,
refusing to attend his inau-
guration and calling him a
racist. Trump ordered fl ags
fl own at half-staff to honor
Lewis — as required by law
for sitting members of Con-
gress. More than 14 hours
after his death, following an
array of unrelated retweets
and a golf outing, he offered
condolences.
“Saddened to hear the
news of civil rights hero
John Lewis passing,” Trump
tweeted. “Melania and I send
our prayers to he and his
family.”
Those mourning included
baseball legend Hank Aaron,
who said he and Lewis “con-
nected to the roots.”
“By that I mean we were
born and grew up in the
highly racist and segregated
south, in the state of Ala-
bama,” Aaron said. “He com-
mitted his life to the struggle
for justice and equality for all
people.”
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
A full day of base-
ball was on tap Saturday
in Astoria, as fi ve games
took place in two locations,
with fi ve teams taking part
in contests at Ernie Aiken
Field and CMH Field.
At Aiken Field, Warren-
ton bounced back from a
13-2 loss to Tillamook in a
morning game with an 8-2
win over Neah-Kah-Nie in
the afternoon.
The Warriors scored the
fi rst run of the day against
the Cheesemakers, but Til-
lamook scored 13 of the
next 14, building an 8-1
lead after two innings.
Tillamook
pitchers
Junior Gonzalez and Parker
McKibbin combined on a
no-hitter, striking out seven
with fi ve walks.
Two Warrenton pitchers
scattered fi ve hits with 11
walks, while a few untimely
Warrior errors extended
innings and allowed the
Cheesemakers to score runs
in every at-bat.
Tillamook went on to a
12-1 victory over Ilwaco at
CMH Field to fi nish as the
only unbeaten team of the
day.
Warrenton
regrouped
between games, eliminated
the errors and scored in four
of its fi ve at-bats against the
Pirates.
Four
Neah-Kah-Nie
pitchers allowed just two
hits, a single and a double
by Ryan Hoagland , but the
Pirates walked 14, coupled
with several balk calls.
Warrenton’s
Dawson
Little pitched four-and-a-
third innings, and allowed
one hit with fi ve strikeouts
and seven walks. Dylon
Atwood fi nished on the
mound, giving up one hit.
“Neah-Kah-Nie looked
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Duane Falls pitched a solid two-plus innings against
Tillamook Saturday at Ernie Aiken Field.
a little like we did in the
fi rst game,” said Warren-
ton coach Lennie Wolfe.
“That’s how it’s going to
be in a lot of these sum-
mer games. We’ve still only
been together about three-
and-a-half weeks, and we
would essentially be at the
end of March if this was
the spring season. I just
reminded them between
games not to get disheart-
ened, and we did a good job
of regrouping.”
Astoria splits
two games
Astoria Ford posted a
win at CMH Field in the
morning then lost a night-
cap at Aiken Field.
The Fishermen topped
Ilwaco 7-6 in the fi rst game
at CMH Field, as they
broke open a close game
with fi ve runs in the bottom
of the second inning, then
held off Ilwaco rallies in the
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Junior Baseball — At Tapiola Park: Warrenton vs. Astoria Ford, 2:30 p.m.; Neah-Kah-Nie vs. Warrenton 5 p.m.; Neah-Kah-Nie
vs. Astoria Ford, 7:15 p.m.
Junior Baseball — At Long Beach: Knappa vs. Ilwaco, 4 p.m.; Tillamook vs. Ilwaco 6:30 p.m.
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Seattle
68 55
Areas of low
clouds
66 56
66 55
Mainly cloudy
Some sun
67 52
66 53
Partly sunny
Partly sunny
68 54
Mostly sunny
69 55
Mostly cloudy
Aberdeen
Olympia
70/56
81/58
Wenatchee
Tacoma
Moses
Lake
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TODAY'S TIDES
Astoria through Sunday
Tonight’s Sky: Saturn at opposi-
tion (3:14 p.m. PDT).
Astoria / Port Docks
Temperatures
High/low ................................ 67/54
Normal high/low .................. 68/54
Record high .................. 91 in 1946
Record low .................... 42 in 1977
Precipitation
Sunday ..................................... 0.00”
Month to date ........................ 0.38”
Normal month to date ......... 0.73”
Year to date .......................... 38.37”
Normal year to date ........... 36.89”
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Time
High (ft.) Time Low (ft.)
1:42 a.m.
3:24 p.m.
8.6 9:01 a.m. -1.5
6.9 8:53 p.m. 2.4
Cape Disappointment
1:21 a.m.
2:57 p.m.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
Hammond
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today .................. 5:45 a.m.
Sunset tonight ............... 8:58 p.m.
Moonrise today .............. 6:37 a.m.
Moonset today ............ 10:08 p.m.
New
First
Full
Last
1:32 a.m.
3:11 p.m.
Warrenton
1:37 a.m.
3:19 p.m.
Knappa
2:19 a.m.
4:01 p.m.
Depoe Bay
July 20 July 27 Aug 3 Aug 11
8.7 8:04 a.m. -1.6
6.8 7:54 p.m. 2.7
8.9 8:24 a.m. -1.8
7.1 8:18 p.m. 2.5
9.0 8:45 a.m. -1.4
7.3 8:37 p.m. 2.5
8.8 10:02 a.m. -1.3
7.2 9:54 p.m. 2.1
12:31 a.m. 8.8 7:33 a.m. -2.0
2:12 p.m. 6.9 7:23 p.m. 2.7
City
Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
Dallas
Denver
Honolulu
Houston
Los Angeles
Miami
New York City
Phoenix
San Francisco
Wash., DC
Wed.
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94/74/t
86/69/s
82/69/c
90/77/pc
89/61/t
88/71/pc
90/77/t
83/64/pc
89/81/t
92/74/pc
107/85/c
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95/78/pc
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87/67/pc
92/78/s
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87/75/pc
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80/62/pc
91/81/t
88/75/pc
105/84/c
72/55/sh
95/77/t
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c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms,
r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice.
92/58
Kennewick Walla Walla
99/69 Lewiston
104/68
100/66
Hermiston
The Dalles 104/68
Enterprise
Pendleton 91/55
100/65
95/67
La Grande
94/57
89/56
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Today
Hi/Lo/W
Pullman
100/64
80/55
Salem
94/64
Yakima 102/67
Longview
68/55 Portland
86/61
Spokane
97/69
82/56
79/54
Astoria
ALMANAC
fi fth, sixth and seventh.
Ilwaco scored six runs
in its fi nal three at-bats,
and out-hit Astoria 11 to
four, but four Ilwaco errors
helped Astoria Ford post
the victory.
Nate
Hopkins
and
Kaeden Lyster each had
two hits for Ilwaco, while
Grady Cox drove in two
runs.
The last game of the day
between
Neah-Kah-Nie
and Astoria Ford featured
a combined 16 runs on just
fi ve hits, with the Pirates
scoring a 9-7 victory over
the Fishermen.
Warrenton returns to
Aiken Field for two games
Thursday, playing Asto-
ria Ford in the fi rst game
at 2:30 p.m. , followed by
Neah-Kah-Nie in Game 2
at 5 p.m. Astoria Ford plays
Neah-Kah-Nie in the third
game of the triple header at
7:15 p.m.
Corvallis
86/55
Albany
88/55
John Day
Eugene
Bend
89/55
95/56
97/61
Ontario
99/67
Caldwell
Burns
99/58
101/65
Medford
98/61
Klamath Falls
96/55
City
Baker City
Brookings
Ilwaco
Newberg
Newport
Today
Hi/Lo/W
98/54/s
71/55/pc
64/55/c
87/56/s
67/55/pc
Wed.
Hi/Lo/W
96/58/s
69/54/pc
63/56/c
80/53/pc
66/53/c
City
North Bend
Roseburg
Seaside
Springfi eld
Vancouver
Today
Hi/Lo/W
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91/60/s
66/54/c
89/55/s
86/60/s
Wed.
Hi/Lo/W
66/54/pc
84/55/s
65/54/pc
81/50/s
80/56/pc