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Spring sports: Players were a bit rusty
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Rosters have
a diff erent look
R osters and teams around
the state looked a lot diff er-
ent than last seen.
In Oregon, the 2019-
20 high school sports year
ended in March 2020,
abruptly bringing state bas-
ketball tournaments to a
close just as they were set to
begin.
Baseball and softball
players, along with golf and
track athletes, got the short
end of the stick, so to speak.
Individuals and teams
competing in spring sports
never made it to the fi eld,
as their seasons were com-
pletely canceled.
Couple that with a short
pre season, and it’s been a
while since spring sport ath-
letes have seen the fi eld,
which made for a few errors
in season openers.
Typical of most games
Tuesday, the Clatsop Clash
baseball game got off to a
slow start, with a combined
eight runs on one hit, seven
walks and a couple of big
errors in a 40-minute fi rst
inning.
In softball, “we only
(had) six days of practice
before our fi rst game, and
we came in realizing that
we’re barely into the season,
and we’ll put forth what we
have,” Flaigg said. “A cou-
ple of us were a little late on
our timing, but we haven’t
seen live pitching for two
years.”
On the other hand, “Gra-
cie (Rhodes, the Seaside
pitcher) was on fi re tonight.
She had some amazing
pitches. Erin (Owsley)
made an amazing stop on a
big line drive. We were defi -
nitely a little rusty at the
start, but came out of it.”
The Warrenton base-
ball team will eventually
make its return, as the War-
riors scheduled a game with
Ilwaco for Wednesday.
“I was pleased with the
way the guys responded”
at Tuesday’s postponement,
Wolfe said. “We’re going to
look at it in a positive way.
Even if we have to play a lot
of games in a short amount
of time, we’re going to be
playing. If we have to play
six games in six days or
less, so what? I don’t think
we’ll ever take it for granted
again.
“It’s what we say every
year: the biggest thing to
play for is fun. Maybe we’ll
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TOP: Astoria’s Halle
Helmersen and Mercedes
Walter yell at pitcher Emma
Biederman to throw the ball
to fi rst base. LEFT: Seaside
pitcher Gracie Rhodes winds
up. BELOW LEFT: Helmersen
connects with a pitch.
Photos by Hailey Hoff man/
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appreciate it more. More
than ever before, people are
just happy to get back out
there again.”
The games
In baseball action, Asto-
ria and Seaside opened 2021
with a Clatsop Clash at
Broadway Field, where the
Gulls scored their third win
in the last four meetings,
also giving new coach Brett
Wolfe a victory in his Sea-
side debut. It was career win
No. 495 for Wolfe, after 494
at North Medford.
Seaside had an inside-
the-park home run from
Jarred White in the fi rst
inning, a three-run double
by Andrew Teubner in the
second, and a solo inside-
the-park HR from Riley
Kuhl in the fi fth.
Shortstop Lawson Tala-
mantez turned in a few web
gems, as did Kuhl behind the
plate in the seventh inning.
In a Northwest League
game at Gaston, Knappa ral-
lied from a 6-3 defi cit after
fi ve innings to top the Grey-
hounds, 10-9.
In softball, Seaside
topped Astoria 16-12, snap-
ping a string of 13 straight
Astoria wins going back to
2015.
The Lady Gulls led 11-5
after four innings, then
held off a rally by the Lady
Fishermen.
Seaside’s Erin Owsley
was 3-for-3 with four runs
scored, four RBIs and a
home run.
Emma Taylor and Ila
Bowles were each 2-for-4.
Elsewhere,
Willamina
won 13-4 at Warrenton, and
Gaston defeated Knappa
16-13 in NWL action at
Knappa. Hannah Dietrichs
led the Loggers with three
doubles and four RBIs, and
allowed seven hits with 11
strikeouts.
On the track, the Asto-
ria Fishermen held their fi rst
meet of the season Monday
— against themselves —
and junior Colton McMas-
ter set the fi rst of what will
likely be several school
records this spring, with a
throw of 183 feet, 7 inches
in the discus. The mark shat-
tered the previous record of
165-3, held by Jason Thiel
for over 30 years.
Bus route: ‘We want to get the message out that we’re safe’
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“The idea is the individ-
ual agencies after that fi rst
round would have to oper-
ate it on their own,” he said.
“Well, because of the pan-
demic … we were never
able to build the ridership
to what its potential could
have been in that two years,
and develop the funding for
it.”
The
state
provided
$60,000 for Sunset Empire
to hire a consultant to work
on a marketing plan.
“As we come out of the
pandemic, we want to get
the message out that we’re
safe,” Hazen said. “We’ve
done everything that we can
to protect our drivers and
riders.”
The marketing plan
could include a rebranding,
Hazen said, such as when
the agency went by the
moniker The Bus.
County reports eight
new virus cases
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The state will provide $784,000 to help keep the Lower
Columbia Connector going between Astoria and Portland for
at least two more years.
“Sunset Empire Trans-
portation District is really
a long name,” he said. “So
what can we do to brand it?
Tillamook County Trans-
portation District, they’re
The Wave. They go by The
Wave. Their logo has a
wave incorporated in it.”
The Tillamook transit
agency received $598,000
on behalf of NW Connec-
tor, a partnership between
bus providers on the North
Coast to provide better tran-
sit regionally, to build three
new stops in Clatsop, Tilla-
mook and Lincoln counties.
They include a new stop
at Ensign Lane and U.S.
Highway 101 with a ded-
icated pullout for buses, a
large shelter, bike racks and
a repair station with pres-
surized air and basic tools.
Hazen estimated the stop
could cost around $250,000.
Hazen
said
Sunset
Empire could be in line for
more grant money, includ-
ing up to $500,000 in federal
stimulus becoming avail-
able in July that he hopes
to use to transport people
receiving coronavirus vac-
cines. The state has still not
decided on how to distribute
the money received from
the most recent $1.9 trillion
American Rescue Plan , he
said, but the transit district
will be seeing even more
funding from that stimulus.
“There’s going to be a lot
of money coming, a signifi -
cant amount of money,” he
said.
Clatsop County has reported eight new corona-
virus cases over the past few days.
On Wednesday, the county reported four cases.
The cases include a male under 10 and a woman
in her 60s living in the northern part of the county.
The others live in the southern part of the county
and involve a woman in her 30s and a woman in
her 60s.
All four were recovering at home.
On Tuesday, the county reported four cases.
The cases include a man in his 20s and a woman
in her 80s living in the northern part of the county.
The others live in the southern part of the county
and involve a male between 10 and 19 and a man
in his 60s.
One person was hospitalized and the others were
recovering at home.
The county has recorded 874 cases since the
start of the pandemic. According to the county, 21
were hospitalized and eight have died.
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The college was in the
process of notifying oth-
ers who may have come
into contact with the two
employees and coordinat-
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Public Health Department.
“The college is still open,
but we won’t have any indi-
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