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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2021
SPORTS
Astoria softball scores fi rst victory
The Astorian
Bill Monroe/The Oregonian
Central Oregon coast anglers will see nearly a sixfold increase in hatchery coho salmon fi shing
this year over last.
Off shore anglers could
see more hatchery coho
By BILL MONROE
The Oregonian
Despite declines in some salmon runs from
Washington state, the lower Columbia River
and N orthern California, off shore anglers will
see substantially more hatchery coho fi shing
this year over last, especially along the c entral
Oregon Coast.
State and federal biologists completed a
grueling weeklong spring session Wednesday
afternoon after intense discussions about how
to balance an abundant coho salmon predic-
tion with diminishing returns of other stocks
in several rivers.
Still pending are summer and fall regula-
tions on the Columbia River. Those are typi-
cally announced by Washington and Oregon
in late April or early May.
The following ocean salmon seasons were
adopted by the Pacifi c Fishery Management
Council, but must still be approved by the
National Marine Fisheries Service:
• Leadbetter Point, Washington, to Cape
Falcon near Manzanita (mouth of Columbia):
June 19 to June 26, no coho, one C hinook per
day, seven days per week. June 27 to Sept. 15
or until quota of 42,400 hatchery coho (13,250
last year), two salmon per day, but only one
may be a C hinook, seven days per week.
Managers expect anglers to catch 80,000
coho at Buoy 10 in August and September.
• Cape Falcon to Humbug Mountain (c en-
tral Coast): Currently open for C hinook. All
salmon June 12 to Aug. 28 or until hatchery
quota of 120,000 (22,000 last year in a shorter
season). Any coho Sept. 10 to Sept. 12 and
each Friday, Saturday, Sunday to Sept. 30 or
until quota of 14,000 (4,650 last year). Chi-
nook open through Oct. 31.
• Humbug Mountain to Oregon/Califor-
nia border: June 12 to June 18 for hatchery
coho (no C hinook) under the south-of-Falcon
hatchery quota of 120,000. June 19 to Aug.
15 all salmon unless coho quota is reached,
coho must be hatchery. Aug. 16 to Aug. 28 all
salmon (no C hinook) but coho must be hatch-
ery. All salmon fi shing closes Aug. 28 or when
the south-of-falcon coho quota is reached.
Managers said in-season changes are possible.
The Astoria softball team picked up its
fi rst win of the season Saturday, a 3-2 Cow-
apa League victory at Tillamook.
Emma Biederman’s single in the top of
the eighth scored Tenley Matteucci from
third with the eventual game-winning run,
helping the Fishermen improve to 1-2 on the
season.
Biederman went the distance in the circle,
allowing seven hits with fi ve strikeouts and
two walks. Tillamook pitcher Torrin Rich-
ardson gave up 10 hits and struck out four
with one walk.
Matteucci led Astoria at the plate with
a pair of triples and two runs scored, while
Mollie Matthews and Shelby Rasmussen
each had two hits. Halle Helmersen had a
double, and Biederman had two RBI’s for
Astoria, which has three games this week,
including road contests at Valley Catholic
and Seaside.
Tillamook (0-2) had three doubles and
three triples.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
TUESDAY
Baseball — Clatskanie at Warrenton, 4:30 p.m.; Knappa at
Neah-Kah-Nie, 4:30 p.m.
Softball — Warrenton at Clatskanie, 4:30 p.m.; Neah-Kah-Nie
at Knappa, 4:30 p.m.
Girls Golf — Astoria at Tillamook, 11 a.m.
WEDNESDAY
Baseball — Banks at Seaside, 5 p.m.
Softball — Yamhill-Carlton at Astoria, 4:30 p.m.; Seaside at
Banks, 5 p.m.
ers Mia McFadden and Avyree Miethe
allowed 13 hits with seven strikeouts, while
the Warrior defense committed eight errors.
Miethe drew four walks, had three stolen
bases and scored four runs, and Kaylee Poe
drove in four runs for Warrenton.
Naselle’s Kylee Tarabochia, Mia Watson
and Paul had three hits apiece, with Tarab-
ochia belting a home run and scoring four
runs. Watson had a triple, and scored three
runs with four RBI’s.
Knappa, Gaston split twinbill
Naselle 16, Warrenton 11
Naselle led 13-6 after just three
innings, then held on for a 16-11 non-
league softball win Friday afternoon over
Warrenton.
Comet pitchers Brynn Tarabochia and
Courtney Paul only gave up four hits,
but walked 10, while Warrenton pitch-
Knappa and Gaston split a North-
west League softball doubleheader Friday
at Gaston, with the Loggers winning the
league contest, 7-5, before the Greyhounds
answered with a 30-8 win in the nonleague
second game.
The Loggers can move into fi rst place
with a sweep over Neah-Kah-Nie this week.
Tillamook baseball slips past Astoria, 3-2
The Astorian
Loggers sweep Gaston
Tillamook had just two hits, but took
advantage of three Astoria errors and a
two-run fi fth inning to score a 3-2 victory
over the Fishermen in a Cowapa League
baseball game Saturday at Tapiola Park.
Astoria grabbed a 2-1 lead in the bot-
tom of the fourth when Niko Boudreau sin-
gled to score Tony Tumbarello and Gun-
nar Olson.
The Fishermen had seven hits, includ-
ing doubles from Aiden Giles and Michael
Moore, but stranded 11 runners in seven
innings.
Tumbarello reached base four times,
drawing two walks and two hit by pitch.
Moore and Boudreau combined on the
mound to limit Tillamook to just two hits,
with 11 strikeouts and four walks.
Astoria has home games this week vs.
Valley Catholic (Monday) and Seaside
(Friday), both at Tapiola Park.
Knappa completed a three-game sweep
over Gaston for the week, with a pair of
wins Friday at Knappa, 8-4 and 16-6.
The Loggers wrapped up the fi rst game
with seven runs in the third inning.
Three pitchers (Drew Miller, Logan
Morrill, Jaxon Dietrichs) did the rest, limit-
ing the Greyhounds to just two hits, with 11
strikeouts and seven walks. Miller pitched
four innings for the victory.
Camo Miethe and Treven Moreland
each had two hits for the Loggers, who had
seven steals and drew 10 walks.
In Game 2, Knappa led 6-2 after two
innings, and tacked on 10 runs in the fourth.
Kutter Ball had a double and a triple
as part of a 12-hit attack, while pitchers
Mark Miller and Nick Rusinovich gave up
just three hits with eight strikeouts and 10
walks in the fi ve-inning win.
Knappa has three games vs. Neah-Kah-
Nie this week.
DEL’S O.K. TIRE
Kai Brown teaches soccer players at a Portland Timbers youth camp.
Brown: ‘There isn’t a lot of
recreational soccer stuff out here’
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Brown recently accepted a job change for
next school year, when she will l ead the phys-
ical education department at Jewell .
For now, she still teaches the young ones,
then after school works with the high jumpers
for the school’s track teams.
In her fi nal two years at Seaside High
School, Brown (Class of 2011) qualifi ed for
state in the high jump and long jump, but soc-
cer was her fi rst love.
She went to Southwestern Oregon Com-
munity College in Coos Bay, with a scholar-
ship to compete in soccer and track.
Her father and biggest fan, Art Davidson,
died midway through her freshman year and
she returned home.
“I only did soccer because my dad passed
away right after the fi rst season,” said Brown,
who had already lost her mother at a very
young age. “It’s kind of cool that he got to see
me play at least a season of college soccer.”
Brown transferred to Clark College in
Vancouver, Washington, where she was also
on a soccer and track scholarship, and com-
peted in both sports.
At one point in her soccer career, she
suff ered a posterior cruciate ligament knee
injury, but continued to compete with a knee
brace.
From there, Brown spent fi ve summers
working for the annual Portland Timbers
youth camp.
“I still kick it around by myself, since we
live near Broadway P ark, but unless you go
to Portland, there isn’t a lot of recreational
soccer stuff out here,” she said of the North
Coast. “Which is unfortunate. I try to stay in
shape as much as I can. I went to the Seaside
soccer game against Astoria, and as soon as I
walked in, I had several people ask me when
I’m going to be coaching.”
In fact, her coach — the girls’ coach at
Seaside — Dave Rouse, “is trying to get me
to help out next season,” Brown said.
Brown eventually received a bachelor’s
degree in education at Washington State Uni-
versity — she’s still a big Cougars fan — and
earned a master’s degree in c urriculum and
i nstruction online from Western Governors
University.
Brown married two years ago. Her hus-
band works for the Seaside Police Depart-
ment, as does her brother, David.
For now, Kai and her husband have no
plans of leaving the North Coast.
“My brother lives here, my sister
(Amanda) is thinking about moving out here.
My brother has two kids, and so it’s nice
being an aunt to my nephew and niece.”
At 22, Brown learned that she had another
brother, living in California.
“My dad passed away without knowing,”
she said. “He works on rockets in California,
in the Mojave Desert. He’s like the brains of
the family.”
Since class sizes at Jewell School are much
smaller, Brown has been teaching in-person
since September. Needless to say, it’s been
a long year because of the coronavirus pan-
demic, and she’s looking forward to summer.
“I’m going to Las Vegas for a confer-
ence when school gets out,” he said. “After
that, I have a travel bug of going to diff erent
countries.”
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