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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 2021
SPORTS
Seaside boys swim to third place at state
By GARY HENLEY
The Astorian
The Seaside boys swim
team took home a third place
win in the team standings for
the 4A meet held Saturday in
Cottage Grove.
The Gulls racked up 172
points in the pool to fi n-
ish behind Marshfi eld (227)
and Marist (217). The Asto-
ria boys were 17th with 26
points.
Newport won the girls
team title with 288 points,
with Astoria 12th (46). Swim-
mers from Taft and Valley
Catholic — some of whom
won district titles — did not
participate in the state meet.
“I think we all had a bit
of nerves during warm ups,”
said Seaside coach Shane
Spell. “It was hot, the pool
was warmer than they are
used to competing in, so it
felt pretty draining. But it was
clear (the Seaside boys) were
ready to go after the fi rst few
events.”
Highlighting the meet
was a state championship for
the 200-yard freestyle relay
team of Masyn McCulloch,
Leif Rehnert, Logan Dennis
Seaside Swimming
mer and relay beat their seed
time, without exception. We
wanted to drive away know-
ing they had given all they
had, and they did. A crazy
abbreviated season with a
great fi nish.”
The next swim season is
just fi ve months away.
“Next season will be even
more competitive, and we’ll
aim to get both guys and girls
pushed through to the offi cial
state championships,” he said.
Seaside coach Shane Spell, right, stands with his third place
boys swim team, following Saturday’s fi nal meet.
and Henry Garvin. The four-
some fi nished in 1 minute,
38.78 seconds to edge Marist
(1:39.17).
“I would say the 200 free
relay is the one we really had
our eyes on, as being able to
get some hardware,” Spell
said. “And the guys did not
disappoint. We went in as a
third seed, but they dropped
over three seconds to edge out
Marist.”
McCulloch “had some
rest after the 500 and came
back with a nice leadoff leg,”
Spell said. “Leif Rehnert and
Logan Dennis put us in good
position for the anchor leg,
and Henry Garvin fi nished off
his high school swim career
with an outstanding 50 for the
team victory.”
Seaside added points with
a third place 400-yard free-
style relay in 3:48.41 with
Rehnert, McCulloch, Sean
Olea and Dennis, while
Garvin was fourth in the
50-yard freestyle (24.05).
The boys’ 200-yard med-
ley relay was fi fth in 1:54.70,
and Shawn Collins took fi fth
in the 100-yard backstroke
(1:04.59).
“We really couldn’t have
asked for much more,” Spell
said. “Every single swim-
Astoria girls 12th
The points were hard to
come by for the Astoria girls.
Senior Grace Peeler had
the highlight swim, break-
ing her own school record
set a week earlier for a sec-
ond-place fi nish in the 100-
yard breaststroke (1:12.55,
down from 1:15.47).
Astoria’s 200 freestyle
relay (Peeler, Brooke O’Con-
nor, Constance Rouda, Tori
Smith) took sixth in 2:00.65.
The Astoria boys 400
freestyle team (Jack Col-
quhoun, Cody Crisp, Jacob
Peeler, Trevor Newman) —
which fi nished fi fth at dis-
tricts — took seventh at state
in 4:21.16.
Warrenton
wrestlers place
seventh at state
The Astorian
The Warrenton Warriors
continue to climb the 3A
wrestling ladder, as the team
compiled 65 points Satur-
day to fi nish seventh in the
fi nal meet of the season,
held Saturday at Redmond
High School.
That’s up 37 points and
six spots from the 2020
state meet — which was
expected, since the Warriors
were competing with twice
as many wrestlers than they
did last season.
The only team with more
wrestlers than the Warriors
was La Pine, which won
the team championship with
149.5 points.
Five of the top seven
teams in Saturday’s state
meet were from District 2,
as Willamina placed sec-
ond with 107 points, fol-
lowed by Rainier (third, 92),
Dayton (fourth, 88), Yam-
hill-Carlton (sixth, 66) and
Warrenton (seventh).
The trend for the War-
riors on Saturday was wres-
tlers falling short in the
semifi nals and fi nishing
fourth in the fi nal consola-
tion round.
“Joy, anguish and pride
all wrapped up in one tour-
nament,” was the way War-
renton coach Corey Conant
described the one-day event,
in which the Warriors had
fi ve state placers, all fourth.
The seventh-place team
fi nish matches Warrenton’s
best since the 2000 to 2001
season.
OBITUARIES
Sanford Thomas Hill
BOYS BASKETBALL
Knappa earns fourth in fi nal tournament
The Astorian
With just one senior on the
roster, fi ve all-league start-
ers returning next year, and a
convincing fourth-place fi n-
ish this season, the Knappa
Loggers have defi nitely set
themselves up to be one of
the 2A boys basketball favor-
ites in 2022.
In the fourth-place game
in this year’s fi nal tourna-
ment, Knappa crushed West-
ern Christian, 68-50, to earn
the championship in the con-
solation side of the bracket.
Salem Academy won Sat-
urday’s championship game
over Columbia Christian,
49-36.
Knappa’s
fourth-place
showing was the highest fi n-
ish for the Loggers since tak-
ing third during the 2010
to 2011 season, when they
defeated Enterprise 70-56 in
the third/fi fth place game.
After a 55-33 loss at
Salem Academy in Wednes-
day’s quarterfi nal round, the
Loggers bounced back with a
72-47 win over Jeff erson Fri-
day in a consolation semifi nal
at Sisters Middle School.
After scoring just two
points in the quarterfi nal
loss, Logan Morrill scored 27
points and dominated at both
ends of the fl oor.
In Saturday’s consola-
tion fi nal at Ridgeview High
School in Redmond, “The
guys played their best off en-
sive game of the season,”
said Knappa coach Paul
Isom. “Brandon Gale led us
with 28,” which included six
3-pointers.
In addition, “Logan once
again controlled the paint
and ended with 18,” he said.
“Defensively was just an all-
out team eff ort. Our guards,
Tanner (Jackson), Nicolai
(Ogier), Drew (Miller) and
Shane (McMahan) made
every entry pass diffi cult
and were able to get a num-
ber of defl ections and steals,”
which “helped us slow their
extremely talented post
down. He ended with 16, but
everything was diffi cult.”
“Great way to end the
season, and a great build-
ing block heading into next
year,” Isom said. “Couldn’t
be more proud of this team.”
Astoria, Seaside
wrap up season
The Astoria and Sea-
side boys basketball teams
quietly closed out the 2021
sports season with a four-day
tournament at Seaside High
School.
The Fishermen fi nished
the tournament Sunday
morning with a 60-38 win
over Faith Bible.
Colton McMaster —
unstoppable throughout the
tournament — scored 32
points for Astoria, which led
33-11 at halftime.
On Saturday, the Fish-
ermen defeated Tillamook
51-34, behind 16 points
apiece from McMaster and
freshman Merrick Benesch.
Friday night, Seaside’s
Cash Corder scored 17 points
and Ruger Thompson added
15 for the Gulls in a 57-40
win over Astoria, which was
within six points in the fourth
quarter.
McMaster — who scored
30 points in a win over
Nestucca to open the tourna-
ment on Thursday — scored
19 points, and Benesch added
18 for Astoria.
Astoria
June 14, 1937 — June 22, 2021
Sanford Thomas Hill over the U.S. and Alaska.
was born to Thomas and He retired in 1994, due to
Elsie Hill in Iowa City, illness.
He got a
Iowa. He is sur-
degree in art, and
vived by two
used his talent cre-
brothers, Tom
ating metal sculp-
and Danny, of
ture art in Santa
Iowa; his wife,
Cruz,
Califor-
Joyce; and eight
nia. He was well
grandchildren,
known for his
Rosario, Riley,
sense of humor
Jeff y,
Dexter,
and generosity.
Simon,
Ruby,
Sam died with
Zoey and Penny.
Sanford Hill
his wife by his
Sanford was
side. Sam and
known lovingly
Joyce moved to
as Sam.
Astoria in 2017.
Sam served
He loved the art
four years in
the U.S. Air Force. He community here.
No words can express
was in Japan in 1953.
After the Air Force, he the loss of Sam and his
became an iron worker smile. He will be greatly
and welder. He worked all missed.
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