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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2021
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SCOREBOARD
WEEKEND SCORES
OREGON FOOTBALL
La Pine 30, Warrenton 8
WASHINGTON FOOTBALL
SPORTS EXTRA
Mitchell to compete at
NCAA championships
By NEIL BRANSON
For The Astorian
Naselle 64, Waterville/Mansfi eld 12
LA PINE 30, WARRENTON 8
La Pine
0
8
16
6—30
Warrenton
8
0
0
0—8
First Quarter
WAR: Dylon Atwood 20 run (Josh Earls from Hordie
Bodden Bodden) 10:02
Second Quarter
LaP: Dawson Cook 14 run (Adrian Boysha run) 2:26
Third Quarter
LaP: Haakon Hanson 20 pass from Colton Campbell
(Campbell run)
LaP: Dylan Hankey 6 run (Hankey from Campbell) 1:00
Fourth Quarter
LaP: Cook 2 run (run failed) 5:35
La Pine Statistics
Rushing: Hankey 17-112, Campbell 18-88, Cook 8-45,
Boysha 7-29, Hanson 1-5. Passing: Campbell 5-6-88-0.
Receiving: Hanson 3-58, Cook 1-16, Brown 1-14.
Warrenton Statistics
Rushing: Atwood 10-49, Bodden Bodden 6-28. Pass-
ing: Bodden Bodden 12-23-129-1. Receiving: Little
4-30, Earls 3-22, Ulness 2-18, Campbell 1-40, Caldwell
1-17, Atwood 1-7.
3A Quarterfi nals
Siuslaw 28, Cascade Christian 23
La Pine 30, Warrenton 8
South Umpqua 28, Santiam Christian 8
Vale 14, Rainier 6
Oregon State University redshirt sopho-
more Kaylee Mitchell, a standout cross-coun-
try and track athlete for Astoria High School
from 2014 to 2016, will be running at the
NCAA cross-country championships.
Mitchell fi nished 12th at the West Regional
in Sacramento on Friday.
Fellow Oregon State redshirt sophomore
Grace Fetherstonhaugh placed 14th, and with
Mitchell the two earned All-Region honors.
In team standings, Oregon State fi nished
seventh with 206 points.
Mitchell’s 6K time of 20:15.8 was a per-
sonal best and tied Juliana Mount’s from 2018
for the highest individual fi nish at the West
Regional by an Oregon State runner.
Mitchell is set to compete Saturday at
the NCAA championships in Tallahassee,
Florida.
Mitchell earned fi rst team all-conference
honors with her sixth-place fi nish at the Pac-
12 cross-country championships.
The meet, held Oct. 29, was hosted by the
University of Utah in Salt Lake City, where
Mitchell led the Beavers to a sixth-place team
fi nish.
Starting off at a controlled pace, Mitchell
came through the fi rst of three two-kilometers
laps in 28th place (6:50.5), then moved up to
seventh at four kilometers (13.48.9).
Mitchell said the altitude of 4,226 feet was
“starting to get to me,” yet she kept her focus
and persevered to move up one more place
to fi nish in 20 minutes, 51.7 seconds for the
six-kilometer race.
The time was less than 30 seconds off her
personal best of the season that was run at the
much lower altitude in Eugene, where she
competed in the steeplechase in last summer’s
Olympic t rials.
Colorado placed four runners in the top
fi ve to win the team title with 24 points, ahead
of Utah (52).
Oregon State University
Former Astoria High School runner Kaylee
Mitchell, competing in the Pac-12 cross-
country championships in Salt Lake City.
Ilwaco
runner
retains
state title
Quintana adapts strategy,
kicks hard to secure win
By PATRICK WEBB
Chinook Observer
Photos by Lydia Ely/The Astorian
Players celebrate junior Dylon Atwood’s early touchdown during Warrenton’s 30-8 loss to La Pine on Saturday at CMH Field.
Warrenton season ends in loss to La Pine
By GARY HENLEY
The Astorian
arrenton’s fi rst off ensive play
from scrimmage Saturday after-
noon was a 20-yard touchdown
run by Dylon Atwood. The next 42 plays
for the Warriors? No points, and the high-
lights were few and far between.
Meanwhile, the fi rst two possessions
for the La Pine Hawks resulted in a snap
over the punter’s head and a lost fumble.
After that, however, it was all La Pine
in a 3A state quarterfi nal football game
at CMH Field.
Trailing 8-0 after one quarter, fi fth-
ranked La Pine reeled off 30 unanswered
points to score a 30-8 win over fourth-
ranked Warrenton.
The Hawks clinched a spot in the
semifi nals later this week against No.
1-ranked Siuslaw, while an otherwise
great season came to a close for the War-
riors, who fi nish 7-3 overall.
“It was a tough one for us, and give
credit to La Pine,” said Warrenton coach
Ian O’Brien. “They are a great football
team. I’m proud of our kids and coaches
this year in what we accomplished. I
want to thank our players, coaches, play-
ers’ families and the entire community of
Warrenton for supporting these kids.”
The start to Saturday’s game could
not have been better for the Warriors.
After a fourth down snap by the
Hawks sailed over the head of punter
Dylan Hankey, the Warriors cashed in on
the very next play, a TD run by Atwood.
The Hawks ran the ball well in the
fi rst quarter. Hanging on to it, however,
was the problem, as La Pine had four
fumbles in the fi rst half, losing two.
The Hawks overcame the odds by
completing a 14-play, 97-yard drive
(with two fumbles, both recovered by La
Pine) near the end of the fi rst half for an
8-8 tie at halftime.
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Warrenton senior Josh Earls avoids a La Pine player during Saturday’s game.
On the fi rst possession of the sec-
ond half, Warrenton drove to the La Pine
23-yard line, before an incomplete pass
on fourth down ended the drive.
From there, the Hawks’ power run
game took over.
La Pine put together a 12-play,
77-yard march, capped by Colton
Campbell’s 20-yard scoring pass to Haa-
kon Hanson. Campbell ran for the two-
point conversion, and the Hawks never
looked back.
Two plays later, La Pine’s Kadin Yea-
ger recovered a fumble at the Warrenton
6-yard line, where Hankey ran it in for
the Hawks’ second touchdown in a span
of 64 seconds and a 24-8 lead.
La Pine had fi ve straight runs over
nine yards each on a fourth quarter drive,
fi nishing with a 2-yard TD run by Daw-
son Cook.
Warrenton’s ground game (16 carries,
77 yards) was shut down by La Pine,
while Hordie Bodden Bodden managed
to complete 12-of-23 passes to six diff er-
ent receivers for 129 yards, in the fi nal
prep game of his career for the senior
quarterback.
The Hawks had 279 yards rushing on
51 carries.
“I’m disappointed in the result, but
I’m excited about the future of War-
renton football,” said O’Brien, who
will have several key players return-
ing next season. “Our seniors are leav-
ing this program in a better place and
they have left their legacy. They brought
together a community and gave Warren-
ton its fi rst ever playoff victory at the 3A
level. I know they wanted more, but they
should be very proud of what they have
achieved.”
PASCO, Wash. — Daniel Quintana
of Ilwaco returned to the Washington
Interscholastic Activities Association
state cross-country meet as defending
2B champion earlier this month .
And 16 minutes, 30.9 seconds later,
he was climbing atop the podium grin-
ning broadly with the first-place medal
back around his neck.
“I got to defend my title!” the senior
exclaimed, noting that he felt consid-
erable pressure from people asking
him throughout the sea-
son if he was going to
be able to repeat.
He praised his coach,
Sarah Taylor. “There
are days when I am not
super motivated and
she makes you feel bet-
Daniel
ter,” he said. “I never
Quintana
thought I was going
to accomplish all this
stuff.”
His preferred running style through
most of his three-year cross-country
career has been to stay with the front
half-dozen and rely on an explosive
kick to win.
That pattern was abandoned at the
Sun Willows Golf Course on Nov. 6
when the 112 runners settled into a
slower pace.
Quintana found himself in front,
accompanied only by sophomore Will
Halpin of Liberty Bell.
They traded places for a brief period
mid-race, but as they raced downhill
to the finish, Quintana was six seconds
ahead.
The pandemic delayed the 2020
season to a curtailed schedule con-
cluding with a district meet in spring
2021. There was no in-person state
meet. Instead, the top runners raced
on their home tracks and their coaches
submitted times; Quintana’s was the
fastest.
At Pasco, Quintana was mobbed by
media wanting interviews and runners
congratulating him on his accomplish-
ment as he made his way from the fin-
ish line to the medal ceremony.
Assistant coach Crystal Bell noted
that Quintana’s off-the-cuff strategy
helped secure the medal. “He kicked
at the perfect moment,” she said.
Another Ilwaco senior, Logan
Simonson, placed 81st in 19:14.60.
In the girls’ 2B race, senior Emma
Brundage, whose goal was a top-20
finish, placed 17th in 21:31.0. Class-
mate Sabrina Lessenden was 24th in a
time of 21:46.0.
The 2B girls’ team trophy was
retained by Pope John Paul II High
School of Lacey ; team winners for
boys were Halpin’s Liberty Bell of
Winthrop .