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THE ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2022
SPORTS
Braves defeat
Gulls, pull into
fi rst-place tie
The Astorian
The Banks boys basket-
ball team held Seaside to its
fewest points in a game in
over seven years Tuesday
night, as the Braves limited
the Gulls’ high-powered
off ense to just 11 points in
the fi rst half, on their way to
a 47-32 win over Seaside.
The
No.
9-ranked
Braves pulled into a tie
atop the league stand-
ings with the No. 4-ranked
Gulls, now both 6-1. If both
teams win Thursday (Sea-
side at Astoria, Tillamook
at Banks), the Braves and
Gulls would play a one-
game tiebreaker Saturday,
and Astoria would lock up
the No. 3 seed in the Cow-
apa League, without having
to play a league playoff .
An early 3-pointer by
Carson Kawasoe gave the
Gulls their only lead of the
night at 3-2, as Banks reeled
off the next nine points for
an 11-3 advantage.
Seaside fought back to
within 11-9, but baskets
by Cooper Gobel and Ben
Mayo helped the Braves on
an 18-2 run.
Kawasoe made three
3-pointers for a team-high
nine points, while Charlie
White led Banks with 13.
Astoria Swimming
The Astoria swim team, including 15 state qualifi ers, following last week’s district meet.
Multiple state qualifi ers for
Astoria, Seaside swim teams
By GARY HENLEY
The Astorian
There were no team cham-
pionships for the locals, but
the Astoria and Seaside swim
teams will both be sending a
busload of athletes to the state
meet, Friday and Saturday at
Tualatin Hills Aquatic Center
in Beaverton.
Newport collected both
team championship trophies
Saturday, on the fi nal day of
the District 1/4A swim meet,
held at the Astoria Aquatic
Center.
The Cubs won the girls’
title with 267 points, well
ahead of Valley Catho-
lic (175) and Astoria (154);
while the Newport boys
racked up 233 points to edge
Taft (227), with Seaside (222)
placing third, followed by
Astoria (206).
The Astoria Fish qualifi ed
15 swimmers for the state
meet, including all three boys
relay teams and two girls,
while Seaside will also send
all three boys relay teams,
with three boys competing in
individual events.
This year’s state meet will
be a fi nals-only event, with no
preliminaries, which means
fewer qualifying swimmers
from district meets. Only
fi rst-place swimmers and
qualifying times advance to
state.
“Even though we didn’t
have any automatic qualifi ers,
it was a great meet,” said Sea-
side coach Shane Spell, whose
boys team fi nished third at
state last season. “The kids
really rose up to the occasion.”
Astoria had two fi rst place
swims Saturday, as junior
Emelia Cameron won the
100-yard freestyle in 1 min-
ute .98 seconds; and the boys’
200-yard freestyle relay four-
some of Finn Bizzell, Dylan
Farrell, Phelan Dopp and Ste-
phen Ero took fi rst in 1:42,
ahead of second-place Sea-
side (1:45.63).
The rest of the Astoria and
Seaside state qualifi ers took
the wild-card route to state.
Sophomore Hannah Dan-
iels was third in the 500-
yard freestyle in 5:54.79, a
state-qualifying mark.
Cameron and Daniels will
also compete at state along
with Brooke O’Connor and
Sydney Ferrero on Astoria’s
400-yard freestyle relay team,
which took third in 4:34.75.
In the boys 200-yard med-
ley relay, Newport won in
1:48.62, while Seaside (Leif
Rehnert, Sam Heroux, Logan
Dennis, Liam Matlock) took
third in 1:57.01, and Asto-
ria (Dopp, Bizzell, Trevor
Newman, Ero) was fourth
in 1:58.06. Both times were
good enough to advance to
state.
And in a very fast 400-
yard freestyle relay, won by
Newport in 3:32.15, Sea-
side (Dennis, Matlock, Reh-
nert, Sean Olea) was third in
3:53.33, and Astoria (New-
man, Farrell, Christian Wom-
ack, Jacob Peeler) was fi fth
out of six teams, but still
qualifi ed for state.
The Seaside boys will send
all three relay squads to state,
while other wild card qualifi -
ers included Dennis (100 but-
terfl y, 1:01.72), Heroux (100
breaststroke, 1:12.88) and
Rehnert, a student at Warren-
ton High School (100 back-
stroke, 1:04.24).
For the Lady Gulls,
“Gabriela Tapia placed really
well in the 200 IM and 100
fl y, a tough combination
without a lot of rest between,”
Spell said. “Emma Arden
dropped three seconds in her
100 free and had some great
relay anchors. Just a wonder-
ful way for her to wrap up her
swim career.”
Seaside also had “some
big time drops by some of
our outgoing seniors,” Spell
said, citing Morgan Houston,
Justin Hallock, Aiden Ousley
and Elliot Ousley.
“Ty Olea had a great meet
and got fourth in the 100
back,” he said. “And Sean
Olea had a great swim in the
100 breaststroke to help Sea-
side go two-three.”
Spell added, “It’s been a
great season. The team has
really battled through some
challenges with illness, injury
and missed pool time. I’m
excited for one more chance
for some of the guys to go fast
at state. Last year’s state fi n-
ish was great, but this one is
a notch up. It’s just diff erent.
Qualifying against the tradi-
tional competition and with-
out ever having a meet where
our full squad was available,
is just a great indicator of
their perseverance and belief
in each other to rise up when
needed.”
Astoria, Seaside wrestlers qualify for state
The Astorian
Three Seaside wres-
tlers and one from Astoria
will compete in the upcom-
ing 4A state meet held Feb.
25 and Feb. 26 at Cascade
High School.
As usual, Tillamook was
the big winner in the District
1/4A state qualifi er meet, as
the Cheesemakers racked
up 401.5 points, ahead of
second place Banks (280).
Seaside was sixth and
Astoria eighth out of the
eight teams.
Seaside senior Everett
Rollins was the individual
champion at 160 pounds,
where he scored deci-
sions over two Tillamook
wrestlers.
After byes in the fi rst
round and the quarterfi -
Lisa Hofmann
Astoria’s regional district competitors, including Will Hofmann
(back row, second from left), who took second at 285 pounds
to qualify for the state meet.
nals, Rollins had a 7-3 deci-
sion over Austin Bosch in
a semifi nal, then defeated
Gilbert Whitlatch with a
14-5 major decision in the
fi nal.
Seaside senior Johnathon
Kenenounis was second at
120, scoring pins over Jace
Thompson of Banks (1:21)
in the quarterfi nals and Til-
lamook’s Lucas Robert-
son in a semifi nal (1:15),
before Tillamook’s David
Weathers won by fall (2:09)
over Kenenounis in the
championship.
Elsewhere,
Seaside
senior Lawson Talamantez
qualifi ed for state, taking
fourth at 220.
Talamantez lost a semi-
fi nal match to Tillamook’s
Jackson Contreras, then
bounced back with a con-
solation pin over Wood-
burn’s Axel Avendano
(2:39), before losing by
injury default in the third
place match, then winning
the fourth place match by
no contest over Avendano.
Competing
at
285
pounds, Astoria sophomore
Will Hofmann placed sec-
ond with wins in the quarter-
fi nals over Seaside’s Logan
McCaully (by fall, 54 sec-
onds) and Luke Bigsby (by
fall, 1:45) in the semifi nals,
before Estacada’s Devin
Gotchall pinned Hofmann
in the fi nal in 1:48.
Hofmann accounted for
22 of Astoria’s 35 points,
and will be the only Fisher-
men competing at state.
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In their last meeting as
members of the same league,
Banks turned an 8-6 defi cit
into a 28-10 halftime lead,
and the Braves cruised to a
43-18 win over the Gulls in
a Cowapa League girls bas-
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