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THE ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2022
SPORTS
PREP ROUNDUP
Loggers baseball opens
road trip with win
The Knappa Loggers opened their Ari-
zona road trip with an easy 18-0 win over
Copper Canyon of Glendale on Monday
afternoon.
Logger pitchers Jaxon Dietrichs, Logan
Morrill and Treven Moreland combined on
a three-hit shutout, with nine strikeouts and
no walks.
Knappa had 10 hits and eight stolen
bases, while four Copper Canyon pitchers
walked eight and hit seven batters.
Jim Poetsch
From left, Seaside golfers Madden Wunderlich,
Jesus Arcadia Farfan, Carter Perrigo, Carson Bates and Alex Arden.
SEASIDE BOYS GOLF
OPENS SEASON AT
THE DALLES INVITE
The Astorian
The Seaside boys golf team
teed off the 2022 season last week
at The Dalles Invitational, where
the Gulls, with a young lineup and
missing some regulars, fi nished
eighth.
The Dalles won the team title
with a 368, ahead of La Grande
(373). The Gulls were last among
the scoring teams with a 480. Miss-
ing top golfer Carson Kawasoe,
Seaside played with three sopho-
mores and two freshmen, three of
whom had never played 18 holes.
Sophomore Carson Bates led
the Gulls with a 108, followed by
sophomore Carter Perrigo (122)
and newcomers Jesus Arcadia Far-
fan (123), Madden Wunderlich
(127) and Alex Arden (129).
“Every journey begins with a
Buena Vista 7, Knappa 6
fi rst step, and today these young
guys took that fi rst step,” said Sea-
side coach Jim Poetsch. “It is not
a score we are used to seeing from
Seaside golf, but we are really
young and inexperienced. They
got their fi rst taste of tournament
play today.”
He added, “this group could
be very competitive if they put in
the time to get better. We’ve got at
least three years with this group
and a bunch of other young play-
ers back home that should lead to a
pretty good team in a year or two.”
By the end of the season, he
said, “we will be a lot better than
we were today. Of course adding
Carson Kawasoe into the mix will
help a ton.”
Seaside competes against Asto-
ria on March 29 at the Astoria Golf
& Country Club.
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
THURSDAY
Baseball — Seaside
at Challenger Classic,
Yreka, California.
FRIDAY
Baseball — Seaside
at Challenger Classic,
Yreka, California.
Softball — Seaside
Spring Break: Umatilla
vs. Seaside, noon; Union
Spring Bash: Warrenton
vs. Pilot Rock, 1 p.m.;
Warrenton vs. Burns,
5 p.m.
tiam Christian), 2 p.m.;
Warrenton at Santiam
Christian, 4 p.m.
Softball — Seaside
Spring Break: Stayton
vs. Seaside, noon; Rain-
ier vs. Seaside, 4 p.m.;
Union Spring Bash:
Warrenton vs. Bonanza,
9 a.m.; Warrenton vs.
Union/Cove, 1 p.m.
SATURDAY
Baseball — Seaside at
Challenger Classic, Yre-
ka, California; Monroe
vs. Warrenton (at San-
On Day 2 of their Arizona road trip, two
lead changes in the seventh inning resulted
in a 7-6 win for Buena Vista of Colorado.
The Demons entered the seventh inning
leading 5-4, but Knappa loaded the bases
with no outs, and scored the go-ahead runs
on a two-run double by Mark Miller.
Buena Vista managed to tie the game at
6-6 with a run in the bottom of the seventh
on a single and three hit batters, and with the
bases loaded and no outs, Buena Vista’s Seth
Moss stole home for the game-winning run.
Knappa pitchers Nick Rusinovich and
Morrill allowed six hits with nine strikeouts
and seven hit batters, while Cole Reavis of
Buena Vista went the distance, allowing 10
hits with two strikeouts, one walk and three
hit batters.
Moreland and Miller had three hits
apiece for the Loggers, with doubles by
Miller, Addison Pietila, Tanner Jackson and
Moreland.
Fishermen lose three
at Newport
The Newport baseball team scored its
second win over Astoria in four days on
Monday on Day 1 of the Newport Spring
Break tournament at Frank Wade Park.
Following an 8-2 win for the Cubs the
previous week at CMH Field, Newport
defeated the Fishermen 8-1 Monday night.
Two Cub pitchers combined on a one-hitter,
with nine strikeouts and eight walks.
Earlier in the day, Dallas defeated Asto-
ria 16-8.
Astoria’s Sven Johnson had two hits,
while the Dragons scored nine runs in the
top of the fi rst. The Fishermen cut the defi -
cit to 9-5 after two innings, but Dallas tacked
on four runs in the third and three in the
fourth. The teams combined for 21 hits in
the four-inning game.
Philomath defeated Astoria 17-2 on the
second day of the tournament. The Fisher-
men have a week off before hosting St. Hel-
ens on March 29.
Astoria softball on
four-game win streak
After dropping their fi rst two games of
the season, the Astoria softball has now won
four straight by a combined score of 74-7.
The Lady Fish are quickly showing they
will be one of the favorites at the 4A level,
as freshman pitcher Maddie Wilkin tossed a
pair of complete games Monday, while fresh-
men Nayomi Holmstedt and Shelby Bruney
are leading the off ensive charge at the plate.
Astoria’s four-game win streak started
last week with a 15-2 win over Corbett, and
continued Monday in the Newport Spring
Break tournament, with back-to-back wins
over Newport (24-3) and Marshfi eld (24-1)
at Yaquina View Elementary School.
Astoria pounded out 13 hits in Monday’s
opener, a 9 a.m. start vs. Newport.
Holmstedt was 2-for-3 in the leadoff spot,
with three runs scored and a triple. Bruney
had two doubles and fi nished 3-for-4 with
three runs scored, and also drove in three
runs.
At the plate, Wilkin was 2-for-2 with
three RBIs, while she gave up four hits with
six strikeouts and no walks.
Additional off ense was provided by
junior Meredith Visser (2-for-3) and soph-
omore Fionna Duryea (double, two runs
scored and two RBIs).
Three Newport pitchers walked 11 and
hit six batters, while Astoria scored 13 runs
in the fi rst inning, then tacked on fi ve in the
second and six in the third, with the game
stopped after three innings.
Astoria’s win over Marshfi eld went four
innings, with the Lady Fish scoring 12 runs
in the top of the fourth.
Astoria collected 15 hits, with Holmst-
edt going 4-for-5 with a double and four runs
scored. Bruney was 4-for-4, tripled twice and
scored fi ve times with fi ve RBIs.
Wilkin pitched three-and-a-third innings,
allowing one hit and two walks with seven
strikeouts. The Pirates walked 15 batters in
four innings, while Astoria baserunners had
11 steals.
Astoria 11, Toledo 1
Astoria won its fourth in a row, as Wilkin
tossed a no-hitter and the Lady Fish had dou-
bles from Bruney, Holmstedt, Tenley Mat-
teucci and Wilkin in an 11-1 win over Toledo
Tuesday morning.
Wilkin struck out 14 of the 15 batters she
faced, with no walks.
— The Astorian
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