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THE ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2022
SPORTS
Late run leads Warrenton
First-place award for
Warrenton cheerleaders softball past Seaside, 5-4
The Astorian
The Astorian
Warrenton
High
School’s varsity cheerlead-
ing squad won a fi rst-place
award in the Oregon Cheer-
leading Coaches Asso-
ciation
championships,
held Feb. 19 at the Salem
Pavilion.
The Warrenton cheer-
leaders competed in the
High School Game Day cat-
egory for 1A/2A/3A varsity
teams, and fi nished fi rst out
of two schools in the com-
petition, with Pleasant Hill
second.
Coach Tyleah Patterson
called it “a huge honor,” for
the school’s cheer program,
in its third year.
“This was their fi rst year
competing,” Patterson said
of this year’s team. “These
athletes jumped into some-
thing scary and unknown,
giving 100% , showing
spirit, motivation, strength,
determination and so much
more.”
As
competitions
“became less scary and
unknown, they showed they
could make fast changes to
In a Clatsop Clash soft-
ball thriller at Warrenton, the
Seaside Gulls rallied from a
4-0 defi cit to tie the game in
the top of the seventh inning,
only to see the Lady War-
riors score a run in the bot-
tom of the seventh for a 5-4
nonleague win.
With runners at second
and third and two outs, an
infi eld grounder by Warren-
ton’s Jamie Annat scored
pinch runner Sara Cordner
from third with the winning
run.
Warrenton’s
Avyree
Miethe, Jazmin Horton and
Emma Smith all had two
hits apiece as part of a 10-hit
attack, with a double and
two runs scored by Miethe.
Annat added a triple.
Seaside left eight run-
ners on base, and also had
another three runners thrown
out at home plate. Ila Bowles
had three of Seaside’s eight
hits, including two dou-
bles, while freshman Lydia
Klumper went the distance
in the circle, striking out fi ve
Tyleah Patterson
The Warrenton cheerleading squad.
get the job done, and took
criticism from the judges to
improve not only individu-
ally but also as a team.”
Patterson said the nerves
were high as her team
arrived at the Salem Pavil-
ion, “knowing that they
have been working so hard
all year to get to this point,
knowing they have one
shot to do this. Once they
warmed up and got famil-
iar, they went out there and
they did the dang thing. We
are so proud of them. They
showed what being a War-
rior really stands for.”
Six all-league selections for Astoria
The teams that domi-
nated the regular season
are the two teams that dom-
inated the Cowapa All-
League girls basketball
selections, as voted on by
the league’s coaches and
released earlier this month.
League champion Banks
and co-league champion
Astoria each had six play-
ers selected to the all-
league team.
The Braves and the Lady
Fish also shared the Players
of the Year award (Astoria
freshman Shelby Bruney
and Banks junior Madison
Walker), and the Coaches
of the Year honors (Bran-
don Begley of Banks and
Astoria’s Mike Jacobson).
Jacobson ran his career
coaching wins to 363 (26th
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
THURSDAY
Track — NWL meet, at Vernonia, TBA
FRIDAY
Baseball — Baker at Astoria (2), 4 p.m.; La Grande at Seaside, 4 p.m.; Scio at
Warrenton, 4:30 p.m.; Knappa at Portland Christian (2), 3 p.m.
Softball — Scio at Warrenton, 4:30 p.m.; Neah-Kah-Nie at Knappa, 4:30 p.m.
SATURDAY
Baseball — La Grande at Astoria, noon; Baker at Seaside, noon
Softball — Astoria at Gladstone, noon
Track — Mark Dean Invitational, Tillamook, 10 a.m.
with four walks. Tara Lair
had two hits and a double for
Seaside.
Miethe and starter Lon-
don O’Brien combined for
six strikeouts and four walks.
Seaside baseball defeats Warrenton, 5-4
GIRLS BASKETBALL
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With coach Jessica Garrigues following another baserunner,
Seaside’s Tara Lair sprints for home plate in Tuesday’s
nonleague softball game at Warrenton.
all-time in Oregon girls
basketball), with over 100
victories at three diff erent
schools (Knappa, Seaside
and Astoria).
Banks had four juniors
and two seniors selected
all-league in the Braves’
last year as a member of
the Cowapa League. Val-
ley Catholic — with four
all-league players — also
drops to the 3A level.
Senior Lilli Taylor was
Seaside’s lone all-league
selection.
Astoria had three fresh-
men, one sophomore,
one junior and one senior
named all-league. Other
than one player from Til-
lamook, the Lady Fisher-
men will be the Cowapa
League’s only team with
returning all-league players
next season.
COWAPA ALL-
LEAGUE TEAM
League champions: Astoria,
Banks
Players of the Year: Shelby
Bruney, Astoria; Madison Walker,
Banks
Coaches of the Year: Brandon Beg-
ley, Banks; Mike Jacobson, Astoria
Defensive Player of the Year: Alex
Saunders, Banks
First Team
Shelby Bruney, Fr., Astoria
Madison Walker, Jr., Banks
Lexie Braxling, Sr., Tillamook
Hailey Evans, Jr., Banks
Tayla Huber, Fr., Astoria
Anna Kinder, Sr., Valley Catholic
Mollie Matthews, Sr., Astoria
Caleigh Peterson, Jr., Astoria
Alex Saunders, Jr., Banks
Maggie Streblow, Sr., Banks
Lilli Taylor, Sr., Seaside
Ella Trecker, Sr., Valley Catholic
Honorable Mention
Avery Biederman, So., Astoria
Madyson Bigsby, Jr., Banks
Emilie Eddy, Jr., Valley Catholic
Gabi Garcia, Jr., Tillamook
Mariella Gunther, Sr., Valley Catholic
Nayomi Holmstedt, Fr., Astoria
Nya Johnson, Sr., Banks
Makayla Tuiolemotu, Sr., Tillamook
The Astorian
In a game that featured
two coaches with over a
combined 1,050 career wins,
Brett Wolfe’s Seaside Gulls
topped Lennie Wolfe’s War-
renton Warriors, 5-4, in a
nonleague baseball game
Tuesday night at Broadway
Field.
Warrenton out-hit the
Gulls, fi ve to three, but four
errors were costly for the
Warriors, who gave up three
unearned runs to help Sea-
side snap a two-game losing
skid.
Lawson Talamantez had
two of Seaside’s three hits,
including a triple, while two
of Warrenton’s four errors
led to the eventual winning
run for the Gulls in the bot-
tom of the sixth.
Tanner Kraushaar pitched
six innings for Seaside,
allowing three hits with four
strikeouts and seven walks.
Dawson Little took the
loss for the Warriors despite
striking out six with three
walks.
Warrenton hosts Scio at
4:30 p.m. on Friday.
St. Helens 5, Astoria 3
Both teams had six hits,
but fi ve errors by Asto-
ria helped future Cowapa
League opponent St. Hel-
ens post a 5-3 win over the
Fishermen, in a nonleague
game Tuesday at Tapiola
Park.
St. Helens pitchers Neil
Wolfe and Conner Weiss
combined for 10 strikeouts
and fi ve walks, while three
Astoria pitchers allowed six
walks. The Fishermen also
stranded 10 baserunners.
Astoria hosts a double-
header with Baker on Fri-
day at 4 p.m., followed by
a single game Saturday vs.
La Grande at noon.
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