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February 20, 2015 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com • 9A Signal Sports Lady Gulls stopped, Gulls come up short but boys move forward in race for team title By Gary Henley EO Media Group Valley Catholic 69, Seaside 56 Their bid for anoth- er perfect league record came to an unexpected end Feb. 13 for the Sea- side girls basketball team. Valley Catholic stunned the Lady Gulls and their home fans by beating Seaside 69-56, the first loss for the Gulls in league play in over two years. Maddi Utti scored 16 points, with seven re- bounds, five assists and four steals for the Gulls, who held a 34-32 half- time lead. Seaside took a 45-43 lead in the fourth quarter, where the Valiants out- scored the Gulls 24-11. Seaside coach Wally Hamer wanted “to give Valley Catholic all the credit. They played a great game and just out- played us. They shot well, and we didn’t play very good defense tonight. “These things happen along the path where we didn’t reach our goal,” he said. “Playing good de- fense and rebounding are essential if you are going to be successful.” Haylee Dundas and Whitney Westerholm scored 11 points apiece for Seaside. BOYS BASKETBALL Seaside 48, Valley Catholic 33 The Seaside boys bas- ketball team is one big step closer to making it a Seaside sweep in Cowapa League basketball. With the Lady Gulls in charge of the Cowapa girls standings, the Seaside boys knocked off Valley Cath- olic 48-33 Feb. 13 to take RYHUVROHSRVVHVVLRQRI¿UVW place with two games left. Jackson Januik scored 18 points and Austin Ea- gon added 11, as Seaside opened up a big lead with a 16-7 run in the third quarter in Friday’s win. Zach Marston added eight points for the Gulls. JOSHUA BESSEX PHOTO Seaside’s Haylee Dundas, No. 15, puts up a shot while defended by Banks’ Megan Bunn, No. 22, in a basketball game at Seaside Feb. 12. By Gary Henley EO Media Group The same two schools ¿QLVKHG LQ WKH WHDP standings for the second straight year on the boys’ side of the District 1/4A swim meet Feb. 14 The Newport boys (with 304 points) scored another team championship, edg- ing second-place Seaside (218) for the second year in a row. And Valley Catholic GH¿QLWHO\PDGHDVSODVKLQ LWV¿UVW\HDULQLWVQHZGLV- trict, as the Lady Valiants won the girls’ title with 252 points, over Tillamook (229). Individually, Seaside is sending a handful of athletes to the state meet this weekend at Mt. Hood Community College. Teamwise, Seaside coach Alex Reed knew it would be tough for his boys to catch a deep and talented Newport team. “We had a pretty solid idea,” he said. “Newport was a little too deep for us on the boys’ side this year, and we’ve had a couple of team subtractions for the girls.” Still, the Seaside boys will have entrants in eight of the 11 events at state. “Our goal was to qual- ify three relays for state,” said Reed, which they did. ³:H¶UH GH¿QLWHO\ LQ WKH medley relay — we won by a good margin, and that one’s looking good going into state.” Seaside’s other two re- OD\VTXDOL¿HGDVZLOGFDUGV The Gulls had one auto- PDWLFVWDWHTXDOL¿HUDV:LOO Garvin, Brad Rzewnicki, JOSHUA BESSEX PHOTO Seaside’s Sam Beaudoin competes during the boys 200- yard medley relay at the District 1/4A swim meet at the Astoria Aquatic Center Feb. 14. Seaside’s team placed first in the event and earned an automatic bid to state. Sam Beaudoin and Dylan Townsend teamed up to ZLQ WKH ¿UVW HYHQW RI WKH day, the 200-yard medley relay. Seaside won in 1 min- ute, 48.43 seconds, which puts the Gulls as the No. 4 seed in the state meet. Other wild card quali- ¿HUV LQFOXGHG 5]HZQLFNL (second, 200-yard free- style, and third, 100-yard breaststroke); Beaudoin (second, 50-yard freestyle, and third, 100-yard free- style); Luke Liljenwall (fourth, 100 freestyle); and Garvin (fourth, 100-yard backstroke). “Brad Rzewnicki did an awesome job, drop- ping four full seconds off his 200 free to get second place,” Reed said. And Seaside’s 200-yard freestyle relay placed sec- ond in 1:37.90 to qualify for state, as did their 400- yard freestyle relay, taking second in 3:42.41. Astoria’s lone automatic TXDOL¿HU ZDV MXQLRU %U\FH Nurding, who won the 500- yard freestyle in 5:36.58. Nurding was second last year behind teammate Nick Janda. On the girls’ side, Valley Catholic, Tillamook and Newport dominated most of the events. Astoria had one au- WRPDWLF VWDWH TXDOL¿HU with junior Megan Sparks swimming a 1:07.44 to win the 100 backstroke. She will be a No. 7 seed at the state meet. “Bryce is going in the 500, and Megan in the backstroke,” said Astoria coach Amy Emmett. “And we only have one senior, so I’m looking forward to next year.” Meanwhile, Emmett’s former team was celebrat- ing its second straight boys’ championship. “I coached at New- port for nine years, so I know what their program is,” Emmett said. “Angie (Sremba) was my assistant coach, and she’s taken the ball and run with it. It’s ex- citing to watch.” 32 years T hank Y ou! Febru a ry 19 th , 20 th , 21 s t & 22 n d the Lightho u se Ja zz S o ciety w ill p res en t the 32 n d Y ea r o f Ja zz in S ea sid e fea tu rin g tw elve q u a lity ba n d s a n d on e g u es t a rtis t, p erform in g tw en ty s even hou rs of live en terta in m en t a t three d ifferen t ven u es in S ea s id e. Tha n k you to ou r w on d erfu l s p on s ors a n d volu n teers tha t m a d e this w eek en d a hu g e s u cces s . W e a re very g ra tefu l to the follow in g Bu s in es s es a n d In d ivid u a ls for their con tin u in g s u p p ort - you m a k e it ha p p en . JOSHUA BESSEX PHOTO Seaside’s Whitney Westerholm, No. 24, breaks away for a layup against Banks. when Zach Marston convert- ed a three-point play, which sparked the Gulls to a 20-point quarter. Most of the scoring came from the free throw line, where Seaside was 10-of-15 in the fourth quarter, 18-of-28 for the game to 11-of-13 for the Braves. Seaside’s Jaxson Smith hit three 3-pointers in the open- ing quarter, on his way to 17 points. 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Despite going 8-for-29 IURPWKH¿HOGLQWKH¿UVWKDOI Seaside had things well in hand midway through the second quarter, leading 18-4 following a three-point play by Paige Ideue. $IWHU D URXJK ¿UVW KDOI Westerholm drained three 3-pointers in the third quarter, with a 12-0 run by Gulls re- sulting in a 50-19 lead. Westerholm led the Gulls with 13 points (11 in the third quarter), while Utti had 12 points and eight assists, and 9LOOHJDV ¿QLVKHG ZLWK points. Haylee Dundas added nine points, eight rebounds, four steals and four assists. It was a “great defensive effort by our girls tonight,” said Seaside coach Wally Hamer. “The coaching staff felt great about what the girls accomplished. “Whitney Westerholm lit it up in the third quarter,” he said. “The third quarter was a pivotal quarter. Unsung heroes tonight were Britta- ny West, Allison Bussert and Paige Ideue. They rebounded and chipped in points as well.” Seaside 63, Banks 53 It was close through three quarters, but Seaside’s Jack- son Januik turned a three- point lead into a late runaway win for the Gulls Feb. 10, 63- 53 over Banks. Januik scored 14 of his game-high 18 points in the ¿QDOSHULRGDV6HDVLGHUHHOHG off a 13-2 run in the fourth to put away the Braves. Banks was within 43-40 to start the fourth quarter, EO Media Group AN N UAL Lady Gulls top Banks on WKHZD\WR&RZDSD¿QDOV By Gary Henley A portion of this project w as m ade pos s ible by a grant from Seas ide T ouris m Advis ory Com m ittee, funded by room tax dollars . T he w ebs ite is : w w w.s eas ideor.com