Boys Basketball
Team already stacked with experience
Gulls from Page 4
six weeks (broke ankle in
state championship foot-
ball game). But they have a
lot of good athletes in their
school, and Rahim (Tufts)
is a good coach — they’ll
¿gure out a way to make
it work. They just won’t
have a lot of height, so they
will try to run an up-tempo
game, which we will try to
do as well.”
He added, “The two
teams that have most every-
body coming back is us and
Astoria.”
The Fishermen “have
some height and a lot of
length. They are going to
be a tough team to handle
this year.”
Fans may get an early-sea-
son Clatsop Clash preview
in Seaside’s Holiday Classic
tournament, Dec. 17-19.
“I have a feeling we’ll
see Astoria in the champi-
onship game of our tourna-
ment,” Westerholm said.
The Gulls
Current members of the
team have already won
state titles last spring and
this fall.
“We had a lot of success
with our kids in the fall sea-
son, whether it was cross
country or soccer, or both,”
Westerholm said. “We have
11 returners, and right now
all 11 are playing pretty
well.”
All ¿ve starters return,
and “we’ll have eight or
nine kids who see quite a
bit of playing time,” said
the coach.
“Obviously
Jackson
(Januik, Jr.) will be our
point guard, and Hunter
Thompson (Jr.) is a good
complement with his ath-
leticism and a motor that
just keeps going. He shot
the ball well this summer
and was one of our leading
scorers;
“Jaxson Smith (Sr.) has
become more athletic af-
ter one year in our system.
We’re expecting him to
have a good season;
“Saoul Cazarez (Sr.) has
made vast improvements
from last year;
“Attikin Babb (Jr.)
seems to be in better shape,
and doing a better job of
getting inside instead of
just relying on his 3-point
shooting;
“Austin Eagon (Sr.) is
going to be a pretty good
load for a lot of teams to
handle, and Zach Marston
(Sr.) is a nice compliment
to him. He’s unorthodox,
but he seems to get the job
done.”
Elsewhere,
“Aaron
Richardson (Sr.) is getting
better, and showing in prac-
tice that he can hit an open
look;
“Jake Bassett played
mostly JV last year, but he
had a good summer, and the
only thing we need from
him is to be more aggres-
sive and get rebounds. He
seems to be doing that, and
he’s a pretty good shooter
from 10 to 12 feet.”
Michael Lewis (knee
surgery in the fall) and Otto
Hoekstre (shoulder injury
in football) will add depth
when healthy.
“We always have big
goals,” Westerholm said.
“We’ll be all right.”
JOSHUA BESSEX/EO MEDIA GROUP
Jackson Januik is returning to the Gulls as a point guard this
season.
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