10A • May 27, 2016 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com
Januik 2-for-2 in 800
If you’re stressed, laugh it off
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Seaside resident wants to
‘add more joy to the world’
EUGENE — While the
Astoria girls were busy win-
ning their second straight
team title, there were other
athletes from Clatsop Coun-
ty accepting medals at Hay-
ward Field.
Topping the list (and the
awards stand) was Seaside
junior Jackson Januik, who
continued the Gulls’ win-
ning ways in the 800 meters.
For the third time in four
years, a Seaside athlete was
winning the 800 inal on the
inal day of the state meet,
as Januik outdueled Hen-
ley’s Chris Ramirez to win
Saturday’s inal in 1 minute,
58.42 seconds.
Ramirez inished in
1:59.17, followed closely
by Astoria’s Lucas Carauna
(1:59.22).
Seaside graduate Brett
Willyard was the 800 state
champion in 2013, and now
Januik is the 2015 and ’16
winner. In Friday’s prelim-
inary, Januik ran a personal
best 1:57.91, fourth-fastest
in school history.
Only a junior, Januik will
be the clear favorite to make
it 4 for 5 next year.
Other point-scorers from
the weekend were Seaside’s
Raiden Bowles, who cleared
14-feet to take third in the
pole vault; and the Gulls’
Jaxson Smith, seventh in the
long jump (20-7).
The foursome of Hunt-
er Thompson, Januik, Will
Garvin and Juneau Mey-
er combined for a 3:31.97
(seventh) in the 1,600-meter
relay.
The Fishermen had two
other medal winners, both
in the throws, as Zander
Arnold was seventh in the
shot put (48-3¼), and Tim
Barnett placed eighth in the
discus (134-3).
Warriors take ive
The 3A/2A/1A portion
of the state meet took place
Thursday and Friday, and
all three Clatsop County
schools placed athletes on
By Lyra Fontaine
For Seaside Signal
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Seaside’s Jackson Januik takes a breather after winning his
second straight state title in the 800 meters.
the victory stand.
Warrenton took ive ath-
letes to the meet, scored a
combined 10 points, and re-
turned with four medals.
The Warriors had a pair
of sixth-place showings in
the ield events, as senior
Eli Petersen closed out his
career with a toss of 43 feet,
9½ inches in the shot put;
and junior Tyler Whitaker
scored his highest inish,
taking sixth in the triple
jump (41-7).
Whitaker added a sev-
enth-place in the long jump
(19-11¼), and Taylor Ow-
ens took seventh in the girls’
300-meter hurdle inals
(50.87).
Devon Bowser inished
ninth in the shot put (42-4½)
and 10th in the discus (106-
2); and Rodrigo Verrisimo
cleared 10-6 for 10th in the
pole vault.
Vandergriff scores
In the 2A meet, Knappa’s
Devin Vandergriff qualiied
for the 400-meter inal, and
placed sixth in 1:02.75.
Senior Chris Montano
soared 39-¾ for eighth in the
triple jump, in addition to a
10th place showing in the
long jump.
Vandergriff had the
11th-fastest time in the 800
meters; and Chelsea Sapp
took 12th in the triple jump.
Jays win medals
Jewell had two sev-
enth-place inishes at the
1A level — Sean Hinson in
the discus (125-7) and Gabi
Morales in the 300 hurdles
(50.02).
Hinson was 10th in the
javelin, and the boys’ 400
relay team of Trystan Silva,
Hinson, Dallas Ritchie and
Ben Stahly had the 11th fast-
est time (48.26).
Seaside resident and “moti-
vational humorist” Gail Hand
wants more people to laugh out
loud on purpose for no reason,
particularly in stressful situa-
tions, like driving.
“It seems kind of madden-
ing and silly, and that’s the
point,” Hand said while leading
laughter exercises for a group
of children and adults in Broad-
way Park for World Laughter
Day event May 1. “It actually
does change the chemistry in
your brain when you laugh.”
Laughter yoga exercises
— like the tongue-out “lion
laugh,” the “milkshake laugh”
and the “aloha” greeting laugh
— have mental, physical and
emotional beneits.
“Laughter is good for cre-
ativity and memory,” said
Hand, who works with people
of all ages. “Physically, it’s
good for your heart, lungs, di-
aphragm and digestion.”
Laughter has also been
shown to release endorphins
and lower cortisol, a hormone
produced during stress.
LYRA FONTAINE/SEASIDE SIGNAL
Seaside’s Gail Hand leads a group in laughter.
It was Warrenton photogra-
pher Lisa Lamping’s irst time
doing laughter yoga.
“I thought it was a cool
idea,” she said. “In today’s
world, we could use a lot more
laughter.”
Hand said that while kids
laugh hundreds of times per
day, adults don’t laugh nearly
as much. She began teaching
“stress-relieving laugh tech-
niques” to people because she
wanted to “add more joy” to
the world and, more speciical-
ly, the workplace.
She decided to combine her
stand-up comedy experience
and her corporate background.
“I found there wasn’t
enough humor at work so I
started a company called the
Power of Laughter,” she said.
“I changed my title over the
years to comedian, then speak-
er, motivational speaker, then
motivational humorist.”
In the past 23 years, Hand
has spoken at 45 states, holding
conferences and workshops for
more than 600 universities and
companies like American Ex-
press and Providence Health-
care.
She has taught laughter
yoga in Portland and brought
the laughter-inducing exercises
to Seaside for the irst time in
honor of the internationally rec-
ognized Laughter Day.
“The whole point of World
Laughter Day is to spread more
joy in the world,” Hand said,
“just because.”
Gulls baseball, softball fall in Scapoose
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SCAPPOOSE — Seaside
cut an 8-0 deicit to 8-7 in the
sixth inning, but the Scap-
poose Indians tacked on three
runs in their inal at-bat for an
11-9 win May 13.
In Seaside’s sixth inning,
Astor Landwehr had an RBI
single, and Dylan Wallis drove
in a run on a double.
The Gulls took advantage
of four walks, a hit batter and
nine Scappoose errors in the
comeback.
Wallis and Scott Plamp-
in had doubles for the Gulls,
while
freshman
Payton
Westerholm inished 3-for-4.
Gus Nelson and Carson
Witt drove in three runs apiece
for Scappoose, while Owen
Parsons had a home run.
Gulls drop
softball inale
Seaside scored the irst
three runs of the day, but Scap-
poose scored 38 runs and col-
lected 25 hits in a doublehead-
er sweep over Seaside Friday,
26-5 and 12-0, in a Cowapa
League softball regular season
inale May 13.
The Indians inish 13-2 in
the standings, behind Banks
(14-1), while the Gulls drop to
9-15 overall.
Seaside took a quick lead in
Game 1, with three runs in the
top of the irst on consecutive
singles by Whitney Wester-
holm and Brittany West, be-
fore Scappoose answered with
13 runs in the bottom of the
inning.
The Gulls added two in the
second, but Scappoose pulled
away with four runs in the sec-
ond and seven in the third.
Westerholm was 2-for-2
with a double and two runs
scored.
Three Seaside pitchers is-
sued 10 walks and the Gulls
committed eight errors, while
Scappoose pitcher Kendal Bai-
ley allowed ive hits with sev-
en strikeouts and two walks.
Allyah Cates had two home
runs and Sage Harrison added
two doubles and a homer.
In Game 2, Scappoose
pitcher Nicole Dougherty
allowed just one hit (Paige
Ideue) in four innings, with six
strikeouts and no walks.
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