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Gearhart
Bowl fall
leagues kick
off soon
Team 911 beats SEPRD
in softball championship
EO Media Group
Fall bowling leagues are
now forming for Gearhart
Bowl, 3518 Highway 101 N.
League play begins in Sep-
tember, and length of league
varies within the different for-
mats. There is a minimum of
four people per team. If less
than four, Gearhart Bowl can
assist in placing bowlers with
a group.
Forms are available at
www.gearhartbowl.com, or
call 503-738-5333 for details.
The fall leagues include:
The “Monday Night League”
— 33 weeks, beginning Sept.
12.
Tuesday Night League in-
cludes 21 weeks of bowling,
beginning Sept. 13. Wednes-
day Night League begins
Sept. 14.
Gearhart Bowl’s new
“Thursday Night Footbowl
League” begins Sept. 8. In a
new scoring format, the only
scores that count are Strikes
(touchdowns), worth sev-
en points; and Spares (ield
goals), worth three points.
Gearhart Bowl’s big
screens will be showing
Thursday Night Football
during league play.
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“Team 911” responded to the call last week, winning the Sunset Empire Park & Recreation District’s softball league
championship. The team is sponsored by Public Coast Brewing in Cannon Beach, but comprised of a signiicant amount
of Seaside Fire Department staf and volunteers. In the championship game, Team 911 defeated “SEPRD,” 12-4.
Get teed off for
a good cause
in golf tourney
fundraiser
EO Media Group
It will be a day of golf
and fun at the Seaside Golf
Club Saturday, Sept. 24, in
the irst annual Sunset Park
and Recreation Golf Tourna-
ment.
The event will beneit the
organization’s foundation’s
scholarships that support “ac-
cess to positive life activities
for children, youth and adults”
in the South County.
There will be prizes and
contests throughout the tour-
nament, with food and bever-
ages available for purchase.
Family and friends are wel-
come.
The golf tournament will
be a four-person, 18-hole
shotgun-style
tournament.
Tee-off time is 9 a.m. Regis-
tration begins at 8:30 a.m. at
the Seaside Golf Course, 451
Avenue U.
Tickets are $100 per per-
son. Carts are limited and
are available on a irst-come,
irst-served basis.
E-mail sunsetparksandrec-
foundation@gmail.com
to
sign up and select a tee time.
Cash and checks are both ac-
cepted. Checks can be made
out to Sunset Park and Recre-
ation Foundation. Respond by
Aug. 31.
Seagull soccer gets a jump on the 2016 season
Gulls look strong in
tournament
By Gary Henley
EO Media Group
WARRENTON — It’s a long
ways to November, but fans of the
Seaside boys soccer team have to be
encouraged with the early results.
The Gulls looked to be in mid-
season form over the weekend in an
annual “pre” preseason tournament.
Today is the irst oficial day of
fall sports practice, but nowadays
— with summer tournaments, open
gyms and conditioning camps —
most teams in most sports like to
get a jump on things. And some lo-
cal soccer teams took it a bit further
over the weekend.
The players were playing and the
coaches were coaching in Astoria’s
annual preseason tournament Friday,
Saturday and Sunday at the Lower
Columbia Youth Soccer complex.
Other than a shorter time limit
on games, every scrimmage looked
pretty much like any regular season
game.
GARY HENLEY/EO MEDIA GROUP
Seaside’s Jackson Januik, right, appears to jump out of the fog in a soccer
scrimmage against Henley.
Or, in this case, playoff game …
since many of the teams that took
part will end up in the state playoffs
a few months from now.
Participants included the Astoria,
Catlin Gabel, Henley, Hidden Valley
and Seaside boys; with the Astoria,
Banks, Catlin Gabel, Henley, Hidden
Valley and Klamath Union girls.
“It’s just a brilliant tournament
that (former Astoria coach) Bill
Patterson and LCYSA with Astoria
puts on,” said Seaside boys coach
John Chapman. “There’s some
good schools here. Being local,
we’re honored to take part in some
of these games.
“Going into daily doubles, it’s a
great opportunity to see where our
boys are, what we need to work on,
and where we need to focus,” he
said.
Chapman’s team got off to a great
start, as Seaside defeated Hidden
Valley 4-0 Friday.
The Gulls also jumped out to a 3-0
lead over Henley, in a 9 a.m. contest
Saturday morning. The Hornets — a
Class 4A semiinal team last year —
scored two goals in the second half,
as the Gulls won 3-2.
Seaside’s irst goal came from
Colton Carter, off a give-and-go from
teammate Jackson Januik; Januik as-
sisted on a second goal; and Irving
Contreras converted a penalty kick in
the closing seconds of the irst half.
“That’s a great league they have
down there (the Skyline Conference),
with Hidden Valley, Mazama, Phoenix
and Henley,” Chapman said. “We don’t
get to see those teams until a playoff
situation. A little early-season lavor
helps us see how those leagues do.”
Seaside’s main challenger in the
Cowapa League could be Astoria.
The Fishermen scored ive irst
half goals in a win over Class 5A St.
Helens Friday, despite not having
their coach.
Tim Fastabend — who coached
the Astoria boys last year and was
recently named the girls’ varsity
coach — was on the sidelines for
both in the weekend scrimmages.
“I think the boys and the girls
looked real good this weekend,”
Fastabend said. “It was mainly just
a chance to give all the young kids a
chance to play.
“These facilities are so nice,
and Camp Kiwanilong was open
to everybody — it’s just a real nice
opportunity for the North Coast to
show everyone what we have,” Fas-
tabend said. “The University of Or-
egon women’s team was here earlier
in the summer, OES was here for a
few days … and we had 150 kids
here this weekend.”
Lee Cain will coach the Astoria
boys this season, but Cain was in
Mexico on a ield trip with students,
which included several players for
the Astoria girls.
The Lady Fishermen had a nice
start, as Hailey Ranta scored in the
opening minutes against St. Helens
Friday, before the Lions answered
with ive unanswered goals.
Astoria goalkeeper Lexis Law
suffered a wrist injury later in the
weekend, but the extent of the inju-
ry was not known.
Visiting player’s parents met while playing beach volleyball here
Volleyball from Page 1A
On the Turnaround, New
York City’s Josh Sweigert
and Katie Nicholls shared the
energy of competition and a
pitch-perfect 70-degree day
on the beach with coed dou-
bles partners Joey Burda and
Katie Dyk.
Nicholls — who was mak-
ing her irst trip to Seaside —
and Sweigert lew in for the
tournament from New York
City late Thursday. A three-
hour delay deposited them in
Portland at 4 a.m., only hours
before their irst matches.
The trip is an annual one
for Sweigert, a Portland na-
tive, who has appeared in 16
Seaside volleyball tourna-
ments.
“My parents actually met
playing beach volleyball here,
so it was kind of like part of
their marriage,” he said. “I
grew up with it being part of
my family.”
Rounding out the family
affair, Burda, who now lives
in metro Portland, is a former
volleyball teammate of Swei-
gert’s cousin.
“This is an awesome atmo-
sphere,” Dyk, from Medford,
said. “Everyone is very laid
back. You just make friends
with whoever’s around, listen
to music, hang out, play pick-
up games — it’s just a very
fun atmosphere.”
They were just a few of the
1,500 teams and 3,500 com-
‘This is an awesome atmosphere. Everyone is
very laid back. You just make friends
with whoever’s around, listen to music,
hang out, play pick-up games — it’s just
a very fun atmosphere.’
Katie Dyk
Medford, Ore.
petitors. Seaside Chamber of
Commerce President Brian
Owen estimated more than
10,000 visitors attended the
event.
Behind the scenes, orga-
nizers Thilavanh, Deng The-
pharat, and Mike Grifin —
“the bad boys of volleyball”
— described a smooth-run-
ning event and hailed the
launch of a new scheduling
program. The cellphone ap-
plication enables players to
check online for court as-
signments and times, elim-
inating needless waits and
confusion.
“The dificulties have been
the newness of how we’re
running the format, every-
body’s not really familiar
about going on the electronic
brackets, but given a tutori-
al on it they’re ine,” Grifin
said.
“The system works as
planned,” Thilavanh said.
“People are loving that the
schedule is online. There’s
no center bulletin boards to
worry about checking their
matches. They can watch
matches. It’s been great.”
“It’s paid off in spades,”
Owen added. “What I’m
hearing from local mer-
chants, is that when people
arrive coming off the beach,
they aren’t complaining not
knowing when they play
next, having to be stuck on
the beach waiting for the
bracket boards to be updat-
ed, they’re actually able to
shower and have lunch and
R.J. MARX/SEASIDE SIGNAL
“Bad Boy” volleyball orga-
nizer Deng Thepharat and
Seaside Chamber of Com-
merce President Brian Owen.
come back and play their
matches.”
Even better, “This is prob-
ably the best weather out of
my many years playing in this
tournament,” Thilavanh added.
“This is what we call
‘Chamber of Commerce
weather,’” Owen said.
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