Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Seaside signal. (Seaside, Or.) 1905-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 2016)
FOOTBALL The Fishermen lost their all-star backield of Carter Wallace and Clay Englund, but return three all-leaguers. “Banks will still be pretty tough, and then Scappoose is always tough,” Smith said. “Valley Catholic hired a new coach, but he was in the pro- gram as well.” SEASIDE FOOTBALL Coach: Chad Smith, 1st year 2015: 3-5 (1-4 Cowapa) All-League Losses: Alex Barker, Austin Eagon, Zach Marston, Jaxson Smith, Nathanael Ward All-League Returners: Michael Bailey, Jr. The Seagulls Seaside lost ive all-league players of its own to gradu- ation. The backield trio of Alex Barker, Jaxson Smith and Nathanael Ward (all three made the all-league squad) are gone, and both football and basketball will deinitely feel the loss of Austin Eagon and Zach Marston. On the plus side, the Gulls had several young skill posi- tion players on the roster last season, including sophomore quarterback Payton (named after Walter) Westerholm, junior running backs As- tor Landwehr and Duncan DANNY MILLER/EO MEDIA GROUP The Seaside football team practices at Broadway Field in Seaside. Thompson, and junior tight end Dawson Blanchard. Quarterback Otto Hoek- stre returns for his senior sea- son. The Seaside line is in great shape, with several returners. Two-way lineman Michael Bailey was all-league last year as a sophomore. Without giving away too much, Smith said, “Our of- fense will be different, but a lot of the other things will be the same. “We’re learning a new of- fense … we have more skill guys than we do linemen,” he said. “So on offense, we will spread it out with a lot of open formations, we’ll throw a lot of quick, sprint-out passes, JEFF TER HAR/FOR SEASIDE SIGNAL The Seagulls defense is ready to make the big play this year. screen plays and things like that, to move our quarterback around so he’s not sitting back there. We want to get the % 10 OFF Go Gulls! C C LEAN S WEEP S PAVING & EXCAVATION www.cleansweeppaving.com • A SPHALT P AVING • E XCAVATION • S WEEPING • L ANDSCAPE M ATERIALS • D EMOLITION • M OWING • D RIVEWAYS 1570 Lewis & Clark Rd., Seaside • 503-738-7556 w w w.c l eansweeppaving.com ball to some of our skill guys, who can do well one-on-one with the defensive players.” And on defense, the Gulls will be tested early. “Our opener is with North Marion, a bigger school with well-coached kids,” he said. “They run the Wing-T, so it will be interesting for us to go against that. Our kids know the Wing-T, but you still have to stop them.” Personnel-wise, “We lost 12 or 13 seniors, and we’re light on seniors this year,” Smith said. “We have ive total, two who didn’t play last year, and one that moved from Clatskanie (Phoenix Johnson, who igures on be- ing a big part of the Seaside offense, judging from last week’s jamboree). “We have Otto Hoekstre back, Michael Bailey, Astor Landwehr … for the most part we’ll be a real young team, with mostly sopho- mores and juniors and our ive seniors.” Some other names to get familiar with: Duncan Thompson, (“a great skill player”); Westerholm (a bright future for the three- sport athlete, although he suffered a broken ankle in Seaside’s recent jamboree); Johnson (“a great addition”); “and another kid from Wyo- ming, Garret Kiser, a pretty athletic kid,” Smith said. Ju- nior Cameron King also saw plenty of touches in Seaside’s jamboree. And for the future, “We have about 16 incoming freshmen, and that’s a pretty good class for a school our size.” FOLLOWING ALL SHS FALL SPORTING EVENTS k Good Luc GULLS! Wear your Seagull Gear and MENTION THIS AD to receive the 10% OFF! Dine in only at Seaside and Gearhart locations Gluten Free Pizza Available Now hiring good people and good students, come join our team! SEASIDE FULTANOS GEARHART FULTANOS 215 BROADWAY 3518 HWY 101 NORTH 503-738-5612 503-738-5333 Seagull Pride • Fall 2016 • Seaside Signal/Cannon Beach Gazette • 5