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January 20, 2017
SeasideSignal.com
Winter Sports
Athletes
BOYS BASKETBALL
OF THE WEEK
GULLS PASS THE
‘KNAPPA CHALLENGE’
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By Gary Henley
Seaside Signal
W
ith both schools having
canceled or postponed
their originally sched-
uled games, the Seaside
and Knappa boys bas-
ketball teams decided to keep it “in county”
Friday night, as the Gulls paid a rare visit to
Knappa, for a nonleague Clatsop Clash.
And in the matchup between the best
team at the Class 4A level and one of the best
at the 2A level, the Gulls got the best of the
Loggers in a 78-54 Seaside victory.
Knappa is undefeated against 2A and 3A
competition, but dropped to 0-2 against the
4A (Astoria knocked off Knappa Dec. 3, 54-
47).
“Knappa has a pretty good ball team,”
said Seaside coach Bill Westerholm. “Dale
Takalo is one of the better offensive players
we’ll see, they’ve got guards who can handle
the ball really well, and they don’t turn the
ball over.”
Meanwhile, it was one of the closest half-
time margins of the season for the unbeaten
(10-0) Gulls, who held a slim 38-30 lead at
the break.
Basically, these were two teams with
high hopes of playing in state championship
games come March. And they gave the fans
their money’s worth.
First half fireworks saw both teams hot
from the field, with four 3-pointers by the
Gulls and three for Knappa.
Consecutive scores by Takalo, Colton
Weirup (3-pointer) and Ethan Rubus gave
the Loggers an early 9-6 lead, but Seaside
answered with 3-pointers from Jackson
Januik and Hunter Thompson, with a two-
point bucket from Januik giving the Gulls a
14-9 lead.
Duncan Thompson’s old-fashioned three-
point play had Seaside in front, 19-12, be-
fore Knappa closed the first quarter with a
4-0 run.
Following a steal and score by Thompson,
Takalo’s 3-pointer had Knappa within 21-19.
Jackson Januik had 14 of his game-high
20 points in the first half, and had help in the
first half from Payton Westerholm, who as-
sisted Attikin Babb for two midway through
the fourth quarter, then drained a 3-pointer
with 1:30 left to give the Gulls an eight-point
halftime lead.
And — as they do in every game — the
DANNY MILLER/EO MEDIA GROUP
SUMMER
SPELL
Senior
The senior swimmer played a
key role in Seaside’s 80-78 win over
Astoria Jan. 12, in the Clatsop Splash
dual meet at the Astoria Aquatic
Center. Spell took seven seconds
off her best time in the 500-yard
freestyle, winning the event in 7
minutes, 13.15 seconds — nearly
a full minute of the second-place
swimmer. Spell — the daughter of
Seaside coach Shane Spell — also
swam the anchor leg on the win-
ning 200-yard medley relay.
KRISSY BARENDSE-GOODMAN/FOR EO MEDIA GROUP
Any game at Knappa is going to have players on the floor, as Seaside’s Jackson Januik finds
out.
Gulls gradually wore down the Loggers in
the second half and pulled away.
A three-point play by Weirup had Knappa
within 45-37, but scores by the Januik broth-
ers, including a steal and layup for Jackson,
pushed Seaside’s lead to 51-37.
A long-range bomb by Hunter Thompson,
followed by two free throws from Thomp-
son, gave the Gulls a 56-40 advantage.
The Loggers had a few highlights of their
own in the second half — a pair of 3-pointers
from Eli Takalo and a three-point play by big
brother Dale — but Seaside had a little too
much depth down the stretch.
Westerholm banked in a pair of jump
shots, and the Gulls were nearly flawless
at the free throw line, building an eventual
24-point lead.
The 78 points was by far the most given
up this season by the Loggers.
Still, “Seaside’s the No. 1 4A team for a
reason, but I thought we played pretty good,”
said Knappa coach Chris Spencer. “They’ve
got a lot of skilled players, and maybe we
gave them a game they weren’t expecting.
We showed that we can play with anybody,
and if not for a couple calls and a few misses,
things might have turned out differently.”
Coach Westerholm, meanwhile, was anx-
ious to see how his players played in the
“Knappa Environment.”
“I was really looking forward to seeing
how our kids played out there,” Westerholm
said of Knappa, where he still has connec-
tions and relatives. “I told them before the
game about all the history of that place, and
I thought it was good for our kids to face a
little adversity and play in a gym where the
fans are right on you, yelling and screaming.
I made sure we weren’t looking past them.
“Knappa teams have always been tough
and competitive, and they’re not going to
back down against anybody,” he said. “Even
going back to the old (Craig) Cokley days,
they would take on bigger schools in the
summer.”
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Seaside 78, Knappa 54
SEA (78): Jackson Januik 20, Wester-
holm 15, C.Januik 14, H.Thompson
12, D.Thompson 7, Babb 6, Hoekstre
4, Sibony.
KNA (54): Dale Takalo 16, Weirup 13,
Engblom 9, E.Takalo 8, J.Miller 6, Rubus
2, Goodman, Geisler, K.Miller.
Seaside
19 19 18 22—78
Knappa
16 14 12 12—54
Seaside 83, Newport 67
NEW (67): Kye Blaser 21, Beaudry 17,
Fisher 10, Boys 6, C.Blaser 4, Plechaty 4,
Jo.Gonzales 3, Yanez-Carr 2.
SEA (83): Chase Januik 21, J.Januik 17,
Babb 12, H.Thompson 10, D.Thompson
8, Westerholm 6, Hoekstre 4, Hague 3,
Johnson 2, Sibony, Landwehr.
Newport
17 14 19 17—67
Seaside
22 20 27 14—83
SWIMMING
Girls: Seaside 80, Astoria 78
200 Medley Relay: 1, Seaside (Lin,
Carr, McGill, Spell), 2:22.82. 2, Astoria,
2:23.50.
200 Freestyle: 1, Maya McGill, Sea,
2:31.56. 2, Summer Spell, Sea, 2:46.65.
3, Carla Zulli, 3:05.16.
200 Individual Medley: 1, Kendy
Lin, Sea, 2:37.53. 2, Megan Schacher,
Ast, 3:01.42. 3, Megan Postlewait, Ast,
4:02.71.
50 Freestyle: 1, Kimberly Mella, Sea,
34.39. 2, Kira Worwood, Ast, 36.46. 3,
Kara Spell, Sea, 39.95.
100 Butterfly: 1, Megan Schacher, Ast,
1:19.61. 2, Maya McGill, Sea, 1:19.94.
100 Freestyle: 1, Kendal Gustafson,
Ast, 1:05.66. 2, Cadyn Carr, Sea, 1:16.76.
3, Kimberly Mella, Sea, 1:18.37.
500 Freestyle: 1, Summer Spell, Sea,
7:13.15. 2, Carla Zulli, Ast, 8:11.05. 3,
Kira Worwood, Ast, 8:28.99.
PAYTON
WESTERHOLM
Sophomore
After missing most of the
football season with a broken
leg, Westerholm is making a
(first) name for himself on the
basketball court.
The son of Seaside coach Bill
Westerholm, Payton has tak-
en on an increased load in the
scoring column, as he finished
with 15 points in a Jan. 13 win
at Knappa, and before that, he
scored 19 points in a 93-62 win
over St. Helens.
SWIMMING
SEAGULLS VARSITY SCOREBOARD
BOYS BASKETBALL
KRISSY BARENDSE-GOODMAN/FOR EO MEDIA GROUP
200 Freestyle Relay: 1, Astoria
(Travers, Albright, Atkins, Worwood),
2:26.76. 2, Seaside, 2:42.90.
100 Backstroke: 1, Kendy Lin, Sea,
1:09.10. 2, Taylor Atkins, Ast, 1:30.79. 3,
Claire Albright, Ast, 1:40.46.
100 Breaststroke: 1, Kendal Gus-
tafson, Ast, 1:23.0. 2, Cadyn Carr, Sea,
1:34.13. 3, Kara Spell, Sea, 1:47.35.
400 Freestyle Relay: 1, Seaside (Lin,
Carr, Spell, McGill), 4:39.42. 2, Astoria,
4:51.97.
Boys: Astoria 86, Seaside 75
200 Medley Relay: 1, Seaside (Lilj-
enwal, Rzewnicki, Garvin, Kennedy),
1:59.20. 2, Astoria, 1:59.97.
200 Freestyle: 1, Elias Simmons, Ast,
2:17.55. 2, Aleks Matthews, Ast, 2:27.03.
3, Wesley Corliss, Sea, 2:32.11.
200 Individual Medley: 1, Brad
Rzewnicki, Sea, 2:26.65. 2, Thayne
Covert, Ast, 2:31.41. 3, Riley Cameron,
Ast, 2:36.33.
50 Freestyle: 1, Luke Liljenwal, Sea,
25.33. 2, James Kennedy, Sea, 27.72. 3,
Ryder Dopp, Ast, 28.30.
100 Butterfly: 1, Joshua Shipley, Ast,
59.10. 2, Will Garvin, Sea, 1:00.70.
100 Freestyle: 1, Luke Liljenwal, Sea,
56.58. 2, Ryder Dopp, Ast, 1:02.30. 3,
Cole Beeson, Ast, 1:04.09.
500 Freestyle: 1, Thayne Covert, Ast,
5:55.17. 2, Elias Simmons, Ast, 6:12.88.
3, Isaiah Collins, Sea, 7:10.75.
200 Freestyle Relay: 1, Seaside
(Garvin, Kennedy, Rzewnicki, Liljenwal),
1:43.46. 2, Astoria, 1:51.87.
100 Backstroke: 1, Will Garvin, Sea,
1:04.76. 2, Riley Cameron, Ast, 1:12.64.
3, Isaiah Collins, Sea, 1:17.18.
100 Breaststroke: 1, Joshua Shipley,
Ast, 1:08.81. 2, Brad Rzewnicki, Sea,
1:16.52. 3, Aleks Matthews, Ast, 1:21.19.
400 Freestyle Relay: 1, Astoria
(Cameron, Simmons, Covert, Shipley),
3:57.15. 2, Astoria B, 4:26.33.
Gulls, Gladiators
split dual meet
By Gary Henley
Seaside Signal
The Seaside-Warrenton swim
team was in competition in the new
year and for the first time since As-
toria’s Nygaard Invitational in De-
cember, as the Gulls hosted Glad-
stone for a dual meet Thursday,
Jan. 12, at Sunset Pool.
Seaside defeated the Gladiators
on the boys’ side, 99-43, while
Gladstone scored a 98-63 win over
the Lady Gulls.
The Seaside boys had sever-
al swimmers with multiple wins,
among them Bradley Rzewnicki
(200-yard individual medley and
100-yard breaststroke); Luke Lil-
jenwall (50-yard freestyle, 100-
yard freestyle); and Will Garvin
(100-yard butterfly, 100-yard back-
stroke).
Sophomore Kendy Lin scored
big points for the Seaside girls,
winning the 200 individual med-
ley (2:36.58) and the backstroke
(1:09.01).
Seaside competes against Taft at
home on Thursday, Jan. 26.
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