10A
FRIDAY
June 9, 2017
SeasideSignal.com
HOMETOWN HEROES
SORTER SETS YORK
SCHOOL RECORD
By Gary Henley
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Seaside Signal
North Coast official Teena Toyas was
honored by the Oregon Athletic Coach-
es Association for her years of service.
C
RETE, Neb. — Seaside High gradu-
ate Cameron Sorter (Class of 2014)
is a new school record-holder for the
York College track team.
Sorter, a junior at the Nebraska college,
broke the school record — three times over
the last month — in the 1,500 meters. He
also set a new York College record in the 800
meters.
Running in the recent Jim Dutcher Me-
morial Classic track meet April 23, the for-
mer Gull finished fourth in 4 minutes, 9 sec-
onds, a new record for the Panthers.
He broke his own school record in the
next meet, finishing third in 4:05.27 in the
KCAC Championships, May 4-5 at McPher-
son (Kan.) College.
The following week, Sorter ran even fast-
er, finishing in 4:04.01 to place 12th in the
1,500 final at the NCCAA (National Chris-
tian College Athletic Association) Champi-
onships in Shawnee, Okla.
The same weekend, he ran a 1:56.50 in
the 800, failing to qualify for the final, but
setting a new school record.
Seaside athletes competing
at collegiate level this spring
JOSH CHESNUT, Sophomore, NW Christian
track
SAM HINTON, Sophomore, Willamette
golf
PAIGE IDEUE, Freshman, Centralia softball
CAM SORTER, Junior, York College track
DANIELLE WILLYARD, Freshman, NW Chris-
tian track
BRETT WILLYARD, Senior, Oregon Running
Club
KELLY WILLYARD, Sophomore, NW Chris-
tian track
Toyas
earns OACA
officiating
award
Seaside Signal
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Seaside High graduate Cameron Sorter had a busy week, setting school records for the York
College track team.
Letters-of-intent signees
(spring sports)
JACKSON JANUIK, George Fox University
Track
JUNEAU MEYER, NW Christian Track
BRADLEY RZEWNICKI, Gonzaga Track
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Seaside HS grad Danielle
Willyard competes in a recent
long jump event for North-
west Christian University.
Seaside High School senior Bradley Rzewnicki, seated, left,
is surrounded by friends and teammates after signing a
letter-of-intent to run track at Gonzaga University next
school year.
BASEBALL
Gulls finish with win over Scappoose
By Gary Henley
Seaside Signal
The Seaside Gulls saved their
best for last, as they scored a 10-5
win over Scappoose in a Cowapa
League baseball season finale May
13.
Seaside scored six runs in its
first at-bat and finished with 11 hits,
while senior Scott Plampin pitched
a complete game to conclude his
high school career.
He threw 103 pitches, allowing
nine hits with seven strikeouts and
no walks.
Gage McFadden led the offen-
sive attack, going 3-for-4 with a run
scored. Teammates Payton Wester-
holm and Otto Hoekstre had two
hits apiece, with Hoekstre adding a
triple and two runs scored.
Leadoff hitter Duncan Thomp-
son scored twice, and No. 9 hitter
Ashton Boyd drove in two runs for
the Gulls, who finish the season
7-15 overall, 4-11 in league.
Seaside loses just four seniors
— Hoekstre, Plampin, Dylan Wallis
and Brent Walsh.
Astoria 5, Gulls 0
ASTORIA — Astoria played an-
other near-perfect defensive game
May 9 at Aiken Field, where the
Fishermen posted a 5-0 win over
Seaside in Cowapa League/Clatsop
Clash baseball action.
The Gulls could only manage
two hits off Astoria’s “Scandinavian
Connection,” which works just as
fine for baseball as it did in football.
Pitchers Olaf Englund, Fridtjof
Fremstad and Tyler Lyngstad were
virtually untouchable, striking out
eight with two walks.
It took just minutes for the Fish-
ermen to score the only run they
would need in the win.
Trey Hageman and Englund
drew back-to-back walks in the first
inning, Kyle Strange reached on an
infield hit to load the bases, and En-
glund sprinted home on a ground-
er by Samboy Tuimato for the first
run.
Englund and Fremstad drew
consecutive walks to start the third,
and Strange lined a single to center
to bring in Englund.
Astoria doubled the score in
the fourth. With two outs and no
runners on base, Hageman and En-
glund drew walks, and Fremstad
greeted reliever Scott Plampin with
a sharp single to left, scoring Hage-
man. Englund scored on a double
steal for a 4-0 lead.
Plampin was effective for the
Gulls over the remainder of the
game, striking out three with no
walks.
The Oregon Athletic Coaches Asso-
ciation (OACA) named Seaside’s Tee-
na Toyas, Clatsop Community College
Physical Education Instructor and long-
time sports official, a 2017 Official of
the Year.
The organization honors two out-
standing officials each year and was
awarded Saturday, May 20 at the Coach
of the Year Banquet in Eugene. The
OACA selects from nominees that ex-
emplify the highest standards of sports-
manship, ethical conduct and moral
character and carry the endorsement of
the Oregon Athletic Officials Associa-
tion.
Toyas has 38-plus years of service
and experience officiating basketball,
volleyball and soccer in several states.
Seaside
golfers take
fourth
By Gary Henley
Seaside Signal
BANKS — For the second year in a
row, the Seaside boys golf team finished
one spot shy of qualifying for the state
tournament.
Scappoose won the team title of the
District 1 Regional tournament, which
concluded May 9 at Quail Valley Golf
Course in Banks.
Valley Catholic and Crook Coun-
ty securing the other two spots to next
week’s state tournament, while the Gulls
finished fourth.
The bright spot for Seaside — all five
Gulls’ golfers who competed (a junior
and four sophomores) will return next
year.
As Tuesday’s scores were posted, it
looked as if the Gulls might overtake
defending state champion Crook County
for the third and final qualifying spot for
state.
But the Cowboys still had Mayson
Tibbs on the course, and when Tibbs
came in with a 69 for the day, it knocked
60 strokes off of Crook County’s team
score and the Cowboys surged 17 strokes
ahead of Seaside to secure their spot in
Corvallis next week.
Strong finishes for Seaside Kids softball teams
Seaside Signal
Seaside Kids, Incorporated
and the North American Fast-
pitch Association (NAFA)
combined to host U14C and
U12C softball tournaments,
June 3-4.
Seaside Kids, Inc.’s U14
team defeated Gaston 13-10
to open the tournament Satur-
day in pool play.
Their second game was
against the Grizzlies of Mc-
Minnville, which posted a
13-6 win over Seaside.
In Sunday’s eight-team
bracket play, Seaside was the
No. 2 seed from the A pool
and was matched against the
Lady Royals from Eugene,
the No. 3 team from the B
pool.
Going into the bottom half
of the fifth inning, Seaside
trailed by five runs, but they
rallied with six runs, capped
by a game-winning single
from Gracie Rhodes, which
allowed Emily Philbrook
to score to tie the game and
McKenzie Cole to slide into
home plate for the 14-13 win.
The win advanced Seaside
to the semifinal game against
Ignite from Vancouver, Wash.
Ignite won, 18-0, then de-
feated the Legends of Gresh-
am 20-0 in the championship
game. Seaside and Scappoose
tied for third.
The U12 Seaside team lost
to O’Brien Timber 9-3, and
then fell 12-5 to Gaston Sat-
urday.
Sunday in bracket play,
Seaside defeated Amity 13-
4, then suffered a 10-5 loss
to Renegade. Playing in the
third place game, Seaside lost
14-12.
Seaside Kids’ softball pro-
gram started playing in the
NAFA tournaments last year.
Up until this weekend, the
U12 and U14 teams had been
winless. It was a very success-
ful weekend for both teams,
as they recorded their first
wins, with third- and fourth-
place spots, respectively.
Seaside Kids thanks Sweet
Septic for the donation of
their facilities, the Seaside
School District for the use of
the Wahanna Fields, SEPRD
and the city of Seaside for the
use of Broadway Field.
Both tournaments brought
17 teams to Seaside for the
two-day weekend tourna-
ment.
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Seaside Kids, Inc. 14U softball team. Front row, left to right: Emily Philbrook, Gracie Rhodes,
Briana Boyd, Tristyn McFadden, Emma Taylor, Haley Hughes. Back row: Coach Jason Boyd,
Zoey Alexander, McKenzie Cole, Victoria Soprano, Ella Jesberger, Kandice Flaigg, Shelby
Chester, Kiara Breckenridge, Coach Tobi Boyd.