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FRIDAY
July 21, 2017
SeasideSignal.com
BASEBALL
GULLS WIN BIG AT
SUMMER FINALE
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Seaside High graduate Kai
Davidson, left, and Darlington
Nagbe of the Portland Timbers
will be a part of the Timbers’ vis-
it to the North Coast in August.
Timbers
in Seaside
Seaside Signal
COLIN MURPHEY/EO MEDIA GROUP
Duncan Thompson keeps his eyes on home plate as he delivers a pitch for Seaside during a game against Baker City Thursday, July 13, at
the Wood Bat Tournament.
By Gary Henley
Seaside Signal
easide finished off a successful Ju-
nior Baseball summer season July 15
at Broadway Field, where the Gulls
scored a “double victory” on the final
day of the Wood Bat Tournament.
Not only did the Gulls win their conso-
lation final, they did it by beating Cowapa
League rival Scappoose, 7-0.
The Gulls are hoping it’s a sign of things
to come in 2018, when Seaside baseball will
be looking to climb back into the top division
of the Cowapa.
Seaside won Saturday’s consolation final
in impressive fashion, as pitcher Brayden
Johnson tossed a complete-game one-hitter,
with four strikeouts and four walks.
It took Johnson just 78 pitches to finish off
the Indians, whose lone hit was a double by
10 in the second inning.
Meanwhile, the Gulls collected six hits
(from six different players) off two Scap-
poose pitchers.
Gage McFadden and Duncan Thompson
each had a double, while Ashton Boyd was
the big run-producer, driving in three runs,
including a two-run single in the third inning.
The Gulls led 1-0 after two innings, then
broke it open with five runs in the third.
With one out, McFadden was hit by a
pitch, stole second, took third on a base hit by
Payton Westerholm, and sprinted home on an
error on the same play.
Alex Teubner reached on an infield single,
and Westerholm scored moments later on a
double from Duncan Thompson.
An infield single by Chase Januik scored
another run, and Boyd’s line drive to center
with two outs plated Thompson and Januik
for a 6-0 lead.
On the mound, Johnson retired nine in a
row from the third to the sixth inning, and re-
tired the side in order in the seventh.
Seaside finishes the summer season with
a 10-7 record, which included a win over As-
toria Ford and two victories over Scappoose.
S
Gulls 7, Baker 6
The Seaside Junior Baseball team has
spent most of the summer playing exciting
games with dramatic endings.
They’ve won a few and lost a few, and
scored their biggest win July 14, with a 7-6,
10-inning victory over Barley Brown’s of
Baker City.
Seaside rallied from a 6-2 deficit with four
runs in the bottom of the seventh, then pushed
across a run in the 10th on a bases-loaded hit
by Alex Teubner with no outs.
Baker dominated the first five innings,
building a 6-2 lead and outhitting the Gulls
10-3.
The last five frames, however, belonged to
Seaside.
Baker City’s Sam McCauley was pitching
a masterpiece through the first five innings,
but walked two in the sixth, then gave up four
hits and also hit a batter in the seventh, before
being relieved in the eighth.
GARY HENLEY/SEASIDE SIGNAL
Seaside’s Ledger Pugh, No. 7, had a single to lead off the fourth inning in the Gulls’ win over
Scappoose July 15.
But it was too late by then.
The Gulls’ rally in the seventh featured a
leadoff single by Gage McFadden, and team-
mate Payton Westerholm was hit by a pitch to
put two runners on.
They both advanced on a ground-out by
Teubner.
McFadden raced home on an infield single
by Duncan Thompson, and Brayden Johnson
followed with a double down the left field line
that scored two.
Moments later, an errant throw by Baker
City allowed Johnson score the game-tying
run.
After a scoreless eighth and ninth innings,
Seaside opened the bottom of the 10th with
consecutive singles by Paxson VanNortwich
and McFadden and a walk to Westerholm.
Teubner’s hit over a drawn-in outfield al-
lowed VanNortwich to easily score with the
game-winner.
Seaside pitchers Thompson and McFadden
allowed 15 hits with six strikeouts and a walk,
while two Baker City pitchers gave up 10 hits,
with six strikeouts, six walks and four hit bat-
ters. Seaside stranded 14 base runners.
In a semifinal game against Central, the
Gulls managed just four hits (two by Payton
Westerholm) in a 10-2 loss.
Clatsop Clash split
Four-and-a-half hours of baseball resulted
in a doubleheader split July 10 at Broadway
Field, where the Astoria Ford and Seaside Ju-
nior teams swapped a pair of lop-sided games.
The Fishermen scored a 12-1 win in the
opener, before the Gulls bounced back with a
15-5 victory in Game 2.
After 34 straight losses to Astoria in spring
ball, the Gulls’ summer team can happily
write an unofficial end to that losing skid,
with the Game 2 win.
“Brayden (Johnson) threw really well” in
the second game, said Seaside coach Joel Di-
erickx, as his starter pitched a solid four-plus
innings to earn the win.
Johnson gave up just three hits, with two
strikeouts and three walks, before Payton
Westerholm took over in the fifth inning.
Facing Astoria’s less-experienced lineup
in the second game, the Gulls had 10 hits off
three Astoria pitchers, who walked 10 and hit
three batters.
A two-out, bases-loaded double by Wester-
holm in the third inning scored three runs and
helped Seaside build a 9-0 lead after three in-
nings.
The Fishermen drew four walks, and Dylan
Junes had a two-run double to highlight Asto-
ria’s five run fifth inning.
But Seaside countered with six runs of
their own in the bottom of the fifth, which in-
cluded two hit batters with the bases loaded
to force in two runs, and Westerholm drew a
bases-loaded walk to force in the final run that
gave the Gulls a 10-run lead.
Alex Teubner had a triple and a single to
lead Seaside’s 10-hit attack, while Wester-
holm finished with four RBIs, and Travis Fen-
ton had two hits and two RBIs.
The North Coast is back on the
“Rose City Road Trip” list, the
Portland Timbers’ annual tour of
community events and youth soc-
cer clinics throughout the Pacific
Northwest.
This year’s tour will include
stops in Seaside and Warrenton,
as the Timbers return to the North
Coast as part of their sixth-annual
Rose City Road Trip, presented by
Providence Health & Services.
Beginning Tuesday, Aug. 15,
Timbers’ midfielder Darlington
Nagbe, midfielder/defender Law-
rence Olum, defender Roy Miller
and Timber Joey will begin the day
with a visit to Providence Seaside
Hospital from 9-10 a.m., spending
time with patients before heading
to Warrenton Grade School from
10:30 a.m. To noon to help in-
stall “buddy benches,” a project
invented by 10-year-old Christian
Bucks, that gives children a safe,
non-judgmental place to retreat.
The day continues with a
youth soccer clinic being led by
the Timbers youth development
staff (which includes Seaside High
graduate Kai Davidson) for chil-
dren ages 5-13.
The clinic is scheduled for
1:30-3:30 p.m. at Warrenton Soc-
cer Complex on Ridge Road in
Hammond. Free and open to the
public, the clinic will feature a
training session, along with an
autograph and Q&A session. Par-
ticipants must pre-register online
at www.timbers.com/rosecity-
roadtrip.
“We are excited to welcome the
Timbers ‘Rose City Road Trip’ to
the North Coast to help us promote
healthy activities for kids in our
communities,” said Kendall Sawa,
RN, chief executive, at Providence
Seaside Hospital.
“We have been partnering with
Way to Wellville Clatsop and oth-
er organizations to fight childhood
obesity in our county. Getting kids
involved in sports and other phys-
ical activities is key to promoting
healthy habits for a lifetime,” said
Dominique Greco, M.D., who
practices family medicine at Provi-
dence Medical Group-Seaside and
in her spare time has volunteered
as a soccer coach.
Closing out the visit, players
and Timber Joey will join fans at
Astoria’s Fort George Brewery,
1483 Duane St., for a Q&A, raf-
fle, autographs and pictures from
4:30-6:30 p.m., before returning to
Portland.
Surf Project
helps foster
kids grow
About 75 teenagers in foster
care received an opportunity for
internal growth and intentional
play with a surf adventure on the
Oregon Coast in late June. This
experience is designed to assist
Oregon’s foster youth in internal
asset building, grit development,
and confidence building. These
attributes set the ground-work
for effectively managing past
circumstances and conquering
future challenges.
2017 Surf Project aids them
in their journey to reclaim their
future as a positive, worthwhile
path ahead.