WRESTLING
Seaside wrestlers back for more in tough league
Coach Danny
Taylor readies
team for
competition
By Gary Henley
Seaside Signal
The Seaside wrestling
team is getting ready for a
“heavy” season in 2017-18.
The Gulls will definitely be
busy when wrestlers in the
upper weights take to the mat.
Of the 14 athletes on the
Seaside pre-season roster,
11 compete at 152 pounds or
higher, with six wrestlers at
182 or above.
The Cowapa
Whether it’s the 4A Cowa-
pa League or the Special Dis-
trict 1/4A league, the compe-
tition is first rate, as the Gulls
can attest.
Results of last year’s one-
day Cowapa League meet
showed Tillamook with 451
first place points, followed
by Scappoose (281), Banks
(267.5), Astoria (87.5) and
Seaside (57).
In the Special District 1
meet the following week,
Crook County racked up
429.5 points to take the title,
ahead of Tillamook (363),
Banks (229), Scappoose
(179.5), Molalla (148), Es-
tacada (139), Gladstone
(111.5), Madras (66), Astoria
(44), Corbett (42) and Seaside
(19).
There is good news for the
Gulls and head coach Danny
Taylor — Andrew Gastelum
and Luke Nelson had third-
place finishes for Seaside in
the Cowapa League meet; and
THE WRESTLERS
113: Ethan Phillips
120: Andrew Gastelum
132: Donald LaTourette
152: Alex Barnett
160: Alfonso Alcantar
160: Jeremiah Stanley
170: Gavin Meyer
170: Christopher Avery
182: David Toyooka
182: Mark Phipps
220: Brennan
Loveridge
220: Tyler Tackitt
220: Luke Nelson
285: Will Kautz
the same two had the highest
finishes for the Gulls in the
district meet, as Gastelum was
sixth at 113 pounds, and Nel-
son was eighth at 220.
GO
KATHY MORGAN/FOR SEASIDE SIGNAL
Donald LaTourette, top, is back for another season of wrestling for the Gulls.
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