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FRIDAY
February 15, 2019
Winter Sports
SeasideSignal.com
Girls Basketball
Seaside tops Knappa, 64-37
Seaside wins
district relay
Lin qualifies in backstroke
Seaside Signal
Seaside Signal
The Seaside swim team managed to
win one event in the District 1/4A meet, a
competitive two days of swimming Feb.
8-9 at Newport.
The Valley Catholic girls and the New-
port boys picked up the team champion-
ships, while the Gulls finished fourth on
the girls’ side and fifth on the boys.
All first- and second-place finish-
ers in each event qualified for state, with
most third-place finishers and even some
fourth-place times qualifying for state.
In a very competitive district on the
boys’ side, Seaside failed to qualify any
swimmers for the state meet. But the
Lady Gulls will send one relay team to
state, with one individual qualifying in a
second event.
Seaside scored its lone victory in the
girls 200-yard freestyle relay, where the
foursome of Kendy Lin, Kaisa Liljen-
wall, Anna Huddleston and Nicole Blan-
kenhorn swam a season-best 1 minute,
52.46 seconds to finish ahead of Newport
(1:53.31).
A
hot-shooting Seaside team warmed
up for the post-season with a 64-37
win over Knappa, in a nonleague
girls basketball game Feb. 8 at
Seaside.
The Lady Gulls were 28-for-55 from the
field, including 5-of-19 from the 3-point line.
The only place Seaside struggled was at the
free throw line, where the Gulls fnished just
3-for-15.
“Take a win and run with it,” said Sea-
side coach Mike Hawes. “We were able to
get out and run some, and Morgan (Blodgett)
and Lilli (Taylor) were the primary beneficia-
ries, though (Emy) Kiser made some shots as
well. Good to put some points on the board
and have an opportunity to play a lot of the
kids who often sit and root for the others.”
Taylor led all scorers with 20 points, to go
with eight rebounds and four assists. Blodgett
added six boards and three assists. Kiser
scored 10 points for Seaside, which led 19-4
after one quarter.
Jeff Ter Har
Valiants 43, Gulls 40
Seaside rallied from a 17-6 deficit after
one quarter and was seconds away from a win
in regulation, but a pair of 3-pointers by Val-
ley Catholic’s Katelyn Shook helped the vis-
iting Valiants score an eventual 43-40 over-
time win Feb. 5.
Shook drained a 3-pointer in the final sec-
onds of regulation to send the game to an
extra period, then banked in a trey in over-
time for the final margin of victory.
Lilli Taylor gets some open space against Valley Catholic. The Valiants defeated Seaside in
overtime.
Seaside coach Mike Hawes called it, “an
overtime agonizer.”
He added, “Valley jumped out early, and
then something clicked (for the Gulls) in the
second quarter. And from there it was tight
the whole game.”
Emy Kiser and Lilli Taylor both scored
nine points to lead Seaside, which went on a
15-6 run in the second quarter and trailed by
just 23-21 at halftime.
“It was nice to see us produce, but we still
missed a ton of one-footers, and settled for too
many three’s,” Hawes said, referring to Sea-
side’s 2-for-22 effort from the 3-point line.
“But it was a fun, wild game and we got
contributions from a lot of kids.”
Seaside boys roll on with three league wins
By GARY HENLEY
Seaside Signal
The result was predictable
Tuesday night at Seaside, where
the No. 1-ranked Gulls were
hosting Tillamook, ranked 34th
out of 34 teams in the Class 4A
boys basketball rankings.
The Gulls had the game
locked up just a few minutes
into the contest, as they scored
the first nine points of the game
and led 32-6 after one quarter, on
their way to an 89-45 victory.
Seaside faced very little
defense from the Cheesemak-
ers, and put on a shooting clinic
for an eventual 77-28 lead in the
third quarter.
The Gulls led 56-24 at half-
time, thanks in large part to 24
points in the first half by Chase
Januik, who finished with 34.
Beau Johnson scored 12 and
Duncan Thompson added 10 for
Seaside, which had 11 players in
the scoring column. The Gulls
finish league play Thursday at
Banks.
The Knappa Loggers gave
a pretty good account of them-
selves Feb. 8 at Seaside. For
about a quarter and a half.
Jeff Ter Har
Payton Westerholm makes a move against a Valley Catholic defender.
That’s about when the Gulls
turned a slim 19-18 lead into a
34-18 advantage, on their way
to a 79-49 win over the Loggers
in a nonleague boys basketball
game.
Knappa had not lost by 30 or
more points since a 74-42 loss to
R.A. Long in 2013. But the Log-
gers shouldn’t feel too bad —
Seaside does that to everybody.
Whether they’re playing the
defending 5A state champions or
the No. 1-ranked 4A team … the
Gulls are beating just about any-
one they want right now, as they
tune up for another state title run.
Going into their final two
league games, the No. 1-ranked
Gulls were 19-2, with 16 straight
wins.
After the 15-0 run in the sec-
ond period, Seaside never looked
back, despite an early challenge
from Knappa. The Loggers led
15-14 after one quarter, as Eli
Takalo scored at the buzzer to
end the first eight minutes.
The Gulls are not accustomed
to trailing after one quarter, nor
are they used to missing seven
straight 3-pointers, as they did to
start the second period.
But Knappa was equally cold,
and Seaside took advantage
with a successful 3-pointer from
Brayden Johnson. The Gulls
took the lead for good on a tip-in
by Payton Westerholm, who
has five cousins on the Knappa
roster.
Seaside’s Duncan Thomp-
son had three straight scores, and
Beau Johnson’s 3-pointer gave
the Gulls their 34-18 lead.
In the second quarter, Knappa
had three free throws and just
one field goal (a 3-pointer by
Kanai Phillip with 45 seconds
left).
Timber Engblom kept the
Loggers within striking dis-
tance in the third quarter, when
he scored 10 of his team-high
18 points, but Seaside reeled off
another 9-0 to pull away.
Chase Januik scored a game-
high 20 points for Seaside, which
finished 10-for-10 from the free
throw line. Ryan Hague added
16, while Beau Johnson and
Thompson each finished with 10.
Eli Takalo added eight points
and Mason Westerholm score
seven for Knappa.
Seaside grapplers
qualify for state
Seaside Signal
As expected, Tillamook ran off with
the District 1/4A wrestling title over the
weekend of Feb. 8-9.
Hosting the tournament on their
home mat, the Cheesemakers domi-
nated the eight-team field by scoring 474
team points, well ahead of second-place
Estacada (224.5). Woodburn was third
(223.5) and Molalla fourth (214).
Seaside finished seventh with 80.5
points, and qualified two wrestlers for the
state tournament.
Junior Luke Nelson highlighted Sea-
side’s weekend by taking second at 220
pounds.
SCOREBOARD
BOYS BASKETBALL
Seaside 79, Knappa 49
KNA (49): Timber Engblom 18, Takalo 8, Westerholm 7, Phillip
5, Vanderburg 4, Ramvick 3, Lackey 3, Goodman 1, Hoover,
Wallace.
SEA (79): Chase Januik 20, Hague 16, Be.Johnson 10, Thomp-
son 10, Westerholm 9, Br.Johnson 8, Meyer 4, Bennett 2,
Sibony.
Knappa
15
6
16
12—49
Seaside 14 20
25
20—79
Seaside 43, Valley Catholic 29
VC (29): Boileau 8, Tetzloff 8, Johnson 5, Flemmer 5, Miller 3.
SEA (43): Chase Januik 14, Hague 13, Br.Johnson 8, Wester-
holm 4, Thompson 4, Be.Johnson, Meyer.
Valley 6
5
11
7—29
Seaside 13 12
11
7—43
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Seaside 64, Knappa 37
KNA (37): Aiko Miller 10, Carlson 8, Dietrichs 8, Weaver 5,
Tischer 4, Corcoran 2, Walker, McCall, Nicholson, Rilatos,
Hellberg.
SEA (64): Lilli Taylor 20, Blodgett 19, Kiser 10, Douglas 5, Van
Dusen 4, Angulo-Joli 2, Garhofer 2, Turner 2.
Knappa 4 15
8
10—37
Seaside 19 14
17
14—64
Valley Catholic 43, Seaside 40
SEA (40): Emy Kiser 9, Lilli Taylor 9, Douglas 7, Blodgett 6, Van-
Dusen 4, Garhofer 3, Turner 2, Goin, Zagata, Angulo.
Valley 17 6
6
7
7—43
Seaside 6 15
9
6
4—40
Athletes of the Week
Girls
Kendy Lin, Swimming
Boys
Chase Januik, Basketball
Lin is closing out her high school swimming career
in style. The senior will be competing in two events at
the state meet Feb. 15-16. She swam a leg on Seaside’s
winning 200-yard freestyle relay (1:52.46) in the dis-
trict meet (with Kaisa Liljenwall, Anna Huddleston
and Nicole Blankenhorn), and she had a state-qualify-
ing time (1:07.87) in the 100-yard backstroke, placing
fourth at districts.
In addition to his long distance buzzer-beaters, Seaside’s
senior is also scoring lots of points. Januik erupted for 33
in a 70-43 win Feb. 1 at Astoria, which included a 12-0 run
by Januik in the first quarter. Three days earlier, Januik and
the No. 1-ranked Gulls posted their biggest win, 60-51 over
previous No. 1 Banks. Januik scored 16, and had the shot of
the night with a 3-pointer just beyond the midcourt line to
end the first half. He made the ESPN top 10 with his 80-foot
shot in the Feb. 5 win over Valley Catholic, then scored a
team-high 20 points in a win Feb. 8 win over Knappa.
Kendy Lin photo
Jeff Ter Har/For Seaside Signal
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