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A10 FRIDAY February 14, 2020 Spring Sports SeasideSignal.com CLATSOP CLASH Gulls boys win, 65-37; Girls fall to No. 2 Astoria By GARY HENLEY Seaside Signal T Melissa Linder-Cho Stephen Snyder (1) and the Seaside defense blocked 10 shots in the Clatsop Clash win over Astoria. he final Clatsop Clash basketball games of 2019-20 went out with a bang Feb. 7. No major upsets, but the four teams at least put on a show for the last Clatsop Clash to be played alongside Highway 101. Barring any state play- off meetings between the two schools, the last basketball games between the Fisher- men and Gulls at Seaside High School (ye olde Seaside High School) played out as expected. In game one of Friday’s dou- bleheader, the No. 2-ranked Astoria girls took advan- tage of one bad quarter for the Lady Gulls in a 49-38 win over Seaside. And the No. 2-ranked Sea- side boys capped the Clash with a non-memorable finish, in a 65-37 victory over Astoria. The Lady Fishermen and the Seaside boys both have plans on playing for state championships March 14 in BASKETBALL Forest Grove, but neither team was at its best Friday night. The Astoria girls trailed 8-1, missed their first eight shots from the field and committed 22 turnovers; and the Seaside boys missed 20 shots from the 3-point line. For the most part, Friday’s games will be mostly forgot- ten by the time the next Clat- sop Clash league meeting at Seaside takes place sometime in 2021 at Seaside’s new high school. Girls Astoria 49, Seaside 38 Winners of two straight and fresh off a win at Banks, Sea- side was hoping to pull off an upset against Astoria in the girls’ game. But after jumping out to an 8-1 lead, the Lady Gulls were outscored 24-9 the remainder of the first half, then commit- ted 15 turnovers in the third quarter and trailed 40-25 going into the fourth. Astoria had 15 turnovers of its own in the second half, and missed 31 shots from the field. Still, the Lady Fish improved to 5-0 in league play, and can officially lock up the Cowapa title with a win Tuesday at Banks. Julia Norris and Brooklynn Hankwitz scored 17 points apiece for Astoria, with Nor- ris scoring 11 in the second quarter. Ellisa Blodgett had 13 points and Ruby Douglas added 10 for Seaside. “We had to avoid any sus- tained stretches of turnovers,” said Seaside coach Mike Hawes. “The third quarter it looked like we forgot every- thing we already had done. We thought we could throw the ball over (Kelsey) Fausett, when clearly we couldn’t.” But, he said, “we were bet- ter through most of the night, as I thought we would. Nice to have Elly (Blodgett) help with some scoring. I think we can beat a lot of teams with that effort, just not Astoria. You can’t have any bad stretches, plus (against a team) that has a lot of offensively-skilled kids.” WRESTLING Seaside splits doubleheader at Banks Seaside takes part in Beach Brawl tourney Seaside Signal While Astoria has essentially locked up the Cowapa League girls basketball championship, the race for second place could come down to the final night of the league season, two weeks from now. At the midway point of the league season, the Lady Fish- ermen were 4-0 atop the league standings. And with four games to go, Seaside moved into a three-way tie for second place at 2-2, follow- ing a 37-30 Gulls’ win Feb. 4 at Banks. The Braves are also 2-2, along with Valley Catholic. After trailing 13-9 late in the first quarter, Seaside’s Ruby Douglas scored inside to spark a 10-0 run by the Gulls. Banks rallied to tie the game at 22-22 early in the second half, but Seaside put the game away with four straight baskets, from Lilli Taylor, Ellisa Blodgett, Caleigh Peterson and Blodgett again, lead- ing to a decisive 10-2 third quarter for the Gulls. “The girls gave the old man a nice birthday present,” said Sea- side coach Mike Hawes, who was celebrating a birthday. He called it a “Fun, good win on Banks’s floor. We were just steady throughout, broke their press, got it to Ruby (Douglas) to finish.” Tristyn McFadden “had a great floor game, and all the girls were awesome,” Hawes said. “We spread it out for Lilli and made some free throws to keep the lead. I felt like we were going to play well and we did, for four quarters.” Douglas scored 12 points to go with 12 rebounds to lead the Gulls, while Taylor made 1-of-6 shots from the field and 6-of-8 at the free throw line for six points. Boys Banks 70, Gulls 63 In their first meeting since last year’s state championship, the Seaside Gulls and the Banks Braves played the momentum game Feb. 4 at Banks. And “Big Mo” was with the Braves in the fourth quarter, when Banks overcame a 44-38 deficit to start the quarter and outscored Seaside 35-16 to win, 70-63. Banks improved to 4-0 in league, while Seaside dropped to 3-1. The two teams will close out the league season Feb. 20 at Sea- side, and could end up playing another league championship tie- breaker after that. Both teams had big swings and scoring runs throughout Tues- day’s game. Sparked by three straight 3-pointers from Seaside’s Brayden Johnson, the Gulls led 25-11 early in the second period. Later in the quarter, an offen- sive rebound basket by Stephen Snyder had Seaside in front 29-21. From there, the Braves made their first big run of the night, as a bucket by Tyler Exline sparked a 13-0 Banks rally. Trailing 34-29 early in the third quarter, the Gulls answered with 15 unanswered points of their own. A jump shot by Ryan Hague and a 3-pointer from Beau John- son, followed by baskets from Snyder, Hague and Derrick Ben- nett capped a 15-0 run by the Gulls, who led 44-36 in the clos- ing seconds of the third. But the biggest — and last — run of the night belonged to the Braves. An offensive rebound score by Charles White to close the third represented the first two points of a 22-3 rally. The star was Exline, a 6-foot-2 junior who connected on four 3-pointers in a two-minute span to give Banks a 58-47 advantage. The Gulls made four 3-point- ers of their own in the final quar- ter, but Banks picked up three bas- kets from Jacob Slifka, then made 9-of-10 free throws in the final 2:29 to close out the win. Exline led all scorers with 21 points, with Slifka adding 17 and White with 10. Brayden Johnson led Seaside with 16 points, with Hague scor- ing 15, Beau Johnson with 13 and Snyder chipping in 12. Seaside Signal The Warrenton wrestling team made the short trip across the river Feb. 1 and won the team title of the annual “Beach Brawl” tournament, hosted by Ilwaco High School. Warrenton racked up 179 points to top the 16-team field, finishing 20 points ahead of second-place Ilwaco (159) with Rainier (134.5) third. Other regional teams compet- ing included Seaside (11th), Astoria (13th) and Knappa (16th). Seaside scored 56 team points, mostly from four fourth place finishes. Andrew Gastelum lost in the semifinals to Parker Greenawald of Warrenton, then scored a major decision (11-2) over Deryk Turner of Neah-Kah-Nie in a consolation match. Everett Rollins won three matches in consolation to take fourth at 145; Lawson Talamantez did the same for fourth at 182; and Luke Nelson went 4-1 on the mat for fourth at 195. SCOREBOARD GIRLS BASKETBALL Astoria 49, Seaside 38 AST (49): Julia Norris 17, Brooklynn Hankwitz 17, Helmersen 6, O’Brien 6, Fausett 3, Long, Jackson. SEA (38): Ellisa Blodgett 13, Douglas 10, Taylor 6, Doney 5, McFadden 2, Peterson 2. Astoria 9 16 15 9—49 Seaside 8 9 8 13—38 Seaside 37, Banks 30 SEA (37): Ruby Douglas 12, Taylor 8, Blodgett 6, McFadden 4, Peterson 4, Doney 3. BAN (30): Maggie Streblow 11, Hailey 7, Johnson 4, Evans 4, VanDomelen 2, Minervini 2. Seaside 14 6 10 7—37 Banks 13 7 2 8—30 BOYS BASKETBALL Seaside 65, Astoria 37 AST (37): Ryan Stenblom 10, McMaster 6, Moore 6, Marincovich 5, Williams 4, Brockman 2, Junes 2, Boudreau 1, Matthews 1, Altheide-Nielson. SEA (65): Ryan Hague 16, Be.Johnson 11, Sibony 10, Snyder 8, Langmo 6, Br.Johnson 5, Bennett 4, Rich 3, Corder 2. Astoria 10 7 11 9—37 Seaside 17 21 11 16—65 Banks 73, Seaside 60 SEA (60): Brayden Johnson 16, Hague 15, Be.John- son 13, Snyder 12, Bennett 2, Sibony, Pugh. BAN (73): Tyler Exline 21, Slifka 17, White 10, Evans 9, Walker 8, Taylor 5, Gobel 2, Buliga 2. Seaside 19 10 15 16—60 Banks 11 19 8 35—73 SWIMMING Cowapa League Championships at Astoria Aquatic Center Girls team: Astoria 222, Tillamook 215, Seaside 207, Valley Catholic 185 Boys team: Seaside 294, Astoria 292, Valley Catho- lic 179, Tillamook 103 WRESTLING Ilwaco Beach Brawl Team scores: Warrenton 179, Ilwaco 159, Rainier 134.5, Life Christian 98, Kelso 88, Clatskanie 87, Ray- mond 82, Neah-Kah-Nie 77.5, RA Long 70, Union/ Cove 60, Seaside 56, Mark Morris 49, Astoria 47, Adna 36, Nestucca 36, Knappa 8. Seaside boys take first in Cowapa League swim championship Seaside Signal Cowapa League championship No. 1 of the 2019-20 sports season for Seaside came last week, in the form of a first place finish for the Seaside boys swim team. The league meet was held Feb. 7 at the Astoria Aquatic Center. Swimmers from Rainier and Scap- poose also took part, but their points did not figure in the Cowapa League standings. While Astoria won the girls team championship with 222 points, the Seaside boys racked up 294 — just enough to get past Astoria’s 292 — to capture the first place trophy. The boys’ team title was still on the line in the very last event of the day, the 400-yard freestyle relay. Seaside ended up disqualified from the race, along with Tilla- mook. So the event came down to two teams — Astoria and Valley Catholic. Seaside High School The Seaside boys swim team, following their league championship victory Feb. 7. Luckily for the Gulls, the Val- iants finished 14 seconds ahead of the Fishermen, who picked up 26 points for second place, instead of 32 had they won the event. That left the Fishermen two points short of the Gulls in the team standings. Valley Catholic was a distant third with 179, followed by Tilla- mook (103). Seaside will compete this week- end in the district meet, Friday and Saturday at Newport. The district results will deter- mine state qualifying. For now, the Seaside boys will celebrate their league championship. The Gulls won just two events, with several more top three finishes to rack up the points. Seaside’s first win came in event 16, the 200-yard freestyle relay. The foursome of Westin Carter, Shawn Collins, Luke Verley and Henry Garvin (three juniors and a sophomore) edged Astoria at the wall, finishing in 1 minute, 44.71 seconds, to Astoria’s 1:44.84. Collins swam the very next event, winning the 100-yard back- stroke in 1:08.03, just ahead of teammate Leif Rehnert, second in 1:08.92. For more points, the Gulls had to rely on second place finishes for Garvin in the 50-yard freestyle, Masyn McCulloch in the 500-yard freestyle and Leif DeWinter in the 100-yard breaststroke; and third place showings from McCulloch (200 freestyle), Sean Olea (200 individual medley), Sam Heroux (100 butterfly) and Garvin (100 freestyle). The Seaside girls scored 207 points for third behind Astoria and Tillamook, with just one win. Senior Kaisa Liljenwall teamed with soph- omore Taryn Shay and juniors Emily Philbrook and Brooke Blan- kenhorn to finish first in the 400 freestyle relay in 4:32.15, just ahead of Valley Catholic’s 4:33.59. Blankenhorn took second in both the 200 and 500 freestyle races, while Liljenwall, Blanken- horn, Sofia Shipley and Philbrook place second behind Astoria in the 200-yard freestyle. Liljenwall was third in the 100 freestyle, and Shipley took third in the breaststroke.
