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A8 FRIDAY February 21, 2020 Spring Sports SeasideSignal.com Kayla Bucher The Seaside Riptide. Front row, left to right: MaKenna White, Kylie Keranen, Moriah Johnson, Lily Miller. Back row: assistant coach Scott White, Ella Brenden, Mya Fenney, Carly Corder, Kenzie Starr, Kimberly Cristabol, Sophia Bucher, coach Chris Corder. Seaside sixth-graders win Sisters Shootout Seaside Signal At the high school level, the Astoria girls and the Seaside boys will be among the favorites in the upcoming 4A state prep tournament. And when it comes to sixth grade basketball in Clatsop County, the Astoria boys and the Seaside girls will also be battling for state titles next month. At a weekend tournament in Sisters, the Seaside Riptide girls’ sixth grade team took first place in the “Sisters Shootout,” defeating the Crook County Spurs in Sunday’s championship game, 30-8. Seaside had two wins Saturday over West Salem (48-8) and the Albany Lady Mayhem (35-24), and a semifinal win Sunday over Newport (33-8). Kayla Bucher Seaside’s Lily Miller defends the inbounds pass. Garvin, Seaside relay teams qualify for state Coached by Chris Corder and Scott White, team members include Ella Brenden, Sophia Bucher, Carly Corder, Kimberly Cristabol, Mya Fenney, Moriah Johnson, Kylie Keranen, Lily Miller, Kenzie Starr and MaKenna White. In sixth grade boys basketball, the Astoria Bandits qualified for state by winning a tournament in Kelso, Washington last week. The Bandits defeated a team from Longview, 46-36, in the championship game of the gold bracket in Kel- so’s “For the Love of the Game” tournament to earn an automatic state bid. Astoria’s only loss of the tournament was in pool play to the same Longview team, 48-47. The Oregon middle school state championships take place in Bend next month. Seaside falls at Valley Catholic Seaside Signal By GARY HENLEY Seaside Signal Always a favorite at the state meet level, Newport swept the team titles Satur- day on the final day of the District 1/4A swim meet, hosted by the Cubs. There were no team titles for the teams from Clatsop County. Astoria and Sea- side only won a combined three events, but the Fish- ermen and Gulls had bet- ter luck Sunday, qualifying several more swimmers for the state meet as wildcard entrants. It was the second year in a row that Newport hosted the district meet. The event returns to Astoria next year. The state meet takes place Feb. 21-22 at Tuala- tin Hills Aquatic Center in Beaverton. In the meantime, the Cubs had a great day in their home pool, crushing the district competition. The Newport girls scored 279 points for a team title, with Tillamook second with 188 points, fol- lowed by Taft (179). Asto- ria (157) was fourth and Seaside (131) sixth out of eight teams. The Newport boys racked up 297 points to eas- ily top Taft (198) and Sea- side (189). Astoria was fifth with 125. And Newport’s com- bined 576 points was plenty to win the combined team championship. Among the Clatsop County swimmers, Astoria Shane Spell Seaside swimmer Henry Garvin will take part in three events at the state meet. junior Tori Smith swam her best meet, winning both the 200-yard individual med- ley in 2 minutes, 22.98 sec- onds, and then the 100-yard backstroke (1:03.91) to gain two automatic spots in the state meet. Smith will have the sixth-best seed time in the 200 IM at the state meet, and will be the eighth seed in the backstroke. Seaside’s lone win belonged to junior Henry Garvin, who won the 50-yard freestyle final in 23.90 seconds. His time of 24.79 was the second-best in Friday’s preliminary. “We started off a lit- tle sluggish on Friday, but just kept building as the meet went on,” said Seaside coach Shane Spell. “Hen- ry’s win in the 50 was a great race and punched his individual ticket to state.” The Seaside girls team “continued scoring a lot of points with not a lot of swimmers,” he said. “Kaisa Liljenwall finished up a great three years of swim- ming with a PR in the 100 (1:02.86) and strong relay legs. “Our distance swimmers across the board had a lot of good swims, dropping some nice chunks of time.” Other automatic quali- fiers from the district meet (top two in each even qual- ify for state) included Asto- ria’s Riley Cameron, who finished second in the 100- yard freestyle in 52.61 sec- onds, the fifth-best time going into the state meet. Seaside’s 200-yard free- style relay foursome of Westin Carter, Luke Ver- ley, Masyn McCulloch and Garvin finished second in 1:39.68, just behind New- port’s 1:38.69. Luckily for the Fish and the Gulls, the strength and depth of the district resulted in several wildcard qualifi- ers Sunday. Cameron finished third in the 200 IM (2:13.29), good enough for a No. 6 seed at the state meet. And the Gulls quali- fied a pair of fourth-place finishers. Garvin’s time of 55.02 was fourth in the district meet, but qualified for state; and the 400-freestyle relay squad of Carter, McCull- och, Logan Dennis and Leif Rehnert placed fourth in district (3:56.19), good enough for a No. 12 seed in the state meet. “That shows how fast our district is,” Spell said. “A fourth place finish in the 400 relay still earned a wildcard slot at state.” On the girls’ side, the only wildcard qualifier was Astoria’s Grace Peeler in the 100-yard breaststroke (third, 1:17.16). Seaside had a great opportunity to move up in the Cowapa League girls basketball standings Feb. 11, but came up just short at Val- ley Catholic. The Valiants jumped out to a quick lead, then held on for an eventual 48-43 win over the Lady Gulls. Valley Catholic improved to 3-2, a half-game lead on Banks (3-3), while Seaside dropped to 2-4. “We battled back but could not quite get over the hump,” Seaside coach Mike Hawes said of Tuesday’s loss. “Right now, with some injuries and experience, we’re running six deep and the kids just plumb get worn out. I have nothing but praise for their effort.” Ruby Douglas and Lilli Taylor scored 16 points apiece for Seaside, which trailed 16-11 after one quar- ter. The teams played evenly (32-32) over the final three quarters. The Gulls struggled from the 3-point line (2-for- 12) and the free throw line (3-of-10), which made the difference. “If we could have cor- ralled a few more rebounds, made a few more free throws, held (Josie) Napoli in check just a bit … but it didn’t hap- pen,” Hawes said. “Ruby is playing well enough to be on a first name basis with the coaches. ‘Guard Ruby.’ She kept us afloat, and Lilli almost got us back to square, but the six that played all played well and hard.” Gulls pound Valiants, 60-39 Seaside Signal The Seaside boys basket- ball team started tuning up for the post-season with a 60-39 win Feb. 11 at Valley Catholic. Beau Johnson scored a game-high 16 points, and the Gulls scored their second blowout victory of the sea- son over the Valiants. Sea- side won the first encounter Jan. 24, 77-25. The Gulls had three other players in double figures: Ryan Hague with 10, while Brayden Johnson and Ste- phen Snyder scored 10 apiece. SCOREBOARD GIRLS BASKETBALL Valley Catholic 48, Seaside 43 SEA (43): Lilli Taylor 16, Ruby Douglas 16, Blodgett 5, Peterson 4, McFadden 1, Doney 1. Seaside 11 9 11 12—43 Valley C 16 9 13 10—48 SEA (60): Brayden Johnson 10, Ryan Hague 14, Beau Johnson 16, Stephen Snyder 10, Sibony 7, Langmo 2, Rich 1. BOYS BASKETBALL Seaside 60, Valley Catholic 39 Seaside 14 17 15 14—60 VC (39): Daniel Pruitt 14, Eberhart 8, French 6, Cheung 3, Lo 3, Howard 2, Baglai 2, Hussein 1. Valley C 10 4 18 7—39
