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FRIDAY
May 14, 2021
Spring Sports
SeasideSignal.com
Gulls girls are impressive in three-way Astoria track meet
By GARY HENLEY
The Astorian
Seaside’s Elise Seppa on her way to a second-place finish in
the 1,500 meters, last Saturday at Astoria High School.
Seaside baseball
tops Tillamook
The Astorian
Tillamook’s two-run rally
in the bottom of the sev-
enth came up one run short,
as Seaside held on for a 5-4
win over the Cheesemakers
in Cowapa League baseball
action Tuesday.
Both teams had nine hits,
while Riley Kuhl and Jarred
White had two hits apiece
for the Gulls. Seaside starter
Tanner Kraushaar allowed
five hits in five innings, with
Cameron Schulte pitching the
final two innings.
Still hoping for a spot in
the season-ending, eight-team
tournament, the Gulls were
set to finish the regular sea-
son with games Thursday at
Banks and Saturday at Astoria.
Softball still in playoff hunt
The Astorian
Seaside softball is still in
the playoff hunt, as the Lady
Gulls improved to 9-3 overall
with a 12-7 victory over Til-
lamook, Tuesday at Broad-
way Field.
Erin Owsley hit a three-run
home run to highlight the win.
Now 8-2 in Cowapa
League play, Seaside can still
earn a co-league champion-
ship with two wins over Banks,
Thursday and Saturday.
With a limited num-
ber of meets on the sched-
ule, the Astoria track team
hosted a three-way meet last
Saturday with Seaside and
Warrenton.
All three teams had high-
light performers in Satur-
day’s meet.
For the Seaside girls,
junior
Hailey
Strim-
ple-Fields tied for first in the
pole vault (5-3), sophomore
Megan Hornbeck won the
high jump with a personal
best 4-8, and junior Elise
Seppa won the 3,000 meters
(13:39) after a second-place
finish in the 1,500 (5:32).
Seaside’s Lilli Taylor led
the pack in the javelin (62-
11), ahead of Astoria’s Lily
Meadows, who had personal
best throws to win both the
shot put (33 feet, 11 inches)
and discus (85-9).
On the boys’ side, Sea-
side
sophomore
Gabe
Wright was second out of 14
throwers in the javelin with
a personal best 122-11.
Astoria sophomore Ella
Zilli set personal records in
winning both the 800 meter
in 2 minutes, 43 seconds and
the 1,500 in 5:27.
On the boys side, War-
renton swept the distance
races, with Forrest Cooley
in the 800 (2:16), and Zan-
der Moha in the 1,500 (4:21)
and 3,000 (9:41). Nearly
every runner scored per-
sonal best times in all three
races.
Astoria senior T.J. Colvin
had personal best times in
winning the 100 (11.55) and
200 meter (23.84), and also
helped both Fishermen relay
teams to victories.
Fisherman junior Colton
McMaster was a triple win-
ner in the throws, with a
56-4 in the shot put, nearly
17 feet further than Warren-
ton’s Sam Irwin (PR 39-8),
while Astoria’s Presley
Beck won the high jump and
triple jump.
Boys golf: Gulls back in the state title hunt
The Astorian
The chances of winning
a state championship this
spring just increased dra-
matically for the Seaside
boys golf team.
For the first time this
shortened season, the Gulls
showed their potential in a
344-365 victory over Tilla-
mook in a dual match last
Tuesday.
Tillamook shot its best
round of the year, but the
Mooks were no match for
the Gulls. Curtis Kunde was
back to his winning ways
but this time had to share
medalist honors with junior
Carson Kawasoe, who was
playing in his first match of
the season after breaking
his collarbone in Seaside’s
last football game.
The Seagulls also had
Everest Sibony shoot a sea-
son-low 91, followed by
Conner Langmo (109) and
Owen Higdon (112).
Kunde and Kawasoe bat-
tled for medalist honors all
day with three lead changes
before ending in a tie, each
with 72s.
“I don’t want to get too
excited about today because
just (Monday) we were
at a low point for the sea-
son,” said Seaside coach
Jim Poetsch. “But I’ve been
telling them all season that
once Carson is back, we
only need two scores close
to 90 to be really good. I
think Curtis and Carson are
the best one-two pair in the
state, and today we got one
player in that 90 range.”
The Gulls finish the reg-
ular season with a match at
Quail Valley Golf Course
against Banks, with the
winner earning a trip to the
4A state tournament.
Mannix named to All-Oregon Academic Team
The Astorian
SALEM — Valerie
Mannix, of Seaside, who
attends Clatsop Commu-
nity College, has been
announced as one of 45
community college stu-
dents selected to this
school year’s All-Oregon
Academic Team by the
Oregon Community Col-
lege Association.
The
students
are
selected for their aca-
demic excellence, lead-
ership and community
service. They are all mem-
bers of Phi Theta Kappa, a
community college honor
society.
Each year, Phi Theta
Kappa, community col-
lege presidents and com-
munity college state asso-
ciations sponsor All-State
Community College Aca-
demic Team ceremonies
in 37 participating states.
Due to the coronavirus
pandemic, the Oregon
Community College Asso-
ciation is honoring the
students on its website at
bit.ly/2QWluT1
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