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FRIDAY
June 24, 2022
Summer Sports
SeasideSignal.com
BASKETBALL
SOFTBALL
Seaside School District
Ila Bowles, Tara Lair and Abby Nofi eld earned Cowapa League fi rst-team honors. Emma Arden and Erin Owsley received
honorable mention.
Jeff TerHar
Ever Siboney makes a drive against Woodburn.
Gulls pick up Cowapa all-League awards
The Astorian
2022 COWAPA ALL-LEAGUE SOFTBALL TEAM
Locals take part
in all-star series
The Astorian
The West All-Stars
topped the North All-
Stars 90-71 in the cham-
pionship game of the
boys’ 4A/3A/2A basket-
ball series, the 49th annual
summer all-star event
hosted by the Oregon Ath-
letic Coaches Association.
The three-game all-
star series showcases the
top senior class talent in
the state from the 2021-
22 season. The North ros-
ter included three players
from Clatsop County.
In Friday’s opener at the
Morse Center in Eugene,
the North snapped a 47-47
halftime tie by outscoring
the South 61-27 in the sec-
ond half, for a 108-74 win.
Five players scored
in double fi gures for the
North. Mathias Billings
of De La Salle led with 19
points, followed by Sea-
side’s Ever Sibony with
18. Seaside teammate
Cash Corder and Knap-
pa’s Logan Morrill scored
15 points apiece, while
Morrill (7-for-11 from the
fi eld) had a game-high 15
rebounds to go with three
blocks.
Corder had three steals,
two blocks, two assists and
eight boards, and Sibony
had 10 rebounds, four
steals and three assists.
The North out-rebounded
the South 78 to 47.
In Saturday’s champi-
onship game at Wilson-
ville High School, the
West All-Stars had 10
steals and blocked seven
shots in the win, while
both teams launched a
combined 71 3-pointers,
missing 53.
Austen Sladek (West-
ern Christian) had 16
points to lead the West,
with 14 points from Colby
Evans (Junction City)
and 11 by Riley Cantu
(Kennedy).
Billings led the North
with 17 points. Sibony
had eight points, while
Morrill and Corder were
held to six and fi ve points,
respectively.
Numerous players picked up awards
this season, on the annual Cowapa all-
league softball team, as voted on by the
league’s coaches. Among the the fi rst
team are Seaside’s Ila Bowles, a senior,
Tara Lair, a senior, and Abby Nofi eld, a
junior. Earning honorable mention were
seniors Emma Arden and Erin Owsley.
The Player of the Year honor went to
Astoria freshman Maddie Wilkin; the
Designated Players of the Year were
Emilie Eddy of Valley Catholic and Til-
lamook’s Ashlyn Mattson; and Wilkin
was also the Pitcher of the Year.
Astoria’s Junior Israel and his staff
of Korie Blacker, Libby Di Bartolomeo
and Lou Marconeri were named
Coaches of the Year.
In addition to Wilkin, Astoria had
seven other players earn all-league hon-
ors. Seaside landed fi ve players on the
all-league squad.
With three freshmen on the fi rst team
and two sophomore honorable men-
tions, the Lady Fish could be the domi-
Player of the Year: Maddie Wilkin, Astoria
Pitcher of the Year: Maddie Wilkin, Astoria
Designated Players of the Year: Emilie Eddy, Valley
Catholic; Ashlyn Mattson, Tillamook
Coach of the Year: Junior Israel, Astoria
First Team
Maddie Wilkin, Fr., Astoria
Chloe Bauer, Jr., Valley Catholic
Gaby Bauer, Fr., Valley Catholic
Ila Bowles, Sr., Seaside
Shelby Bruney, Fr., Astoria
Mary Crosby, Fr., Valley Catholic
Kassandra Douglas, Sr., Banks
Gabi Garcia, Jr., Tillamook
Malia Groshong, So., Valley Catholic
Nayomi Holmstedt, Fr., Astoria
Tara Lair, Sr., Seaside
nant team in the Cowapa League for the
next several years, after advancing to
the 2022 state quarterfi nals.
Astoria won the league title with a
12-0 league record, well ahead of Val-
ley Catholic (8-4) and Banks (5-7),
both of which drop to the 3A level next
season.
Astoria defeated Corbett 7-0 in a
fi rst round game, before dropping a 3-0
decision to Stayton in the quarterfi nals,
the program’s fi rst appearance in the
fi nal eight since 1983.
Playing a schedule of big school
opponents, the Lady Fishermen of 1983
defeated Sheridan 4-2 in a fi rst round
game, before an 8-2 loss to La Salle in
the quarterfi nals.
Gearhart playground ready for installation
Seaside Signal
Equipment has arrived
and a land survey completed
as the city prepares to install
a new playground at Centen-
nial Park between between
Pacifi c Way and A Street,
next to the Trail’s End Art
Center.
The process began after
the closing of Gearhart Ele-
mentary School when stu-
dent Berkley Sturgell wrote
the city proposing the new
playground. Sturgell helped
organize a “quarter-mile
challenge,” with the goal
to collect enough quar-
Field: Could training facility be moved?
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ters to stretch the length of
one-quarter mile. The proj-
ect raised more than $33,000
overall, with $12,000 of that
raised by Sturgell, 11.
The 4,400-square-foot
area on the southwest cor-
ner of the 3/4-acre park
would feature playground
equipment and other fea-
tures required to adjust said
use with land and uses in
the neighborhood. The play-
ground will include a play
tower with slide and banister
bars, a double swing combi-
nation with two swings and
a “bird’s nest,” and training
bars with ropes, knots and
nets.
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Herche Family Training Facility in Broadway Park.
of last year, they resurfaced
and said to the district, ‘Do
you want to resolve this?’
We said, ‘Of course we do.
We want to work together
to build a great softball fi eld
for our athletes.’ So we then
entered into a resolution
agreement and are required
to complete those agree-
ments and the softball fi eld
next June.”
To meet the compliance
deadline, the school dis-
trict investigated three sites:
Broadway Field, fi elds on
Wahanna Road, and a prop-
erty north of the former high
school known as the “North
40.”
The Wahanna Road site
was eliminated after studies
revealed wetlands and poor
quality soil.
Land at the former Sea-
side High School on U.S.
Highway 101 and North
Holladay off ers a central-
ized location and has been
viewed favorably by the
city’s parks advisory com-
mittee. But the site would
require utilities, power and
earthwork — which Broad-
way Field already has.
In April, the school dis-
trict board voted to revisit
Broadway Field as their pre-
ferred site.
Consultant Zach Stokes
of ZCS Engineering, on
behalf of the school district,
determined that an upgraded
softball fi eld and baseball
fi eld wouldn’t fi t on the
property as laid out now.
“Even if we use a min-
imum-size softball fi eld, it
wouldn’t fi t on this site with
all the other parameters that
we had to work through,”
Stokes told the council. “It
turns out that moving the
training facility is actually a
pretty reasonable idea, and
accomplishes a handful of
goals. From an engineering
standpoint and a practicality
standpoint, the Broadway
fi eld modifi cation appears to
be a really good option for
the district and for the city.”
The city’s public works
director Dale McDow-
ell agreed. “The Broadway
proposition is actually the
best overall and if you think
it’s diffi cult to move a build-
ing like that, it’s actually
pretty simple,” he said. “It’s
not that big a deal.”
Mayor Jay Barber called
Broadway Field the best of
the three options in terms of
expense and usability.
Corder, who is a member
of the school board, urged
greater thought and design
planning before council
action.
“We need to think ahead
and plan and make a good
design so that we can sat-
isfy our community mem-
bers and our kids and people
for generations to come,” he
said. “I wish we could put it
on roller skates and scoot it
around. But that’s kind of an
afterthought and that’s kind
of that’s a big part of my
point: It’s an afterthought.”
While councilors and
Mayor Jay Barber said the
Broadway Field location
was the best of the three pro-
posed locations for a new
softball fi eld, they asked for
additional input.
The plan should go to a
public hearing, Councilor
Randy Frank said. “We need
input from a lot of people,”
he said. “Hopefully when
we bring this forward to the
public, open it up we’ll have
a lot of time for discussion
and see how people feel.”
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But in order to meet
those requirements, the Her-
che Family Training Facil-
ity, designed and developed
with donations and contribu-
tions from the community,
may complicate matters.
According to an agree-
ment signed in March 2020
between the park district,
the city and Seaside Kids,
Inc., any proposed change to
usage or policies governing
usage of the batting facility
other than scheduling will
require approval by the city,
the park district and Seaside
Kids.
The facility — built at a
cost of $244,000 — would
have to be moved.
“I hope there’s some
thought in planning more so
than what has gone into this
operation so far,” the bat-
ting facility’s project man-
ager Chris Corder said.
“You cannot pick up a pole
barn and move it. I’ll repeat
that: You cannot pick up a
pole barn and move it. There
are 90 yards of concrete in
the fl oor. It just doesn’t work
that easily.”
The school district’s
request to develop a soft-
ball fi eld comes in response
to a complaint fi led against
the district by the Offi ce of
Civil Rights alleging dis-
crimination against female
athletes on the basis of sex
and equality in the athletics
programs at the high school.
“The Seaside School Dis-
trict received a complaint
from the Offi ce of Civil
Rights alleging discrimi-
nation that that our softball
fi eld was not comparable
to our baseball fi eld,” Pen-
rod said Monday. “In July
Mary Lou Lux, Sr., Valley Catholic
Tenley Matteucci, Sr., Astoria
Abby Nofi eld, Jr., Seaside
Hannah Obrist, Fr., Tillamook
Hayden Rockwell, Sr., Banks
Alex Saunders, Jr., Banks
Mercedes Walter, Jr., Astoria
Honorable Mention
Emma Arden, Sr., Seaside
Avery Biederman, So., Astoria
Megan Davis, Sr., Astoria
Fionna Duryea, So., Astoria
Taylor Haltiner, Sr., Tillamook
Jordyn Maller, Fr., Banks
Erin Owsley, Sr., Seaside
Tori Pesterfi eld, Jr., Tillamook
Caitlin Queen, So., Valley Catholic
Morgan Rockwell, Jr., Banks
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