Some of the top track and field stars of the North Coast showed that they are ready for the postseason meets, following a competition Saturday in Banks.
Two teams expected to battle for a 4A boys golf state championship next month met on the course Thursday for the first time in 2019 at Emerald Valley Golf Course in Creswell.
A close match after nine holes, Valley Catholic eventually scored the team victory Thursday at the Astoria Golf & Country Club.
Pitching was the difference in a Saturday morning Northwest League softball game at Knappa, where the Lady Loggers cruised past Nestucca, 15-6.
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SEASIDE — There were no late-game rallies this time for the Seaside Gulls in Clatsop Clash II, which took place Thursday afternoon at Broadway Field.
After a six-day layoff, the Astoria softball team returned to action Thursday with an 11-1 win over Seaside in Cowapa League action at CMH Field.
The Astoria track team hosted its one and only home meet of the season Wednesday, and the Fishermen celebrated Senior Day with a Cowapa League dual meet win over Tillamook.
Valley Catholic hosted a three-way dual track meet Wednesday with Banks and Seaside.
Another tournament win for the Seaside boys golf team Wednesday, as the Gulls walked off with the first-place trophy in the Banks Invitational, held at Quail Valley Golf Course.
After an opening day loss to Knappa, the Warrenton Warriors have won eight of their last nine, including five in a row with a 7-3 victory Wednesday afternoon over Clatskanie at Huddleston Field.
Hayden Vandehey was a one-man wrecking crew, and the Banks Braves took advantage of a seven-run fourth inning to defeat Seaside 9-2 in a Cowapa League baseball game Wednesday at Banks.
The Clatskanie Tigers finally played their league opener, and backed up their No. 3 ranking in Class 3A softball with a 6-1 win Wednesday at Warrenton.
Cliff Crandall, a 1943 graduate of Astoria High School and a member of the school’s Hall of Fame, died on April 9.
The records reflected the game Tuesday at Knappa, where the Loggers of Knappa defeated the Vernonia Loggers 28-5 in a Northwest League baseball game.
Banks pitchers Kaylin Hernandez and Halle Vandomelen combined on a no-hitter Tuesday afternoon at Broadway Field, where the Braves scored a 13-0 Cowapa League softball win over the Gulls.
Knappa hosted a big Logger showdown Tuesday with Vernonia in Northwest League softball action.
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WARRENTON — Valley Catholic was the team champion, Astoria took second and Seaside placed third Monday afternoon in the Astoria girls golf invitational.
Warrenton hosted Willamina in a Coastal Range League baseball contest Monday, and the No. 4-ranked Warriors cruised past the Bulldogs, 21-1, in a single game at Huddleston Field.
The Warrenton softball team racked up 14 runs on 11 hits in just four plate appearances Monday afternoon, in a 14-1 win over Willamina in Coastal Range League action at Warrenton.
The Astoria girls track team took their show on the road Saturday, and scored four individual event victories in the Lower Columbia Invitational in St. Helens.
Clatsop County already owns the state's top female shot putter at the 4A level — now it's the home of the second-best 3A girls' shot putter.
The Astoria Lady Fishermen landed a league title and also made it to the state playoffs this season for the first time in over a decade.
Two wins in one day, and the Warrenton Warriors are in first place in the Coastal Range League baseball standings.
A three-run third inning was all Astoria needed Friday, in a 4-2 win over Valley Catholic in a Cowapa League baseball game at CMH Field.
Trailing 2-1 going into the bottom of the seventh inning — and scoreless over the previous five innings — Seaside scored two runs to defeat Tillamook 3-2 in Cowapa League baseball action Frida…
Knappa scored an easy 11-0 win over Nestucca in Game 1, then held off the pesky Bobcats in Game 2, 2-0, for a Northwest League baseball doubleheader sweep Friday in Cloverdale.
The battle for the Cowapa League softball title resumed Friday afternoon at CMH Field, where Astoria hosted Banks in the second of four meetings between the Fishermen and Braves.
Warrenton turned three double plays on the day, but even that did not help the Warriors in a doubleheader softball game Friday at Taft.
Northwest League softball — where no lead is safe, and no deficit is too big to overcome.
Local fisherman Michael Postlewait finished second out of 30 youth competitors last weekend, during the first stage of the 2019 Coors Light Future Pro Tour, which is based in northern California.
The Warrenton girls racked up 162 points to win a four-team district meet, held Wednesday at Oregon Episcopal.
The Gaston and Knappa softball teams met for a doubleheader Thursday afternoon and well into the night at CMH Field, where the Greyhounds and Loggers split a pair of games.
The Seaside boys basketball team landed three players on the Class 4A all-state team.
Astoria’s team score of 346 was good enough by 25 strokes to defeat Tillamook in a Cowapa League boys golf match Tuesday at the Astoria Golf & Country Club.
Nestucca put up a tough battle through five innings, but that was it, as Knappa eventually got the bats going in a 9-1 win Tuesday over the Bobcats in a Northwest League baseball game at Teevi…
Astoria scored three runs in the bottom of the fourth, and that was plenty to beat Tillamook, 3-1, in a Cowapa League baseball game Tuesday at CMH Field.
Banks collected 14 hits over four innings, on its way to a 12-0 win over Seaside in a Cowapa League softball game Tuesday at Banks.
It was another 1-2 finish, respectively, for the Valley Catholic and Astoria girls golf teams Monday, in the Banks Invitational at Quail Valley golf course.
The annual Daily Astorian Invitational track meet set a personal best of its own Saturday, with 10 athletes gaining Athlete of the Meet honors.
The Astoria boys golf team beat a field of six other teams by 12 strokes at the Astoria Invitational, held Thursday at Astoria Golf & Country Club.
Tillamook made the trip to Astoria to face the Lady Fishermen for a Cowapa League softball game Monday at CMH Field.
SEASIDE — For a track meet that had a weather forecast of “heavy rain, thunder, shower and fog,” it wasn’t that bad.
The Warrenton and Astoria softball teams took a brief break from league play Friday at CMH Field, where the Fishermen and Warriors staged a thrilling one-game “Clatsop Clash.”
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