FISHERMEN LOCK UP 20TH STRAIGHT WIN
The Astoria Fishermen baseball team figured a little extra competition couldn't hurt prior to the state playoffs.
The Dalles-Wahtonka Eagle-Indians baseball team has a combined 12 state championships (Nine for The Dalles High School and three for Wahtonka), by far the most in the history of Oregon High School baseball. Not a bad model to follow for a burgeoning dynasty in Astoria.
The Fishermen defeated the 5A Eagle-Indians 9-0 at Aiken Field Wednesday to record their second consecutive shutout and 20th straight win of the season.
Mathias Brause went the distance on the mound, allowing three hits and one walk with ten strikeouts in a dominating performance. Two of the Eagle-Indians' hits travelled a combined ninty feet as the senior righthander won his 23rd consecutive decision (not counting Brause's undefeated run through the 2006 summer Junior State season).
One day after Jordan Poyer's one-hitter against Scappoose, Brause retired the first ten batters before walking Casey Schertenlieb on a 3-2 breaking ball with one out in the fourth. With two outs, The Dalles-Wahtonka's cleanup batter Dallas Mattox grounded a solid single just out of the reach of a diving Joey Dursse at third base for the Eagle-Indians' only clean hit of the game. Brause induced an inning-ending pop-up from Ryan Luebke to end the threat.
Astoria didn't exactly play their recent brand of wall-banging baseball, despite the stiff breeze blowing out to left field. Poyer led off the second inning with a beautiful bunt base hit, stole second and scored on a fielding error by shortstop Bubba Arrendale. Brent Culver plated Joey Dursse with an RBI single to end the second.
Astoria scored the next five runs without the benefit of a base hit. Tom Jaworski was hit by Quinn Macnab pitch to lead off the fourth, stole second, advanced to third on Macnab's second errant pickoff throw of the game and travelled home on a wild pitch to give Astoria a 3-0 lead. Three walks in the fourth inning precipitated a first-and-third double steal, as Dursse scored while Arrendale's throw home sailed to the backstop. Astoria plated three more runs i nthe fifth inning on an RBI fielder's choice by Brendan Landwehr and two wild pitches.
Macnab, a lanky righthander with an awkward delivery, looked sharp in the early going, but went off the rails in the middle innings, hitting two batters, walking five and unloading a number of wild pitches.
Poyer extended hit consecutive at bats hitting streak to eight with a 2-for-2 day, scoring two runs and knocking in an RBI with a sixth inning sacrifice fly. Brent Culver also had two hits for the Fishermen and Jawarski and Dursse each scored twice.
The Eagle-Indians dropped to 9-16 on the season with the loss, but finished the 5A Intermountain Conference schedule with a 7-7 record with some hope of making the playoffs pending the outcome of other games.
Astoria, now 20-3, hosts Banks today at Aiken Field in a game that will be broadcast live on SportsRadio 1230 ESPN at 4:55 p.m. The Braves are out of the playoff hunt after finishing second last season. Seaside, Scappoose and Yamhill-Carlton are locking horns for the two remaining Cowapa League playoff spots today and Monday. The Seagulls lost at Scappoose 13-7 Thursday and are now tied with the Indians for third place at 7-6. Seaside is at Yamhill-Carlton today and closes the regular season at Scappoose on Monday. Scappoose takes on Tillamook today.
T D-W 0-0-0-0-0-0-0 0-3-6
ASTORIA 0-2-1-1-3-2 9-7-0
W-Brause (7ip, 3h, 10k, bb)
L-Macnab (3.1ip, 5h, 7r, 5er, 2k, 5bb, 2hp, bk, 5wp)
E-Arrendale 2, Macnab 2, Mattox, Luebke. LOB-TD-W 4, Astoria 6. SB-Culver, Poyer, Mason Brause, Jaworski 2, Koehnke, Dursse, Lund. CS-Poyer. SF-Poyer. DP-TD-W.
The Dalles-Wahtonka Eagle-Indians baseball team has a combined 12 state championships (Nine for The Dalles High School and three for Wahtonka), by far the most in the history of Oregon High School baseball. Not a bad model to follow for a burgeoning dynasty in Astoria.
The Fishermen defeated the 5A Eagle-Indians 9-0 at Aiken Field Wednesday to record their second consecutive shutout and 20th straight win of the season.
Mathias Brause went the distance on the mound, allowing three hits and one walk with ten strikeouts in a dominating performance. Two of the Eagle-Indians' hits travelled a combined ninty feet as the senior righthander won his 23rd consecutive decision (not counting Brause's undefeated run through the 2006 summer Junior State season).
One day after Jordan Poyer's one-hitter against Scappoose, Brause retired the first ten batters before walking Casey Schertenlieb on a 3-2 breaking ball with one out in the fourth. With two outs, The Dalles-Wahtonka's cleanup batter Dallas Mattox grounded a solid single just out of the reach of a diving Joey Dursse at third base for the Eagle-Indians' only clean hit of the game. Brause induced an inning-ending pop-up from Ryan Luebke to end the threat.
Astoria didn't exactly play their recent brand of wall-banging baseball, despite the stiff breeze blowing out to left field. Poyer led off the second inning with a beautiful bunt base hit, stole second and scored on a fielding error by shortstop Bubba Arrendale. Brent Culver plated Joey Dursse with an RBI single to end the second.
Astoria scored the next five runs without the benefit of a base hit. Tom Jaworski was hit by Quinn Macnab pitch to lead off the fourth, stole second, advanced to third on Macnab's second errant pickoff throw of the game and travelled home on a wild pitch to give Astoria a 3-0 lead. Three walks in the fourth inning precipitated a first-and-third double steal, as Dursse scored while Arrendale's throw home sailed to the backstop. Astoria plated three more runs i nthe fifth inning on an RBI fielder's choice by Brendan Landwehr and two wild pitches.
Macnab, a lanky righthander with an awkward delivery, looked sharp in the early going, but went off the rails in the middle innings, hitting two batters, walking five and unloading a number of wild pitches.
Poyer extended hit consecutive at bats hitting streak to eight with a 2-for-2 day, scoring two runs and knocking in an RBI with a sixth inning sacrifice fly. Brent Culver also had two hits for the Fishermen and Jawarski and Dursse each scored twice.
The Eagle-Indians dropped to 9-16 on the season with the loss, but finished the 5A Intermountain Conference schedule with a 7-7 record with some hope of making the playoffs pending the outcome of other games.
Astoria, now 20-3, hosts Banks today at Aiken Field in a game that will be broadcast live on SportsRadio 1230 ESPN at 4:55 p.m. The Braves are out of the playoff hunt after finishing second last season. Seaside, Scappoose and Yamhill-Carlton are locking horns for the two remaining Cowapa League playoff spots today and Monday. The Seagulls lost at Scappoose 13-7 Thursday and are now tied with the Indians for third place at 7-6. Seaside is at Yamhill-Carlton today and closes the regular season at Scappoose on Monday. Scappoose takes on Tillamook today.
T D-W 0-0-0-0-0-0-0 0-3-6
ASTORIA 0-2-1-1-3-2 9-7-0
W-Brause (7ip, 3h, 10k, bb)
L-Macnab (3.1ip, 5h, 7r, 5er, 2k, 5bb, 2hp, bk, 5wp)
E-Arrendale 2, Macnab 2, Mattox, Luebke. LOB-TD-W 4, Astoria 6. SB-Culver, Poyer, Mason Brause, Jaworski 2, Koehnke, Dursse, Lund. CS-Poyer. SF-Poyer. DP-TD-W.
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