FISHERMEN POST SCHOOL RECORD WIN
Jordan Poyer is having the week of all weeks in this season of seasons for Astoria.
"The Chef" continues to serve up all kinds of delectable delights with his favorite aluminum utensil.
Astoria's sensational soph went 3-for-3 at the plate with a home run, a double and three runs batted in as the Fishermen picked up their school record 19th victory in a row, defeating Scappoose 9-0 at Aiken Field Wednesday.
For the week, Poyer is now 6-for-6 with three homers and 11 runs batted in and has taken over the team lead in RBI's with 33. The hard-throwing righthander also went the distance on the mound for a shutout victory, limiting the Indians to one hit with seven strikeouts and a pair of walks.
Poyer's three-run homer off Scappoose starter Ryan Wilson in the first inning put the Fishermen on the board. Brent Culver led off the inning with a base hit, but was called out at second base on a stolen base attempt. With two outs, Matt Brause singled off the short centerfield wall and Brendan Landwehr followed with a walk before Poyer sent a Wilson pitch deep to left field, which shorthopped the cyclone fence about thirty feet beyond wall. The home run was Poyer's team-leading seventh of the season, which puts him among the state's leaders. Poyer would have eight home runs if not for a missed call against Mark Morris in an earlier game, the second time in his short high school career that an umpire has simply lost sight of a towering, tape-measure blast off his bat.
"I'm seeing the ball really well," said Poyer, a 3rd-team All-State selection as a frosh in '06. "Everybody's seeing the ball really well right now. I'm really happy with how we're hitting the ball. Sometimes you get lucky and maybe it will go out."
Not too much luck has been involved in Astoria's power surge this season. Brendan Landwehr also homered, his fourth, a 2-run shot in the fourth inning that cleared the left field wall by a considerable distance to give the Fishermen an 8-0 lead at that point.
Ten different Fishermen have homered and Astoria has 25 home runs as a team, which exceeds the mark of the 2000 team that had bombers like Ronnie Kelly and Josh Ness swinging for the fences. That team played with livelier bats, which were "detuned" according to national regulations prior to the 2001 season, cutting most teams' power numbers considerably.
"We're hopefully not trying to hit it out," said head coach Dave Gasser. "We're trying to swing as hard as we can and still control our head and hit doubles. If line drives go out of the park, you know, if the wind's blowing out or if the dimensions are right or actually, if your players are just good enough, the doubles are the ones that leave the park. We've just hit a lot of them in the last two weeks."
"We're just blessed to have a number of guys that if they put a good swing on the ball it's possible."
Poyer added a double and scored on a balk in the third inning. In the fourth, Poyer fouled a ball off his front foot and was clearly in pain before reaching base on a single. He seemed to be over it by the time he returned to the mound, striking out the Scappoose side in the fifth inning as he retired the final ten batters in a row.
"It hurt," said Poyer, "and then I fouled another one off my toe and it hurt, you know, but you just gotta play through the pain. I just walked it off and got a base hit and went to first. It still hurt a little bit, but I just try not to think about it. It hurt for a couple seconds, it's just pain."
Scappoose is feeling a different kind of pain now, shut out in it's last two games and dropping out of the playoff race. With Yamhill-Carlton defeating Banks 6-5 Wednesday, the Indians face the Seaside Seagulls today in a make-up game, probably needing a win today and again next week over the Gulls in order to avoid playoff elimination.
Astoria has two league games and two non-league games remaining on its schedule. The Fishermen host The Dalles-Wahtonka today, before hosting Banks Friday and Yamhill-Carlton Monday. On Wednesday, Astoria will travel to Linfield University in McMinnville to take on Sky-Em League leading Marist, the second year in a row the Fishermen and Spartans will play before the state tournament.
Today's game against The Dalles-Wahtonka starts at 3:45 p.m. at Aiken Field and will be broadcast live on SportsRadio 1230 ESPN, starting at 3:35 p.m.
SCAPPOOSE 0-0-0-0-0-0-0 0-1-3
ASTORIA 3-0-2-3-1-0-x 9-13-2
W-Poyer (7ip, h, 7k, 2bb, wp, hp)
L-Wilson (3.2ip, 12h, 8r, 7er, k, bb, wp, bk)
E-Updike, Wasson 2, Landwehr 2. LOB-Scappoose 5, Astoria 7. 2B-Poyer, Koehnke. HR-Poyer (7), Landwehr (4). SB-Updike, Culver, Lund. CS-Culver.
"The Chef" continues to serve up all kinds of delectable delights with his favorite aluminum utensil.
Astoria's sensational soph went 3-for-3 at the plate with a home run, a double and three runs batted in as the Fishermen picked up their school record 19th victory in a row, defeating Scappoose 9-0 at Aiken Field Wednesday.
For the week, Poyer is now 6-for-6 with three homers and 11 runs batted in and has taken over the team lead in RBI's with 33. The hard-throwing righthander also went the distance on the mound for a shutout victory, limiting the Indians to one hit with seven strikeouts and a pair of walks.
Poyer's three-run homer off Scappoose starter Ryan Wilson in the first inning put the Fishermen on the board. Brent Culver led off the inning with a base hit, but was called out at second base on a stolen base attempt. With two outs, Matt Brause singled off the short centerfield wall and Brendan Landwehr followed with a walk before Poyer sent a Wilson pitch deep to left field, which shorthopped the cyclone fence about thirty feet beyond wall. The home run was Poyer's team-leading seventh of the season, which puts him among the state's leaders. Poyer would have eight home runs if not for a missed call against Mark Morris in an earlier game, the second time in his short high school career that an umpire has simply lost sight of a towering, tape-measure blast off his bat.
"I'm seeing the ball really well," said Poyer, a 3rd-team All-State selection as a frosh in '06. "Everybody's seeing the ball really well right now. I'm really happy with how we're hitting the ball. Sometimes you get lucky and maybe it will go out."
Not too much luck has been involved in Astoria's power surge this season. Brendan Landwehr also homered, his fourth, a 2-run shot in the fourth inning that cleared the left field wall by a considerable distance to give the Fishermen an 8-0 lead at that point.
Ten different Fishermen have homered and Astoria has 25 home runs as a team, which exceeds the mark of the 2000 team that had bombers like Ronnie Kelly and Josh Ness swinging for the fences. That team played with livelier bats, which were "detuned" according to national regulations prior to the 2001 season, cutting most teams' power numbers considerably.
"We're hopefully not trying to hit it out," said head coach Dave Gasser. "We're trying to swing as hard as we can and still control our head and hit doubles. If line drives go out of the park, you know, if the wind's blowing out or if the dimensions are right or actually, if your players are just good enough, the doubles are the ones that leave the park. We've just hit a lot of them in the last two weeks."
"We're just blessed to have a number of guys that if they put a good swing on the ball it's possible."
Poyer added a double and scored on a balk in the third inning. In the fourth, Poyer fouled a ball off his front foot and was clearly in pain before reaching base on a single. He seemed to be over it by the time he returned to the mound, striking out the Scappoose side in the fifth inning as he retired the final ten batters in a row.
"It hurt," said Poyer, "and then I fouled another one off my toe and it hurt, you know, but you just gotta play through the pain. I just walked it off and got a base hit and went to first. It still hurt a little bit, but I just try not to think about it. It hurt for a couple seconds, it's just pain."
Scappoose is feeling a different kind of pain now, shut out in it's last two games and dropping out of the playoff race. With Yamhill-Carlton defeating Banks 6-5 Wednesday, the Indians face the Seaside Seagulls today in a make-up game, probably needing a win today and again next week over the Gulls in order to avoid playoff elimination.
Astoria has two league games and two non-league games remaining on its schedule. The Fishermen host The Dalles-Wahtonka today, before hosting Banks Friday and Yamhill-Carlton Monday. On Wednesday, Astoria will travel to Linfield University in McMinnville to take on Sky-Em League leading Marist, the second year in a row the Fishermen and Spartans will play before the state tournament.
Today's game against The Dalles-Wahtonka starts at 3:45 p.m. at Aiken Field and will be broadcast live on SportsRadio 1230 ESPN, starting at 3:35 p.m.
SCAPPOOSE 0-0-0-0-0-0-0 0-1-3
ASTORIA 3-0-2-3-1-0-x 9-13-2
W-Poyer (7ip, h, 7k, 2bb, wp, hp)
L-Wilson (3.2ip, 12h, 8r, 7er, k, bb, wp, bk)
E-Updike, Wasson 2, Landwehr 2. LOB-Scappoose 5, Astoria 7. 2B-Poyer, Koehnke. HR-Poyer (7), Landwehr (4). SB-Updike, Culver, Lund. CS-Culver.
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