GLADS POUND ASTORIA FORD, FISH SALVAGE SPLIT
In a rare summer appearance, Astoria's Legion Post 12 baseball team hit the field against Gladstone at Aiken Field on Saturday. Astoria's first foray into legion ball in more than a decade will end practically before it begins.
And Saturday's doubleheader opener couldn't have ended soon enough for Astoria Ford and starting pitcher Nick Bredleau, who played the role of pinata to a tee as the Gladiators annihilated Astoria Ford 18-4.
Gladstone, fielding their future high school varsity squad, lit up Bredleau for 13 first inning runs on 12 hits in the worst beating an Astoria baseball team has sustained in recent memory.
The red-clad Astorians did bounce back in game two to edge Gladstone 8-7, salvaging the split.
Any excitement surrounding Astoria's fledgling Legion team evaporated quickly as soon as the summer began heating up. A prospective schedule that included tournament games at Oregon State and P.G.E. Park and road trips to Canby and Milwaukie has essentially been scrapped. Head coach Dave Gasser has rarely been seen around the baseball field as he deals with family issues. And Astoria's player of the year pitcher Mathias Brause and first-team outfielder Brent Culver have also been no-shows, opting for summer employment instead.
What was thought to be a Legion tournament in Corvallis turned out to be essentially an OJB ("Junior State") tournament instead, with teams heavily weighted toward inexperienced high school underclassmen as Astoria cruised to the title, winning their final game a week ago Sunday despite being gutted of players by a football camp.
It was a very rusty Nick Bredleau who served up batting practice to a tough-hitting Gladstone lineup on Saturday, as the Gladiators pounded the 2-time All-Cowapa League first team hurler off the mound. After two hard-hit singles to lead off the game, Capital Conference Player of the Year Brady Regier ripped a base hit down the left field line to score leadoff batter Trey Durkee with the opening run. Following a walk to Drew McNall, back-to-back doubles by Bubba Armstrong and Brett Holte plated three more runs before Bredleau finally recorded an out on a run-scoring fielder's choice. Casey Young followed with a 2-run home run, the first of seven consecutive hits, including three more doubles before Bredleau gave way to Daniel Mathre.
Mathre got the Fishermen out of the first with two straight outs, then pitched scoreless second and third innings before being touched for five runs in the fourth, capped by a Regier grand slam. Regier finished the game 3-for-5 at the plate with six RBI's and three runs scored and Durkee went 4-for-4 with three runs.
Astoria put two runs on the board in the second without a base hit, with Mason Brause and Joey Dursse reaching on back-to-back leadoff walks, scoring on groundouts by Trevor Puckett and Mathre.
Brause singled in the third and stole home on a double steal and Joey Dursse drove in Jordan Poyer with a base hit.
Armstrong recorded a 5-inning complete game win for Gladstone, allowing just two hits, while striking out the final six batters in a row to close the game.
Poyer took the mound in game two for Astoria and held the Gladiators scoreless until the fourth inning as Astoria built a 4-run lead. Poyer also hit one of three Astoria home runs in the contest, a 3-run shot to cap a four-run second inning that started with Oscar Carriere's first career home run, an opposite field shot.
Brendan Landwehr cracked a grand slam home run to left field in the fourth inning to put Astoria up 8-3.
Casey Young cleared the bases with a double in the fifth inning to pull Gladstone to within two and Regier made it 8-7 with an RBI double off reliever Hans Lund in the sixth. But Lund struck out cleanup hitter McNall to end the inning and induced a game-ending 4-6-3 double play from Young to close out the game.
The 2007 Astoria Ford Firecracker Tournament gets underway at 1:00 p.m. today with the Astoria Ford Junior State team taking on Milwaukie at 1:00 p.m. Milwaukie plays Franklin at 4:00 p.m. before the Astoria Legion team faces McNary at 7:00.
Each of the next three days begins with an Astoria-Milwaukie junior state matchup. The Legion team plays at 7:00 p.m. each night, taking on Franklin Tuesday and Milwaukie on July 4.
Game One
GLADSTONE 13-0-0-5-0 18-16-0
ASTORIA 0-2-2-0-0 4-2-4
W-Armstrong (5ip, 2h, 4er, 8k, 4bb)
L-Bredleau (1/3ip, 12h, 13r, 12er, 0k, bb)
E-Lund 2, Jaworski 2. LOB-Gladstone 7, Astoria 3. 2B-Taft, McNall, Armstrong, Holte, Cote. HR-Regier, Young. SB-Armstrong, Jaworski, Brause, Dursse.
Game Two
GLADSTONE 0-0-0-3-3-1-0 7-9-1
ASTORIA 0-4-0-4-0-0-x 8-6-2
W-Poyer (5ip, 8h, 6r, 6er, 7k, 3bb, wp)
L-McNall (4ip, 6h, 8r, 5er, 3k, 4bb, hp)
E-Puckett, Carriere. LOB-Gladstone 6, Astoria 5. 2B-Regier, Young. HR-Cote, Carriere, Poyer, Landwehr. SB-Jaworski. DP-Astoria 1.
And Saturday's doubleheader opener couldn't have ended soon enough for Astoria Ford and starting pitcher Nick Bredleau, who played the role of pinata to a tee as the Gladiators annihilated Astoria Ford 18-4.
Gladstone, fielding their future high school varsity squad, lit up Bredleau for 13 first inning runs on 12 hits in the worst beating an Astoria baseball team has sustained in recent memory.
The red-clad Astorians did bounce back in game two to edge Gladstone 8-7, salvaging the split.
Any excitement surrounding Astoria's fledgling Legion team evaporated quickly as soon as the summer began heating up. A prospective schedule that included tournament games at Oregon State and P.G.E. Park and road trips to Canby and Milwaukie has essentially been scrapped. Head coach Dave Gasser has rarely been seen around the baseball field as he deals with family issues. And Astoria's player of the year pitcher Mathias Brause and first-team outfielder Brent Culver have also been no-shows, opting for summer employment instead.
What was thought to be a Legion tournament in Corvallis turned out to be essentially an OJB ("Junior State") tournament instead, with teams heavily weighted toward inexperienced high school underclassmen as Astoria cruised to the title, winning their final game a week ago Sunday despite being gutted of players by a football camp.
It was a very rusty Nick Bredleau who served up batting practice to a tough-hitting Gladstone lineup on Saturday, as the Gladiators pounded the 2-time All-Cowapa League first team hurler off the mound. After two hard-hit singles to lead off the game, Capital Conference Player of the Year Brady Regier ripped a base hit down the left field line to score leadoff batter Trey Durkee with the opening run. Following a walk to Drew McNall, back-to-back doubles by Bubba Armstrong and Brett Holte plated three more runs before Bredleau finally recorded an out on a run-scoring fielder's choice. Casey Young followed with a 2-run home run, the first of seven consecutive hits, including three more doubles before Bredleau gave way to Daniel Mathre.
Mathre got the Fishermen out of the first with two straight outs, then pitched scoreless second and third innings before being touched for five runs in the fourth, capped by a Regier grand slam. Regier finished the game 3-for-5 at the plate with six RBI's and three runs scored and Durkee went 4-for-4 with three runs.
Astoria put two runs on the board in the second without a base hit, with Mason Brause and Joey Dursse reaching on back-to-back leadoff walks, scoring on groundouts by Trevor Puckett and Mathre.
Brause singled in the third and stole home on a double steal and Joey Dursse drove in Jordan Poyer with a base hit.
Armstrong recorded a 5-inning complete game win for Gladstone, allowing just two hits, while striking out the final six batters in a row to close the game.
Poyer took the mound in game two for Astoria and held the Gladiators scoreless until the fourth inning as Astoria built a 4-run lead. Poyer also hit one of three Astoria home runs in the contest, a 3-run shot to cap a four-run second inning that started with Oscar Carriere's first career home run, an opposite field shot.
Brendan Landwehr cracked a grand slam home run to left field in the fourth inning to put Astoria up 8-3.
Casey Young cleared the bases with a double in the fifth inning to pull Gladstone to within two and Regier made it 8-7 with an RBI double off reliever Hans Lund in the sixth. But Lund struck out cleanup hitter McNall to end the inning and induced a game-ending 4-6-3 double play from Young to close out the game.
The 2007 Astoria Ford Firecracker Tournament gets underway at 1:00 p.m. today with the Astoria Ford Junior State team taking on Milwaukie at 1:00 p.m. Milwaukie plays Franklin at 4:00 p.m. before the Astoria Legion team faces McNary at 7:00.
Each of the next three days begins with an Astoria-Milwaukie junior state matchup. The Legion team plays at 7:00 p.m. each night, taking on Franklin Tuesday and Milwaukie on July 4.
Game One
GLADSTONE 13-0-0-5-0 18-16-0
ASTORIA 0-2-2-0-0 4-2-4
W-Armstrong (5ip, 2h, 4er, 8k, 4bb)
L-Bredleau (1/3ip, 12h, 13r, 12er, 0k, bb)
E-Lund 2, Jaworski 2. LOB-Gladstone 7, Astoria 3. 2B-Taft, McNall, Armstrong, Holte, Cote. HR-Regier, Young. SB-Armstrong, Jaworski, Brause, Dursse.
Game Two
GLADSTONE 0-0-0-3-3-1-0 7-9-1
ASTORIA 0-4-0-4-0-0-x 8-6-2
W-Poyer (5ip, 8h, 6r, 6er, 7k, 3bb, wp)
L-McNall (4ip, 6h, 8r, 5er, 3k, 4bb, hp)
E-Puckett, Carriere. LOB-Gladstone 6, Astoria 5. 2B-Regier, Young. HR-Cote, Carriere, Poyer, Landwehr. SB-Jaworski. DP-Astoria 1.
posted by Matt Richert at 6:44 AM
2 Comments:
FYI, Brent Culver was never expected to be on the Legion Team this summer. He was selected to be a member of the Shriner's Football Game and was sent paper work asking him to choose between baseball and the game as they have had conflicts in the past. Brent has given Astoria Athletics everything he had. He has never been a no show and has had outside employement all thru his high school career.....
Poor choice of words on my part. I in no way meant to insinuate that people were waiting around for Matt and Brent to show up for a game and they never came, just that key graduated veteran players who would be cornerstones of a Legion team are missing from a squad that would have been fun to watch play against some good teams. Instead we are stuck with another summer of "Junior State" baseball where you never even know if the teams will show up and Babe Ruth All-Star teams that have to battle not only high school baseball coaches, but football and basketball coaches for their players time. For an area with this much baseball talent, the summer situation is incredibly dysfunctional! If Astoria's seniors, particularly Brause and Landwehr, think they can waltz into the NWAACC next spring with almost no summer baseball under their belts, I think they are in for a rude awakening! What happened to Matt at the All-Star series is typical of a pitcher who does not stay sharp, focused and prepared. 4A Player of the Year cuts little ice at the next level. I hope that is not an indicator of the future.
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