TUESDAY HOOPS

Ouch!

Ilwaco boys stub their toes at Rochester, losing Trico opener 70-48 to the Warriors. Kenny Thomas led 13 Warriors players in the scoring column with 12 points. Freshman point guard Karl Oman paced the Fishermen with 12 points and Ryan Blake added 11.

"We didn’t run our stuff all night," fumed Ilwaco head coach Paul Jarrett. "Not one time did we run our offensive set all the way through. We took the shots they gave us."

"Defensively, we were chasing them around the floor instead of moving our feet."

The Fishermen have one more league game before the holiday break, entertaining the Columbia Bruins Thursday night in the back half of another co-ed doubleheader. Thursday's start times at Aase Gymnasium have been moved up to 5:00 p.m. for the girls varsity, followed by the boys game at approximately 6:30 p.m.

Ilwaco's girls got 28 points from all-Trico post Lanie Kary in a 56-45 victory at Rochester, improving their overall mark to 2-3

The Warrenton girls moved to 3-0 in Lewis & Clark League with a 65-39 win at Neah-Kah-Nie. Brooklyn Campbell scored 22 points and dished out a team-high five assists in the win. The Lady Warriors head into the Christmas holiday on a roll and will face a tough Wahkiakum team in the opening round of Ilwaco's Holiday Tournament next Thursday.

Warrior boys dished out 23 assists and got double figures from four different players in a 63-40 win at Neah-Kah-Nie

Knappa's boys had no trouble with visiting Faith Bible. The trio of Jesse Moreland, Gary Aho and Nate West helped Knappa to a strong start in the first quarter, then sat down and let the younger players do the heavy (O.K., fairly light) lifting the rest of the way, but not until Moreland threw down another sweet jam on a fast break for two of his 11 points. Young Steven Tadei led five Loggers players in double figures with 22 as Knappa thumped Faith Bible 95-47. Not quite the ideal warm-up for Thursday's tilt against 4A soon-to-be #1-ranked Marist (a winner at Central Thursday Night) at the Seaside Holiday Tournament.

Naselle's boys ended a 4-game skid with a 62-45 win over Raymond. All five Naselle starters scored in double figures, led by Kyle Burkhalter's 12 points.

BLOG LIVES

Wow! I figured you all had given up hope of another blog post.

Well, the fact is, I was behind enough to start with, but a week without power here in Astoria has set us back in such a way that it will be catchup for the rest of the season.

I had to hold on to football season a little bit longer than usual to cover the 5A/6A championships at Reser last Saturday for a station in Hillsboro and between that whirlwind and pulling three round-the-clock shifts at the radio station during our 24/7 storm coverage, my immune system basically shut down, so I've been sick all week.

Anyhow enough about my problems I realize, we probably pat (patted?) ourselves on the back enough already during the week of the storm, but really, the Daily A has stooped to a new low (didn't have to bend far) by crediting KMUN (the local public station, for those of you out of area) for their coverage that week, only mentioning KAST in a critical way via a comment from their dopey manager, who claimed we were crowing about being the only station on the air. Yes, we were the only station on the air that was actually giving you the news, not playing bad folk music. Maybe there was some storm coverage at some point on KMUN, but every time I tuned in I heard music, which was six or seven times during the course of the week.

Back to sports. We are finally back on track and in rhythm and should be regularly updating the kast1370.com website with sports stories and scores (kind of hard to do without power or internet access, y'see!). For some reason I can't log in to that site tonight so here's what I have for Friday:

Castle Rock 64, Astoria 39...Fishermen boys without Poyer, who sprained his ankle on the opening tip-off against Valley Catholic the previous night and played the whole game on it. With their leading scorer, rebounder, assist leader, steals leader, blocks leader, etc., etc., etc. in street clothes and on crutches, the Fish are no match for the Rockets, who get 19 points from returning 1st-team all-Trico forward Clint Burgoyne in a runaway. Nobody scored in double figures for Astoria, which was led by Max Johnson (9 pts, 5 rebounds). Fish have dropped two straight since winning their first three, but get some much-needed practice time before the Seaside Holiday Classic next Thursday. Poyer (19ppg/10rpg) should be back by then.

Warrenton vs. O.E.S. boys...don't know. Coach never calls.

Warrenton 55, O.E.S. 34...Warriors girls outrebound the Aardvarks by a remarkable 54-15 margin, led by Chelsea Neahring's 15 points and 23 rebounds and Lauren Dove's 21 points and 14 boards. Warrenton did not allow a single offensive rebound in about as dominating a performance in the paint as you are likely to see. Warrenton plays South Bend Saturday night in a rescheduled O.S.A.A. Endowment game at 7:30 p.m.

Seaside 60, Holy Cross 37...This team from B.C. was pretty good last year at Seaside's tournament, but no match for the Lady Gulls on Friday night.