League championship week at Astoria High School came to a close Friday night with … what else? Another league championship.

Following a league title in boys soccer and a co-league championship for the volleyball team the night before, the Fishermen footballers won at least a share of another Cowapa League title Friday, as Astoria posted a 42-0 shutout over Tillamook at rain-soaked, wind-battered John Warren Field.

If you’re keeping track, that’s three league titles in two days for Astoria. Surely the school has the rest of the Cowapa League in ‘AWE’ – as in, ‘Astoria Wins Everything.’

Well, almost everything.

“In the last 25 hours or so, we’ve secured three league titles, so it’s very exciting,” said Astoria football coach Howard Rub, who serves as the school’s athletics director.

“What a great atmosphere in our building today, after the successes of the volleyball team and the boys soccer team,” he said. “And having those three kids qualify for state in cross country … it was a real good vibe all day in the building, and it was great to see the football team come out and finish the week in a great way for the entire athletic department.

“And we appreciate all of our fans sticking around through the monsoon.”

On “Senior Night” on John Warren Field, Astoria junior quarterback Jacob Davis ran for 172 yards and two touchdowns on just 11 carries, and passed for another 103 yards and a score.

More impressively, the Fishermen defense limited Tillamook to just four first downs and 83 yards in total offense.

But it was the officials who stole the show, as the men in stripes tossed 23 flags for 222 yards in penalties. The Fishermen started declining penalties on Tillamook, just to get the thing over with.

“(The penalties) hurt us in the first half,” said Rub, whose team was flagged 15 times for 145 yards. “That’s something that we’ve got to clean up before the playoffs. We had a couple times where they said our linemen just lined up offsides. We’ll look at it and try to get better, and not let those things slow us down in the future.”

One thing that could slow the Fish down – Dane Lund’s ankle injury.

The senior running back rushed for 110 yards and two touchdowns on 13 carries before aggravating an ankle sprain suffered earlier in the year.

“The ankle is still a little tender,” Rub said. “He started to feel some shooting pain. There was no need to risk anything at that stage of the game. We figured we’d let him rest the rest of the night, and we’ll see what we do with him next week.”

Lund scored on a 6-yard run on Astoria’s fifth play from scrimmage, and later added a 1-yard scoring run.

The Fishermen were awarded two points when the Cheesemakers committed a holding penalty in their own end zone, resulting in a safety.

Later in the first half, Davis threw a 15-yard touchdown to Matt Torres, who did most of the work after the catch.

On the second play of the second half, Davis sprinted 74 yards down the sideline for a score and a 29-0 lead. Davis and backup quarterback Conor Harber had touchdown runs in the final quarter.

Harber also “did real well in starting for the second week in a row on defense,” Rub said. “Defensively we were pretty good overall. Tim Clark got a little more action and played real well.”

Ryan Hochhalter celebrated Senior Night with several tackles, an interception and a fumble recovery.

Offensively, Torres “had a great touchdown run on the reception in the first half, and had a real solid night,” Rub said. “Cody Higgins did a lot of good things. And Alex (Eterno) was Alex, real dependable and he got open,” catching two passes for 55 yards.

Meanwhile, Lund “will obviously want to play against the Gulls in the Clatsop Clash,” Rub said. “Then we have a bye (the first round of the state playoffs), so it might be worthwhile to almost give him three full weeks before we play again. We’ll see.”

The league title is the third in four years for Rub and the Fishermen. Even more rare is the fact that it only took four weeks of a five-week schedule to clinch the No. 1 seed. Astoria finishes the regular season Friday at Seaside.

The Fishermen won’t play another meaningful game for three weeks (second round of the Class 4A playoffs), but don’t tell that to Rub.

“We don’t want to share the league title with Banks,” he said. “So it will be important for us to come out on all cylinders Friday night, and I think our guys will stay focused to do that.

“We got a share of the league title, and we definitely have the No. 1 seed. It feels good to achieve that. Obviously it was the goal coming in, and not an easy thing to do in this league. There’s a lot of good football programs and a lot of good coaches.”

Banks 41, Seaside 22SEASIDE – Banks built a 41-0 halftime lead Friday, on its way to a 41-22 win over Seaside at Broadway Field.

Braves Chris Decarlo, Nick Turner and John Criswell combined to rush for 183 yards on 24 carries.

Six players (Jim Criswell, Brock Markham, John Criswell, T.J. Sandstrom, Turner and Decarlo) scored touchdowns for the Braves, who improve to 3-1 in league play.

Seaside had second-half scores from Zeke Smith on runs of one and 48 yards; and a 14-yard, Myls Miller-to-Cody Forsythe pass.

The Gulls host Astoria Friday to close out the season.

“We’re not looking at it as a rivalry game,” said Seaside coach Scott Dean. “We just want some respectability for our seniors, and to show that we’re a much improved team. Astoria is the defending league champion and defending state champion, so they will be the measuring stick.”

Clatskanie 46, Warrenton 0WARRENTON – Clatskanie racked up 309 yards in total offense (297 rushing) in a 46-0 win at Warrenton Friday in Lewis & Clark League action.

The Tigers broke open a close game when Jason Childers returned the opening kick of the second half 75 yards for a touchdown, giving Clatskanie a 22-0 lead. The Tigers went on to score three touchdowns in the final period.

John Harvey scored four touchdowns for Clatskanie, while Josh Wheatley led the Warriors with 50 yards rushing. The Tigers limited Warrenton to 147 yards in total offense.

The Warriors end the regular season at Vernonia Friday.

Knappa 28, Nestucca 18CLOVERDALE – The Knappa Loggers played their version of a “nail-biter” Friday night at Nestucca, as the Bobcats gave the Loggers their biggest challenge yet.

Still, Knappa scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns to clinch a 28-18 win to remain undefeated (8-0, 4-0 NWL). The Loggers set a school record for most victories in a row (13), breaking the previous mark of 12 set over the 1969-1970 seasons.

Nestucca ran 57 rushing plays and racked up 19 first downs, but the Loggers countered with Bryan Sablan (12 carries, 190 yards) and Eddie Corder (11 carries, 99 yards), while Tevan Klauser scored two touchdowns.

Sablan had a 34-yard TD run, and Corder had a 34-yard scoring run in the final period.

Knappa can clinch the NWL title Friday at Portland Christian.

Jewell 50, Portland Lutheran 8PORTLAND – Jewell showed up with a full team and picked up its first win of the year Friday, 50-8 at Portland Lutheran.

After forfeiting the previous week to Perrydale, the Blue Jays got their offense in gear and stormed past the Blue Jays in a Casco League game.

“We have focused on playing our game, emotionally and physically,” said Jewell coach Shea Little. “We finally came out and played an emotional and intense game – not three quarters, but all four quarters.”

Haiden Culp and Blake Wilcoxen rotated at quarterback and running back for Jewell. Culp had 129 yards rushing on 13 carries, and Wilcoxen added 125 yards on 11 attempts. Culp also led the defense with nine tackles, and was 5-of-10 passing for 116 yards and two touchdowns.

“We were consistent, emotional, and focused for four quarters,” Little said. “It was a good showing.”

Castle Rock 49, Ilwaco 20CASTLE ROCK, Wash. – Castle Rock’s Chris Tinney scored five touchdowns and rushed for 252 yards to lead the Rockets past Ilwaco 49-20 in a Trico League football game Friday.

The Fishermen held an 8-6 lead after one quarter, following a Justin Short-to-Kyle Breckenridge four-yard touchdown pass in the first period.

Castle Rock outscored Ilwaco 21-0 in the second quarter to take control.

Naselle 22, South Bend 8NASELLE, Wash. – Alan Erickson scored three touchdowns and Naselle compiled 350 yards of total offense to help the Comets to a 22-8 win over South Bend Friday.

Naselle held the Indians to just 107 yards, as the Comets (8-1 overall) secured a state playoff spot and will play at Tacoma Baptist in two weeks in a first-round game.

Nate Carlson gained 121 yards on 16 carries for Naselle, and Erickson gained 113 yards on 17 attempts.

VolleyballPortland Adventist def. WarrentonPORTLAND – No. 10-ranked Portland Adventist overcame a big challenge by Warrenton Saturday in a Lewis & Clark League volleyball playoff, with the Cougars winning 25-11, 25-21, 20-25, 25-10.

The Warriors will now host a winner-to-state match Wednesday, with opponent and time to be announced.

Warrenton’s Emma Bussert, Maddy Smotherman and Masie Watkins were a combined 36-for-36 from the service line in Saturday’s loss, while Payton Hummell had eight kills.

Jewell def. St. PaulST. PAUL – The unbeaten Jewell Blue Jays had to overcome some first-game jitters, but eventually rallied to defeat St. Paul in Saturday’s match for the Casco League’s No. 1 seed, 18-25, 25-22, 25-22, 25-21.

The Jays – who have the best record (19-0) among all 1A schools – will host a first-round state playoff game Saturday against either Southwest Christian or Powers.

In the win over St. Paul, Amber Meier had 12 kills to go with 20 assists and five service aces.

Teammate Britany Curtis added 18 assists, 12 digs and three aces, and Angel Ulm finished with 10 kills, six aces, three blocks and 18 digs. Jesika Kaczenski contributed eight kills and Jeannie DiMaggio overcame a recent illness to finish with five blocks and three kills.

“We came out a little cold,” said Jewell coach Charnae Little. “I don’t know if it was nerves or what, but we had our Jewell game on in the second set, and started getting aces, kills and stuff blocks.”