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schools
january19
2017
VHS Winter Sports Report
Eyrrick Named
to All State Band
Winter weather and school
cancelations played havoc on the
schedules of all the Vernonia sports
programs. Both the boys and girls
basketball programs saw several
games get cancelled during the
Vernonia High
School senior
Kaitlyn Eyrrick
was named to
the Oregon All
State Band and
performed with
the symphonic
band at Eugene’s
Hult Center on the
weekend of January
14-15. At the event
Eyrrick bumped into
a friend – former
VHS band instructor
Rob Izzett, who led
the VHS Band to the
State Title in 2012.
week of January 9-17 and the Wres-
tling team chose to skip the Oregon
Classic on January 9-10.
Wrestling – The Logger wrestlers
did compete at the Pac Rim Tour-
nament on January
6-7 and had several
very good individual
performances.
Freshman Josh
Rice took 3 rd place at
152 pounds winning
5 out of 6 matches in-
cluding 3 by fall and
one major decision.
Mekhi Williams
also fi nished in 3 rd
place at 126 pounds
winning 5 of 6 match-
es including two wins
by fall.
Head Coach Chris
Barnes said Hepner
Forester wrestled ex-
tremely well at 145
pounds as he took 5 th
Above: Josh Rice (in white)
place, recording two
Below: Mekhi Williams (in blue)
pins along the way.
Justin Fletcher fi n-
ished 6 th winning 3
of 4 matches, all by
fall before having to
forfeit his fi nal two
matches.
Jake Patton took
th
6
place at 145
pounds while record-
ing a win by fall and
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