Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Page A-3
Sports
IVHS track team does well at Crusader Relays
Ray Brown
IVN Contributing Writer
The Illinois Valley High School
track team competed in its first meet
for 2017 Tuesday, March 14 at the
Crusader Relays at St. Mary’s High
School in Medford, where 12 teams
competed. Distance ace, Tyler Blind,
finished fourth out of 15 in an event
he had never tried before, the 2,000
meter steeple chase with a time of
seven minutes, 23 seconds. The
team of Destiny Alaxander, Isabella
Idoine, Meig Peters, and Amy Burns
ran well and despite a costly baton
exchange, they retook their lead and
won the JV 4x100 relay in a time
of 1:03, just edging Lost River by
a third of a second. The boys JV
4x100 took third in a time of 51.6
seconds, with Josh Medina, Kai
Montoya, Jaden Kostic and Brennan
Wilson. The varsity girls 4x100
IVHS boys’
golf scores
The IVHS golf
season is in full swing.
The Cougars hit the
links in Grants Pass
against Hidden Valley,
Rogue River, Klamath,
Mazama, North
Valley, Brookings
and Ashland. The
boys finished with
the following scores:
Christian Engles, 122;
Gabe Evans, 134; Alec
Hendricks, 151; and
Odis Kitchens, 148.
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out of 12 in a time of 1:54 in their
varsity 800 medley. The girls 4x200
team of Jonas, Alaxander, Hammers
and C. Burns took second out of
seven teams with a time of 2:07. The
relay team of Medina, Hames, Max
Mistretta, and Blind ran a solid 4:14
to win the boys 4x400 meter relay.
Some highlights of field events
were Sanjuana Mendoza throwing
the shot 23 feet, 6 1/2 inches; Taylor
Hammers long jumping 13 feet,10
inches; Tessa Turner also with a 11
feet, 7 ½ inches jump; and Brennan
Wilson with a 14 feet, 4 inches long
jump.
The Cougars track team is
coached this year by Paul Jackson,
Scott Thornhill and Ray Brown and
will compete next at Brookings April
8. The team is working harder this
year and anxious to compete in their
upcoming meets over the next seven
weeks.
Beavers back in the Sweet 16 after 64-52 win over Creighton
By
Anne M. Peterson
AP Sports Writer
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) Sydney
Wiese celebrated her final game at
Gill Coliseum by blowing kisses to
the crowd and dancing to Abba.
She got a win, too, so her senior
season lives on.
Wiese scored 13 points and
second-seeded Oregon State moved
on in the NCAA Tournament with a
64-52 second-round victory over No.
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with Aarika Brooks, Cynthia Burns,
Roza Jonas, and Taylor Hammers all
ran well to take third out of nine in
57.78 seconds. In the varsity boys
4x100, the team of Jacob Bafia,
Cullen Beery, Ryland Thornhill, and
Joseph Hames got around the track
in 51.6 seconds. The girls 800-meter
sprint medley varsity race was run
by Brooks, C. Burns, Alaxander, and
Jonas for third in 2:11. Thornhill,
Bafia, Beery, and Medina took fifth
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7 seed Creighton on Sunday.
Oregon State (31-4) will go on to
face third-seeded Florida State in Stockton,
California. The Seminoles defeated six-
seeded Missouri 77-55 earlier Sunday in
Tallahassee, Florida, for their third straight
trip to the Sweet 16.
Fellow senior Gabriella Hanson also
had 13 points for the Beavers, who are
making a fourth consecutive appearance in
the tournament. Last season the Beavers
advanced to the Final Four before falling to
eventual champion UConn.
At center court after the game, Wiese
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crowd. Wiese danced to “Dancing Queen.”
“There’s a lot of emotions because we
have poured so much into that place,” Wiese
said. “It will always have a special place in
our hearts and it will always be home.”
Hanson, who matched her season high
for points, said: “It still hasn’t hit me yet.”
In the postgame huddle, coach Scott Rueck
handed Hanson the ball.
Sydney Lamberty had 19 for Creighton
(24-8), which trailed by as many as 15
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