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Wednesday,March31,2021
Columbia Gorge News
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SPORTS
The Dalles netters start slow, finish
fast for win over Eagles
Walker Sacon
■ By Columbia
Gorge News
HOOD RIVER — The Dalles
High School volleyball team (1-7,
1-6 league) picked up its first win
of the season over Hood River
Valley (3-6, 3-4 league) in four sets
on Saturday.
HRV took the first set 25-20. Set
point would mark the last Eagle
lead of the day, as The Dalles
controlled the net to win the final
three sets 25-17, 25-17, 25-23.
The win was also the first for
Riverhawk Coach Julie Summers,
who was in her first week as coach
after her predecessor Doug Magee
stepped away. Despite starting the
week with losses to Ridgeview and
Crook County, Summers said she
saw right away the team “just had
to put the pieces together.
“This week we worked really
hard in practice as far as running
a faster game and making sure our
blockers are getting where they’re
supposed to be,” Summers said.
The Riverhawks were helped
by strong blocking from senior
Charlie May, sophomore Kennedy
Abbas, and freshmen Jeilane
Stewart and Zoe LeBreton.
“We definitely were more
aggressive today,” Abbas said. “We
had to make sure we were keeping
our chest off the net, but we were
definitely more aggressive and
tracked the ball better today.”
The fourth and final set was the
closest of the game as HRV came
back to tie it 18-18 after The Dalles
jumped out to a 5-0 lead and held
the Eagles at arm’s length to 16-11.
Junior libero Kayla Sheasby held
serve for the Eagles to tie the final
set at 18. The two teams battled
down the stretch, staying within
two points of each other from 18-
18 to the 25-24 finish.
Abbas said the late-season
win over rival HRV would help
motivate the team for its final
three games. Summers said the
team needed to use the win “as a
stepping stone” and would con-
tinue “pushing through one point
at-a-time.”
The Dalles High School sophomore Zoe Dunn, right, blocks a hit by Hood River Valley junior Reese Leiblein in a game at HRV (3-6, 3-4 league at press time) on Saturday,
March 28. TDHS (1-7, 1-6 league) won in four sets for their first victory of the season, also the first win for new coach Julie Summers. TDHS never trailed after HRV
won the first set.
Walker Sacon photo
PREP SCHEDULE
(Subject to change)
Baseball
March 31
Goldendale at Columbia
April 2
King’s Way at Columbia (DH)
Cross Country
March 31
Redmond at The Dalles; Crook
County at Hood River.
April 7
IMC District Meet, Sorosis Park.
Football
April 1
Mitchell/Spray at Sherman
April 2
The Dalles at Hood River; Joseph
at South Wasco County
April 3
Adrian at Dufur
Boys Soccer
March 30
Pendleton at Hood River; The
Dalles at Redmond
March 31
King’s Way at Columbia
April 1
Hood River at The Dalles; Horizon
at North Clackamas
April 3
Hood River JV at Trout Lake
April 5
Hood River JV at Trout Lake
April 6
LaCenter at Columbia
Girls Soccer
March 30
Redmond at The Dalles; Hood
River at Pendleton
April 1
The Dalles at Hood River
Track and Field
April 1
LaCenter, Goldendale at
Columbia
Volleyball
March 30
Redmond at The Dalles;
Ridgeview at Hood River; Glenwood
at South Wasco; Sherman at
Mitchell/Spray
March 31
Pendleton at The Dalles
April 1
Dufur vs. South Wasco; Glenwood
at Lyle; Bickleton at Sherman
April 2
Sherman at South Wasco
April 3
The Dalles at Crook County; Hood
River at Pendleton; Condon at Dufur
April 5
Glenwood at South Wasco
April 6
Dufur at Trout Lake; South Wasco
at Lyle; Sherman at Echo
Above: Piper Hicks hands to Hannah Polkinghorn at practice March 27. Below: Josiah Nelson prepares to shot put.
Walker Sacon photos
Columbia on track for a five-meet season
Columbia High opens its
COVID-shortened track and field
season Thursday at home against
Goldendale and LaCenter.
The Bruins will compete in
a five-meet season in April,
culminating with the District IV
championship. Columbia will
also host a three-way meet Friday,
April 16 against Goldendale and
Seton Catholic.
Bruin Coach Jim Anderson has
a number of his athletes on the
mend from football, and/or who
are working their way into track
and field shape after a short break
from “fall” sports.
A canceled 2020 track and
field season and uncertainty with
COVID has reduced numbers
in many sports programs. But
the Bruins have two of the Trico
League’s top returners in juniors
Hannah Polkinghorn and Chanele
Reyes. Polkinghorn won district
titles in the 100 meters and 200 in
2019, and she finished ninth at the
1A state meet in each event. Her
best times — 12.76 seconds 100,
26.43 200 — are Nos. 3 and 2 on
the school’s all-time list.
Reyes was second in the 300
low hurdles and fourth in the
100 highs at the district meet.
She is the fastest Columbia high
hurdler since future collegiate
Mary Ann Graves set the school
record in 2001, with bests of
17.11 in the highs and 47.85 in
the lows.
Reyes and Polkinghorn also
ran legs on Columbia’s 4x100
relay which was third at district
in 2019.
Among the top returners for
the Bruin boys is senior thrower
Juan Acosta. His 38-foot, 10-
inch shot put mark as a sopho-
more is the third best returning
Trico throw from 2019. He is one
better among returners in the
discus with a best of 110-1.
2021 Columbia
Track & Field
p.m.
Friday, April 16, Goldendale,
Seton Catholic at Columbia, 3:30
Thursday, April 1, LaCenter,
Goldendale at Columbia, 3:30 p.m. p.m.
Friday, April 23, Trico League
Monday, April 12, Castle Rock,
Championships at Seton Catholic,
Columbia at Seton Catholic, 3:45
3:45 p.m.
Friday, April 30, District IV 1A
Championship at Seton Catholic,
4 p.m.