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Wednesday,March31,2021
Columbia Gorge News
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SPORTS
Above, Seth Miller makes a save in practice.
Inexperience does not dim
optimism within Columbia
boys soccer program
Walker Sacon
■ By Columbia
Gorge News
Columbia High School’s new
boys soccer coach Daniel Mangum
said he hopes to lay the foundation
of a winning culture this season, ex-
pecting his team to make the most
of its eight-game schedule.
He said the community of White
Salmon has enough soccer talent to
field perennial 1A state tournament
contenders. He hopes to coach the
team “for a long time.”
Mangum said his team – and its
competitors – will be relatively in-
experienced this year. The last time
a full season was played, this year’s
seniors were sophomores.
“Guys who would’ve had time
to develop on JV are now varsity
starters,” he said.
One of those seniors is star Jacob
Lockman, who has been playing
with the Westside Timbers Soccer
Club in Beaverton, OR., to prepare
for the season. Both of the team’s
goalkeepers, Seth Miller and Oscar
Robles-Nunez, hadn’t played the
position until high school, Mangum
said. He said both stuck to keeping
after trying it in practice and have
shown promise.
Mangum took over the program
12 days before the pandemic
cancelled what he said could have
been a deep playoff run with a
large and talented group of seniors.
He said not fielding a JV team
and COVID-19 precautions mean
some players won’t travel with the
team this year. Those players, who
Mangum said would have been
high quality JV players, have opted
to continue practicing and attend-
ing home games, which he said
reflects their commitment.
Walker Sacon photos
Take 10
takes
Mixed
The Dalles girls, Hood
River boys win four-
way races in Redmond
Hannah Ziegenhagen’s first-
place finish led The Dalles girls
to a team win Wednesday at a
four-school cross country meet in
Redmond.
Ziegenhagen covered the
5,000-meter course at West Canyon
Rim City Park in 21 minutes, 36
seconds. The Dalles scored 18 team
points and host Redmond was
second with 39. Hood River and
Ridgeview did not field complete
scoring teams (of five runners)
for the spring break meet. It was
Ziegenhagen’s second successive
win this season.
Hood River’s Mieka McKnight
and Charis Bronson were sec-
ond and third, followed by Emily
Johnson and Caitie Wring of The
Dalles. McKnight’s time of 22:21
was a season best, and Bronson’s
22:32 was a personal best.
The Hood River boys were led by
Elliot Hawley’s third-place finish
en route to a 31-38 win against
The Dalles. Ridgeview was third
with 59 points and Redmond did
not field a complete team. Hawley
finished in 17:05, but the key to
the team win were the finishes of
Thomas Ziegler, who was fourth
in a personal best 18:12, and the
pack of William Bunch, Joshua
Humann and Geoffrey Shoaf. They
were seventh through ninth within
a 15-second span; Humann and
Shoaf ran season-best times of
Above: senior Jacob
Lockman shoots a vol-
ley in practice at CHS
on March 26. Lockman
is the only CHS boys
soccer player entering
this season with varsi-
ty experience. At right,
junior Oscar Robles-
Nunez saves a shot.
The outcome was not
close, as Take Ten won by 125
pins, mainly due to smooth
Ken Espersen, who flat out
obliterated the sticks to the
tune of a huge scratch 750
series that included big-time
269 and 266 games. Granted,
Ken has been the hottest
bowler in town, but a series of
that magnitude is special and
hard to beat. Teammate Carl
Casey also chipped in a nice
610 series that was capped by
a nifty big finishing 244 in his
last game of the match.
Congratulations to the
champs, Ken Espersen, Carl
Casey, Dawnell Espersen and
Katherine Huerta. We wish to
extend our deepest gratitude
for everyone who bowled
this fun league in these trying
Last week, team Take Ten
won the abbreviated Tuesday times. Thank you and please
Nite Mixed bowling league at come back next season. We
Hood River’s Orchard Lanes. hope things will return to
normal by then.
The top four teams earned
High scores have exploded
spots in the season-ending
three-game total pins league of late. Just look at the league
championship roll off. Those reports below. There are so
many big numbers, let’s shine
teams were Team Nishi,
Take Ten, defending champs some limelight on these tall
totalers in a mythical team of
Who Gives A Split and Are
you Splitting Me. Got to give the week like we used to do.
them credit, those are some
creative team names!
Hannah Ziegenhagen runs in a recent meet.
Team of the Week
Ken Espersen, 750
Bill Whetstine, 740
Mike Parke, 735
Jeff Miller, 729
Pat Olson, 717
3,671 total pins
Any way you cut it, a
scratch 700 three game series
is pretty darn good bowl-
ing. It’s over a 233 average
per game, so a series must
contain at least 21 strikes,
probably more. That is the
hallmark of proficient talent;
to collect that many strikes
in an outing, you must be
able to hit your target like a
machine. You are not going
to luck into a 700 series.
And, how about this, Josh
Worth, who rolled a perfect
300 game a couple weeks
ago, didn’t make this stellar
fivesome even though he
posted a cool scratch 708
set last week. So, for Josh,
let’s give him the sixth man
award, kind of like what pro
basketball NBA does. He
earned it! Obviously, there is
some high-class competition
going on at the lanes!
Let’s talk about these six
stars, are they really that good
and how do they do it? First,
they are all members of the
elite in Hood River bowling.
Ken Espersen, who epito-
mizes the easy rolling just off
the gutter down and in style
that works so well on the oil
pattern at Orchard Lanes, has
had a fantastic season, finish-
ing with his career best-ever
205 average. Lefty Mike
Parke, another down and in
guy, albeit who is on the oth-
er, pristine side of the lane,
who we have affectionately
nicknamed “the doomsday
striking machine” because
it seems like he rolls a strike
every time, is now carrying a
solid 206 average.
Jeff Miller is renowned
in these parts as the best
bowler period. No discussion
necessary. Jeff’s big booming
roundhouse curve from deep
left on the lane finds the 1-3
pocket so often it seems he
should be a lot higher than
the 220 average he currently
carries. Bill Whetstine, the
show me guy from Missouri
who has been with us for
only a couple of years, proves
every time he laces up, he
is one heck of a bowler. Bill,
who is averaging 215, plays
the lanes more directly
toward the pocket, mostly in
the track area between the
second and third arrows and
uses lots of speed to keep
his ball on that line. Then it
hooks sharply into the sticks
scattering them like tinker
toys. And Pat Olson, Orchard
Lanes proprietor, who is
carrying a 216 average, hooks
the ball a bit more so he plays
the lanes a little deeper in the
track area. By the way, Josh
Worth, who plays the shot
even deeper but more direct
with lots of speed between
the third and fourth arrows, is
also having a career season,
carrying a 212 average.
Need we say more — these
guys are good!
League Reports
Monday night Industrial:
Patrick Olson: 277, 245,
237, 717, 683; Jeff Miller: 262,
671; Randy Nieto: 257, 651
; Quinton Cox: 269 ; Mike
Weaver: 258; Steve Byers:
257, 237; Carl Casey: 252
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Tuesday Nite Mixed:
Ken Espersen: 269, 266,
750; Carl Casey: 244; Joey
Sheirbon: 236; Patrick Olson:
236; Nancy Asai: 203
Wednesday afternoon
senior Colts & Fillies:
Mike Parke: 252, 246, 237,
226, 201, 735, 612; Lynn
Spellman: 212, 205, 203,
612; Bernie Keys: 246, 225,
201; Dave Baumsteiger: 222;
Ed Busick: 215, 203; Tony
Teschner: 212; Mick Sherrell:
204
Wednesday night
Fraternal:
Bill Whetstine: 288, 246,
740; Jeff Miller: 269, 257, 239,
729, 698; Josh Worth: 235,
245, 708; Levi Phelps: 245,
237, 236, 699,673; Patrick
Olson: 266, 258, 243, 694;
Stan Pratnicki: 259, 689;
Bernie Keys: 234, 214, 210,
202, 623, 603; Mike Weaver:
287; Jeff Brittle: 237; Stuart
Kawachi: 235
Thursday afternoon se-
nior Lads & Lassies:
George Buck: 201, 200
Abijah
Patterson
Keegan Ku
Ku for
Global , Studies:
Student of the week
Keegan comes to class every day
Abijah is new to the school and was an active participant in
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attitude
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Health
class each day.
I was impressed
Abijah’s
hard, not to only
improving
commitment
his education
and as a new himself,
student his
willingness
to participate
in our CDL format.
but fellow
classmates
as well.
Hood River
Contractor
19:23 and 19:26.
Juan Diego Contreras was
second overall to lead The Dalles.
Contreras, Hawley and Finn
Anspach of Ridgeview were a
minute clear of the rest of the
pack. Anspach pulled out the win
in 16:56, six seconds faster than
Contreras. Nick Caracciolo and Leo
Lemann were fifth and sixth for the
Riverhawks. Anspach won his sec-
ond race in as many weeks, having
outkicked Hawley March 17 over a
3,000-meter course in Hood River.
Anspach, Contreras, Hawley and
Alex Carne of Crook County have
the fastest times in district thus far,
with Carne leading the way with a
15:38 effort on his home course in
Prineville on March 17.
One more week of dual meets
will be held March 31; Hood River
hosts Crook County and The Dalles
hosts Redmond. The IMC district
meet is April 7 at Sorosis Park
in The Dalles starting at 3 p.m.
Through last week, based on re-
corded times, the Hood River girls
and The Dalles boys are favored to
win the district team titles. Hood
River’s girls are 30 points better
than the next best teams, based
on a hypothetical meet. One point
separates The Dalles and Crook
County for second place. The
Dalles and Hood River are the top-
ranked boys teams; each has won a
race against the other this season.
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