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SPORTS
Oregon Cup Winners
Horizon relay team
tops 1A state ranking
From left, Magnolia Clermont of Hood River, Ocean Rivera from Odell, and White Salmon’s Sequoia
Cohen are part of a Portland club soccer team which won the U14 Oregon State Cup. They play for
United PDX Girls 07 Premier West, which qualified for the FarWest Regional Championships in Boise,
Idaho June 21-27. The three girls have been traveling to play with the Premier West team for the past
two years. The FarWest Regionals will feature teams in the 13U through 19U age groups who will com-
pete for a regional championship and a spot in the 2021 US Youth Soccer National Championship.
Regionals will be held at the Simplot Sports Complex in Boise.
Contributed photo
Dufur ends regular
season with Friday
doubleheader
Dufur puts its five-game
baseball winning streak on
the line Friday when it travels
to Heppner for a double-
header against the Mustangs
(10-1 overall, 2-0 District 7).
With a win, the Rangers
(9-1, 3-1) can finish in a tie
for first place depending on
Heppner’s Monday contest
at Grant Union (results came
after the printed edition
deadline).
Weston-McEwen, which
handed the Rangers their
lone loss, 3-0 on May 1, was
3-0 in league games heading
into this week. The Tigerscots
played Pilot Rock Tuesday
and Grant Union Saturday.
Dufur swept a double-
header from Sherman May 4,
12-2 and 20-9. The Rangers
followed that series with
a sweep of Grant Union
on Friday, 11-3 and 13-11.
Offensive highlights in the
12-2 league win against
Sherman were the two-hit
games by Brock LaFaver,
Kaleb Pence, and Isaac
Anthony. Gabe Petroff was
1 for 3 with four RBI, while
Anthony homered and
knocked in three runs.
Sherman concludes its
baseball regular season
Saturday at home against
Riverside in a non-league
doubleheader. The Huskies
snapped a four-game losing
streak May 8 with a sweep
of Umatilla, 10-9 and 10-0.
Sherman finished its abbrevi-
ated District 7 season with a
2-2 record.
Horizon Christian took
advantage of some quality
competition last week to
register the fastest time in the
Oregon Class 1A girls ranks
in the 4x400-meter relay.
The Hawk girls competed
at a meet May 5 at 5A Hood
River where they finished
third in the race behind the
host Eagles and Pendleton.
Horizon’s time of 4 minutes,
33.17 seconds is the fastest
in the state thus far for 1A
schools. The Hawk team of
Valerie Bruggeman, Olivia
Nickson, Ellie Rinella and
Grace Schreiber also teamed
up to run the 4x100 relay,
which they ran in a Big Sky
best of 54.99 seconds. That
time was the fifth-ranked
mark in 1A, as of Sunday.
Big Sky athletic directors
last week decided the league
will not hold a district meet
this season. The district meet
traditionally decides team
championships and is used
as qualifying for the OSAA
state meet. The OSAA also
decided not to host state
competition – in any sports.
So, a group of coaches has
organized a Class 1A state
meet, which will be held
May 22 at Eastern Oregon
University in La Grande.
All of the state’s other clas-
sifications also are hosting
similar meets that weekend.
Athletes can qualify for state
by recording top times and
marks in each event through-
out the season. Coaches are
looking for as many oppor-
tunities as possible for their
athletes. The cutoff to do so
is this Saturday. For exam-
ple, Lyle competed Friday
in Trout Lake and then
re-boarded the bus Saturday
morning and drove south to
a meet in Condon.
Big Sky meet at
Trout Lake
Lyle’s Aaron Smith and
Trout Lake’s Justin Peck
continued to pace Big Sky
competition Friday at a meet
in Trout Lake. Smith won
three events on a cool day -
with Mount Adams sporting
a fresh coat of snow as a
backdrop. The Lyle junior
won the long jump, triple
jump and 100, the latter in
a (then) personal best 12.03
seconds. Peck, who is among
the Class 1A state distance
leaders, did some speed
work Friday, winning the 400
in a PR 54.23 – the fastest in
district thus far.
Trout Lake frosh Klayton
Schmid won the 200 in a
personal best 25.94 and
sophomore teammate
Landon Heberling won the
pole vault at 10 feet.
Also in the boys meet,
South Wasco sophomore
Remington Sheer was four-
for-four in personal bests. He
was second in the long jump,
third in the javelin and 200,
and fourth in the triple jump.
His 18-2 long jump ranks
him second in the Big Sky.
On the girls side, South
Wasco’s Holly Miles had a
busy day. She won three
races and also ran a leg on
the Redside 4x400 relay.
Her individual wins were all
personal bests: 19.11 in the
high hurdles; 55.95 in the low
hurdles; and 29-3.5 in the
triple jump. Teammate Julie
Hull was also part of the relay
and won the 200 and 400, as
well. The Redsides won four
other events: sophomore
Sadie McCoy won the 1500
and 3000; Destiny Mora
Lopez won the shot put; and
Abbie Silvey won the discus.
Trout Lake frosh Myana
Stock won the 800 in 2:33.79,
which is the third-fastest
time in 1A, less than a sec-
ond behind the top mark.
Big Sky meet
at Condon
Lyle’s Smith had some
tired legs in the horizontal
jumps, but he took advan-
tage of a tailwind to win the
100 at Condon in 11.84 sec-
onds – lowering his personal
best for the second time in as
many days. He also won the
javelin in a PR 144-4. The first
five finishers in the 100 and
first eight in the 200 either
matched or exceeded their
previous bests.
Three of those sprinters
from Horizon Christian –
Caleb Lingel, Josh Rogers
and Diego Quezada – com-
bined to win the 4x100 relay.
The fourth member of that
team, senior JJ Holste, won
the high jump and was
second in the long jump.
Other winners for the Hawks
included: Caleb Juan in the
high hurdles and Josiah
Sohal in the 1500.
In the girls meet,
Sherman’s Mercedez
Cardona won the high jump
in a personal best 4-11.5, the
long jump and the high hur-
dles in 19.88 (PR). Cardona
was second behind Dufur’s
Kierstin White in the 100.
Sherman’s Morgan Geary
won the triple jump.
Horizon had three other
winners: Nickson in the 200;
Bruggeman in the pole vault
at 9-0 (which matched her
PR); and Kayla Kilgore, who
set the school record in the
3000 meters at 12:51.28 – a
30-second PR.
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