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SPORTS
IMC DISTRICT WRESTLINE
Tinajero wins IMC district title
Hood River sophomore
Abraham Tinajero won the
195-pound boys wrestling
Intermountain Conference
championship Saturday at
Redmond High School.
Tinajero had byes in the
first two rounds then won
his semifinal match by fall
in 28 seconds over William
Witcraft of Redmond.
Tinajero caught Redmond’s
Kenyth Kettle early in the
championship match and
won by fall in 24 seconds to
win the title.
The top finishers qualified
for this week’s 5A state meet,
which will be held Friday
and Saturday at Cottage
Grove High School.
Tinajero was the top plac-
er among Gorge wrestlers
and will be joined at the
state tourney by sophomore
teammate Carson Farlow,
who finished third at 132
pounds. Farlow won his
first match in the quarter-
finals by fall over freshman
Colton Sawyer of The Dalles.
Trevor Martin of Crook
County pinned Farlow in
the semifinals, but the HRV
wrestler bounced back in the
consolation round to win by
fall against Angel Oregon of
The Dalles. That put Farlow
in the third-place match with
a state tourney spot on the
line; Farlow improved his
short season record to 11-5
by defeating Redmond’s
Cutter Woollard by fall to
earn the state berth.
HRV’s Jaime Rodriguez fell
one win shy of an automatic
berth to state, losing by a
9-6 decision in the conso-
lation final to Pendleton’s
Gabe Browning. Rodriguez
won a 6-3 decision in the
quarterfinals against Jose
Terrazas of Redmond but
lost by fall in the semis
to Steven Ware of Crook
County. Rodriguez stayed
in contention with a 10-8
decision over Coner Blair of
The Dalles in the consolation
semifinals.
Two other HRV wres-
tlers finished sixth: Lane
Chandler at 138 pounds
and Conner Tennant at 160.
Chandler won two of four
matches at district while
Tennant went 1-3. Eagle
teammates, Mason Steffers
and Brian Flores, both
freshmen, also competed at
district.
Hood River finished fifth
(73 points) and The Dalles
(38) was sixth in the team
competition. Crook County
edged Redmond 396-363 to
win the tourney.
The Dalles was led by
fourth-place finishers
Marquies Sagapolutele and
Taylor Moorehouse, who
each scored 16 team points
for the Riverhawks.
Sagapolutele won two of
his four 170-pound matches,
including a quarterfinal win
by fall over David Welch of
Pendleton. Sagapolutele
lost in the semifinals by fall
to eventual runner-up Gage
Hanson of Crook County.
Moorehouse made it to the
semis with a fall against
Justin Reason of Ridgeview
at 182 pounds, but he lost
his next match to Ray Solis of
Crook County.
Blair added a sixth-place
finish for The Dalles at 126,
as did Oregon at 132. Merik
Peacock and Sawyer also
gained district tourney expe-
rience for the Riverhawks.
Hood River sophomore Abraham Tinajero, second from left, won the 195-pound boys wrestling Intermountain Conference championship
Saturday at Redmond High School.
Contributed photo
Three place second at regional wrestling tourney
Three Gorge-area wrestlers
finished in second place
at last week’s Girls North
Regional Tournament at
Tillamook High School.
Hood River’s Lauraine
Smith and Emily Sullinger,
and Maisie Bandal-Ramirez
of The Dalles were run-
ners-up in their weight
classes at the Friday tourney.
They qualified for the girls
state tournament Thursday,
June 24 at Cottage Grove
High School.
Smith was second at 155
pounds, losing by fall to
Destiny Rodriguez of West
Linn in the championship
match. Smith won four
matches to get to the final;
three of the wins were by fall
and the fourth was a 14-1
major decision.
Sullinger was second at
120 pounds, losing by fall to
Newberg’s Sophia Redwine.
Sullinger won her other three
matches by fall, includ-
ing a 17-second pin in the
quarterfinals.
Hood River Valley finished
fourth in the team stand-
ings with 77 points, edging
The Dalles Sophomore 126-pounder Maize Bandal-Ramirez, in black, was one of three Gorge wrestlers tha qualified for the girls state Estacada by one point.
tournament.
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competing, won the meet
with 146 points.
Bandal-Ramirez was
second at 125 pounds, losing
to Hillsboro’s Alice Rickett
by fall. Bandal-Ramirez won
three other matches en route
to a spot in the final.
Teammate Summer
Schellinger won her first-
round match before losing
her next two. The Dalles fin-
ished 26th out of 51 schools.
Hood River had five other
wrestlers compete in the
meet. Two of those wrestlers
placed: Dulce Najera was
fourth at 100 pounds and
Karol Najera was fifth at 110.
Dulce lost her first-round
match to eventual runner-up
Nina Deleon of Hillsboro and
then battled back through
the consolation bracket with
three wins in four matches.
Karol lost in the semifinals to
eventual champion Daniela
Vasquez of Century, then
won one of two consolation
matches.
HRV’s Ximena Galvez and
Fatima Munoz each won a
regional match, while team-
mate Betzaida Rodriguez
Nolasco was injured early in
her first match.
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