Wednesday, June 23, 2021
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SPORTS
Riverhawk boys take win
streak to district play
Weber
■ By For Mike
Columbia Gorge News
The Dalles High Riverhawk
boys basketball team went
into the Intermountain
Conference district playoffs
with the momentum of a
two-game winning streak
and were hoping to extend
the streak to three with a
victory over the Ridgeview
High Ravens.
The Riverhawks (3-7
IMC, 3-8 overall) won their
final two league contests,
including a 49-40 victory
last Thursday at home over
the Ravens (3-7 IMC, 4-9).
On June 15, The Dalles won
at home 63-55 over the
Pendleton High Buckaroos
(0-9 IMC), snapping a five-
game losing streak.
The Riverhawks tied
Ridgeview for fourth place in
the six-team IMC and then
earned a tiebreaker to get
the No. 4 seed in this week’s
district playoffs. The Dalles,
guided by second-year
Coach Greg Cummings,
faced No. 5 seed Ridgeview
for the third time this season
in Monday’s quarterfinal
contest at The Dalles High
School (results came after
the printed edition dead-
line). Monday’s winner plays
Wednesday at 7 p.m. against
the league leading Crook
County Cowboys (10-0 IMC,
14-0) in Prineville.
“The kids played very
good in the last two games,”
said Cummings. “We came
out and played with a ton of
energy against Ridgeview, we
just outplayed them, and it
was a good overall team ef-
fort. We played really, really
good defense and we forced
29 turnovers. Our team is
definitely fun to watch. Our
kids really wanted to win,
and they were well focused
on doing that in the first half.
“Things kind of were just
the opposite in the second
half when they (Ravens)
made a comeback and
Losses relegate HRV
boys to third in IMC
Petshow
■ Joe
For Columbia Gorge News
The Dalles senior Spencer Taylor (42) watches the first free throw
shot of two during a game against Redmond.
Mark B. Gibson photo/file
seemed to play with a higher
energy level.”
The Hawks built a 20-point
first-half lead, but the Ravens
came back and narrowed the
margin to seven late in the
game. Senior Spencer Taylor
led the Hawks in scoring with
13 points. Sophomore guard
Styles DeLeon had nine
points and six rebounds.
Junior Jaxon Pullen had
eight points and a team-high
five steals. Junior forward
Tristan Bass had nine points
and four steals and junior
guard Shane Floyd had seven
points and four steals.
In the win over Pendleton,
DeLeon scored a sea-
son-high 22 points and had
four steals and five assists.
It was Senior Night at The
Dalles High as Taylor and
senior Kenape Stewart were
honored along with their
parents, for their successful
careers on the Riverhawk
basketball team.
“We should’ve won by 30
over Pendleton, but these
kids just don’t know how
to put a team away when-
ever we have big lead,” said
Cummings. “It seems like
whenever we get a lead, we
always let our opponent
creep back into the game to
make it more competitive,
but we were able to hold
them off.”
Taylor’s father, Jim Taylor,
who is an assistant coach,
was honored in a special cer-
emony prior to the game; he
retired after a 17-year career
on the Riverhawks basketball
team. Taylor will continue
as an assistant coach on the
football and track and field
teams.
Hopes for, first, a co-In-
termountain Conference
championship, and then
a first-round playoff bye,
were dashed last week when
the Hood River Valley boys
basketball team dropped
successive road games
at Redmond and Crook
County. The losses left the
Eagles in third place in the
final regular season stand-
ings and a home playoff
date against Pendleton
on Monday (result came
after the printed edition
deadline).
Redmond defeated
Hood River, 59-58, in an
Intermountain Conference
game June 15 and the Eagles
lost 80-52 two days later at
league champion Crook
County. HRV closed the
week Friday with a home
win against Pendleton,
62-55.
“[It was a] super long
week with school out and
graduation over. We learned
a lot last week and hope to
clean it up for the playoffs
this week,” Eagle Coach
Christopher Dirks said. “It’s
been a really long season
even though it’s been short.
Being at the end of the year
we faced a lot of distractions
that were draining.”
HRV led at Redmond with
two minutes remaining, but
some defensive lapses and
missed free throws enabled
the Panthers to pull out the
win on their home court and
clinch second place in the
final standings.
“We took [the] weekend to
refocus on what we need to
get done this week. So, start-
ing [Monday], it’s play till we
lose,” Dirks said. “We feel like
we can make some noise if
we can put everything we
learned this year together.”
The playoff format has
Hood River Valley senior Davis Yates eyes the basket as he goes for
two during a game earlier in the season.
Mark B. Gibson photo
the top two teams in the
regular-season standings
earning first-round byes in
the six-team district. The No.
1 and 2 seeds advance to the
June 23 semifinals and home
games against Monday’s
winners. The championship
game is June 25 at the site of
the higher seeded team.
Crook County (14-0, 10-0)
clinched the top seed in the
playoffs. Redmond (10-2,
8-2) earned a first-round
bye with the win over HRV
(8-4, 6-4). Monday’s HRV-
Pendleton winner plays
Wednesday at Redmond.
Crook County hosts
Monday’s The Dalles vs.
Ridgeview winner.
Hood River’s girls team
finished as the No. 5 seed
in the IMC and will play a
5:30 p.m. game Monday at
Redmond. The Eagles (0-12,
0-10) finished sixth in the
final standings, but moved
up a playoff spot when The
Dalles (2-8 overall, league)
decided to end its season
after its final league game
Thursday.
The improved Eagles
lost a close game to visit-
ing Redmond on June 15,
53-49. They lost 50-33 to
Crook County on Thursday
and then 50-33 to league
co-champion Pendleton
on Friday. HRV trailed by
one point at halftime at
Pendleton but was outscored
19-11 in the fourth quarter.
Hood River freshman Marina
Castaneda led all scorers
with 20 points, 15 of which
came in the first half.
Wildwood Academy’s
2021/22 Math Program
For the 2021/22 school year, we are re-organizing and investing heavily in our math
program to help prepare our students for the next stages of their education and
entering the “real world.”
The program will be led by Dov Rohan - a physics major from Cal Poly, and Caleb
Peretz - a science major from UC Davis. Both Dov and Caleb are passionate about
teaching middle school math with the ability to instruct at multiple levels.
Our student to educator ratio will be no larger than seven students for every
educator! These ratios ensure that each student will have a significant amount
of individual attention and differentiation based upon their ability and pace
of learning.
Caleb Peretz
The program will consist of learning math theory in the classroom and applying
those theories in real world applications. Examples include building catapults and
zip lines at our eight-acre outdoor campus, visiting solar farms, studying sailboats,
constructing replicas of Stonehenge and the Pyramids of Giza, and even analyzing
bridge engineering on Portland architecture walks.
Our students will study business math to develop a solid understanding of com-
pound vs simple interest, balance sheets and income statements, account payables
and receivables, budgeting, toxic debt, mortgage finance, and investment strategies.
We’ll have local businessmen and women as guest speakers to emphasize the
importance of business math in real life settings.
Finally, in addition to more traditional math texts, we’re investing in The Art
of Problem Solving – a next generation program that will appeal to visual and
text learners.
Our math program will be accessible
for every student, at every level, with
every learning style.
Dov Rohan
To learn more, please visit
www.wildwood-academy.org
Wildwood Academy
is an independent middle school,
serving 5th–8th grades,
in downtown Hood River.