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Wednesday,June30,2021
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SPORTS
WRESTLING
Gorge wrestlers compete at boys state tourney
Four Gorge wrestlers com-
peted at last week’s 5A boys
state tournament in Cottage
Grove, where Hood River
Valley sophomore Carson
Farlow led area placers with a
fourth-place showing.
•••
Farlow (15-7 record) won
his opener 6-5 against North
Eugene’s Andrew Salinas, the
No. 8 seed at 126 pounds. The
HRV wrestler lost in the quar-
terfinals to eventual fifth-
place finisher Elijah Southern
of Thurston before reeling off
three successive wins in the
consolation rounds. Farlow,
who finished third in the
Intermountain Conference
tourney and scored 16 team
points at state, lost in the
third-place match at by
technical fall to West Albany’s
Derek Sossie.
•••
HRV’s Abraham Tinajero
(12-9), who won the
195-pound IMC champi-
onship, finished sixth at
state, losing two one-point
matches in the consolation
round. Tinajero, seeded third,
advanced to the semifinals
with wins over Thurston’s
Nathanial Brown (injury
default) and Crater’s Ethan
VanHook (fall). The Eagle
sophomore lost in the semis
to Willamette’s Bryce Indell
by fall and then lost again in
his first consolation match,
8-7, to Jaden Echeverria of
Hillsboro. VanHook and
Tinajero tangled again in the
fifth-place match, but this
time the Crater sophomore
won, 9-8.
•••
HRV’s Jaime Rodriguez (7-
7) split his four, state-tourney
matches at 126 pounds. He
won 5-3 in his opener against
Wilsonville’s Kaden Kramer,
but lost in the quarterfinals
to Dallas’ Jose Romero, 6-0.
Rodriguez remained in
contention to place in the
consolation round with a win
over Diego Perez-Montes of
South Albany, but his tourney
ended in his next match, a
loss by fall to Silverton’s Jacob
Moore.
•••
The Dalles had one
wrestler compete in the
tourney — junior Taylor
Moorehouse (9-5) won two
of his 185-pound matches.
Moorehouse faced top-seed
and eventual winner James
Rowley of Crescent Valley in
the first round, losing by fall.
Moorehouse won his first
two consolation matches
by decision before losing to
Cutter Woodworth of North
Bend. Moorehouse earned
a bit of redemption in his
second consolation win by
defeating Anthony Lochner
of Ridgeview. Lochner had
defeated Moorehouse at
the IMC championships the
Sullinger, Smith finish runners-up at girls wrestling tourney
Hood River junior
Emily Sullinger and
sophomore teammate
Lauraine Smith finished
in second place at
Thursday’s Oregon girls
state wrestling tourna-
ment at Cottage Grove
High School.
The tournament
included wrestlers
from Oregon schools
of all enrollment
classifications.
Sullinger was second
at 120 pounds and
Smith second at 155.
The Dalles sophomore
Maisie Bandal-Ramirez
was fourth at 125
pounds. Hood River’s
Dulce Najera also com-
peted at state, but she
did not place.
Bandal-Ramirez won
her opening match by
decision but lost in the
semifinals to eventu-
al champion Cailee
Hallett of Thurston.
Bandal-Ramirez (8-3)
won one of two match-
es in consolation to
earn fourth place.
Sullinger (8-2) won
two matches before
losing in the final, 8-2,
to Sophia Redwine
of Newberg. Those
two also finished 1-2
at the North Oregon
qualifying tournament
in Tillamook a week
before state. Smith
(9-3) won by fall in
the first round and
semifinals before losing
in the championship
to West Linn’s Destiny
Rodriguez. Hood River
finished 10th in the
team race; 91 schools
had wrestlers partici-
pate in the tourney.
leaders around the state, in term of
vaccinations, sports have become a
welcomed distraction. Last week, the
Hood River basketball program held
Hood River Valley coaches and
its first youth camp in a year and a
players put a on a weeklong basket-
ball camp for elementary and middle half.
Girls basketball Coach Steve
school athletes.
Noteboom and boys assistant Juan
Cancellations and delays due to
Zuniga put together a youth camp for
COVID-19 have made organizing
athletes in grades three through eight
athletic events a challenge. With
Hood River County being one of the through the Hood River Valley Parks
and Recreation District website.
“We had 49 kids register,” said
Noteboom. “It was a really good
turnout.”
Participants worked on dribbling,
footwork, and shooting skills. HRVHS
athletes were present to help the kids
and offer a sense of guidance. Zuniga
says having the counselors working
with the younger athletes offers a
benchmark to strive for. He added
•••
Hood River finished 16th
with 30 points. Crescent
Valley of Corvallis won the
meet in dominating fash-
ion with 365.5 points. The
Raiders had 10 individual
champions among the 14
weight divisions. Crook
County and Redmond of
the IMC finished third and
fourth.
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that watching the high schoolers
compete in games keeps the kids
motivated to keep working on their
craft.
To register, or to get questions
answered about upcoming basket-
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