P6 THE SPOKESMAN • WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2021
Sports & Recreation
In opener, High Desert Storm
fall to Idaho Horsemen, 46-44
Bulletin staff report
NAMPA, Idaho — The Oregon High Desert Storm lost
their franchise opener Saturday night to the Idaho Horsemen,
46-44, at the Ford Idaho Center.
It was the first ever game for the Storm, the newest team in
the American West Football Conference, a pro indoor football
league with five teams in the Northwest.
According to oregonstorm.com, the Storm had a chance to
tie the game with just under three minutes left, but quarterback
William Crest Jr. was sacked on a 2-point conversion attempt.
The Horsemen, the defending AWFC champions from 2019
after last season was canceled, opened the game with two con-
secutive touchdowns and had a 38-18 lead by halftime.
In the second half, the Storm defense made a few adjust-
ments and held the Horsemen to just eight points.
Storm running back Caleb Stennis scored a touchdown with
4:59 remaining, and then scored again on a 1-yard run a cou-
ple of minutes later after an Idaho fumble to cut the Horsemen
lead to 46-44 with 2:51 left. But Crest was sacked on the con-
version and Idaho was able to run out the clock for the victory.
After two weeks off, the Storm will travel to Yakima, Wash-
ington, to face the Yakima Canines on May 29.
The Storm are scheduled to play their first home game at
First Interstate Bank Center in Redmond on June 5 against the
Horsemen, and they are scheduled to play six of their 11 games
in Redmond this season, which runs through July 30.
For more information about the team, visit oregonstorm.com.
SPEEDY SPRINTER
Ridgeview Ravens freshman
Kensey Gault is undefeated
so far this season
BY BRIAN RATHBONE
The Bulletin
S
ISTERS — At a middle school track
meet in 2019, a young sprinter
caught the eye of Ridgeview track
and field coach Mark Conrad.
Her strides were smooth, her run-
ning style efficient. Best of all, the sev-
enth-grader, Kensey Gault, was fast.
Really fast.
Then came 2020 when COVID-19
canceled the track and field season and
the future Raven sprinter faded from the
coach’s mind.
“She had the mechanics,” Conrad said.
“All that stuff that goes into making a fast
runner. Then, basically, I forgot about her
until we had the fall season.”
When sports resumed last fall and
Conrad watched Gault race, he quickly
realized he may have one of the state’s
better sprinters in his program for the
next four years. Since Gault began racing
this spring, winning everything she en-
tered, Conrad’s hunch seems real.
“She has been off to a good start. It is
too bad that the season is on the short
side,” said Conrad. “These kids are just
getting into the swing of things and now
it is almost over. But she has had a great
start to the season.”
As a freshman, Gault is near the top of
the Class 5A leaderboard in four different
events.
Ridgeview High School’s Kensey Gault
competes in the 4x100-meter relay
with her teammates at Sisters High School
on Friday.
Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin
As of Friday evening, her time of
15.93 seconds in the 100 meter hurdles
at Mountain View High on April 28, is
the fastest time of all 5A girls hurdlers.
She has the third fastest 100 meter time
(12.45), and the fifth fastest 200 meter
and 300 meter hurdle times in the state.
Even for a runner who has routinely
won races since sixth grade, when she
started running track, the early suc-
cess is a bit surreal for the freshman
sprinter.
“It feels really good,” said Gault.
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