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PAGE A10, KEIZERTIMES, JULY 29, 2016 KEIZERTIMES.COM All-City meet Saturday By DEREK WILEY Of the Keizertimes The best swim club in Salem-Keizer will be deter- mined Saturday when six teams jump in the pool for the All-City meet, held at Holiday beginning at 10 a.m. Northwood, last summer’s champion, showed it’s at least the top team in Keizer by defeating Northview Terrace 398-227 on Thursday, July 21. Northwood’s boys out- scored Northview 207-81. Carter Hawley had the fast- est times in the 9-10-year-old freestyle and butterfl y. He also swam on the winning medley relay team with Caleb Skipper, Riley Auvenin and Hudson Hughes. Pierce Walker touched the wall fi rst in the individual medley and backstroke. Davis Olsen won the breaststroke. Kelson Whalen, Elijah Clen- dening, Grant Schaffer and Roman Pack took fi rst in the free relay. Ben Diede and Jeffery Ol- sen dominated the 7-8 age di- vision. Diede won the fl y and breaststroke while Olsen had the fastest times in the free and backstroke. Zander Rhoades took fi rst in the 11-12 free and back- stroke. Jackson Alt won the IM and fl y while also swimming on the winning free relay team with Walker, Olsen and Connor Roop. Riley touched the wall fi rst in the breaststroke and joined Zachary Carrington, Car- son Biondi and Cade Olson on the winning medley relay team. Rhoades and Alt jumped up to join Bryce Junker and Ethan Whalen on the fastest 13-14 medley relay. Ethan won the breaststroke and Brennan Whalen placed fi rst in the fl y. Jake Wyer took fi rst in the 15-18 IM, free, fl y and on both the free and medley re- lays with teammates Parker Dean, Grant Biondi and Jabez Rhoades. Individually, Dean also won the breaststroke. Northview got most of its points from the 13-14 age group as Gavin Gasperini, Cole Garland, Jeremy Becker and Alex Kosiewicz won the freestyle relay. Gasperini also had the fastest time in the backstroke and IM while Gar- land touched the wall fi rst in the free. Nick Kosiewicz, Will No- ble, Tyler Barker and Xzavier Parker won the 7-8 free relay. Dom Snyder tied for fi rst in the 9-10 breaststroke. The girls competition was tighter with Northwood coming out on top 191-146. Alexi Pack, Madi Mahoney, Katie Alger and Katelynn Schaffer won both the 7-8 medley and free relays. Indi- vidually, Alger also touched the wall fi rst in the free while Meili Skipper fi nished fi rst in both the IM and fl y. Avery Buss won the 9-10 KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley Carter Hollis, of the Holiday Swim Club, won the 11-12-year-old individual medley and butterfl y Thursday, July 21 at Jan Ree in Salem. IM and free. Paris Boyd placed fi rst in the 11-12 IM, free and breaststroke. Kailey Wilcke touched the wall fi rst in the 11-12 fl y and backstroke. Isabella Walker had the fast- est times in the 13-14 IM and fl y. Haley Hughes won the free and Madi Alt took fi rst in the breaststroke. Alt also swam on the winning free and med- ley relay teams with Maddie Trammel, Kennedy Buss and Lanah Metz. Alyssa Garvey had the fast- est times in the 15-18 back and breaststroke. Northview was led by Jana Everitt, who had the fast- est times in the 9-10 fl y and breaststroke while also swim- ming on the winning free re- lay with Brianna Barker, Issy Kosiewicz and Kara Everitt as well as the medley relay with Kosiewicz, Kara Everitt and Tealynn Parker. Individually, Barker won the 9-10 backstroke. Please see SWIM, Page 11 Columbia River packed with shad by G.I. Wilson Submitted The Oregon Titans, made up of high school softball players primarily from McNary and West Salem, placed third in the 16U Gold ASA/USA National Championship in Broken Arrow, Okla. July 19-23. Titans nationally known By DEREK WILEY Of the Keizertimes The Oregon Titans opened the 16U Gold American Softball Association/USA National Championship 5-0 but up next was a team, Washington Majestics, they had fallen to 9-1 just earlier this summer. “It was probably the toughest team we’d ever seen, this year when we stepped on the fi eld,” Titans President Rick Mu- ranaka said. “Our girls hadn’t really seen a team like that. We’ve either dominated or been in close games. One of their pitch- ers has committed to go to the Univer- sity of Washington and the other pitcher has committed to go to Boise State. We’d never faced pitchers like that. We came out and our girls were watching them and we were nervous.” In the rematch, Friday in Broken Ar- row, Okla., the Majestics again took an early lead, scoring three runs in the top of the fourth. However, the Titans, primarily made up of high school players from McNary and West Salem, answered with four runs in the bottom of the inning and held on to win 4-3. “The girls were so fi red up to play them,” Muranaka said. “They wanted to get revenge. We made some big errors and we were down and our girls kept believ- ing and kept fi ghting. In the dugout they were so positive. It was super hot. They were running out on the fi eld during timeouts and giving their teammates wa- ter. It was really, really cool. Our defense locked them down and made some really high pressure plays. They were just ready and it was pretty cool to watch.” The Titans ultimately fi nished third out of the 34 best teams in the country. Oregon opened pool play with anoth- er tight game Tuesday, July 19 morning against Illinois Force. The Titans were shut out entering the bottom of the seventh before Mc- Nary rising junior Nadia Witt drove in two runs to give the Titans a 2-1 victory. Oregon rolled from there, defeating the Firecrackers HTX 14-2 Tuesday and the Louisiana Bombers 11-4 Wednesday to enter tournament play undefeated. Another incoming McNary junior, Haley Ebner, had three RBIs in an 8-2 win over Originals Earl Thursday morn- ing. The Titans then held on to top the Northwest Raptors 10-9 that night. After another one-run comeback win, 4-3, over Georgia Impact, the Titans went up against the eventual national champi- on—Texas Bombers. Muranaka said Texas, which scored two runs in the second and eight in the third to win 10-2, was just the better team. “That is an amazing team,” he said. “Almost every girl is committed to a ma- jor D-I program. It was fun to play them. It was really neat and eye-opening for our girls to see a team like that.” Playing on fumes, Oregon then lost to Originals-CK 12-9 Saturday to end the tournament. “We were playing in 100-degree plus weather and they just wore down,” Mu- ranaka said. “You could see it. Our girls were just tired.” The national tournament followed the Triple Crown World Series in Park City, Utah, where the Titans placed second in the silver bracket just the week before. “I’ve had some good teams but I’ve never had a team this good that’s meshed on all different levels, not only just physi- cally but mentally and team bonding,” Muranaka said. “It’s just been kind of a dream season for us.” Muranaka also credits a talented coach- ing staff, which includes head coach Mis- sy Doerr, a former University of Oregon catcher, Dave Coe, Kevin Witt and Rick’s wife, Sarah Muranaka, an All-American pitcher at Western Oregon, for the team’s success. “They did an amazing job,” Rick said. “It’s just a really good coaching staff that we brought together and worked well for the kids. I’m so happy that we all work together so well.” Muranaka has also heard from col- lege coaches since the tournament. His daughter, Nalani, and Nadia Witt have already verbally committed to Western Oregon. “We have a bunch of college coaches that have been calling me,” Rick said. “Colleges have seen these girls play this year and are loving them. We’re fi elding phone calls and trying to get these girls on their visits. It’s just a whirlwind. It’s crazy.” Interested in dropping an- chor in a place where up to 70,000-80,000, hard fi ghting, eager biting, fi sh could swim past you in one day? All this in one of the most spectacular vistas in North America? Where you may see anglers hook into prized spring chinook or, watch as a several hundred pound white sturgeon latches onto a salm- on angler’s plug, catapults out of the water and drags boat and anglers downriver? And, if you’re lucky, spot Roosevelt elk, or blacktail deer browsing the shoreline? We are talking about the annual American shad run up the Columbia River. “Time to hit the Colum- bia for shad,” Donald Koskela, explains with his usual excite- ment. “Over 60,000 a day are going over the dam. Time to load up the freezer with bait.” Koskela, a longtime friend, is a fi shing guide (Pastime Fishing Adventures, out of Silverton), uses shad as bait for sturgeon, halibut and crab. Shad are very oily and makes excellent bait. Fish and crab can detect the scent from great distances. Shad have thousands of very fi ne bones. Few people like the combination of odors and bones of shad. Larry Arndt, of Mid-Valley Anglers Fishing Club, does and cans them. Jon Moberg, of Salem, doesn’t go until around 100,000 a day are going over. He goes for his an- nual harvest of shad roe. The shad run typically peaks every year around Fa- ther’s Day on the Columbia River, below Bonneville Dam. Some days over 100,000 may pass through the fi sh ladder. Arndt holds the Oregon State record, 6 pounds 8 ounces. He fi shes below the falls at Oregon City. “I like to start fi shing for them a little before Father’s Day,” he ex- plains. “Years vary, but the run usually peaks about that time. Shad don’t climb the fi sh lad- der on the Willamette, so we have longer to fi sh for them.” Koskela usually invites me to join him for at least one of his shad trips a year. This year we make our annual trek on June 11. Today, he has invited Mick- ey Varner, ODFW biologist, to join us. Please see WILSON, Page 11 Submitted Mickey Varner, ODFW biologist, holds up a shad caught on a June 11 fi shing trip in the Columbia River.