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S PORTS www.hoodrivernews.com Hood River News, Wednesday, January 14, 2015 A7 Aggressive Eagle offense leads 5A state in scoring By ADAM LAPIERRE News staff writer Photos by Adam Lapierre IN ACTION: Noah Noteboom (above) eyes the lane while Dan Kuechmann and Tyrone Stintzi battle two defenders for a loose ball during Saturday night’s home game against Heritage of Vancouver. With a running total of 857 points scored in 13 games, the Hood River Valley High School varsity boys basketball team is cur- rently the highest-scoring 5A lineup in the state (as of Tuesday); No. 2 ranked Summit is the second highest with 791. The Eagles, 6-7 after a win Friday night against Wood- burn and a loss Saturday against Heritage, will look to carry that offensive momentum into the coming weeks, as they move into a nine-game Columbia River Conference schedule starting next Friday at Pendleton. The Eagles boosted their offensive num- bers Friday night with a 69-61 win at home over Woodburn – their tenth 60-plus point game of the season – over the struggling 5A Mid-Willamette Conference Bulldogs. Noah Noteboom led the offensive effort with 21 points; Scotty Ziegner had 17 points and nine rebounds, Tyrone Stintzi, Kaydin Gibbs and Skyler Hunter, each had seven and Parker Kennedy chipped in with six points and six rebounds. “It was probably more exciting than it should have been,” coach Steve Noteboom said of Friday’s game; Woodburn is cur- rently 1-7. After jumping out to an early lead, HRV got a big overzealous in the sec- ond half and allowed Woodburn to stay in the game. “I think we pushed the tempo a little too much in the third quarter that cost us some points.” An up-tempo offense has been HRV’s game plan from the get-go this season, and for the most part it has been serving the Ea- gles well, as is evident by their state-lead- ing scoring numbers. “That’s certainly our goal: to score points,” Noteboom said. “The great thing for us this season is we have a lot of players who can score. It seems like every night it’s someone different stepping up.” Scotty Ziegner, currently the HRV’s lead- ing scorer, led with 11 points Saturday night in a somewhat surprising 68-53 loss against Heritage High of Vancouver. After a solid game the night before, HRV came Please see HOOPS, Page A8 Get stoked HRV girls win TD invite, boys second Backcountry Film Fest is free, tonight Swim team tests mid-season form at 12-team invitational By ADAM LAPIERRE News staff writer The Hood River Aquatic Center was jam packed over the weekend with 12 teams of high school swim- mers from across the state in-house for the annual The Dalles Invitation- Photo by Adam Lapierre al. At mid-season, the meet is a great way for teams to test their TOP NOTCH: Eagle swimmers Dhani Freeland (top) David Walker and (below, front) Caitlyn Fick are pictured at Saturday’s athletes against those from both The Dalles Invitational at the Hood River Aquatic Center, where the HRV girls finished first overall and the boys second. near and far, giving coaches a good idea of how their teams will fare at Castaneda, Allison Burke, Macken- 59.92 the rapidly approaching district and HRV girls: 100 freestyle: Stan Ocheskey, 3rd, zie Booth and Jocelyn Pedrotti state championships. Top five teams: 1st Hood River, 53.38 If results from the weekend are 405; 2nd Pendleton, 320; 3rd La HRV boys: 500 freestyle: Carlos Galvez, 1st, any indication, Hood River Valley Grande 304; 4th The Dalles, 202; 5th Top five teams: 1st Pendleton, 394; 5:41.94 High School will measure up quite Madras, 192 200 freestyle relay: 3rd, Trey 2nd Hood River, 324; 3rd La Grande, well. HRV’s varsity girls team won 200 medley relay: 3rd, Courtney the meet outright, with 405 points – Castaneda, Kylie Webb, Katherine 300; 4th, La Salle, 296; 5th, Seaside, 223 Schilling, Carlos Galvez, Daniel 200 medley relay: 3rd, David Walk- Mears, Stan Ockeskey 85 points ahead of the next best McElderry and Caitlyn Fick 100 backstroke: David Walker, 4th, er, Brooks Maddy, Carlos Galvez and team, CRC rival Pendleton. Pendle- 200 freestyle: Dhani Freeland, 1st, 1:01.84 Trey Schilling ton got the best of the varsity boys 2:02.18; Allison Burke, 3rd, 2:11.47 100 breaststroke: Stan Ockeskey, 200 freestyle: Daniel Mears, 4th, field with 394 points, followed by the 200 IM: Kylie Webb, 1st, 2:17.34 5th, 1:13.35 2:10.19 HRV boys in second with 324. 50 freestyle: Caitlyn Fick, 5th, 400 freestyle relay: 3rd, Trey 200 IM: David Walker, 2nd, 2:17.15 Highlighting individual perfor- 27.68 50 freestyle: Trey Schilling, 4th, 24.27 Schilling, Andrew Rinella, David mances were first-place finishes by 100 butterfly: Courtney Castane- 100 butterfly: Carlos Galvez, 2nd, Walker, Stan Ockeskey Dhani Freeland (200 freestyle, 100 da, 3rd, 1:14.03 freestyle), Kylie Webb (200 IM, 100 100 freestyle: Dhani Freeland, 1st, breaststroke), Carlos Galvez (500 55.96 freestyle) and the girls 400 freestyle 500 freestyle: Allison Burke, 2nd, relay team of Webb, Freeland, Cait- 5:46.53; Courtney Castaneda, 3rd, lyn Fick and Yasmeen Ziada. 6:19.37 The Eagles continue their sched- 100 backstroke: Caitlyn Fick, 3rd, ule with an away meet Saturday at 1:10.62 Crescent Valley, a home meet Jan. 24 100 breaststroke: Kylie Webb, 1st, and a final meet Jan. 31 at Baker be- 1:12.68 fore hosting the Columbia River 400 freestyle relay: 1st, Kylie Conference championships Feb. 14. Webb, Caitlyn Fick, Yasmeen Ziada Top five TD Invite finishes are as and Dhani Freeland; 4th, Courtney follows: The Winter Wildlands Al- liance Backcountry Film Festival comes to Hood River Jan. 14, with a free showing of the festival’s nine video pieces starting at 7 p.m. at Double Mountain Brewery. In its 10th year running, the festival celebrates the human powered winter expe- rience through film. It aims to entertain while helping to raise funds and awareness for Winter Wildlands and their like-minded partners. The festival premieres in Boise, then travels to more than 100 locations world- wide. Along the way it raises money for local organiza- tions working on advocacy, snow safety, outdoor educa- tion and SnowSchool pro- grams. Films start at 7 p.m. but pa- trons are encouraged to come early to get seats and participate in the raffle. This year’s lineup is as fol- lows: ■ From the Road (21:00): Fischer Creative; Join the Dynafit team on a journey to Alaska. ■ Afterglow (11:35): Sweet- grass Production; This visu- ally spectacular film lights up the backcountry like never before ■ Backcountry Baker (5:15): Jeremy Lurgio; The story of Labrador retriever, Baker, and his owner as they pursue their love of moun- tains through backcountry skiing in Montana’s Bitter- root Mountains. ■ Out on a Limb (6:44): T- bar Films; The story of Vasu, whose love for skiing and the backcountry overcomes all obstacles. ■ 95 to Infinity (3:30): Doglotion Media; Follow brothers Andy and Mike Traslin as keep the torch lit for 95 months of winter turns. ■ IRS Traverse (8:00): Luc Mehl; A fun and corky ad- venture through the Alaska Wilderness ■ Powder Pilg rima g e (20:00): Joey Howell; Two friends ventures of ski bum- ming it to Valdez, a trip we should all take just once. ■ Sundog (5:15): Sturge Films; Capturing the dog days of skiing in Patagonia. ■ Higher (20:00): Teton Gravity Research; Continu- ing the journey of athlete Je- remy Jones as he reaches new heights. Nordic team continues run at OHSNO reign Hood River is continuing to in- sert a wedge into the historical Central Oregon dominance of Nordic skiing in the Oregon High School Nordic Org anization league. The Eagles won their sec- ond meet of the season over the weekend in Bend, beating both tra- ditional powerhouses Summit and Bend High by placing four racers Submitted photo the top ten. The 4K Classic style race was HRV Nordic racers (from left) Nils Engberson, Leif Bergstrom, Jesse Wiley and Daniel held at Mt. Bachelor under sunny Fischer all finished in the top ten over the weekend to lead the team to its second skies, on a hilly and fast course. win of the 2014-15 OHSNO season. This was a last-minute change in venue because of low snowpack at Mt. Hood Meadows and Teacup SnoPark. HRV’s junior Daniel Fischer was hot on the heels of Summit’s winner Zeb Millslagle (11:29.0) to take a second-place finish with a time of 11:36.9. Close behind him was sophomore Leif Bergstrom in third place with a time of 11:36.9. Senior Nils Engberson was sev- enth with a time of 12:24.0 and sophomore Jesse Wiley rounded out the top ten with ninth place in a time of 12:40.0 The Eagles reflected a nice depth with strong finishes by freshmen Muir Emmons at 23rd, Conner Truax at 24th and senior Mason McDowell at 27th. Sopho- mores Joey Slover, and Luke Serra, and Freshman Elkin Parker were next and sophomore Alec Matthews, seniors Alex Chadney, and Garret Kelly, and freshman Gabe Campos-Davis finished out the pack for the Eagles. The HRV girls placed third over- Please see FAST, Page A8
