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Hood River News, Wednesday, January 14, 2015
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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
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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-
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