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S PORTS www.hoodrivernews.com Hood River News, Saturday, February 7, 2017 A7 ‘We’re loving it’ HRV boys happily take aim at league title S K Y L E R HUNTER dri- ves to the hoop for two of his season- high 20 points Tuesday vs. The Dalles. By ADAM LAPIERRE point win of the season. The victory puts the 9-8 Eagles in a tie for first place in the CRC with Hermiston (both at 2-1) – a What a difference a year makes. At the beginning of this season, coach Steve situation few would have predicted earlier this Noteboom’s goal for the Hood River Valley varsity season. Hermiston defeated HRV but lost to boys basketball team was simply to build intensi- Pendleton, while HRV defeated Pendleton by ten points in their conference opener. The ty and positive energy among his play- Dalles also defeated Pendleton, so ers, many of whom returned to the CRC standings those two teams are in a tie for third lineup with painful memories of a (as of Feb. 5) and fourth. A new state qualifying sys- winless 2013-14 campaign. After Tues- HRV: 2-1 (9-8) tem this season foregoes rankings and day’s 62-49 win over The Dalles, how- ever, the Eagles have that intensity Hermiston: 2-1 (5-12) places the top CRC team in the 16-team and energy, as well as a legitimate shot Pendleton: 1-2 (11-7) 5A bracket, while the second and third at the first Columbia River Conference The Dalles: 1-2 (2-16) place teams qualify for a play-in game and the fourth place team is out. title in team history. “The feeling at this point last season Living up to their reputation as the most im- proved boys basketball team this season (labeled was that we didn’t really have a chance at winning such in a recent Oregonian article), the boys uti- any games,” Noteboom said. “This season it’s the lized their unorthodox style of high-pressure play opposite. The boys are having fun, they’re moti- and continuous substitutions to wear down the Riverhawks and finish with their fourth 10-plus See FUN, Page A8 News staff writer Photo by Adam Lapierre ‘Compared to last year ... It’s hard do describe how much better this feels. We’re having fun, we’re playing basketball and we’re loving it.’ SKYLER HUNTER Photos by Adam Lapierre N EW YORK, L OS A NGELES, H OOD R IVER Hood River Valley High School was one of three locations across the country to host a special USA Wrestling womens wrestling clinic on Feb. 4. Pictured above are clinicians Kelsey Campbell (Olympian and two-time world team member) and Whitney Conder (two-time US Open champion and two-time world team member) showing the roughly 70 kids in attendance basics to a proper wrestling stance. Below, the group works stance and a single leg shot during the free clinic, which was divided into a skills portion and a motivational talk and question and answer portion. The three free clinics and talks were held in Hood River, Los Angeles and New York City. Hood River was selected as a location because of its high number of young female wrestlers participating in local club and high school programs. ‘Somebody yelled ‘Falling!’ and I Zack signs to play for Humboldt State looked up, and here they come ...’ By ADAM LAPIERRE News staff writer A first-hand account of wild double rescue on Mount Hood By BEN JACKLET Shred Hood Editor JAN. 31, 2015: Erik Broms was climb- ing down from the summit of Mount Hood Saturday morning when two climbers roped together came plummeting down the mountain, right at him. “Somebody yelled ‘Falling!’ and I looked up, and here they come,” Broms recalls. “I had to hesitate for a moment to make sure that if I stepped one way or the other they weren’t going to go in that direction. Basi- cally I waited until the last possible mo- ment and then moved out of their path.” Broms, an experienced rescue leader with Portland Mountain Rescue who has summited Mount Hood “somewhere be- tween 225 and 250” times, responded quick- ly to help the fallen climbers below. “I got to their location in about 2 min- utes, and already they were both just shiv- ering like crazy,” he says. “After a fall like that when you’re all busted up, you start losing body heat real fast. You just start ShredHood For this story and much more Mt. Hood related news see www.shredhood.com getting cold immediately.” The fallen climbers were a married cou- ple, Michelle and Brian Carlson of Port- land, and they were seriously injured and in shock after falling 450 feet. Their cram- pons had gotten caught up in the ice and snow as they tumbled, wrenching their legs and resulting in two broken ankles and a broken leg. Fortunately, it was a mild weekend day on the mountain, and there were plenty of climbers and rescue experts around to help. PMR rescue leader Mark Morford ra- dioed for help, contacting another PMR rescue team that was training down near Timberline Lodge. Another PMR volun- teer, an emergency room physician’s assis- See RESCUE, Page A8 MOUNTAIN RESCUE: Vol- unteers form a protective line to stop falling ice from hitting an injured climber on the south side of Mount Hood last Saturday. Photo courtesy of Eric Broms Collete Zack will soon trade the blue and gold of the Hood River Valley Eagles for the green and yellow of the Humboldt State Lumberjacks. Zach, a senior at HRVHS, signed a letter of intent Wednesday – Na- tional Signing Day — to play soccer for the D2 school in Arcata, Calif. “I’m really excited,” Zack said. “I feel like I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. I had a really big list of schools I was looking at and it took a while to narrow it down. It COLLETE ZACK signs as coach Kevin Haspela and parents Sherri and Kurt watch. (Humboldt State) feels like the right fit for me. It’s far enough away from home that I’ll get some independence, but it’s also close enough that it will be pretty easy to visit and my parents can come to my games.” Guided by coach Kevin Haspela, who was at the signing with Zack and her parents, Sherri and Kirk, Collete worked her way up the program at HRVHS, starting on the JV team as a freshman and ending as varsity captain last fall, when the Eagles claimed the Columbia River Conference title and made it to the state quarterfinals. “As a freshman (at Humboldt), I’m proba- bly not going to start,” she said. “I’m not sure where they’ll use me yet either. Maybe right- back, but I’m not sure; they will see how I mesh with the other players on the team. I’m just really excited to have the opportunity to play D2 soccer; as soon as I started playing club soccer in high school I knew this was something I really wanted to do.” Zack says a major reason she chose Hum- boldt State is because the college has a mas- ters program in kinesthesiology, which will be her field of study. Lamer, McLean lead HRV ski team Hood River Valley High School varsity ski team continued its undefeated streak of Mt. Hood League racing last weekend at Mt. Hood Meadows. The HRV girls placed four racers in the top ten and the boys placed five on their way to overall team victories in the slalom race Individual results are as follows: HRV Boys: William Lamer: 1st, 1:19.91 (40.54, 39.36) Patrick Compton: 5th, 1:24.52 (42.26, 42.26) Charlie Sutherland: 6th, 1:26.15 (43.60, 42.55) Mitch Lamer: 7th, 1:28.36 (44:63, 43:73) Oskar Anderson: 9th, 1:33.58 (46.78, 46.80) Onar Smith: 14th, 1:39.60 (49:70, 49.90) Zack Colson: 16th, 1:41.60 (52.20, 49.48) HRV Girls: Lucy McLean: 1st, 1:25.35 (41.79, 43.55) Sarah Hall: 4th, 1:35.48 (47.87, 47.61) Claire Davies: 6th, 1:39.70 (48.88, 50.82) Kelli Clarke: 10th, 1:45.01 (58.11, 46.90) Nicolette Paulus: 16th, 1:55.91 (58.34, 57.47) Sophie Caldwell: 20th, 1:59.11 (1:00.74, 58.37) Rosalie Dillon: 47th, 2:25.49 (1:14.35, 1:11.14)
