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‘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
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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)