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S PORTS www.hoodrivernews.com Hood River News, Wednesday, February 25, 2015 A7 Freeland leads HRV girls; team fourth at state swimming By ADAM LAPIERRE Friday to qualify for Saturday’s fi- nale. Freeland, a junior, had the best Dhani Freeland, Kylie Webb, and two Hood River Valley High School individual results for the Eagles as she blaz ed her way girls relay teams earned fi- through the 100 meter nals appearances and podi- freestyle prelims to qualify um finishes over the week- for the top-six finals the fol- end at the OSAA 5A state lowing day, where she fin- swimming championships ished second in a time of at Mt. Hood Community 52.72, just off the pace of College. With these finishes first-place finisher Maddy earning team points toward Kelly of Lebanon, who overall titles, the HRV girls touched the wall at 52.46. ended up fourth behind DHANI Freeland also claimed Bend (1st, 74 points), Sum- FREELAND third in the 100 backstroke mit (2nd, 72 points) and with a mark of 59.76. Mountain View (3rd, 42 Webb, a senior, finished fourth in points) and just ahead of Sandy (25 the 200 IM to earn a podium finish points) to round out the top five. The HRV boys sent swimmers to in her final meet as an Eagle. Two of the three HRV girls relay compete in eight events, but none made it out of preliminary rounds teams also advanced past the pre- News staff writer lims and placed in the top five in the finals. The 400 freestyle relay team of Webb, Freeland, Courtney Castaneda and Caitlyn Fick posted a time of 3:44.99, good enough for third place (Summit was first in 3:34.70) and the 200 medley relay team of Freeland, Webb, Fick and Yasmeen Ziada finished fourth overall in 1:55.15 (Bend was first in 1:50.11). Although the HRV boys put forth a commendable effort, none pro- gressed past the first day of compe- tition. The 200 medley relay team of David Walker, Stan Ocheskey, Car- los Galvez and Trey Schilling was eighth in the prelims and the same four comprised the 400 freestyle relay team, which finished 11th in the prelims but did not earn a top- six position for the finals. HRV swimming at state championships Girls team: 1st Bend (74), 2nd Sum- mit (72), 3rd Mountain View (42), 4th Hood River (26), 5th Sandy (25) 100 freestyle: Dhani Freeland, 2nd, 52.72; 100 backstroke: Dhani Freeland, 3rd, 59.76; 400 freestyle relay: 3rd, 3:44.99, Kylie Webb, Courtney Castane- da, Caitlyn Fick and Dhani Freeland; 200 IM: Kylie Webb, 4th, 2:10.89; 200 medley relay: 4th, 1:55.15, Dhani Freeland, Kylie Webb, Yasmeen Ziada and Caitlyn Fick; 100 breaststroke prelims: Kylie Webb, 7th, 1:09.66; 500 freestyle prelims: Alli- son Burke, 9th, 5:42.39; 200 freestyle prelims: Allison Burke, 11th, 2:08.41; 200 freestyle relay prelims: 11th, 1:48.98, Caitlyn Fick, Allison Burke, Yasmeen Ziada and Courtney Castaneda; 100 butterfly prelims: Yasmeen Ziada, 12th, 1:05.56 Boys: 200 medley relay prelim: 8th, 1:47.43, David Walker, Stan Ocheskey, Carlos Galvez, Trey Schilling; 50 freestyle prelim: Trey Schilling, 8th, 23.34; 100 freestyle prelims: Stan Ocheskey, 8th, 51.24; 200 freestyle relay prelims: 9th, 1:36.21, Trey Schilling, Andrew Rinella, Carlos Galvez and Stan Ocheskey; 100 backstroke pre- lims: David Walker, 9th, 58.75; 200 IM prelim: David Walker, 10th, 2:10.93; 400 freestyle relay prelims: 11th, 3:36.80, Trey Schilling, David Walker, Carlos Galvez and Stan Ocheskey; 100 butterfly prelims: Carlos Galvez, 12th, 58.27 Hawks 48, Huskies 47 Hawks win Big Sky Horizon hosts second-round state playoff game Friday By MIKE WEBER For the News The No. 1 ranked Horizon Christian Hawks boys bas- ketball team won its fifth straight Big Sky Conference title with two district playoff wins over the weekend at Hermiston High School. Horizon (14-0 Big Sky, 24-3 overall) won 58-23 Friday over the South Wasco County Redsides (8-6, 13-12) to ad- vance to Saturday’s District 6 championship game against the No. 8 ranked Sherman Huskies (11-3 league, 19-5). In a rugged defensive-oriented battle, Horizon pulled out a 48-47 victory on Nick Ander- sen’s game winning free- throw to capture its fifth straight district champi- onship. Horizon, guided by coach Darrin Lingel, will now host an OSAA 1A second round state playoff game Friday at 6 p.m. against a yet to be de- termined opponent. As dis- trict champions, Horizon earned a bye in the 16-team first round playoff bracket, which included eight games on Tuesday. If the Hawks win Friday, they’ll qualify for the state tournament March 4-7 at Baker High School for a fifth consecutive year and they would play a 1:30 p.m. quarterfinal con- test on March 4. NICK ANDERSEN had a team- high 15 points in Saturday’s win over Sherman. “It was a really good game against Sherman,” said Lin- gel, who is hoping to guide the Hawks to their second state championship. “They did some things defensively that took some things away from us, which really made it a tough challenge. Sher- man made some second half adjustments and they switched their defense on al- most every one of our offen- sive possessions in the sec- ond half. It was a good strat- egy, because we couldn’t re- ally get into any type of of- fensive rhythm, but the kids battled hard to help us be successful at the end of the game.” It was a seesaw contest versus Sherman, with seven t i e s c o re s a n d 1 8 l e a d changes. Sherman led 18-10 after one quarter. The re- silient Hawks came back w i t h a s t ro n g s e c o n d , outscoring the Huskies 21-13 to forge a halftime deadlock at 31-31. Horizon was cling- ing to a one point lead after three at 40-39 in the tight, high-intensity defensive bat- tle. “All our guys stepped up and played very well offen- sively and defensively, par- ticularly Wes Johnston (five points), RJ Hicks (four pts.) and Andersen (season-high 15 pts.),” said Lingel. “Nick actually won the game for us by sinking the game-win- ning free throw.” With .06 seconds in the game, Andersen found him- self on the line; he missed the first free-throw then, after a Sherman time-out, came through in the clutch to make the second. Sher man senior guard Ryan Aldrich played a solid game with 11 points and six assists. Jared Davis had five points and Mason Bloomster scored seven points and had a team-high nine rebounds. The 48 points marked the lowest total scored in a game this year by the Hawks, who have the fifth ranked offense with an average of 61.9 points per game. In a one-sided matchup versus South Wasco on Fri- day, Horizon dominated the contest from start-to-finish with one of their strongest defensive efforts this year. Horizon jumped in front HRVST brings home state hardware Hood River Valley Swim Team members Ma- rina Castaneda, Michelle Graves, Shea Kasenga and Thea Smith brought home a trove of medals over the weekend from the 10 and Under Oregon Swimming Champi- onships in Corvallis. The four posted person- al best times in all but one swim and finished with fop-five finishes in six of 12 total events swam. Highlighting the results is Shea Kasenga, who was third in the 50 breast stroke and fifth in the 100 breast stroke; times in Submitted photo HRVST AT STATE: Shea Kasenga, Michelle Graves, coach MJ Caswell, Marina Castaneda, Thea Smith. both were Age Group Re- gional qualifying times. Graves also posted two third place finishes while competing in a full-sched- ule of six events. Results are as follows Marina Castaneda (9): 50 breast, 4th (43.0); 100 breast, 5th (1:34.94); Michelle Graves (8): 50 breast, 3rd (48.07); 50 but- terfly, 7th (42.39); 50 back 6th (43.0); 100 IM, 6th (1:32.40); 50 freestyle, 10th (37.22); 25 breast stroke, 3rd (22.49); Shea Kasenga (10): 50 breast stroke, 3rd (39.11); 100 breast stroke, 5th (1:26.27); Thea Smith (10): 200 freestyle, 9th (2:34.24); 100 freestyle, 14th (1:12.06) Photos by Jeremy Lanthorn CELEBRATION: (Top) Jared Davis is hoisted in the air by his brother, Logan, on Saturday after Horizon defeated Sherman in a thrilling one-point victory to win the Big Sky title. Above, Mason Bloomster gets a rejection over a Sherman player as teammates Wes Johnston and Nick Andersen look on. early with a 14-5 lead after one quarter and continued leading 21-15 at halftime. The Hawks were phenom- enal on offense and defense in the second half, while outscoring the Redsides 15-3 in the third and 22-5 in the fourth to pull away for a lop- sided victory. South Wasco’s 23 points was the second lowest total allowed this year by Horizon. The Hawks shot a sizzling 60.5 percent (23-for-38) in two-point field goals. Davis led Horizon with 21 points and Bloom- ster had a strong perfor- mance with his double-dou- ble of 15 points and 13 re- bounds. The two district playoff wins extended Horizon’s Big Sky streak to 49 games com- bined over the last four sea- sons. It marked Horizon’s 18th consecutive win over Class 1A teams as they re- mained undefeated at the 1A level. Friday’s playoff game at the Hawks Nest will mark the final home game for se- niors Davis, Bloomster, Johnston, Aldrich, Hicks and Andersen. Truax headed to U18 Nationals Hood River Valley High School se- nior and Cooper Spur Race Team alumni Elle Truax qualified for next month’s U18 U.S. National Skiing Championships in Copper Mountain, Colo. Traux will be racing in the speed events of Super G and Downhill. Traux’s racing career began more than ten years ago at CSRT’s Christ- mas Camp. She worked her way up through the USAA ranks with the help of the program and its committed coaches, parents and local businesses. She will be racing at Nationals with the Mount Bachelor Sports & Educa- tion Foundation (MBSEF) team and racing against the top 16-and 17-year- olds from across the country. Each year regional qualifier races are held to determine the top racers of Submitted photo each discipline and age division. The ELLE TRUAX will represent Hood River and the Cooper Spur Race top from each region meet at Nation- als to determine the best of the best. Team at the U18 U.S. National Skiing Championships next month.
