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S PORTS www.hoodrivernews.com Hood River News, Wednesday, March 11, 2015 A7 Horizon third at 1A state tourney Hawks bounce back from semifinal loss Friday, finish year with 21-point win BAKER CITY — It wasn’t the placing the Horizon Christian School boys bas- ketball team had in mind, but in the end, a win in its final game at the Class 1A state tournament provided a soothing dose of satisfaction for the Hawks. Nixyaawii derailed top- ranked Horizon’s dream of a state title in Friday’s semifi- nals at Baker City High School, but the Hawks bounced back Saturday after- noon to defeat Siletz Valley in the third-place contest. Horizon’s 63-42 win against Siletz capped a 26-4 season and ended the prep basketball careers of six se- niors, including captain Mason Bloomster. Bloomster had double-dou- bles in scoring and rebound- ing in each of Horizon’s three games and was a unan- imous first-team, all-tourney selection by a vote of coach- es. The stat line on his final high school game was 18 points, 11 rebounds, three as- sists, three steals and two blocked shots. “Mason played well. In fact really well,” Lingel said. “We he had a great tournament… had a meeting and we talked Mason has been consistent about some things, cleared all year. He has been double- the air a little bit and came double all year and he con- out and played well… for tinued to play that caliber of them it was a great mo- basketball,” Hawks Coach ment.” Darrin Lingel said. “Without In his Saturday pre-game Mason, we wouldn’ t be talk, the coach implored his where we are today. seniors to call upon the mojo “(Against Siletz) He had the group had developed in t h r e e their points in many the first years half and o f he ended play- up with 18 ing to- … He took gether. charge in He told the sec- them ond half t h e y and said, could DARRIN LINGEL “Hey, give erase me the some ball and I’ll take care of it.” of the sting of their 65-47 The 6-foot-4 Bloomster had semifinal loss to Nixyaawii plenty of help, especially in by playing the type of ball the third-place game — al- they honed as middle school- ways a tough contest for ers: free-flowing offense, in- teams who have had their your-face, team defense. championship aspirations “One of our keys this dashed a mere 24 hours earli- game was to come out and er. play loose and have fun; do “The kids bounced back the things we do and just do ‘This was their last game, so it was important for them to come out and just have a lot of fun.’ well,” Lingel said. “Since they were eighth-graders they used to just transition and play together. “This was their last game, so it was important for them to come out and just have a lot of fun. So they did that. You could just see the stress leave their bodies as they went out and played and had a great time.” The only stress was on the net hanging under Horizon’s basket. Ryan Aldrich, the heart and soul of the team, nailed a 3-pointer from the left wing 25 seconds into the game and Horizon was on its way. A one-sided first quar- ter was capped by reserve se- nior guard RJ Hicks’ trey, giving Horizon a 25-12 lead. Hicks’ eight first-half points led his team to a 33-18 advan- tage at the break. The mar- gin was never less than 11 the rest of the way and the lead bulged to as many as 25 points in the fourth quarter. Horizon hit six of its first seven shots - including a cou- ple of 3-pointers by Jared Davis. More telling of the Photo by Northwest Sports Photography HORIZON’S JARED DAVIS, left, battles with Nixyaawii’s Fredy Campos during Friday afternoon’s semifinal game in Baker City. Hawks’ fast start was the fact that five of their first six field goals came off of as- sists. “We knew that we didn’t play our best against Nixy — and they came out hungry. We just had to bounce back,” Davis said. “If we weren’t going to take first, we might as well take third. “I think we played great. We played as a team. We played like we did (as eighth- graders). We had a lot of fun doing it and we came out with the win.” Davis led the team in as- See HORIZON, Page A8 HRV ski team first at state Photo by Mark Crompton Photo by Mike Juliana Photography LUCY MCLEAN was a force to be reckoned with in the slalom and GS events. HRV dominates alpine events By BEN MITCHELL News staff writer Mt. Hood’s snowpack may be lacking, but Hood River Valley’s ski-racing abilities are not. The HRV ski team took first place overall at last we e k ’s O r e g o n I n t e r - scholastic Racing Associa- tion state championships after three days of racing up at Mt. Hood Meadows — the host of the event for the second year in a row. HRV had a good showing at the championships, both with the number of partici- pants as well as the amount Alpine ski results: Boys GS (1st: Ashlay Ruddick, Lakeridge, 1:27.9) Austin Keillor, 6th, 1:31.92 Patrick Crompton, 19th, 1:35.49 Oskar Anderson, 27th, 1:38.18 Charlie Sutherland, 59th, 1:51.8 William Lamer, 79th, 2:11.78 HRV boys 3rd overall Boys slalom (1st: Trevor Maxwell, West Linn, 1:13.17) Austin Keillor, 2nd, 1:13.38 William Lamer, 5th, 1:17.95 Patrick Crompton, 18th, 1:24.44 HRV SWIM TEAM’S Sarah Arpag (left) and Celilo Brun recently competed in the 11-14 Swimming Champi- onships in Tualatin and posted 15 personal best times between the two. Contributed photo of hardware athletes took home. The team has been im- proving all year and after last season’s second-place finish, Coach Scott Keillor had a feeling 2015 would be HRV’s time to take the title. “We’ve been building our team,” he said. “I was say- ing, ‘This is our year. This is our best shot.’” HRV athletes dominated across the board, particu- larly Lucy McClean and Austin Keillor who deliv- ered “banner perfor- m a n c e s, ” a c c o r d i n g t o their coach. McClean, who has con- quered nearly every race she’s entered this season, took first in the giant slalom (GS) and second in Charlie Sutherland, 26th, 1:27.61 Oskar Anderson, 44th, 1:34.39 HRV boys 1st overall Girls slalom (1st: Carolina Maienza, Lincoln, 1:21.29) Lucy McLean, 2nd, 1:21.41 Claire Davies, 15th, 1:35.01 Sarah Hall, 33rd, 1:45.77 Kelli Clarke, 39th, 1:48.45 Nicolette Paulus, 42nd, 1:50.44 HRV girls 3rd overall Girls GS Lucy McLean, 1st, 1:26.56 Claire Davies, 13th, 1:34.24 Kelli Clarke, 27th, 1:39.21 Nicolette Paulus, 44th, 1:42.83 the slalom, which was good for first place in the com- bined standings. In the slalom, McLean’s two-run time of 1:21.41 was a mere 0.12 seconds behind t h e w i n n e r, C a r o l i n a Maeinza of Lincoln. “Lucy McLean was phe- nomenal. If you look at the record books, three out of f o u r w i n s f o r L u cy a t state,” Keillor said, refer- ring to McLean’s four indi- vidual runs. “I’m extreme- ly proud of her accom- plishments on behalf of the team as team captain.” Austin Keillor started out the GS with a “pretty g o o d h i p ch e ck o n t h e s t e e p s, ” S c o t t Ke i l l o r noted, that affected his See ALPINE, Page A8 PATRICK CROMPTON made great strides in the rail jam event, as well as in alpine events. HRV team sweeps freestyle events By BEN MITCHELL News staff writer While the alpine skiers were racking up victories on one side of Mt. Hood Meadows, HRV’s freestyle skiers were doing the same on the other side. HRV took first place in every single freestyle event during the state champi- onships — from slopestyle to skiercross to rail jam — for both the boys and girls teams. Just as she did last year, HRV’s Hannah Bergemann a c h i eve d a f i r s t - p l a c e sweep of every event in the HRV girls 2nd overall Freestyle results Boys combined (1st, Ashlay Ruddick, Lakeridge, 2:41.48) Austin Keillor, 3rd, 2:42.8 Patrick Crompton, 14th, 2:59.93 Oskar Anderson, 27th, 3:12.57 Charlie Sutherland, 33rd, 3:19.41 William Lamer, 47th, 3:29.73 HRV 2nd overall Girls skiercross Hannah Bergemann, 1st Erin Mayer, 2nd Avrie Van Tilburg, 4th Lucy McLean, 5th Abigail Bergemann, 6th Claire Davies, 7th Savannah Boersma, 8th Sophie Caldwell Girls combined Lucy McLean, 1st, 2:47.97 Claire Davies, 11th, 3:09.25 Kelli Clarke, 27th, 3:27.66 Nicolette Paulus, 31st, 3:33.27 HRV girls 3rd overall Boys skiercross Austin Keillor, 1st Tucker FitzSimons, 2nd Patrick Crompton, 3rd Charles Sutherland, 8th Reese Carroll, 13th Trey Roeseler, 16th Sammy Stevenson, 17th freestyle competition. Tucker FitzSimons near- ly managed the same honor, taking first place in the rail jam and the slopestyle and placing sec- ond in skiercross behind his teammate, Austin Keil- lor. FitzSimons took first overall at state for the third consecutive year. Coach Michael FitzSi- mons made note of the “good results” from Savan- nah Boersma and Abigail Bergemann who went sec- ond and third slopestyle and “went big” on their jumps. He also praised the per- for mance of Patrick Crompton, whom he said “was the best I’d ever seen him on rails,” in reference to Crompton’s silver-medal finish in the rail jam. FitzSimons noted that both Crompton and Charlie Sutherland had their hands full bouncing from giant slalom race to slopestyle back to the giant slalom race on Thursday, and exe- cuted good performances. FitzSimons said that the jumps in Vista Park were “significantly bigger than any jumps they competed on all year,” but that HRV skiers hit the jumps un- daunted. He lauded Mead- ows’ work on the park and was pleased with the “awe- some conditions.” Admittedly, some of the See SKI, Page A8 Girls rail jam Hannah Bergemann, 1st Casey Sherrerd, 2nd Savanna Brentlinger, 3rd Abigail Bergemann, 4th Avrie Van Tilburg, 5th Savannah Boersma, 6th Girls slopestyle Hannah Bergemann, 1st Savannah Boersma, 2nd Abigail Bergemann, 3rd Savanna Brentlinger, 4th Casey Sherrerd, 5th Avrie Van Tilburg, 6th Boys rail jam Tucker FitzSimons, 1st Patrick Crompton, 2nd Reese Carroll, 3rd Trey Roeseler, 4th Sammy Stevenson, 6th Jackson Lebsack, 7th Austin Keillor, 9th Charles Sutherland, 10th Boys slopestyle Tucker FitzSimons, 1st Trey Roeseler, 2nd Patrick Crompton, 5th Reese Carroll, 6th Charles Sutherland, 7th Sammy Stevenson, 8th Jackson Lebsack, 9th HRV Swim Team’s Arpag and Brun take home hardware at state champs Celilo Brun (12 years old) and Sarah Arpag (11 years old) competed for the Hood River Valley Swim Team at the 11-14 Swimming Championships at Tualatin Hills, from Feb. 26-March 1. Arpag placed second in the 200 free (2:10.3), third in the 50 back (31.37), fourth in both the 200 IM (2:29.00) and 50 free (27.61), fifth in the 100 free (59.67) and eighth in the 100 IM (1:09.94). Brun finished 10th in the 200 free (2:10.9), 12th in the 200 IM (2:30.3) and 17th in the 100 fly (1:13.6). The meet required all swimmers to swim qualifying heats in the morning session, then the top 10 swim in the evening to deter- mine final placement. This was the first pre- lim/finals meet for both girls. Arpag finaled in all six events, and Brun finaled in the 200 freestyle, with the second alternate position in the 200 IM. Out of the 16 swims, 15 were best times.
