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Hood River News, Wednesday, March 11, 2015
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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.